MediaWiki-l February 2012

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Lis tes messages avant qu'ils ne soient effacés!
by Badoo 31 Dec '23

31 Dec '23

Lis ton message de Nganguem Victor avant qu'il ne soit effacé! Pour lire ton message, suis simplement ce lien: http://eu1.badoo.com/chatnoirxx/in/p4hxwt052ok/?lang_id=6 D'autres personnes sont aussi présentes: Oded (Tel Aviv, Israël) Priya (Udaipur, Inde) RajaYogi BK (Udaipur, Inde) Karuna (Udaipur, Inde) Chika Reginald Onyia (Pnompen', Cambodge) ...Qui d'autre? http://eu1.badoo.com/chatnoirxx/in/p4hxwt052ok/?lang_id=6 Les liens ne fonctionnent pas dans ce message? Copie les dans la barre d'adresse de ton navigateur. Tu as reçu cet email suite à un message envoyé par Nganguem Victor de notre système. S'il s'agit d'une erreur, ignore simplement cet email. La requête sera alors effacée du système. Amuse-toi bien ! L'équipe Badoo Courrier automatique de Badoo suite à l'envoi d'un message à ton attention sur Badoo. Les réponses ne sont ni stockées, ni traitées. Si tu ne veux plus recevoir de message de Badoo, fais-le nous savoir: http://eu1.badoo.com/impersonation.phtml?lang_id=6&mail_code=65&email=media…

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cleaning out a mass of unwanted users
by Boris Epstein 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hello everyone, I was careless enough to run a MediaWiki installation allowing people to sign up without a moderator's approval. Hence a few hundred of them did sign up and started to use the site to swap images. How can I delete their accounts in the most expeditious way? Thanks. Boris.

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howto include different page.css into one MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css page for organizing css cascade sheets?
by HiddenId 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Hi, We've created one page called MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css . This page is supposed to "call" css subpages. Then we've created 5 css subpages, called : * MediaWiki:Reset.css * MediaWiki:Layout.css * MediaWiki:Colors.css * MediaWiki:Typo.css * MediaWiki:Special.css Now, we'd like the 5 css subpages been "called" into the central one. What should we write into the MediaWiki:CentralCSS.css in order to get the css rules writen in subpages, working across the central css page ? something like : [[MediaWiki:Reset.css]] ? putting name of pages into brackets [[ xxx ]] ? Thanks a lot for your help AC

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je suis perdu: comment configurer mediawiki sous deux langues: [fr] et [en] ???
by HiddenId 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Bonjour, Je suis en train d'installer un site utilisant mediawiki. Je voudrais qu'il fonctionne pour des utilisateurs français et anglais, principalement. Je voudrais que pour chaque article paru, il soit possible de traduire l'article dans l'autre langue, et d'indiquer sur la page de l'article, un lien vers sa traduction. J'ai bien compris que le fait de créer une page en ajoutant un "slash" et le code de la langue, permet de réaliser la traduction de l'article. Exemple: Si la langue par défaut est l'anglais, alors Page1/fr permet de créer la traduction en français de Page1 écrite en anglais. J'ai bien compris qu'en plaçant manuellement un lien vers la page traduite, cela permet de cliquer sur ce lien et d'arriver sur la traduction de la page. Mais comment faire pour l'automatiser ? Est-il possible de récupérer les façons de faire du site meta-wiki ou du site mediawiki dans ce domaine du multilinguisme ? Et comment faire ? Les articles que j'ai lu là dessus, ne m'ont pas éclairé. Je ne comprends rien. L'installation de "translate" a échoué. Et je n'arrive pas à savoir quoi faire. Je ne comprends pas du tout les logiques "wiki farm" qui semblent pouvoir aider dans le domaine du multilinguisme. Bref, je suis perdu !

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CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?
by Daniel Barrett 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Spam bots are creating accounts on my music wiki (http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/Special:RecentChanges). What is the best extension to prevent this? I installed ConfirmEdit and tried the default CAPTCHA (SimpleCAPTCHA) but it didn't stop the bots. Before I experiment with the many other options, I thought I'd ask what people recommend. Fortunately the bots can't edit articles, just create useless accounts. Thanks, DanB

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Inserting custom text above articles' body contentInserting custom text above articles' body content
by Naoki Orii 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Apologies if you have received multiple copies. ----- Hello, I would appreciate any help regarding inserting custom text into articles. The problem setting is as follows: I am currently trying to create a wiki where each article is about a specific entity (say, for example, a book). Above each article's body content, I want to insert custom text (such as the author of the book, the retail price of the book, the publisher of the book, etc) in the form of HTML. I do not want the users to be able to edit these custom text, and thus I want to "inject" these text as the content of the page gets loaded. What would be the cleanest approach to solve this problem? I have looked at the list of hooks available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks, but was unable to find any hook that satisfied my need. I have also tried modifying the core code (the outputPage() method of the Skin class, for example), but things got ugly pretty quickly, and it was hard to maintain the code. I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance, Naoki Orii

