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On 2016-03-28 11:36:44 +0200 (+0200), Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> >On 2016-03-25 10:51:57 -0700 (-0700), Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> >[...]
> >>1. Spammer moved How_To_Contribute to a 555-5p4m-number-woo page
> >>2. Spammer replaced the content with spam
> >>3. SmitSpam deleted the page as spam
> >[...]
> >
> >Great point, we need to be mindful of page moves too, so that does
> >complicate matters. Also we should probably be marking high-value
> >pages like How_To_Contribute locked to wiki admins anyway (we
> >already do that for some of them since long before the current rash
> >of defacements).
> 
> Great point... We don't have much reference content left on the wiki, but we
> should probably protect whatever is left (while we continue the effort of
> replacing those pages by properly peer-reviewed sites).

I was pondering this over the weekend. One workaround is that we
could stand up a copy of the wiki from a database backup and put a
robots.txt on it preventing it from being indexed in popular search
engines, then use that as a source to copy back any important
articles we accidentally overlook and lose through purging deletes.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley