Category talk:Active administrators of this wiki/Archive 2010-11: Difference between revisions

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Hey guys. [[Die freie Verschwörungsenzyklopädie]] has been renamed to "Verschwoerungen.info" but I can't rename the article because there exists a [[redirect]] with that title. Could you please do that for me? ^^ --[[User:Koveras|Koveras]] 03:40, 22 January 2011 (PST)

Question, I have marked the article pages with the [[Template:Spammer|spam tag]] so they can be found, but do we also mark the user's page with the [[Template:Spammer|spam tag]] as well? And if you need more help with this, I'm willing to [[WikiIndex:Spamcop|spamcop]] things. [[User:TeraS|TeraS]] 12:36, 13 March 2011 (PDT)

:: Yikes, Tera - thanks for tagging the spam.  My goal will be to try and get a new captcha on now - or push on the upgrade asap.  Best, [[MarkDilley]]

Sorry if I overstep my bounds, but I have been looking through this [[Special:Categories|category]] and I am finding that many of the links are dead, inaccurate, or spammy. I would like to know whether or not it is acceptable to simply delete those [[wiki]]s that are obvious spam magnets or otherwise are [[:Category:Dead|dead sites]] from the list. Assuming that the dead sites have to stay, can we mark them in the [[Template:Wiki dead|Dead Wiki]] category and then remove the add Category on them? I'm asking because having that many to correct and straighten out, over 600, seems excessive to me and do we need to keep wikis that were entered with little or no information on them? Thoughts? [[User:TeraS|TeraS]] 15:45, 4 April 2011 (PDT)

: ''Practice so far on this wiki is to [http://wikiindex.org/index.php?title=Dan_Dascalescu%27s_Wiki&diff=81813&oldid=80517 change the template].  Would be open to discussing different ways of handling past wiki.  That list is mostly from me.  It is my basic way of building [[WikiIndex]].  Originally I had called the project [[SwitchWiki]] - all I did was collect wiki - then in alphabetical lists - here in that list - until people asked that it not be used any longer.  So - now I keep a text file of wiki that I want to add - some of the more important ones I add pretty quickly - others languish on my text file! :-) As far as any spam or dead wikis on that list - I think it is fine to edit them away.  Best, [[MarkDilley]]''

If you look in the recent changes [[User:Emijrp|Emijrp]] has posted, a load of sites that are incomplete, generally have nothing to do with anything in a [[wiki]] format, and honestly, I think is just an attempt at a link farm to their pages. I call [[Template:Spammer|spammer]] on this, and want to remove it all and spam the user. Comments please before I do something? [[User:TeraS|TeraS]] 12:16, 8 April 2011 (PDT)

: Adding them in the template [[Template:Inactive|Inactive]] would be better than adding the [[:Category:dead]] - and Emijrp is here from a conversation we had in IRC I think. :-)  Thanks Tera for checking in here.  Great instincts!!  Going to a crazy editor and saying, 'What the heck are you doing, I don't understand' is good too :-)  - Very happy with how we are all working to figure stuff out.  Best, [[MarkDilley]]

::: Would someone check on these pages and tell me if I am right that they are spam? [[User:John s]] [[User talk:John s]] Thank you... [[User:TeraS|TeraS]] 06:27, 21 April 2011 (PDT)

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: Looks good to me!  No worries!!  You and everyone else battling spam are great!  My personal goal is to get an upgrade done by June 21st!! Fingers crossed.  Best, [[MarkDilley]]

: [[WikiIndex]] is supposed to be a index of [[wiki]]s. In order to create a page here, it must be about an wiki. The page you previously linked to was just an article on the [[German Wikipedia]], and I don't think http://www.holzminden.de is a [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki] either, since I can't seem to edit any pages.<br>If you feel that this city deserves its own wiki, I recommended you create it [http://www.referata.com/wiki/Creating_a_Referata_site/de at this site], then you can list it here.  Creating a wiki is a great way to share information about any subject of interest. '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]''', 06 17 2011

'''[[WikiIndex:Community portal|Community Portal]]''' — would it be worthwhile adding [[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki]] onto the Community Portal page?  Maybe in the pink section on the right under 'Community information'.  Sometimes it is handy to have a direct link to the Admins which is clearly visible from some of the 'main' or 'front pages'.

'''[[WikiIndex:AntiSpamMeasures|Spam]]''' — I've searched through the two main documents on the issue: [[WikiIndex:Spam Control Policy]] and [[WikiIndex:AntiSpamMeasures]] – and I'm struggling to find a definative spam control 'method' (or maybe I'm having a 'senior moment' . . .).  I noticed under the 'Spamming the spammers' heading that a [[:Category:Templates|template]] was considered – I went ahead and created a template for spammer users ([[Template:Spammer]]) – but I also think we need a similar template to place on actual articles that individuals ''think'' may be spam.

:: OK, I'm thinking of a kind of warning header banner, like say the 'unreferenced' on [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]].  If we have a spam banner for actual wiki entry articles, then an editor may place said spam banner on article if he/she ''thinks'' the article is spam (but isn't 100% sure) – and this would then promt other editors, or even the original poster to weigh in with a discussion (on its talk page).  Sometimes, it isn't obvious that you've been spammed, especially on an indexing site such as this.  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] 12:35, 21 June 2011 (PDT)

Hi guys. I've noticed several reports that reCaptcha has been (at least partially) broken. There is also a note to this effect on the page for the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit ConfirmEdit Extension]. From the reports I've seen on the MWusers.com forums (I'm a moderator there, so I see almost every post, but these are anecdotal, so take with a grain of salt), FancyCaptcha still seems to work. -[[User:Gwsuperfan|Gwsuperfan]] 23:48, 4 July 2011 (PDT)

We have been hammered with spam in the past day. Well over 100+ edits of spam and garbage have occurred from anonymous editors. Should we end the allowance for anonymous editing? Just a thought, but if this continues we will be dealing with spam and not improving our wiki I think. Thoughts? [[User:TeraS|TeraS]] 07:56, 29 July 2011 (PDT)

Is there any reason the now defunct [[Wiki1001]] is listed as a resource?  That's my sarcastic way of suggesting its removal from the sidebar be considered.  :)  --[[GregVarnum]] | <small>[[User talk:Varnent|talk]]</small> 04:17, 30 July 2011 (PDT)

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: how about using the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleAntiSpam SimpleAntiSpam Extension]? [[User:Escyos|Escyos]] 04:13, 1 November 2011 (PDT)

:::: [[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit|ConfirmEdit]] is working if you activate the best module for the job. So far it seems that only [[mw:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha|QuestyCAPTCHA]] is doing the job. After it was enabled spam decreased by > 95% on e.g. [http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org semantic-mediawiki.org]. I guess Mark should organise the change asap. Cheers --[[User:Kghbln|&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93;]] 09:28, 1 December 2011 (PST)