[Discuss] BattleMaster Wiki under attack by Spam bots

[Robert Croson, Jr]

I don't know what can be done about this, but I'll mention it here so the info 
gets dispersed.

The BattleMaster wiki is under what looks to be the beginnings of a spambot 
attack.

The spambot is currently broken, so instead of the pages being spammed they 
are mostly deleted, or minor changes made that may or may not break the 
page. The script appears to be broken by special charactes, such as "&" and 
"+". It has also broken encoded URLs, by converting "%20" to a space 
character.

The spambot is registering a new account and performing a single edit on the 
account. I have already reverted six pages that were affected.

The six user accounts I have found so far are:

http://wiki.battlemaster.org/index.php?title=User:Oc5Nso&action=edit
http://wiki.battlemaster.org/index.php?title=User:KkeR74&action=edit
http://wiki.battlemaster.org/index.php?title=User:Vi6Ill&action=edit
http://wiki.battlemaster.org/index.php?title=User:WhtIqc&action=edit
http://wiki.battlemaster.org/index.php?title=User:IqlWcd&action=edit
http://wiki.battlemaster.org/index.php?title=User:JxeXap&action=edit

I don't know what can be done about this. The spambot is actually registering 
an account to do the edits. Perhaps a 5-minute cooling-off period after the 
account is registered before it can edit? I can't find out when the user accounts 
were created, so I have no idea if this would work.


-- 
Rob

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power,
but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
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