[gambit-list] Wiki vandalism

Marijn Schouten (hkBst) hkBst at gentoo.org
Sun Oct 14 06:24:20 EDT 2007


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Marc Feeley wrote:
> On 13-Oct-07, at 10:28 AM, Marc Feeley wrote:
>
>> The Gambit wiki has regularly been the target of some random
>> vandalism.  Yesterday we hit a new high with over a dozen vandalized
>> pages.  I don't know what to think.  Is someone getting any enjoyment
>> out of this?  Is it the result of some robot?  In any case I can't
>> continue wasting time repairing the vandalism.  Anyone have a
>> suggestion on how to deal with this?
>>
>> Marc
>
> I've decided to restrict edit privileges to logged in users.
> Currently anyone can create an account.  Let's see if that works.

Depending on what kind of vandalism is happening a bot may also be a solution.
See for example <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot> which does
vandalism fighting on Wikipedia.

Marijn

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