Difference between revisions of "User talk:Malechite"

Latest revision as of 03:33, 9 December 2019

Front page updating

Hey man, we are discussing in the ninwiki thread on ETS that we need a couple of folks to have permission to edit the main page so we can add the recent soundtracks and their respective icons to get it up to date. Can you please check in at ETS when you get a chance? Cheers!

Ryan (talk) 19:33, 8 December 2019 (PST)

Spamming

Hey, theres a spammer/bot that keeps posting irrelevant pages. If you could IP block, .htacces deny a few ranges, or something of that nature it would help. I'm currently doing my best to blank pages that are posted from the spammers but it's not really working. I figured you had access to those sorts of things since your the server expert. Aldude999 19:25, 11 March 2011 (PST)

IP block is not currently working. So yeah, we're just having to do it piece by piece until it's working, sorry for inconvenience! Also, can you not blank a page that previously had content on (ie: Main page talk), an undo is fine for that sheepdean Try to speak as clearly as you can 20:09, 11 March 2011 (PST)

Oh, I apologize, but I do believe that it had been previously blanked when the spammer posted to it, I could be wrong about that though. If I may suggest, editing the .htaccess file, if that hasn't been tried already, but it is also possible the bot/spammer has either a dynamic IP, or there is multiple bots.

Yeah, the spammer replaced all the text, but an undo should've reverted it back to the previous form. I sorted it out, and it's not a big deal, but these little bastards are going to keep annoying us until it gets sorted. And when Malechite gets online, he'll sort it all (I'm only an admin, can't fix such things) sheepdean Try to speak as clearly as you can 20:17, 11 March 2011 (PST)

Yeah, I broke all of the anti-spam stuff when i upgraded to the latest mediawiki, so i've got to redo it. I added blacklists today, but i guess they didnt take. -Malechite 22:55, 11 March 2011 (PST)

Captcha is now working correctly -Malechite 23:12, 11 March 2011 (PST)

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+==Front page updating==
+Hey man, we are discussing in the ninwiki thread on ETS that we need a couple of folks to have permission to edit the main page so we can add the recent soundtracks and their respective icons to get it up to date. Can you please check in at ETS when you get a chance? Cheers!
-== [[NinWiki:Newsletter|NinWiki Newsletter]] Issue #2. ==
+[[User:Ryan|Ryan]] ([[User talk:Ryan|talk]]) 19:33, 8 December 2019 (PST)
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+Hey, theres a spammer/bot that keeps posting irrelevant pages. If you could IP block, .htacces deny a few ranges, or something of that nature it would help. I'm currently doing my best to blank pages that are posted from the spammers but it's not really working. I figured you had access to those sorts of things since your the server expert. [[User:Aldude999|Aldude999]] 19:25, 11 March 2011 (PST)
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+:IP block is not currently working. So yeah, we're just having to do it piece by piece until it's working, sorry for inconvenience! Also, can you not blank a page that previously had content on (ie: Main page talk), an undo is fine for that [[User:Sheepdean|sheepdean]] [[User_talk:Sheepdean|Try to speak as clearly as you can]] 20:09, 11 March 2011 (PST)
-! <div style="margin: 0; background-color:#cef2e0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;">Things to Do</div>
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+::Oh, I apologize, but I do believe that it had been previously blanked when the spammer posted to it, I could be wrong about that though. If I may suggest, editing the .htaccess file, if that hasn't been tried already, but it is also possible the bot/spammer has either a dynamic IP, or there is multiple bots.
-|style="color:#000"|What can you do to help out in the NIN Wiki?
+:::Yeah, the spammer replaced all the text, but an undo should've reverted it back to the previous form. I sorted it out, and it's not a big deal, but these little bastards are going to keep annoying us until it gets sorted. And when Malechite gets online, he'll sort it all (I'm only an admin, can't fix such things) [[User:Sheepdean|sheepdean]] [[User_talk:Sheepdean|Try to speak as clearly as you can]] 20:17, 11 March 2011 (PST)
-* Give categories to [[Special:Uncategorizedpages|articles which do not have any]]
-* [[Special:Deadendpages|Dead-end pages]] need to have links added to them
+::::Yeah, I broke all of the anti-spam stuff when i upgraded to the latest mediawiki, so i've got to redo it. I added blacklists today, but i guess they didnt take. -[[User:Malechite|Malechite]] 22:55, 11 March 2011 (PST)
-* Work on the [[Nine Inch Nails]], the [[Trent Reznor]] article, or
-* Work on [[:Category:Expand|other pages which need expanding]]
-* Help new users!
+::::Captcha is now working correctly -[[User:Malechite|Malechite]] 23:12, 11 March 2011 (PST)
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-! <div style="margin: 0; background:#cef2e0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;">''Name Of The Song''</div>
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-*All First Letters Must Be Capitalized For Releases And Song Titles
-*Song titles should be in "quotes", while album titles should be in ''italics''
-*Page names for songs should be '''Song Title''', unless there is also a [[Halo numbers|halo]] for it, in which case it should be '''Song Title (song)'''
-*Page names for [[Halo numbers|halos]] should be '''Song Title (halo)'''
-*For example: [[With Teeth (song)]] and [[With Teeth (halo)]]
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-! <div style="margin: 0; background:#cef2e0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;">NinWiki IRC</div>
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-| style="color:#000"|If you would like to chat with us, the '''NinWiki IRC''' channel is located on Freenode. You can access it with many IRC clients by clicking [irc://irc.freenode.net/ninwiki this link], or if you don't have an IRC client, go [http://java.freenode.net/ here] and enter your NinWiki name in the nickname space, and ninwiki in the channel space. If you would like to download an IRC client, check out [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IRC_clients Wikipedia's list of IRC clients].
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-! <div style="margin: 0; background-color:#cedff2; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;">Focus on NIN Discography</div>
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-The Nine Inch Nails discography is expansive and can be confusing. A Wiki is the perfect place to catalog, in detail, each NIN release and NIN song. To help out:
-*Create song pages using the [[NinWiki:SongLayout|Song Layout]], which will standardize song pages.
-*Add the [[:Category:NIN Songs|NIN Songs]] category to songs and the [[:Category:NIN Discography|NIN Discography]] category to releases and etc.
-*<u>Do not</u> add links to mp3 files of songs. If you ''really'' think the article needs it, ask an [[NinWiki:Staff|Admin]] first.
-*Add [[Year Zero]] stuff as it comes up. After all, that's what this Wiki was created for originally!
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-Wikipedia can be a great resource to study when writing NinWiki articles, but it's important to remember to '''never copy word for word what Wikipedia says'''. It's not illegal, it's just bad practice. Let's build a great wiki from the ground up :-).
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