Hi
I don't know whats going on but some worm or something is throwing junk on my pages. Any one with a solution
To STOP this worm
Pradeep
I don't know whats going on but some worm or something is throwing junk on my pages. Any one with a solution
To STOP this worm
In the end I made it impossible to edit unless you were logged in, and stopped people creating accounts. Harsh, but it stopped them. People have to email me for an account now. sigh. more work...
see the help pages for how to do this or read roughly every third message posted in the last three months (is there an archive? never found one...).
Jason Davies wrote in gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki:
or read roughly every third message posted in the last three months (is there an archive? never found one...).
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/
kate.
Has wikipedia been hit by this?
On 5/23/05, Kate Turner keturner@livejournal.com wrote:
Jason Davies wrote in gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki:
or read roughly every third message posted in the last three months (is there an archive? never found one...).
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/
kate.
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Pradeep Dsouza wrote:
I don't know whats going on but some worm or something is throwing junk on my pages. Any one with a solution
If you're not running the current 1.4 stable release, I strongly recommend that you upgrade.
With $wgEnableSorbs on, anonymous edits and account creations are checked against the SORBS open proxy server blacklist. A quick spotcheck of wikis sporting spam that's been recently complained about has shown them to be either all or mostly running older versions (1.4.0 or 1.3.x) that don't include support for this check, and the IP addresses of these edits seem to be marked as open proxies by SORBS.
Of course if you serve a community in which open proxies are the norm you may disable this protection.
There's also the SpamBlocker extension which allows you to set up a blacklist of URLs. This is not really designed for distributed use yet however, and requires some hacking if you want to use our central list.
See: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/SpamBlacklist/REA...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 24/05/2005, at 6:12 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
With $wgEnableSorbs on, anonymous edits and account creations are checked against the SORBS open proxy server blacklist. A quick spotcheck of wikis sporting spam that's been recently complained about has shown them to be either all or mostly running older versions (1.4.0 or 1.3.x) that don't include support for this check, and the IP addresses of these edits seem to be marked as open proxies by SORBS.
Just for clarity, the syntax is:
$wgEnableSorbs = true;
in your LocalSettings.php file.
An explanation can be found at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Proxy_blocking. -- rik
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:00:28PM +1200, Rik Wade wrote:
On 24/05/2005, at 6:12 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
With $wgEnableSorbs on, anonymous edits and account creations are checked against the SORBS open proxy server blacklist. A quick spotcheck of wikis sporting spam that's been recently complained about has shown them to be either all or mostly running older versions (1.4.0 or 1.3.x) that don't include support for this check, and the IP addresses of these edits seem to be marked as open proxies by SORBS.
Just for clarity, the syntax is:
$wgEnableSorbs = true;
in your LocalSettings.php file.
An explanation can be found at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proxy_blocking
rik
Thanks, Brion and rik.
I spent a while confused about proxy blocking based on some related, outdated web pages. It seems that there are two different implementations, so I updated the pages at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Proxy_blocker
and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_Features
please correct me if I got it wrong, and add more background if you can.
Cheers,
Neal McBurnett http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/ Signed and/or sealed mail encouraged. GPG/PGP Keyid: 2C9EBA60
How can we track the effectiveness of this? What should we look for in the apache logs, or is there an easier way to find out when it is having an effect, which IPs are being blocked, etc?
I have the same question about the SpamBlacklist. And can we see what text caused the edit to be blocked?
Neal McBurnett http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/ Signed and/or sealed mail encouraged. GPG/PGP Keyid: 2C9EBA60
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:12:29PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
Pradeep Dsouza wrote:
I don't know whats going on but some worm or something is throwing junk on my pages. Any one with a solution
... There's also the SpamBlocker extension which allows you to set up a blacklist of URLs. This is not really designed for distributed use yet however, and requires some hacking if you want to use our central list.
See: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/SpamBlacklist/REA...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Thanks, Brion! I've tried to clarify the references to this at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_Features
In order to stay up-to-date with stuff newly added to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist
the use of cron is mentioned. After getting an updated file, I assume the mediawiki server has to be told about it. What is the best way to get it to incorporate the updated file?
Cheers,
Neal McBurnett http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/ Signed and/or sealed mail encouraged. GPG/PGP Keyid: 2C9EBA60
Neal McBurnett wrote:
After getting an updated file, I assume the mediawiki server has to be told about it. What is the best way to get it to incorporate the updated file?
Assuming you have no object cache (such as memcached) enabled, MediaWiki will load the blacklist from a file on every edit. So all you have to do is change the file. If you are using memcached, you will also have to delete the spam_blacklist_regex key, e.g. using maintenance/mcc.php.
-- Tim Starling
Hi think we discussed this on IRC: my answer is CAPTCHA, but I know this solution is not yet operational for sight disabled public, although some mp3 technics are being tried.
The code and explanations for inserting a captcha on wikipedia is at http://www.fxparlant.net/Category:Mediawiki#Captcha
Hope this helps
Fxparlant (François)
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