On Wednesday 28 June 2006 05:41, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> maybe you could configure it so only logged in people could make changes.
> It might reduce the spam
>
> Gabor
Hi Gabor!
The problem was that a spammer's spamming script (written in Perl? ;-)) was
buggy and started spamming the Eskimo wikis using numbers. It usually doesn't
happen, and I now prevented it using a regex. (Which may prevent some
legitimate ham from being posted, but still).
The requests were coming from multiple IPs so it was probably a zombie-net of
some sort. Amit Aronovich and I talked about it into the night when it
happened.
I opened the wikis for editing by everyone by Lior Kaplan's request and
because I believed that the other spam measurements in place were adequate.
I've been to #mediawiki on Freenode and they didn't have a good way to reverse
these changes except manually or with a carefully written web/RSS crawler.
I hope it will never again, but I cannot guarantee such buggy spammers'
scripts not to bother us again, even if we necessitate a login to the wiki.
I can, however necessitate the login for every wiki individually.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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