Looks to me like someone has been google-bombing the wiki..
or is something broken?
You need to go to "all pages" to find anything useful.
Hamish
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:24:50PM +1200, Hamish wrote:
Looks to me like someone has been google-bombing the wiki..
or is something broken?
You need to go to "all pages" to find anything useful.
Unfortunately this happens regularly. I have restored the
front page from google cache (3rd time, it get's worse every
time...).
Suggestions:
- elimitate WIKI
- find a WIKI maintainer
- change again to a more sophisticated WIKI (suggestions? Must be
easy to install!)
Markus
> http://grass.itc.it/wiki2/
> Looks to me like someone has been google-bombing the wiki..Unfortunately this happens regularly. I have restored the
front page from google cache (3rd time, it get's worse every
time...).
Suggestions:
- elimitate WIKI
Shame, there is some useful stuff there..
- find a WIKI maintainer
volunteers? Great opportunity for a non-programmer to help out.
Still a pain long term..
- change again to a more sophisticated WIKI (suggestions? Must be
easy to install!)
Would it be some sort of web-bot doing this or an anti-social human?
Password protecting with something simple (eg "grass") would stop the
automated ones; perhaps making the submitter enter their email address &
compare against registered mailing list names would slow down the human
ones, although I guess it would be easy for them to spoof one of our
names.
maybe a "Thank you 198.100.100.123 for your submission, your computer's
address will be logged. OK/CANCEL" from the http request would slow down
humans? (+ IP blacklist)
perhaps a weekly snapshot -> a linked PDF file for a better backup?
only allow changes when "-" diff lines are less than 10% of 'wc -l' ?
dunno, surely everyone with a Wiki is getting this so someone has a
solution.
tragedy of the commons...
Hamish