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Upgrading the wiki (working again)


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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
PostPosted: Mar 26 2012 03:51 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I am about 30 minutes away from upgrading the wiki software. This should hopefully remove the random spam redirects some of you are either actually getting or claiming to get, and hopefully make the wiki better overall. but if it crashes and breaks forever, haha, oops.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
PostPosted: Mar 26 2012 05:04 pm Reply with quote Back to top

...and I broke it. Hooray!
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i'll_bite_your_ear
Title: Distillatoria
Joined: Jun 09 2010
Location: van down by the river
PostPosted: Mar 26 2012 05:45 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Well done, Syd.


it was the best of times
it was the blurst of times
 
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
PostPosted: Mar 26 2012 06:20 pm Reply with quote Back to top

MY ALBUM LIST!!!! I WAS ABOUT TO UPDATE TO 999!!!!


Does anybody here have a Ross Rifle?
www.thetwowordsmusic.com
www.myspace.com/rossrifle
 
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Preng
Title: All right, that's cool!
Joined: Jan 11 2010
Location: Accounting Dept.
PostPosted: Mar 26 2012 06:21 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Shit. What if we miss a forumer's birthday?
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@om*d
Title: Dorakyura
Joined: Jul 10 2010
Location: Castlevania
PostPosted: Mar 26 2012 07:00 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Awesome.


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Sehkmaenzo
Joined: Jun 29 2010
PostPosted: Mar 26 2012 07:15 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Thankfully I wrote the last birthday on my desktop, so we should be okay till April or so :O
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
PostPosted: Mar 26 2012 07:25 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The files are all backed up, as is the database, so I should be able to fix this.
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: The Danger Zone
PostPosted: Mar 26 2012 08:51 pm Reply with quote Back to top

My own wiki had a huge spam database injected into its header so that whenever I save an edit, all I see are Cialis ads everywhere with the actual links on my wiki pages stripped. It took me two upgrades to remove them for good.


I'm not a bad enough dude, but I am an edgy little shit. I'll do what I can.
 
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
PostPosted: Mar 27 2012 11:11 am Reply with quote Back to top

Sorta fixed it.

I'll work out the stylesheet later this week or next.



 
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: The Danger Zone
PostPosted: Mar 27 2012 12:18 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Meanwhile, there's spam everywhere posted by bots taking advantage of the confusion. You should do something about that.


I'm not a bad enough dude, but I am an edgy little shit. I'll do what I can.
 
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justdrop
Title: Supreme Overlord
Joined: Jan 11 2012
Location: Philadelphia
PostPosted: Mar 27 2012 12:20 pm Reply with quote Back to top

This is what the Mayans were predicting.


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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
PostPosted: Mar 27 2012 08:06 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The only reason I ever use the wiki is to find the URL for the alternate to This Is A Joke



 
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i'll_bite_your_ear
Title: Distillatoria
Joined: Jun 09 2010
Location: van down by the river
PostPosted: Mar 27 2012 08:19 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The sydapedia is actually very entertaining to read. I did spent quite a time to read through the entries.


it was the best of times
it was the blurst of times
 
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Bob Dylan`s Blues
Title: Worlds Strongest Man
Joined: Jun 08 2011
Location: Your nightmares
PostPosted: Mar 27 2012 08:29 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Syd's dun it again!
*whomp whomp*

And yes it is very entertaining to read. I read quite a bit of it myself and even thought of including my birthday on that list.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
PostPosted: Mar 27 2012 08:39 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Christ I hate MediaWiki. It is super userfriendly for you guys, but addons are a fucking pain in the ass. I wish it had a plugin system like Wordpress.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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Location: Wakefield, MA
PostPosted: Mar 27 2012 10:30 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Too much work to mod it, I give up. At least for now.
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: The Danger Zone
PostPosted: Mar 28 2012 01:47 am Reply with quote Back to top

At least block account creation until then. The spam is expanding by the hour.


I'm not a bad enough dude, but I am an edgy little shit. I'll do what I can.
 
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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
PostPosted: Mar 28 2012 02:46 am Reply with quote Back to top

Have to ditto this one, unless there's some way to let other board members be able to nuke those fuckers.


Who likes role-playing games? Me. Way too goddamn much.
 
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
PostPosted: Mar 28 2012 12:36 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Code:
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

set.

syd, please install the NUKE plugin and lets clean this up. we can further adjust shit in the future if we need to.



 
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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Location: Wakefield, MA
PostPosted: Mar 28 2012 01:35 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Nuke is installed.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
PostPosted: Mar 28 2012 02:32 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Nukeified...

Syd... how do you feel about this rather than blocking new sign-ups alltogether:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit



 
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
PostPosted: Mar 28 2012 03:13 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I'd be willing to try that. Or, if such a thing exists, a registration that requires approval from me and gives the user a small box to fill in as to why they want posting access/who they are.
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i'll_bite_your_ear
Title: Distillatoria
Joined: Jun 09 2010
Location: van down by the river
PostPosted: Mar 28 2012 03:22 pm Reply with quote Back to top



it was the best of times
it was the blurst of times
 
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: The Danger Zone
PostPosted: Mar 28 2012 07:48 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Syd Lexia wrote:
I'd be willing to try that. Or, if such a thing exists, a registration that requires approval from me and gives the user a small box to fill in as to why they want posting access/who they are.

You could have instructions telling new users to e-mail you for manual approval.


I'm not a bad enough dude, but I am an edgy little shit. I'll do what I can.
 
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