IFWiki:Vandalism

Unhappily, because wikis are open to the public for editing, there is always the risk of pages being vandalized by malicious or inappropriate editing.

New sightings of IFWiki vandalism should be reported at IFWiki:Community Portal#Vandalism alerts.

Suggestions on how to combat IFWiki vandalism should be discussed at IFWiki talk:Vandalism. Also use the talk page if you're having trouble reverting a damaged page.

Current Policy

• IFWiki currently requires that users must register with an ID and log in before they may edit a page. Hopefully, this will deter lazy vandals, but this is not expected to deter the more determined ones.
• Some pages have been marked as protected, and can only be edited by administrators. For example, the Main Page is protected, and several of the category pages. However, we don't really want to mark too many pages as protected, since this would obviously prevent legitimate editors from editing the pages. Discussion (Talk) pages should never be marked as protected.
• Vandalized pages should be reverted back to the text and format of the last legitimate edit, as can be found in a page's history. It's best if such reverts can be done as soon after the vandalism as possible.
• Obvious and blatant spammers will be blocked indefinitely. We have no tolerance for that sort of nonsense. Admins will determine what is "obvious and blatant" spamming.

Archive of Vandalism alerts

As the IFWiki gets older, we'll want to move older vandalism alerts from the Community Portal page to archive pages. Here is a list of those archive pages:

• IFWiki:Vandalism/Archive 1 (2005–2006)