Re: Spam on the wiki

On 12/16/2015 07:12 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 12/16/2015 06:29 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 06:28:18PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 12/16/2015 09:22 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>>
>>>         On 2015-12-16 18:21:47 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>
>>>             Either they've found a way to script-generate gmail addresses, or
>>>             they have
>>>             found a way to break the django hashes.
>>>
>>>
>>>         Or they just hired somebody to do that kind of thing manually. There's
>>>         sites for that...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     In the interim, let's just disable edits.
>>>
>>>
>>> New account signups have been temporarily disabled at least. But yes, they
>>> still have all those accounts against the wiki as well. 
>>
>> What is the plan for undoing the spam edits?
> 
> we are working on that, but we have no final answer yet...

we are currently working on reverting the entire wiki back to a state
before the attack from system backups because it does not seem sensible
to try to revert this in piece meal style.


Stefan