(This is a copy, without the attached images - see here for the images: 
http://imgur.com/OZNSquB,Ko82y61)

Hi Yao Wei,

LXDE wiki is facing a lot of difficulties. Let me list them for you:

1) Some pages show the wrong information. For example:
http://wiki.lxde.org/de/Kategorie:Systemvorraussetzungen and 
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Main_Page show some strange spam content (if you can't 
see it yourself, have a look at wrongcontents.png and MainPageEnWrong.png - 
these files are attached)
I have also noticed pages showing French, German or other language information 
(on the English version!!) It can be temporary solved with a null edit (just 
edit and save the page) but a few days/hours later, the same issue arises.

Other pages affected:
http://wiki.lxde.org/de/LXAppearance
http://wiki.lxde.org/de/Arch_Linux
http://wiki.lxde.org/de/LXSession

(and many more)

2) Some pages show a big error message (MediaWiki internal error). This 
included the Category:Linux Distributions but since I pasted its contents on a 
new page, this is no longer the case (that's the positive news for now). 
However, the issue remains with a lot of other pages:

http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Category:Category
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Category:LXDE

3) Spam is still targeting the various LXDE wiki languages.

See:
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges
http://wiki.lxde.org/de/Spezial:Letzte_%C3%84nderungen

I use an actionaz.org script (and so does Southparkfan) written by myself to 
remove spam. However, this does NOT reduce spam, neither does it solve the 
problems it creates (Random page not working, database becoming slow)

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To solve these problems, we need:
1) A fresh start - new database and new setup of MediaWiki with the latest 
versions. Article code can be copied by hand, I'm willing to help (note that if 
you make a fresh start on wiki.lxde.org, the contents need first to be saved 
somewhere - good information WHEN you are planning to start with the new 
installation is wanted).

2) Antispam tools - there are a millions (not that many - just joking) of them 
currently, but we don't have them installed:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadBlacklist

Please have a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam
To see which extensions we have now, see 
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Special:Version - see "Spam Prevention". With a fresh 
start, we also need the currently installed extensions (some are bundled by 
default).


Please let me know your thoughts.

Kind regards,
Geoffrey De Belie / Smile4ever


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