[Mediawiki-l] Re: Major Spam Problems

[Jamie Bliss]

WikiSysop wrote:
> I am running MediaWiki 1.5.1 on www.drumcorpswiki.com and over the last 
> two weeks or so, I've begun having major spam problems.  It seems 
> someone (a bot possibly?) is creating a user account and then editing 
> many pages to include spam link and/or a hidden div section.  Each time, 
> I have to block the user and rollback all of the changes.  Has there 
> been a fix to the problem?  Please see the recent changes on the site to 
> get an idea of what I've been up against.
> 
> Thanks for any assistance anyone may provide,
> 
> Harlan Landes

I can only verify that this spammer is hitting a variety of wikis. He's 
hit FIRSTwiki as well. I should note that I do not run that one, just 
help sysop. I did notice that his attack is consistant. The exact same 
text added to the end of every edit link it could lay its hands on.

-- Jamie
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