[Moin-user] Wiki Page corruption

[Peter Watson]

Many thanks Reimar. I should point out I am not a developer but a moinmoin wiki user so am not familiar with the behind the scenes python workings but do do a lot of editing of pages! There is no common user sending the spam (the spamming users are identified by different numbers and a lot seem to come from USA). The word http is in all the spamming but we do add http links to some of our pages so wouldn't want to disable that so I am not sure BadContent would work but the TextChas sound interesting which as I understand it prompt the user with a one-answer question to authorise page saving. 

I have passed your suggestion onto the IT and wiki superuser here for their thoughts. I am not sure of the moinmoin version we have but we have had this since at least 2006 and it uses valid HTML 4.01 and the moinmoin link we have links to an out-of-date URL http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ so I am guessing it is quite an old one.

With best wishes

Peter

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-----Original Message-----
From: Reimar Bauer [mailto:rb.proj at gmail.com] 
Sent: 10 July 2012 11:46
To: moin-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Moin-user] Wiki Page corruption

Am 10.07.2012 12:32, schrieb Peter Watson:
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> We are using a MoinMoin wiki here which is having some of its pages 
> corrupted. Things like the below appear in existing pages which seems 
> to be some randomly added http addresses. Even when I delete the pages 
> they are recreated with similar gobbledegook in them.
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> Never had anything like this before but obviously something attacking 
> the pages - anyone got any advice please on what we could do here as 
> the attacks are starting to escalate.
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Now we have the spam also on our mailinglist :(

Have you readed HelpOnSpam and for example have configured TextChas or BadContent / LocalBadContent?

Which moin version is it?

cheers
Reimar

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