Thanks, SJ. In the ticket I filed to sysadmin, I put a note to follow up on the threads on this attack in the wiki-gang archives, so whoever takes that ticket has up-to-date information.
Samuel Klein wrote: > Thanks for the heads up. > > This is a useful view of recentchanges: > http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hideliu=1&limit=500&hideminor=0 > > It looks like cjl and I managed to revert all the bad anon edits from > the past 24 hours. > I turned on the Sorbs blacklist extension, which may automatically > block edits from IPs on that blacklist; and added the CommentSpammer > extension, which blocks edits from IPs caught by the wiki-commentspam > honeypot project. This should help with the major categories of spam > we're still running into. > > SJ > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Mel Chua <[email protected]> wrote: >> <mchua_> Hey, guys - we have a spam problem. cjl and joachimp are >> pitching in but we need extra hands if folks can spare them, now. >> (especially sysops, and people with vandal/spam fightin' experience.) >> >> <cjl> look at recent edits, I'm in rollback hell >> * mchua_ takes out the well-polished double-barreled shotgun (I've been >> noticing some IP spam over the last few days...) >> <cjl> look at IP addresseswith edit fields 'FIELD_MESSAGE >> <mchua_> joachimp, cjl: I'm looking at >> http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hideliu=1&hideminor=0 >> <mchua_> cjl, if you're still rolling back pages, I'm going to focus on >> identifying and blocking IPs that are exhibiting only spam behavior. >> <joachimp> is it possible to revet all by ip X? >> <mchua_> joachimp: I hope so. Can you look at the mediawiki docs and >> find out? I'm just blocking spam IPs now.... >> <mchua_> joachimp: I think that cjl and I can try to stem the tide if >> you can look at the mediawiki docs for a longer-term solution for this. >> I'm also going to send out a cry for help on wiki-gang right now. >> <mchua_> joachimp, cjl: I'm also going to move to #olpc so that folks >> not on s-g can help us >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-gang mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wiki-gang >> (_internal_name)s >> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-gang mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wiki-gang > (_internal_name)s _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
