On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 21:59 -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
On 11/14/2013 02:41 PM, John Foster wrote:
Well that was a bust
Well, your comments are helpful. I'll put the extension in gerrit so those links work.
I noticed the whitelist.txt was an HTML page that seemed to be a form of some kind.
As the filename implies, this is just a plain text file with usernames that you want whitelisted one per line. I do need to create a Special page as well as a couple of way to make it easy to update the whitelist.
Now about scripy--ban.php-- any tips.
This script provides a command-line equivilant to the functionality you'll find on [[Special:Blockandnuke]]. I just committed some fixes to github for this special page. You can get a fresh download from here: https://github.com/hexmode/mediawiki-block-and-nuke/archive/master.zip
Mark
Thanks!!!! OK I have it installed and went thru the process of using it with these results. It did seem to locate and identify all the users except those that I placed in the whitelist.txt file..good so far. Then the second part the actual banning seems to be still running after about 7 hours. I ran top and seems apache2 owner www-data has recurring processes so I guess its still running. I'm just gonna leave it as there were actually thousands of these crap members with a User: page for each of them and actual pages/crap articles for some. John