Sisters Wiki

29 Sep 2009, 17:36

how's this?

http://sisterswiki.org/Twothousandfive

29 Sep 2009, 18:02

Quiff Boy wrote:also, i will be installed a simple security feature that requires logged out users to solve a simple maths problem when editing a page

eg, when they try submitting the edited page they will be asked something like "what is 65-13?" and if they answer incorrectly the edit will be rejected.

for now i will set it so that logged in users do not need to go through this step (so be sure to log in when you're updating stuff, Being645!)

let's see how effective that is

done. seems to work ok, so lets see how it goes...

Being645 · 29 Sep 2009, 21:33

Quiff Boy wrote: also, i will be installed a simple security feature that requires logged out users to solve a simple maths problem when editing a page

let's see how effective that is

... like we had it before ... might serve as a certain barrier for fully automated spamming at least ...

Quiff Boy wrote:how's this?

http://sisterswiki.org/Twothousandfive

Cool, works perfectly well...

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Changing the link in the Gigography has created two Redirect Pages (Europe 2005 and The Next One)
which, in my opinion, could be deleted since nothing links there ...

http://sisterswiki.org/Special:Whatlink ... ousandfive

30 Sep 2009, 16:59

the anti-spam stuff seems to have worked - there's been nothing in the ~24 hours since i installed it

and i've tidied up those two redirect pages... thanks

Being645 · 01 Oct 2009, 10:30

Seems to work ...

...
However, during the last round of extensive "spamming" someone has filled the
Band History page with links of entirely no avail ... and created quite a few
useless pages which IMHO might be deleted ... since nothing links there ...

I've taken the links out of the text, but the pages are still there, of course ...

Here's the list of ...

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Cover version
Indie rock
Music chart
October 22
1990
1990 in music
Maggie Railey
1991
East West
B-side
MP3

01 Oct 2009, 10:40

i dont quite understand what you mean

Being645 · 01 Oct 2009, 11:28

Oh, I see, so:

http://sisterswiki.org/Cover_version
http://sisterswiki.org/Indie_rock
http://sisterswiki.org/Music_chart
http://sisterswiki.org/October_22
http://sisterswiki.org/1990
http://sisterswiki.org/1990_in_music
http://sisterswiki.org/Maggie_Railey
http://sisterswiki.org/1991
http://sisterswiki.org/EastWest
http://sisterswiki.org/B-side
http://sisterswiki.org/MP3

There are surely other such pages, but I've not jet detected a complete list
of pages to give them a proper check ...

01 Oct 2009, 11:37

ahh, i see!

right, i've removed those, thanks

although the EastWest page seems to have a couple of pages linking to it:

http://sisterswiki.org/Special:Whatlinkshere/EastWest

those 2 links should probably be external links to the eastwest website or their wikipedia page? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_West_Records

dont know how you identify external inks though - never really edited wikipages that much

01 Oct 2009, 11:44

aha!

http://sisterswiki.org/Andrew_Eldritch# ... s_of_Mercy
http://sisterswiki.org/First_and_Last_a ... 28album%29

done

Being645 · 01 Oct 2009, 14:12

Perfect now!...

http://sisterswiki.org/EastWest

... on the other hand, you can as well dustbin it, since nothing likes there anyway ...

unless I set the link to this again in the Band History ... no problem, either ...

Btw. external links have this special change page sign ...

Being645 · 30 Oct 2009, 07:44

So here's the next dose of superfluous double pages in the Wiki which should be deleted ...

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However, the Wiki is slowly improving a bit ...

Nadia81 · 30 Oct 2009, 16:31

Due,in no small part, to all the work you've done.Thank you,Being645.

Being645 · 30 Oct 2009, 17:14

... oh, it's not only me, at the moment there's also Patti ...

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Everybody can do something there ... first, one should, however, take a look on how it works ...

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but then it's not much of a problem ...

and if there is ... there's the HELP in almost every language and there are administrators ...

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Patti82 · 30 Oct 2009, 18:04

No problem, happy to help out

Now if we could only figure out why we can't create new pages?

Being645 · 03 Nov 2009, 16:18

So, the damned Wiki is improving ... HOWEVER, some things cannot be done
without some consultation and co-operation with any administrators ...

OK, I confess: I do hate the word Wiki from the first day I've ever read it somewhere in the internet ...

... insofar, I suggest we rename this one into Sister Kawa ...
(as a little less dumb example) if this should make things easier ...

Joking aside ... there are many pages (like those mentioned above), that should be deleted properly ...
as well as some "users" - the talk of which I've removed last night ...

Any other suggestions?

Patti82 · 03 Nov 2009, 20:56

We also need to restore a few pages that just shows up as not being there when you click on them. (But when you check edits you can see that things have been added.. ) Such as this one: http://sisterswiki.org/The_Incredible_H ... %26_Vol._2

Being645 · 03 Nov 2009, 22:44

Being645 wrote: ... there are many pages (like those mentioned above), that should be deleted properly ... as well as some "users"

... like here ... http://sisterswiki.org/index.php?title= ... amespace=2

04 Nov 2009, 11:16

Being645 wrote:
Being645 wrote: ... there are many pages (like those mentioned above), that should be deleted properly ... as well as some "users"
... like here ... http://sisterswiki.org/index.php?title= ... amespace=2

i've deleted the spammy users pages.

04 Nov 2009, 13:52

and i've tidied up the external links section at the bottom of the front page

http://sisterswiki.org/

makes a bit more sense now...

Being645 · 04 Nov 2009, 15:51

Ah thanks, that's clearly pretty something ... ...

BUT ... I wish I could delete superfluous pages ... and above all
those which have disappeared - all of them in the bootlegs section, as far as I could gather ...

Like for example ...
http://sisterswiki.org/The_Grief%2C_Lon ... 23.12.1982
http://sisterswiki.org/Zig_Zag_Club%2C_ ... 10.07.1982
http://sisterswiki.org/Carmina_Burana%2 ... 19.02.1983

and plenty (really) more.
As long as the links to these pages are there, it's not easy to create them anew ...
For some of them it's enough to take a shorter or longer name but for others ...

If you do a search for example for The Incredible History Of The Sisters Vol. 2
http://sisterswiki.org/Special:Search?s ... ters&go=Go

you are told there were no such page and you might create it
- but you can't and this pages existed - Patti has even uploaded the cover pictures to it ...

see ... http://sisterswiki.org/Image:The_incred ... #filelinks

and it is linked to the respective page but what you get is ...
http://sisterswiki.org/The_Incredible_H ... s_-_Vol._2

We tried several different names to create another page like this but it just doesn't work ...

PLEASE help ...

... this problem has to be resolved.

04 Nov 2009, 16:19

hmmm, that's beyond me i'm afraid

anyone here with more mediawiki knowledge able to help?

Being645 · 04 Nov 2009, 16:56

I've send a request for help to Poison Door as well ....

DocSommer · 04 Nov 2009, 18:41

Is it possible that this example can't be opened because of the dot inside the wiki article title:

http://sisterswiki.org/The_Incredible_H ... ters_-_Vol._2

Maybe that tiny dot does forcing any browser to find an object/file with the ending "*._2"

Being645 · 04 Nov 2009, 19:50

Seems you're perfectly right ...

So preferrably no dots within page titles ... that's at least a little progress, thanks ...

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Still, we gotta get rid of all these non-existing pages ...

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Patti82 · 04 Nov 2009, 20:16

There seems to be a limit of 150kB for the photos, is it OK to upload lager ones? You can ignore the warning, but I haven't wanted to do so since I don't know if there is a space limit to the "Kawa" to use Being645's own words