[Mediawiki-l] Errors

2009-07-13 Thread mihai
Hi, I have an error on my own wiki http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro. The error appears in 2 cases http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Special:Lonelypagesand http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Special:Deadendpages. You can see the version of the soft used

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Errors

2009-07-13 Thread Ekompute .info
Oh dear... guess you need to restore a copy of your database backup. The webhost is not responsible, so there is practically nothing much you can say to them. If you don't have a copy, check with them as fast as possible as they may have a temporary backup which is replaced daily. If you wait too

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Errors

2009-07-13 Thread Henny Savenije
On most cPanel servers the server makes a daily, weekly and monthly backup. If you're on a cpanel server ask them to replace first the daily copy and if that doesn't work the weekly and so on. At 04:52 PM 7/13/2009, you wrote: Oh dear... guess you need to restore a copy of your database

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Errors

2009-07-13 Thread Ekompute .info
Hi Henny Savenije, I think the practice differs from webhost to webhost. I was once asked to pay US$28.75 to restore a backup (without guarantee) by my previous webhost, Siteground. Apparently, they kept 2 daily backups at any one time. The two backups turned out to be corrupted and yet, they said

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Errors

2009-07-13 Thread Henny Savenije
That's a too bad experience. I host for other people as well, and my practice is to keep three of the copies I mentioned and restore them without any charge. But I DO advise people to make their own backups with mysql dumper for the databases http://www.mysqldumper.de/ and hardcopies on their

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrading from 1.13.1 to 1.15.0

2009-07-13 Thread Q
jord.rolland-de-renge...@ext.ec.europa.eu wrote: Hi all, I upgraded my wiki after full backups from 1.13.1 to the 1.15.0 quaterly release. I tested some of the features and when trying to view the history i get the following error A database query syntax error has occurred. This may

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrading from 1.13.1 to 1.15.0

2009-07-13 Thread 火奇Fire Jackey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 just run php maintenance/update.php -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.6) iEYEARECAAYFAkpbaMYACgkQeQiWUOJM7Q3vegCfdabUUqhMRPDh23cz9xqrLw4n

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Login page not showing

2009-07-13 Thread Jean-Marc van Leerdam
Hi PM Poon, 2009/7/12 Ekompute .info ekomp...@gmail.com: Hi Jean-Marc, thank you once again for your response and for taking the trouble to help me out. I have checked my main.css but could not find the problem that you mentioned. I have posted the contents of the main.css at Dummipedia.com

[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki security update: 1.15.1 and 1.14.1

2009-07-13 Thread Tim Starling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a security and bugfix release of MediaWiki 1.15.1 and 1.14.1. A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in [[Special:Block]]. Only versions 1.14.0, 1.15.0 and release candidates for those releases are affected. Cross-site

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Login page not showing

2009-07-13 Thread Ekompute .info
HI Jean-Marc, I have posted the relevant .php file at this pagehttp://dummipedia.org/MediaWiki:Nuskin.php. Actually, I didn't amend anything for the codes to the p-caction bar in the php file. The li commands are exactly the same as in Monobook.php. PM Poon On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:42 AM,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

2009-07-13 Thread Esben Stien
Angela bees...@gmail.com writes: FancyCaptchas do not help - they're solving these too. You mean a bot is able to bypass your FancyCaptchas?. I find that hard to believe. Isn't this algorithm random?. -- Esben Stien is b...@e s a http://www. s tn m

Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

2009-07-13 Thread Esben Stien
Juliano F. Ravasi m...@juliano.info writes: There is one usability issue: If the wiki is set to always require confirmation, it is still only show the captcha after the first save try. Yeah, sucks. -- Esben Stien is b...@e s a http://www. s tn m

Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

2009-07-13 Thread Angela
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Esben Stienb...@esben-stien.name wrote: Angela bees...@gmail.com writes: FancyCaptchas do not help - they're solving these too. You mean a bot is able to bypass your FancyCaptchas?. Yes, or a human is doing them. See

Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

2009-07-13 Thread 2...@gmaskfx.com
Somebody is paying people in India to sit aroudn and solve them.. http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2008/09/captchas-flummox-bots-but-may-be-doomed-by-captcha-farmers.ars --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Esben Stien b...@esben-stien.name wrote: From: Esben Stien b...@esben-stien.name Subject: Re: