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sdjf
post Jul 8 2007, 07:45 PM
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Many of our wiki pages have been destroyed by one or more spammers.

People who care about our site, if you have time to fetch copies that you've saved or to retrieve copies from Google's cache or archive.org, please let's restore the wiki to sanity.

I can't do anything myself...have written a separate post about my personal difficulties getting edit access to the wiki. Did also PM an admin about this, but no response so I'm starting this thread.

I wish people's first few posts were moderated...someone in our midst may have been caught and stopped, but the wiki needs restoring. Can any admins do it from backups?

There is a lot of basic reference material there which has been replaced with drug spam. IIRC, two examples are Card Formatting instructions and a Serial How-TO.

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post Aug 19 2007, 07:08 AM
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Thanks. It's easy once you know what to do.

I had figured out steps 1 and 2, but was looking for a "Revert" button. wink.gif

I like clicking on "Page History" for a specific page that I know has spam in it. It's a little easier, but still a lot of work. I wish they would fix access. Hmmm. :} I wonder if one of us could install recaptcha on the newbie sign-up page instead of waiting for an admin to do it. Hehehe. wink.gif

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post Aug 30 2007, 05:33 PM
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Is there any point, until there is a more complicated sign up procedure ?
I reverted a few changes but there are already another 20,

It's the same spambots again and again. Deleting their accounts and automatically reverting their changes would be a good thing.
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post Sep 17 2007, 03:04 AM
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QUOTE(koan @ Aug 31 2007, 01:33 AM)
Is there any point, until there is a more complicated sign up procedure ?
I reverted a few changes but there are already another 20,

It's the same spambots again and again. Deleting their accounts and automatically reverting their changes would be a good thing.
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cool.gif Just spent an hour or so reverting spam.


1. Is anything being contemplated about the spam in the wiki issue?

2. Are there any useful anti-spam bots?

3. Does that cesspit Wikipedia have any useful bots we could beg/borrow?

Appreciation to the likes of pelrun, sdjf, koan etc who have been reverting spam. biggrin.gif

No doubt we'll have to keep repeating the process until some effective measures are taken to kill the spam accounts and keep new ones out! rolleyes.gif
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sdjf   Spam In The Wiki!   Jul 8 2007, 07:45 PM
pelrun   Backups aren't necessary; the wiki is revision...   Jul 8 2007, 08:06 PM
pelrun   Okay, nailed them all. But I really don't wan...   Jul 8 2007, 09:02 PM
sdjf   Thank you! But there's got to be a way to...   Jul 9 2007, 01:48 AM
pelrun   The forum and wiki are completely independent - wh...   Jul 9 2007, 01:50 AM
telemetric_au   i cleaned up a page a few days ago, didnt think of...   Jul 9 2007, 03:55 AM
dz   I had to do the same thing months ago. Spam bots ...   Jul 9 2007, 08:39 AM
sdjf   Can you also see if we can make our aliases there ...   Jul 9 2007, 11:05 AM
gaarder   Consider installing reCAPTCHA http://recaptcha.net...   Jul 9 2007, 06:23 PM
sdjf   There is a TON of spam in the wiki again. I creat...   Aug 16 2007, 08:43 PM
sdjf   Grrr. Wiki help pages are also now filled with sp...   Aug 17 2007, 04:04 AM
pelrun   Reverting isn't hard: 1. Click the page's...   Aug 19 2007, 04:42 AM
sdjf   Thanks. It's easy once you know what to do. ...   Aug 19 2007, 07:08 AM
koan   Is there any point, until there is a more complica...   Aug 30 2007, 05:33 PM
tux   QUOTE(koan @ Aug 31 2007, 01:33 AM)Is there a...   Sep 17 2007, 03:04 AM
InSearchOf   I have no access to the wiki :-(, I'm sorry L...   Sep 17 2007, 05:27 AM
tux   QUOTE(InSearchOf @ Sep 17 2007, 01:27 PM)I ha...   Sep 18 2007, 02:41 PM
InSearchOf   I will see what I can do with getting you moderato...   Sep 18 2007, 06:29 PM
koan   QUOTE(InSearchOf @ Sep 18 2007, 06:29 PM)I pe...   Sep 19 2007, 04:43 PM
sdjf   Disable "all r/w"???? Or just all w exc...   Sep 19 2007, 01:47 PM
sdjf   Recoding to include RECAPTCHA might take too long ...   Sep 19 2007, 08:19 PM
koan   QUOTE(sdjf @ Sep 19 2007, 08:19 PM)Recoding t...   Sep 20 2007, 12:56 AM
urkden   QUOTE(koan @ Sep 20 2007, 10:56 AM)I saw a si...   Sep 20 2007, 09:25 AM
sdjf   If you missed it, Recaptcha is a official project ...   Sep 22 2007, 11:55 PM
Meyer   Definitely need to do something about the spambots...   Sep 23 2007, 12:25 PM
Meyer   How about running Wikipedia's AntiSpamBot on t...   Sep 24 2007, 09:02 PM
dz   QUOTE(Meyer @ Sep 25 2007, 12:02 AM)How about...   Sep 25 2007, 05:06 AM
Meyer   Which thread? That link's a 404.   Sep 26 2007, 11:50 PM
tux   QUOTE(Meyer @ Sep 27 2007, 08:50 AM) Whic...   Sep 27 2007, 02:31 PM


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