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Re: [Debconf-team] Wiki spam



On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:11:29 +0000, Moray Allan wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Richard Darst <rkd@zgib.net> wrote:
> > If you look at RecentChanges
> >  http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
> > you'll see the spam attack on our wiki has picked up.
> There *is* a maths test box on the account creation page.  Maybe the
> automated systems added support for its format by now?  (But it might
> also just be that they're paying people to help them spam.)

Not that it helps, but the same (bots cracking the math test) has been
observed in the maemo wiki.

Same general mediawiki fix would probably help more projects ...

Cheers,
gregor
 
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