[Gardeners] Can anyone tell what's going on on the ALU Wiki?

[Peter Seibel]

On Jan 22, 2006, at 9:46 PM, Peter Seibel wrote:

> The Recent Change log shows a whole bunch of changes to different
> pages from Anonymous all with the change message "good". But I can't
> see any obvious changes from previous version (of the random sampling
> I've checked.) Is it just an incompetent spammer? Or someone doing a
> test run of their new captcha breaking software? Or did some Wiki
> admin come along and revert a bunch of changes in a way that didn't
> show up in the changelog or the page version history?

So Carl Shapiro figured it out:

> All those pages have been spammed.  Look at the source.  There will be
> a one pixel high div which includes links to their spam sites.

Looks like either he used some hand-of-god technique to revert it all  
or some exceedingly diligent and fast-moving WikiGnome got to it.

-Peter

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