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Milos Rancic

26 May 26 May

6:43 p.m.

Anarchopedia has the same problems, but only with sites with English interface. I didn't see where to put a IP list of them? http://wiki.chongqed.org/ interface is not friendly: I have to explain every IP and in this moment I have around 30 different IPs. Any person interested in that problem can log in on http://meta.anarchopedia.org, http://eng.anarchopedia.org and http://hrv.anarchopedia.org. Good thing about Anarchopedia is that it has small number of articles and that only three or four pages (which don't exist) are the target. When the page is deleted, they are making the page again with different IP so a lot of IPs can be recognized (even it is possible that all of them exist in Wikimedia database). See: - http://meta.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Anarchopedia:Block_log - http://eng.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Anarchopedia:Block_log - http://hrv.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Anarchopedia:Block_log If some developer is interested in that problem, (s)he can get dev status and shell account on Anarchopedia. (I am going to see what is going on with Infoshop OpenWiki.) On 5/26/05, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

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Just read it on the french pump The Encyclopedia Libre has been heavily attacked by a spam bot 2 days ago. It spammed about 500 pages with a change of ip for each edit. It took them 1 full day to restore it all. As a consequence, log-in is now mandatory for contribution on EL. Ant _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

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Anthere

7:35 p.m.

I'll give him the links. The guy who reported it is http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Utilisateur%3AM.Romero_Schmidtke I guess the spamers came to you because they met a wall here at WP ;-) Ant Milos Rancic a écrit:

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Anarchopedia has the same problems, but only with sites with English interface. I didn't see where to put a IP list of them? http://wiki.chongqed.org/ interface is not friendly: I have to explain every IP and in this moment I have around 30 different IPs. Any person interested in that problem can log in on http://meta.anarchopedia.org, http://eng.anarchopedia.org and http://hrv.anarchopedia.org. Good thing about Anarchopedia is that it has small number of articles and that only three or four pages (which don't exist) are the target. When the page is deleted, they are making the page again with different IP so a lot of IPs can be recognized (even it is possible that all of them exist in Wikimedia database). See: - http://meta.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Anarchopedia:Block_log - http://eng.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Anarchopedia:Block_log - http://hrv.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Anarchopedia:Block_log If some developer is interested in that problem, (s)he can get dev status and shell account on Anarchopedia. (I am going to see what is going on with Infoshop OpenWiki.) On 5/26/05, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

Just read it on the french pump The Encyclopedia Libre has been heavily attacked by a spam bot 2 days ago. It spammed about 500 pages with a change of ip for each edit. It took them 1 full day to restore it all. As a consequence, log-in is now mandatory for contribution on EL. Ant _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

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Jimmy Wales

4 Jun 4 Jun

5 p.m.

Anthere wrote:

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Just read it on the french pump The Encyclopedia Libre has been heavily attacked by a spam bot 2 days ago. It spammed about 500 pages with a change of ip for each edit. It took them 1 full day to restore it all. As a consequence, log-in is now mandatory for contribution on EL.

What software version are they using? Is there anything we can do to help them? --Jimbo

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Mark Williamson

4:26 p.m.

Yes, it is that one. Reasons for forking were, if I recall correctly, that we were discussing (although not seriously considering) adding ads to Wikipedia, and also the fact that the community is so en.wiki-centric (I think - this may not've actually been a reason). A remerge has been suggested, but Enciclopedia Libre (Free Encyclopaedia) has been resistant and they are, after all, at an advantage because they have more articles than do we. Mark On 05/06/05, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:

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Jimmy Wales wrote:

[Encyclopedia Libre] What software version are they using? Is there anything we can do to help them?

Assuming Enciclopedia Libre is meant, 1.3.11. Isn't this the one that was originally a fork of the Spanish Wikipedia? I can't remember what the reasons were for forking or for not merging back in. Does anyone know? Maybe we should think about encouraging a remerge. Timwi _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

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Anthere

6:41 p.m.

Timwi a écrit:

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Jimmy Wales wrote:

[Encyclopedia Libre] What software version are they using? Is there anything we can do to help them?

Assuming Enciclopedia Libre is meant, 1.3.11. Isn't this the one that was originally a fork of the Spanish Wikipedia? I can't remember what the reasons were for forking or for not merging back in. Does anyone know? Maybe we should think about encouraging a remerge. Timwi

The visible reason was fear of advertisment. The less visible reason is best explained here by Brion (3 years ago) on another issue (which could have resulted in a very similar outcome) http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-June/000451.html I'd say it was also the type of misunderstanding which results and escalates from lack of bonds. From not knowing the other party. Ant

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