Hi,

as can be seen by the recent changes page, this eastern we've had some
heavy, most probably automated spam at jspwiki-wiki.a.o. Basically all
of the dirt consisted on automated ways of seeking vulnerabilities
(xss, database tampering, session hijacking, etc.). Luckily all of
these vectors of attacks were previously reported and fixed, so
nothing serious ended up happening.

However, there was a LOT of dirt that have to be manually removed. To
avoid further situations like this, user account creation has been
temporarily locked (userdatabase.xml has been made read only), and
offending users removed, with the idea being to moderate user account
creation, via workflow approval, and putting a policy to forbid page
edition for anonymous users as well. Most defaced pages now have an
ACL in place to allow edition only to users on Gardener or Admin
groups, which will be applied as time permits to the documentation
pages.

Anyone wishing to improve the documentation is more than welcome, just
please state on this list that you wish to be added to the Gardener
group, or that you do want to improve our documentation and we'll
gladly add you to this group.

We'll note all of this on jspwiki-wiki.a.o and also here as soon as
we're able to put in place the long-run solution. Of course, any other
idea on how to proceed with this situation, and on how to balance it
with regular users wishing to improve the wiki is more than welcome,
please do answer back on list


best regards,
juan pablo

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