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Wiki Spam is the unwanted insertion of advertisements with external links in the wiki. The purpose of this vandalism is to promote external websites in search engines such as Google.
Spammers note: external links in this wiki have the rel=nofollow attribute, which means Google will ignore them and you will get no Google ranking boost from the wiki at all. Therefore, spamming is pointless.
Monitoring unwanted edits
Use "Recent changes" to monitor unwanted edits.
Reverting unwanted edits
Legitimate users: you can help undoing unwanted edits.
- Click "History" tab at the top of a page
- Click on the link of the revision you want to recover (the date) This will take you to a page with the text of the old revision.
- Click "Edit" tab at the top.
- Add a summary, such as "revert spam" and click the 'Save' button.