I've seen similar stuff as a bash.org moderator. It's a spambot.

Andrew Garrett (werdna)

On 06/02/07, Mark Clements gmane@kennel17.co.uk wrote:

On mediawiki.org we quite often seem to get new pages created similar to

the

following:

Page name: /w/w/index.php?title=Extension:Guestbook/w/w/index.php Page text: Dear web-master ! I looked your site and I want to say that yor very well made it .All information on this site is represented for users. A site is made professionally. So to hold !

The similarities are that the pages titles always contain index.php?title=xx (with various depths of /w or /wiki) and that the message is congratulating us on our site. The user is always an anon, but without being able to search the deleted pages I don't know whether the IP address is always the same. There never seems to be any link spam or any of the other common vandalism/spamming traits in the page text.

Have any other wikis experienced this? Some kind of spambot gone wrong, or a mischievous repeat visitor? It's happened too often for me to think it's a genuine congratulatory comment posted by someone with a screwy browser...

Is there anything we can do about it?

• Mark Clements (HappyDog)