Yes, it almost certainly is, and this isn't new to us. We dealt with this exact type of attack as recently as last month.
Austin
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.ramk@wikimedia.in wrote:
This is probably related to a group that calls itself India Against Corruption. A similar tactic was employed by them on the India Community. You may look up archives of Wikimediaindia-l and Commons-l. You could also read up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/India_Against_Corrup...
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