From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2004-05-11T01:13:16+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygarden homepage hacks

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Kristof Bastiaensen wrote:

> On Mon, 10 May 2004 17:55:44 +0900, Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote:
> >>Sascha Doerdelmann wrote:
> >>I remember the Docbook wiki got erased completely by an evil bot, this
> >>was a big loss.
> >>
> >>http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/
> >>
> >>Shouldn't we do something to prevent situations like that?
> >>
> >>
        [...]
>
> That is a nice idea, to have an autogenerated image, containing
> a password to be used for making changes (and some random noise
> to confuse the bot).

I don't like this solution for the reasons outlined in

http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/

but:
> And maybe it would help prevent disaster to limit the amount of
> text that can be deleted at a time.

this agrees with their "limited use" solution
http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/#limiteduse
which seems to me the best solution of those offered.
>
> A revision history (a la CVS) to quickly revert changes may help
> to.  Don't they have this already?

Many Wikis do.
>
> Kristof
>

        Hugh