[ANN] wiki lockdown

[Sy Ali]

This announcement is going out to the ruby and linux groups, because I
am an admin on their wikis.


Wikis all over the world are being subjected to a very widespread
distributed and automated wiki spam attack.

http://www.google.ca/search?client=foo&q=wikitikitavi


What does this mean to you?  Some pages may appear blank until I clean
them up.  Anonymous editing will be removed entirely, and will never
come back.  Ever.

FINALLY, after all these years.. wikis are being forced to grow up.

In response, I will be locking things down and will begin assembling
some brains so as to generate more permanent solutions.  In the mean
time, there are several very simple solutions I will put in place.


What's foolish is that this attack amounts to absolutely nothing. 
Search engine ranking isn't influenced one little bit by any of this. 
This spamming is simply a childish annoyance.


The spam deposited is:

<div id="wikitikitavi" style="overflow:auto; height: 1px; ">
[[http://WTHP1.coolhost.biz] [WTHPD1]]
[http://WTHP2.coolhost.biz WTHPD2]
[[http://WTHP3.coolhost.biz | WTHPD3]]
[http://WTHP4.coolhost.biz | WTHPD4]
[WTHPD5 | http://WTHP5.coolhost.biz]
[[http://WTHP6.coolhost.biz WTHPD6]]
</div>
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