[GRASSLIST:4576] Re: grass wiki

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:33:04AM +1300, Hamish wrote:
> > I'm looking at the grass wiki right now, and there
> > are all these hyperlinks to external websites that
> > seem to have nothing to do with GRASS.
> > 
> > What's going on?
> 
> evil spammers hijacking the wiki to promote their ranking on google.
> (the wiki is open for the whole community to contribute to, but this
> open door lets the jerks in too)
> 
> see:
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/4181
> 
> 
> wiki: 
>  http://grass.itc.it/wiki2/
> 
> 
> anybody have tips on how to restore the pages? (many/most are affected)
> [better than copying from the google cache?]

I have restored a july backup. Think that not too much got
lost.
 
> The history gives pages with "Recent Changes" but no way to revert/undo.

We have two options:

- remove WIKI completely
- change to another software with login and cvs (much more work)

Markus