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

[Mel Chua]

Thanks, SJ. In the ticket I filed to sysadmin, I put a note to follow up 
on the threads on this attack in the wiki-gang archives, so whoever 
takes that ticket has up-to-date information.

Samuel Klein wrote:
> 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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