On
mediawiki.org we quite often seem to get new pages created similar to the
following:
Page name: /w/w/index.php?title=Extension:Guestbook/w/w/index.php
Page text: Dear web-master ! I looked your site and I want to say that yor
very well made it .All information on this site is represented for users. A
site is made professionally. So to hold !
The similarities are that the pages titles always contain index.php?title=xx
(with various depths of /w or /wiki) and that the message is congratulating
us on our site. The user is always an anon, but without being able to
search the deleted pages I don't know whether the IP address is always the
same. There never seems to be any link spam or any of the other common
vandalism/spamming traits in the page text.
Have any other wikis experienced this? Some kind of spambot gone wrong, or
a mischievous repeat visitor? It's happened too often for me to think it's
a genuine congratulatory comment posted by someone with a screwy browser...
Is there anything we can do about it?
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)