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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by mafriese on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:22PM (#47265227)
I’m not saying that this is related to Wikipedia ditching archive.is but timing in combination with Russian messages is at least…weird.
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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by armchairhacker on Thursday March 05, 2026 @02:18PM (#47265996)
The script was uploaded in 2024, and triggered today because of an accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_stocks#Scott...

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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by worksonmine on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:52PM (#47265647)
And they probably used mind-control to make the admin run random userscripts on his privileged account as well, the capabilities of russian hackers is scary.

/s

It is just another human acting human again.

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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by tonymet on Thursday March 05, 2026 @06:43PM (#47268803)
Admin tasks are public in phabricator so it would be trivial to review chores and place malware in the chore's scope
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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by worksonmine on Friday March 06, 2026 @05:17AM (#47273138)
Which only makes it that much more important to review everything you're running with a privileged account, right?

And if it really is as trivial as you say it should be fixed ASAP.

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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by tonymet on Friday March 06, 2026 @02:10PM (#47279621)
I mean it's trivial for any attacker to discover admin tasks and know where to place malicious code for the admin tasks to execute it.
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