User blog comment:Legionaire22/Writing a story/@comment-3258762-20130103203705/@comment-2031854-20130104165649

When you only have four admins, it would probably be worth brining more users into a regular group that can help out with managing the wiki. Sysop status should never be given out as a reward but you could mention that would put users on the path toward being considered for it. If you can't do that, than it might be good to required users to be responsible for the upkeep of their articles. At least authors who are active, as it could be a problem for people who write a lot and then leave; it's basically an encyclopedia and doesn't need to be edited once stuff has been written.

We've had vandals and attempted vandals on our main wiki too. ConfirmAccount has prevented all of them since it was implemented, but we had a troll infiltration problem for a long time after that. We had a few requests from what was probably a vandalbot that had gone around to many wikis and replaced all of the content on them, but it never got in because we saw that the account request bios were all gibberish. The guy we got before we implemented the system started harassing people because as he explained it before the vandalism, "Sturmkrieg is not about 40k. It is about historical revisionism and contains Jews and Communists."  He then listed several unrelated antifascist things I created as being "objectionable." He's also from the country where that all started. When I asked exactly how he came to that conclusion, he gave some sort of circular answer and announced that he wasn't going to discuss it any more. Then he created a crapload of sockpuppet accounts and plagiarized tons of fanfiction to make them look active, and had one account that he seemed to test us with that wrote some of the worst nonsense I have ever seen. I remember "Necron Hover Cans" and the thing that got him banned was a song written in German and English that had sexual references. Ironically it was another of his sockpuppets that claimed to be a writing expert that suggested banning the other account. Several months after this all happened, I installed a functional version of an extension that could look up user email addresses, and saw that all the users I thought acted strangely were all using mailinator.com addresses. We then had a large banning festival. At the advice of a MediaWiki developer, we added a special user group for permabanned users.