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Title: Wiki is spammed
Post by: artik on November 07, 2013, 03:06:21 AM
Wiki is spammed

http://www.hitechcreations.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=500
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: nrshida on November 07, 2013, 03:54:44 AM
 :rofl
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: Skuzzy on November 07, 2013, 06:02:06 AM
Great.  We had to upgrade the Wiki and can no longer use the bulletin board user list to filter out unwanted users.  I guess we are going to have to shutdown new users completely.  I hate Wiki's.

I'll get it cleaned up in a bit.
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: artik on November 07, 2013, 07:08:58 AM
Skuzzy, also note that it looks like the upgrade destroyed wiki templates or something like this, every plane entry looks mess:

http://www.hitechcreations.com/wiki/index.php/Spitfire_Mk_IX
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: pervert on November 07, 2013, 07:55:14 AM
Hopefully whoever done this will have their house catch fire and be unable to escape.
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: Skuzzy on November 07, 2013, 08:23:09 AM
Ok, cleaned up the mess, disabled new account creation, for the moment.  Due to WikiMedia woefully inadequate tools, for cleaning up a mess like this, I rolled back to a backup from yesterday.  It would have taken weeks to manually clean it up.

It is quite possible for some of the templates needing to be reworked.  I had to work on the primary one to get it to work again.  The upgrade process was not the best I have seen, but then again, we waited far too long to do this.

It may take some time to get it all back together again.  Any help anyone wants to provide would be very welcome.  We cannot go back to the old version.
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: nrshida on November 07, 2013, 08:33:16 AM
Skuzzy, also note that it looks like the upgrade destroyed wiki templates or something like this, every plane entry looks mess:

http://www.hitechcreations.com/wiki/index.php/Spitfire_Mk_IX


Eeergh what a mess.
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: Skuzzy on November 07, 2013, 08:46:45 AM
Yes, it is.
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: Skuzzy on November 07, 2013, 09:48:15 AM
Ok, account creation is enabled again, with multi-tiered account confirmation.
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: GhostCDB on November 08, 2013, 12:37:31 AM
Hopefully whoever done this will have their house catch fire and be unable to escape.

Am I the only one who found amusement in that?  :lol
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: JimmyD3 on November 08, 2013, 08:34:01 AM
Am I the only one who found amusement in that?  :lol

I was thinking more along the line of their wife's, legs growing together.  :D
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: SlidingHorn on November 20, 2013, 10:50:24 AM
Ok, account creation is enabled again, with multi-tiered account confirmation.

I sent a request, as I'd like to try to hop in and clean up some of these entries.  The wiki (no offense to HTC, etc...it happens) looks atrocious and needs some TLC.

SlidingHorn, reporting for duty!  :salute
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: artik on November 21, 2013, 03:39:44 AM
Still...

looks like spammers love black widows...
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: SlidingHorn on November 22, 2013, 09:38:24 AM
I certainly don't want to be a pest, but just curious as to the typical turnaround time for getting a wiki account confirmed?   :salute
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: Skuzzy on November 24, 2013, 05:47:14 AM
I certainly don't want to be a pest, but just curious as to the typical turnaround time for getting a wiki account confirmed?   :salute

It was confirmed the day you applied.  The email was sent to the registered account.  Make sure your spam filter did not eat it.
Title: Re: Wiki is spammed
Post by: SlidingHorn on November 24, 2013, 04:55:13 PM
It was confirmed the day you applied.  The email was sent to the registered account.  Make sure your spam filter did not eat it.

I think there might have been a typo in my email when I set it up then, as I tried to reset the password to get another email and nothing (in spam or otherwise).  Sending an email to the address in your sig