This spam attack continues. See <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?namespace=3&categories=&from=20100724000000&title=Special:RecentChanges">http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?namespace=3&categories=&from=20100724000000&title=Special:RecentChanges</a><div>
<br></div><div>Requiring OpenID authentication was effective in stopping it at <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org">wiki.sugarlabs.org</a>.<div><br></div><div>The MediaWiki v1.16(beta) OpenID signup page is quite friendly (see <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:OpenIDLogin">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:OpenIDLogin</a>).</div>
<div><br></div><div> --Fred<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Frederick Grose</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fgrose@gmail.com">fgrose@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:14 AM<br>Subject: wiki Talk:page spam attack<br>To: <a href="mailto:olpc-sysadmin@lists.laptop.org">olpc-sysadmin@lists.laptop.org</a><br><br><br><font style="font-family:courier new,monospace" size="2"><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org" target="_blank">wiki.laptop.org</a> is being attacked much like <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">wiki.sugarlabs.org</a> was on 13 July 2010 between 11:21 and 19:22 EDT.<br>
<br>See <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:RecentChanges" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:RecentChanges</a> for lines like this:<br><br> N ! 23:56 User talk:Whereresi (diff; hist) . . (+101) . . Whereresi (Talk | contribs | block) (Created page with 'wear, <a href="http://dotnetfreak.co.uk/members/Lilian_5F00_Devries.aspx" target="_blank">http://dotnetfreak.co.uk/members/Lilian_5F00_Devries.aspx</a> teeth whitening louisiana , sentence.')<br>
<br><br>Using OpenID for new accounts authentification seems to have ended the spamming at wiki.SL, although the autoblocking pattern visible here, <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:BlockList" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:BlockList</a>, persists at wiki.SL.<br>
</font><font style="font-family:courier new,monospace" size="2"><br></font><font style="font-family:courier new,monospace" size="2"><br>See this post, <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/private/systems/2010-July/002197.html" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/private/systems/2010-July/002197.html</a> if subscribed, or this extract:<br>
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