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2013-01-03T22:42:13Z

124.171.195.43 (talk) commented on "Thanks for the software, but I'm out. There's just too much spam and hacking." (I've been running WikiMedia for years and really liked the concept, but two weeks ago I had to uninstall it. Even with edits locked down,...)

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2013-01-03T22:42:13Z

124.171.195.43: New thread: Thanks for the software, but I'm out. There's just too much spam and hacking.

I've been running WikiMedia for years and really liked the concept, but two weeks ago I had to uninstall it. Even with edits locked down, spammers just keep finding holes and ways of filling up the database with 200,000 keyword pages. (which Google promptly ignores, but chews 3 gigabytes of outgoing bandwidth a day. I shudder to think how much bandwidth is consumed by forgotten installations)

Yes, I was running the latest version (as provided by Dreamhost) and this is actually the third time the Wiki has been destroyed by spam, not including when it was cracked and modified every PHP script on my site.

In short, MediaWiki has chewed up weeks of my time for little reward over static web pages, and isn't getting better. I can't do it anymore. But I figured I at least owed you an explanation why. If you're going to distribute content-management software, a slight focus on security (or at least, detecting and managing common abuse) might be helpful. You have become a major target of attack in the modern software ecology. Evolve.

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