Fwd: Fwd: WikiGuide destroed by spammers

[Elizabeth K. Joseph]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Alessandro Viprati
<vipri.alessandro at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2016-01-02 16:27 GMT+01:00 Ian Nicholson <ian at binaryash.net>:
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>> For what it's worth, passing your favorite search engine the string
>> "site:help.ubuntu.com pogo" returns quite a few spam pages.  I'd
>> delete them myself but I apparently don't have the permissions to do
>> so.  These pages seem to have all been created in the last two or
>> three days.
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> It seems that the situation is more complex than what previously considered:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/%20%20%20+1-800-311-5934%20%20%20POGOtech%20Support%20Phone%20Number%20POGOtech%20support%20number#6943230803257378742
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> Due to the moinmoin wiki configuration, help.ubuntu.com/community pages
> cannot be delete by normal users (=normal accounts), so we need admins to
> delete all these pages.

There are thousands of pages and it looks like this started on
December 23rd. I'm not going to spend my whole day deleting pages when
the spam accounts keep being created. Endless, time-wasting war with
bots.

I've submitted a ticket with Canonical IS (#27950) to see what they
can do on the administrative side to shut this down.

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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2