[okfn-help] URGENT - wiki.ckan.net under huge spam attack

Mon Mar 28 10:07:46 BST 2011

On 28 March 2011 01:15, Stefano Costa <stefano.costa at okfn.org> wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 25/03/2011 alle 18.01 +0000, Rufus Pollock ha scritto:
>> OK, I've enabled recaptcha and its working. I'll leave you to have go
>> at purging stuff. I think we want all changes from 18th march onwards
>> to go ...
>
> The spam/vandalism attack is now fixed. All edits due to vandalism were
> purged from the wiki and database, with a combination of the following
> maintenance scripts (for the record):
>      * deleteRevision
>      * rebuildrecentchanges
>      * nukePage
>      * deleteArchivedRevisions

Amazing work Stefano!

> There are just a few null edits by myself. The CAPTCHA seems to have
> entirely blocked the spam flood since it has been activated.
>
> That said, I encourage everyone to add the RecentChanges feed to their
> feed reader and keep an eye on anonymous edits. Plus, it would help a
> lot if regular contributors would be using a registered account.

Yes -- well done for spotting this and notifying :)

Rufus