Well after upgrading to the newest version and using a few extensions I was able to clean
up the mess but it still took a good days worth of work.
There were three "users" making edits so rolling them back created conflicts
unless you did them in the right order. I resolved the conflicts by copying the revision
of the page I wanted to keep, deleting the page and then pasting back in the content.
One thing I really don't like about most of the solutions I used is that they still
leave traces of the spam in your database.
Anyway .. I don't have alot of traffic on my wiki so it's my fault for not
checking it frequently enough that I could have just restored to a backup of the database.
I need to see if my service provider will configure a longer period of backups.
--- On Wed, 11/24/10, David Benfell <benfell(a)parts-unknown.org> wrote:
From: David Benfell <benfell(a)parts-unknown.org>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new
pages...
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
<mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 5:40 PM
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Benjamin Lees
wrote:
As far as I know, there isn't any mass-revert
extension, but there are
some scripts and bots floating around that can do
it
client-side.
and it
still seems to work.
Good to know, but there's no documentation. How does
one use it?
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:44 PM, David Benfell
<benfell(a)parts-unknown.org>
wrote:
> In short, MediaWiki's
> philosophy towards security is, in the world as
we now find it or
> have made it, naive.
Never attribute to philosophy that which is
adequately
explained by laziness. :)
Good point.
--
David Benfell <benfell(a)parts-unknown.org>
http://www.parts-unknown.org/
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