I am glad to report that the Wikidot.com team has been supportive of my spam hunt and based on my suggestions automatically reverts all edits of banned spammers. And for a few days, the spam hunt was glorious indeed - though I did notice an uptick in anonymous edits by this guy.
Unfortunately, this morning the spammer has figured out that he can circumvent this by simply making two edits to each page he spams with different user profiles, which means that the anti-spam tools Wikidot.com uses will need further updates. I suspect that this cycle will continue for a while - the spammer doesn't seem likely to give up any time soon.
Especially since this seems to have become as personal for him as it has become for me. He has now outright vandalized one of my wikis - this, this, and this page to be precise (you can still see it in the page history).
And there is more. You may remember my examples of his profile pages, such as this one:
While
it is noteworthy for both the theft of my own user picture and the
insult, I would like to direct your attention to the "Real Name" he used
there. While it is an obvious derivation of my own user name at
Wikidot.com, he also used that same name repeatedly for new user
profiles. And today I decided to search for it on Google, and this is what I found:
His sole post is a link to this article, which as far as I can gather from Google Translate is about some local Indonesian terror groups. His comment for this article is:
When I asked for a translation, one of my sources said:
"Are you willing to martyr/die to receive your reward ( 7 angels)? Mesum ( Is weird can mean a few things: stupid, moron, adulterer depending on context; which isn't too clear here though from the mention of brain/mind its probably an insult to your intelligence."
In other words, I might have received a death threat here.
A
more intemperate person might have reported this profile immediately,
but I took this as an opportunity to learn more about the spammer. For
example, this "Friend" of the profile:
looked familiar. Contrast this Facebook profile with this Wikidot.com profile
- they are using the same "real name"! What's more, if you scroll down
the Timeline of the Facebook profile you will find spam for pretty much
the same sites as on the wikis themselves. A third Facebook profile I
could identify is located here - compare it with the user name of this Wikidot.com profile.