Difference between revisions of "User talk:Svdb"

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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? -[[Sam]]
+Old stuff moved to [[User talk:Svdb/Old]].
+== 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. -[[Sam]]
+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'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)
-!: the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page Wiki help page] is not displaying properly. figured i should let peeps know. viewing the history allows you to see what it used to look like still though. - [[Sam]]
+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)
+: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. — [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] ([[User talk:Svdb|talk]]) 13:23, 27 February 2016 (CET)
-is there a way to delete empty pages?
-: Only for users with Sysop status.
-the AllPages is screwed up. i think it's b/c "They" was not previously the first page. how does one fix it?
-: 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.
-''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.''
-: ''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.''
-Minor fix. See [[1 Link Pages]] from [[Special:MainPage|Main Page]] -[[Sam]]
-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.
-Cool. Do you have a timeframe for when you want to start adding graphics? I'd be more than happy to assist, but file uploads are currently disabled.
--[[User:Fadookie|Fadookie]]

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