User talk:Knockwood

Thanks Knockwood for clearing up the vandalism edits. Much appreciated.

It looks like there's (unfortunately) a lot of wiki spam here. I haven't tried it myself, but if you're in charge, maybe Bad Behavior would help cut down on the automated stuff? --GargoyleMT 11:18, 8 February 2006 (PST)

We try.

I do look through the new edits and eliminate whatever spam I see. There is a lot less spam than there could be on here, I dare say. (Check out the Blocked IPs list sometime).

Actually, this is as good a place as any to clarify one thing: I am the Czar, but I work from "outside" in that I don't have access to the machine, just the Wiki. ShannonA can tweak the machine, and I've already asked for some anti-spam provisions.

Then again, anything would probably help... --Lord Knockwood the Mad 14:07, 8 February 2006 (PST)

Blocked Words

Hi there! is there a way to block full words but not partials? I added text that was refused because, said the message, it contained the banned keyword "c_i_a_l_i_s". Turned out it was "s_o_c_i_a_l_i_s_t"! (It still won't let me type it here, of course.)  :-}

Other than that, thanks for all the good work! -- Mechante Anemone, 16:34, 16 March 2006 (PST)

WS:Main_Page

I removed the actual cover images to be behind a link as they were quite large and had a link to the index page there. Headers for all the pages under WS include a link to the index page or to the main page with the cover images. If you have a preferred style of main page, feel free to change it. --Curufea 20:00, 12 June 2006 (PDT)

LOL Funny Image on your User Page and a Request

I have to say I really had a good laugh at the image you have on your user-page. I showed it to one of the people I game with, he had a good laugh too. Do you remember where you got it?

On another note: I have started a new Fantasy Setting sourcebook on this Wiki called Wisrtum. It really is in its infancy. Before it gets much larger, I'd like to know if I am organizing and presenting the information in the best possible way. I've contributed to Wikipedia and Wikisource before, but I've never done anything quite like this. Could you please look it over and give me some pointers. Also, if you wish to contribute material, that would be appreciated!

Thanks,

—WikiJeff

Thanks for the Feedback, Question

Knockwood,

Thanks for the feedback. I've implimented much of what you pointed out, especially the catigorization, which should help with organization and indexing. I should be moving forward with the geogrophy section soon. Then, I'll start in on the "staple races" such as dwarves, elves and so on.

Could you look at the index link on Wisrtum's main page, though. It seems the only way I can create a link for the index is to do an external link like so [ foobarURL description ]. I can't just make this link work lik other, normal wiki-links.

Thanks,

—Jeff

ERROR

Also,

Every page update (or page creation) spits out the same error, but the content is posted into the Wiki's database:

A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:

    (SQL query hidden)

from within function "SearchMySQL4::update". MySQL returned error "1016: Can't open file: 'searchindex.MYI'. (errno: 145) (localhost)".

Please look into this.

Thanks,

—Jeff

Getting the same error message myself (1) --AusRPGer 17:57, 23 November 2006 (PST)

Thanks for the Help

Knockwood,

Thanks for the help you've given me. I've added all content pages to the Wisrtum catagory. I'll use your pipe-trick to re-arrange the resulting list as you suggest a bit later. Soon, I'll be adding some serious content, which will (with luck) draw some people into the wiki.

I've totally revamped the main page to Wisrtum, it now looks a lot more friendly -- I barrowed much code from Wikipedia and Wikisource main pages, and hacked the tar out of them. The main page now now looks nice. Btw, you (or whomever) changed the boarder to pastel-purple did so while I was playing arround with the code to the main page... I had a few seconds of serious confusion (followed by a good chuckle) thanks to you!

One question: If I add a catagory to template pages, will that screw things up for pages that call the template?

Ketcha Latter,

—Jeff

Question about Protecting Content

Knockwood,

I'd like to upload some content, and then protect it from editing. The purpose of wiki-fication of the content is to aid in hyperlinking, not editing. Does the RGPNet Wiki have the content protection plugin enabled? It's a standard part of the Media Wiki software now. If it's enabled could you tell me how to protect the content I desire to?

Thank You,

—WikiJeff

RPG Motivational Posters Archive

Are we also going to archive the "Take it Tangacy" posters from this thread too? Roguebfl 21:53, 20 October 2006 (PDT)

Spammer

66.240.221.36 seams to be added a seaming random string of numbers to a lot of posts (this is one type of spam I can't understand at all) --Roguebfl 15:34, 26 November 2006 (PST)

Error in the spam block list

I'm seeing this error at the top of pages I've submitted. I know about this error because it used to occur on the wikia wiki frequently. The problem is there is a limit to how big the spam blacklist can be, and you need to delete old entries. Tjoneslo 07:18, 27 February 2007 (PST)

Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: regular expression too large at offset 0 in /var/www/rpgnet/wiki/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist_body.php on line 150

This error in the spamblock has reasserted it's ugly head once again. Tjoneslo 15:39, 27 April 2007 (PDT)

Vandalized page I can't fix

1001 and more Things that the worst party in Eberron is forbidden from doing has been vadalized by our deleter or one of his friends. I've tried three times to revert deletion, but can't for some reason. Can you do this. Thanks. Tjoneslo 11:15, 26 April 2007 (PDT)

750 things Mr. Welch can no longer do in a RPG has been vandalized by a random troll. The page is too big to diff (I get timed out on the diff). Thank. Tjoneslo 11:35, 27 July 2007 (PDT)

Adding Captcha

Have you thought about adding a CAPTCHA system to RPGNet to stop the annoying deleter and some of the other spammers? ConfirmEdit is the default one. But there is also ReCAPTCHA. I like the second one, because it forces the Spammer to do some useful work when adding their annoying links. They both look like they work in Wiki 1.6. I realize you can't do these changes, but perhaps you can direct me to the person who can. Tjoneslo 09:59, 11 July 2007 (PDT)

Update the Spam BlackList

This wiki has a spam blacklist extension installed and presumably working. You can slow our spammer fiend by adding the below text to this page: MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist, assuming you have access:

125mb\.com
t35\.com
somee\.com
ifrance\.com
freeweb7\.com
rigour\.info
dlyaoleg\.info

And look, he's gone. The bot was posting about every 15 minutes to half hour. Only suggestion would be to move the line "# " to the end of the page to make the list readable. I knew there was a simple solution to this problem. Tjoneslo 03:56, 25 August 2007 (PDT)

Oops, too soon. one more to add. Tjoneslo 05:32, 25 August 2007 (PDT)

110mb\.com

GORT

I created a bot user named GORT to affect the spam reversion changes. The advantage of GORT is his changes are generally invisible to the Recent Changes list. The disadvantage is GORT's changes are largely invisible to the Recent Changes list. You need to click the "Show Bots" links to see the changes. I wanted to tell you this because I was this evening cleaning up today's spammer when you came in as well. I didn't want you to think I've been slacking. Tjoneslo 16:32, 2 October 2007 (PDT)

GORT is actually me, logged in as GORT. He went to maintenance mode this past week because I've been without net access. I've got Python (and wiki pybot code), and when I have some spare time, I'll look into creating a real bot to do this work. Tjoneslo 05:26, 3 October 2007 (PDT)

New Spammer Trick

Our favorite bot spammer has discovered a new trick (or perhaps we've gained a new "friend"). The idea is they double team an article, the first IP replacing a title with an URL, the second deleting the text on the page. This leaves only a blank page with a spam URL and disrupts the use of the "rollback" functionality. Tjoneslo 07:04, 19 October 2007 (PDT)