If you have any ideas or want to battle the spam yourself I can give you any admin privileges needed- I don’t know enough to tackle all of the problems and don’t have the time to learn right now…
Sure, I’ll give it a stab.
OK, no one has added actual content to the wiki since Nov 2009.
I would like to change the wiki to only permit editing by registered users that have been confirmed by an admin. I would be willing to confirm them, since I check email daily. I do the same thing for the Polycount wiki, it works fine.
Here’s an extension for doing this.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount
I don’t know what rights I’ll need in order to install and config this… maybe Bureaucrat is enough? Or maybe Sysop too? Once it is installed I would definitely need to be a Bureaucrat to actually confirm the new accounts.
I would also like to be able to block the IPs of spammers who have registered already.
The spammers they be a spammin’ ! At least we have a movie review now.
If you make me a Sysop, I’ll see what I can do to kill the spam.
Added you to the Sysops group.
Thanks Björn. I cleaned out everything I could find. Sysop only gives me post-op powers, not preventative, but I’ll try to stay on top of it.
http://tech-artists.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges
Unfortunately I can’t stay on top of this, with just Sysop access.
To install the ConfirmAccount extension, I would need FTP access to read/write in the mediawiki installation on your server. Or someone else who has access would need to do this.
I’m going to be doing a massive wiki cleaning, and lock it down once that’s done.
Cool. It’s a shame we have to do so, but that’s prudent I think.
After hours I finally got ftp working again… this sysadmin stuff is hard… the ftp program wasn’t running and thus I couldn’t connect. Now to perform software upgrades and stop spammers!
Alright, I’m forgoing the software upgrade for now. I’ve locked down the wiki for account creation and non-sysop editing until this is cleaned up. I’m just going through [w]Special:Allpages[/w] and deleting crap. I looked for some extensions for mass deleting, but couldn’t find any that were compatible and did what I want (Nuke worked, but only for recent changes). When this is done, we’ll figure out what to do for real (I’m considering migrating the wiki content over to PolyCount and not having a TAO-hosted wiki).
Wham! Batch delete rocks! Just deleted all the crud pages. I’m sure there are still bogus edits, though.
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Wow, haha. Nice work Rob.
Re: polycount wiki… I’m cool with this, we could add a tech art category there. I wonder how much traffic it gets here? However I think it’s a good resource to have separated, and native here.
How do you register ? I can’t find a link.
I’ve disabled registration for now- once we figure out a plan (give me a while longer), there will be more info (either opening the wiki back up with better safeguards in place, or migrating to another wiki).
Ok let us know. I don’t know a whole bunch about C++ but I can get my way around Mel