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is there a way to delete empty pages?
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== Spambots back ==
  
the AllPages is screwed up. i think it's b/c "They" was not previously the first page. how does one fix it?
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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)
: It may have something to do with the quotes. It looks like a bug in MediaWiki, the wiki software. I'll have to take a closer look one of these days.
 
  
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: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.
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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.
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:It may actually be the case that since the upgrade before this one, creating new accounts was broken completely.
 
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:I'll see what I can do. — [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] ([[User talk:Svdb|talk]]) 13:23, 27 February 2016 (CET)
 
 
how is it the special pages are uneditable?
 
: Special pages are generated by the server
 
 
 
 
 
Are there plans to make the Ultronomicon into a media-rich wiki (or at least one with a few pictures)?
 
: Yes. And we have permission from TFB to use game images and sound in the wiki.
 

Latest revision as of 15:59, 28 February 2016

Old stuff moved to User talk:Svdb/Old.

Spambots back[edit]

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)