Some Wiki Updates

Stefano Rivera — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:55:05 GMT

I've just spent an afternoon and evening on the local wikis I look after: CLUG, Freedom Toaster, and GeekDinner.

They've all been upgraded to MediaWiki 1.11.0, with reCAPTCHA on sign-ups, and OpenID support.

If you are a user of one of these wikis, you can go to Special:OpenIDConvert (CLUG, FT, GeekDinner) to add OpenID to your account.

In the past, the CLUG wiki has had minimal wikispam, because we thought up some clever regexes, that blocked spammers from editing. However spammers would still sign up, before they tried to edit. This has left the wiki with over a thousand bogous users. Not that that is a problem in itself, but it becomes a bore when you want to guess somebody's wikiname to give them "Bureaucrat" status for example.

So jerith talked himself into coding up a quick SQL query to find all these bogus users, and a python script to remove them. Any history they've had has been assigned to the "Spammer" user, and they have been wiped from the wiki. If, in our zealousness, we've deleted any legitimate users who've simply never edited the wiki, we apologise. Maybe if you contribute something, it won't happen again... :-)

More ClugPark work

Stefano Rivera — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:01:08 GMT

Well, we've now got a custom theme for http://park.clug.org.za/ (by superfly, thanks!) I still want to hack planetplanet to death, but that can wait until they decide on their direction...

In the meantime, I've been brushing up my mediawiki hacking for the ClugPark gallery. Mediawiki is a monster!

The select query looks like this:

$select = "SELECT page_namespace, page_title, old_text, img_description "
          . "FROM " . $dbr->tableName('page') . " "
          . "LEFT JOIN " . $dbr->tableName('revision') . " ON page_latest = rev_id "
          . "LEFT JOIN " . $dbr->tableName('text') . " ON old_id = rev_text_id "
          . "LEFT JOIN " . $dbr->tableName('image') . " ON page_title = img_name "
          . "INNER JOIN " . $dbr->tableName('categorylinks') . " "
          . "ON page_id = cl_from AND cl_to = " . $dbr->addQuotes($catKey) . " ";
$where = " WHERE page_namespace = " . $wgContLang->getNsIndex('Image') . " "
         . "ORDER BY page_title ";

Yup. Lovely stuff. Anyway, when I'm happy with the extension, I'll post it somewhere... (Same goes for my other mediawiki extenisons)

Stefano Rivera (Posts about mediawiki)

Some Wiki Updates

More ClugPark work