[Openstreetmap] more wiki spam

Frank Hebbert frank at hebbert.com
Mon Nov 7 20:26:05 GMT 2005


More spam today.

I don't know who has admin status, but this looks like a quicker way to revert all changes by the spamming user, instead of normal users reverting page by page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_revert_a_page_to_an_earlier_version#Admins

As a possible prevention method, a change can be made to LocalSettings.php to turn on "SpamRegex" to block certain markup (this is suggested: $wgSpamRegex="/<div/", since most people don't use div in their wiki pages). Can we have this on the OSM wiki?
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-November/008104.html
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-November/008105.html

And here's the captcha hack documented:
http://www.fxparlant.net/Category:Mediawiki#Captcha

...it requires veriword:
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1768.html

Frank




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