markl: > > On Jul 11, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > > There are hundreds of HaskellWiki users created, their names all start with > > "Buy" and their user pages contain spam. I suppose the antispam measures > > were reverted when a backup of the site was loaded. (B.T.W. the site still > > displays the old logo.) > > Yikes! > > I see that the Haskell wiki is running Media Wiki 1.5.4 from 2005. > Current version is 1.15.2 from 2010. That five year period seems to > include many significant anti-spam fixes and numerous patches for all > sorts of vulnerabilities. Migrating through that many revisions might > be painful, but should be doable. >
Precisely. The back story: * Yale has hosted haskell.org for the past decade or more * The machine is old and hasn't been upgraded in a long time * The last MediaWiki update on the machine failed when the db couldn't migrated, due to old versions of Debian * We needed a new machine * haskell.org now has a new machine aquired with GSoC funds * This will run a modern MediaWiki * Work is now being done to migrate to the new home, and the new MediaWiki Ian Lynagh is coordinating the work. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe