It appears someone is cracking easily-guessable passwords of accounts on Wikipedia. Until measures are undertaken to check all accounts for weak passwords and make people use stronger passwords, I encourage everyone whose password is 'weak' to log in now and change your password to something stronger.
Here are some tips for strong passwords:
* Don't use words you would find in the dictionary. * Don't use 'password' or something like that for your password. * Don't use a derivative of your username as a password. * Don't use something like "god" or "fuckyou". They really are very common as passwords. * Don't use the same password as you use for other sites or your email. * Use a mix of upper case and lower case letters. * Use symbols and numbers. * Make it at least 8 characters long.
I hope this is a help to someone.
~Mark Ryan