One of IP which I noted on Anarchopedia made one spam on Infoshop OpenWiki today. This is all of spam there.

I have a list of 37 IP addresses and 95% of them spammed Anarchopedia today. I think that problem can be massive cracking of different systems. As I think, only two IP addresses have the same C class.

On 5/26/05, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:

Anarchopedia has the same problems, but only with sites with English interface.

I didn't see where to put a IP list of them? http://wiki.chongqed.org/ interface is not friendly: I have to explain every IP and in this moment I have around 30 different IPs.

Any person interested in that problem can log in on http://meta.anarchopedia.org, http://eng.anarchopedia.org and http://hrv.anarchopedia.org. Good thing about Anarchopedia is that it has small number of articles and that only three or four pages (which don't exist) are the target. When the page is deleted, they are making the page again with different IP so a lot of IPs can be recognized (even it is possible that all of them exist in Wikimedia database).

See:

• http://meta.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Anarchopedia:Block_log
• http://eng.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Anarchopedia:Block_log
• http://hrv.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Anarchopedia:Block_log

If some developer is interested in that problem, (s)he can get dev status and shell account on Anarchopedia.

(I am going to see what is going on with Infoshop OpenWiki.)

On 5/26/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:

...

Just read it on the french pump

The Encyclopedia Libre has been heavily attacked by a spam bot 2 days ago. It spammed about 500 pages with a change of ip for each edit. It took them 1 full day to restore it all.

As a consequence, log-in is now mandatory for contribution on EL.

Ant

---

Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

On 5/26/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:

I'll give him the links. The guy who reported it is http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Utilisateur%3AM.Romero_Schmidtke

I guess the spamers came to you because they met a wall here at WP ;-)

:) The number of IP addresses is not indefinite, so the advantage is on our side ;)

I am wandering why anti-spam implementation is not also IP based such email blacklists are? In this case I see that action is coordinated by some program (and, probably, by some person(s)). They can't have so many different dial-up, adsl and similar connections. I suppose that all of IPs represent one server-like machine on Internet. As they have a lot of IPs I think that some (or all?) of that machines are cracked. Maybe some viruses with wiki-edit possibilities exist, too? I think that this is general problem and that MediaWiki should have automatic anti-spam features like email servers have.

Definitely, Infoshop OpenWiki is under attack, too.

Jimmy Wales wrote:

[Encyclopedia Libre]

What software version are they using? Is there anything we can do to help them?

Assuming Enciclopedia Libre is meant, 1.3.11.

Isn't this the one that was originally a fork of the Spanish Wikipedia? I can't remember what the reasons were for forking or for not merging back in. Does anyone know? Maybe we should think about encouraging a remerge.

Timwi

Mark Williamson wrote:

A remerge has been suggested, but Enciclopedia Libre (Free Encyclopaedia) has been resistant and they are, after all, at an advantage because they have more articles than do we.

They are GFDL. By taking all their articles that don't clash with article titles on es, we'll already have more articles than they. :-p

Timwi