Re: wiki spam

[Przemysław Kulczycki <przemekkulczycki@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dougie Richardson pisze:
> On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 09:53 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote:
> > Matthew East pisze:
> > > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Richard A. Johnson
> > > <nixternal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 09 March 2008, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote:
> > > >  | Hi guys.
> > > >  | The Ubuntu wiki is getting more spam lately.
> > > >  | See the recent changes page and look for massive page attachment
> > > >  | addings. All the attachements are the same - files with text and links
> > > >  | to porn sites. All are uploaded by the same user: Gera76ru.
> > > {snip}
> > >
> > > >  I just notified the sys admins on IRC about it. Thanks for the heads up!  Looks
> > > >  like I may need to go back to watching the wiki pages again, which I really
> > > >  don't want to do, but seeing as our wiki is so freakin' outdated, it just might
> > > >  have to be done.
> > > While there may be something that can be done in our moin installation
> > > about this, I wouldn't count on it - another way to help is to report
> > > the nicknames to the Launchpad admins on #launchpad or via
> > > https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad and ask for the accounts to be
> > > deactivated.
> > The spam bots are back, even though their accounts were deleted some 
> > time ago. And there are more of them (users and spam pages).
> > See https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/26722
>
> I reported this to the website team a couple of weeks ago in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-doc/+bug/224971 and have mailed
> launchpad to ask for the account in launchpad to be deleted.
>
> This is still part of 302 attack that is not being addressed - there is
> no point in deleting the pages in the wiki as long as the user name
> exists in launchpad.

Also note that deleting the wiki pages doesn't delete their attachements 
 - it's annoying as hell when you have to delete hundreds of 
attachements manually.

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