[OpenStack-Infra] Wiki.o.o sustaining spam attack

Clint Byrum clint at fewbar.com
Fri Feb 12 06:46:06 UTC 2016


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



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