OLPC:Spam patrol

see http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Spam_Patrol

some countermeasures:

• http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/installing-and-using-bad-behavior/on-mediawiki/
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_extension
• http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/SpamFilter

Pages Spotted

Bot editions

We seem to be having a new kind of vandalism... in the last couple of days (early April, 2007) I've been spotting and rolling back (others too) several editions that truncate pages at the first '&' or remove the '+' signs. They come from several IP addresses, so blocking them doesn't seem to be a valid solution... any ideas?

Could this could be the precursor or a beta test (zombie?) to spam wikis...? --Xavi 10:47, 12 April 2007 (EDT)

Pending to Resolve

Date	Offending page	Vandalized Version	Vandal	Recommended Action
	Piaoil			Determine if it is spam or not

NOTE: If the table is empty, good! No spam has been detected...

Historical and Resolved

Date	Offending page	Vandalized Version	Vandal	Action Taken
2007-01-05	Talk:Main Page	2007-01-05 09:21:47	86.127.163.227	Rolled back by User:Walter
date	Talk:Hacked by FatalDeviL	2007-01-01 21:43:46	85.103.63.179	86.135.8.160 removed offending text Page deleted by User:Walter
2007-01-01	Talk:Hacked by FatalDeviL	2007-01-01 10:54:20	88.240.11.227	Spam was removed by User:Tomhannen Page deleted by User:Walter
2006-12-24	Image:Awesom.jpg	new image	Nelson_Mandella	image deleted by User:Walter
2006-12-24	Image:Whitepeople.jpg	new image	Nelson_Mandella	image deleted by User:Walter
2006-12-24	User:Walter	2006-12-24 03:19:27	Nelson_Mandella	none - spam removed by User:Tomhannen
2006-12-24	Table of Contents	2006-12-24 03:21:13	Nelson_Mandella	none - spam removed by User:Tomhannen
2006-12-24	B1 Pictures	2006-12-24 03:23:25	Nelson_Mandella	User:Xavi edited the 'I' back to '1' in B1 Pictures (image was deleted by User:Walter)
2006-12-19	Bidford on avon	2006-12-19 07:13:25	195.194.22.45	Page deleted by User:Walter