Re: wiki vandalism (Was: [DRAFT] request Apache Forrest TLP setup)

[Stefano Mazzocchi <st...@apache.org>]

David Crossley wrote:

> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: 
> 
>>Antonio Gallardo wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I am aware there can be more pages generated but at least 6 links for free
>>>on the net is good deal, right? ;-)
>>
>>Antonio, having a link on the net is useless in google-sense if there is 
>>no <a href=""> tag around it.
> 
> 
> ??? ... not sure what you mean. They have been vandalising the
> Cocoon wiki pages by changing our links to point to their websites.
> Google loves our web pages because they have such good content.
> Apache wiki front pages have many incoming references from other
> pages - Google loves it more. Our Wiki pages have links to each
> page's history - Google gets excited. Google users discover our
> pages and accidently follow the links. The vandals win.

I was talking of pagerank attacks.

-- 
Stefano.