Editing Talk:Things You Need to Know about Wikis

What is all that junk? Looks like spam to me.

Yes, that's spam. Done by automated posting bots, often late at night. You can undo it with 2 clicks. Here's how:

#Click the "Recent changes" link on the left-hand side of this page (in the "navigation" box). That will take you to a list of all recent changes on the wiki, kinda like a "new posts" page on a forum.
#On the Recent changes page, you'll be able to see full details on all edits and adds. For each edit, there is a number in parentheses indicating how many characters were added or removed. If you see something like (+12,542), it's probably spam.
#If it's spam, you can undo it with 2 clicks. First, click the "diff" link. That will show you the "difference" between the edits -- you can use that page to verify that it's spam.
#From there, click the "rollback" link in the upper-right hand side of the page. You can actually "rollback" any page, for whatever reason you think is necessary.
--[[User:Jon|Jon]] 11:22, 30 August 2007 (PDT)