[wikka-community] need the ability to delete a revision

Dario Taraborelli dartar
Tue Nov 13 09:47:22 GMT 2007


Hi fishy,

we are aware of this annoying issue. We are currently working on a  
small release (1.1.6.4) targeted to security and antispam measures  
(including a revert handler and a page- and user-administration  
module, among others): http://wush.net/trac/wikka/milestone/1.1.6.4

Best,
Dario


On 13 Nov 2007, at 06:01, fishy wrote:

> My wiki was often attacked by spams. Every time they attacked, I need
> to cleanup their changes and rollback to the last good revision, this
> will cause 2 new revisions (1 for spam and 1 for cleanup). Some times
> spammer even create a new page, so I can only clean the page to the
> empty one, but can't delete it (without direct MySQL operation).
>
> So I need the ability to delete a revision, it can delete the spam
> revisions, and the pages created by spammers as well.
>
> I tried to do direct MySQL operations, delete the row in wikka_pages
> table, it will delete the spammer created pages, but for that already
> created pages, it will cause the pages to be uncreated(as the latest =
> "Y" row is deleted). It's hard to recover all latest revisions to
> latest = "Y" if many pages are spammed. This is really annoying.
>
> -- 
> regards,
> fishy

--
Dario Taraborelli
Wikka Development Team
http://wikkawiki.org

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