Slinging.org Forum - The Wiki spammer is back

ADAXL Junior Member Offline Greetings to Slinging.org! Posts: 51 Vienna, Austria (Europe) Gender:	We gotta do something Reply #15 - Jul 22^nd, 2007 at 8:28am I just made another revert (the main page!). We have to keep this extremely annoying person (and his bot!) off the wiki.
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ADAXL Junior Member Offline Greetings to Slinging.org! Posts: 51 Vienna, Austria (Europe) Gender:	The spammer has a new trick Reply #16 - Aug 15^th, 2007 at 10:22am It appears our spammer has a new trick. He creates entire pages of junk: http://www.slinging.org/wiki/index.php?title=89178.net Can somebody delete this page?
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: The Wiki spammer is back Reply #17 - Aug 16^th, 2007 at 7:31am that's a different spammer. The previous one was just flogging 'meds'. this one is promoting some sort of chinese company.
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ADAXL Junior Member Offline Greetings to Slinging.org! Posts: 51 Vienna, Austria (Europe) Gender:	Re: The Wiki spammer is back Reply #18 - Aug 18^th, 2007 at 1:20pm I just blanked a number of junk pages on the Wiki. Can samebody please delete these pages? What can we do? I spend time removing this junk, but I can't do this every day.
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Dravonk Funditor Offline Posts: 773 Aachen, Germany Gender:	Re: The Wiki spammer is back Reply #19 - Aug 19^th, 2007 at 1:10pm The English Wikipedia has a spam-protection image test. Maybe that is available in all recent versions of MediaWiki? If it is, we'd just need to update our Wiki.
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Dravonk

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Re: The Wiki spammer is back
Reply #20 - Aug 20^th, 2007 at 8:09am

I've sent a PM to Chris:

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Hi Chris,

the Wiki is getting out of hand, dozens of spam pages are created and the main page is frequently vandalized. The Wikipedia has got a spam protection built-in. Maybe all the new versions of MediaWiki have it?

In case putting in a spam protection isn't possible in the next few days I would recommend temporarily disabling the creation of new accounts and deleting the spammer accounts.

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siguy Interfector Viris Spurii Offline si vis pacem para bellum Posts: 1714 connecticut Gender:	Re: The Wiki spammer is back Reply #21 - Aug 21^st, 2007 at 2:13pm is there possibly a way to restrict the wiki to members of this site, though that could have negative effects
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Dravonk Funditor Offline Posts: 773 Aachen, Germany Gender:	Re: The Wiki spammer is back Reply #22 - Aug 21^st, 2007 at 2:37pm I guess it is possible, but you would have to hand-code it yourself.
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Re: The Wiki spammer is back
Reply #23 - Aug 22^nd, 2007 at 12:40am

I'll try to put some time toward the wiki this weekend. Maybe we can come up with some sort of interim plan... The number of users who are actively involved in editing the wiki might suggest that we just lock it off completely to anyone that isn't preapproved...

Sorry that this hasn't had the attention it deserves. I know that quite a few of you have put a lot of effort in.

Matthias

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ADAXL Junior Member Offline Greetings to Slinging.org! Posts: 51 Vienna, Austria (Europe) Gender:	Re: The Wiki spammer is back Reply #24 - Aug 23^rd, 2007 at 2:29pm I just did another series of spam reverts. Please act quickly. I can't do this every day.
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Dravonk Funditor Offline Posts: 773 Aachen, Germany Gender:	Re: The Wiki spammer is back Reply #25 - Aug 23^rd, 2007 at 4:21pm You did the work of blanking all those new pages? Respect. I just reverted the real pages. But one and a half hour after my revert the bot added the spam again...
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ADAXL Junior Member Offline Greetings to Slinging.org! Posts: 51 Vienna, Austria (Europe) Gender:	Re: The Wiki spammer is back Reply #26 - Aug 26^th, 2007 at 5:46am I just did the daily spam reverts. Please lock down the wiki ASAP.
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Matthias Past Moderator Offline Posts: 1418 Gatineau/Ottawa QC, Canada Gender:	Re: The Wiki spammer is back Reply #27 - Aug 26^th, 2007 at 5:03pm The Wiki is locked until we can fix the problem properly. I'd hoped to get to it this weekend, but I'm going to need a few more days. Does anyone familiar with mediawiki have any suggestions as to the best approach? Thanks again to ASAXL, Dravonk and everyone who have been keeping the wiki alive. Matthias
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Chris Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1284 USA Gender:	Re: The Wiki spammer is back Reply #28 - Sep 22^nd, 2007 at 6:17pm Sorry I have been so absent on this. My hat is off to all of you. Chris
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axon50 Senior Member Offline Dein Schleuder baut auf Ihnen. Posts: 334 nz Gender:	Re: The Wiki spammer is back Reply #29 - Oct 30^th, 2007 at 1:19am wow, the person who did that is a unconsiderate saddist or something.
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