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::Would be good to log the bot in as Lanigiro, now there are tons of edits from an IP... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:24, 17 January 2011 (CET)
::: Yeah, I tried, but for some reason it doesn't work. I am using wikipediafs and some quickly hacked shell scripts for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:26, 17 January 2011 (CET)
== Spammers, everywhere ==
Looks like we are kind of under attack by spambots. There were 17 until now, they solved the capture and created pages with job search links and similar stuff. I am not sure wether someone's doing this manually or if someone managed to crack the captcha.
We are using the very popular recaptcha, which makes it more likely that it is targeted by crackers, but also more likely that they will fix it very soon.
They come from completely different IPs and subnets, so no chance to ban them that way.
What I did do far:
* added rel=nofollow to all external links. This means that google & co ignore external links, which basically makes the spammers work worthless. I don't know if they realize that, though.
* Disabled Account Registration. I'll turn it on again tonight. We might be lucky and scare them away with this, but of course this is not a permanent solution.
Any other ideas, what we could do?
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:06, 27 January 2011 (CET)
