Zach Alexander wrote:
Does anyone know where Gabriel Wicke is? (User:Gwicke)
I'm trying to
contact him about wiki hosting (
wikidev.net) and I haven't heard back.
(Maybe in the meantime someone can answer one of the questions I was
asking him! Security: How hard is it to hack into and
seriously/permanently damage a MediaWiki wiki? I.e. beyond just annoying
vandalism. Are there extra steps one can take to minimize this risk? I
ask because the wiki I would like to start might become a target.)
Zach
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My wiki *will* be a serious target for vandalism and worse once we get
it up and running to the public, and so my choice of software was not
taken lightly.
In the end, I decided that Wikipedia was so high-profile that they were
already likely to have faced numerous hacking attempts. Between it
being Open Source (so the security team I have access to can respond to
threats) and it being frequently updated, I decided this was probably as
safe as it gets; especially since a lot of other wiki-only wiki packages
(i.e., not the content management ones) didn't really have much of an
idea about what a user or edit blocking was. :)
Our main threat will be idiots trying to add illegal or dangerous
content. At some point before we go public, the security team is going
to have to write a tool that cleanly deletes whole entries that are
illegal (instead of doing that by hand). I hope that could be
contributed back to the project but we'll have to cross that bridge when
we come to it.
So, I suppose that's a vote of confidence? :)
HÃnandil