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what is the sense behind this junk edits all over the wiki, have you any idea? Best regards --[[Wolf Peuker|Wolf]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 03:04, 5 October 2007 (EDT) | what is the sense behind this junk edits all over the wiki, have you any idea? Best regards --[[Wolf Peuker|Wolf]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 03:04, 5 October 2007 (EDT) | ||
: Spoke with some other wiki folks at Wiki Wednesday who are experiencing the same attack & nobody seem to know, it is annoying. [[User:John Stanton|John]] 10:18, 5 October 2007 (EDT) | : Spoke with some other wiki folks at Wiki Wednesday who are experiencing the same attack & nobody seem to know, it is annoying. [[User:John Stanton|John]] 10:18, 5 October 2007 (EDT) | ||
: See my recent edit of [[Talk:WikiProject:Recent_Changes_Patrol]]. These are likely spammers testing the terrain before putting in real spam. I know it's against our policy, but may I suggest banning their IPs? It is al least moderately effective, which is better than nothing. -- [[Felix Pleşoianu]] | <small>[[User talk:Felix|talk]]</small> 04:37, 6 October 2007 (EDT) | : See my recent edit of [[Talk:WikiProject:Recent_Changes_Patrol]]. These are likely spammers testing the terrain before putting in real spam. I know it's against our policy, but may I suggest banning their IPs? It is al least moderately effective, which is better than nothing. -- [[Felix Pleşoianu]] | <small>[[User talk:Felix|talk]]</small> 04:37, 6 October 2007 (EDT) | ||
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But, do we do the right, are these IPs ony used by spamming bots? | But, do we do the right, are these IPs ony used by spamming bots? | ||
--[[Wolf Peuker|Wolf]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 06:04, 6 October 2007 (EDT)(sorry forgot) | --[[Wolf Peuker|Wolf]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 06:04, 6 October 2007 (EDT)(sorry forgot) | ||
: It's definitely possible that somebody's computer is running a bot without their knowledge, or that a network with a shared IP has just one compromised computer in it. But in this case, the owners of said computer/network are at least partly responsible. Let them clean up their machines and then tell us. -- [[Felix Pleşoianu]] | <small>[[User talk:Felix|talk]]</small> 14:02, 6 October 2007 (EDT) | |||
== How do I mark pages as patrolled? == | == How do I mark pages as patrolled? == | ||