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is there an Editors' Page to discuss changes publicly? if not, can we make one? -[[User:SamYeager|SamYeager]] 10:05, 28 Sep 2004 (CEST)
Old stuff moved to [[User talk:Svdb/Old]].
:Go right ahead. I suggest you name it as it is named in the Wikipedia. It might be a good idea to link it from the main page too. Or perhaps from "Community portal". -- [[User:Svdb|SvdB]]


== Spambots back ==


should we make links to go upwards through menus of items (ie. make a link to "List of Races" from the "Humans" page)? it would make editing many pages easier since we no longer have to backtrack through several pages of blanked-out previews to get to the category we were at. -[[User:SamYeager|SamYeager]] 10:05, 28 Sep 2004 (CEST)
It looks like they started in earnest right after the massive creation of spam pages by a single user. Any chance that the small internal change to the ConfirmEdit extension that you did last year to thwart the automated spambot scripts somehow got undone when the "mass delete" option got added? --[[User:Fyzixfighter|Fyzixfighter]] ([[User talk:Fyzixfighter|talk]]) 03:58, 3 October 2014 (CEST)
:I think the "Categories" concept suffices for this. Put for instance <nowiki>[[Category:Races]]</nowiki> on the bottom of a page to place it in a category. See [[Special:Categories]] for all categories so far.
:Also, you can select "What links here" in the toolbox on the left.


:I'm afraid not. What I originally did was to replace the names of some form fields. I changed them again now. If that doesn't help, I'll have to figure out something else. — [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] ([[User talk:Svdb|talk]]) 23:53, 8 October 2014 (CEST)


for the WantedPages, do we view pages that have just 1 link to them? it'd be a good way to find misspelled or misdirected links.
Looks like spambots are back again making a bunch of new user accounts. No spam pages yet. It seems to coincide with the upgrading of the MediaWiki software? --[[User:Fyzixfighter|Fyzixfighter]] ([[User talk:Fyzixfighter|talk]]) 14:09, 24 February 2016 (CET)
:I didn't write the wiki software. It's not a high priority for me to find out where in the code this is handled, and change it.
:It may actually be the case that since the upgrade before this one, creating new accounts was broken completely.
::Minor fix. See [[1 Link Pages]] from [[Special:MainPage|Main Page]] -[[User:SamYeager|SamYeager]] 10:05, 28 Sep 2004 (CEST)
:I'll see what I can do. — [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] ([[User talk:Svdb|talk]]) 13:23, 27 February 2016 (CET)
:::I guess it will do as a temporary solution. --[[User:Svdb|SvdB]]
::::I have changed the source to show 1 link pages, and removed your page.


== Vandalism ==
== Spambots again ==
Hey Serge - I don't mind playing whack-a-spambot, but my real life commitments make it difficult to stay on top of the recent surge in spambots. I'm not sure if the CAPTCHA extensions need to be updated or if there's another extension that could be implemented. I'll keep looking through the MediaWiki help to see if there are any other possible things to try. --[[User:Fyzixfighter|Fyzixfighter]] ([[User talk:Fyzixfighter|talk]]) 03:14, 18 May 2025 (UTC)


Is there a more effective way to protect the wiki from spammers and vandals other than just ip-banning them and reverting their changes? -[[User:Fadookie|Fadookie]] 11:00, 23 Oct 2004 (CEST)
: Hi Fyzixfighter. Thanks for still whacking bots after all this time. If I can make this easier by installing some new extension, I'll be happy to do so. I'll look into options when I get the chance. — [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] ([[User talk:Svdb|talk]]) 21:43, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
:That's how it is still done on the Wikipedia. Another possibility is to require contributors to make an account, with email verification. You could protect against spam bots by asking them to copy a number from an image when they contribute (but MediaWiki can't do that yet).
:Something else we could do is lock specific pages (like the main page), but I don't want to do that until that page has reached a more permanent form. Against non-bots you could put up some idle threat on the home page like "the last person who vandalised a page on this site got his computer hacked and cleared." :) -- [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] 11:14, 23 Oct 2004 (CEST)
 
== Corridor Nine ==
 
I'd like to merge [[Corridor 9]] and [[Corridor Nine]]. I'd like the new article to reside at [[Corridor Nine]] (which I think is the better title), but I'd like to keep [[Corridor 9]]'s editing history (because is the better article of the two). So, what do I do? I can't [http://uqm.stack.nl/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Movepage&target=Corridor_9 move] [[Corridor 9]] because [[Corridor Nine]] isn't empty and I don't want to simply copy & paste the content from [[Corridor 9]] either, because then I'd be taking false credit in that article's editing history. Sorry, if this is inappropriate here, but you were the only Admin with a non-empty Talk page, so I thought I'd ask you. -- [[User:Anym|Anym]] 00:11, 5 Apr 2005 (CEST)
:Just make [[Corridor 9]] the new page, and when you're done, let me know, and I'll rename it. Just make sure to put in the summary what you have done. - [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] 00:31, 5 Apr 2005 (CEST)
::Been there, done that! There wasn't much information on [[Corridor Nine]] to begin with (and most of that was already on [[Corridor 9]] as well), so it was pretty painless. All I did was add a mention of Vela. I forget to write a summary all too often, but this time I tried to make it pretty verbose. -- [[User:Anym|Anym]] 01:48, 5 Apr 2005 (CEST)
:::Move completed
 
Just testing... I guess we need a sandbox... -- SvdB 20:47, 10 Aug 2005 (CEST)

Revision as of 21:43, 20 May 2025

Old stuff moved to User talk:Svdb/Old.

Spambots back

It looks like they started in earnest right after the massive creation of spam pages by a single user. Any chance that the small internal change to the ConfirmEdit extension that you did last year to thwart the automated spambot scripts somehow got undone when the "mass delete" option got added? --Fyzixfighter (talk) 03:58, 3 October 2014 (CEST)

I'm afraid not. What I originally did was to replace the names of some form fields. I changed them again now. If that doesn't help, I'll have to figure out something else. — SvdB (talk) 23:53, 8 October 2014 (CEST)

Looks like spambots are back again making a bunch of new user accounts. No spam pages yet. It seems to coincide with the upgrading of the MediaWiki software? --Fyzixfighter (talk) 14:09, 24 February 2016 (CET)

It may actually be the case that since the upgrade before this one, creating new accounts was broken completely.
I'll see what I can do. — SvdB (talk) 13:23, 27 February 2016 (CET)

Spambots again

Hey Serge - I don't mind playing whack-a-spambot, but my real life commitments make it difficult to stay on top of the recent surge in spambots. I'm not sure if the CAPTCHA extensions need to be updated or if there's another extension that could be implemented. I'll keep looking through the MediaWiki help to see if there are any other possible things to try. --Fyzixfighter (talk) 03:14, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi Fyzixfighter. Thanks for still whacking bots after all this time. If I can make this easier by installing some new extension, I'll be happy to do so. I'll look into options when I get the chance. — SvdB (talk) 21:43, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
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