[Mediawiki-l] Re: Wiki vandalized

[Ashar Voultoiz]

Cyril Pavillard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I hope this is the right place to request some support for this subject.
> 
> Our wiki (http://www.wikimac.fr) has been vandalized and even though  
> I found some informations on the mediawiki site, I can't really  
> figure out how to resolve quickly this problem and how to protect our  
> wiki to avoid such a problem again.
> 
> 1) Is there any quick way to recover the pages that have been erase  
> without having to go on the history and recover the content article  
> after article ?

Not really, you will have to play with the database and manually delete
the entries :o)  I dont think there is any way to selectivly delete
revisions from the interface.

> 2) I guess to avoid this problem, the best way would be to move our  
> wiki to version 1.5, is that right and is there some extra things to  
> do on the default install to protect it ?

Use the spamblacklist extension:
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension
That will deny editing if some text is in a list.

You can use the global list in use on wikimedia servers:
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist

MediaWiki 1.3.9 got some security issues, you should upgrade to at least
1.3.17. You  might want to upgraded to 1.4.11 (lot of bug fixes, same
almost the same database schema).

1.5.0 is the lastest stable version and should be faster (but might got
some exciting new bugs, database schema changed).

> 3) Is there a place where I can post (if this can help) the IP that  
> vandalized our wiki ?

Not really, but you can propose the URL spammed on:
   http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist

cheers,

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