[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia is under attack

[Jonathan Walther]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:44:42PM -0800, Zoe wrote:
>   Someone with ip addresses beginning with 152.163 is deleting article,
>   vandalizing, modifying, and variously randomly changing whatever articles
>   they happen to encounter.  The IP address changes with each change.  We
>   need to do something quick.

fsck. Looks like wikipedia has attracted a vandal who has enough skill
to spoof his IP's.  No ideas on how to deal with that one.

Jonathan

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