On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:32:40PM -0500, Dimi Paun wrote: > OK, we might be onto something. I've wrote a script > to determine the deleted pages: 20162. > > Should I just go ahead and nuke those? >
Probably, yes. One common way for spammers to abuse wikis is to intentionally get the pages deleted, so that they live on permanently in the revision history. See this example from today: It's rightfully deleted as spam: http://wiki.winehq.org/SheriOci But the "Get Info" link leads you to the old revision, with the linkspam intact: http://wiki.winehq.org/SheriOci?action=recall&rev=1 I don't know if there's a way to keep Moinmoin from preserving revision history on deleted pages, but it might be sufficient to simply disable that. I doubt there's much useful history on deleted pages anyway. Andrew