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After Upgrade to 1.18 - every page blocked
by Peter Velan 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Hello, I tried to update our (intra-)mediawiki to 1.18. I can browse and read the new wiki, but can't edit a page. After click to edit tab, I get the following message: | You do not have permission to edit this page, for the | following reason: | | Your username or IP address has been blocked. | | The block was made by 1.2.3.4. The reason given is "ist nicht | mehr bei OURCOPMANY". | | Start of block: 19:02, 13 November 2007 | Expiry of block: infinite | Intended blockee: My.username | | You can contact 1.2.3.4 or another administrator to discuss | the block. You cannot use the 'e-mail this user' feature | unless a valid e-mail address is specified in your account | preferences and you have not been blocked from using it. Your | current IP address is 1.2.3.4, and the block ID is #2. Please | include all above details in any queries you make. | | You can view and copy the source of this page: ... IP address "1.2.3.4" is always the same (that is the static address where I'm always coming from), "My.username" is my Wiki username (with administrative rights). Where could I start to debug this problem? Thanks in advance for any helpful hint, Peter PS: I copied our stable wiki (1.17) to a new location, then proceeded as per http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading ("update.php" was successfully run via bash shell)

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Restrict Search at whitelist
by Webmaster Casa das Ciências - Guilherme Monteiro 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Hi, It´s possible that the search only returns to pages in the whitelist Thanks, -- *Seja fã da Casa das Ciências no Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/casa.das.ciencias.org> .* Guilherme Monteiro Webmaster Casa das Ciências WikiCiências Banco de Imagens da Casa das Ciências Rua Campo Alegre 687 / 4169 - 007 PORTO GAB./SALA 351 TEL.EXTERNO 220402543 webmaster(a)casadasciencias.org http://www.casadasciencias.org http://www.wikiciencias.org http://imagem.casadasciencias.org

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Add Content to Mediawiki from Script
by Rowe, Dolores A 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

I would like to add content to my mediawiki from a script. For example, after a successful build, I would like to add info to mediawiki page such as "2/25/12 Build completed successfully" via the script. Any easy ways to do this via some extension, or otherwise ? thanks, Lori

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?
by Sumana Harihareswara 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

On 02/27/2012 02:17 PM, mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:57:14 +0000 > From: Daniel Barrett <danb(a)VistaPrint.com> > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation > bots? > Message-ID: > <68CF225601ADF74BA1F8A2511535F85D0A9D20DB(a)WNDMAIL02.vistaprint.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Spam bots are creating accounts on my music wiki (http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/Special:RecentChanges). What is the best extension to prevent this? I installed ConfirmEdit and tried the default CAPTCHA (SimpleCAPTCHA) but it didn't stop the bots. Before I experiment with the many other options, I thought I'd ask what people recommend. > > Fortunately the bots can't edit articles, just create useless accounts. > > Thanks, > DanB I'll take this opportunity to point out that Dan's not the only one. People who run MediaWiki instances come into IRC (#mediawiki) every day asking for help fighting spam and vandalism. Some emails that have come my way (reprinted with permission): Jason Vertrees wrote: > HI Sumana, > > After opening up my wiki for free registration, I immediately got > three spam accounts. One turned into real spam being injected into and > then cleaned from the wiki. None of the methods aside from preventing > self-registration seem to work against spam. Unfortunately, this also > prevents growth. > > I read the links you provided--do you have anything else more proactive? > > Thanks, > > -- Jason Sergey Chernyshev wrote: "Do you by any chance know a reliable way to combat spam? I'm tired of the hordes of spammers attacking my MW projects.... Unfortunately, I'm well aware of current anti-spam features and none of them simplify the spam combat to the level similar to WordPress, for example." (http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/) Anne Gray wrote of sfeditorwatch.com and sfartistwatch.com, which have Google Analytics, ReCaptcha and Bad Behavior installed: > > Thank you for offering to help try to figure out what's gone wrong > with sfeditorwatch.com and sfartistwatch.com. Cheryl's email reminds > me that activity on the sf editors wiki was really picking up for a > while, the year before it started getting attention from spambots. > Once I started having to protect pages to keep from losing content and > the wiki started being full of spam, participation declined sharply. > It rapidly hit the point where I as an administrator couldn't possibly > hope to keep up. Then reCaptcha broke and people *couldn't* edit > their own pages. At this point, I'm pretty sure bots are almost the > only thing active there.... [snip] > Sfartistwatch never really took off partly, I think, because it's > really non-obvious how to post images (I still have never learned). > And I'm worried that if we turn it on, it will get hit by the kind of > spammers that are posting hundreds of spam images to the Carl Brandon > society wiki... > > I don't know enough to set up bots to patrol, to set up notifications > so that I as the administrator can "watch" all the pages, or to use > scripts or whatever to nuke the massive amounts of spam pages that are > created regularly. Bots are clearly getting past recaptcha to > register users (they're doing that on the carl brandon wiki, too), and > the "Random page" button is totally useless for a visitor who is > actually interested in the topic of the wiki (is there a way to > reprogram that, so it only selects a random page that has a category, > at least? (it would be sooo nice, when you Block a user for spam or > vandalism, for the following page to list pages that user created, > with checkboxes beside them, and provide the option to select all of > them at once and delete them. Even better if it gave the option of > automatically protecting against future re-creation of those spam > pages.)... Most of these administrators are smart people who just need a little help fighting the bots. It sounds like the recommendations from this group so far are: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha , a plugin for the ConfirmEdit extension * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleAntiSpam so I've added those to these help pages: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_vandalism and welcome additional improvements to those docs, especially if recommendations that are in there right now are no longer worthy of recommendation. Also, anyone want to take a crack at cleaning out what's no longer applicable in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Spam_Filter so I can suggest it as a project for contributors? -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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MediaWiki-l February 2012