[Mediawiki-l] Wiki vandalized

Sat Oct 22 22:40:25 UTC 2005

1)
The quickest way to recover your wiki is to do a database restore from the
previous days backup, this will only work if you have a backup and if you
wiki doesn't have to many good edits each day.

2)
I don't know if 1.5 is any better for this but I believe there is a captcha
add-on project you can use. You can also increase the number of posts any
one IP can make in given time frame.

3)
IP's aren't very usefull as most people use dynamic IP's and a lot of ISP's
route all / a lot of there users through proxys.

Arthur Guy

arthur at astarsolutions.co.uk
a star solutions
www.astarsolutions.co.uk

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-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Cyril Pavillard
Sent: 22 October 2005 23:32
To: mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki vandalized

Hello,

I hope this is the right place to request some support for this subject.

Our wiki (http://www.wikimac.fr) has been vandalized and even though  
I found some informations on the mediawiki site, I can't really  
figure out how to resolve quickly this problem and how to protect our  
wiki to avoid such a problem again.

1) Is there any quick way to recover the pages that have been erase  
without having to go on the history and recover the content article  
after article ?

2) I guess to avoid this problem, the best way would be to move our  
wiki to version 1.5, is that right and is there some extra things to  
do on the default install to protect it ?

3) Is there a place where I can post (if this can help) the IP that  
vandalized our wiki ?

Thank you for your precious help

Cyril
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