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Has this ordeal been hitting any other NIWA wikis?
« on: March 10, 2011, 04:41:51 PM »
Pikipedia, Pikmin Fanon and (The unofficial) Mario Fanon wiki have been bombarded with spam. I was just wondering if this has been happening with any other wikis because I am trying to investigate and put a stop to it. Please help me figure this out, my admins and I have been deleting, blocking and looking for spam and spammers. I have no Idea what it is, but I could be a spam bot because only Mario Fanon has links to other advertisements.  ??? This entire thing puts me in a horrid frustration that gets in the way of my Wiki contributions.  >:(

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Re: Has this ordeal been hitting any other NIWA wikis?
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2011, 07:09:49 PM »
The Fire Emblem Wiki was attacked last week. I'm pretty sure all new accounts are from spammers.

The pattern they followed was:
1. New account
2. New page (usually a long title with a number on the end. E.g., "How have I managed to keep away from listservs In a word Twitter 68")
3. New image

And that was all. Quite annoying.

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Re: Has this ordeal been hitting any other NIWA wikis?
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2011, 10:11:50 PM »
Peanut, since you are staff, you can find the NIWA's discussion here.

Several methods were discussed and applied.  These methods are not too hard to guess, but, I'm not sure if I should speak them here since it's hidden for a reason.  If you have a question, put it in the thread.

For those who are not staff, talk to a staff member of your wiki, since each wiki had a different method or combination of methods to deal with the issue.

To answer you question, a lot of the NIWA wikis have indeed been hit.
« Last Edit: March 10, 2011, 10:32:25 PM by Member#36 »

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Re: Has this ordeal been hitting any other NIWA wikis?
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2011, 04:04:53 AM »
From what I've seen, the "obvious question" captcha is an excellent tool.


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Re: Has this ordeal been hitting any other NIWA wikis?
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2011, 02:16:49 AM »
Something happened to Zelda wiki


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Re: Has this ordeal been hitting any other NIWA wikis?
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2011, 12:28:06 PM »
Grawp? Oh dear. He was one of the biggest vandals in Bulbapedia history. Ban him ASAP, and watch out for sockpuppets. I wasn't actually on Bulbapedia at the time, so I don't know exactly what he did, but I do know he really caused some trouble.

EDIT: In fact, he was a serious vandal on Wikipedia too.
« Last Edit: March 16, 2011, 07:02:47 AM by SnorlaxMonster »

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Re: Has this ordeal been hitting any other NIWA wikis?
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2011, 07:58:09 PM »
Peanut, since you are staff, you can find the NIWA's discussion here.

Several methods were discussed and applied.  These methods are not too hard to guess, but, I'm not sure if I should speak them here since it's hidden for a reason.  If you have a question, put it in the thread.

For those who are not staff, talk to a staff member of your wiki, since each wiki had a different method or combination of methods to deal with the issue.

To answer you question, a lot of the NIWA wikis have indeed been hit.

I still think that some information should be made public. I'm working on starting up a wiki, and any advice/tips on how to curtail spam would be useful before I have the problem rather than after the fact.
« Last Edit: March 16, 2011, 08:00:25 PM by Maxite »

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Re: Has this ordeal been hitting any other NIWA wikis?
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2011, 04:18:34 PM »
We're currently discussing the possibility of making that topic public. Stay tuned. :)

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Re: Has this ordeal been hitting any other NIWA wikis?
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2011, 12:55:33 AM »
Grawp? Oh dear. He was one of the biggest vandals in Bulbapedia history. Ban him ASAP, and watch out for sockpuppets. I wasn't actually on Bulbapedia at the time, so I don't know exactly what he did, but I do know he really caused some trouble.

EDIT: In fact, he was a serious vandal on Wikipedia too.

Not only those two wikis either. He's vandalized several wikis, I think more than 10 now.

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