It looks to me like the wiki is being spammed by a bot or bots, I have
suffered problems like this.
I stopped it by changing the form names to to something gibberish,
nothing standard "wpTextbox1" would be come "ZifG5ut" nonsense
basically, a good Idea is to change the form names regularly, then you
can encode the submit, preview and show pages buttons in Java script and
insert them using a function. Its effective because most people who run
bots to spam wikis and blogs dont want to be bothered creating a special
script just for your site, they go for the low hanging fruit, the easy
money and in the end its nothing personal they just move on ;-)
Hope this Helps
Ben Ward wrote:
Hi Toby,
On 5 Jan 2009, at 01:05, Toby A Inkster wrote:
I don't know much about MediaWiki, but surely it's possible to create
a plugin which looks at edits from users with no edit history, and
blocks the edit if and only if it seems to create a one-word
paragraph at the top of the page?
Maybe. And, yes, probably. Alas, the plugins I've written for MW are
just simple parsing extensions, more complex stuff I've no idea about
the capabilities.
I've created a new issue under wiki-2-issues
(http://microformats.org/wiki/wiki-2-issues#Spam) for this one.
If we could try to collect notes of things we think should be enhanced
with MW extensions over the next week (on wiki-2-issues), then we'll
push the most urgent onto the microformats blog and around our various
networks and see if someone more experienced with MW can help us out.
Of course, if that person is already on µf-discuss, help us Obi-Wan
Kenobi, you're our only hope!
B
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