koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com wrote:

You Wrote:

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This looks like something nasty waiting to happen (see the enclosed HTML page).

Note the apparently bogus user name, and the fact that the article title text does not match the link. In addition, recent changes says that this was created from IP 194.117.133.196 http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=194.117.133.196,

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which is used by a couple of real users and a persistent vandal.

A nasty thought: is this a rehearsal for an automated attack?

Neil

I don't understand what I'm supposed to make of that. what attachment? what page?

kq

Here's the attachment. Brion has explained it as a race condition in the code, rather than anything suspicious.

Neil