I agree that a username/password should be required, and I think its
reasonable to require that the user be an hcoop member, but if people think
non-members should be allowed wiki usernames/passwords that's cool too.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Clinton Ebadi <[email protected]>wrote:

> Sajith T S <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Adam Chlipala <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> The HCoop wiki is under attack by spammers who have been very successful
> >> at getting around the content filtering.  In the past, I've taken the
> >> time to revert changes like this manually, but, given the volume this
> >> time, I don't think I have the energy.  Is anyone willing to handle this
> >> and/or propose ways to block the attack in the first place?
> >
> > How do I get permissions to revert wiki pages to known good versions?
>
> I went ahead and got most of everything, and I think turned off all
> write access for non-admin users.
>
> I'll make the wiki writeable again tomorrow and hopefully the defacing
> will stop.
>
> --
>   (1) _Of course_ we made sure it was actually too slow before making
> the ugly optimization.
>
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