Hi
Today I had to change my wiki over to only allowing edit post email
confirmation and in the process I noticed the email says "Mediawiki Mail".
I'm looking for the quickest way to change the email over to saying my site
name, not the software. Thanks
ps. -- Just for general info someone has cracked the dynamic questions for
ConfirmEdit extension published here:
http://thingelstad.com/stopping-mediawiki-spam-with-dynamic-questy-captchas/
I've used the questions for months and had the joy of zero spam, but
unfortunately the system has been cracked. I'm throwing it out there in
case someone had became like me and stopped checking for spam on a regular
basis. It makes for a very, very unhappy day when you find on the order of
1000 spam accounts.
I did a comparison between my wiki install (version 1.23.1 upgraded in
two steps to 1.23.3) and the latest version of MediaWiki (version
1.23.3).
The 'images' directory in the copy of my wiki (cpwiki) is missing as I
ran 'diff' on another machine (i.e. not the server hosting the
website) and didn't want to copy those files (13 GB).
# diff -qr cpwiki mediawiki-1.23.3 | sort > diff_output.txt
# more diff_output.txt
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Files cpwiki/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist_body.php and
mediawiki-1.23.3/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist_body.php differ
Files cpwiki/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist.i18n.php and
mediawiki-1.23.3/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist.i18n.php differ
Files cpwiki/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist.php and
mediawiki-1.23.3/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist.php differ
Files
cpwiki/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.class.php and
mediawiki-1.23.3/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.class.php
differ
Files
cpwiki/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.i18n.php
and
mediawiki-1.23.3/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.i18n.php
differ
Files
cpwiki/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.php and
mediawiki-1.23.3/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.php
differ
Files cpwiki/extensions/WikiEditor/modules/jquery.wikiEditor.js and
mediawiki-1.23.3/extensions/WikiEditor/modules/jquery.wikiEditor.js
differ
Files cpwiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php and
mediawiki-1.23.3/includes/GlobalFunctions.php differ
Only in cpwiki/extensions: FlaggedRevs
Only in cpwiki/extensions: Math
Only in cpwiki/extensions: MobileFrontend
Only in cpwiki/extensions: Scribunto
Only in cpwiki/extensions: WikiSEO
Only in cpwiki: LocalSettings.php
Only in cpwiki: lp_favicon.png
Only in cpwiki: lplogo.png
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-index-librepathology.xml
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-librepathology-NS_0-0.xml.gz
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-librepathology-NS_10-0.xml.gz
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-librepathology-NS_1-0.xml.gz
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-librepathology-NS_11-0.xml.gz
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-librepathology-NS_12-0.xml.gz
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-librepathology-NS_14-0.xml.gz
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-librepathology-NS_2-0.xml.gz
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-librepathology-NS_3-0.xml.gz
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-librepathology-NS_4-0.xml.gz
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-librepathology-NS_6-0.xml.gz
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-librepathology-NS_8-0.xml.gz
Only in cpwiki: sitemap-librepathology-NS_828-0.xml.gz
Only in cpwiki: tests
Only in mediawiki-1.23.3/extensions/SpamBlacklist: api
Only in mediawiki-1.23.3/extensions/SpamBlacklist: i18n
Only in mediawiki-1.23.3/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi: COPYING
Only in mediawiki-1.23.3/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi: i18n
Only in mediawiki-1.23.3: images
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What caught my eye is "Files cpwiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php and
mediawiki-1.23.3/includes/GlobalFunctions.php differ"
# diff ./cpwiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php
./mediawiki-1.23.3/includes/GlobalFunctions.php
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2923c2923
< $status = proc_get_status( $proc );
---
> $status = proc_get_status( $proc );
2926c2926
< if ( !$status['running'] ) {
---
> if ( !$status['running'] ) {
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"GlobalFunctions.php" (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:GlobalFunctions.php ) seems to be
important... and the change makes me wonder whether a bug is lurking
somewhere in this.
