Lost pages on the wikis

[Nio Wiklund]

Den 2016-05-07 kl. 22:29, skrev Elizabeth K. Joseph:
> Just a quick heads up.
>
> 1. The wiki spam problem has picked up again. Spammers have found back
> doors to the team we allow edit access for and they're inundating
> various teams with join requests. It's pretty awful. The launchpad
> team admins are doing what they can to stem the tide, but we're
> volunteers fighting an uphill battle.
>
> 2. I've opened up ticket 28486 with Canonical IS because we've been
> losing wiki pages. Currently our landing page for
> help.ubuntu.com/community/ is gone, which someone joined #ubuntu-doc
> to tell us about. So is wiki.ubuntu.com/NewsTeam which is the landing
> page for the Ubuntu News team, I noticed this only because I have
> notifications for all the News pages on the wiki, it was spammed and
> when I went to it it was gone.
>
> I don't know what other legitimate pages are gone, but I'm sure these
> aren't the only ones.
>
> I'm hoping Canonical IS can retrieve these pages from the file system,
> but I don't know what's going on here. Maybe the spam zapper that IS
> is using to clean up is hitting false positives, or the pages are
> being moved by spammers first so they don't look legitimate? Whatever
> is happening, there is no revision history so there is no way for us
> to retrieve these pages.
>

Hi Elizabeth,

This explains why I can no longer log in and edit 'my' help pages. The 
log in does not work, I arrive at a non yet existing page instead of 
getting logged in.

See this link

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2323735

Best regards
Nio alias sudodus at the Ubuntu Forums