Re: Spam on the wiki

2015-12-16 18:02 GMT+01:00 Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>:

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 05:32:19PM +0100, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There's something wrong over here: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/
> > Talk:What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.1/fr
> >
> > And to many more pages. See:
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/index.php?title=
> > Special%3ALog&type=&user=Singhuma893
> >
> > Not sure what's the best way to deal with this, but wanted you guys to
> know
> > about it.
>
> Yes, I am trying to fix it but the spam users are creating new pages
> faster than I can fix it. I am concerned we are going to need to revert
> the entire wiki to an earlier state.
>
> I see problem users Johnthe and Sanjaypatel but the fixes are geting
> re-spammed so quickly I am afraid it is some automated attack that will
> be difficult to clean up. The other problem is that they are _moving_
> pages, meaning we have to move them back as well as undo the edits.
>
> I am going to give up trying to undo this until we can get a better
> handle on a process of cleanup.
>
>
Maybe there's a way to pu the wiki on a read-only mode for everyone except
some of us. That would help stopping them while we fix it. But I don't know
if such a mode exists. +

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