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] spam users

2012-08-01 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Helmut Hullen wrote: > Hallo, Bernhard, > > Du meintest am 01.08.12: > > > I am running a couple of relatively small academic Wikis mainly for > > educational uses at university. Thus there is relatively little > > traffic apart from course time. Nevertheless, so

Re: [Mediawiki-l] CAPTCHA recommendation for account-creation bots?

2012-02-28 Thread Frederick Grose
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > Spam bots are creating accounts on my music wiki ( > http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/Special:RecentChanges). What is the best > extension to prevent this? I installed ConfirmEdit and tried the default > CAPTCHA (SimpleCAPTCHA) but it didn't s

Re: [Mediawiki-l] An Administration Page

2012-02-05 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > >Why is there a reliance on manually editing LocalSettings.php and > uploading it to the site? > >Why is there not an Admin page that edits this online? > > "Config file vs. GUI admin page" is a religious issue for systems in > general. If y

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cookie issues with mediawiki 16.0

2012-01-29 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Tom wrote: > Flushing cache with CRTL F5. IE9 still shows just login. If it was a > cache page I would expect to see username, etc. > > Logged in appearance is the ability to edit pages. Anonymous users are > denied edit privileges. What concerns me more, if an e

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MW seems to get confused when IP address of client machine changes while user is logged in

2011-10-29 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Dan Nessett wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:30:10 +0200, Platonides wrote: > > > Dan Nessett wrote: > >> After testing, it appears moving to 1.16.5 solves the problem. Should I > >> file a bug against 1.16.2 and mention it is fixed in 1.16.5? This might > >> help

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Where are user options cached?

2011-09-19 Thread Frederick Grose
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > After changing the default skin on our wiki from monobook to vector > ($wgDefaultSkin = 'vector'), and deleting all 'skin' preference rows from > the user_options table, a few of our wiki users still see the old skin, > monobook. Where is t

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Image caching on File: pages... any workaround?

2011-09-06 Thread Frederick Grose
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > The most frequent problem on our wiki (MediaWiki 1.17.0) involves > re-uploads of images, where users are fooled by browser caching: > > 1. A user uploads a modified version of an existing image > (File:Foobar.jpg) > 2. After the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization

2011-04-07 Thread Frederick Grose
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Frederick Grose wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:19 AM, John Durant wrote: > >> Does anyone know of a technique or extension that would allow me to >> customize the Sidebar? Following the example shown on >> Manual:Interface/Sidebar doe

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization

2011-04-05 Thread Frederick Grose
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:19 AM, John Durant wrote: > Does anyone know of a technique or extension that would allow me to > customize the Sidebar? Following the example shown on > Manual:Interface/Sidebar does not return the results shown. > > The manual page further states: > > " The link target

Re: [Mediawiki-l] spam attack avoids captcha

2011-03-16 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Hiram Clawson wrote: > What prevents the black hat google spammers from creating OpenID accounts ? > > --Hiram > > Frederick Grose wrote: > > Install > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID > > and disable new account

Re: [Mediawiki-l] spam attack avoids captcha

2011-03-16 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Chris Lewis wrote: > Yes I have the same problem. So annoying. Are humans confirming the emails > as > well? > > I have captcha, email confirmation and the SpamBlacklist extension and i'm > still > getting spammed every day for the last week. They keep making new a

Re: [Mediawiki-l] how do I restrict the length of usernames?

2011-02-08 Thread Frederick Grose
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:54 PM, 2...@gmaskfx.com <2...@gmaskfx.com> wrote: > I've tried every flavor of confirmedit and none of them seem block the > worse offenders. I tried ReCaptcha but now the bots or the person determined > to get around that get through and post their spam anyway. If I could

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Possible to block users from using a specific email service?

2010-12-03 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Clayton wrote: > I'm busy tidying up spam on the OOoWiki on a fairly regular basis. The > OOoWiki uses several tools to block/stop spammers (BadBehavior, the spam > RegEx etc.)... it's working most of the time, but the spammers still get > in and vandalize pages s

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:56 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 11/24/2010 3:52:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, > 2...@gmaskfx.com writes: > > > > < > was able to clean up the mess but it still took a good days worth of > work. > > > > There were three "users" making edits so rolling them back created

[Mediawiki-l] Site skin preferences statistics

2010-09-17 Thread Frederick Grose
Is there a way to determine the number of users who have selected a particular skin preference? --Fred ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Formatting gets lost when using the editor from UsabilityInitiative

2010-09-09 Thread Frederick Grose
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:15 AM, wrote: > Hello guys, > > I'm using the editor from the UsabilityInitiative but whenever I > insert some text with special formatting the formatting itself gets > lost and the text will be placed alltogether in one line. > > Some example on this code: > > /** > *

Re: [Mediawiki-l] collapse TOC on NavFrame or collapsibleTable expansion

2010-08-22 Thread Frederick Grose
x27;togglelink'); > >changeText(toggleLink, tocShowText); > toc.style.display = 'none'; >document.cookie = "hidetoc=1"; > } > > On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Frederick Grose wrote: > > > How would one automatically collapse a page TOC in t

[Mediawiki-l] collapse TOC on NavFrame or collapsibleTable expansion

2010-08-21 Thread Frederick Grose
How would one automatically collapse a page TOC in the event of a NavFrame or collapsibleTable expansion, such as by adding an option to the MediaWiki:Common.js ? This might be useful where there is a long TOC that shares the page position of the NavFrame or collapsible table whose expansion moves

Re: [Mediawiki-l] spam attack avoids captcha

2010-07-28 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Hiram Clawson wrote: > Good Morning MediaWiki Fans: > Our wiki site suffered a spam attack this weekend. (version 1.13.0) The > attack evidently had some method to work-around the new account Captcha barrier, and the authorized user email allowed to edit se

Re: [Mediawiki-l] short headers in TOC

2010-07-19 Thread Frederick Grose
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Platonides wrote: > Scheid, Bernhard wrote: > > Sounds interesting but a bit arcane. I found the tocLine() function in > my Linker.php, but the problem seems to me how to define/override the > $tocline parameter. > > Can you give me some more detailled advice? Ne

[Mediawiki-l] url(Cursor) control problem

2010-07-06 Thread Frederick Grose
I'm able to use CSS to control wiki page cursors with this syntax, wiki text but not this, http://domain/images/cursorfile.png), crosshair;">wiki text which works in the same browser at this page, http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_cursor Suggestions? Thanks in advance,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Replacement of EmbedVideo extension?

2010-05-03 Thread Frederick Grose
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:18 PM, dan nessett wrote: > On the mediawiki web page for the EmbedVideo extension is this warning: > > "This extension appears to have been abandoned by its author. If you have > any up-to-date information about this extension, please update the page and > remove this no