wiki spam

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Sun Mar 9 21:43:05 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Richard A. Johnson
<nixternal at kubuntu.org> 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  don't want to do, but seeing as our wiki is so freakin' outdated, it just might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.

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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