wiki user page updates

[tomkralidis]

1./ I received an email yesterday about changes to my wiki.osgeo.org user page:

​https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=User:Tomkralidis&diff=next&oldid=121388

I reverted the changes, but this seems to have been done for numerous users.

[robe]

Hmm this is very puzzling. Says Cwillmes (Christian Willmes) made the change via a CSV import. I did notice when I was upgrading the database that it said processing some CSV import, though not sure I remembered that correctly.

So might have been caused by a paused import a while ago that the upgrade triggered.

I wish I recorded the upgrade steps.

anyway I'll try to rollback this CSV import.

[robe]

I couldn't find a way to rollback an import and the import still seems to be going on since some entries are dated today. I blocked the user Cwillmes in hopes it would kill whatever csv import is going on from that account. and will investigate further if there is a way to undo a csv import.

If anyone has a clue, let me know. Haven't found one yet.

[hellik]

Replying to tomkralidis:

1./ I received an email yesterday about changes to my wiki.osgeo.org user page:

​https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=User:Tomkralidis&diff=next&oldid=121388

I reverted the changes, but this seems to have been done for numerous users.

Yes also on my wiki user page

[christian]

hi, Markus Neteler forwarded me an email, that you have problems with my wiki account?

According to the csv imports, this could be due to the Sematic MediaWiki data model, i installed some years ago.

The data model and the forms are "installed" in the wiki through an automatic script using my user name as a kind of bot doing all the changes to the wiki.

You can find the SMW data model, based on a tool named mobo here: ​https://github.com/cwillmes/OSGeoWiki/tree/master/OSGeoMembers

I do not made any changes to the wiki since several years by myself. I am not sure. how the bot works, but I recall that I had to trigger it manually. So I do not know how it came to the edits of my user account.

I changed the password of my user, so the "bot" should not be able to login anymore.

[christian]

To be sure, you could also remove my account from the Administrators Group.

I am sorry, but I am not activeley contributing to the wiki since several years...

[robe]

Thanks Christian for responding. I'm suspecting that it was triggered by my upgrade because the Semantic MediaWiki has gone thru some massive changes and I had to replace it with a much newer version. Not sure why it decided to rerun and old process though. Very odd.