User talk:Tihare - Revision history

Gadfium: /* Spamfilter */ reply

2009-07-09T10:07:52Z

Spamfilter: reply

Gadfium: /* Spamfilter */ upgrading, and twitter

2009-07-06T22:48:55Z

Spamfilter: upgrading, and twitter

Gadfium: /* Spamfilter */ please enable a local list

2009-07-06T20:48:14Z

Spamfilter: please enable a local list

Gadfium: /* Spamfilter */ spam filter works.

2009-07-02T08:13:33Z

Spamfilter: spam filter works.

Gadfium: /* Spamfilter */ test failed to trigger the blacklist

2009-07-02T08:07:28Z

Spamfilter: test failed to trigger the blacklist

Gadfium: /* Spamfilter */ rm surplus quote

2009-07-01T21:09:59Z

Spamfilter: rm surplus quote

Gadfium: /* Spamfilter */ better formatting

2009-07-01T21:09:10Z

Spamfilter: better formatting

Gadfium: /* Spamfilter */ more instructions

2009-07-01T21:06:45Z

Spamfilter: more instructions

Gadfium: Spamfilter

2009-06-30T21:52:32Z

Spamfilter

Hackademic: /* Hello */

2009-06-22T07:41:51Z

Hello

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	:I don't know much about Twitter, so probably can't help you there. There are a number of mediawiki extensions to deal with twitter: do any of these do what you want? [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Twitter4wiki Twitter4wiki] fetches all the tweeds from your friends, and provides them in an mediawiki-project - rather like RSS, as I understand it. [http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Twitter Twitter] allows you to add an individual twitter feed to a wiki page. [http://hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Twitter_Widget Twitter Widget] displays your twitter status and last few messages on a wiki page. I'm not sure how the last two widgets differ from each other. [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SendToTwitter SendToTwitter] posts a tweet to twitter of any url that is updated in the wiki.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 10:48, 7 July 2009 (NZST)		:I don't know much about Twitter, so probably can't help you there. There are a number of mediawiki extensions to deal with twitter: do any of these do what you want? [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Twitter4wiki Twitter4wiki] fetches all the tweeds from your friends, and provides them in an mediawiki-project - rather like RSS, as I understand it. [http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Twitter Twitter] allows you to add an individual twitter feed to a wiki page. [http://hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Twitter_Widget Twitter Widget] displays your twitter status and last few messages on a wiki page. I'm not sure how the last two widgets differ from each other. [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SendToTwitter SendToTwitter] posts a tweet to twitter of any url that is updated in the wiki.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 10:48, 7 July 2009 (NZST)
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		+	:I'm not expecting to come over anytime soon. I'll let you know when I've upgraded my version of mediawiki and what problems I've encountered. I'm not a mediawiki expert; you've got more experience configuring it than I do.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 22:07, 9 July 2009 (NZST)

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	Please let me know when this is in place and I'll test it myself as well.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 08:48, 7 July 2009 (NZST)		Please let me know when this is in place and I'll test it myself as well.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 08:48, 7 July 2009 (NZST)
		+	:Yes, seems to work. As far as upgrading mediawiki goes, I suggest just following the instructions at [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading]. It should be fairly foolproof, so long as you remember to run the update script. My home wiki is using 1.13.3, because that's the version kubuntu gave me when I updated to the latest distro. That's near enough to identical with this version that I can use mine to experiment with changes for Waihekepedia without disrupting the live site. If you want, I'll upgrade it sometime in the next few days and let you know of any problems I encounter.
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		+	:I don't know much about Twitter, so probably can't help you there. There are a number of mediawiki extensions to deal with twitter: do any of these do what you want? [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Twitter4wiki Twitter4wiki] fetches all the tweeds from your friends, and provides them in an mediawiki-project - rather like RSS, as I understand it. [http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Twitter Twitter] allows you to add an individual twitter feed to a wiki page. [http://hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Twitter_Widget Twitter Widget] displays your twitter status and last few messages on a wiki page. I'm not sure how the last two widgets differ from each other. [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SendToTwitter SendToTwitter] posts a tweet to twitter of any url that is updated in the wiki.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 10:48, 7 July 2009 (NZST)

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	I tried again with a domain picked at random from the wikimedia blacklist, and got a message saying "The page you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a link to an external site." when I tried to save. The filter is definitely working. It may be that our particular spammers' sites are not on the blacklist. You'll probably find a log somewhere calling my test account nasty names.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 20:13, 2 July 2009 (NZST)		I tried again with a domain picked at random from the wikimedia blacklist, and got a message saying "The page you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a link to an external site." when I tried to save. The filter is definitely working. It may be that our particular spammers' sites are not on the blacklist. You'll probably find a log somewhere calling my test account nasty names.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 20:13, 2 July 2009 (NZST)
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		+	Spammers are back, so we're going to have to create a local list. Please change the LocalSettings.php file to read
		+	<pre>
		+	require_once( "$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist.php" );
		+	$wgSpamBlacklistFiles = array(
		+	"http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spam_blacklist&action=raw&sb_ver=1", // Wikimedia's list
		+	// database title
		+	"DB: wikidb Waihekepedia:Spam_blacklist",
		+	);
		+	</pre>
		+
		+	I have already created the page [[Waihekepedia:Spam_blacklist]] with the contents
		+	<pre>
		+	\.ru # Russian spammers
		+	</pre>
		+
		+	I've protected it for admin editing only. Incorrect lines in this page could make editing any page with external links difficult.
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		+	I've tested this on my own mediawiki installation at home. It works. You can test it from an admin account; just try to create a page containing <nowiki>http://anything.ru</nowiki>. A page which already contains such a domain can still be edited, the filter only works on newly added links.
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		+	Please let me know when this is in place and I'll test it myself as well.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 08:48, 7 July 2009 (NZST)

