Re: Spam on the wiki

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Spam on the wiki
Date: 2015-12-16 20:58:49
Message-ID: 18669.1450299529@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> writes:
> Le 16 dc. 2015 9:24 PM, "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> a
> crit :
>> I think we have it under control now - we have disabled ~200
>> "suspicious" community accounts, restored a backup of the wiki from ~36h
>> ago and nuked all the session data from the community auth system and
>> the wiki to prevent users from reusing existing sessions.
>> That seems to stablized the situation for now but community auth account
>> creation is still disabled.
>>
>> We are currently discussion further actions which will likely involve
>> adding additional verification for community auth signup and maybe for
>> posting to the wiki. We are also looking into restoring the handful of
>> "valid" changes to the wiki between the time of the backup and the time
>> we restored it.

> Thanks Stefan for all the hard work.

Indeed, and Alvaro too. I'm sure you guys had better things to be doing
today :-(

regards, tom lane

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