Wiki Defacement

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Christopher Browne wrote:

> We've been seeing a lot of defacement on the wiki <http://gtalug.org/>
> lately; people adding in pages of links to typical sorts of spam
> things (medicines and such).  We could use more people patrolling
> things periodically...

Thanks for the heads-up Chris.  I just spent 30 minutes reverting 
vandalism/spam.  A spammer is still lurking around as they tried to add a 
few while I was reverting.  I'll definitely try to keep more of an eye on 
the site and I'll encourage others to as well.

IIRC the Mediawiki software has a facility for account creation to require 
authorisation.  Should we enable this?

Rob

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