Excerpts from Tom Fifield's message of 2016-02-11 19:33:46 -0800: > Hi, > > Since about 11th January, wiki.o.o has been under attack by spammers. > > They're creating new pages at a rate of more than 50 a day, with titles > that hint at calling certain phone numbers for various services. As a > result, google has started de-ranking o.o :) > > If you look at > > https://wiki.openstack.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages > > you'll see them. > > It's across more than a dozen user accounts. I'm going to attempt some > manual cleaning, but we probably need to look for an extension to do > something about this pro-actively. > > Quite a few good, light weight suggestions in here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam