Wiki has been attacked!

utgunslinger13 · January 09, 2009, 10:41:55 AM

I was searching the wiki and its been destroyed with spam! I don't know how to change it back or else I would while I sit at work. Someone help!

beRto · January 09, 2009, 10:46:21 AM

Quote from: utgunslinger13 on January 09, 2009, 10:41:55 AM
I was searching the wiki and its been destroyed with spam! I don't know how to change it back or else I would while I sit at work. Someone help!

Click on the "history" tab at the top of a spammed page. Then find where the page was changed to spam and click the "restore" link just underneath. Then save.

I just did this for the maintenance page, but I don't have time to find and fix any others right now.

utgunslinger13 · January 09, 2009, 11:30:11 AM

Unless I'm an idiot, thats not working for me? I click save then goto view and its still the same spam!

beRto · January 09, 2009, 12:04:26 PM

Quote from: utgunslinger13 on January 09, 2009, 11:30:11 AM
Unless I'm an idiot, thats not working for me? I click save then goto view and its still the same spam!

Hmmm, that's strange.

When you click "restore", you should be taken to an editing window where you can see the code of the wiki page that you are restoring. You then have to go to the bottom of this editing window and click "save". Did this window show up for you? Maybe you missed this last step?

utgunslinger13 · January 09, 2009, 12:23:40 PM

I figured it out, I wasn't putting in an Author's name! lol

Don't know if I missed it or what but I couldn't find anything in there from the carb rebuild?! its just blank now?!

galahs · January 09, 2009, 03:25:51 PM

The wicki has been getting daily attacks of late.

We need spam protection!!!!

utgunslinger13 · January 09, 2009, 03:34:19 PM

So you mean to tell me this shiz will happen again? And I spent all that time changing it? Wtf?!

beRto · January 09, 2009, 03:42:12 PM

I sent a PM to Sanjay (keeper of the wiki). Maybe he will have some ideas

ohgood · January 09, 2009, 06:18:39 PM

yes, it will happen again. it takes time to figure out how to keep the spammers dead.

BeerGarage · January 09, 2009, 09:09:18 PM

CAPTCHA!!

that's the annoying thing where you have to type in Gh74Iuw and it takes three times to get it right and is so annoying that you never go back to that site again.

HOORAY!

f%$king spammers

BeerGarage · January 09, 2009, 11:30:50 PM

If you fix the WIKI, you get to put your name in for all GS'ers to admire and adore!

I just did a bunch, but I left two for you!!

Go here:

http://cgi.stanford.edu/~sanjayd/gs500/Site/AllRecentChanges

Click on the most recent spam atrocity

Click history

Scroll down until you find the last time there was real content

Hit restore.

GO!!

BeerGarage · January 10, 2009, 04:34:57 PM

20 more pages need fixing. You will be loved and admired by all for your Wiki Fixi!

galahs · January 10, 2009, 04:55:44 PM

No sooner do you fix them as they are defaced again

Toogoofy317 · January 10, 2009, 06:27:46 PM

I think I got it caught back up. Why the hell do these people do this. I just don't get it? Boy if I could get a hold of one of these slimey little you know what's I'd put out a lot of frustration

. This stuff is

Mary

BeerGarage · January 10, 2009, 07:32:43 PM

dohabee · January 11, 2009, 12:10:10 PM

it seems like there is some kind of code that automatically messes it up after you hit restore.
I could be making this up but where it says To: there is a bunch of stuff that looks like code that I cant seem to erase

BeerGarage · January 11, 2009, 05:00:24 PM

I should probably flesh out these instructions a bit. Sorry the earlier Wiki Fixi was so thin.

1.
Follow me.
http://cgi.stanford.edu/~sanjayd/gs500/Site/AllRecentChanges

2.
For example, one of the recent spam atrocities:
Troubleshooting.NeutralLight . . . January 11, 2009, at 03:32 PM by TestName: JzUIywTvQGf

click the text "Troubleshooting.NeutralLight" that is a link to that page.

3.
Then , on the top of the Troubleshooting.NeutralLight page, click the "History" tab.

4.
Then, scroll all the way down to the very bottom of the page. That is the last time there was any real content that was not spam. It reads:

Quote

November 03, 2008, at 07:58 AM by arni - PFgLErcEiNIWjq
Changed lines 1-4 from:

See these threads:

Recent thread
John Bates' how-to on checking the circuit

to:

PXIOX3 it's nice site <a href=" http://spamsite ">magix ringtone maker</a> mlbx <a href=" http://spamsite ">swim ringtones</a> 784 <a href=" http://spamsite ">ringtone media studio</a> hkwjt

Restore

November 14, 2006, at 09:51 PM by Sanjay -
Added lines 1-4:

See these threads:

Recent thread
John Bates' how-to on checking the circuit

Restore

Hit the next to last "Restore." This will take you to an Edit page, but it will have already filled in all the restored text.

If you hit the very last "Restore", you will restore it to the nothing that it was before Sanjay created it. If you hit the second to last restore, that restores it from the 2008 edit to the 2006 original.

5.
Now we are on this edit page. Immediately below the edit box, you type the "Summary:" of your edit, "stoopid spam" or something.

6.
below "Summary:" is "Author:". This is you. You type in your name or your ID or your CB handle or whatever, and then whenever anyone looks at these edits, they will see that it was YOU who saved the day.

7.
Click "Save"

8.
Collect the admiration of your peers, the lust of the women, the bacon off the top of the meat loaf. Huzzah! The day is yours!

(edit to make more grammaryer and colorey)

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