[WikiEN-l] Mysterious spam on Wikipedia

[Phil Sandifer]

On Oct 22, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Mark Wagner wrote:

> I just opened up the article on [[BioShock]], and there's some sort of
> banner ad scrolling French text across the top.  I can't see any
> vandalism in the article history or any of the templates it uses.  I'm
> pretty sure I don't have a spyware problem, since I'm running Gentoo
> Linux.  Has a spammer somehow gotten access to the user interface?
>
> A screenshot of what I'm seeing is at
> http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k19/Carnildo/Forums/bannerad.png

That's our new fundraising drive.

It could stand to be a bit more descriptive.

-Phil