Hello, I created a project Kapuneipu that is a close cousin to mediawiki. In fact it enhances it providing a dynamic solution to problems when some authors clash, which unfortunately more frequently happens. The idea behind this project is to eliminate Dunning-Kruger Effect ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger-Effekt) by evolutionary principles. See the project's wiki page for more details (

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In the sidebar, under "In anderen Sprachen", you'll find "English" - works for me! ;-)

----- Original Message ----- From: <Sam.Sexton(a)thomsonreuters.com> works for me! ;-) I will? Which one of these is that under? * Hauptseite * Über Wikipedia * Themenportale * Von A bis Z * Zufälliger Artikel Mitmachen * Hilfe * Autorenportal * Letzte Änderungen * Kontakt * Spenden Werkzeuge * Links auf diese Seite * Spezialseiten _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

In the sidebar, under "In anderen Sprachen", you'll find "English" - works for me! ;-)

It's the section below Werkzeuge, which you didn't include below. /Sam -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Steve VanSlyck Sent: 08 February 2011 13:18 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Kapuneipu - help wanted ----- Original Message ----- From: <Sam.Sexton(a)thomsonreuters.com> I will? Which one of these is that under? * Hauptseite * Über Wikipedia * Themenportale * Von A bis Z * Zufälliger Artikel Mitmachen * Hilfe * Autorenportal * Letzte Änderungen * Kontakt * Spenden Werkzeuge * Links auf diese Seite * Spezialseiten This email was sent to you by Thomson Reuters, the global news and information company. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Thomson Reuters. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

It seems to me you are proposing a hierarchical vetting system. This is not a new idea, but many failed attempts show that it is really, really hard in practice to identify experts and it does not get easier by making the process work from majority rules. In fact, the very Dunning-Kruger Effect is against you; group members are more likely to promote those who share their opinions or social codes, not necessarily the most competent. I believe the problem-to-solve is the "algorithm", not the implementation. Good luck! B. On 2011-02-08, at 6:05 AM, K. Kamhamea wrote: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

From: Łukasz Garczewski <tor(a)wikia-inc.com> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] how do I restrict the length of usernames? To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 12:01 PM On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:57 PM, 2007(a)gmaskfx.com <2007(a)gmaskfx.com> wrote: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgMaxNameChars Please check the manual before posting to this list. At the very least you should take a good look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings -- Lucas 'TOR' Garczewski Wikia Tech Team _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

From: Łukasz Garczewski <tor(a)wikia-inc.com> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] how do I restrict the length of usernames? To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 12:43 PM On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:36 PM, 2007(a)gmaskfx.com <2007(a)gmaskfx.com> wrote: because I'm getting hammered with spam and I have tried everything in the manual and little of it is helping. Try installing the ConfirmEdit extension. That should help. :) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit -- Lucas 'TOR' Garczewski Wikia Tech Team _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

From: Frederick Grose &lt;fgrose(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] how do I restrict the length of usernames? To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 2:56 PM On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:54 PM, 2007(a)gmaskfx.com &lt;2007(a)gmaskfx.com&gt; wrote: them seem block the the person determined anyway. If I could I'd creation. that won't be too hard one question and "Question?", 'answer' => "answer3" ); wrote: length of usernames? < frustrated tried helping. should help. We suffered many attacks and fortunately had the OpenID login extension, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID installed and so decided to disable native wiki account creation with this in LocalSettings.php: # Prevent new user registrations except by sysops $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; Then updated  MediaWiki:Loginprompt to suggest that new users create accounts with an OpenID. This seems to repel the attacks. Many users will already have OpenID authentication via their email accounts or other popular web sites.         --Fred _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

I've tried every flavor of confirmedit and none of them seem block the worse offenders. I tried ReCaptcha but now the bots or the person determined to get around that get through and post their spam anyway. If I could I'd have several of these at once just for account creation. I'm trying the question based one now and hopefully that won't be too hard for the people I want to actually edit the wiki. Speaking of questy captcha.. is it possible to have one question and several answers? $wgCaptchaQuestions[1] = array( 'question' => "Question?", 'answer' => "answer1", 'answer' => "answer2", 'answer' => "answer3" );