[Xastir] [continued] Apparent wiki vandalism.

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:59:43AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> I just checked the Xastir wiki and find that a number of pages have been
> clobbered today.
> 
> The pages modified were:
> 
>  Page:                     Time:     Who:
>  Downloads                 10:56     ZyzZrt 
>  HowTo:Contributing        10:45     Wm1Bsk 
>  HowTo:Ubuntu 6.10 LiveCD; 09:35     Uf9Vv1 
>  HowTo:DBFAWK;             00:20     VgbHlt

Two minutes after I restored the Downloads page, someone clobbered the
Notes:CVS page.

Fortunately, restoring these pages is easier than I thought -- one simply
uses the "Recent Changes" list, clicks the "hist" link, then clicks on the
last good revision of the file --- and edits that.  The editor warns you
something to the effect of "you are editing an outdated revision, if you save 
this you will lose all changes that have been made since."

If you are a wiki page author (or care that the Xastir wiki remains a good
resource for its users), please make a habit of looking over the Recent Changes
page for suspicious activity.

Chuck:  if you're listening, are you aware of any MediaWiki settings that can
be used to make registration with editing privilege a bit less open?  Perhaps
by requiring some sort of verification?

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