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halz | 22 May 2013 19:07
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Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.

If you've ever set up a fresh MediaWiki and tried to leave it open to editing, you'll know about the problem of
wiki spam. There's various well documented tricks to tackle the problem on your own wiki (although it
seems to me that some of these are becoming less effective over time. Particularly reCaptcha)

But wiki spammers are behaving in a staggeringly inconsiderate and anti-social way, and I've often
thought we should explore stronger ways of delivering some fight back. 

Looking at spam across many wikis e.g. by googling "mediawiki ugg boots" we could do more internet-wide
spam cleanup somehow.

But recently I came across something, actually by looking at one the spam links. Take a look at this:
sickseo.co.uk/off-page-seo.html   This video shows the use of a tool called 'SENuke Xcr'  and another
one called 'Ultimate Demon'  to perform "Off site SEO" ...that's "spamming" to you and me.

I've always known spammers used tools like this, but seeing this instructional video gives me new
insights into what we're up against. Also see the discussion taking place on forum.edwinsoft.com  I
find it amazing how oblivious these people seem to be, to how annoying their activities are for people
running websites. Never do they mention the word spam, or have an inkling that they may be doing something
ethically questionable.

Do you think we should try to contact them and explain that they are behaving badly? Maybe on these forums.
Maybe we'd have to spam them back repeatedly with such messages as they get removed by the admins. And on
youtube do you think we can get videos like this removed? We can at least comment on them and vote them down
(Youtube finds quite a lot of similar videos) How about unleashing a bit of "ethical hacking" e.g. DDOS
attacks on people distributing this software? Really I'm amazed at how they're getting away with this
spamming out in the open these days.

Halz
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Halz
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Arcane 21 | 22 May 2013 00:37

Had an error upgrading from MW 1.2.05

When MW 1.20.6 came out, I decided to upgrade to it from 1.20.5, and I decided to run the web updater afterwards.

All I got was a blank screen no matter what I tried, so I reverted back to 1.20.5 and everything was normal again.

I'm not sure what happened, but I thought I'd let everyone on the mailing list know that there might be a
problem with the newest security release.

P.S. - Not really related to the above, but still MediaWiki related: Does anyone know what happened to the
MediaWiki Users forum? It's been down for awhile, apparently due to database issues, and I was wondering
if anyone here has more information on what happened.
 		 	   		  
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Chris Steipp | 21 May 2013 22:14
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MediaWiki Security Release: 1.20.6 and 1.19.7

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.20.6 and 1.19.7.
These releases fix a security related issue that could affect users of
MediaWiki. Download links are given at the end of this email.

* MediaWiki user Marco discovered that security checks for file
uploads were not being run when the file was uploaded in chunks
through the API. This option has been available to users who can
upload files since MediaWiki 1.19.
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48306>

Full release notes for 1.20.6:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.20>

Full release notes for 1.19.7:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19>

For information about how to upgrade, see
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading>

**********************************************************************
   1.20.6
**********************************************************************
Download:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.6.tar.gz

Patch to previous version (1.20.5):
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.6.patch.gz

GPG signatures:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.6.tar.gz.sig
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Raghavendra Achar | 21 May 2013 12:59

Bitnami media wiki 64 bit linux installation issues

Dear All,
                  I am trying to install
bitnami-mediawiki-1.20.5-0-linux-x64-installer.run on Fedora 16 Linux 64 bit
system.
But i am getting the below error at the end of the installaton.I am not able
to start the apache services as it is throwing error.
Segmentatin fault (core dumped ) HTTPD -t. 
can somebody help me how to resolve this problem?

regards
Achar

 
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Jan Steinman | 20 May 2013 18:31
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Re: Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki

> From: Jason Lewis <jason.lewis1991 <at> gmail.com>
> 
> I'm not exactly after attention I'm more just documenting my experience in
> hope that others can benefit from it in some way.

Thanks!

I had a miserable time skinning a much earlier version of MW, and my client wants me to work on it some more, so
your work is appreciated!

:::: Traditional grass-based dairy farming was a highly egalitarian enterprise; anyone with initiative
and a few acres could herd animals on any kind of land, and sell or barter the products to his neighbors.
Societies that consume the products of pastured animals are much less likely to exhibit huge disparities
in wealth compared to societies where the economics of food are based on grain. -- Ron Schmid
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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Jason Lewis | 20 May 2013 17:56
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Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki

Hello,

Let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Jason Lewis and I'm a
developer and (some kind of) designer from Australia. I play a role in the
community side of things for a PHP framework called Laravel.

Over the last few days I've developed a skin for the Laravel community wiki
that fits in with the overall theme of the other community sites. The idea
was to make it blend, but to also keep some sort of wiki "feel" to it. On
the surface it looks very fresh but at its core it is still very much Media
Wiki. You can check the skin out here: http://wiki.laravel.io

The purpose of this thread is to give you an overview of how I went about
skinning Media Wiki from the point of view of someone who has never
attempted it before. I've used Media Wiki in the past but never done
anything besides changing the default logo.* *During the process of
skinning I used the following tutorial as a reference for some of the
inner-workings of Media Wiki:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning/Tutorial

*The Design
*
Before I even started looking at how to skin Media Wiki I drafted up a
design with just standard HTML/CSS. I used the Wikipedia site as a
reference here for some of the required elements but also referred to the
linked tutorial above as it mentions some design considerations. During
this designing stage I didn't used my own markup and gave my classes my own
names. I didn't think of the Media Wiki class names or IDs, that would come
later. Once I was happy with my design I begun the skinning process.
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xcq5678m | 19 May 2013 17:11
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Re: MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 116, Issue 21

