On June 17th in the evening, 2 military groups began attacking Second Life Wikia by constantly replacing articles with gibberish. The vandals attacked about 10 articles, from 10 different IP ranges. As with every vandal I saw, 9 changes popped-up. I reverted those, and blocked him/her. Then another pops up, another ~9 changes, more reversions, more blocking, more people, more spam, more revert, people, spam, revert, PEOPLE, SPAM, REVERT.

As I struggled to keep the wiki clean of those, I couldn’t ban them all, as they were using different IP ranges. So, I kept on fighting, until another administrator noticed what happened, contacted the Wikia team and had them enable an extension to protect the entire site. He activated it and set it to allow edits, page creations and account creations only by registered users and system operators, and moves and uploads only by system operators. The block was for 6 hours.

Afterwards, I reactivated the block, this time only taking out anonymous users’ permissions for 24 hours. After that, the issue seems to have cooled down.

If you’re wondering how were the edits, and how annoying it was to handle, go here and look at the times, IPs, target pages and click “(diff)” to see a differentiating page between the good revision and bad revision.

P.S.: The (-??,???) numbers state how many characters (Unicode) were erased. The lower it gets, the “redder” it becomes.