Another Swiki defence idea: better tools

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Sat Jul 27 00:58:44 UTC 2002


On 27 Jul 2002, Cees de Groot wrote:

> The premise of a Swiki's openness is that it is easier to rollback than to
> damage it. Why not simply add a button to the recent changes screen, so that
> you can roll back any damage done from a single IP during a given time frame
> with one push of the button? Some smart ideas like that, some distributed
> system maintenance, and script kiddies are likely to give up very quickly
> (especially if the FrontPage explains that you've got these buttons in place,
> yaddayadda).

I'd like to heartily second this suggestion - it's not only a more
Wiki-like solution, it's probably much less total hassle than any of
the trust/password/lockdown systems.





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