Wine Wiki needs your help!

André Hentschel nerv at dawncrow.de
Mon Jan 14 18:16:53 CST 2013


Am 14.01.2013 21:40, schrieb 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.

seems done, and know what? The wiki seems to be more than 10 times faster. (i tried e.g. editing -> preview)
good choice!
Thanks Dimi for working on this!!!


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Best Regards, André Hentschel



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