[e-lang] More wiki spam

Toby Murray toby.murray at comlab.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jun 3 19:47:33 CDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 15:52 -0500, James Graves wrote:
> Toby Murray wrote:
> > http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page/
> > 
> > Note that this is a new page -- MediaWiki distinguishes this page from
> > Talk:Main_Page
> 
> Deleted and the IP was blocked.  Did you want sysop rights Toby?
> 

Looks like a bot running on an ISP-connected host with addresses
assigned by DHCP or similar. (Or multiple hosts of the same ISP..) At
any rate, blocking individual IPs is futile:

http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/W/index.php

created by 92.112.212.88

All of the IPs that created these "666 terror" pages belong to
pool.ukrtel.net, which is presumably addresses assigned by a DHCP
service at ukrtel.net, a European ISP.

I'm impressed if this is a bot that has broken reCaptcha, despite the
obvious annoyance.

Cheers

Tob



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