All you need is to keep a copy of each version of the wiki in CVS (or vastly better, Subversion) and then rolling it back is trivial. I've been doing that with every site I manage for years now, and since the wiki is just files its no challenge at all, just have to fork out an 'svn commit -m 'some comment' every time someone updates, then if you need to rollback you can svn revert. Its not much different with CVS either.
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 4:00 pm, Robert Ferney wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 13:41, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 February 2004 21:37, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > These are real live people doing the spamming edits, not robots. > > > > Hm, I think it is about time to start lobbying for laws to make this > > finable, so that it is possible to stop this early, because it has the > > potential of destroying wikis... > > > > Best, > > > > Kjetil > > Legislation has so far shown to be ineffective in controlling the net. > Let's neither assume that it will be in the future, nor expect it to be. > We have the freedom of speech here on the net in an unprecedented level. > Let's not now expect some legislative body to now restrict that. > > I believe that the original WIKI has had some similar problems. > > One of the solutions is to implement a simple rollback so that the users > can revert to the pre-graffiti version easily. This would include IP > tracking for the changes, so the reversion would back up, or atleast > have the possibility of backing up prior to all the changes made by that > IP address. > It is not nearly as attractive to the graffiti kiddies if their spam can > be easily removed. > > Another possibility would be to have accounts as a method of signing the > changes. This does have the controversial effect of excluding anyone who > does not wish to make an account, or those that would prefer to remain > anonymous. This has both pros and cons. > > Another possible deterrent would be to display the time and IP address > of the last changes with the signature(s) if they were available. The > idea here is that the script kiddies would not wish to have their > identity or IP address known. tends to wierd them out. > > Robert Ferney > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tod Harter Giant Electronic Brain http://www.giantelectronicbrain.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
