Apollo
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okay, i’ve restored the page (using the administrator “restore” user right, which can restore both
deleted page histories and files, for future reference. nothing is ever really gone) and moved it to the cruise namespace.the page now lives happily here
eta: oops, i did this before seeing angelastic’s commentary! i’m going to ahead and agree with the bulk of that. but hum, this is a pickle.
OKAY, everything is now up and running! You can all edit, etc.
mizzie: feel free to go ahead and create that show page now!
That’s right, AirCon helped me make some of the decisions (and directed my attention to Asirra and the blacklists!)
Nabokov! as much as I can. I adore him!
Although lately I’ve also been reading (an English translation of) Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita to study for a Latin quizbowl I have coming up (because I am actually the coolest ever).hiiii guys sorry again that I haven’t checked the forum in ages! :[
If it hasn’t been done already I can make a template for information about the groups and maybe we can stick them all on one page in the forthcoming Cruise: namespace.
Derp.
I should probably tell you what the changes we made are! So on that note:- User rights have been changed! Check it.
- Moderators now have fewer powers, and regular users have more! “Patrolling” edits has been opened to all users, and only administrators will have their edits “autopatrolled”. Wikipedia doesn’t actually have great documentation on patrolling but basically it’s when you “mark” an edit to show that it’s constructive and not spam.
- Users now must be autoconfirmed (for us, that means an account has to exist for three days and have made at least 5 edits) to create pages. move pages, and upload files. I actually messed up some of the PHP for this and should probably tell Scarface to update it!
- We now have the CheckUser feature as well. Some sysops will be able to check the IP addresses of logged-in users.
- We have a new CAPTCHA called Asirra. Apparently it shows you pictures of cute animals.
- We’ve added a few more blacklists against spammers to our array.
There you go!
Hi, all!
sorry I haven’t been paying any attention to the forum here! I was quite disheartened when my initial attempts at curbing spam worked for a few days…then stopped working at all. So I sort of stopped paying much attention to JoCo and y’all. Anyway I think Scarface and I have FINALLY enacted some measures that will stop the spam altogether, but right now editing/deleting/etc. are disabled while he works out some PHP bugs (a big shoutout to Scarface for taking the time to do that!). Hopefully in the next few days the wiki will be editable and fairly spam-free!@Bry (is that how I do that?*) as far as the cruise namespace goes, I am strongly in favour of that idea! I agree that Cruise stuff greatly clogs up the main namespace and isn’t really relevant enough to be there; however the information should definitely be documented and kept in records. Plus, it would probably make a good buffer zone: cruise-related content that may or may not warrant a main article can be posted there and worked into a proper article (or not) and then be moved into the main namespace. Have you emailed Scarface about it?
*apparently not
hi! i’m apollo, and i’m a jocopedia admin.
i’m not 100% sure how i feel about adding these to the wiki as they are unofficial/very plentiful. i’m just not certain that they warrant documentation on the wiki, exactly. particularly since JCCC is such an exclusive event! (at least, from a financial standpoint) i think the wiki might be a little overloaded with JCCC information. if these groups are going to be documented, then maybe they could all be culled on one page/section of a page, rather than each getting their own page. a template might be a good idea, too.hi friendly/healthy people, i totally hate sports/exercise but i wanted to tell you all that the name of this thread is wonderful, and so are you, probably.
y’all need to update your wiki.
go go go!
@mtgordon yeah i think it makes sense to have those, but aside from those and a few others (like the portal thingy on “still alive”), or single covers if mr. coulton ever releases any singles (or has he already? i’m so bad at this), i think it gets a bit excessive.
(i’m glad you folks are excited about wikiness! though not about people who have disappearedāi do recognise their names from hanging around the wiki, though i’m still quite a n00b. i guess if the wiki is gonna be used more frequently now i should point out that there are kinda some issues with organization and standardization. so that ought to be fixed. not sure how.)
OKAY, news of mixed goodness!
scarface said he “made the changes to the configuration file” and while i didn’t actually suggest anything directly to him (so none of those changes up there are going into effect, presumably), it seems you now need to confirm your email address to edit/create pages/whatever else. which is an improvement, hopefully.eta: i’ve also asked scarface to install reCAPTCHA and he said he’d look into it so the spam should be gone once and for all. mostly. hopefully.okay! update: i found a mediawiki extension, confirmaccount, that works in the same kind of way as the forum’s system. it would require some extra installation and configuration, but so would reCAPTCHA, so whatever. whichever system folks would prefer can be used, i think!eta: confirmaccount is kinda complicated and there are a few known bugs, so i guess that should be considered in the decision, as well. you can read about that yourself here.