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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)

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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 ==
-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)
-: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)
-== Search tool ==
-I hope this isn't just me, but every time I try to use the search utility over there on the left side, I get an error message: "You have requested a special page that is not recognized by the wiki." Was the search tool disabled because of vandalism? -[[User:Fyzixfighter|Fyzixfighter]] 20:19, 20 Sep 2005 (CEST)
-:About a month ago, I changed some stuff in the site config so that 'http://uqm.stack.nl/wiki/Main_Page' works as 'http://uqm.stack.nl/index.php?title=Main_Page'. Apparently that broke the search. It's fixed now.
-:Myself, I have an entry for the Ultronomicon in Opera's search.ini, so I do 'ultron bla' to search for bla, bypassing the search box altogether.
-: &mdash; SvdB 01:29, 21 Sep 2005 (CEST)
-== The Captain? ==
-Hey Svdb, what's the Ultronomicon style for referring to the Captain? I've seen [[The Captain]] and [[Captain Zelnick]] used interchangeably in the text, though the latter is, of course, a redirect to The Captain. If it's the style to use "The Captain" throughout this wiki, I'd like to perhaps create a style guide, (at <s>[[Ultronomicon:Style guide]]</s> [[Ultronomicon:Manual of Style]]) and mention such style decisions there. As a side note, I've been inactive for a while, but I hope to contribute more to this great project of yours. :-) --[[User:Phoenix|Phoenix]] [[User_talk:Phoenix|(t)]] 23:43, 30 Sep 2005 (CEST)
-Most contributors seem to agree that 'The Captain' is the way to go, as the player can change the name, and in the PC version, you would be asked. One contributor disagrees, but I think he has conceded. Old pages probably still contain references to Zelnick. The story with 'The Flagship' vs 'The Vindicator' is analogous. There's also 'SIS' the name used in the code, but it has no place here.
-There's a similar difference of opinion on how to describe game events. Some people like these things as things that can or will happen if/unless the player takes certain actions ("If The Captain allies with the Spathi, they will erect a slave shield at their home world"), while others prefer describing things as if they already happened, assuming the most complete, happy ending ("after The Captain allied with the Spathi they erected a slave shield at their home world"). I think the former is better myself, as it is more exact.
-I agree that a style guide is a good idea, but what we could perhaps use more, to come to such a guide, is a discussion area where we could discuss things like this, like the "Village Pump" at Wikipedia. I had been planning to introduce something like that, but I've been planning a lot of things. Feel free to create it yourself if you like. &mdash; SvdB 00:52, 4 Oct 2005 (CEST)
-:Yeah, I also posted this question in [[Ultronomicon talk:Community Portal]], though I don't know if that area is very active anymore. I'll probably create the page and put up that it's a work in progress, similar to the "Proposed process" dialogue box in Wikipedia. As for how to describe game events, I think I've been doing the latter, but I agree, the former is probably better. It also makes me wonder how to edit, for example, the '''Member of''' field in <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:RaceBox|RaceBox]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki>. For instance, with the [[Spathi]], there would be a couple of options:
-:#[[Ur-Quan Hierarchy|Hierarchy of Battle Thralls]]
-:#[[Ur-Quan Hierarchy|Hierarchy of Battle Thralls]],<br>[[New Alliance of Free Stars]]
-:#[[Ur-Quan Hierarchy|Hierarchy of Battle Thralls]],<br>[[New Alliance of Free Stars]] (can join)
-:Given your opinion about game events, we should probably go with the third option. --[[User:Phoenix|Phoenix]] [[User_talk:Phoenix|(t)]] 14:46, 4 Oct 2005 (CEST)
-:Here's another idea. In certain places where the actions and fate of the characters are largely dependent on player actions (such as [[Tanaka]]), how about placing a tag similar to the <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:spoiler|spoiler]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki>, but read something like "the following events are largely dependant on player actions, and may not occur" (or something similar). This kind of a tag would probably require a beginning and end tag. --[[User:Phoenix|Phoenix]] [[User_talk:Phoenix|(t)]] 15:05, 4 Oct 2005 (CEST)
-::I agree that something like "(can join)" would be best, but I don't like the exact phrase. It's a bit unclear imho. I'd personally prefer "(optional)", or "(at the player's choice)".
-::As for the tags, I think that if the relevant text is phrased appropriately, such tags would be unnecessary.
-:: SvdB 20:46, 8 Oct 2005 (CEST)
-:::I'll put "(optional)", for now. --[[User:Phoenix|Phoenix]] [[User_talk:Phoenix|(t)]] 19:47, 10 Oct 2005 (CEST)
-== wiki weirdness ==
-This is weird; when I use <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>, my name doesn't link to my user page anymore. Anyone have any idea? &mdash; SvdB 21:13, 8 Oct 2005 (CEST)
-:Under Preferences < User data, do you have '''Raw signatures (without automatic link)''' checked, and what is the setting in '''Your nickname (for signatures)'''? --[[User:Phoenix|Phoenix]] [[User_talk:Phoenix|(t)]] 00:23, 9 Oct 2005 (CEST)
-::Ah, thanks. It was indeed the "Raw signatures" setting. I don't recall ever changing that, but apparently, I must have. &mdash; [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] 04:15, 9 Oct 2005 (CEST)
-== PlanetBox ==
-How do I make templates like PlanetBox to list the amount of resources?  I have been exploring the map and have a table of data for the various planets that is better than the spreadsheet that Now and Forever offers in their file page.  We already have a list of constellations, so adding a box for the recources on the different planets would be a help, I think.
---[[User:Cosumel|Cosumel]] 20:23, 30 Oct 2005 (CET)
-:This goes beyond the scope of the Ultronomicon (there's been a discussion about this, but I can't find it right now). Also, it's easy to generate a list of minerals from the source, which would be more reliable than anyone could manually compose. &mdash; [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] 17:46, 3 Nov 2005 (CET)
-== Excuse me ==
-I only created Talk:Source Code because the forumers are no longer being helpful, and I really wish to get the help I need. If you're going to delete that, at least be courteous enough to direct me to where I need to go instead of being a jerk. And don't say "the forum", as I said, I tried that.

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