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WikiSpam is Making me Grrrrrrrrr

Attention everyone in IP 221.*.*.* and 60.*.*.* – you have been banned from our Ocotillo wikis. Sorry if you are accidently in that group, but place the blame on 221.198.73.159, 60.25.119.199, 221.196.57.131 and who has been repeatedly inserting into our wikis a mangle of URLs to strange Asian URLs, and a handful of other IPs hidden behind anonymizer blankets.

I am tired, so until convinced otherwise, I am applying broadly unfair IP bans.

I very much suspect wikis are doomed- they are even easier than blogs to spam. It is easy to spot now, since there is light legit activity on these new wikis as they have yet to be revealed. Maybe the wiki communities that may form may cleanse the crap themselves.

Anyone with some detective skills knows where this wiki spamming cockroach lives?

 9  so-6-2-0.mp2.phoenix1.level3.net (4.68.113.253)  15.875 ms  18.685 ms  28.546 ms
10  as-0-0.bbr1.losangeles1.level3.net (64.159.1.30)  30.025 ms  29.89 ms  24.605 ms
11  so-7-0-0.gar1.losangeles1.level3.net (209.247.9.214)  29.413 ms  32.15 ms  22.944 ms
12  uunet-level3-oc48.losangeles1.level3.net (209.0.227.38)  25.019 ms  28.034 ms  26.253 ms
13  0.so-1-0-0.xl2.lax7.alter.net (152.63.112.154)  33.457 ms  22.597 ms  27.741 ms
14  0.so-6-0-0.cl2.lax1.alter.net (152.63.57.81)  30.77 ms  23.464 ms  24.358 ms
15  0.so-3-0-0.ig3.lax1.alter.net (152.63.57.97)  32.336 ms  26.061 ms  24.384 ms
16  asianetcom-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.245.74)  490.112 ms  482.088 ms  480.701 ms
17  219.158.3.25 (219.158.3.25)  446.966 ms  452.949 ms  457.498 ms
18  219.158.6.206 (219.158.6.206)  457.032 ms  461.972 ms  475.83 ms
19  61.181.1.30 (61.181.1.30)  487.871 ms  492.158 ms  486.719 ms
20  61.181.1.18 (61.181.1.18)  456.216 ms  455.007 ms  460.247 ms
21  218.68.252.78 (218.68.252.78)  451.547 ms  453.922 ms  459.837 ms
22  61.181.0.226 (61.181.0.226)  455.262 ms  491.341 ms  442.264 ms
23  * * *
24  221.198.73.159 (221.198.73.159)  511.165 ms  488.157 ms  471.941 ms

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Comments

  1. Hi, I just want to say take it easy. wiki was born to allow spams.

    wiki users can monitor changes, and delete any spams manually. If you are lazy, just ignore them, make house clearance along with next content update.

    If some wikipages are critical to your wiki user, make them read-only. Provide an url to a correspondance discussion wikipage for each.

    wish you have a good wiki time. 🙂

  2. “Hi, I just want to say take it easy. wiki was born to allow spams.

    wiki users can monitor changes, and delete any spams manually.”

    Yup. I realize that. It is just that this is a new wiki, and for many people it will be a brand new experience to them. I want it to be a good one

    “If you are lazy, just ignore them, make house clearance along with next content update.”

    I am not lazy, but find it rude someone would repeatedly do this- I have cleaned some pages 3 times. This is bad manners.

    “If some wikipages are critical to your wiki user, make them read-only. Provide an url to a correspondance discussion wikipage for each.”

    I’ve made the front splash page for each read only… adding a discussion link is a good idea thanks

    “wish you have a good wiki time. :)”

    And a wiki time will be had!

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