[DGD] DGD Wiki

[will guaraldi]

Mmm...  It's a moinmoin wiki.  I actually did just as you described to a 
moinmoin wiki I have that had been spammed.  Well, it was spammed and I 
wanted to upgrade to the latest version of MoinMoin which allegedly has 
anti-spamming measures (though I don't really know exactly what they mean 
by that or how they work).

Anyhow, I upgraded moinmoin, updated all the wiki data (which took a 
bit--you have to run a dozen shell scripts that do all kinds of 
interesting stuff), created a new wiki, moved the good contents of the old 
wiki into the new wiki, and that's where I'm at right now.

The other thing I did was go through and remove all the "non-english" 
pages.  That reduces the size of the wiki storage-wise and also reduces 
the number of potentially spamable pages.

/will


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Erwin Harte wrote:
>
> The DGD Wiki had again/still/yet-some-more gotten covered in spam, and 
> I've started 'reverting' pages to the non-spammed version:
>
>    http://www.2-10.org/dgdwiki/RecentChanges
>
> After a few I remembered to actually log in with my WikiName, hence the 
> ipname for the first dozen or so. *cough*
>
> It seems a fairly pointless task, though, as spam has been littered on 
> every damn page, including ones that were not really intended to ever be 
> changed (the help pages, all the non-English pages).
>
> The easy way out would seem to take the useful contents, start this or 
> another Wiki from scratch, and drop the pages in, there, and also 
> require some sort of authentication for making changes to the Wiki, and 
> email-verification before one is allowed to start.
>
> How doable does this sound?  I've never set up a Wiki from scratch, 
> myself, just worked with existing ones.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erwin.