Re: [MediaWiki-l] SPAMMERS!!!!

2013-11-26 Thread Arcane 21
Some additional tips. On my wiki, we use ConfirmEdit with Asirra (requires 5-10 edits to disable), which I find to be one of the more effective captchas to frustrate spammers. I also find it useful to check user all the user names that are obvious gibberish and determine which ones come from

[MediaWiki-l] MW 1.23 Can't create image thumbnail

2013-11-26 Thread Steph Zhang
My wiki is in http://www.hanfumap.com/wiki/ After a recent update, I can't create image thumbnails. I can still upload the image to the wiki, but the image can't be used in articles. It is not displayed in the File page either. e.g. http://www.hanfumap.com/wiki/File:Hfcw.jpg I have tried to ssh

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MW 1.23 Can't create image thumbnail

2013-11-26 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 11/26/2013 08:23 AM, Steph Zhang wrote: Can anyone help me to diagnose? I couldn't use your testing account, but if you put error_reporting( -1 ); ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 ); in your LocalSettings.php -- as suggested at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_debug -- do you

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MW 1.23 Can't create image thumbnail

2013-11-26 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Nov 26, 2013 10:19 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: On 11/26/2013 08:23 AM, Steph Zhang wrote: Can anyone help me to diagnose? I couldn't use your testing account, but if you put error_reporting( -1 ); ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 ); in your LocalSettings.php --

Re: [MediaWiki-l] APC Cache setting

2013-11-26 Thread Tom
On Nov 25, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Kudu k...@riseup.net wrote: Hi Tom, I believe the ideal solution would be to set apc.stat to 0, and to call apc_delete_file on LocalSettings.php after an update. Thanks Kudu I guess I could script that then call it with the command line after a file

[MediaWiki-l] SPAM control Possibility

2013-11-26 Thread John W. Foster
Just wondering if there is a way to convert blocked users to inactive users, or does that happen automatically. If it can be done or already does occur, then in time the removeInactiveAccounts.php in /maintenance will get them eventually. Thanks John

[MediaWiki-l] Translation Services do not start

2013-11-26 Thread Simon, Hans-Walter (Hans-Walter)
Hi together, I'm trying to use the MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle with Mediawiki 1.21.1 with Translate (Version MLEB 2013.09). All works fine but not the Translation Services of Microsoft or Yandex. For Yandex I use following settings: $wgTranslateTranslationServices['Yandex'] = array(

Re: [MediaWiki-l] SPAMMERS!!!!

2013-11-26 Thread John Foster
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 06:33 +, Steph Zhang wrote: Why you need to delete those spammer accounts? I thought to ban them with their IP address is enough unless others from the same IP address want to contribute to your wiki. This is on a remote server that I pay for the disk space the extra

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Translation Services do not start

2013-11-26 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi Simon, Thanks for the question. Can you please try enabling translation services log with $wgDebugLogGroups['translationservices'] = '/some/file'; See if any errors come up there. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I

Re: [MediaWiki-l] SPAMMERS!!!!

2013-11-26 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 10:07 -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: On 11/26/2013 07:38 AM, Arcane 21 wrote:. only block the IPs and IP ranges that have four or more obvious spammer usernames attached to them, as these are usually mass produced by a bot from zombie computers used to spam.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Translation Services do not start

2013-11-26 Thread Simon, Hans-Walter (Hans-Walter)
Hi Amir, thank you for answer. I get this messages: 2013-11-26 18:02:14 xx0703080194 wikidb: Translation service Yandex problem: Malformed reply from remote server: 2013-11-26 18:02:14 xx070308019 wikidb: Translation service Yandex still suspended Hans-Walter -Ursprüngliche

Re: [MediaWiki-l] SPAMMERS!!!!

2013-11-26 Thread 2007
Personally I've found QuestyCaptcha to be the most reliable. You show the user an image and they have to guess the right answer. It can be configured to have several correct answers and to randomly choose from a list of several image/answers. I have had zero spammer account creations since I

[MediaWiki-l] Suffering frequent problems with deleting multiple pages in MediaWiki

2013-11-26 Thread Arcane 21
Whenever I try to delete multiple pages in MediaWiki on my localhost wiki, the first page deleted (if I'm deleting more than one at a time) go well, but the rest take a really long time before they are deleted. I get similar issues when opening lots of tabs to check out the contents of

[MediaWiki-l] Errors on pages issues

2013-11-26 Thread John W. Foster
I'm getting these navbar errors. any ides on whats causing them? Error: Module:Navbar:25: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got nil) Error: No name provided may still be Lua/Scribunto issues John ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Errors on pages issues

2013-11-26 Thread John Foster
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 15:21 -0600, John W. Foster wrote: I'm getting these navbar errors. any ides on whats causing them? Error: Module:Navbar:25: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got nil) Error: No name provided may still be Lua/Scribunto issues John adding more

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Errors on pages issues

2013-11-26 Thread John Foster
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 15:21 -0600, John W. Foster wrote: I'm getting these navbar errors. any ides on whats causing them? Error: Module:Navbar:25: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got nil) Error: No name provided may still be Lua/Scribunto issues John I have no idea how to

Re: [MediaWiki-l] SPAMMERS!!!!

2013-11-26 Thread Jan Steinman
I require an email round-trip. That seems to do it for our wiki, at least. But perhaps H.L. Mencken (below, at random) knows something I don't... :-) For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MW 1.23 Can't create image thumbnail

2013-11-26 Thread Steph Zhang
Sorry for providing wrong test account infos.. account: testacc password: testpurposeonly I have already set these: error_reporting( -1 ); ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 ); But still not observe any differences. Checked PHP Error log on the server, and still got nothing. ls -l yields

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MW 1.23 Can't create image thumbnail

2013-11-26 Thread Tom Hutchison
First thing I would check is: $wgMaxImageArea = ' some value '; See if it is accidentally explicitly set to a smaller value in LocalSettings as this will make thumbnailing fail. e.g. 40 for 2000px X 2000px image would prevent thumbs on a 2200x1900 image which is 418000 in size or any

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MW 1.23 Can't create image thumbnail

2013-11-26 Thread Steph Zhang
Tom, thank you for noticing me for that. However I did not specify such a value in my LocalSettings.php. VIM: E486: Pattern not found: $wgMaxImageArea fgrep wgMaxImageArea yields nothing. What else may I provide for further diagnose? 2013/11/27 Tom Hutchison t...@hutch4.us First thing I