Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-07 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 02/07/2014 12:45 AM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:21 PM, jan i wrote: On 6 February 2014 23:42, Andrea Pescetti wrote: jan i wrote: I warned about exactly that, but I was asked (see JIRAs) to remove the cats (captcha). If you read the JIRA (which was watched be several in

Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread jan i
On 7 February 2014 08:48, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 07/02/2014 jan i wrote: > >> May I politely correct you, the idea was NOT to replace the cats. The jira >> was implemented by the word ! >> > > Yes, probably, but it was badly written in my mail that was then copied to > JIRA. You, and a few o

Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/02/2014 jan i wrote: May I politely correct you, the idea was NOT to replace the cats. The jira was implemented by the word ! Yes, probably, but it was badly written in my mail that was then copied to JIRA. You, and a few others, know that the contents of that JIRA issue https://issues.

Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread Helen russian
2014-02-07 6:22 GMT+06:00 jan i : > > > The configuration is changed so that only sysops can create new accounts. > A lot of thank you, Jan! You are our savior. For last 48 hours 3 wiki admins have deleted more than 1300 spam pages and blocked more than 800 spammer accounts. -- WBR, Helen ---

Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi - The JIRA is quoted but links or the JIRA ID would be helpful along with a link to the ML thread where the decision was made. It is hard to review this incident without these helpful pointers. Thanks, Dave On Feb 6, 2014, at 4:22 PM, jan i wrote: > On 7 February 2014 00:45, Rob Weir wrot

Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread jan i
On 7 February 2014 00:45, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:21 PM, jan i wrote: > > On 6 February 2014 23:42, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > > >> jan i wrote: > >> > >>> I warned about exactly that, but I was asked (see JIRAs) to remove the > >>> cats (captcha). If you read the JIRA (whic

Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:21 PM, jan i wrote: > On 6 February 2014 23:42, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> jan i wrote: >> >>> I warned about exactly that, but I was asked (see JIRAs) to remove the >>> cats (captcha). If you read the JIRA (which was watched be several in >>> here) >>> you will see my

Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread jan i
On 6 February 2014 23:42, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > jan i wrote: > >> I warned about exactly that, but I was asked (see JIRAs) to remove the >> cats (captcha). If you read the JIRA (which was watched be several in >> here) >> you will see my warning. >> > > The idea was to replace the CAPTCHA wit

Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
jan i wrote: I warned about exactly that, but I was asked (see JIRAs) to remove the cats (captcha). If you read the JIRA (which was watched be several in here) you will see my warning. The idea was to replace the CAPTCHA with something better, otherwise we can (should) keep the current CAPTCH

Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread jan i
On 6 February 2014 21:06, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:28 PM, jan i wrote: > > On 6 February 2014 19:00, helen wrote: > > > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I'm Helen, a Wi admin. > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Helen_russian > >> > >> Since 5th Feb. MWiki is under a massive spam at

Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread Kay Schenk
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:28 PM, jan i wrote: > > On 6 February 2014 19:00, helen wrote: > > > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I'm Helen, a Wi admin. > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Helen_russian > >> > >> Since 5th Feb. MWiki is under a massive

Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:28 PM, jan i wrote: > On 6 February 2014 19:00, helen wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I'm Helen, a Wi admin. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Helen_russian >> >> Since 5th Feb. MWiki is under a massive spam attack. >> Please take a look: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/

Re: [Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread jan i
On 6 February 2014 19:00, helen wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm Helen, a Wi admin. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Helen_russian > > Since 5th Feb. MWiki is under a massive spam attack. > Please take a look: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete , > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki

[Mwiki] a massive spam attack. Again

2014-02-06 Thread helen
Hi there, I'm Helen, a Wiki admin. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Helen_russian Since 5th Feb. MWiki is under a massive spam attack. Please take a look: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete , https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Log/block Please help. -- Regards, He