Announcements

Hello!

The Wiki site has been locked down while some article and user cleanup takes place. A series of bots created thousands of users and pages containing spam, scams, & misinformation. It appears to be part of a larger attack on MediaWiki instances because a lot of the articles created are linked to other infected instances of MediaWiki.

While the users, content, and security are being handled the Wiki site will be locked down.

The next steps have not been identified to help prevent this from happening again. These steps may include invite-only access, Captcha, etc. An update to this will be posted here later as an edit to this post.

Many of you may not even be aware we have a community Wiki available. It was set up as an open wiki for moderators and users to contribute to. Some communities use the Wiki for additional community information and resources. The Wiki also lists active 1st party bots that are used on Discuss.Online.

Please, let me know if you have any questions, concerns, or feedback.

Thanks, jgrim