Sunday, July 16, 2006

Notice of Vandalism in the Wiki

Our wiki is being victim of a mild case of vandalism, which modus operandi is:

- The vandal creates a fake user, named Rdxxxxxxxxxx where the x’s are random number.
- The vandal fills a unused page, like the wiki:about, with links to a bunch of web pages.

Purplebeard and myself have already reverted some of the vandalism, but I’m afraid the vandal is only feeling the waters.

I know that is a pain in the ass, but can we set the wiki so only admins can create new users?

Comments

Shadowclaw:

17-07-2006 13:28:41 UTC

Two things:

* Can we block usernames with a name like Rdxxxxxx from being created?

* What about protecting certain pages, like the Wiki:About and Wili:General Disclaimer pages (which we aren’t using anyway)?