276413 - lock or remove general pages from wiki to prevent spamming

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

http://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php/Goings-on and
http://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php/Wikimedia_News get spammed al the time with
links to irrelevant blogs. I think that those pages should be locked or removed.
Cleaning the pages doesn't help. See page history.

Comment 1

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

Actually, the wiki needs o be moniter by someone that can lock out ip's, because
normal pages get spammed as well.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

ok, finally got admin privs on the wiki.  Front page has been locked.  The user
that was spamming it has theoretically been locked out.  I actually don't see
any evidence of spamming on those other pages (yet).

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

CTho is supposed to be getting me a patch to let it show IP addresses in the
RecentChanges log (we already have it locked so you have to be logged in to
edit, but anyone can create an account, and it doesn't show IPs of logged-in
users, so I can't find out where they're coming from to lock them out).

Comment 4

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

example of another page that got spammed:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/wiki?title=MozillaWiki:Recentchanges&curid=1224&diff=0&oldid=1926

(well, not really spam, as in linking, but it is unwanted. I don't know what the
goal of that spammer was)

Comment 5

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> CTho is supposed to be getting me a patch to let it show IP addresses in the
> RecentChanges log (we already have it locked so you have to be logged in to
> edit, but anyone can create an account, and it doesn't show IPs of logged-in
> users, so I can't find out where they're coming from to lock them out).

For the benefit of those not in #bmo 5 minutes ago:

<CTho> justdave: ok, so here's the deal: there are two ways to view the Recent
Changes page.  old, and new.  You can set it in your individual prefs on the
preferences page under the "recent changes and stub display" panel
<CTho> justdave: fixing it for "old" (default) was easy.  I'll leave it to you
to figure out how to do it for the new version - it looks more complicated
<CTho> justdave: open up includes/Sking.php
<CTho> err, includes/Skin.php
<CTho> justdave: around line 2300 is a "# User talk link" comment.  above that,
add the following code:
<CTho> # IP
<CTho> if ( 0 != $rc_ip )
<CTho> 	$s .= " &lt;$rc_ip&gt; ";
<CTho> with that in, my a line from the Recentchanges of my personal wiki looks
like:
<CTho> *  (diff) (hist) . .  Advanced Architecture; 14:39 . . CTho9305
<128.2.156.109>  (Talk)

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

ok, hack added.  here's what I actually did:

        if ( ( 0 != $rc_ip ) && ( $wgUser->isSysop() ) )
                $s .= " ($rc_ip) ";

Thanks!

Also of note is the Spam_blacklist extension has been installed, and appears to
be working.

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I think I'm going to consider this fixed at this point.  We still have the
ocassional vandal, but the outright spammers are gone, and all we can do with
the vandals is lock them out when they show up, and clean up the mess.  It's
much less frequent than it used to be.  The main pages have been locked, and we
have a good spam filter now, and quite a number of trusted folks with access to
delete spam, block users, and add to the spam blacklist.