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Lobster · Posted: Fri 06 Jul 2007, 11:04 Post subject:

thanks Raffy - I should have said trying to register (I base this on the tmxxine wiki behaviour)

I hope eventually that users can register without asking permission - and that is just a temp measure Smile

Lobster · Posted: Sat 07 Jul 2007, 08:09 Post subject:

I am geting this when trying to edit a page on the wiki

alienjeff · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2290 Location: Winsted, CT - USA

Though I'm not certain it's the exact text, I got a similar response last night when trying to utilize the search feature. Several minutes later I tried again and was greeted with the appropriate wiki search page. Weird.

-aj

Lobster · Posted: Mon 09 Jul 2007, 10:17 Post subject:

The main wiki page is now displaying this:

JohnRoberts · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 145 Location: Greece

...

(Aaargh!!!) Evil or Very Mad

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

It's a table error in MySQL that could be repaired via the control panel, which only Barry has access to.

Or servage.net admins can do it for us, but their customer is still Barry.

Lobster · Posted: Tue 10 Jul 2007, 02:57 Post subject:

have sent Barry a message - the repair process is automatic, so should be simple enough

Hope so Smile

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

things seem to be intermittent.

the past couple hours when i got the error i just pounded refresh and usually the page popped back open.

BarryK · Posted: Tue 10 Jul 2007, 04:26 Post subject:

Okay, I did a repair on the wikka_referrers table, the main page of the wiki seems okay now.

Lobster · Posted: Tue 10 Jul 2007, 09:39 Post subject:

Lobster · Posted: Wed 11 Jul 2007, 01:14 Post subject:

This bot is using a genuine sounding name (with the same name as the page)
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/CamelCase

(have left the page unaltered to show that the page is not genuine editing)

Please remove the user CamelCase
Has the wiki been backed up?

This may herald a new form of abuse
Please keep an eye on 'recently updated' (top of wiki)
The only posts where user and page name should match is personal pages

I will (with apologies) be deleting some of these 'personal pages' that are only two lines or seem like 'tests'

If anyone feels like putting some kindly suggestions to wikka developers that their security needs updating and a major upgrade is overdue . . . that would be useful (remeber wikka is free - no one is entitled to development work - play nice)

http://wikkawiki.org/HomePage

We are two versions behind (in terms of wikka software) but I am using the latest wikka at tmxxine.com and experiencing similar problems to the puppy wiki

Smile

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

CamelCase and similar company were long gone - it's safe to delete those "poisonous links" now.

phpBB has a feature that substitutes phrases for some words.

Lobster · Posted: Wed 11 Jul 2007, 04:51 Post subject:

Wiki seems OK again
If there are any pages that you think need deleting (for what ever reason) let me know Smile

Many thanks to everyone helping to sort this. We get wiki attacks aprox once per month. A bit of spam on pages, which I revert. It is normally a two day attack. This one extended to a third day and so required a bit more attention Smile