Has this ordeal been hitting any other NIWA wikis?

[Peanut64]

Pikipedia, Pikmin Fanon and (The unofficial) Mario Fanon wiki have been bombarded with spam. I was just wondering if this has been happening with any other wikis because I am trying to investigate and put a stop to it. Please help me figure this out, my admins and I have been deleting, blocking and looking for spam and spammers. I have no Idea what it is, but I could be a spam bot because only Mario Fanon has links to other advertisements.  This entire thing puts me in a horrid frustration that gets in the way of my Wiki contributions. 

[Aria der Donau]

The Fire Emblem Wiki was attacked last week. I'm pretty sure all new accounts are from spammers.

The pattern they followed was:
1. New account
2. New page (usually a long title with a number on the end. E.g., "How have I managed to keep away from listservs In a word Twitter 68")
3. New image

And that was all. Quite annoying.

[Member#36]

Peanut, since you are staff, you can find the NIWA's discussion here.

Several methods were discussed and applied.  These methods are not too hard to guess, but, I'm not sure if I should speak them here since it's hidden for a reason.  If you have a question, put it in the thread.

For those who are not staff, talk to a staff member of your wiki, since each wiki had a different method or combination of methods to deal with the issue.

To answer you question, a lot of the NIWA wikis have indeed been hit.

[Miles of SmashWiki]

From what I've seen, the "obvious question" captcha is an excellent tool.

[Naesala]

Something happened to Zelda wiki

[SnorlaxMonster]

Grawp? Oh dear. He was one of the biggest vandals in Bulbapedia history. Ban him ASAP, and watch out for sockpuppets. I wasn't actually on Bulbapedia at the time, so I don't know exactly what he did, but I do know he really caused some trouble.

EDIT: In fact, he was a serious vandal on Wikipedia too.

[Maxite]

Peanut, since you are staff, you can find the NIWA's discussion here.

Several methods were discussed and applied.  These methods are not too hard to guess, but, I'm not sure if I should speak them here since it's hidden for a reason.  If you have a question, put it in the thread.

For those who are not staff, talk to a staff member of your wiki, since each wiki had a different method or combination of methods to deal with the issue.

To answer you question, a lot of the NIWA wikis have indeed been hit.

I still think that some information should be made public. I'm working on starting up a wiki, and any advice/tips on how to curtail spam would be useful before I have the problem rather than after the fact.

[Jake]

We're currently discussing the possibility of making that topic public. Stay tuned.

[TurtwigA]

Grawp? Oh dear. He was one of the biggest vandals in Bulbapedia history. Ban him ASAP, and watch out for sockpuppets. I wasn't actually on Bulbapedia at the time, so I don't know exactly what he did, but I do know he really caused some trouble.

EDIT: In fact, he was a serious vandal on Wikipedia too.

Not only those two wikis either. He's vandalized several wikis, I think more than 10 now.