Re: [MediaWiki-l] Newbie with Vandal Problem

2014-06-23 Thread Bill Traynor
Just to add to the list of solutions, we use ConfirmEdit, QuestyCaptcha setup with dynamic questions as described on thinglestads blog: http://thingelstad.com/stopping-mediawiki-spam-with-dynamic-questy-captchas/#more-154561559 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Frederick Grose wrote: > On Mon, Ju

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Newbie with Vandal Problem

2014-06-23 Thread Frederick Grose
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Bri wrote: > I had this problem also. I installed the extention "ConfirmEdit", and also > set up the email confirmed permission group (see configuration in the > article below). I still get spam account signups (but a lot less of them), > but they cannot edit page

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Newbie with Vandal Problem

2014-06-23 Thread Bri
I had this problem also. I installed the extention "ConfirmEdit", and also set up the email confirmed permission group (see configuration in the article below). I still get spam account signups (but a lot less of them), but they cannot edit pages. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Confi

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Feature request, confirm navigation while editing content

2014-06-23 Thread Minhaz AV
Thanks, I'll ask admins to upgrade. On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:30:31 +0200, Max Semenik > wrote: > > [[Special:Verson]], you have 1.21.9. >> > > That's Special:Version, of course :) https://www.owasp.org/index. > php/Special:Version > >

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Feature request, confirm navigation while editing content

2014-06-23 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:30:31 +0200, Max Semenik wrote: [[Special:Verson]], you have 1.21.9. That's Special:Version, of course :) https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Special:Version -- Matma Rex ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Newbie with Vandal Problem

2014-06-23 Thread John
There are several extensions that can help, (See Nuke for one) or the abuse filter, along with checkuser On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Winters Wiki wrote: > Hi, > > I have a wiki at winterswiki.org. It was discovered by vandals who created > 9500 new users and 10,000+ pages in a couple of day

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Feature request, confirm navigation while editing content

2014-06-23 Thread Max Semenik
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Minhaz AV wrote: > any method to check current mediawiki version directly from the front end? [[Special:Verson]], you have 1.21.9. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWik

[MediaWiki-l] Newbie with Vandal Problem

2014-06-23 Thread Winters Wiki
Hi, I have a wiki at winterswiki.org. It was discovered by vandals who created 9500 new users and 10,000+ pages in a couple of days. I disabled access and wiped all the users except known ones off the database, but when I enabled the wiki again new users started being created every minute or so.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Feature request, confirm navigation while editing content

2014-06-23 Thread Minhaz AV
any method to check current mediawiki version directly from the front end? On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > Such a feature is available since MediaWiki 1.22. Please upgrade :) > > -- > Matma Rex > > ___ > MediaWiki-l mailin

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Feature request, confirm navigation while editing content

2014-06-23 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
Such a feature is available since MediaWiki 1.22. Please upgrade :) -- Matma Rex ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

[MediaWiki-l] Feature request, confirm navigation while editing content

2014-06-23 Thread Minhaz AV
Hi, I was editing owasp.org content when I accindently clicked refresh and all my edit went unsaved. I was thinking there should be a confirm navigation dialog if some user has made changes. Infact I'd love to send a patch if you could point me the perfect js file to implement this feature in. Tha

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Annoying: In the sidebar, the header of the first section appears and then vanishes (Vector skin)

2014-06-23 Thread Krinkle
The Vector extension was first bundled with MediaWiki 1.18, it has existed longer than that though. As of MediaWiki 1.22, the Vector extension is obsolete and its stable features were merged into MediaWiki core. The javascript module vector.collapsibleNav was removed in 1.24 for performance reaso