[GRASSLIST:4562] grass wiki

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I'm looking at the grass wiki right now, and there
are all these hyperlinks to external websites that
seem to have nothing to do with GRASS.

What's going on?

nick

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I'm looking at the grass wiki right now, and there
are all these hyperlinks to external websites that
seem to have nothing to do with GRASS.

What's going on?

evil spammers hijacking the wiki to promote their ranking on google.
(the wiki is open for the whole community to contribute to, but this
open door lets the jerks in too)

see:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/4181

wiki:
http://grass.itc.it/wiki2/

anybody have tips on how to restore the pages? (many/most are affected)
[better than copying from the google cache?]

The history gives pages with "Recent Changes" but no way to revert/undo.

Hamish

3

I'm looking at the grass wiki right now, and there
are all these hyperlinks to external websites that
seem to have nothing to do with GRASS.

What's going on?

rrrgh. the google cache is corrupted too.

Hamish

4

I dont know if it would be useful, but at least you can have an old
version:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040201232221/http://grass.itc.it/wiki2/

This link shows you how it was by 1 february 2004

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Hamish wrote:

> I'm looking at the grass wiki right now, and there
> are all these hyperlinks to external websites that
> seem to have nothing to do with GRASS.
>
> What's going on?

evil spammers hijacking the wiki to promote their ranking on google.
(the wiki is open for the whole community to contribute to, but this
open door lets the jerks in too)

see:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/4181

wiki:
http://grass.itc.it/wiki2/

anybody have tips on how to restore the pages? (many/most are affected)
[better than copying from the google cache?]

The history gives pages with "Recent Changes" but no way to revert/undo.

Hamish

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On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:42:26PM +1000, nicholas.g.lawrence@mainroads.qld.gov.au wrote:

I'm looking at the grass wiki right now, and there
are all these hyperlinks to external websites that
seem to have nothing to do with GRASS.

What's going on?

Some bad people have hijacked it. I have removed the stuff
and reloaded an (older, sorry) backup.

Markus

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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:33:04AM +1300, Hamish wrote:

> I'm looking at the grass wiki right now, and there
> are all these hyperlinks to external websites that
> seem to have nothing to do with GRASS.
>
> What's going on?

evil spammers hijacking the wiki to promote their ranking on google.
(the wiki is open for the whole community to contribute to, but this
open door lets the jerks in too)

see:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/4181

wiki:
http://grass.itc.it/wiki2/

anybody have tips on how to restore the pages? (many/most are affected)
[better than copying from the google cache?]

I have restored a july backup. Think that not too much got
lost.

The history gives pages with "Recent Changes" but no way to revert/undo.

We have two options:

- remove WIKI completely
- change to another software with login and cvs (much more work)

Markus

7

Markus Neteler wrote:

We have two options:

- remove WIKI completely
- change to another software with login and cvs (much more work)

I've had experience with some other Wiki systems (notably Twiki)
and these allow a simple user registration which allows anyone to
register and sends an email to confirm their email address. This
doesn't make it impossible for spamming to occur, but adds
an extra hurdle at least...

Joel