[Mediawiki-l] What is creating all these wierd users like "B79eb7"?

[David Gerard]

Ed W (lists at wildgooses.com) [050623 19:11]:

> I am steadily seeing an increasing number of 6 digit users with wierd 
> names like "B79eb7" registering on my site.  Who/what is creating these?


Appears to be an experimental Wikipedia spambot, being run by someone too
clueless to realise that a tiny wiki will notice whereas Wikipedia probably
wouldn't. Has anyone found anything out about this spambot?


- d.