Der Wiki is der spammed.

April 28, 2006 9:13 PM

Der Wiki is der spammed.
posted by disclaimer to Bugs at 9:13 PM (24 comments total)

sometimes i really hate the internets.
posted by twiggy at 9:17 PM on April 28, 2006

It gets spammed every ten minutes - every time I go in there I end up getting an enlarged penis.
posted by strawberryviagra at 9:21 PM on April 28, 2006

whoa, really? [visits repeatedly]...
posted by twiggy at 9:27 PM on April 28, 2006

Bah! All I got was gold-Wow, and cheap airline tickets.
posted by Balisong at 9:49 PM on April 28, 2006

I end up getting an enlarged penis.

I shoud visit more often.
posted by eyeballkid at 9:54 PM on April 28, 2006

What's even the point of that?
posted by 517 at 10:03 PM on April 28, 2006

Indeed it is, disclaimer. By all means, fix it. It's a wiki, after all.
posted by Faint of Butt at 10:08 PM on April 28, 2006

"This page is read-only" :(
posted by brownpau at 10:18 PM on April 28, 2006

I've de-spammed the MeFi wiki maybe 7 or 8 times (It's pages would be boned every time I followed a link to it), and just gave up on fixing it after that. The locking is a good temporary step.

It really needs to be moved over to software that isn't ancient c2-style original wiki shit.
posted by blasdelf at 10:31 PM on April 28, 2006

der version control ist der solution
posted by scarabic at 10:31 PM on April 28, 2006

Why isn't the wiki members only? Either make it so you have to have a log-in, or even better, make it so you have to have a MeFi log-in and synch that up with the Db.

Do it like they do on MetaChat!
posted by Eideteker at 10:33 PM on April 28, 2006

"Make it so" twice in one sentence! Who are you, der captain?
posted by scarabic at 10:36 PM on April 28, 2006

Der Komissar.
posted by Balisong at 10:46 PM on April 28, 2006

Oh oooooh!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:48 PM on April 28, 2006

This spamming dosn't even make any sense. A bunch of english keywords linking to a russian website. Why?
posted by delmoi at 12:36 AM on April 29, 2006

Google's adsense system is really fucking up the internet.
posted by delmoi at 12:38 AM on April 29, 2006

I'm seriously breaking the fourth or fifth wall for this, but this was just a whole big bag of fuck yeah!:

"Make it so" twice in one sentence! Who are you, der captain?
posted by scarabic at 10:36 PM PST on April 28 [!]

Der Komissar.
posted by Balisong at 10:46 PM PST on April 28 [!]

Oh oooooh!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:48 PM PST on April 28 [!]
posted by loquacious at 1:14 AM on April 29, 2006

Metafilter: A whole big bag of fuck yeah!
posted by By The Grace of God at 1:58 AM on April 29, 2006

A lot of people asked to make the wiki password only and that I should put the password on the front page. Well, I've done that - that's the reason why that page is read-only. The spam currently on the wiki comes from before I made that change, and there hasn't been any since.

Oh yeah, you're welcome.
posted by adrianhon at 4:22 AM on April 29, 2006

So...why haven't we moved to other wiki software yet?
posted by youarenothere at 7:30 AM on April 29, 2006

FOB said: Indeed it is, disclaimer. By all means, fix it. It's a wiki, after all.

And I say (following in the footsteps of that Alaskan senator with the bridge:

Umm, NO. (imho, quite possibly the funniest moment on the senate floor)

Not my wiki, first time I ever looked at it and it was spammed, I reported it here, my work is done. :)

Besides, I have no idea how to do that and don't want to learn. So there.
posted by disclaimer at 11:18 AM on April 29, 2006

Hmm. I just learned about this from the wiki. Uses less bandwidth then lofi. Great for my phone. :D
posted by yeoz at 4:59 PM on April 29, 2006

In fact, lofi isn't very low-bandwidth at all :( What the heck :(
posted by yeoz at 5:05 PM on April 29, 2006

Why haven't we moved to other wiki software? Because no-one has gotten around to doing it yet. Ponies are unfortunately limited.
posted by adrianhon at 5:13 PM on April 29, 2006