On Oct 12, 2005, at 11:53 AM, David Gerard wrote:
The administrator's noticeboard for incidents, [[WP:ANI]], is under a vandalbot attack. (We're moderately confident it's Wik again. What a lovely fellow.) Admins might want to note stuff here and/or #wikipedia while the attack is in progress.
CheckUser is really slooooow at the best of times and this isn't the best of times; is there a dev with DB access about who can see if there's a pattern to the vandalbot and come up with a reliable a
Easy fix that would be nice here would be if "block" appeared as an option next to all names on the new user page. That way we could zap the obviously randomly generated usernames quickly instead of slowly.
-Snowspinner