The Event

The Event (aka The Darkest Day In the History of Witscopedia) was a spamdexing attack utilising Witscopedia that took place across a 12 hour period on September 9th-10th, and again on September 10th-11th.

The attack involved the creation of thousands of user accounts, publishing an unknown number of articles every second. The attack went unnoticed for several hours.

The attack was first noticed by Gui on September 10th at approximately 1:21 AM (JST). The discover prompted Panic to use his emergency powers as a server administrator to lock the wiki, halting the attack.

The attack was reinitiated later that day, after Staz unlocked the wiki without disabling editing permissions for non-users and then immediately went to sleep.

The wiki finally became officially unlocked on September 11th at approximately 6:48 PM (JST) when Staz correctly disabled account creation and editing permissions for non-users.