These bots are striking wikis everywhere. This extension should be made part of Mediawiki.
Almost every website having public account creation has some sort of captcha. Image
capchas are the best - people are used to doing that. The image capcha is there yea, but
its harder to install. I'm just gonna do with the text captha.
Here's the link everyone, protect your wikis. These bots are searching the net for
wikis to do their damage:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
Thanks to Rob C. for giving this link.
Tels <nospam-abuse(a)bloodgate.com> wrote:
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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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