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(The onslaught continues)
 
 
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Wow, what is going these last few days? It's like an all-out war. Thanks for staying on top of it.
 
Wow, what is going these last few days? It's like an all-out war. Thanks for staying on top of it.
 
[[User:Craigopher|Gopher]] 14:54, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 
[[User:Craigopher|Gopher]] 14:54, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
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:It's not just us. At least four other wikis of my acquaintance have been inundated - there's obviously some sort of spam-campaign just started up. Since some of those wikis have CAPTCHAs, I'm betting that there's a sweatshop at work rather than this being purely spambots.
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:As long as page creation's limited to autoconfirmed users, we should be okay, notwithstanding the huge volume of registrations. - [[User:Reboot|Reboot (SoM)]] <small>''[[User talk:Reboot|talk page]]''</small> 16:28, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

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The onslaught continues

Wow, what is going these last few days? It's like an all-out war. Thanks for staying on top of it. Gopher 14:54, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

It's not just us. At least four other wikis of my acquaintance have been inundated - there's obviously some sort of spam-campaign just started up. Since some of those wikis have CAPTCHAs, I'm betting that there's a sweatshop at work rather than this being purely spambots.
As long as page creation's limited to autoconfirmed users, we should be okay, notwithstanding the huge volume of registrations. - Reboot (SoM) talk page 16:28, 29 January 2011 (UTC)