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Halfbat · **Posted:** Tue May 01, 2012 4:23 pm

MRQ WIKI is BACK UP

As of 17:20 BST 2012-05-01. I've reinstalled and upgraded the wiki and have copied everything over. Please let me know if you find anything missing.

I've also restarted banning spam users, but that's an ongoing process. I'll look at performing a mass delete when/if I can.

PhilHibbs · **Joined:** Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:45 pm **Posts:** 1452

Halfbat wrote:

I've also restarted banning spam users, but that's an ongoing process. I'll look at performing a mass delete when/if I can.

I had spam under control by banning all URLs that are not whitelisted. I'll have a look and see what has gone wrong with that mechanism. Has the SpamBlacklist extension been disabled?

PhilHibbs · **Joined:** Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:45 pm **Posts:** 1452

OK the wiki should be fully back the way it was now, including the spam blocking mechanism, and the ~1000 spam articles that were created in between getting the wiki back up and turning on spam blocking have been deleted.

strega · **Joined:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:19 am **Posts:** 202

A huge thanks for doing the heavy lifting in getting this up and functioning promptly.

Halfbat · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:24 am

The mrq wiki has been temporarily suspended as their appears to be a huge amount of traffic and way too much data. I'm going to check what's happening to find out where/why.

I'll let you know when it's back.

Prime_Evil · **Joined:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:41 am **Posts:** 837

Halfbat wrote:

The mrq wiki has been temporarily suspended as their appears to be a huge amount of traffic and way too much data. I'm going to check what's happening to find out where/why.

I'll let you know when it's back.

That's a pity. I hope that you haven't been hit by spammers again

Halfbat · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:47 am

Spam is a problem, and I'm hoping Phil has it under control, but traffic is strange.

Multiple downloads of the "deluxe" version of the OGL, for example.

Prime_Evil · **Joined:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:41 am **Posts:** 837

Halfbat wrote:

Spam is a problem, and I'm hoping Phil has it under control, but traffic is strange.

Multiple downloads of the "deluxe" version of the OGL, for example.

Maybe somebody has hotlinked to it from somewhere? Is all of the traffic coming from a single IP address?

Halfbat · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:17 pm

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Maybe somebody has hotlinked to it from somewhere? Is all of the traffic coming from a single IP address?

A lot recently and I am going to ban that address. Didn't think of it being a hotlink, just as a nuisance constant retrieval, but good point.

Looking for other problems, too and installing more maintenance/monitoring stuff.

Halfbat · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:41 am

MRQ Wiki is now available to be read.

Real updates an modifications have slowed to non-existent, on RQ and Legend fronts, so in a further effort to stop spam registering and modifications have been stopped, probably for all users. If there is an urgent update, or new contributions, do PM me and I can grant specific access or upload it.

Please do not hotlink or impose any other constantly-read-the-server-and-download software. The wiki is provided as a free, no-advert resource and it just will not last the bandwidth abuse. there is no other option but to ban users who do so.

I'm talking to PhilHibbs as to what to do next, but ideas are welcome as I (personally) do not have the time to constantly maintain the site.

Tim/Halfbat

Matt_H · **Joined:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:09 am **Posts:** 38

Delegate the task of maintenance to a few reliable souls from this forum.
Any modifications or additions to the WIKI will have to go through them.
Disable all other accounts.

Halfbat · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:12 pm

@Matt_H: Sure. Phil has been the only volunteer to date and whilst he's been great I don't think it's a job for one!

PhilHibbs · **Joined:** Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:45 pm **Posts:** 1452

I have posted my accelerated spam cleanup technique on my user page. It requires Windows and AutoIt.

I don't think that disabling all accounts is the right way to do it, could account creation be moderated though? Pro-active administrator approval requried to enable newly created accounts?

Halfbat · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:38 am

PhilHibbs wrote:

I don't think that disabling all accounts is the right way to do it, could account creation be moderated though? Pro-active administrator approval requried to enable newly created accounts?

Looking at that, too, coupled with invitational control, though a regular moderator would be required. I've also explored delayed posting and set the limits up for a week, but I'm not too sure how much this will really affect things.

Halfbat · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:05 am

A huge download every month is the LuxurySRD (a victim of it's own excellence!). I suspect that many are referring to this online, rather than downloading it, forgetting the wiki is not a cloud service.

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