[Clipart] Roadmap on wiki

Jonadab the Unsightly One jonadab at bright.net
Sat Sep 4 09:54:52 PDT 2004


Alberto Simões <hashashin at gmail.com> writes:

> It is very weird... is somebody editing that? Or we need to rollback?

Reverted.  That was clearly spam.  Webmasters do this to Wiki pages
that are indexed by search engines to try to increase their PageRank
score, by having links with certain text point to their page.  There
are two cheif defense strategies against it:  either we remove the
incentive by setting the robot behavior to "none" so that search
engines don't index the publically-editable pages, or someone watches
the Wiki like a hawk and reverts any such changes immediately.  (The
feature where it mails you when there are any changes is useful for
this, if you use an intelligent biff that can alert you differently
depending on the message sender -- you can set it so that mail from
the Wiki change notifier grabs your attention immediately, almost like
an IM client, but let other mail accumulate like normal and just show
maybe the number of messages on your panel or whatever.)

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