[Haskell-cafe] HaskellWiki spam
L.S., There are hundreds of HaskellWiki users created, their names all start with Buy and their user pages contain spam. I suppose the antispam measures were reverted when a backup of the site was loaded. (B.T.W. the site still displays the old logo.) Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html -- ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] HaskellWiki spam
On Jul 11, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: There are hundreds of HaskellWiki users created, their names all start with Buy and their user pages contain spam. I suppose the antispam measures were reverted when a backup of the site was loaded. (B.T.W. the site still displays the old logo.) Yikes! I see that the Haskell wiki is running Media Wiki 1.5.4 from 2005. Current version is 1.15.2 from 2010. That five year period seems to include many significant anti-spam fixes and numerous patches for all sorts of vulnerabilities. Migrating through that many revisions might be painful, but should be doable. - Mark Mark Lentczner http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/ IRC: mtnviewmark ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] HaskellWiki spam
markl: On Jul 11, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: There are hundreds of HaskellWiki users created, their names all start with Buy and their user pages contain spam. I suppose the antispam measures were reverted when a backup of the site was loaded. (B.T.W. the site still displays the old logo.) Yikes! I see that the Haskell wiki is running Media Wiki 1.5.4 from 2005. Current version is 1.15.2 from 2010. That five year period seems to include many significant anti-spam fixes and numerous patches for all sorts of vulnerabilities. Migrating through that many revisions might be painful, but should be doable. Precisely. The back story: * Yale has hosted haskell.org for the past decade or more * The machine is old and hasn't been upgraded in a long time * The last MediaWiki update on the machine failed when the db couldn't migrated, due to old versions of Debian * We needed a new machine * haskell.org now has a new machine aquired with GSoC funds * This will run a modern MediaWiki * Work is now being done to migrate to the new home, and the new MediaWiki Ian Lynagh is coordinating the work. -- Don ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
