I disabled account creation on mediawiki for the time being. The recent burst of spam is about 50 "user talk" entries: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/w/?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=500
I deleted about 10 of these, and blocked the accounts. If anyone wants to finish this up, please do so. It's a lot of clicking; doesn't seem like mediawiki provides a way to do this in bulk. -- David On 01-Jul-2010 11:02 AM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > On 4/7/10, Nicolás Alvarez<[email protected]> wrote: >> I just went through some accumulated Recent Changes in the BOINC user >> wiki (mediawiki). There was some spam remaining, which I reverted, and >> a lot more that was already reverted (much by Eric Myers, some even by >> anonymous contributors without accounts) but I blocked the users/IPs >> which they can't do. >> >> We *need* better spam protection. I just tried adding an external link >> without being logged in, and it told me to solve 92 - 8. Account >> creation has the same kind of protection. Either spambots know how to >> solve it, or the spam is being added manually by humans ("work from >> home" schemes?). > > http://imagebin.ca/view/q2r2Az.html > > Okay, who wants to clean this? I give up. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
