[WikiEN-l] Mysterious spam on Wikipedia

Parker Conrad parkerconrad at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 23:39:56 UTC 2007


I think that's a solicitation to donate to the mw foundation.

/prc

On 10/22/07, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> 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
>
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