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	Thanks. I created a non-admin account to test, and pasted a small amount of spam text into it, but no sign of the blacklist working. However, we'll see if the real spammers continue, and if they do I'll see what is necessary to get a local blacklist in place.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 20:07, 2 July 2009 (NZST)		Thanks. I created a non-admin account to test, and pasted a small amount of spam text into it, but no sign of the blacklist working. However, we'll see if the real spammers continue, and if they do I'll see what is necessary to get a local blacklist in place.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 20:07, 2 July 2009 (NZST)
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		+	I tried again with a domain picked at random from the wikimedia blacklist, and got a message saying "The page you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a link to an external site." when I tried to save. The filter is definitely working. It may be that our particular spammers' sites are not on the blacklist. You'll probably find a log somewhere calling my test account nasty names.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 20:13, 2 July 2009 (NZST)

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	This will use Wikimedia's list, and no local list. If we find this isn't sufficient, we can create a local list too. Any local list will need to be fully protected so only administrators can edit it.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 09:06, 2 July 2009 (NZST)		This will use Wikimedia's list, and no local list. If we find this isn't sufficient, we can create a local list too. Any local list will need to be fully protected so only administrators can edit it.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 09:06, 2 July 2009 (NZST)
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		+	Thanks. I created a non-admin account to test, and pasted a small amount of spam text into it, but no sign of the blacklist working. However, we'll see if the real spammers continue, and if they do I'll see what is necessary to get a local blacklist in place.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 20:07, 2 July 2009 (NZST)

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 require_once( "$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist.php" );
 $wgSpamBlacklistFiles = array(
-    ""http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spam_blacklist&action=raw&sb_ver=1", // Wikimedia's list
+    "http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spam_blacklist&action=raw&sb_ver=1", // Wikimedia's list
 );
 </pre>
 This will use Wikimedia's list, and no local list. If we find this isn't sufficient, we can create a local list too. Any local list will need to be fully protected so only administrators can edit it.-[[User:Gadfium|Gadfium]] 09:06, 2 July 2009 (NZST)

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	== Spamfilter ==		== Spamfilter ==
	Now that we're running a fairly recent version of mediaWiki, can you install http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist so we can set up a blacklist to prevent people adding spam links here. Just a block on any domain ending in .ru would probably be effective, but I suggest we start by copying the blacklist at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist. I'd be happy to maintain the list once the extension is installed.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 09:52, 1 July 2009 (NZST)		Now that we're running a fairly recent version of mediaWiki, can you install http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist so we can set up a blacklist to prevent people adding spam links here. Just a block on any domain ending in .ru would probably be effective, but I suggest we start by copying the blacklist at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist. I'd be happy to maintain the list once the extension is installed.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 09:52, 1 July 2009 (NZST)
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		+	:I don't know the configuration you are using, but assuming you are running on a Linux machine with a Debian-based distro (such as Ubuntu), the extensions directory is probably at /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions, and your LocalSettings.php shold be at ll /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php (copied from /var/lib/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php so it doesn't get overwritten by upgrades). The variable $IP will already be defined in LocalSettings.php.
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		+	:Once you have the three files in the SpamBlacklist subdirectory of extensions, add the following lines to LocalSettings.php:
		+	<code>
		+	require_once( "$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist.php" );
		+	$wgSpamBlacklistFiles = array(
		+	""http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spam_blacklist&action=raw&sb_ver=1", // Wikimedia's list
		+	);
		+	</code>
		+
		+	This will use Wikimedia's list, and no local list. If we find this isn't sufficient, we can create a local list too. Any local list will need to be fully protected so only administrators can edit it.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 09:06, 2 July 2009 (NZST)

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	Thought it might be you. Have you got a Bhatnager in your bonnet? Nice page. Nice link to the Herald! What would his Mum say, I wonder?		Thought it might be you. Have you got a Bhatnager in your bonnet? Nice page. Nice link to the Herald! What would his Mum say, I wonder?
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		+	== Spamfilter ==
		+	Now that we're running a fairly recent version of mediaWiki, can you install http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist so we can set up a blacklist to prevent people adding spam links here. Just a block on any domain ending in .ru would probably be effective, but I suggest we start by copying the blacklist at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist. I'd be happy to maintain the list once the extension is installed.-[[User:Gadfium\|Gadfium]] 09:52, 1 July 2009 (NZST)

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	== Hello ==		== Hello ==

−	Thought it might be you. Have you got a Bhatnager in your bonnet? Nice page. ~~We could~~ link to the Herald ~~story.~~	+	Thought it might be you. Have you got a Bhatnager in your bonnet? Nice page. Nice link to the Herald! What would his Mum say, I wonder?