Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-9091559-20150418085714/@comment-24659969-20150418151906

Let me fix the term of "locking" There are two terms or wikia lock in our case:

1. Temporarily lockdown the whole wikia. Read "TEMPORARILY" and also such right only reserved for Wikia staff and VSTF members. So even if I obtained the bureaucrat rights. I still won't have such ability.

2. By using AbuseFilter extension. Regarding AbuseFilter extension, it won't be able to prevent such proxy bot though since the spammer is using registered account. Then again, most anon spams are not that great so no go

Instead there is this thing (credit to runescape peeps for telling me)

http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/WHAM

which adds a tool for rollbackers or higher level to instantly rollbacks / undo all edits made by an user. Of course an admin right still required for blocking the user as well on one go.