Wikipedia:Link rot/Cases/Judi

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
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 Link_rot/URL_change_requests/Archives/2021/November.

The consortium was first identified by User:Lyndaship.

Name
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
On enwiki, the bot WP:WAYBACKMEDIC can mark citations with usurped domains, for example adding archive URLs and changing to 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 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
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.











Bot run results
Statistics of bot run results on enwiki.

Batch 1: 2021-10-21
 * 75 domains (lines 1 to 75 in "Domains processed on enwiki" list above)
 * Edit 1,034 pages
 * Add 1,354 archive URLs - Example, Example
 * Change 1,085 dead or live -> usurped - Example
 * Convert 44 to square archive URL embedded in
 * Convert 182 usurped titles - Example
 * Delete 256 citations in 63 articles no archive avail - Example, Example
 * Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)
 * Various general fixes

Batch 2: 2021-10-26
 * 31 domains (lines 76-107 in list)
 * Edit 2,808 pages
 * Add 1,684 archive URLs
 * Change 2,633 dead or live -> usurped
 * Convert 314 to square archive URL embedded in
 * Convert 28 usurped titles
 * Delete 327 citations in 270 articles no archive avail
 * Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)
 * Various general fixes
 * Re-processed 2,526 Link_rot/URL_change_requests URLs which resulted in a few deletions (lack of archive URL) and removal of 98 spam strings from title and website.

Batch 3: 2021-11-05
 * 34 domains ( to   in list)
 * Edit 1,047 pages
 * Add 3,044 archive URLs
 * Change 3,134 dead or live -> usurped
 * Convert 138 to square archive URL embedded in
 * 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 ( to   in list)
 * Edit 317 pages
 * Add 329 archive URLs
 * Change 334 dead or live -> usurped
 * Convert 10 to square archive URL embedded in
 * 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 ( to   in list)
 * Edit 1,744 pages
 * Add 2,075 archive URLs
 * Change 1,337 dead or live -> usurped
 * Convert 51 to square archive URL  embedded in
 * 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 ( to   in list)
 * Edit 821 pages
 * Add 702 archive URLs
 * Change 1,173 dead or live -> usurped
 * Convert 32 to square archive URL  embedded in
 * 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 (  to   in list)
 * Edit 5,947 pages
 * Add 3,558 archive URLs
 * Change 5,090 dead or live -> usurped
 * Convert 200 to square archive URL  embedded in
 * 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 ( to   in list)
 * Edit 1,032 pages
 * Add 1,663 archive URLs
 * Change 2,367 dead or live -> usurped
 * Convert 24 to square archive URL  embedded in
 * 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 ( to   in list)
 * Edit 458 pages
 * Add 613 archive URLs
 * Change 345 dead or live -> usurped
 * Convert 11 to square archive URL  embedded in
 * 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 ( to   in list)
 * Edit 1,477 pages
 * Add 1,363 archive URLs
 * Change 1,002 dead or live -> usurped
 * Convert 177 to square archive URL  embedded in
 * 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 ( to   in list)
 * Edit 1,971 pages
 * Add 1,176 archive URLs
 * Change 1,406 dead or live -> usurped
 * Convert 155 to square archive URL  embedded in
 * Convert 0 usurped titles
 * Delete 165 citations in 130 articles no archive avail
 * Domains marked permadead in IABot database (TBD)