RE: [coLinux-devel] Re: switching to mediawiki

[peter g. <plu...@bi...>]

btw bottom posting is a really strange way to reply to messages most people
either top post or only quote small peices of the original message

i installed mediawiki here
infintely long range blocks are possible using CIDR
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Range_blocks

[01:18] <plugwash> is it possible to permanently block ranges in mediawiki?
[01:20] <Rdsmith4> I think "indefinite" and "infinite" are permitted
[01:21] <Rdsmith4> ...but it's always possible to unblock them later

[01:34] <plugwash> The sysop ability to create range blocks is disabled. <--
how do i change this?
[01:36] * Tim-away is now known as TimStarling
[01:36] <TimStarling> morning
[01:37] <TimStarling> $wgSysopRangeBans = true;
[01:38] <plugwash> what file is that in?
[01:42] <TimStarling> LocalSettings.php
[01:42] <TimStarling> you have to add the line

however it seems that wikipedia won't let me block more than a /16 at a time
is this a problem

> -----Original Message-----
> From: col...@li...
> [mailto:col...@li...]On Behalf Of Olivier
> Souiry
> Sent: 31 October 2004 01:08
> To: col...@li...
> Subject: Re: [coLinux-devel] Re: switching to mediawiki
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Liddicott" <sa...@li...>
> To: <col...@li...>
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 10:05 PM
> Subject: [coLinux-devel] Re: switching to mediawiki
>
>
> > peter green wrote:
> > > im a heavy user of wikipedia and mediawiki seems far more
> polished than
> > > what is used on the colinux wiki
> > >
> > > for instance it has seperate discussion pages where the page
> in question
> > > can be discussed
> > >
> > > what do others think?
> >
> > At a wild guess, if someone is volunteering to set it up on behalf of Mr
> > Aloni, and act as editor-in-cheif, I would guess that those advantages
> > would out-weigh any disadvantages that anyone might be able to come up
> > with. Perhaps someone with design skills to do a skin for it too.
> >
> > I like the idea but I'm not volunteering to do it.
> >
> > Sam
>
>
> I second peter suggestion. a big advantage is a common look and user
> interface with Wikipedia. some other projects (like Gentoo)
> already use it.
>
>
> we don't have enough content to make the migration difficult : about 200
> pages. the syntax is pretty different, but nothing really bad. it can be
> automated, but about only 25 have really heavily formatted content. maybe
> there are some PhpWiki to Wikimedia translators, otherwise its
> only 3 hours
> of work on a real connection (wikipedia engine on localhost). I can take
> care of that.
>
>
> the One Big Thing I would stress is that we need a way to ban
> some ip ranges
> from China and Korea mostly. some guys specializes in Wiki spamming to
> increase their Google page ranks, and no, reverting vandalized
> pages is not
> enough : they are back after a few hours.
>
> in a few weeks, they will use robots, proxies, bots, whatever, we must be
> ready to block them (whole ip ranges) and even to disallow
> anonymous editing
> if necessary. we must have some admin cop with facist behaviour
> considering
> these issues, and maybe learn some expertise from the Wikipedia project.
>
>
> otherwise, this Wiki we be canned junk before you know it, like so many
> others.
>
>
> Regards, Olivier Souiry
>
>
>
>
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