Re: kwiki.org edit turned off for now

fyi,  this wiki depam script might be useful

http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/2004/11/24.html#a1650

Brian Ingerson wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Due to heavy spam attacks I had to turn off edit capability. In the meantime I
>am taking time to clean up the site. Also I will put some measures into place
>that will help stop the spamming.
>
>=== Cleanup Goals
>
>* Delete all the pages that are crap.
>* Move CGI::Kwiki pages to a separate wiki.
>* Remove all spammed revisions, and the cleanup revisions saved over them.
>
>The last point is most important. It is not enough (in my opinion) to simply
>save the last good revision *over* the spammed revision. I want to remove the
>spammed revision as though it never happened. In that way, Recent Changes will
>only reflect recent good changes!
>
>=== Antispam Measures
>
>* Add an admin mode and write some admin plugins:
>** Kwiki::DeletePage - Remove page completely
>** Kwiki::PurgeRevision - Purge a spammed revision
>* Kwiki::SpamWhitelist - Only render external links from approved domains
>** Render suspected bad links as 'spam://badplace.com' so spammers know
>we are on to them.
>* Other measures as needed.
>
>Hopefully I can get through most of this mess this weekend. Luckily RCS has
>the -o option to purge revisions! Also expect a new kwiki release in the next
>few days.
>
>Cheers, Brian
>
>PS There is a backdoor url for editing kwiki.org. Find me on
>irc://irc.freenode.net/#kwiki for details if you really need to
>edit the site.
>
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