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| − | + | This wiki has been spammed. As soon as it showed up on Google even a little bit, it got attacked. I reacted by blocking all account creation, so this is no longer a wiki. It's just a "blog on steroids." I prefer to use my energy creating content (even though virtually no one reads any of it) than fighting spammers. | |
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| + | ==The Spam Attack== | ||
| + | The spamming started at the end of September, when this site started to show up just a little bit on Google. I only discovered it a week later. The spammers were discrete, to avoid killing the hen that lays the golden eggs, as it were. (Seen any golden eggs around here lately?) And fortunately the site had been configured to require creating an account before editing. | ||
I quickly modified the LocalSettings.php file to allow account creation only by WikiSysop. I then logged on as WikiSysop and blocked one by one all 8 unwanted users, each of whom seemed to have lain only one golden egg. I consulted "All Pages," and with a bit of work created the following record: | I quickly modified the LocalSettings.php file to allow account creation only by WikiSysop. I then logged on as WikiSysop and blocked one by one all 8 unwanted users, each of whom seemed to have lain only one golden egg. I consulted "All Pages," and with a bit of work created the following record: | ||
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And how did the spammers create new pages, without first making a link in an existing page? | And how did the spammers create new pages, without first making a link in an existing page? | ||
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| + | ==Statistics about the Spammers== | ||
| + | The statistics about visitors to this site are furnished by the server-provider Ouvaton, who gets them from a professional group. They are rather difficult to interpret. | ||
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