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I'd be happy with a captcha or something if it'd keep out the bots and avoid manual validation. How about a .wav file with a CW QSO that you've got to copy? =] Of course, I'd probably have to keep it down to about 5 wpm if I wanted to pass it myself!<br><br>Scott<br>N1VG<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><hr><b>From:</b> Tom Russo [mailto:russo@bogodyn.org]<br><b>To:</b> TAPR APRS Mailing List [mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org]<br><b>Sent:</b> Tue, 01 May 2007 16:29:40 -0700<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [aprssig] APRS Wiki vandalism<br><br><!-- -->On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 01:32:21PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <<a href="mailto:scott@opentrac.org">scott@opentrac.org</a>> flavor, containing:<br>> What would everyone think of migrating to MediaWiki if I can get it up and running? I don't know if there's any automated content migration utility - it might take a lot of cut-and-paste.<br><br>I do prefer MediaWiki to the one we've got, but the real issue is that the<br>editing privileges need to be locked down so that bots can't vandalize it. As<br>Tapio points out, once they find us, eventually it'll be a non-stop thing. <br><br>MediaWiki does have a mode that requires email confirmation before allowing<br>editing, and can have a time-delay of hours or days before an account gets<br>those privileges. It is also possible to have a set of permissions managed<br>by a sysop, and never automatically grant edit privileges. That latter one<br>is where we went with the Xastir wiki, but perhaps the less drastic <br>confirm-by-email-then-wait approach would be enough for the APRS wiki.<br><br>Seems to me that if we can do any of those things with Wikka Wakka Wiki then<br>changing the wiki software would not be necessary. But moving without <br>implementing user controls is pointless, too.<br><br>In the meantime, I've taken the liberty of adding links to the documentation<br>that explains how to revert bad edits in Wikka, so at least the instructions<br>are readily available.<br><br>> From: Tom Russo [mailto:<a href="mailto:russo@bogodyn.org">russo@bogodyn.org</a>]<br>> To: <a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br>> Sent: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:23:23 -0700<br>> Subject: [aprssig] APRS Wiki vandalism<br>> <br>> The APRS wiki at <a href="http://info.aprs.net/" target="_blank">http://info.aprs.net/</a> appears to have been the victim of<br>> some hit-and-run script vandalism on 19 April 2007.<br>> <br>> I've corrected a few of the utterly trivial changes (random removal of plus<br>> signs), but some pages have had almost all of their content removed, often<br>> everything following the first ampersand in the text:<br>> <br>> Thu, 19 Apr 2007:<br>> (22:08 Pacific Daylight Time) [history] - APRS Rj3J0r<br>> (21:54 Pacific Daylight Time) [history] - Frequencies Zn9P7y<br>> (21:53 Pacific Daylight Time) [history] - Paths JbfXab<br>> (11:35 Pacific Daylight Time) [history] - ARHAB GzhQjb<br>> (10:59 Pacific Daylight Time) [history] - APRS2ATM JecJge<br>> <br>> Unfortunately, the software that's running the wiki doesn't provide a simple<br>> revert mechanism that I can see, so fixing these pages to contain the useful<br>> information that used to be on them is tedious.<br>> <br>> The Xastir wiki at <a href="http://www.xastir.org/" target="_blank">http://www.xastir.org/</a> was also vandalized in April a few <br>> days earlier in much the same way (random missing plus signs and all text <br>> deleted after an ampersand) albeit more aggressively with dozens of vandalism <br>> events over the span of a few days --- leading me to suspect some kind of <br>> automated script by some folks with too much time on their hands. We had to <br>> lock down that wiki to restrict edit privileges. <br>> <br>> If anyone has the energy to fix up the broken pages, or point out a way that <br>> "Wikka Wakka Wiki" can be told to revert to previous versions of a page to <br>> undo these edits, have at it.<br><br><br>-- <br>Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux <a href="http://www.swcp.com/%7Erusso/" target="_blank">http://www.swcp.com/~russo/</a><br>Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 <a href="http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM" target="_blank">http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM</a><br>"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is<br> one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,<br> oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br><a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig" target="_blank">https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><br><!-- --><style>
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