The attack went on for about 7 hours, and basically it was all hands on deck for the available staff and actual users to revert and repair articles.

Hopefully we'll be able to install more security software plugins for the server, but with Thanksgiving, our American staffers may not have time to do so until after the holiday.

What I consider to be a last resort is restricting editing only to registered users (meaning you need to make an account to do any editing). I personally feel this makes the site unfriendly to people who wander in and might want to fix small things like spelling errors or minor mistakes, like I sometimes do when wandering around Wikis I don't really contribute to. Spambots would get around registration eventually.


If spambots weren't enough of a problem, we also have a serial pest who attacks the wiki every now and then. He was a serial pest across Wikia's wikis and when we moved to our own server, he followed. Ever since one of our regular users reverted his spam and vandalism edits, the pest became obessessed by him, and registers dozens of accounts insulting that particular user, his heritage and making allegations about his sexuality.

Oy.