https://colonia.lightni.ng/wiki/The_2024_Wiki_Spam?action=history&feed=atom 2026-05-12T20:07:14Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.8 https://colonia.lightni.ng/w/index.php?title=The_2024_Wiki_Spam&diff=2690&oldid=prev 2024-03-01T15:27:08Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:27, 1 March 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:FE7037BE-257D-455F-B472-E1B473A12448.png|thumb|The Colonia Wiki Homepage on 2/29/24]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:FE7037BE-257D-455F-B472-E1B473A12448.png|thumb|The Colonia Wiki Homepage on 2/29/24]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:17258E29-30F9-4F33-9EFC-5479F6D05A80.jpg|thumb|The Colonia Wiki Page List on 2/29/24]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:17258E29-30F9-4F33-9EFC-5479F6D05A80.jpg|thumb|The Colonia Wiki Page List on 2/29/24]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[File:C5E6C902-587C-4D75-A688-CFDB3D12CB98.jpg|thumb|An article about Sonic the Hedgehog and Cryptocurrency, generated by an AI bot on the forum]]</ins></div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key colonia_mediawiki:diff:1.41:old-2684:rev-2690:php=table --> </table>

Jetpackjbd https://colonia.lightni.ng/w/index.php?title=The_2024_Wiki_Spam&diff=2684&oldid=prev 2024-03-01T14:05:55Z

<p>fixed date details</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:05, 1 March 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The 2024 Wiki Spam was an incident where the Colonia Wiki was bombarded by bot accounts generating 50+ new pages and a modified main page with AI-written material regarding unrelated topics from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">February 28th, 2024, </del>through early morning of February 29th, 2024. All posts were taken down and all accounts were banned by [[J0w03L]] noon of the 29th.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The 2024 Wiki Spam was an incident where the Colonia Wiki was bombarded by bot accounts generating 50+ new pages and a modified main page with AI-written material regarding unrelated topics from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Late December of 2023 </ins>through early morning of February 29th, 2024. All posts were taken down and all accounts were banned by [[J0w03L]] noon of the 29th.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The content of the posts were mostly written as fake news articles on random topics, often with cryptocurrency website links embedded. It is unclear what the purpose of the spam was, as the links appeared to be fake or unrelated to the topics. Many of the hyperlinks were randomly added to articles and titled in a format of buzzword-sexualword (ex: crypto porn).  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The content of the posts were mostly written as fake news articles on random topics, often with cryptocurrency website links embedded. It is unclear what the purpose of the spam was, as the links appeared to be fake or unrelated to the topics. Many of the hyperlinks were randomly added to articles and titled in a format of buzzword-sexualword (ex: crypto porn).  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

Jetpackjbd https://colonia.lightni.ng/w/index.php?title=The_2024_Wiki_Spam&diff=2683&oldid=prev 2024-02-29T21:44:56Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:44, 29 February 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:FE7037BE-257D-455F-B472-E1B473A12448.png|thumb<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</del>The Colonia Wiki Homepage on 2/29/24]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:FE7037BE-257D-455F-B472-E1B473A12448.png|thumb<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|</ins>The Colonia Wiki Homepage on 2/29/24]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:17258E29-30F9-4F33-9EFC-5479F6D05A80.jpg|thumb|The Colonia Wiki Page List on 2/29/24]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:17258E29-30F9-4F33-9EFC-5479F6D05A80.jpg|thumb|The Colonia Wiki Page List on 2/29/24]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Jetpackjbd https://colonia.lightni.ng/w/index.php?title=The_2024_Wiki_Spam&diff=2682&oldid=prev 2024-02-29T21:44:17Z

<p>Created page with &quot;The 2024 Wiki Spam was an incident where the Colonia Wiki was bombarded by bot accounts generating 50+ new pages and a modified main page with AI-written material regarding un...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The 2024 Wiki Spam was an incident where the Colonia Wiki was bombarded by bot accounts generating 50+ new pages and a modified main page with AI-written material regarding unrelated topics from February 28th, 2024, through early morning of February 29th, 2024. All posts were taken down and all accounts were banned by [[J0w03L]] noon of the 29th. <br /> The content of the posts were mostly written as fake news articles on random topics, often with cryptocurrency website links embedded. It is unclear what the purpose of the spam was, as the links appeared to be fake or unrelated to the topics. Many of the hyperlinks were randomly added to articles and titled in a format of buzzword-sexualword (ex: crypto porn). <br /> <br /> [[Jetpackjbd]] and [[ButterH2]] both modified some of the articles while waiting for them to be removed by a forum moderator. A few screenshots of spam and edits were taken of the posts, however all articles were deleted from the forum.<br /> <br /> <br /> [[File:FE7037BE-257D-455F-B472-E1B473A12448.png|thumb]The Colonia Wiki Homepage on 2/29/24]]<br /> [[File:17258E29-30F9-4F33-9EFC-5479F6D05A80.jpg|thumb|The Colonia Wiki Page List on 2/29/24]]</div>

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