markl:
On Jul 11, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
There are hundreds of HaskellWiki users created, their names all start with "Buy" and their user pages contain spam. I suppose the antispam measures were reverted when a backup of the site was loaded. (B.T.W. the site still displays the old logo.)
Yikes!
I see that the Haskell wiki is running Media Wiki 1.5.4 from 2005. Current version is 1.15.2 from 2010. That five year period seems to include many significant anti-spam fixes and numerous patches for all sorts of vulnerabilities. Migrating through that many revisions might be painful, but should be doable.
Precisely. The back story: * Yale has hosted haskell.org for the past decade or more * The machine is old and hasn't been upgraded in a long time * The last MediaWiki update on the machine failed when the db couldn't migrated, due to old versions of Debian * We needed a new machine * haskell.org now has a new machine aquired with GSoC funds * This will run a modern MediaWiki * Work is now being done to migrate to the new home, and the new MediaWiki Ian Lynagh is coordinating the work. -- Don