# Wiki spam

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-spam/126563>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 19, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-spam/126563 "2008-01-19T16:33:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![haldane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/47e85d/32.png) [@haldane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/haldane)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-spam/126563/1 "2008-01-19T16:33:11Z")

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I noticed some vandalism on [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org) - hard to spot  
vandalism where just the link destinations have been changed without  
altering the visible page contents.

For instance this page

[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoChangeSessionStore](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoChangeSessionStore)

was vandalised in this version:

[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoChangeSessionStore/versions/52](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoChangeSessionStore/versions/52)

But this version is ok:

[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoChangeSessionStore/versions/51](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoChangeSessionStore/versions/51)

I am reluctant to revert the page to version 51 and to lose all the  
legitimate changes since. Is there any way to just remove the bad  
changes?

And a wider question, is there a way this kind of pernicious vandalism  
can be prevented?

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**Author:** ![haldane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/47e85d/32.png) [@haldane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/haldane)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wiki-spam/126563/2 "2008-01-19T16:39:02Z")

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The wiki is currently being redone I believe. Hopefully it will be up  
soon, with anti-spam measures in place. 🙂

–Jeremy

On Jan 19, 2008 10:32 AM, haldane [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> And a wider question, is there a way this kind of pernicious vandalism  
> can be prevented?
> 
> >

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