Folks,
I notice that many of our images/attachments on the wiki are getting 
"deleted".  It is possible that this is vandalism but it seems so widespread 
that it looks like a disproportionate effort for someone to do this.  Any 
thoughts?  Do we have a wiki bug?

Tom,
Can you zap a backup/snapshot of the environment?

Neil

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Neil Kolban wrote:
> Folks,
> I notice that many of our images/attachments on the wiki are getting 
> "deleted".  It is possible that this is vandalism but it seems so widespread 
> that it looks like a disproportionate effort for someone to do this.  Any 
> thoughts?  Do we have a wiki bug?

 From what I have seen it has been consistently 1 partial IP address, 
which leads me to believe it is a vandal.

-- 
~Mike

Things! Billions of them!

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"Neil Kolban" <kol### [at] kolbancom> schreef in bericht
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> Folks,
> I notice that many of our images/attachments on the wiki are getting
> "deleted".  It is possible that this is vandalism but it seems so
widespread
> that it looks like a disproportionate effort for someone to do this.  Any
> thoughts?  Do we have a wiki bug?
>
Hmm... apart from uploading new versions of my images/attachments to
geomorph and deleting old ones, I have not yet seen anything wrong there...
..which brings me to the question about using the User Preferences name one
can give: How do you implement that? I remember a post by Neil about it I
believe, but I cannot find it :-(    ...because that would make things
clearer to who is doing what. I am still visible under my IP address.

Thomas

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Thomas de Groot wrote:

> ..which brings me to the question about using the User Preferences name one
> can give: How do you implement that? I remember a post by Neil about it I
> believe, but I cannot find it :-(    ...because that would make things
> clearer to who is doing what. I am still visible under my IP address.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 

:P

http://povray.tirnalong.com/ow.asp?UserPreferences

It is a link at the top of every page.  Enable cookies for the site if 
you want your wikiname to stick be saved to your computer.

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Neil Kolban wrote:
> Folks,
> I notice that many of our images/attachments on the wiki are getting 
> "deleted".  It is possible that this is vandalism but it seems so widespread 
> that it looks like a disproportionate effort for someone to do this.  Any 
> thoughts?  Do we have a wiki bug?
> 
> Tom,
> Can you zap a backup/snapshot of the environment?
> 
> Neil 
> 
> 

Can you point me to a specific attachment that was deleted so I can 
check it out.  There is a restore function for deleted attachments. 
Look at the deleted attachment on this page:

http://povray.tirnalong.com/ow.asp?p=MediaPage&a=attach

You can click the icon on the right that shows the curled arrow to do a 
restore.

IIRC attachments can only be permanently deleted when I run the 
deprecate script.  I have not run that yet.  Keep in mind that if you 
uplad a file that has an extension other than

           gif|jpg|png|bmp|jpeg|mpg|avi|pov

then it will have the extension ".safe"  appended to the filename.  So that:

      "coolarchive.zip" becomes "coolarchive.zip.safe"

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Tom,
I have restored most (all?) of the deleted images using the mechanism you 
had described.  I am VERY glad you have not yet executed the deprecated 
script.  We would have lost a BUNCH of images.

Here is one this very morning .... I have *NOT* yet restored the image:

http://www.wikipov.org/ow.asp?MorayCoordinateSystem

This is getting VERY bad ...

Neil


"Tom Galvin" <tom### [at] impnospamorg> wrote in message 
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> Neil Kolban wrote:
>> Folks,
>> I notice that many of our images/attachments on the wiki are getting 
>> "deleted".  It is possible that this is vandalism but it seems so 
>> widespread that it looks like a disproportionate effort for someone to do 
>> this.  Any thoughts?  Do we have a wiki bug?
>>
>> Tom,
>> Can you zap a backup/snapshot of the environment?
>>
>> Neil
>
> Can you point me to a specific attachment that was deleted so I can check 
> it out.  There is a restore function for deleted attachments. Look at the 
> deleted attachment on this page:
>
> http://povray.tirnalong.com/ow.asp?p=MediaPage&a=attach
>
> You can click the icon on the right that shows the curled arrow to do a 
> restore.
>
> IIRC attachments can only be permanently deleted when I run the deprecate 
> script.  I have not run that yet.  Keep in mind that if you uplad a file 
> that has an extension other than
>
>           gif|jpg|png|bmp|jpeg|mpg|avi|pov
>
> then it will have the extension ".safe"  appended to the filename.  So 
> that:
>
>      "coolarchive.zip" becomes "coolarchive.zip.safe"

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"Neil Kolban" <kol### [at] kolbancom> wrote in message
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> Tom,
> I have restored most (all?) of the deleted images using the mechanism you
> had described.  I am VERY glad you have not yet executed the deprecated
> script.  We would have lost a BUNCH of images.
>
> Here is one this very morning .... I have *NOT* yet restored the image:
>
> http://www.wikipov.org/ow.asp?MorayCoordinateSystem
>
> This is getting VERY bad ...
>

As far as I can see, not only does marking images for deletion not require a
login, but such edits do not even show up in the revision history.

This vandalism is probably being done by hand, but it wouldn't be hard to
write a script that would autodelete images throughout the site... and you
wouldn't even notice the changes in the revisions or recent changes page.
Scary.

I guess in a world of mass-murder, pillage and rape, one shouldn't be too
surprised, but the mind boggles as to what this vandal thinks he or she is
accomplishing by this...

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"Tom Galvin" <tom### [at] impnospamorg> schreef in bericht
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>
> http://povray.tirnalong.com/ow.asp?UserPreferences
>
> It is a link at the top of every page.  Enable cookies for the site if
> you want your wikiname to stick be saved to your computer.


Thank you indeed, Tom.
Got it!.

Thomas

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