I don't know why I have the difference... but I tend to think it shouldn't
be there-- if the patches were applied properly.
I looked at the last two patch files ( mediawiki-1.23.3.patch.gz ,
mediawiki-1.23.2.patch.gz ). The latest patch (
mediawiki-1.23.3.patch.gz ) has changes to 'GlobalFunctions.php'.
I did the 1.23.3 patch on August 29th. Temporally, this doesn't align with
when the problems started; my problems started a couple of days before
then. In any case, I don't understand how this could explain the problems
I have... but it is something that looks funny.
Thanks,
Michael
Hello everyone and MediaWiki Cooperation members in particular,
in our last meeting, we talked about potential tasks to tackle in the near future. I think we are still in a collection phase. So I am asking you to add the action items you consider to be important for the group to this page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Cooperation#Tasks
Cheers,
Markus
Hello Benjamin:
I am using Imagemagick.
LocalSettings.php:
---
$wgUseImageMagick = true;
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";
---
I have noticed that the free memory drifts downward with time.
Here is 'top' at different time points today:
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top - 03:12:26 up 6 min, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.15, 0.07
Tasks: 70 total, 1 running, 69 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 2.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 94.6 id, 3.3 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0
si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 2012148 total, 532216 used, 1479932 free, 10876 buffers
KiB Swap: 1113084 total, 0 used, 1113084 free, 394924 cached
top - 03:42:45 up 36 min, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.05
Tasks: 74 total, 1 running, 73 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.3 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 99.7 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0
si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 2012148 total, 935504 used, 1076644 free, 50680 buffers
KiB Swap: 1113084 total, 0 used, 1113084 free, 630280 cached
top - 22:23:06 up 19:16, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
Tasks: 74 total, 1 running, 73 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1.8 us, 0.2 sy, 0.1 ni, 96.9 id, 0.7 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1
si, 0.2 st
KiB Mem: 2012148 total, 1923744 used, 88404 free, 168692 buffers
KiB Swap: 1113084 total, 0 used, 1113084 free, 1227952 cached
---
The first problem was around August 20: I had zombie processes alert
and needed
a server reset. That was a first. I assumed it was isolated and things
were okay until approximately August 28.
I have automatic security updates from debian. My 'apt' log shows
upgrading of php & apache on August 21 and 22. I don't see any other
significant updates.
This problem is quite frustrating. I am happy to hear any suggestions.
Thanks,
Michael
Hi guys,
may be my question is not new but i am frustrated of searching too much, I am a bot new and dumb in media wiki, but have created my mediawiki in of of the Lan servers of my company and need to see it from lan by pointing out to its ip and link, it comes up but is not keeping the original format, how to enable it. please if yoy know give me the instruction.
many thanks and sorry
poopak
Actually I have used for many years QuestyCaptcha.php you can make
your own defined questions and answers I used the capitals of certain
countries and that works like a charm. No more spam
At 08:15 PM 9/7/2014 Sunday, you wrote:
>Dear Gordo, When i had attack from spam bot, then i implement Google
>Captcha protection, but there still a lot of spam bot coming, their
>method is creating a lot of random username then cretate page that
>contains random article from internet. So, after i realize this
>captcha protection can not help me, then i block user registration
>and user post (create page / edit), only admin can post/edit -_-
>Now, there is no spammer again, but this is not what i want Thank
>you I'm still waiting for mediawiki consultant for hire.. because i
>want to redesign my wiki page too.. Best Regards, Yudi On Mon, Sep
>8, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote: > On
>06/09/14 03:20, Yudi Wijaya wrote: > > - My wiki website ever had
>attack by Spam Bot, so i want to clean it up > > from spam
>pages.. > > - I want to have the best spam protection, i ever
>implement Google > Captcha > > but still got alot of spams > > > My
>advice is to stop self registration, and just sign up people who
>have > applied to use your wiki. This line appears in my
>LocalSettings.php > > $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] =
>false; > > > I also have > > $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] =
>false; > $wgEmailConfirmToEdit='true'; > > Gordo >
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Hello:
I described a problem earlier this month that has been plaguing
the site ( http://librepathology.org ) I am running.
