On 03/10/12 02:46, Ryan Lane wrote: > We've had some issues with really bad vandalism on some public > instances that have MediaWiki installed in such a way that allows > anonymous editing. > > If you are using MediaWiki and your instance has a public IP which > allows access to the outside world, then you must lock down your wiki, > or you must properly patrol it. When community members inform us of a > vandalised wiki that isn't being cleaned up, we'll be forced to > disable access to the wiki via the project's security groups. > > - Ryan
Remember you can use the Absentee Landlord extension to have it autolock itself when no sysop has looked at it for X days. So you don't need to remember to disable it if it then drops in your priorities. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbsenteeLandlord _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
