On 2016-03-28 11:36:44 +0200 (+0200), Thierry Carrez wrote: > Jeremy Stanley wrote: > >On 2016-03-25 10:51:57 -0700 (-0700), Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote: > >[...] > >>1. Spammer moved How_To_Contribute to a 555-5p4m-number-woo page > >>2. Spammer replaced the content with spam > >>3. SmitSpam deleted the page as spam > >[...] > > > >Great point, we need to be mindful of page moves too, so that does > >complicate matters. Also we should probably be marking high-value > >pages like How_To_Contribute locked to wiki admins anyway (we > >already do that for some of them since long before the current rash > >of defacements). > > Great point... We don't have much reference content left on the wiki, but we > should probably protect whatever is left (while we continue the effort of > replacing those pages by properly peer-reviewed sites).
I was pondering this over the weekend. One workaround is that we could stand up a copy of the wiki from a database backup and put a robots.txt on it preventing it from being indexed in popular search engines, then use that as a source to copy back any important articles we accidentally overlook and lose through purging deletes. -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra