On Oct 12, 2005, at 11:53 AM, David Gerard wrote:
The administrator's noticeboard for incidents,
[[WP:ANI]], is under a
vandalbot attack. (We're moderately confident it's Wik again. What a
lovely fellow.) Admins might want to note stuff here and/or #wikipedia
while the attack is in progress.
CheckUser is really slooooow at the best of times and this isn't the
best of times; is there a dev with DB access about who can see if
there's a pattern to the vandalbot and come up with a reliable
a
Easy fix that would be nice here would be if "block" appeared as an
option next to all names on the new user page. That way we could zap
the obviously randomly generated usernames quickly instead of slowly.
-Snowspinner