[Labs-l] Spam issues on labs sites

Wed Jun 20 22:35:37 UTC 2012

Also several tool we have for vandalism are now blocked and waiting
for response from operation team - see
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37404 this is currently
blocker to make a very effective system

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, we constantly remove the spam from all wikis. The fact there is no
> check user is making it harder though.
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Unsurprisingly, we're seeing open wikis more and more frequently
>> attacked by spambots:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
>>
>> We need to come up with a consistent response strategy here. I see
>> that wiki is already running the SpamBlacklist extension, although it
>> may not be set up correctly. It may also be necessary to set up
>> additional captchas or more restrictive measures.
>>
>> If necessary we'll have to shut down instances that are being taken
>> over by spammers.
>>
>> --
>> Erik Möller
>> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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