[Mediawiki-l] Re: Never delete users !

Wed Oct 12 14:42:53 UTC 2005

On 10/12/05, Jani H. Lahtinen <jani.h.lahtinen at nokia.com> wrote:

> Does this not provide a fine attack against Mediawikis: make a bot that
> generates and register users. After some trillions of random users added
> the wiki is on its knees.

I supposed, but most of the "evil-doers" seem motivated by wanting to
pollute wikispace with referenced to their urls as a means of raising
their Google page-rank.  Their hope is that they can introduce those
urls "quietly" and that they will still be there when the search
engine bots do their next scans.

Bringing the wiki to it's needs is counterproductive to their ends.

If this should become a problem though, a better solution would be to
introduce measures which limit the ability of bots to register.

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