New Australian Bus 'Wiki' website

[Hornibrook]

I like the idea, but theres hardly anybody on there, or anyone posting.

[PRT 065]

Just noticed in http://bus.org.au/index.php/Special:Version That the Version of media wiki os 3 sub versions out of date .

also is it posible to have the import page function enabled to import pages properly from wikipedia and other wikimedia wikis.

[Hornibrook]

Just noticed in http://bus.org.au/index.php/Special:Version That the Version of media wiki os 3 sub versions out of date .

also is it posible to have the import page function enabled to import pages properly from wikipedia and other wikimedia wikis.

That probably defeats the purpose in the first place. I mean why replicate something that is already there.

[PRT 065]

The import function can be used to import templates in a much more trublesome way as when i export it also exports the other templates needed to work.

[Fleet Lists]

And by now most pages are SPAM.

Can anyone clean this up so it now just not worth looking at with all the rubbish which is on it.

I nearly feel like removing the link to it from the home page.

[PRT 065]

I am in the process of deleting and banning the spam users now. Ideally I would like to have some more sysop users on the wiki. But that requires bureaucrat access to do.

[PRT 065]

There has been 56 spam entries which i have just deleted. It has been about 3 weeks since i removed the last lot of spam.

see the Deletion log for further details.

[Fleet Lists]

That is great.

But the log just showed No matching items in log.

[PRT 065]

I Have fixed that link up. http://bus.org.au/index.php/Special:Log/delete

Unfortunately due to the way the wiki is set up only Ken and I have the access to delete spam on the wiki. Hopefully if he gets around to it we can promote some more users to have this access.

Another change to the wiki that I have been discussing is to install a small modification to the wikI to enable using the forum account for login to the wiki. This can be also set up so users would need to be established on the forum before being granted the ability to edit the wiki. ( by disallowing the usergroup of new members onto the wiki)

Let me know your thoughts on this matter.

Regards Matt,
(037291 on the wiki)

[Fleet Lists]

That sounds good. I like the bit about disallowing those in the new members usergroup.

[Fleet Lists]

It did not take long for another one to get in at http://bus.org.au/index.php/Just_droppe ... ication_50 which was posted yesterday 18th May,

[shovelyjoe]

The Brisbane Busway stations' pages need a bit of improvement formatting wise. Whoever wrote them has done a good job and I like the way they've been done but there are still numerous unnecessary or out of place formatting characters on these pages.

I've deleted two spam pages and thanks to the efforts of PRT 065 there is a lot less spam on the BusWiki now than there was before.

[huyie]

Can the wiki be integrated with the forum, with say http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension ... le_Sign-On
This would help to help to stop new spam accounts being created for the time being and encourage people to use it (would help if an anti-spam regex script was installed).

Never realised how bad the wiki has become with the spam.

[Fleet Lists]

With the new link which was brought into use a few weeks ago, is there still SPAM? I can not see any. http://www.busaustralia.com/wiki/index. ... =Main_Page

It was certainly unusable because of the SPAM before then.

[huyie]

Spam will still be prevalent, especially if nothing is done to prevent bots from auto registering accounts (especially if there is no CAPTCHA set up).

[huyie]

Is there any chance of installing the ParserFunctions Extension to the bus wiki, so that I can transfer/copy some templates that I was creating from wikipedia?

Can this please be installed? I would like to fix up a template, and not worth the trouble fixing up all the entries from the template until it is done.

[PRT 065]

We already have separate Single sign in modification that is just waiting for a time where both Ken and I are free to configure it.

Also if you want to import just use the import tool. http://busaustralia.com/wiki/index.php? ... ial:Import

[huyie]

Can I suggest the following extension be installed:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist and
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

Both are known to help remove spam on most custom wikis.

[huyie]

Spam is back, and would highly suggest installing the above extensions to prevent the sudden increase in spam. Won't do much about spam bots self registering, but will stop most of them posting getting though.

Any chance that I can get promoted to administrator rights at some point in the future?

[huyie]

The wiki disappeared?

Edit: I see it back up again, but lots of spam accumulated in the last few days

[PRT 065]

An update for everyone on the Outage during the last few days.

1- The Wiki has been moved back to bus.org.au

2- a redirect has been set up from busaustralia.com/wiki to bus.org.au . If this doesn't work please clear your cache and try again.

3- Some styling images are still to be fixed on the wiki

4- Bus Wiki has a Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/BusWiki - Any minor outages will be updated there.

5- We now have a mass delete tool in operation . About once a week i go through and delete the spam that is added.


Regards PRT 065

Queensland Moderator and Bus Wiki Admin

[Fleet Lists]

I can not get it to work
Then in the facebook page it says "To connect with Bus Wiki, sign up for Facebook today."

Does that mean I need to sign up there before I can see wiki?

So far I have resisted joining facebook in any way.

[huyie]

Can I suggest a complete lock down on the account creation, as a means to deal with the spam for the time being?

Also, unable to make an edits due to this error:

A database error has occurred. Did you forget to run maintenance/update.php after upgrading? See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:U ... ate_script
Query: SELECT rev_id,rev_page,rev_text_id,rev_timestamp,rev_comment,rev_user_text,rev_user,rev_minor_edit,rev_deleted,rev_len,rev_parent_id,rev_sha1,page_namespace,page_title,page_id,page_latest,user_name FROM `revision` INNER JOIN `page` ON ((page_id = rev_page)) LEFT JOIN `user` ON ((rev_user != 0) AND (user_id = rev_user)) WHERE page_id = '46' AND rev_id = '5842' LIMIT 1
Function: Revision::fetchFromConds
Error: 1054 Unknown column 'rev_sha1' in 'field list' (localhost)

Looks like the above error is in relation to this:

Database error
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
(SQL query hidden)
from within function "Revision::fetchFromConds". Database returned error "1054: Unknown column 'rev_sha1' in 'field list' (localhost)".

Full link after redirection too main page is: http://www.bus.org.au/index.php?title=Main_Page

[PRT 065]

Does that mean I need to sign up there before I can see wiki?

No - The Facebook page is just another way to get information on any issues.

Also, unable to make an edits due to this error:

This should be rectified. , I was in the process of updating the Wiki at the time.

Can I suggest a complete lock down on the account creation

Once i get a better grasp of setting permissions i will be changing it to prevent immediate creation of new pages.

Also for those who blank newly created spam pages , Please don't do that as the removal tool can't detect it.

Regards,

PRT 065

[huyie]

Once i get a better grasp of setting permissions i will be changing it to prevent immediate creation of new pages.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access comes in handy. Just be careful with any sysop related settings.