Talk:Administrator Discussion: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
I am spurred to create a page for people (self-defined administrators -- yes, you too, whoever is reading this) to discuss issues relating to running the wiki. The spur is those long numeric strings that periodically show up on brand new pages that never existed before, or, lately, as additions to preexisting pages. What's up with those? They don't seem to be link-spam because there is no link. So I wonder if they are created by some searchbot or other program running wild, by the mediawiki software, or what? Does anybody know? [[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 07:01, 26 June 2006 (PDT) | I am spurred to create a page for people (self-defined administrators -- yes, you too, whoever is reading this) to discuss issues relating to running the wiki. The spur is those long numeric strings that periodically show up on brand new pages that never existed before, or, lately, as additions to preexisting pages. What's up with those? They don't seem to be link-spam because there is no link. So I wonder if they are created by some searchbot or other program running wild, by the mediawiki software, or what? Does anybody know? [[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 07:01, 26 June 2006 (PDT) | ||
Well, a search on the internet didn't turn up anything definitive. But some people theorize it's a "proof of concept" spam to see if the site is being patrolled. If we don't remove the weird edits, the real attack begins. Some pages I came across indicated that there are RBL filters that can be installed for the Wikimedia engine. Maybe we should look into that? --[[User:JLeland|Therem]] 19:18, 26 June 2006 (PDT) | |||
Revision as of 18:18, 26 June 2006
I am spurred to create a page for people (self-defined administrators -- yes, you too, whoever is reading this) to discuss issues relating to running the wiki. The spur is those long numeric strings that periodically show up on brand new pages that never existed before, or, lately, as additions to preexisting pages. What's up with those? They don't seem to be link-spam because there is no link. So I wonder if they are created by some searchbot or other program running wild, by the mediawiki software, or what? Does anybody know? LQ 07:01, 26 June 2006 (PDT)
Well, a search on the internet didn't turn up anything definitive. But some people theorize it's a "proof of concept" spam to see if the site is being patrolled. If we don't remove the weird edits, the real attack begins. Some pages I came across indicated that there are RBL filters that can be installed for the Wikimedia engine. Maybe we should look into that? --Therem 19:18, 26 June 2006 (PDT)