Re: Strange (spam) pages in the wiki
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 08:22:25PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 08:25:35PM +0100, Beatrice Torracca wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>working on the wiki today I noticed something strange. There are some
>>pages listed in the search results that look like spam pages, but they
>>are not regular pages (they look like broken links). I wasn't able to
>>visualize them or remove them.
>>
>>I can not give any link (it does not work). One way to see some of
>>them is to make a search for "support phone number" in the
>>text, not the titles, of pages.
>>
>>Not a urgent issues of course, but something odd.
>
>ACK. Those *were* pages from spammers that we we blocked and then
>cleaned up, but it looks like the search index still has some remnants
>even so. I'll take a look and see what I can do about it.
>
>Thanks for reporting!
It *looks* like this was just an old cache used by the xapian search
indexing. I've cleared and rebuilt the index from scratch and that
seems to have solved the problem.
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Steve McIntyre 93sam@debian.org
Debian wiki admin - wiki.debian.org wiki@debian.org
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