MediaWiki-l November 2005

mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

173 participants
274 discussions

Re: Major Spam Problems
by Jan Steinman 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

On 7 Nov 2005, at 13:17, mediawiki-l-request(a)Wikimedia.org wrote: > From: "Tony Molloy" <tony.molloy(a)uconn.edu> > > Also, all of the accounts created by our spammer have invalid e-mail > addresses. If something could verify that the e-mail was legit before > enabling the account, that would be useful as well. My vote is for mail-back authorization on account creation. Maybe I'll just do it... One way that I've eliminated ALL spam is strictly by accident: I changed the account creation page. I wanted to have first/last name fields, which I then concat to make the user name. This apparently confuses spambots enough that they don't even bother. :::: The record is clear that left to their own devices, the automobile manufacturers lack the wisdom or the will or both to switch decisively to the production of inexpensive, compact, energy- saving cars appropriate to our present needs. -- Donald E. Weeden, 1975 :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesimths.com/Van>

1 0

programmatic page edits
by Norman Kabir 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Hi. I've tried to find information on creating and updating pages using command line scripts but, so far, have found little information. I'd like to take a set of text files and push them to my wiki using a shell script. Is there a documented way to do this? I wanted to avoid directly updating the underlying database if possible. Thank you. Cheers, --Norm

3 2

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Favicon doesn't display
by Ira Goldstein 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Matt -- Hi. I was doing a search for the string "favicon" and noticed the repeated occurance in my apache2 error log : [Mon Nov 07 15:13:42 2005] [error] [client 10.1.1.1] File does not exist: /home/wiki2/mediawiki/favicon.ico The error makes sense in that the favicon.ico file is in the skins/common/images directory. What doesn't make sense is that the $wgStylePath looks to be ok and does point to the skins directory. --Ira >>> matt(a)strawberryfrog.com 11/07/05 6:55 AM >>> Hey Group, Just noticing that the standard favicon for my media wiki doesn¹t display in the address field. I¹m using Safari, but I don¹t think it¹s my browser. Other sites favicons display fine including the one on mediawiki.org. Is there something I must enable in the LocalSettings.php file? Thanks for any help you can give. Matt :) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

2 1

Favicon doesn't display
by Matthew Minkin 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Hey Group, Just noticing that the standard favicon for my media wiki doesn¹t display in the address field. I¹m using Safari, but I don¹t think it¹s my browser. Other sites favicons display fine including the one on mediawiki.org. Is there something I must enable in the LocalSettings.php file? Thanks for any help you can give. Matt :)

2 1

RE: [Mediawiki-l] Major Spam Problems
by Tony Molloy 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

I've experienced the same Spammer. I've enabled the SpamBlacklist Extension and added the SpamRegex entries mentioned earlier and this has taken care of it for now. I would really like to see a CAPTCHA for mediawiki. Ideally, this would be an extension or option that one could enable that would ask for verification only when creating a new account. One exists now that asks on every edit, but I feel like this is too much for our users. Also, all of the accounts created by our spammer have invalid e-mail addresses. If something could verify that the e-mail was legit before enabling the account, that would be useful as well. -Tony > -----Original Message----- > From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l- > bounces(a)Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of WikiSysop > Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 11:19 PM > To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Major Spam Problems > > I am running MediaWiki 1.5.1 on www.drumcorpswiki.com and over the last > two weeks or so, I've begun having major spam problems. It seems > someone (a bot possibly?) is creating a user account and then editing > many pages to include spam link and/or a hidden div section. Each time, > I have to block the user and rollback all of the changes. Has there > been a fix to the problem? Please see the recent changes on the site to > get an idea of what I've been up against. > > Thanks for any assistance anyone may provide, > > Harlan Landes > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

1 0

trackback-error
by G.Bierens＠fontys.nl 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Just added trackback-functionality via MonoBook.php, but all I get is this message: 1 Invalid request: Required field not specified See here for example: http://www.fontysmediatheek.nl/wiki/trackback.php?article=Adformatie_Arc hief What am I missing? ~Gerard ---------------------------------------------------------------- Op deze e-mail zijn de volgende voorwaarden van toepassing: http://www.fontys.nl/disclaimer The above disclaimer applies to this e-mail message. ----------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Wiki vandalized
by Cyril Pavillard 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Hello, I hope this is the right place to request some support for this subject. Our wiki (http://www.wikimac.fr) has been vandalized and even though I found some informations on the mediawiki site, I can't really figure out how to resolve quickly this problem and how to protect our wiki to avoid such a problem again. 1) Is there any quick way to recover the pages that have been erase without having to go on the history and recover the content article after article ? 2) I guess to avoid this problem, the best way would be to move our wiki to version 1.5, is that right and is there some extra things to do on the default install to protect it ? 3) Is there a place where I can post (if this can help) the IP that vandalized our wiki ? Thank you for your precious help Cyril

6 9

help edit problem
by judi chen 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

hi, i am using mediawiki 1.52 After I edit the main page and clicked the save button, the main page still display the old msg, " Wiki installation is successful ..." rather the content I edit Any suggestions Thanks Judi __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

2 1

MediaWiki uninstall script/instructions
by Gordon Mohr (＠ Bitzi) 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

I have an old private scratch 1.4.x installation I just want to throw out completely before installing 1.5.2. Beyond deleting the wiki directory, I presume that I just need to drop all the MediaWiki MySQL tables. Is there a reference script to do this anywhere? (My searches haven't turned one up, nor any specific instruction for a complete MediaWiki uninstall/wipe.) Thanks for any pointers. - Gordon @ Bitzi

2 2

Adding a new tab
by Candy 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Hi, I am trying to add a new tab to wikipedia which has presently the tabs (Article,Edit,Discussion and history).Like may be "resources" or something alike.Can someone tell me which file to edit or which function to modify to bring the above said efffect. I have mediawiki locally installed with the wikipedia database imported. Thanks Ca __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

1 0

← Newer
1
...
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
Older →

Jump to page:

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

MediaWiki-l November 2005