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This is a page to track passive-spamming by an Indonesian gambling consortium and a similar Turkish operation, who are usurping 100s of domains. They go by many names, one is Judi which is Indonesian for gambling.

Background

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When a domain expires or is abandoned by the original owner, anyone can re-register and take possession. They then control all links to those domains from all Wikipedia projects and can redirect to their spam site. This is "passive spamming" since no edits to Wikipedia are required. A gambling consortium in Indonesia is systematically monitoring all domains linked from Wikipedia (10s of millions), determining when they expire, and taking possession. It is a large complex ongoing problem impacting every Wikipedia project.

The original discussion is Wikipedia:Link_rot/URL_change_requests/Archives/2021/November#Daftar_Situs_/_Judi_Slots.

The consortium was first identified by User:Lyndaship.

Name

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The consortium uses different names, IPs, websites and page titles. Common Indonesian terms associated are "Judi", "Daftar", "Situs", "Slot", "Terpercaya", "Live Draw", "Pengeluaran". Common Turkish ones are "Bahis", "Canlı", "Siteleri" and "Giriş" - usually with two of these words being inserted into the title field.

What is being done

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On enwiki, the bot WP:WAYBACKMEDIC can mark citations with usurped domains, for example adding archive URLs and changing to |url-status=usurped. The bot is run by User:GreenC author of this page. It follows the process outlined at WP:USURPURL.

For other wikis, there is IABot which runs on 95% of the Wikipedia languages, plus other projects. The domains can be set to "dead" via the IABot interface, and whenever the bot encounters a citation with that domain it will add an archive URL. However this is not a proper anti-usurpation method, it does not change to |url-status=usurped and other things so it is incomplete.

For everything else, nothing is done, it is up to the local wikis.

Edit filters might be used, but since this is passive spamming, and there is no evidence the spammers are actively spamming, the edit filter can cause new problems such as blocking attempts to add archive URLs, blocking attempts to fix the problem - edit filters are not recommended unless there is good reason such as active spamming.

List of known domains

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The following is a list of domains known to have been usurped on enwiki and elsewhere. "Domains processed" have been processed (see bot run results). "Domains not processed" are queued to be processed.

Domains processed on enwiki

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Bot run results

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Statistics of bot run results on enwiki. Template:Collapse begin Batch 1: 2021-10-21

Batch 2: 2021-10-26

Batch 3: 2021-11-05

  • 34 domains (dailyguideafrica.com to pageant-almanac.com in list)
  • Edit 1,047 pages
  • Add 3,044 archive URLs
  • Change 3,134 Template:Para -> Template:Para
  • Convert 138 Template:Tlx to square archive URL embedded in Template:Tlx
  • Convert 82 usurped titles
  • Delete 69 citations in 35 articles no archive avail
  • Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)

Batch 4: 2021-12-28

  • 26 domains (arizonaexperience.org to coalintheuk.org in list)
  • Edit 317 pages
  • Add 329 archive URLs
  • Change 334 Template:Para -> Template:Para
  • Convert 10 Template:Tlx to square archive URL embedded in Template:Tlx
  • Convert 24 usurped titles
  • Delete 2 citations in 2 articles no archive avail
  • Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)

Batch 5: 2022-01-22

  • 55 domains (stopdirtyenergyprop.com to pulpserenade.com in list)
  • Edit 1,744 pages
  • Add 2,075 archive URLs
  • Change 1,337 Template:Para -> Template:Para
  • Convert 51 Template:Tlx to square archive URL embedded in Template:Tlx
  • Convert 44 usurped titles
  • Delete 116 citations in 61 articles no archive avail
  • Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)

Batch 6: 2022-10-22

  • 27 domains (profastpitch.com to dinamalarnellai.com in list)
  • Edit 821 pages
  • Add 702 archive URLs
  • Change 1,173 Template:Para -> Template:Para
  • Convert 32 Template:Tlx to square archive URL embedded in Template:Tlx
  • Convert 5 usurped titles
  • Delete 102 citations in 61 articles no archive avail
  • Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)

Batch 7: 2022-10-24

  • 131 domains (durhamallianceleague.org.uk to compgroups.net in list)
  • Edit 5,947 pages
  • Add 3,558 archive URLs
  • Change 5,090 Template:Para -> Template:Para
  • Convert 200 Template:Tlx to square archive URL embedded in Template:Tlx
  • Convert 168 usurped titles
  • Delete 216 citations in 134 articles no archive avail
  • Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)

Batch 8: 2022-11-02

  • 46 domains (theccwr.org to archive.rubicon-foundation.org in list)
  • Edit 1,032 pages
  • Add 1,663 archive URLs
  • Change 2,367 Template:Para -> Template:Para
  • Convert 24 Template:Tlx to square archive URL embedded in Template:Tlx
  • Convert 58 usurped titles
  • Delete 239 citations in 54 articles no archive avail
  • Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)

Batch 9: 2023-03-23

  • 26 domains (slotmpoo.web.app to plimsoll.org in list)
  • Edit 458 pages
  • Add 613 archive URLs
  • Change 345 Template:Para -> Template:Para
  • Convert 11 Template:Tlx to square archive URL embedded in Template:Tlx
  • Convert 10 usurped titles
  • Delete 6 citations in 6 articles no archive avail
  • Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)

Batch 10: 2023-11-10

  • 45 domains (haitimega.com to shabelle.net in list)
  • Edit 1,477 pages
  • Add 1,363 archive URLs
  • Change 1,002 Template:Para -> Template:Para
  • Convert 177 Template:Tlx to square archive URL embedded in Template:Tlx
  • Convert 1 usurped titles
  • Delete 49 citations in 6 articles no archive avail
  • Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)

Batch 11: 2024-01-21

  • 10 domains (oxonianreview.org to myetymology.com in list)
  • Edit 1,971 pages
  • Add 1,176 archive URLs
  • Change 1,406 Template:Para -> Template:Para
  • Convert 155 Template:Tlx to square archive URL embedded in Template:Tlx
  • Convert 0 usurped titles
  • Delete 165 citations in 130 articles no archive avail
  • Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)

Batch 12: 2024-07-24

  • 28 domains (soundtrackgeek.com to popmani.se in list)
  • Edit 610 pages
  • Add 484 archive URLs
  • Change 359 Template:Para -> Template:Para
  • Convert 38 Template:Tlx to square archive URL embedded in Template:Tlx
  • Convert 1 usurped title
  • Delete 9 citations in 9 articles no archive avail
  • Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)

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Notes

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