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The Valve Developer Community wiki's main page is being edited by using
WikiMedia's localization feature to change the default English
translation: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page
This has been a topic of discussion several times now here:
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page/en
It seems that all locked pages can be edited this way, including pages
like Terms Of Use.
This opens up the possibility of these pages being modified to include
links to spam or malicious sites, like sites that are visually similar
and ask users to log in again in order to steal login info.
It is not clear whether these pages are supposed to be editable by
regular users or not, but in any case they are being used to inject
additional links on the Main Page.
The page is currently being edited back and forth to add and remove the
added links. Prior to this a direct request to Valve to assist with some
changes was also present.
It seems that the users responsible are under the impression that the
wiki has been abandoned since the MediaWiki software used is outdated
(version 1.31, went out of support 2 years ago, latest release is 1.39)
and due to a lack of activity from Valve employees.
Valve has always been relatively hands-off when it comes to the wiki but
this is evidently not clear to newer users.
I would recommend clarifying a few things about wiki editing:
* Limitations of translating official pages (direct translations only,
prevent insertion of additional content, especially links)
* Clarify whether the Main Page should be editable in any manner
(subpages for that page should be locked if not)
* Clarify whether links to unofficial wikis are permitted (currently
present in several official pages)
I'd also recommend updating WikiMedia if possible and necessary and
checking links to other Valve websites that may be out of date:
* "SDK Help Forums" in the sidebar points to the old Steampowered forums
and now redirects to the main Steam Community
* Terms Of Use points to an old steampowered.com help article which
redirects correctly, but may one day stop doing so
Updating the VDCBot to scan for these links and auto-detect broken links
and redirects may help here.
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