Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.

2013-05-27 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 24/05/13 22:41, Al Johnson wrote: Maybe mediawiki sites can unite to keep a global list of these IP's and block them as soon as they are submitted. Each mediawiki site can auto-submit a spammer IP as soon as it's discovered to the global list. What are the problems with this idea?

[MediaWiki-l] Fwd: Query about 1.21.0 version

2013-05-27 Thread Punit Varia
Hi, Is MediaWiki 1.21.0 is stable version ? After installing it shows 1.21.0rc5. -- * * *Punit Varia * *Script Packaging Head* pu...@softaculous.com

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.

2013-05-27 Thread billinghurst
On Mon, 27 May 2013 08:44:31 +0200, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote: On 24/05/13 22:41, Al Johnson wrote: Maybe mediawiki sites can unite to keep a global list of these IP's and block them as soon as they are submitted. Each mediawiki site can auto-submit a spammer IP as soon as it's

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.

2013-05-27 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 27/05/13 09:22, billinghurst wrote: I will note that we are finding at WMF wikis, that we often can be a leader (first spammed) so it may be a day before the data appears there. It This is an antispam solution I have considered - if an IP is blocked from editing Wikipedia, it is not

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.

2013-05-27 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 27/05/13 09:22, billinghurst wrote: I will note that we are finding at WMF wikis, that we often can be a leader (first spammed) so it may be a day before the data appears there. It would be useful if we could feed data back. It is possible to report new IPs at

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.

2013-05-27 Thread Al Johnson
Interesting, you can download the entire db (~5MB) and download incremental updates 24 times/day.  This is small enough to store in memory for fast client-size lookups.  They also accept RESTful submissions.  I wonder what other options there are like this. - Original Message - From:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Fwd: Query about 1.21.0 version

2013-05-27 Thread Arcane 21
It received an official release on MediaWiki.org, so it should be. The version number is probably an artifact from the final release candidate that wasn't altered before release. Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 12:24:59 +0530 From: pu...@softaculous.com To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.

2013-05-27 Thread Stephen Villano
Bayesian is nice. IP is lousy, for reasons repeatedly mentioned here. Blended solutions, as are well used in email filtering by major vendors is great. Filtered phrase, filtered IP spoof, captured. The funny thing is, all major vendors use community based patterns, involuntary or, rarely,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.

2013-05-27 Thread Al Johnson
- Original Message - From: Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 1:43 AM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback. On 27/05/13 09:22, billinghurst

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2013-05-27 Thread abdellah el menaoui
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[MediaWiki-l] Contract code snippet: additions to head section for dummies

2013-05-27 Thread Forest S
Hello, all. I've always been a big fan of Mediawiki and of free software in general, but one thing I struggle with in extending the wiki I work on is adding adding code to the the head of the HTML. ResourceLoader may be terrific from a performance perspective, but it is an absolute nightmare for

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Contract code snippet: additions to head section for dummies

2013-05-27 Thread Dave Humphrey
I had the same problem as you when I was trying to simply add JavaScript to the head of all pages. All the ResourceLoader related things I tried either didn't work or merely added it at the end of a document or as a deferred load which didn't work for my purpose. What I ended up doing was

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2013-05-27 Thread Robbie Wray
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