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Bug 323059

Summary:	Wiki spam?
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk>
Component:	Wiki	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Chris Aniszczyk

2010-08-18 12:12:50 EDT

I don't know how serious of an issue this issue... but I just noticed spam on the wiki...

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code

Notice the "QR Code" and "Hallowen Contact Lenses" links?

Sanctity of the information on the wiki is really important...

Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster

2010-08-18 14:39:05 EDT

I've reverted the changes, and torched the offending account.

-M.

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2010-08-20 08:57:17 EDT

> I don't know how serious of an issue this issue... but I just noticed spam on
> the wiki...

We get SPAM on the wiki regularly.  Since the premise of a wiki is 'to allow everyone to contribute', this means we _will_ get junk.  We (you, me, everyone) all need to 'watch' pages and make sure we keep it under control.

If some information must be tamper-proof, then it should be hosted on www.eclipse.org, not on the Wiki.