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

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Mon Mar 28 09:36:44 UTC 2016


Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2016-03-25 10:51:57 -0700 (-0700), Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> [...]
>> 1. Spammer moved How_To_Contribute to a 555-5p4m-number-woo page
>> 2. Spammer replaced the content with spam
>> 3. SmitSpam deleted the page as spam
> [...]
>
> Great point, we need to be mindful of page moves too, so that does
> complicate matters. Also we should probably be marking high-value
> pages like How_To_Contribute locked to wiki admins anyway (we
> already do that for some of them since long before the current rash
> of defacements).

Great point... We don't have much reference content left on the wiki, 
but we should probably protect whatever is left (while we continue the 
effort of replacing those pages by properly peer-reviewed sites).

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)



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