https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19273
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Summary: AntiSpoof doesn't actually stop simple spoofing
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
URL: http://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/Mardetanh
?limit=2
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: testme
Severity: major
Priority: Normal
Component: AntiSpoof
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
For example, the account "MardetanhA" was created, which is obviously very
close to "Mardetanha" -- this is despite that the original account existed
locally prior to the spoof being created (on mywiki):
# MardetanhA (Created on 17 June 2009 at 22:07)
# Mardetanha (Created on 2 June 2008 at 19:00)
Ideally, AntiSpoof would check against the CentralAuth database in addition to
the local user list, but in this case, even a local check would have been
sufficient. That's bug 15545.
Unless the extension is disabled or otherwise non-functional, it seems that the
rules used to detect similarity are pretty bad (a case change should be utterly
trivial, and more complex matching at a high quality is desperately needed).
This may be related to bug 18447?
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