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Editing:Top 10 2007
This page is intended to provide assistance and directions to authors of the 2007 Top 10 Vulnerabilities list, that is, this page is meant to help you. The Wiki version is intended to be modified by the OWASP community at large. The thought behind this is summed up best by the old adage:
"None of us are as smart as all of us." My Grandmother
So, if you know of any preventative measures to add that have been omitted, learn about a new variant of an existing vulnerability, or feel you have anything to add. Go for it!
Top Ten Editing Etiquitte
While it is understood that changes to the Wiki version will not be scrutinized as intensely as the English PDF version of the document has been (months of review including Beta, RC1, and RC2), the Wiki version is still intended to maintain a high degree of quality. If you intend on making any significant changes or are unsure of your changes or simply do not know how to get started, the best way to proceed is to start a discussion. Pick the most appropriate page in the Wiki, click the Discussion link at the top and ask propose your change, ask your question, or whatever.
One less-obvious feature of the discussion pages is that you can create threads of conversation by clicking on the "+" tab (it only appears when you are on the discussion tab). Also, it is typical to sign your discussions with four tildes such as
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This signs your comment with your username as well as the current time and date. For example, four tildes produces the following for me:
Neil Smithline 22:43, 13 May 2007 (EDT)
It gets expanded when the page is saved so that subsequent people joining the decision will not see four tildes but rather your signature.
Should you feel that you need to modify the templates used in the Top 10, see #A Word About The Templates
Getting Started
To help you improve the Top 10 list we have put together this page including pointers to the Wiki pages used in the Top 10. We have also added some links to tutorials in the OWASP Wiki and in the [Wikipedia] as they both use [MediaWiki] and the Wikipedia has a much more extensive help system in place. Please be sure you have read and are familiar with the editing etiquitte section above.
Content Pages
Markup Used
| Markup or Style | When used |
|---|---|
| = | H1 - Never used in top 10 |
| == | H2 - used as main headers within a page. Will be appear in TOC if one is included. |
| === | H3 - used as second-level headers within a page. Will not appear in TOC by default. |
| < and > | Used instead of < and > when used as strings as compared to HTML tags. Sometimes the Wiki allows < and > to go through without using the escapes but sometimes it does bad things. For example
actually produces Probably not what was desired. |
| __NOTOC__ | Prevents default display of TOC which happens as soon as there is a total of four or more H1 (shouldn't be used) or H2 headers. |
| __TOC__ | Forces creation of a TOC at that point - even if a TOC would otherwise have not been generated. |
| “ and ” | Used as “double quote characters” where needed. |
| ‘ and ’ | Used as ‘singe quote characters’ where needed. |
| <code> and </code> | Used to dilineate code (fixed-width font, slightly gray background).
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Template Pages
| Page Link | Contents of Page |
|---|---|
| Template:Top_10_2007:TopTemplate | Template to produce the top of the page. |
| Template:Top_10_2007:BottomTemplate | Template to produce the bottom of the page. |
| Template:PrevLink | Template to produce link to previous page in Template:Top_10_2007:TopTemplate and Template:Top_10_2007:BottomTemplate. |
| Template:MainLink | Template to produce link to the Top_10_2007 main page in Template:Top_10_2007:TopTemplate and Template:Top_10_2007:BottomTemplate. |
| Template:Nothing | Template that produces nothing. It is used by Template:Top_10_2007:TopTemplate and Template:Top_10_2007:BottomTemplate to produce nothing. For example, Top 10 2007 has no previous nor main link so the Nothing template is called instead. |
| Template:FIXUP | Template that produces FIXUP notes. The template takes two arguments. The first is a name identifying the user (could be full name, username, initials, it is simply for identification) who added the FIXUP tag. The second is a comment about what needs to be fixed up. For example, {{FIXUP|Neil Smithline|Demo of FIXUP}} produces FIXUP: {{{1}}}: {{{2}}}
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General Wiki Help
See Help:Contents.
A Word About The Templates
Templates are a complex yet very helpful feature in MediaWiki. The Top 10 list uses them to define the look-and-feel as well as the navigation of the site. Be especially careful before touching these as a minor change a template can frequently have surprising affects on pages you didn't even realize would be affected. It is strongly suggested you have familiarity with Wikipedia's Template Help and Wikipedia's Advanced Templates Help before changing them. If you have any doubt, start a discussion on either the template page you are looking to modify or this page.
