[GRASS-dev] Re: impending wiki spam bombing

[Markus Neteler]

The GRASS Wiki is now protected by a captcha. I have deleted all translations
of the help text to avoid below mentioned problem.

Please try and report...

Markus


Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:01:43AM +0200, Hamish wrote:
>> M:
>> > > > What about  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit  ?
>> H:
>> > > Looks good!
>> M:
>> > We tried it yesterday, but it enabled only the Chinese version.
>> > We didn't manage to enforce English or even what the browser
>> > says (mine definitely doesn't send "zh"). So we had to remove it.
>> 
>> ?! hmph.
>> An idea- my Debian/sarge box once installed a bunch of Chinese versions
>> automatically. It turned out the problem was that the package relied on a
>> meta-package which could be fulfilled by a number of language specific
>> packages. So it installed the first language package on the list, which
>> was
>> Chinese, and hilarity ensued.
> 
> Maybe you could guide me offlist how to verify that? I think that
> the machine is a rather minimalistic (sarge) installation.
>  
>> also for ConfirmEdit "The current version(s) require PHP5; for
>> PHP4-compatible
>> versions, use an older version available in the SVN."  ?
>> 
>> taken from SVN? I see that ConfirmEdit.i18n.php has had many edits in the
>> last
>> 3 weeks.
> 
> Of course we took an older release from SVN :)
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php?view=log#rev19995
> Revision 19995
> PHP 4 / MW 1.6 compat
> 
>> too late for me tonight, but they have an IRC channel for support-
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#I_have_a_question_not_answered_here._Where_do_I_go_next.3F
>> 
>> 
>> I would like to keep working on this problem.
> 
> Me, too, but I also need to do my regular work.
> Will try again later...
> 
> cheers,
> Markus
> 

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