O.T.: Monkey Island Wiki subject to vandalism

Debbie82

Lately three of the spambots called MaoWing, TaoBing and JiaoBo have created rubbish articles called "TRACKSUITS", "Moncler Jackets" and "Moncler" that have spam links to advertising in the Monkey Island Wiki, which is clearly vandalism. How can I delete these rubbish articles that the spambots have created?

http://miwiki.net/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=30

The Gentleman

They're selling fine leather jackets.

You need a signup code to be rid of them.

Debbie82

Well, yeah, I signed up for MIWiki, but still I don't know how to get rid of them. Oh, and here are the links for the "rubbish articles":

http://miwiki.net/TRACKSUITS
http://miwiki.net/Moncler_jackets
http://miwiki.net/Moncler
http://miwiki.net/User:Ashine347
http://miwiki.net/User:Mariat99

The Gentleman

Just delete the articles.

Harald B

Only admins can delete pages. You should find and inform one. You may be able to mark the page for deletion though.

Elvenmonk

Wow Wiki spam bots. How botters get with the times.

Debbie82

Harald B wrote: »

Only admins can delete pages. You should find and inform one. You may be able to mark the page for deletion though.

Well, I may have to try, though.

The Highway

Yeah, we had them on our wiki a few weeks ago (1-2 weeks ago, anyway)

Harald B

We also had an onslaught of them a couple of months after the move. We rarely see any spam now because we've got several layers of automated defense. But I mostly wonder where MIWiki's admins are. Some of that spam is over 10 days old.

Hassat Hunter

Wiki's attract such attention yeah.

It's been really bad lately for quite some time on one where I am mod too...

Hayden

Thanks for letting us all know, Debbie. I passed the message on to Haggis, and he deleted the articles and banned the users/bots.

Debbie82

Thanks, Hayden!

Hayden

No problem. If you find any more, just post 'em in this thread, thanks.