[OpenStack-Infra] Wiki.o.o sustaining spam attack
Tom Fifield
tom at openstack.org
Mon Feb 15 14:05:54 UTC 2016
Is there anyone who can help with this? There's still a ton of spam
going in, and manually cleaning it is a ton of effort.
On 12/02/16 06:40, Tom Fifield wrote:
> OK, so, MediaWiki nas a nice manual on how to combat spam (
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam )
>
> Would it be possible to get these implemented:
>
> * update Apache web server configuration to block all spammer IPs in
> lists available from www.stopforumspam.com . Alternate, use the
> mediawiki plugin that does the same:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StopForumSpam
>
> * Configre the ConfirmEdit extension to set it to display a CAPTCHA when
> creating a new page:
>
> $wgCaptchaTriggers['create'] = true;
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 12/02/16 11:08, Tom Fifield wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>> cleaning, but we probably need to look for an extension to do something
>> about this pro-actively.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
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