Wikiproject:Antispam/Archives/2021/Apowersoft

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Cross-wiki spam about Apowersoft products (and its owner, WANGXU TECHNOLOGY (HK) CO. LIMITED products), including:

They also use different writings (such as Gitmind instead of GitMind or BeeCut instead of Beecut) to cheat on protections.

  • Note: there seems to be a mix of 2 different teams, one specialized in French-speaking wikis and another one with international spam.

Accounts involved[edit]

Sockpuppets in the French team are (RCU):

Other spammers include:

Affected wikis[edit]

+ means 1 of the SPA edited the wikis; ++ means 2 of them, and so on.

  • Commons: ++++
  • WD: +++++
  • ast-wp: +
  • cs-wp: +
  • de-wp: +
  • en-wp: ++++
  • es-wp: +
  • fr-wp: +++++++++++++
  • id-wp: ++
  • it-wp: ++
  • ja-wp: ++
  • ko-wp: +++
  • pl-wp: +
  • pt-wp: ++
  • ru-wp: +
  • th-wp: +
  • tr-wp: +
  • vi-wp: ++
  • zh-wp: ++

Steps taken[edit]

All the accounts are under global block: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests%2FGlobal&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=21624050&oldid=21624006

Solved on fr-wp, en-wp and meta: 2021-06-21

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