List, Is the wiki completely unprotected? I am shocked to see almost every page *only* has spam and no content at all for all genuine pages created.
I assume the following are the reasons for this: 1. User who created that page, failed to apply a /watch/ to it. 2. This further lead to more spam on that page, making it more difficult to find a correct history (when the page was without spam) of that page to restore it back. Surprisingly, there are hundreds of people on the mailing list who post queries / participate in discussions but where are the wiki users among them? The immediate steps to restore the wiki could be: 1. Users who created pages, might probably know when the did so, and are requested to click the history section of the article (which currently displays spam) and click on the link displaying Time, Date of the article which supposedly is the original article. 2. Give SysOp privileges to those who regularly edit the wiki and protect pages such as the Main Page or user pages thereby providing editing rights only to sysops. (Cases where edits are required to be made by normal users could be reported on the list or to one of the sysops who'll do the needful) 3. Apply a watch (make that mandatory) to any page that you create. Then, you'll know when spam attacks your page and you can restore it immediately. By 'you', I mean any wiki user. If you think, you want to flame me, please do so, I'm unaffected. Instead, if you just help edit the wiki and restore pages to their original content, it'll help. Perhaps, some wiki experts could help out to keep the wiki more secure from random edits. (if there are techniques available) With the help of a few guys from GLUG-BOM, I maintain the GLUG-BOM wiki, and have applied "watch" to most pages which help me track spam and restore page to their original state before spam, almost within a day. I happen to see this state of the wiki, from a recent post to the list about the CD Grabs page. -- http://www.gnu.org.in Best Jokes, Best Friends, Best Food and more. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/bestofyahoo/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
