Re: Wiki vandalism and performance 🖋

[Benjamin Kerensa]

The solution is a hardened version of mediawiki. Mozilla had a great repo
to clone with tools ready to defend attacks

https://github.com/mozilla/wiki.mozilla.org

You have a verified user group (Mozilla's equivalent of Ubuntu Members) who
are trusted and then a public group which has limited permissions.

MoinMoin is rather behind in its capability to not only scale for large
projects but so defend against attacks.

If Ubuntu is ever looking for someone to hire to migrate to Mediawiki at
scale and defend against attacks I'd suggest Christie Koehler who ran
Mozilla's wiki for years.

Ubuntu should get away from MoinMoin as soon as it can and burn it down :)
no big projects use it for good reason
On Jun 15, 2016 9:11 AM, "Alberto Salvia Novella" <es20490446e at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 📚 PLENTY OF RESOURCES
>
> I was to ask about how to deal with the current attacks to the Ubuntu
> wiki, but I realized there is already plenty of information out there about
> the topic.
>
> For example, the MediaWiki engine has plenty of tools and recommendations
> that seem good enough for neutralizing any attack:
>
> - (
> https://www.quora.com/How-does-Wikipedia-keep-tabs-on-spammers-since-its-pages-can-be-edited-by-anyone
> )
> - (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_vandalism)
> - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleaning_up_vandalism/Tools)
> - (https://youtu.be/HI3rTf7HzTc)
>
> Moreover most of these countermeasures seem feasible to implement in the
> current Ubuntu wiki engine, and probably easier to maintain than in
> MediaWiki.
>
>
> 🔧 GOOD ENOUGH FIX
>
> Reading the above links the only thing that seems really missing in the
> current engine is a public history log of all editions, with a
> comprehensive filter of it. For example only showing users with a few
> editions.
>
> Then if someone sees vandalism, it could just click on a particular edit
> on the log for reporting to a moderation team. Then a moderator could ban
> by user name, and even by IP address if it is recurring.
>
> Probably this feature alone will be good enough for stopping the current
> attacks.
>
>
> 🕀 BOTTOM LINE
>
> So the first question to answer seems to be which wiki engine is better
> for Ubuntu taking into account performance, maintainability and available
> anti-vandalism tools. And which employees will study and implement the
> changes needed.
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
>
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