Subject: Re: [sup-talk] Is the wiki down ?

From: Marc Hartstein <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:33:40 -0500

Excerpts from Alfredo Palhares's message of Fri Nov 11 11:02:38 -0500 2011:
> Hello, i am trying to check the wiki, and i get a basically empty
> page. Maybe its in maintenace ? Maybe its down ?  I am checking the
> link from the main page which is this
> http://sup.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl 

Looks like vandalism; someone came in and replaced the major pages with
short messages.

I don't know of an easy way to do a rollback with the wiki software
we're using. Is there a Wiki admin?
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From: vrs <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:07:54 +0100

Excerpts from Alex Shulgin's message of 2011-11-11 17:30:25 +0100:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 18:02, Alfredo Palhares
> Looks more like it was vandalized by some nasty robot.
Indeed it was. To whoever admins the sup wiki: Please, for the love of
all that is holy to you, don't use UseMod Wiki and replace the current
installation immediately. It's about the worst possible choice you can
currently make when choosing a wiki engine for technical documentation.
Forgetting old revisions is one of the silliest things a wiki can and
should not do. Retire that thing now.

--vrs

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From: Alfredo Palhares <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:02:38 +0100

Hello, i am trying to check the wiki, and i get a basically empty page. Maybe its in maintenace ? Maybe its down ? 
I am checking the link from the main page which is this http://sup.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl 

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Regards, 
Alfredo Palhares

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From: Alex Shulgin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:30:25 +0200

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From: Hamish D <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:27:44 +0000

> Looks more like it was vandalized by some nasty robot.

I've gone through and reverted a lot of the vandalism, but there are a
few pages where it appears the old revisions have gone AWOL, or at
least I don't have permissions to see them. William - can you bring
back the older versions of the pages? I'm wondering if the vandals
might have used ?action=maintain (which retires old revisions ...)

They are:

* http://sup.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?action=history&id=Nbsmtp -
revision 18 is the oldest I can see, and all are nonsense
* http://sup.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?action=history&id=RemovingASource
- revision 5 is the oldest I can see, and they are all nonsense

Hamish