There is a recent problem with spam, primarily on mediawiki.org - e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=250
The bots generally start off with 1 or 2 short nonsensical or autogenerated posts - e.g. "can i use very daily", "gdsfgfdgd", "this for side avoik", "can you help to choose catagory?", "this horse not listen our", etc.
Then they start the spam-posts - e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Sr7bc86hgw8bw34x&topic_postId=sr7bc873ambemp5t&topic_revId=sr7bc873ambemp5t&action=single-view and https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Sr5n47ab90qcpnsw&topic_postId=sr5n47anq07jf5j4&topic_revId=sr5n47anq07jf5j4&action=single-view
There's an active abusefilter which is catching a bit of it, but not all:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/41
- https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=41
The same bots are also hitting non-Flow pages, but not nearly as much. e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category_talk:Communication&curid=13058&diff=14224734&oldid=163254 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Billinghurst&curid=144231&diff=14223216&oldid=14196597
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Related tasks:
* {T116058}
* {T60725}
* {T115128}
* {T115695}
* {T115887}
* {T63927}
(and lower priority)
* {T93673}
* {T61811}
* {T116226}