Community Help Wiki locked down (was: Re: Fwd: Fwd: WikiGuide destroed by spammers)

[Hannie Dumoleyn]

Maybe this is a stupid question, but why can't we make a backup of all 
the wiki pages (only text?), delete the infected pages and put the clean 
ones back.
Hannie

Op 06-01-16 om 01:02 schreef Elizabeth K. Joseph:
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Elizabeth K. Joseph <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> There are thousands of pages and it looks like this started on
>> December 23rd. I'm not going to spend my whole day deleting pages when
>> the spam accounts keep being created. Endless, time-wasting war with
>> bots.
>>
>> I've submitted a ticket with Canonical IS (#27950) to see what they
>> can do on the administrative side to shut this down.
> I have good news and bad news about our https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ wiki.
>
> Good news: The thousands of spam pages that were created have been
> deleted and purged by Canonical IS. Thanks to Ryan Finnie of Canonical
> for handling this so quickly after their holiday break! There were
> also some spam edits on existing pages that Pasi (knome) took care of.
> Please let us know if you find any more and we'll work to take care of
> them.
>
> Bad news: In order to triage this attack, the wiki has been locked
> down. Right now, only members of these two groups now have access to
> editing:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EditorGroup
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AdminGroup
>
> They suggested we also set up a ContributorGroup of known users who
> contribute that can still edit even when the wiki is on lock down.
> This seems like a reasonable thing, but it does mean administrative
> overhead.
>
> I don't know how long the lock down will last, and right now I'm not
> sure how logins look to folks not in EditorGroup or AdminGroup. That
> may be worth testing by someone not in those groups, it would be good
> to know if they are able to log in at all, or if it just shows all
> pages as Immutable.
>
> Given all of our problems generally with this help wiki and logins
> since the switch to Ubuntu SSO, the overall future of this wiki may be
> worth a discussion.
>