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DKWiki is under serious attack
« on: March 20, 2011, 03:33:19 PM »
http://www.donkeykongwiki.com/Special:RecentChanges

Has this happened to anyone else? And can anyone assist the reverts?

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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2011, 03:34:30 PM »
Have you added the extension to where a user must answer a question before saving the edit?

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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2011, 03:38:46 PM »
Have you added the extension to where a user must answer a question before saving the edit?
Yes, but it doesn't stop human vandals.
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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2011, 03:43:39 PM »
Have you added the extension to where a user must answer a question before saving the edit?
Yes, but it doesn't stop human vandals.
Yeah, DKWiki has had spammer accounts before but this is the first major flesh & blood vandal wiki attack in DKWiki history since the April Fools Incident. And that was on Wikia.

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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2011, 06:29:07 PM »
For now, what would probably help you the most is to restrict editing temporarily to staff only.

Deriving from MediaWiki manual, this would probably look as follows (added into LocalSettings.php), though I'm not especially familiar with administrative MediaWiki using, so you might want to check it yourself:
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$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true;

Also holy crap I haven't been here for ages. :F
« Last Edit: March 20, 2011, 06:31:53 PM by UltimateSephiroth »

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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2011, 07:22:52 PM »
More specifically, where do I add that coding?

Like, "MediaWiki:__"?

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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2011, 07:43:40 PM »
More specifically, where do I add that coding?

Like, "MediaWiki:__"?
If you don't have access to the site FTP (or physical access to the server), you can't do it. That method would involve editing a configuration file, not a database entry like a wiki page (or metapage).

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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2011, 08:26:16 PM »
If you have permission, you can also use Special:LockDB to shut down editing until your server admin can add that code. :)

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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2011, 08:34:18 AM »
Maybe there's a way to restrict making large changes, as all of those edits seem to be, to autoconfirmed users (users with 4-day-old accounts according to MediaWiki; according to porple, they need 10 edits too, though this might just be something he's configured)?  That would block most of the edits, but I have no idea if it's possible...  If you can't, a good start would at least be only allowing autoconfirmed users to create pages, maybe.

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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2011, 04:34:52 PM »
Same guy hit SmashWiki, as you may have seen; just revert, block and be sure to restrict account creation on the block form.  Is there something more major that would need to be done?


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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2011, 03:28:11 AM »
Yeah, really the only way to stop a vandal is to restrict their access and/or just clean up after them.

Others will have more sufficient technical advice.



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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2011, 09:12:40 PM »
It seems that the issue has been taken care of.

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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2011, 11:23:17 PM »
Same guy hit SmashWiki, as you may have seen; just revert, block and be sure to restrict account creation on the block form.  Is there something more major that would need to be done?

The vandal had a changing IP, so that was ineffective. Regardless, he is gone for now.

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Re: DKWiki is under serious attack
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2011, 06:14:38 AM »
Same guy hit SmashWiki, as you may have seen; just revert, block and be sure to restrict account creation on the block form.  Is there something more major that would need to be done?

The vandal had a changing IP, so that was ineffective. Regardless, he is gone for now.

good to hear he left.....  my guess is he got bored.