On Nov 19,
2007 9:53 PM, Seth Marbin <smarbin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Emufarmers for the advice... I have still yet to implement, but
> just
> noticed something and wonder if others are seeing it too.
>
> On my wiki the bot is not just inserting random gibberish words, it is
> also
> changing symbols to strange characters.
> For example as seen
> here<
>
http://www.teampedia.net/wiki/index.php?title=Captain%27s_Coming%21&dif…
> :
>
> " (a quote symbol)
> becomes
> â (the letter a with an accent)
Yeah - it seems that the bot is reading in the whole page, into a
string, sticking its 'calling card' at the front ;-), and then
submitting the whole string back to the wiki, screwing up special
characters as it goes. This is only annoying if you accidentally
delete the spam word instead of undoing the whole edit.
Then you can block those stupid bots by rewuiring one of those strings
they change at wpEditToken