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[Andrew Eikum]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:32:40PM -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
> OK, we might be onto something. I've wrote a script
> to determine the deleted pages: 20162.
> 
> Should I just go ahead and nuke those?
> 

Probably, yes.

One common way for spammers to abuse wikis is to intentionally get the
pages deleted, so that they live on permanently in the revision
history.

See this example from today:
It's rightfully deleted as spam:
  http://wiki.winehq.org/SheriOci
But the "Get Info" link leads you to the old revision, with the
linkspam intact:
  http://wiki.winehq.org/SheriOci?action=recall&rev=1

I don't know if there's a way to keep Moinmoin from preserving
revision history on deleted pages, but it might be sufficient to
simply disable that. I doubt there's much useful history on deleted
pages anyway.

Andrew