[WikiEN-l] Spambots

[David 'DJ' Hedley]

Tonight there have been two incidents i've noticed where mass-spambots have
been set on to the English Wikipedia. These spambots have been blanking
articles probably at a rate of 100 articles a minute, and as that is the
time it is normally taking an admin to notice and block the bots are causing
a lot of disruption.

I don't know where these bots have come from, but they seem capable of
quickly deleting content. The contributions for [[User:Whoever blocks me has
no life!]] shows what I mean.

- D. Hedley