Just when you think it's safe to go out again...
I've secured my fairly late-model (~1.5.6) MediaWiki against public account creation, and now I'm finding the thieves are polluting it with trackbacks. This new vandalism requires no account creation, no edit rights.
In this case, I simply went in and wiped the contents of the "mw_trackbacks" table. (I can just hear Brion saying, "DON'T DO THAT!")
Is there any strategy in place for combatting this new (to me, at least) form of vandalism?
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Jan Steinman wrote:
Just when you think it's safe to go out again...
I've secured my fairly late-model (~1.5.6) MediaWiki against public account creation, and now I'm finding the thieves are polluting it with trackbacks. This new vandalism requires no account creation, no edit rights.
In this case, I simply went in and wiped the contents of the "mw_trackbacks" table. (I can just hear Brion saying, "DON'T DO THAT!")
Is there any strategy in place for combatting this new (to me, at least) form of vandalism?
Don't enable trackbacks. :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 2/21/06, Jan Steinman Jan@bytesmiths.com wrote:
Is there any strategy in place for combatting this new (to me, at least) form of vandalism?
Yes, Bad Behavior[1]
The trick is to ban problems at a lower level.. to have your server analyze traffic before it gets to your wiki engine.
[1] http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bad_Behavior http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/installing-and-using-bad-behavio...
Moin,
On Sunday 26 February 2006 05:02, Sy Ali wrote:
On 2/21/06, Jan Steinman Jan@bytesmiths.com wrote:
Is there any strategy in place for combatting this new (to me, at least) form of vandalism?
Yes, Bad Behavior[1]
The trick is to ban problems at a lower level.. to have your server analyze traffic before it gets to your wiki engine.
[1] http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bad_Behavior http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/installing-and-using-bad-be havior/on-mediawiki/
That sounds very usefull, bookmarked!
Best wishes,
Tels
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