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14 Oct 06 - The New Palaeos
Not yet a month old, Palaeos org already has had a large amount of material added, both original and copied over, although the huge number of redlinks and the fact that almost all of the text of Palaeos com has yet to be copied over, show how much still needs to be done!
To speed things up, and because its scope will be greater than that of Palaeos com (while still including the entuire content of Palaeos com) Palaeos org is borrowing material from two other "open source" encyclopaedias, Wikipedia and EvoWiki, in addition to the content being transferred over from Palaeos com.
As always we are looking for more contributers (writers. artists, photographers (for fossil photos), spell-checkers, fact-checkers, part-time phylogenists, obsessional infoholics, palaeophiles, general science enthusiastis, and anyone else who would like to get involved, whether occasionally and sporadically or all the time, because the more people to get involved, the faster Palaeos org will grow and the bigger it will become! MAK061014
23 Nov 06 Vandalism
There are a (currently) small but noticeable number of vandalisms occurring on the website. If these become a significant problem, is it possible to restrict editing so that only logged-in contributors can edit? -- Christopher Taylor, 23 Nov 2006, 20:05 [Perth]
- I believe this can be done, but do not yet know how to do it; I will find out. This would not stop a user from quickly registering and then vandalizing. The most rigorous control would be user registration approval, an undesirable approach as it might hinder new contributors from joining us. However, there may be an alternative that will serve well at least during the interim, or until the vandalism becomes extensive. That is, a registered user, their IP address, or a range of IP addresses encompassing their IP address can be blocked. Wikipedia gets a lot of vandals, but also has a small army fixing it, and blocking the perps, a luxury we may never enjoy. User:RogerPerkins 14:00 CT US
- The vandal was from 195.175.37.8, a blacklisted server located in United States - District Of Columbia - Washington, but owned by Turkish Telecom. User:RogerPerkins
- 195.175.37.8 is now blocked. User:RogerPerkins
- Several vandals in rapid succession, from two servers in Australia, and a proxy server in India. Probably, all were the same person. Hopefully, this will not become common. I was actually trying to do some work. User:RogerPerkins
- The vandal was from 195.175.37.8, a blacklisted server located in United States - District Of Columbia - Washington, but owned by Turkish Telecom. User:RogerPerkins
User Administration 26 Nov 06
I copied over relevant parts of the MediaWiki User manual pertaining to user management to this page: MediaWiki Admin Notes RogerPerkins 15:47, 30 November 2006 (PST)
14 June 2007 - Spam Overload
The level of spamming has just gotten stupid in the past few days. We can't keep putting pages under protection because eventually only sysops will be able to make legitimate changes to any page. I'm renewing my call to require registration before editing - we'll still have to deal with the occasional troll and vandal, but at least it should stop the bots--Christopher Taylor 14:53, 14 June 2007 (Perth)
That wont help curb the amount of spam because the spambots can still create usernames to get around that and creationwiki has made a system that prevents people from editing without registering and an email request and they still have been assaulted by spammers and spambots.--Fang 23 08:29, 14 June 2007 (PDT)
