Hey all,
I had a user register on my wiki (eewiki.com) and spam it with links. I went to block this user but it wants their IP - I have no idea how to find that information out from the wiki.
Can someone please instruct me on how to deal with this? Thanks =)
At 06:29 PM 1/6/2005 -0500, Lisa Jill wrote:
Hey all,
I had a user register on my wiki (eewiki.com) and spam it with links. I went to block this user but it wants their IP - I have no idea how to find that information out from the wiki.
You can maybe figure it out from your HTTP access logs. Find the exact time of one or more malicious edits in the page history (from inside MediaWiki). Then scan through your access logs for MediaWiki's index.php being requested at those times. If you have a very busy site and it is rare that only one person will be on at once, then this approach will risk banning an IP address of the wrong person.
And there may be something much easier than this even. Wait for another reply from a "real" expert. ;)
-Erik
On Jan 6, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Lisa Jill wrote:
I had a user register on my wiki (eewiki.com) and spam it with links. I went to block this user but it wants their IP - I have no idea how to find that information out from the wiki.
Can someone please instruct me on how to deal with this? Thanks =)
If you enable $wgSysopUserBans in LocalSettings.php, you (and any other sysops) will be able to block named user accounts through the regular web interface.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
At 04:15 PM 1/6/2005 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Jan 6, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Lisa Jill wrote:
I had a user register on my wiki (eewiki.com) and spam it with links. I went to block this user but it wants their IP - I have no idea how to find that information out from the wiki.
Can someone please instruct me on how to deal with this? Thanks =)
If you enable $wgSysopUserBans in LocalSettings.php, you (and any other sysops) will be able to block named user accounts through the regular web interface.
But since these are the BAD people, they will log in again under a different name. So you really want their IP address, right?
-Erik
Can you tell me the format for this in LocalSettings? I don't have it in mine and can't find it via google - only pages that get it via MediaWiki:SiteSettings - which also doesn't work for me. * winks*
So what do I put, exactly, in LocalSettings?
Thank you!
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:23:46 -0800, Erik Hermansen erikh@caravelgames.net wrote:
At 04:15 PM 1/6/2005 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Jan 6, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Lisa Jill wrote:
I had a user register on my wiki (eewiki.com) and spam it with links. I went to block this user but it wants their IP - I have no idea how to find that information out from the wiki.
Can someone please instruct me on how to deal with this? Thanks =)
If you enable $wgSysopUserBans in LocalSettings.php, you (and any other sysops) will be able to block named user accounts through the regular web interface.
But since these are the BAD people, they will log in again under a different name. So you really want their IP address, right?
-Erik
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Lisa Jill wrote:
Can you tell me the format for this in LocalSettings? I don't have it in mine and can't find it via google - only pages that get it via MediaWiki:SiteSettings - which also doesn't work for me. * winks*
So what do I put, exactly, in LocalSettings?
Brion Vibber having written:
If you enable $wgSysopUserBans in LocalSettings.php, you (and any other sysops) will be able to block named user accounts through the regular web interface.
Just add the line "$wgSysopUserBans=true;" (without the quotes) to your LocalSettings.php. In general, you can work this kind of thing out by looking at "includes/DefaultSettings.php" and copying from there to "LocalSettings.php" - most options just need to be set to "true" or "false", but others include comments there telling you what to change them to.
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