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Moin,
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 18:00:57 Mike Wheeler wrote:
I too have noticed what appear to be malicious bots
deleting content
from wikis over the past couple days.
From what I have seen they delete page content starting at the first
ampersand through the end of the page.
Here is one page they hit:
http://www.archiplanet.org/w/index.php?
title=Notre_Dame_Cathedral&diff=550682&oldid=547840
I have seen this on multiple unrelated wikis which do not require
registration for editing. In the above case it was done by a newly
registered user with a six character alphanumeric username, as
described by the first person to report this on the list. Other
instances have been done by unregistered users recorded only by IP
number:
http://www.archiplanet.org/w/index.php?
title=Gunter_Behnisch&diff=550666&oldid=548133
Thankfully they have only hit a few of our pages so far, but we would
obviously like to put an end to it before they do more widespread
damage.
First steps: Allow only registered user to edit, put a captcha on account
registration and require an email verification.
All the best,
Tels
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