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:I have found that on my wiki (and various others) that [http://www.allspammedup.com/2011/01/google-recaptcha-cracked/ reCAPTCHA has been "cracked"]. I now use [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualMathCaptcha VisualMathCaptcha] which works well (for the moment) --[[User:Spud Gun | <b><FONT COLOR="#8B3A3A">Carl McBride</FONT></b>]] ([[User_talk:Spud_Gun |talk]]) 05:27, 11 May 2011 (PDT) | |||
Revision as of 12:27, 11 May 2011
- First - please weigh in over at WikiIndex:NewLogoDecision
- Second - look through these and make sure it represents what you would like to happen here.
Upgrade
data from http://wikiindex.org/Special:Version
- Extensions
- Installed extensions: SpecialInterwiki, CharInsert, InputBox, ParserFunctions, ConfirmEdit, SpamBlacklist,
UniversalEditButton (deprecated)
- Extensions to install: Cite, Renameuser, Semantic MediaWiki, Semantic Drilldown, Semantic Forms, Replace Text, WhosOnline, (AntiBot (used in Wikipedia) or Check Spambots)
- Extensions to install: AbuseFilter, Title Blacklist, CategoryTree, TorBlock, AntiSpoof, Nuke, CheckUser, TitleKey, OpenDocument Export
- Add an analytics package
check these above:
- SimpleAntiSpam extension
- Renameuser
- Semantic MediaWiki
- CITE for references
- Check Spambots
- Update captcha
- Replace text
- Upgrade Whos Online switched to WhosOnline
- Does the host have the DBA extension for PHP installed? The readme says it'll improve performance.
- Concerning DBA: If I get this page right it would be better to have APC rather than DBA.
- Next releases MediaWiki would need PHP 5.2.3 so we need to ensure that the new host has that version installed. It should also have MySQL 5.1 or later via: suggested
- this wiki is already running PHP 5.2.3 and MySQL 5.1.41
- Might need if recaptcha doesn't work:
- I have found that on my wiki (and various others) that reCAPTCHA has been "cracked". I now use VisualMathCaptcha which works well (for the moment) -- Carl McBride (talk) 05:27, 11 May 2011 (PDT)