[MediaWiki-l] organizing Wikimedia mirrors

Hi everyone, WMF constantly releases dumps http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumpsof Wikipedia and other WMF projects. As these are huge files and download is difficult, there is a constant need of mirrors. The current mirrors are listed at

[MediaWiki-l] Disabling action=edit for non-SysOps. Force using forms instead.

Hi, I know this has been asked many times, but I would like to ask if there is any way at all, including hacks, writing a custom extension, etc.. Why?  Because the data in my special purpose semantic wiki is the basis of another app which could suffer a lot if certain people try to game

Re: [MediaWiki-l] organizing Wikimedia mirrors

Hi there, I did try to add some information about where the location of the mirrors are based on the location stated when the announcement for the new mirror was made. Hopefully it can be a starting point to having an idea of a mirror with a better bandwidth for end users. However, all the

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[MediaWiki-l] SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data

when I type 'cat /var/spool/mail/$myUserName', I found something seems useful: SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.25.26]: 550-5.7.1 [MY IP ADDR] Our system has detected an unusual rate of 550-5.7.1 unsolicited mail originating from your

Re: [MediaWiki-l] organizing Wikimedia mirrors

On Feb 25, 2013 4:23 AM, Maria Miteva mariya.mit...@gmail.com wrote: is looking for somebody who can help organize the mirrors so that people trying to donwload the dumps are offered the closest geographically up-to-date mirror as it is usually done at other donwload sites. Does anyone have

[MediaWiki-l] AbuseFilter vs removeUnusedAccounts.php

Hi Does anyone know the impact of maintenance script removeUnusedAccounts on the Abuse filter account? Since Abuse filter is a special account which never is credited with edits this maintenance script will delete it? Just a guess. Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks Tom

Re: [MediaWiki-l] SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data

SPF can help, and is easy to setup. If you are already blocked by an individual provider (google in this case), then you usually have to contact them directly and let them know what you've done to make sure your domain isn't going to spam again. Also check and make sure your domain isn't on any

Re: [MediaWiki-l] SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data

I really doubt SPF is going to help you since the message you're getting seems to indicate that they are responding to spam complaints. This indicates people have been marking emails from your server as spam. That would override any SPF record. Google is notorious for not setting up any sort of

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Disabling action=edit for non-SysOps. Force using forms instead.

Hey, this hack seems to work:     private function performRequest() {     global $wgServer, $wgUsePathInfo, $wgTitle;     wfProfileIn( __METHOD__ );     $request = $this-context-getRequest();     $title = $this-context-getTitle();