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Protected Main Page in Indonesian Wikibooks get vandalized twice by spammer
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List of steps to reproduce (step by step, including full links if applicable):

  • Go to Indonesian Wikibooks and check the edit history, https://id.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Halaman_Utama&action=history
  • In 4 Mei 2022 02.31‎ BrockArmour1814 and in 22 September 2021 03.29‎ JewellTanaka479 vandalized the home page, although it has been semi-protected for autoconfirmed users only
  • Both vandals only has that one edit, so they're not autoconfirmed users.

What happens?:
A user asked me to revert this vandalism, because they couldn't revert it themselves, since it was protected page. I felt that was weird that the vandals managed to breach to protection, and vandalized the main page.

What should have happened instead?:
When a page is protected or semi-protected, especially the main page, the vandals and spammers shouldn't be able to edit and vandalized it.

Software version (if not a Wikimedia wiki), browser information, screenshots, other information, etc.:

Event Timeline

Bennylin created this task.May 4 2022, 7:37 PM
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Bennylin renamed this task from Protected Main Page in Indonesian Wikisource get vandalized twice by spammer to Protected Main Page in Indonesian Wikibooks get vandalized twice by spammer.May 4 2022, 7:39 PM
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Dylsss closed this task as Invalid.May 4 2022, 7:55 PM
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They are both autoconfirmed, the default autoconfirmed age is 4 days, and the default autoconfirmed edit count is 0. They were both 4 days old and autoconfirmed before performing those edits.

Bennylin added a comment.May 5 2022, 2:03 PM

Shouldn't it be 10 edits, like in Wikipedia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels#Autoconfirmed_users
https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kelompok_pengguna#Pengguna_terkonfirmasi_dan_pengguna_terkonfirmasi_otomatis

And if not, how can we change it to 10 edits?

Aklapper added a comment.May 5 2022, 4:53 PM
In T307619#7906927, @Bennylin wrote:

Shouldn't it be 10 edits, like in Wikipedia?

Depends on the site settings. https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/InitialiseSettings.php.txt lists as default for wgAutoConfirmAge 'default' => 4 * 3600 * 24 and 'wgAutoConfirmCount' 'default' => 0. Some wikis may not use the default settings, like enwiki.

And if not, how can we change it to 10 edits?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes

Bennylin awarded a token.May 11 2022, 3:47 PM
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