On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, derek holzer wrote:
Taking a look, I can see that almost every day for at least a week now, each page of the WIKKI gets overwritten with a new mess of Chinese URLs. Kind of pointless to rebuild anything until this gets resolved...
Some time before I heard anything about defaced wikis, I've seen that Chinese spam on a completely unrelated wiki, which used to be at http://www.ntecs.de/wiki/euruko2004/show/HomePage/ and I don't know what happened to it... Possibly it was shut down because of spam excess and that they are thinking about solving the spam problem now...
However, the only other wikis I recall visiting (and a LOT) are the C2.com wiki and the Wikipedia, which are the two biggest wikis I know, were never affected by any such problem, as far as I remember.
The software used by Wikipedia is called Mediawiki (http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/).
The software used by C2.com's is... I don't quite know what it's called... They started the site under the name "WikiWikiWeb" way before "wiki" became a noun, for the very good reason that, for a while, it was the only wiki in existence (in 1998 there was already loads of stuff on it). I remember it said that the software is written in Smalltalk, so I guess its availability depends on the availability of a compatible Smalltalk interpreter/compiler. This would deserve some research, especially wrt: is it secure nowadays, or are they just being lucky...
A third wiki I have used extensively (but not much in the last years) is http://rubygarden.org/ruby ... I hadn't visited it for a while, and now I notice that they have a page "PreventingWikiSpam" as the first link on the first page. Maybe we'd like to read it.
I don't know which software the RubyGarden uses, but have a look at: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/search.rhtml?search=wiki That's a lot of Wiki clones!
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PS: I don't know whether I posted this one before, but this is a photo of when I showed PureData at the Europäische Ruby Konferenz 2004 (aka: euruko 2004) held in München last October.
http://www.ruby-doc.org/EuRuKo2004Pix/PICT0021.jpg http://www.ruby-doc.org/EuRuKo2004Pix/PICT0013.jpg
I originally stumbled upon that chinese spam a few months ago, while trying to update the pages about the Konferenz, on the closed-down wiki mentioned above. Grrr.
Mathieu Bouchard -=- Montréal QC Canada -=- http://artengine.ca/matju