Just heard from Barry Abrahamson of Automattic/WordPress about the issue of protecting the Codex from the spammers who revert their own spammy intrusions into the Codex:<br><br>- - - - - - - - -<br><br>Did a few things:<br>
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1) Added robots.txt as Jeremy suggested.<br>
2) Enabled the revision delete permission for syspos -- you can read more here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:RevisionDelete" target="_blank">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:RevisionDelete</a><br>
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This should allow you to easily hide the contents of a spam revision from the history, etc.<br><br>- - - - - - - - - - <br>
<br>Thanks, Barry!!!!!<br><br>This should help. Please report in if you are having any trouble with these changes.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Lorelle<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jeremy Visser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy.visser@gmail.com">jeremy.visser@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 19:00 +0100, mrmist wrote:<br>
> Looks like the link spammers have a new tactic - publish a load of links<br>
> and then revert the changes.<br>
><br>
> How nice, they are tidying up after themselves now. Saves me a job I<br>
> guess.<br>
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</div>Thus the links still remain in the revision history, immutable.<br>
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I suggest adding a line to "Disallow: /index.php" in<br>
<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/robots.txt" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/robots.txt</a>.<br>
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