The short version is:
- I am using the InstantCommons feature of MediaWiki.
- Intermittently, the images on the site are disappearing.
- Unusual about it is that the images pages that are created when
MediaWiki pulls an image from the WikiCommons seem to disappear too.
- It resolves shortly after I reboot the server.
- It has happened a couple of times in the past few weeks... but not
before that.
Context:
- It does not have a clear relation to server load, i.e. the
images do not disappear only when the loading is high.
- It has been my observation that free (physical) memory
(shown using the unix command 'top') is still available but low
when problems are happening. I do have a swap partition
configured.
What I have done:
- Upgraded RAM to 2 GB (from 1 GB)
- Removed backup files from the server -- so I have ~15% free space.
- Tried to block a high bandwidth robot with robots.txt
- Looked through log files... no sure where to look though.
- I have taken down a citation generator that I installed
a few weeks before this all started.
I think the problem lies in the memory management.
The "memory_limit" variable in "php.ini" (/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini)
is '128M'.
I do have caching enabled in LocalSettings.php
( $wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL; ) but not otherwise.
I ran the site similarly configured over a year behind
a login... without anything like this happening.
At the bottom is output from 'cat /proc/meminfo' taken
at time the images were broken.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael
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MemTotal: 2012148 kB
MemFree: 89368 kB
Buffers: 230104 kB
Cached: 1098764 kB
SwapCached: 120 kB
Active: 900608 kB
Inactive: 779988 kB
Active(anon): 256448 kB
Inactive(anon): 128280 kB
Active(file): 644160 kB
Inactive(file): 651708 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 1113084 kB
SwapFree: 1111164 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 351628 kB
Mapped: 54936 kB
Shmem: 33000 kB
Slab: 218796 kB
SReclaimable: 208732 kB
SUnreclaim: 10064 kB
KernelStack: 792 kB
PageTables: 8144 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 2119156 kB
Committed_AS: 783648 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 9140 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359728411 kB
HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
DirectMap4k: 40948 kB
DirectMap2M: 2007040 kB
I am getting this message..
*****
Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.
Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.
(Cannot contact the database server)
You can try searching via Google in the meantime.
Note that their indexes .....
*****************
But not very often. Comes and goes. Where do I look for debugging
information? The Apache logs don't help.
Apache 2.2
MediaWiki 1.23.3
PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u14 (cgi-fcgi)
MariaDB 5.5.39-MariaDB-1~wheezy
Gordo
Dear Henny,
Thank you for your suggestion, i would like to test it this weekend
Best Regards,
Yudi
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Henny Savenije <
webmaster(a)henny-savenije.pe.kr> wrote:
> Actually I have used for many years QuestyCaptcha.php you can make your
> own defined questions and answers I used the capitals of certain countries
> and that works like a charm. No more spam
>
Dear all,
Does anyone know mediawiki consultant? I think i need to fix many things on
my mediawiki page.
- My wiki website ever had attack by Spam Bot, so i want to clean it up
from spam pages..
- I want to have the best spam protection, i ever implement Google Captcha
but still got alot of spams
- I need to upgrade my mediawiki version to the newest
- I need to redesign my wiki website skin; just simple one.. like this:
http://www.peacockcarter.co.uk/images/portfolio/petrowiki_responsive-mediaw…
So, on the right side i can put some of my ads banner or google adsense
banner.
If can export all pages would be nice, but if can not, i will do it my
self, i will backup & restore it one by one.
I think, this enough for 1st project.. my budget is about 100 USD ++
Payment through PayPal
Next several months, maybe after saving some money.. i will need to
integrate my wiki page to Facebook / Twitter.
Thank You
Best Regards,
Yudi Wijaya
