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raffy · #21 Post by **raffy** » Thu 30 Jul 2009, 03:48

Good idea.

You will need an email address for that, please PM or email it to me.

Lobster · #22 Post by **Lobster** » Thu 30 Jul 2009, 04:33

Anyone can register and start editing
Here is FAQS info on editing
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/UsingThisWiki

growler · #23 Post by **growler** » Thu 30 Jul 2009, 07:41

Lobster - you can set an invitation code which make's life a bit more tricky for robot wiki spammers to register - there is also a captcha? on some such name that creates an image of a series of characters required to authenticate a registration as a real person. This is an "action" extension to wakka wiki I believe. I haven't gone to those lengths since the invitation code did it for us at http://www.weberp.org - the invitation code is listed on the login page so it is clear for folks - but rarely get spam now.

You can also set the default ACLs for comments to only allow registered users I think its a $ sign - you have to do this in the wakka.config.php to make it the default

Lobster · #24 Post by **Lobster** » Thu 30 Jul 2009, 08:32

there is a capcha here - maybe Raffy can add it

http://wikkawiki.org/FreeCap

raffy · #25 Post by **raffy** » Thu 30 Jul 2009, 14:05

Live spammers also read captcha and invitation codes.

Adding users to the wiki is fast, so it's no problem if I handle it.

So far comments are for everyone, but admins can watch out for spam comments.

hillside · #26 Post by **hillside** » Fri 31 Jul 2009, 00:24

I've been looking through the formatting page, but I can't find how to force a CamelCase entry to NOT be a link. I'm sure there's a way to do this. Sometimes names of applications use CamelCase in their name and you don't want it to link back to itself.

DOH!! I just figured it out. Double quotes are the trick. ""TeXt""

Lobster · #27 Post by **Lobster** » Fri 31 Jul 2009, 05:05

Hillside have added instructs here:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/UsingThisWiki

also check here in future

http://demo.wikkawiki.org/FormattingRules

droope · #28 Post by **droope** » Sat 01 Aug 2009, 12:09

Hi, is this updated?

Cheers!

J_Rey · #29 Post by **J_Rey** » Sat 01 Aug 2009, 13:16

OK. I guess I was not clear enough before but the new Wikka Wakka Wiki install has been unreasonably slow and often gives different Query Failed errors with "MySQL server has gone away" at the end. For example when the page won't load it gives me an error like this:

Code: Select all

Query failed: SELECT COUNT(tag) FROM wikka_pages WHERE tag='HomePage' AND latest='Y' (MySQL server has gone away)

Now sometimes the page loads fine and sometimes I've waited over 30 minutes to try to load a page before giving up.
This blog post gives a lot of tips as to why we might be getting these errors but it doesn't look easy to fix. Do we have a shared hosting plan with HostGator or is it a dedicated server? Who has the kind of admin access to fix these errors besides Raffy (so they can also be notified)?

I answered my own question on why we don't just upgrade the original wiki when I looked up who was hosting what and noticed that Barry is still hosting the old wiki and we (the Puppy community) are hosting the new ones. It also makes sense to start over with afresh so its less cluttered with old versus new. Although until these issues are fixed I don't see a point to using the new wiki. So we could also just revise and delete portions of the old wiki and use that if the new wiki and our current webhost is not working together well (like with Drupal).

Lobster · #30 Post by **Lobster** » Sat 01 Aug 2009, 13:32

Hi, is this updated?

Nope. Please update if you have time

raffy · #31 Post by **raffy** » Sat 01 Aug 2009, 14:24

J_Rey wrote:It also makes sense to start over with afresh so its less cluttered with old versus new. Although until these issues are fixed I don't see a point to using the new wiki. So we could also just revise and delete portions of the old wiki and use that if the new wiki and our current webhost is not working together well (like with Drupal).

Good points, J_Rey, thanks.

It looks like we cant run both Drupal and the new wiki together, as Drupal causes "out of memory" error in the server.

Prit would know how to handle this. Will communicate with him.

J_Rey · #32 Post by **J_Rey** » Mon 17 Aug 2009, 13:21

Well, after I registered for the new wiki, my problems disappeared. So it looks like it is a known problem with all current Wikka versions. Admins please implement the solution, when you can. Thanks!

Edit: edited URLs to include comments which seem to have a workaround till a new version is released.

raffy · #33 Post by **raffy** » Tue 18 Aug 2009, 03:17

that post was in 2005, and am having difficulty searching for the code (while online, that is) in the new version. will retry tonight or tomorrow when i have more time. thanks for the info.

J_Rey · #34 Post by **J_Rey** » Wed 19 Aug 2009, 18:02

I found some reasons why we are having slow DNS and other problems by looking at the results from:
http://www.intodns.com/puppylinux.org
Please complain to HostGator and include that link as to why.

Also, I edited my links to include the comment that has the patch code in it and is specifically currently found at:
http://wush.net/trac/wikka/browser/bran ... .php#L1669

Thanks!

Caneri · #35 Post by **Caneri** » Wed 19 Aug 2009, 18:13

Y'all may want to consider editdns.net

Very fast propagation...Eric

raffy · #36 Post by **raffy** » Fri 21 Aug 2009, 13:50

Thanks to J_Rey's work, I have modified the code accordingly.

Let us know if the change causes any problem.

Lobster · #37 Post by **Lobster** » Mon 24 Aug 2009, 07:38

Eric, (Caneri), raffy and others will be aware of how
the biggest problem with any site is commercial spammer bots

Well . . .
the wiki at the moment gets the occasional spam comment
linking to the usual porn and 'wood straightening' medication
I delete those

This morning 3 arrived (deleted those) and changed the access for that page to registered user - a shame.

So more editors welcome (write to raffy - PM from this site) to keep an eye on the site
Thanks guys

droope · #38 Post by **droope** » Wed 26 Aug 2009, 01:52

Hi Lobster,

I will investigate more on wikka wiki and anti-spam methods, and comment

. I think this will be a much better aproach.

Did drupal have spam?

Edit:
This is interesting, tho not intended for wikka wiki:
http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/UMassWiki ... _Mediawiki

Cheers!
Droope

Lobster · #39 Post by **Lobster** » Wed 26 Aug 2009, 02:59

droope wrote:
Did drupal have spam?

Cheers!
Droope

Yes

Is Monty Python responsible?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

One of our spook sponsored MP's (and Lawdyness)
is atempting to use stealth to police the internet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... n-attacked

Police spammers? Seems not

Anyway look forward to any recommendations you come up with

droope · #40 Post by **droope** » Thu 27 Aug 2009, 22:42

Hi there. Didn't have the time today.

Sorry.

Anyway, some investigation I did on the past, shows that a simple text captcha stop almost 90% of the spam. Wouldn't that be nice?

I'll find some links for implementing those in wikka, and, if impossible, when possible, I'll try to give a hand.

Can't make promises though.

Two minutes on my cibercafe time left,

Cheers!, And good luck!

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