Some spam bots specifically target wikis (edit/create page and then enter
data). I don't have problems with spammers actually getting through and
submitting spam. The anti-spam is strong enough to stop that from
happening. The problem is that they still use CPU and ram.
I know about Fail2ban but I haven't tried it yet. Here's one idea: If a
certain IP address fails the captchas a specified number of times in 5
minutes or so, it should be banned temporarily for say, 24 hours (through
htaccess or firewall etc). This would keep that IP address from using up
CPU for some time and reduce overall CPU.
Anyone who has already implemented something like this?
Hi,
What extensions are available to police my Media Wiki's ?
I have several personal computer language ones which I will want to make
public at some point.
And more to the point I am wanting to put up a quite high profile one that
may/probably get attacked for having political information on it.
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
Hi,
I am sandeep and pursuing my MS by Research at IIIT-Hyderabad.
I am thinking of applying for GSoC this year. I have gone through the
ideas page of mediawiki and find the following ideas quite apt for me to
work on.
1. Visual Editor Plugins.
2. Proofread extension needs to be refactored.
3. Prototyping inline comments.
I am quick learner and a good programmer. I have good knowledge in *C,
C++, Python,Java* etc.. Apart from these, because of my interest in web
development i learned *PHP, HTML, MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery* etc.. and
implemented several websites for small startups. With the development of
websites, i think i gained some experience in UI design as well.
Please let me know of further details if i want to work on any of
these ideas as part of GSoC.
Thank you,
Sandeep,
MS by Research,
IIIT-Hyderabad.
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki language extension
bundle 2013.03
This release is compatible with MediaWiki 1.20.3.
* https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.03.tar…
* sha256sum: be4c6b5f80e27396555dc09cef0cec92c78cca9eeef796a230da281734738810
Quick links:
* Installation instructions are at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
* Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
* Report bugs to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org
* Talk with us at #mediawiki-i18n @ freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
Amir E. Aharoni
== Babel ==
Only localization updates.
== cldr ==
=== Highlights ===
* Adding support for time units
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* (bug 38209) Remove duplicate array keys
== CleanChanges ==
Only localization updates.
== LocalisationUpdate ==
Internal code cleanup and optimization, making updates faster.
== Translate ==
=== Highlights ===
==== Translation UX ====
The new Translation UX is getting out of the beta status and becoming
release-ready.
The variable $wgTranslateUseTux can be used to control which interface
will the users see by default. The default value is true. Set it to false
to make the old green-style translations editor show by default. The user
can choose the editor version by adding tux=0 or tux=1 to the URL.
The plan is to remove the old editor in the future.
==== Other notes ====
Several internal fixes were made in File Format Support (FFS) and in core
Translate features, but no new features were introduced. See below for details.
=== Noteworthy changes ===
==== Translate UX ====
* Proofreading view added to Translate UX.
* Page view added to Translate UX. It is similar to the default "List" view,
but it gives every message more space and partially parses the messages rather
than show them as plain text.
* Added a "Discard changes" button.
* Various visual design adjustments.
* (bug 45493) Do not consider empty string to mark a translation as "unsaved"
* (bug 45481) Move focus to search for the project selector
* (bug 45488) Remove delay in enablement of "save translation" button
* Allow inserting a translation from the helper language with a click
* Workflow state selector is now only shown for groups with states
and the correct state is shown
==== File Format Support ====
* (bug 45354) XML for Android export should have escaped ' and "
* (bug 42635) Some GettextFFS messages were not unfuzzied on import:
Handling of external changes only affecting the fuzzy flag are now
handled properly on import
* Add fuzzy support to AndroidXmlFFS
* Don't create empty files in AndroidXmlFFS
* Empty msgctxt is now exported correctly in GettextFFS
* (bug 42612) Have PythonSingleFFS observe the supplied mapping
of internal language codes to product language codes
==== Other ====
* The "Recent Additions" filter displays only relevant messages -
without optional,
ignored and discouraged.
* Converted the logging code to the new LogFormatter
* (bug 44328) Do not display fuzzy translations on translation pages
* Fix and speed up translatable pages moving
* (bug 45345) Run mapped code through wfBCP47()
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Highlights ===
UniversalLanguageSelector is updated to the latest version. The latest
release of MediaWiki 1.20 supports the recent updates for the preferences
handling, and this allows users properly save their ULS preferences.
=== Noteworthy changes ===
==== Display and design ====
* (bug 42384) Don't show the tooltip if the ULS panel is on
(preventing the overlap)
* (bug 42440) Fix button state when canceling
* Styling of settings to fit the bottom of the ULS
* (bug 43568) Languages are shown multiple times
* (Bug 42439) Incorrect vertical alignment for Telugu web font
==== Webfonts ====
* Support for the Amiri webfont in the standard Arabic language (ar).
* Added the Alef font for Hebrew.
* Add Tuladha Jejeg font for Javanese
==== Other ====
* (Bug 42378) Make "disable IME tools" effects immediate as a preview
* Update jquery.uls and make it more modular
* Provide a base ULS RL module and separate UI language selection
* The non-standard language code als now redirects to the standard code gsw.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni ። אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
Localization developer ። מְפַתֵּחַ תְּמִיכָה רַב־לְשׁוֹנִית
Wikimedia Foundation ። קֶרֶן וִיקִימֶדְיָה
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Hello,
in our Intrawiki I would like to move/rename a page
which resides in a custom namespace:
XYZ:Pageold --> XYZ:Pagenew
"You do not have permission to move this page,
for the following reason: You are not allowed
to execute the action you have requested."
I am member of the following groups:
Bureaucrats, Administrators, wikieditor
In the namespace "XYZ" I have read/write rights.
What I'm doing wrong?
How and where I could extend my rights?
Cheers,
Peter