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

[fishy]

This is great :)

Is it safe to upgrade from 1.1.6.3 by just replacing the files? Do I
need to do any db conversion during the upgrade?

Dario Taraborelli wrote:
> 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
> 
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> Dario Taraborelli
> Wikka Development Team
> http://wikkawiki.org
> 
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regards,
fishy