Wiki Defacement

[Myles A. Braithwaite]

It might be a good idea to also disable RSS feeds if no one uses them.

----- "Robert Brockway" <robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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