[Gmod-help] GMOD website vandalised

[Dave Clements]

Lincoln, Hilmar,

Thanks for undoing the vandalism.  I have blocked both new users, and
deleted the new page.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) l will figure out how to grant everyone on the list the
requested abilities.

We currently require users to create a login (and read and retype a CAPTCHA)
before they can edit.  We could tighten this in probably any number of ways,
such as requiring a valid e-mail address, or approval from a sys admin.
These are all against the wiki way, but spending your holiday weekend
undoing vandalism is not time well spent.

I'll investigate and let you all know what I find.

Good night,

Dave C

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at duke.edu> wrote:

> There were actually more than two dozen more vandalized pages. I've
> returned those to their previous state too.
> I don't have blocking user privileges either. In fact, I also can't delete
> the bogus page that the rogue user (or should I say script kiddie?) created:
>
> http://www.gmod.org/wiki/index.php?title=Pr03mb4
>
> There is an additional user Salomon386 that hasn't exactly vandalized
> anything yet, but looks suspicious.
>
> Dave - could you please make sure that all help at gmod.org (or whoever else
> you would consider administrators) have the right to delete and block users,
> and to delete pages?
>
> -hilmar
>
> On May 26, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Lincoln Stein wrote:
>
> Thanks,
>
> I've put the pages back to where they were, but I don't have blocking
> privileges. Dave, will you do that?
>
> Lincoln
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Henrikki Almusa <henrikki.almusa at iki.fi>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I was trying to see more information about GMOD sites components, but
>> noticed that the page had been changed.
>>
>> http://www.gmod.org/wiki/index.php/GMOD_Components
>>
>> Similarly was
>>
>> http://www.gmod.org/wiki/index.php/About_This_Site
>> http://www.gmod.org/wiki/index.php/GMOD_Help_Desk
>>
>> As I started to see where to report this. The history though works fine,
>> so I'm able to browse what I need, but pages should be fixed back to what
>> they should be (and user 'Pr03mb4' blocked).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Henrikki Almusa
>>
>
>
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