Re: [Mediawiki-l] spam attack avoids captcha

2010-07-28 Thread Phil Howard
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:15, Brion Vibber wrote: > There are service firms > that simply employ lots of people to type in captchas on your spambot's > behalf. A number of porn sites work this way. When someone tries to access the freebie section of a porn site, they see a captcha. It's copie

Re: [Mediawiki-l] making an article link to wikipedia.org

2010-07-28 Thread Phil Howard
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 13:10, Huib Laurens wrote: > Hello, > > You could use interwiki's for that [1]  so you can write > [[:wikipedia:Article]] and the link will forward you to Wikipedia. > > I believe the interwiki Wikipedia is set up by default so > [[wikipedia:Article]] will already work Tha

[Mediawiki-l] making an article link to wikipedia.org

2010-07-28 Thread Phil Howard
I'm wanting to make an article link, much like Wikipedia makes to its own articles, but instead of using [[whatever]] like would be done to an article on the same site, I want to make it be a link over to the real en.wikipedia.org site, for the article there. The tags with HTML to do it just esca

Re: [Mediawiki-l] changing URL vor virtual host

2010-07-15 Thread Phil Howard
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 17:12, Platonides wrote: > Phil Howard wrote: >> I have now the following: >> >>         $wgScriptPath           = "/+"; >>         $wgArticlePath          = "/$1"; >> >> with this in Apache: >> >>    

Re: [Mediawiki-l] changing URL vor virtual host

2010-07-14 Thread Phil Howard
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 16:22, Platonides wrote: > Are you defining $wgScript to anything? > Look at the urls generated for the CSS. They seem to be wrong. I have now the following: $wgScriptPath = "/+"; $wgArticlePath = "/$1"; with this in Apache: Al

[Mediawiki-l] changing URL vor virtual host

2010-06-28 Thread Phil Howard
Mediawiki was originally installed by another person on a server before Apache was configured for virtual hosts. I would have just wiped and and installed again were it not for lots of pages we want to keep are now in there. So I'm just trying to manually reconfigure Apache and Mediawiki to get t