Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

After a quiet week some hidden spam has reappeared, using signatures that I thought were being blocked: and Other people are catching most of the visible spam, but sometimes just clear it out rather than rolling back to previous good content. 25th January 2006 - HowToRe

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

22nd January 2006 - No spam? 23rd January 2006 - 82.131.14.155 spammed AbstractApplicationController - rolled back (there were 9 versions!) 82.131.14.155 emptied AccessControlListExample - rolled back 85.202.152.48 spammed OfflineDocumentation Bathroom furnit

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Spam yesterday: There is another legitimate use of %r{display\s*:\s*none} in the AssociationHelper page. %r{height\s*:\s*1px} continues to be a good indicator of hidden spam. Spam came from 62.87.166.43 72.9.230.2 82.77.137.102 82.131.14.155 85.98.50.252 210.71.187.53 210.95.78.93 Pages affec

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

A quiet day yesterday. Four pages spammed by 72.9.230.2 with this pattern: Visible links of this form ![ amateur free pic | http://amateur-free-pic.portrust.net.ru ] added to RailsWikiPageRecovery by 80.77.92.74 mod_ruby apammed by 209.100.183.225 with this pattern !OK! I expect there were qu

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

David Heinemeier Hansson wrote: Clearing out on IP is actually pretty straight forward from the console. I just removed all from 82.131.14.155. Let's keep this as somewhat of a permathread for now. Whenever you spot spam from a certain IP, we can clear that out and block the IP. Everything I am

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Clearing out on IP is actually pretty straight forward from the console. I just removed all from 82.131.14.155. Let's keep this as somewhat of a permathread for now. Whenever you spot spam from a certain IP, we can clear that out and block the IP. -- David Heinemeier Hansson http://www.loudthinking

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Kevin Clark wrote: If we're getting such persistance from this ip can we just ban it? If the wiki is using the i2 code, I'd be happy to code up a patch to allow it. Blocking IP addresses should be straightforward at the Web server level. AFAIK the Wiki *is* running on i2 - can you tell me whe

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Justin Forder wrote: A new signature from yesterday: ... sometimes with no semicolon after 'none' Another spammer, another signature: from 82.200.208.98 with links to online pharmacies. 13 of those. 16 spammed pages from 85.202.154.230 I cleaned about 160 pages yesterday, mostly aut

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

If we're getting such persistance from this ip can we just ban it? If the wiki is using the i2 code, I'd be happy to code up a patch to allow it. Kev On 1/19/06, Justin Forder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Forder wrote: > > > I've modified the Watir-based > > solution to work from the Recent

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Justin Forder wrote: I've modified the Watir-based solution to work from the Recently Revised list, back to the time I last ran it... running it earlier today found 40 newly-spammed pages (and they are starting to impersonate my spam-eater - or maybe they just copy the previous updater's name

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Michael Koziarski wrote: I have cleaned those now. I used Watir to visit the Edit screen for every page, check the content for spam, and remove it if present. If you can give us some regular expressions that you used with watir, we may be able to protect the wiki with mod_security. This wil

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

> I have cleaned those now. I used Watir to visit the Edit screen for > every page, check the content for spam, and remove it if present. If you can give us some regular expressions that you used with watir, we may be able to protect the wiki with mod_security. This will at least save us some g

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Justin Forder wrote: There are now 744 spammed pages out of 1835. The oldest is 10th January (it's possible that there was spam before that which has now been removed). The spam is still coming, but slowly now. I have cleaned those now. I used Watir to visit the Edit screen for every page, c

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Justin Forder wrote: Justin Forder wrote: There are ~1821 pages on the Wiki, and ~1171 have been updated in January. An Anonymous Coward with IP address 87.248.161.196 changed at least 783 pages (I and others have probably corrected some of his/her work) between 14:18 and 16:21 on 13th Januar

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Justin Forder wrote: There are ~1821 pages on the Wiki, and ~1171 have been updated in January. An Anonymous Coward with IP address 87.248.161.196 changed at least 783 pages (I and others have probably corrected some of his/her work) between 14:18 and 16:21 on 13th January. That's more than o

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Hi Justin, 120 pages is about a 120 times what I have done ;)... I agree though that manual cleanup from the client interface is a pain.  I am ignorant as to who manages the wiki server, but I would be happy to help in any capacity to work on getting the verification step going to curb further spam

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Ben Reubenstien wrote: Hi Justin ~ The cleaning of the Wiki is appreciated by the entire community. Script.aculo.us recently had some much more obtrusive editing with entire articles being removed and replaced with gambling ads. They have implemented a verification

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Ben Reubenstien wrote: Hi Justin ~ The cleaning of the Wiki is appreciated by the entire community. Script.aculo.us recently had some much more obtrusive editing with entire articles being removed and replaced with gambling ads. They have implemented a verification

Re: [Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

Hi Justin ~ The cleaning of the Wiki is appreciated by the entire community.  Script.aculo.us recently had some much more obtrusive editing with entire articles being removed and replaced with gambling ads.  They have implemented a verification field to slow down the input of the spam using their s

[Rails-core] The state of the Wiki

I spent most of three hours cleaning Wiki pages last night, going through the pages changed on 14th January, then starting on 13th January - then I looked at the volume of change, and realised that it would take a long time to finish the job. I had found and corrected about 120 pages, but there