[OLPC library] [Wiki-gang] Wiki vandal attack. Ongoing. Help in #olpc now if you can.

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks for the heads up.

This is a useful view of recentchanges:
http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hideliu=1&limit=500&hideminor=0

It looks like cjl and I managed to revert all the bad anon edits from
the past 24 hours.
I turned on the Sorbs blacklist extension, which may automatically
block edits from IPs on that blacklist; and added the CommentSpammer
extension, which blocks edits from IPs caught by the wiki-commentspam
honeypot project.  This should help with the major categories of spam
we're still running into.

SJ

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Mel Chua <mel at laptop.org> wrote:
> <mchua_> Hey, guys - we have a spam problem. cjl and joachimp are
> pitching in but we need extra hands if folks can spare them, now.
> (especially sysops, and people with vandal/spam fightin' experience.)
>
> <cjl> look at recent edits, I'm in rollback hell
> * mchua_ takes out the well-polished double-barreled shotgun (I've been
> noticing some IP spam over the last few days...)
> <cjl> look at IP addresseswith edit fields  'FIELD_MESSAGE
> <mchua_> joachimp, cjl: I'm looking at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hideliu=1&hideminor=0
> <mchua_> cjl, if you're still rolling back pages, I'm going to focus on
> identifying and blocking IPs that are exhibiting only spam behavior.
> <joachimp> is it possible to revet all by ip X?
> <mchua_> joachimp: I hope so. Can you look at the mediawiki docs and
> find out? I'm just blocking spam IPs now....
> <mchua_> joachimp: I think that cjl and I can try to stem the tide if
> you can look at the mediawiki docs for a longer-term solution for this.
> I'm also going to send out a cry for help on wiki-gang right now.
> <mchua_> joachimp, cjl: I'm also going to move to #olpc so that folks
> not on s-g can help us
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