At 13:44 +0000 12/2/06, Rob Church wrote:
Third parties using our software are responsible for being competent enough to run their own wikis. It's not our fault, nor our responsibility, if they're clueless and don't do anything about spam.
Rob Church
I agree in the sense that software can be misapplied. But Netcraft reports...
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/01/31/php_apps_a_growing_target_for_h...
Posted by Rich Miller at January 31, 2006 03:50 PM
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The growth of PHP-based content management systems is a testimony to the success of the open source movement, which has created a lengthy list of powerful, user-friendly applications that can be installed by web site operators with little or no PHP coding experience. Active support communities for these projects offer templates and mods for easy customization, and mobilize to deploy fixes for security holes.
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Related issue: need to upgrade as security patches come out for MediaWIki, keep tabs on spoof accounts, etc etc.
Gordo