[aprssig] APRS Wiki vandalism

[Eric H Christensen]

Bill,
Actually a wiki is a GREAT way to get the information out there to the masses.  Not all of us have the time to do what Bob does with his web pages (I'm still trying to catch up to him with documenting my ideas) but we should all be able to help document APRS knowledge and one easy way to do that is with a wiki.  

The problem is that not all wikis are the same.  Some have additional security features in them that allow better control over the content.  MediaWiki is an excellent example of this.  Please don't just all wikis by what we have seen with this one.

73s,
Eric W4OTN


>Another reason NOT to use a Wiki to post information
>or look for it.
>
>73
>
>Bill KA8VIT
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>
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>On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 05:29:40PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron 
>collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
>> > From: Tom Russo [mailto:russo at bogodyn.org]
>> > To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
>> > Sent: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:23:23 -0700
>> > Subject: [aprssig] APRS Wiki vandalism
>> > 
>> > The APRS wiki at http://info.aprs.net/ appears to have been the victim of
>> > some hit-and-run script vandalism on 19 April 2007.
>
>Today I discovered that just about every single page on the APRS wiki at
>info.aprs.net was trashed --- all replaced by link spam, all real content
>removed.
>
>I am in the process of trying to restore it, but I have to conclude that
>the wiki is in a terrible way and needs to be replaced by a more secure,
>less open version.
>
>Migrating to MediaWiki and locking it down so that sysops have to approve
>new users would be my change of choice.
>
>As it is, the wiki has pretty much been rendered useless, as it requires 
>manual
>clean up every few days.  Today's vandalism is so severe that it will take
>a long time to fix.  They even trashed the "RecentChanges" page that makes
>clean-up easier (I've restored it).
>
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