Hi Xavier, Thanks for this warning. I am aware of this. I have come across some of these when investigating about how wikis are used in education.
Editing is only allowed for registered users but I still expect random spam to happen occasionally, like on this wiki: http://www.jpublish.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=RecentChanges. The regular backup should help restore things back to normal rapidly. A paper on wikis in wired, a few months ago [wired news, wiki becomes a way of life: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66814,00.html] indicates that at wikipedia the spam get fixed in less than 5 minutes. I cannot promise that of course, but the perspective of a few hours disruption are nothing compared to the benefit a wiki could bring to the revolution-education community. I can always come back to a more secure model (password protected _directory_ access) if needed. I regularly have a look at your blogs and forums. My intention was not to create concurrence, only to create a resource targetting a more specialized public. You evoked the slahsdot.org model... In fact, the wiki framework I use, tikiwiki let you add such a news+comments system (the module is installed, I disabled it on my wiki as well as the blogs -- more info at: http://tikiwiki.org/, open source, easy to install, easy to manage). Why not also consider RSS feeds? This would facilitate the rapid exchange of news about revolution on the different websites. Marielle, >Last month, I had a hacker insert half a dozen comments of totally doubtful >origin into my story's comments - some 900 comments in total! Not good for >my google ranking... I'd suggest you be aware that html PUT or SEND forms >can be had for a ride at your expense... >But i was bolder, i required no registration for comments - too bad for >me... Fixed now... ;) >MySQL cleansing was done thanks to RunRev in 5 minutes time thanks also to >phpmyadmin... >I'd like to share more openly but there always that user-level-agreement >thing that is not working ;) cheers Xavier http://monsieurx.com/taoo _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
