wiki spam

[Przemysław Kulczycki]

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 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  don't want to do, but seeing as our wiki is so freakin' outdated, it just might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.
>> 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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