This isn't the kind of problem that can be fixed, its one of those things you have to just deal with.

There are a couple of things you can try, for example if the bot is making lots of accounts you can impose account creation limits, there is also a hack to add a captchas.

Also as you are running version 1.5 there are some additional tools available (you should upgrade to version 1.5.2)

Arthur arthur@astarsolutions.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of WikiSysop Sent: 07 November 2005 04:19 To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Major Spam Problems

I am running MediaWiki 1.5.1 on www.drumcorpswiki.com and over the last two weeks or so, I've begun having major spam problems. It seems someone (a bot possibly?) is creating a user account and then editing many pages to include spam link and/or a hidden div section. Each time, I have to block the user and rollback all of the changes. Has there been a fix to the problem? Please see the recent changes on the site to get an idea of what I've been up against.

Thanks for any assistance anyone may provide,

Harlan Landes

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Maybe it will help to include the following lin into Localsettings.php:

$wgSpamRegex="/overflow:auto/";

Regards Karl Kirst

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]Im Auftrag von WikiSysop Gesendet: Montag, 7. November 2005 05:19 An: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Betreff: [Mediawiki-l] Major Spam Problems

I am running MediaWiki 1.5.1 on www.drumcorpswiki.com and over the last two weeks or so, I've begun having major spam problems. It seems someone (a bot possibly?) is creating a user account and then editing many pages to include spam link and/or a hidden div section. Each time, I have to block the user and rollback all of the changes. Has there been a fix to the problem? Please see the recent changes on the site to get an idea of what I've been up against.

Thanks for any assistance anyone may provide,

Harlan Landes

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WikiSysop wrote:

I am running MediaWiki 1.5.1 on www.drumcorpswiki.com and over the last two weeks or so, I've begun having major spam problems. It seems someone (a bot possibly?) is creating a user account and then editing many pages to include spam link and/or a hidden div section. Each time, I have to block the user and rollback all of the changes. Has there been a fix to the problem? Please see the recent changes on the site to get an idea of what I've been up against.

Thanks for any assistance anyone may provide,

Harlan Landes

I can only verify that this spammer is hitting a variety of wikis. He's hit FIRSTwiki as well. I should note that I do not run that one, just help sysop. I did notice that his attack is consistant. The exact same text added to the end of every edit link it could lay its hands on.

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