[Mediawiki-l] Possible to rollback entire site?

[Mark (Markie)]

as such there is no way to rollback the whole month.  if you have backed up
your wiki a month ago you could revert back to that dump and that would
effectively roll it back to the content from the time of the last dump.
another option for you which is probably better for your needs would to
install something like http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Nuke which allows you
to mass deleted pages/spam etc. you could also i suppose change the data in
the mysql tables, but i wouldnt reccommend that.

on  the matter of restricting access
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access shows you most/all of
the options to do this but thats not really wiki if you start doing that.
also it is possible to set captchas up to catch every edit by an ip if you
want which may be usefull for you

regards

mark

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:12 PM, pwnedd <keith.hughitt at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to MediaWiki, and was wondering if anyone might be able to help
> figure out the best way to deal with a problem.
>
> I recently discovered that the Wiki I'm hosting has been spammed a large
> amount over the last month. I would like to remove all of the spam, and
> require email authentication, or even better would be admin permission for
> a
> user to edit pages hence forth. First though I need to figure out how to
> remove the existing spam.
>
> Since the wiki is very low volume, there have been almost no changes over
> the past month, other than spam. The simplest method it would seem then
> would be to do a site roll-back for one month.
>
> Is this possible?
>
>
> If not, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get rid of spam
> without having to delete each page and block each user manually?
>
> Finally, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights suggested a
> method
> to require all users to confirm their email. Is there any way to go one
> step
> further and require an admin approve the email?
>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been working through the
> MediaWiki docs, but they are pretty extensive, and so far I haven't had any
> luck.
>
>
> Thanks!
> Keith
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