[Engineering] [Wikitech-l] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

Sun Jul 1 19:25:21 UTC 2018

I wrote a short, quick fixer script that is terrible, but is saving me 
some time in fixing some tasks today.

I figured I'd share the script[0] on this list even thought it's very 
very (very) alpha and was written very quickly.

Thank you to everyone looking at and thinking about this issue.

-- Tyler

[0].  <https://gist.github.com/thcipriani/9b09ca451852ac09ff924220b7770c1b>

On 18-07-01 03:51:15, Leon Ziemba wrote:
>I wrote a rollback script, currently running as CommunityTechBot
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/CommunityTechBot/> and previously
>Community
>Tech bot <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Community_Tech_bot/>. It
>seems to work, aside from setting the triage level, which hopefully isn't a
>huge deal. I can try to fix that later. It is also being slowed down by
>rate limiting. The script isn't quite shareable yet but when it is I'll
>publish it. Going to sleep now :)
>
>~Leon
>
>On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 2:58 AM Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il>
>wrote:
>
>> Thanks to all the people who are working (on a weekend!) to fix this.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>> ‪“We're living in pieces,
>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>>
>> 2018-07-01 5:53 GMT+02:00 Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org>:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Unfortunately we are experiencing spam in our Phabricator instance
>> > again and have decided to turn on the requirement for new account
>> > approval by Phabricator admins as a mitigation step.
>> >
>> > I'm sorry for the inconvenience. We are actively working to address this
>> > issue.
>> >
>> > Greg
>> >
>> > --
>> > | Greg Grossmeier            GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
>> > | Release Team Manager            A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
>> >
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