From: Paul Vudmaska <paul@...>
Date: 2004-05-10T23:46:33+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygarden homepage hacks

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Simon Strandgaard wrote:

>Sascha Doerdelmann wrote:
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>>Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@adslhome.dk> wrote:
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>>>On daily basis the homepage at rubygarden is being edited.
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>>Not only HomePage but some other pages, too. This is a well known
>>problem with wikis and usually requires an active wiki community. I am
>>not sure that a blacklist will do in all cases.
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>>See http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWikiWorks
>>and http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DeleteInsults
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>I remember the Docbook wiki got erased completely by an evil bot, this
>was a big loss.
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>http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/
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>Shouldn't we do something to prevent situations like that?
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>BTW:  It would be really nice if one could create one central Ruby account,
>which then would work with: rubyforge, rubygarden, rcrchive, raa, rubynews.
>Is such unification realistic ?
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>--
>Simon Strandgaard
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I'd highly recommend Microsoft Passport for this. <duck>
:)
Actually, that would be a neat project for ruby - a remote 
authenticaction service. Encrypted Xml, Rpc/Soap. Neat. Useful.


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