Interesting... another project I've been involved in lately (openstreetmap.org) is having some huge spam problems in their mediawiki as well. They put image based captchas in today that upset some visually impaired users. It seems some enterprising spammer spent last weekend hacking away at mediawiki.
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:51 PM, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
