[Olpc-sysadmin] wiki Talk:page spam attack continues

[Frederick Grose]

This spam attack continues.  See
http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?namespace=3&categories=&from=20100724000000&title=Special:RecentChanges

Requiring OpenID authentication was effective in stopping it at
wiki.sugarlabs.org.

The MediaWiki v1.16(beta) OpenID signup page is quite friendly (see
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:OpenIDLogin).

             --Fred

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:14 AM
Subject: wiki Talk:page spam attack
To: olpc-sysadmin at lists.laptop.org


wiki.laptop.org is being attacked much like wiki.sugarlabs.org was on 13
July 2010 between 11:21 and 19:22 EDT.

See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:RecentChanges for lines like this:

 N  ! 23:56  User talk:Whereresi‎ (diff; hist) . . (+101) . . Whereresi
(Talk | contribs | block) (Created page with 'wear,
http://dotnetfreak.co.uk/members/Lilian_5F00_Devries.aspx teeth whitening
louisiana , sentence.')


Using OpenID for new accounts authentification seems to have ended the
spamming at wiki.SL, although the autoblocking pattern visible here,
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:BlockList, persists at wiki.SL.


See this post,
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/private/systems/2010-July/002197.html if
subscribed, or this extract:
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