PandoraWiki updated to latest MediaWiki version

[EvilDragon]

As the topic says it, I just upgrade the Pandora Wiki to the latest MediaWiki version.


It was quite a hassle since they updated skinning system, thumbnailing, etc., but I think I fixed most of the errors and it seems to work okay so far.


Please test if everything is okay or still missing.


In worst case, I can also revert to the old version, but I'd rather keep up-to-date

 

[Wally]

Can't login.. Apparently I need cookies enabled.

 

[notaz]

Yeah logging in is botched.

 

[Esn]

Thanks ED, but from what I can see it hasn't helped with the spam problem.


The question when one registers has to be something that a robot cannot answer; currently it's just a simple math question, so we're getting constant registration of bot accounts.


Unfortunately, I can't seem to find instructions on how to manually change that question. Perhaps this is the right tool, but I'm not sure:


http://www.mediawiki...mUserCreateForm


EDIT: Also, after logging out I too am unable to log back in again.

 

[EvilDragon]

Okay, I'll check with the logging.

 

[SNESFAN]

I had to take my mediawiki down from my site. It got completely infested with spambots, by the time i realized there was a problem I had over 2000 registered bots.


They even got past the captia so I took it down until I found a solution


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[Linux-SWAT]

Front page is messed up:


http://pandorawiki.org/Main_Page

 

[EvilDragon]

Front page is messed up:


http://pandorawiki.org/Main_Page

How exactly?

 

[ekianjo]

Front page is messed up:


http://pandorawiki.org/Main_Page

How exactly?

text is on top of each other, at least in chromium.

 

[iridepolarbears]

No thumbnail images, and bad image links across the top of the page.


On Chrome

 

[diligentcircle]

Spoiler

 

[EvilDragon]

Ah, my cache had the images, so it showed fine for me.


Hrrrm... using fcgid for php makes thumbnails unusable, using apache_mod for php makes sessions unusable.


What the heck did they do with the latest version of MediaWiki?


Worked fine with an earlier one :/

 

[Wally]

Logging in works at least But yes the same thumbnail issue here

 

[EvilDragon]

Hopefully now everything should work again.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

Seems ok now ^^.

 

[notaz]

Seems to be spammed to death though, nearly one spambot user or edit per minute:


http://pandorawiki.o...anges&limit=500

 

[EvilDragon]

Installed all kinds of spam-fighting tools now (incl. live blacklists, etc.), now I need to remove all these pages they created.


Thumbnails stopped working again though I haven't done anything... MediaWiki is pretty broken, if you ask me.

 

[ShleeDragon]

Mediawiki is fine.. It's just popular which means if you keep the install vanilla, you're going to have every script kiddy scanning you


same as wordpress, it's pretty much a remote shell with a blogging 0day.


but, Mediawiki is fine with restrictions and some modules....

 

[ShleeDragon]

That said, you've been spammed so heavily.. You'll need to spend hours and hours cleaning it up.


Mediawiki has very little tools for removing spam and/or articles in bulk.


http://pandorawiki.o...l:RecentChanges


http://pandorawiki.org/index.php?title=Special:LonelyPages&limit=500&offset=0

 

[notaz]

That "Spam cleanup script" removed lots of good links, for example:


http://pandorawiki.org/index.php?title=Emulator_list&action=historysubmit&diff=28675&oldid=10725


it reverted to some very old version or something.