Hi Tianyin; No, they just register fake user accounts to try and edit the wiki contents. They fail, but there is an enormous number of unused user accounts now and it is causing performance problems.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Tianyin Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Kinkie, > > What do you mean by trying? You mean constantly guessing the root password? > > T > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Kinkie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> I have upgraded the engine running the wiki to the latest MoinMoin, >> now using python 2.6 (instead of 2.4). Unfortunately I've noticed that >> while our ACLs help us prevent wiki spam, this doesn't stop people >> from trying. We have this an enormous amount of registered users, and >> this is starting to put a strain on the server's resources. >> >> I'll see if I can do something about this. >> >> -- >> /kinkie > > > > -- > Tianyin XU, > http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tixu/ -- /kinkie
