Har, dug him up from the $(whois
mapki.com) email address. Actually
reached him!
ID> Good point. Have you filed this in bugzilla?
Good point.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33905
>>>> "ID" == Ian Dees
<ian.dees(a)gmail.com> writes:
ID> Hi all,
ID> Thanks for pointing this out. I've been very frustrated with
ID> Mediawiki's spam protection. Granted
mapki.com doesn't really have
ID> any community behind it to help police changes, but Mediawiki sure
ID> doesn't make it easy for a site owner to protect the wiki.
http://mapki.com/wiki/Special:Version looks a little dated though.
ID> To your original question, jidanni, I lost the sitesupport-url a
ID> while back when I was trying to purge spam pages and hadn't bothered
ID> to put it back because it should be fairly easy to see which user
ID> owns the wiki from the changelog (I (User:Yellowbkpk) am the only
ID> one that's making edits).
Er,
http://mapki.com/wiki/Sitesupport-url leads to
http://mapki.com/wiki/User_talk:Yellowbkpk leads to nobody home in 2011.
ID> I've since added a "user review" plugin to prevent spam bots from
ID> creating accounts at a rate of 10's per day. This has cut down on
ID> the spam policing I've had to do.
I think you need to reinstall Mediawiki from scratch in a cleanroom...
ID> -Ian
Anyway, my
jidanni.org wikis all have 1. my +886-4-25854780 phone number
a mere click or two away, 2. clamped down to "send me an email for an
account", etc. No pretty URLs, but no spam either.
http://abj.jidanni.org/
http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/
http://transgender-taiwan.org/