Finally i got around to clean up our beloved wiki, step by step, and slowly getting there to get it more updated and more smooth to interact with again. There were several issues over the last years, quite aggressive spam-bot attacks, which made it sometimes slow, or even our webhost had to turn it off temporarily. After a crazy attack, thousands of spam pages have been created in 2020… But it’s clean again!
Also happy to re-announce here, that we are having a great programme again here in Thailand, India and Switzerland, also about creating new ways of sharing knowledge and reflecting on the last 17 years of the “Hackteria methodologies”… See here on the wiki for more.
Thanks to some help from my AI assistant, i managed to clean up all those spam pages. so we can click on “random page” again, and not end up in some BS.
Read more about the wiki clean up here:
because of these issues, we turned OFF, user creation, but sadly that also lead to less and less users getting active on the wiki. I am currently improving the security settings, could use some help… mbe with improved captcha, and hopefully email authentifications, we can open up the wiki again, for whoever wants to contribute.
The hackteria wiki has been online since April 2009 !!! … and i think it has been a resource and inspiration for many people accross the globe.
With the current development of big tech AI bot scrapping all of the internet without permission, I think its even more important to keep such knowledgebases alive and kicking!
Currently another backup is running in the background…
But it is getting really urgent, that we update the mediawiki software to it’s newest and more secure and userfrienldy versions.
I am personally a bit at the limit with my skills for that, and don’t wanna break things, or rely on my crappy cheap LLMs to do so. our long term supporter, @_adrian has been of great help throughout the years! THANKS! (currently busy finishing his thesis…)
WE NEED YOU!!!
Anybody can help us to update? please leave a message, and we can continue in private conversations!