[matilda] Re: wiki attack

[Chris]

Hi

On Mon 10-Oct-2005 at 11:49:28AM +0200, fabian wrote:
> the wiki of Matilda, SSF and Noborders have been
> attacked and erased yesterday

Hmph, this is a pain... *lots* of pages have been
trashed... This isn't a political attack, it's a spam
bot...

> I reinstalled the older intact versions, but was
> wondering whether there were ways to ban the accounts
> responsible from doing stuff on the wiki...

Well, sysops can block user accounts and quite a few
people are sysops... I do block bot accounts like this as
soon as I spot them...

Also there is the rollback feature to remove all the edits
that a vandal has done, however this bot attack used
multiple accounts so that won't work...

So I'm going to restor a database backup from before the
bot attack, this means that a loat of edits that Amp and
Cuthbert did will be lost, but I'll try to manually fix
some of these... sorry about this :-(

Chris

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