when developing your wiki make sure it is secure

Before unveiling the Education Association Connect Hub (EACH) wiki that I developed to all the state associations, I needed to make some minor changes to the tabs. I entered the URL and discovered, much to my dismay—in truth, it almost brought me to tears!—that the EACH wiki had been spammed…everything was gobbly-gook! Fortunately, I was able to go back in history in the edit menu for most of the pages, but the sidebar was another story since I couldn’t get to the edit menu. After many attempts I was finally able to restore all the work that was done on the site, but I sure did learn a valuable lesson.

Even though the EACH wiki was password protected, it still needed to have a blocklist added to the config file. I opted to use code to automatically download shared blocklists from PM Wiki—see image. Since I have added that, the spam has been eliminated.

What issues have you encountered in developing a wiki? Any insights for someone starting out?