Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
GREAT NEWS...15 minutes without any attacks.. Imacat just got online, and helped to change the settings...so now we just need to change the front page, so legal users know what to do. Thanks for the help imacat. Jan. On 23 November 2012 16:13, imacat wrote: > Thank you both for volunteer

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
GREAT NEWS...15 minutes without any attacks.. Imacat just got online, and helped to change the settings...so now we just need to change the front page, so legal user know what is happening. Jan. On 23 November 2012 16:13, imacat wrote: > Thank you both for volunteering. I do need help at

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread imacat
Thank you both for volunteering. I do need help at the current moment. Are you on the IRC #dev.openoffice.org? We may discuss the details. The current MediaWiki seems to be of version 1.15.5. An update is required, but due to many reason it is not done yet. On 2012/11/23 22:13, jan iv

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
I am trying, sadly enough I missed orwI still think my problem is accessing the wiki orw, is just a user like the rest of us and not infra, but his idea was good Oliver: thanks for trying to help. jan On 23 November 2012 14:26, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > > On 23.11.2012 14:08

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 23.11.2012 14:08, jan iversen wrote: THANKSwould it not have been nice, if it was noted in the ticket... I am already looking at opie...so now I only need the mysql root password. infra people told me on irc that it is needed that you setup opie and that you should talk directly

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
THANKSwould it not have been nice, if it was noted in the ticket... I am already looking at opie...so now I only need the mysql root password. Jan On 23 November 2012 14:05, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > > On 23.11.2012 14:01, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On 23.11

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
That would help a lot, if you can pass it, the open ticket is infra-5548. If they were close to me, I would drive up and serve the beer personally, in order to help our human spam fighters. Would be real swell, if you could (of course gently and politely) move this issue. Jan. On 23 November 20

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 23.11.2012 14:01, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, On 23.11.2012 13:47, jan iversen wrote: A big thank to those fighting in the trenches !!! I am still waiting for infra, but now I am available, so the minute I get the mail I will be on to it, and change to "invite only". The point l

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 23.11.2012 13:47, jan iversen wrote: A big thank to those fighting in the trenches !!! I am still waiting for infra, but now I am available, so the minute I get the mail I will be on to it, and change to "invite only". The point list of tj will be my work order. But I hope that someone

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
A big thank to those fighting in the trenches !!! I am still waiting for infra, but now I am available, so the minute I get the mail I will be on to it, and change to "invite only". The point list of tj will be my work order. But I hope that someone could give infra a polite hint, that we really

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 05:22:29 -0500 TJ Frazier wrote: > On 11/23/2012 04:20, jan iversen wrote: > > I am happy for the help, Clayton has already giving me lot of information, > > instead of me having to dig it out. It is also securing to have a helping > > hand in the background who know our wiki

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/23/2012 04:20, jan iversen wrote: I am happy for the help, Clayton has already giving me lot of information, instead of me having to dig it out. It is also securing to have a helping hand in the background who know our wiki very well. Is there a gentle way, to make Infra do the last bit, s

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
I am happy for the help, Clayton has already giving me lot of information, instead of me having to dig it out. It is also securing to have a helping hand in the background who know our wiki very well. Is there a gentle way, to make Infra do the last bit, so I can get access, as far as I can see it

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread C
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Thanks Clayton, you probably know the inner details of our Mediawiki > configuration better than most people here, so it is great that you are > going to coordinate with Jan to neutralize this attack. Jan will be leading the defense. I'l

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/11/2012 C wrote: TJ pointed me at the Wiki Spam problem. I can try to lend a hand. Thanks Clayton, you probably know the inner details of our Mediawiki configuration better than most people here, so it is great that you are going to coordinate with Jan to neutralize this attack. Rega

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-22 Thread C
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > Thank, Clayton. I was wondering if there might be a malicious anti-AOO > intent behind the spam, but from what you say it does not seem likely. It's definitely not anti-OOo vandalism. Just the usual blog/SEO spam. Clayton

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:25:02 +0100 C wrote: > > Purely out of interest, do any of the Wiki moderators see any general theme > > to the spam attacks? > > The accounts are autogenerated - there is no person sitting at a PC > somewhere creating accounts. The page content is generally random... >

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-22 Thread jan iversen
Hi. see below please. On 22 November 2012 19:56, C wrote: > Hi everyone. > > TJ pointed me at the Wiki Spam problem. I can try to lend a hand. > A hand is always welcome. > > Who is responsible for the Wiki backend? I can help out with a few > changes, but I need to get in touch with whoeve

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:56:52 +0100 C wrote: > Hi everyone. > > TJ pointed me at the Wiki Spam problem. I can try to lend a hand. > > Who is responsible for the Wiki backend? I can help out with a few > changes, but I need to get in touch with whoever is managing that. > Will they give me acce

Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-22 Thread C
Hi everyone. TJ pointed me at the Wiki Spam problem. I can try to lend a hand. Who is responsible for the Wiki backend? I can help out with a few changes, but I need to get in touch with whoever is managing that. Will they give me access to the backend? (especially to the MW config file and the