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

2013-05-22 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Wed, 22 May 2013 14:44:10 -0700, Richard wrote: I thought the standard practice was to require admin approval of new accounts and require new accounts to fill out a profile for their user page. No it's not. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] _

[MediaWiki-l] Fwd: [QA] First post (almost)

2013-05-22 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, we have now a mailing list dedicated to software quality assurance: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/ Testing is a good activity for new contributors, improving the quality of the software used by MediaWiki sysadmins and users. No prior

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

2013-05-22 Thread Chris Steipp
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:07 AM, halz wrote: > If you've ever set up a fresh MediaWiki and tried to leave it open to > editing, you'll know about the problem of wiki spam. There's various well > documented tricks to tackle the problem on your own wiki (although it seems > to me that some of th

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

2013-05-22 Thread John
The spammers know they are being disruptive, they just dont care unless it is their site. On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:07 PM, halz wrote: > If you've ever set up a fresh MediaWiki and tried to leave it open to > editing, you'll know about the problem of wiki spam. There's various well > documented

[MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.

2013-05-22 Thread halz
If you've ever set up a fresh MediaWiki and tried to leave it open to editing, you'll know about the problem of wiki spam. There's various well documented tricks to tackle the problem on your own wiki (although it seems to me that some of these are becoming less effective over time. Particularly

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Restoring revision table (mwdumper issue)

2013-05-22 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
Στις 22-05-2013, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 13:55 +0200, ο/η Michael Tsikerdekis έγραψε: > Posted the bug here: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1614 > > Now we just have to wait and see. In the meantime I'll try to use the > official mediawiki importer and see if that works. If you mea

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Restoring revision table (mwdumper issue)

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Tsikerdekis
Posted the bug here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1614 Now we just have to wait and see. In the meantime I'll try to use the official mediawiki importer and see if that works. Michael On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Ariel T. Glenn wrote: > I think this will do it: > > http:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki

2013-05-22 Thread Dmitrii Kouznetsov
On Wed, 22 May 2013, Alexis Moinet wrote: On 22/05/13 04:34, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote: It looks as if you're using negative absolute positionning (e.g. "left: -38px;") on the menu ... Yes, namely -38px. How do you count these pixels? using Firebug extension of Firefox I change it to -28px;

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Had an error upgrading from MW 1.2.05

2013-05-22 Thread Benjamin Lees
Check the error log: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_debug On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Arcane 21 wrote: > When MW 1.20.6 came out, I decided to upgrade to it from 1.20.5, and I > decided to run the web updater afterwards. > > All I got was a blank screen no matter what I tried