Brooks Moses said this at Sun, 9 Oct 2005 16:18:52 -0700:
This points out that, until this bug is confirmed fixed, we need to be very careful when reverting sabotaged pages, in order to make sure that we haven't lost any sections in the process. The strategy that I used for this was to compare all reverted pages against both the newest-known-good page and the one immediately prior to it.
Yeah, I noticed that the last "good" pages from reliable authors were sometimes blank. I have to wonder if some of this attack was based on that bug/misfeature, because there seemed to be a lot of edits along the way. Thanks so much for raising the alarm, Brooks! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-