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By late December 2014, [[user:manorainjan]] was apparently using an automated script to attempt to not only preserve the aforementioned 15 pages, but also to apparently keep them at the top of RecentChanges.  On December 25th, he began creating hundreds of content-free pages with names consisting of strings of repeated characters or words.
By late December 2014, [[user:manorainjan]] was apparently using an automated script to attempt to not only preserve the aforementioned 15 pages, but also to apparently keep them at the top of RecentChanges.  On December 25th, he began creating hundreds of content-free pages with names consisting of strings of repeated characters or words, as shown below:
 
http://shark.armchair.mb.ca/~dave/WardsWikiBadPagenames.png


On December 26th, 2014, as of 23:46, the wiki was effectively made read-only.  Attempts to save page changes consistently resulted in the error message "Suspicious source (tor.ahbl.org)".  This was instated minutes after WikiWikiWeb user [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DaveVoorhis Dave Voorhis] sent the following message to [[WardCunningham]] expressing concern about the disruptive editing by [[user:Manorainjan]]:
On December 26th, 2014, as of 23:46, the wiki was effectively made read-only.  Attempts to save page changes consistently resulted in the error message "Suspicious source (tor.ahbl.org)".  This was instated minutes after WikiWikiWeb user [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DaveVoorhis Dave Voorhis] sent the following message to [[WardCunningham]] expressing concern about the disruptive editing by [[user:Manorainjan]]:
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