Re: [MediaWiki-l] Problems with Special:ActiveUsers since update from 1.22 to 1.24

2015-01-28 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
The special page was rewritten in MediaWiki 1.23 to make it usable on wikis the size of Wikipedia (commit 87be24db / https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110299/ and some follow-up changes). Unfortunately this optimization for massive wikis seems to have caused the performance to suffer on sm

[MediaWiki-l] Just got bombed by spam bots

2015-01-28 Thread Charles Dandridge
George, can you send me a few of those abuse filters which have slowed down the spam bots for you? Thanks. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [mwstake] What should we focus on?

2015-01-28 Thread chris tharp
HI Chris I was supporting a general position of Boris about the validity of some needing access control. I currently use SemanticACL so I can use restrict access on a per-page basis to a self-defined group within a page. It makes project management easier and it helps when that "page" group doesn'

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [mwstake] What should we focus on?

2015-01-28 Thread Chris Steipp
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Chris Tharp wrote: > I agree completely with Boris about access control. Only with a combination > of Two extensions: Lockdown and SemanticACL have I ever been able to get to a > reasonable level of access control that I desired for my wikis. Chris, other than t

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Problems with Special:ActiveUsers since update from 1.22 to 1.24

2015-01-28 Thread Erkan Yilmaz
Hello Jakub, > "You are viewing a cached version of this page, which can be up to 29 days, 23 hours and 40 minutes old." to fix it temporarily, you could run this script (from maintainance dir) updateSpecialPages.php Erkan YILMAZ On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Jakub Klinkovský wrote: > Hi,

[MediaWiki-l] Problems with Special:ActiveUsers since update from 1.22 to 1.24

2015-01-28 Thread Jakub Klinkovský
Hi, since the update of MediaWiki from 1.22 to 1.24, which happened about 10 days ago [1], ArchWiki has some problems with the Special:ActiveUsers page [2]: * The number of users in the list is much lower than it should be according to the Special:Statistics page. * The users in the ActiveUsers

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [mwstake] What should we focus on?

2015-01-28 Thread David Gerard
I sysadmin a few internal and one external wiki at work, and also rationalwiki.org. One of the work wikis is SMW. For the work wikis, OH GOD I WANT VE. Our users are normal competent people who aren't so good with computers. But they can work a word-processorish rich text editor just fine. For thi

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [mwstake] What should we focus on?

2015-01-28 Thread Rob Kam
>what should we actually focus on? VisualEditor. Do everything to ease/encourage contributing content. Having to install node.js is far too complicated. Could node.js be a requirement for the web host to qualify as supporting MediaWiki? Shadow namespace to include Template, Module, Help, etc. name