ubuntu-doc Digest, Vol 44, Issue 21

Fri May 16 13:27:38 UTC 2008

I am willing to help watch the wiki page and report any changes that look
like spam.
Vincent Rappa

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:00 AM, <ubuntu-doc-request at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>   1. Re: wiki spam (Przemys?aw Kulczycki)
>   2. Newbie wanting to join the Mentoring Programme
>      (Vivek Sonny Abraham)
>   3. Re: wiki spam - captcha in launchpad? (Przemys?aw Kulczycki)
>   4. Re: wiki spam (Christian Robottom Reis)
>   5. Re: wiki spam (William Grant)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:14:21 +0200
> From: Przemys?aw Kulczycki  <przemekkulczycki at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: wiki spam
> To: Launchpad Users List <launchpad-users at lists.canonical.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Dougie Richardson pisze:
> > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 09:53 +0200, Przemys?aw 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, Przemys?aw 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  don't want to do, but seeing as our wiki is so freakin' outdated, it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.
>
> --
> ## Przemys?aw Kulczycki <<>> Azrael Nightwalker ##
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 20:24:47 +0530
> From: "Vivek Sonny Abraham" <vivek.sonny.abraham at gmail.com>
> Subject: Newbie wanting to join the Mentoring Programme
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> Hi,
>
> I am Vivek Sonny Abraham, from India. I have been using Ubuntu for the past
> few months, and I am currently using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy). I want to join
> the
> Mentoring Programme, so that I can be part of the Documentation Team for
> Ubuntu.
>
> I am not sure which part of the Documentation I would work on, though :).
>
> Regards
> Vivek
>
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> Vivek Sonny Abraham
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 00:23:51 +0200
> From: Przemys?aw Kulczycki  <przemekkulczycki at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: wiki spam - captcha in launchpad?
> To: Launchpad Users List <launchpad-users at lists.canonical.com>
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> Dougie Richardson pisze:
> >> 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.
> >
> > The thing is that having looked through some of the spam, its malicious
> > (not to Ubuntu) and being returned higher in Google than most of our
> > genuine pages.
>
> Just few minutes after being deleted, the spam is getting back under new
> username and same page names.
> Maybe Launchpad should have a captcha while registering a new account?
> (I registered mine over 2 years ago so I don't remember if it changed)
>
> --
> ## Przemys?aw Kulczycki <<>> Azrael Nightwalker ##
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 18:30:55 -0300
> From: Christian Robottom Reis <kiko at canonical.com>
> Subject: Re: wiki spam
> To: Morten Kjeldgaard <mok at bioxray.au.dk>
> Cc: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com,        Launchpad Users List
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> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:49:51PM +0200, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >
> > On a similar note, all Ubuntu bugs in LP have recently gotten a whole
> > bunch of "Also notified" subscribers. You'll find the following list on
> > every Ubuntu bug:
>
> That's okay. It's a side-effect of allowing anyone to subscribe to
> Ubuntu bugs. It shouldn't cause any problems -- though it might suggest
> that people don't know what they are signing up for..
> --
> Christian Robottom Reis | http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 3376 0125
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 09:06:02 +1000
> From: William Grant <william at qeuni.net>
> Subject: Re: wiki spam
> To: Christian Robottom Reis <kiko at canonical.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com,        Launchpad Users List
>        <launchpad-users at lists.canonical.com>
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> Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:49:51PM +0200, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> >>> 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
> >> On a similar note, all Ubuntu bugs in LP have recently gotten a whole
> >> bunch of "Also notified" subscribers. You'll find the following list on
> >> every Ubuntu bug:
> >
> > That's okay. It's a side-effect of allowing anyone to subscribe to
> > Ubuntu bugs. It shouldn't cause any problems -- though it might suggest
> > that people don't know what they are signing up for..
>
> Mightn't it also suggest that they're harvesting email addresses?
> They'll get an awful lot very easily by watching Ubuntu bugmail.
>
> --
> William Grant
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