<p dir="ltr">The solution is a hardened version of mediawiki. Mozilla had a great repo to clone with tools ready to defend attacks</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/wiki.mozilla.org">https://github.com/mozilla/wiki.mozilla.org</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">You have a verified user group (Mozilla's equivalent of Ubuntu Members) who are trusted and then a public group which has limited permissions.</p>
<p dir="ltr">MoinMoin is rather behind in its capability to not only scale for large projects but so defend against attacks.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ubuntu should get away from MoinMoin as soon as it can and burn it down :) no big projects use it for good reason</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 15, 2016 9:11 AM, "Alberto Salvia Novella" <<a href="mailto:es20490446e@gmail.com">es20490446e@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
📚 PLENTY OF RESOURCES<br>
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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.<br>
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For example, the MediaWiki engine has plenty of tools and recommendations that seem good enough for neutralizing any attack:<br>
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- (<a href="https://www.quora.com/How-does-Wikipedia-keep-tabs-on-spammers-since-its-pages-can-be-edited-by-anyone" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.quora.com/How-does-Wikipedia-keep-tabs-on-spammers-since-its-pages-can-be-edited-by-anyone</a>)<br>
- (<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_vandalism" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_vandalism</a>)<br>
- (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleaning_up_vandalism/Tools" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleaning_up_vandalism/Tools</a>)<br>
- (<a href="https://youtu.be/HI3rTf7HzTc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/HI3rTf7HzTc</a>)<br>
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Moreover most of these countermeasures seem feasible to implement in the current Ubuntu wiki engine, and probably easier to maintain than in MediaWiki.<br>
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🔧 GOOD ENOUGH FIX<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Probably this feature alone will be good enough for stopping the current attacks.<br>
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🕀 BOTTOM LINE<br>
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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.<br>
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Thanks for your attention.<br>
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