你好：不好意识，最近6部电脑都被高手搞定了.....,
白班8个小时，晚上下班我还有工厂的事情要安排，正常坐下来上网也就是深夜了，每天几乎拿着鼠标睡着了！
互联网上时间过得特快，我的邮件和博客及社交的都好办理，你们的英文邮件我翻译过来都变味了，主要原因是上学的时候英文才考40分，所以我误了国际国内同仁们的大事！如果你们中文学的好还是迁就我一下吧！
如果护照办下来，准备在苹果年会的时候去一趟，把我手里的有关账户和数字版权都捐给你们美国有关公司！
这里还有好多是国际组织行使的特权：欧盟、卫生、电影、等等！
也许是我们和西方文化差距太大的原因，我们工作生活中的人，他们都不相信我在说什么做什么？
希望你能理解我!ok   谢谢你88
2013-05-1


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Michael Tsikerdekis | 16 May 2013 11:03
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Restoring revision table (mwdumper issue)

Hi everyone,

I am trying to restore the revision table from Wikipedia dumps. I
understand that the file that I need is probably enwiki-XX-pages-
logging.xml.gz

I've downloaded the file and I am using the 1.16 version of mwdumper from
https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/MWDumper-package/org.wikimedia$mwdumper/

When I execute the following I get this error:
java -server -jar mwdumper.jar --format=sql:1.5
enwiki-20130503-pages-logging.xml.gz | gzip -vc >
enwiki-latest-pages-articles.sql.gz
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unexpected
<id> outside a <page>, <revision>, or <contributor>
        at
org.mediawiki.importer.XmlDumpReader.readId(XmlDumpReader.java:329)
        at
org.mediawiki.importer.XmlDumpReader.endElement(XmlDumpReader.java:204)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown
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Jan Wort | 15 May 2013 13:54
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WikiEditor - custom dialogs

Hello, 
[Sorry If you got this already from the same list; I had some trouble 
with the server and the message did not appear in the archive. So here 
my 2nd trail :-) ]

I'd like to use custom dialogs and buttons in the WikiEditor 
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor). 

I managed to get my own dialogs running, but I have some trouble. Most 
annoying is that often I am unable to call any dialog (my custom ones 
and the ones that the editor has already for links and images). I 
suspect that is has something to do with the order in which resources 
are loaded; the only visible correlation so far is that if my custom 
button is on the last position in its section all dialogs are not 
working the order changes sometimes after reload). 

Thats what I did: (on MediaWiki 1.20.5, Vector Skin) 
- enabled the javascript debug mode in the local settings: 
$wgResourceLoaderDebug = true; 
- the javascript I use for the customization is currently in 
Mediawiki:Common.js (but should move to a skin specific js probably) 
- use the customizeToolbar-function from the WikiEditor-toolbar 
customization page (http://bit.ly/xPH8Gl) 
- adding the button to the toolbar using: 
$('#wpTextbox1').wikiEditor( 'addToToolbar', {…'tools':{mytool:{… 'action:{ 
'type':'dialog','module':'mytool' …}}}} 
(but better see the code here: http://jsfiddle.net/FApr9/) 
- adding the actual dialog module to 
"$.wikiEditor.modules.dialogs.modules" using 
"$.wikiEditor.modules.dialogs.modules['mytool'] = {…}" (again, http://jsfiddle.net/FApr9/)
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Zach H. | 14 May 2013 21:25
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Lucene search warning

I am getting an odd error in my lucene.log

2171399005 [Thread-8] WARN  org.wikimedia.lsearch.frontend.HttpMonitor  -
Thread[Thread-47446,5,main] is waiting for 464401213 ms on
mediawiki-1.16.0beta2
2171399005 [Thread-8] WARN  org.wikimedia.lsearch.frontend.HttpMonitor  -
Thread[Thread-45468,5,main] is waiting for 464412666 ms on
2171399005 [Thread-8] WARN  org.wikimedia.lsearch.frontend.HttpMonitor  -
Thread[Thread-48716,5,main] is waiting for 464387961 ms on *
2171399005 [Thread-8] WARN  org.wikimedia.lsearch.frontend.HttpMonitor  -
Thread[Thread-48303,5,main] is waiting for 464389249 ms on 10.146.48.5
2171399005 [Thread-8] WARN  org.wikimedia.lsearch.frontend.HttpMonitor  -
Thread[Thread-48291,5,main] is waiting for 464389276 ms on 10.146.48.5:443

I have posted this to the Lucene-Search extension page but got no results.
The warning seems to not impact anything other than having a large amount
of warnings placed in the log.

Any advice on how to resolve these or troubleshoot what is causing them
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
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Taylor, Bryan | 14 May 2013 20:10
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case 51177 Transfer wiki pages to a different format


Greetings,

I was given this address in hopes you guys might have an answer to my situation. I have got the wiki shell up on a
CPU. That device is going to be removed, and I'm trying to figure out a way to pull the information off of it (a
flat file perhaps), so that it can be incorporated into a SharePoint archive (I've got a couple hundred
pages, but not all of them will need to be transfered).

Do you guys know what would be the best way to get that info off? I'm just going to put it into word documents,
and then upload them onto SharePoint.

Any Advice/help would be most appreciated, thanks.

Bryan Taylor
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