[Koha-devel] KohaWiki defaced daily

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-11-04 08:04:52 +0000 Roger BUCK <rog at saas.nsw.edu.au> wrote:

> The tavi wiki software has not kept pace with these developments and 
> has seen 
> little development in general over the last two years.

How much development does a wiki need? They should be fairly simple 
tools that do a fairly simple task well. I recently ranted about 
creeping featurism in Kwiki on 
http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2004-8.html#kwiki1101

> The wiki is backed up nightly (sqldump - around 16:00 GMT) and there 
> are 
> monthly backups (held for at least six months), but there is no 
> simple way to 
> restore a previous version of a defaced page via the in-built 
> revision 
> control system.

That's a shame. Is there a complicated way and is it possible to 
automate it? Even just a "this page has been spammed" link to tell 
someone who can roll it back would help.

One wiki I use has a single username and password (htaccess) which 
seems to stop nearly all spammers, despite the login prompt (AuthName) 
saying what the username and password are!

> Taking all of the above (and related issues such as RSS problems) 
> into 
> consideration, it may be time to look for an alternative solution?

Possibly. Recently, I have used:
* MoinMoin - never liked this one or used it much
* Twiki - only as a user - seems very complicated with multiple webs 
and user registration - supplied templates are buggy
* Kwiki - 0.18 is fast, easy to install and flexible, but the current 
0.33 has several obscure dependencies and doesn't seem as simple to 
modify - supplied templates are buggy in both versions - revision 
control extensions available
* UseMod - fairly easy to install, but is one huge perl script so 
probably not easy to modify. Revision control included.
* PhpWiki - stable version is fairly easy to install and use - similar 
to Tavi, I think. Newer version has lots of plugins and extensions. 
WikiMarkup is quite different to the normal one, I think.

I may have confused some of those. You are in a maze of twisty 
WikiCode, all different.

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