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Is there a way to block IP's from posting on the Wiki? Had someone start a new page with what was apparently a link to a porn site. I wiped the page, but see no reason it couldn't happen again...

That IP is perma-banned now - if it becomes an issue, let me know and I'll consider forcing registration to edit pages (I prefer wiki's that allow anyone to edit, but if it's getting abused I'll add the extra hassle of registering an account to discourage the random spammers a little).
 
I added a unique mechanics section to the Archos sidebar, with a link to the spiders page.

Haven't had time to write much great detail, just pasted the spider spawn formula for now
 
So, how are we going to add the Jotnar to the main page? I say we add another two civilization boxes, one for the Jotnar, and one containing a link to the Forum.

Edit: Went ahead and made the change to show what I meant. If it's not liked, we can change it.... But with 9 civs, it's either have one huge box for a civ, have an extra box for something else like I have it, or change it to 3x3.

Edit 2: Added a preview page for another layout as well... 3x3. Ended up with two open slots in the 'Categories' section, filled one in with a link to the Forums, another with a 'Modules' category. Personally, I like the first way I set it up better, but it's easier to compare the two now.
 
Jotnar are now done, for the most part. Filled in the civ page (They have a LOT of blocked units! :eek:), finished the leaders, the hero, and the Traditions civic. They have no worldspell so I didn't have to do that... Only thing needed is a portrait for Egrass, because one doesn't actually exist yet. :lol:

I need to not do these things while I'm sleep deprived... Finished it all, with the Leaders: and Hero: tags still on there. Had to move some pages to get rid of em. :blush:

I'd personally rather see the civs just in a flat list, rather than this boxy setup.

I prefer the box, but if more people would rather have a simple list I'm okay with switching it.

Edit: Gonna upload some decent :hammers: :commerce: :food: :mad: images in the morning... for now, I ripped the :mad: pic off this site rather than dig through the Civ 4 artpak.

Edit 2: Might edit the tiny Jotnar Flag used on the main page as well... At that size, the color used for the crown is too dark to distinguish.
 
Uploaded new :food: :hammers: :commerce: icons, look much better now. Added in the new civ yields for the lizards, added the yields for the Scions, and the new Austrin building.. Checked recent changes, and saw someone posted a page full of what APPEARS to be gibberish. Top line of the page is all that's meaningful..

NOTICE: The data below is posted by a program which is part of the Graffiti research project from Brown University. We will remove the data from your site once the experiment is finished. If you want to delete this, please do so as you would delete a spam page. For more information, please visit http://graffiti.cs.brown.edu/info/.

Went to the link it provides, turns out it's an encrypted data packet... They're doing an experiment to see if storing data on a Wiki is a viable P2P alternative. Says they will remove it themselves on June 1st, assuming we don't beforehand...

If you are visiting this page, then it is likely that you found some data that we placed on a MediaWiki site and are looking for more information. The Graffiti Networks Project is a research network storage system that leverages unprotected MediaWiki sites as its storage medium. What may look like spam or garbage on your site is actually an encrypted data payload, one of many that we have stored throughout the internet. We are trying to determine whether it storing data on multiple third-party sites on the Internet is a viable solution for data persistence in peer-to-peer systems.

We are trying to measure how long data placed on third-party sites will remain available. Thus, we are not going to remove the data for you at this time but you are free to remove it as you see fit. If you would normally delete the spam and scrub the site logs, please do that. We will, however, be removing all the data that have stored on all sites on June 1st, 2009.

What do you want to do about it Vehem?
 
Went to the link it provides, turns out it's an encrypted data packet... They're doing an experiment to see if storing data on a Wiki is a viable P2P alternative. Says they will remove it themselves on June 1st, assuming we don't beforehand...

I say delete it - highly, highly rude of them to do this thing without telling anyone in charge of the wiki. Very unprofessional for an experiment.
 
I say delete it - highly, highly rude of them to do this thing without telling anyone in charge of the wiki. Very unprofessional for an experiment.

I would tend to agree, but Vehem or Xienwolf may want to allow it so I figured I'd ask first.

As far as I can gather, that's the entire point.

Aye - kill it. It is kinda the point of the experiment, but experimenting on "how to misuse other people websites" is still not exactly polite...

If it comes back, I'll sort something more permanent out to stop them.
 
Deleted it... Went back to the site, found this on their page.

To everyone inconvenienced by the Graffiti Project:

Please accept our sincerest apology for any problems that our project may have caused. It was never our intention to maliciously deface sites, but instead were trying to develop a proof-of-concept system in order to warn other researchers that such "attacks" were possible and to energize the community to help develop measures to prevent them. We regret if our project reflects poorly on Brown University or its Computer Science department, and stress that both the University and the Department do not condone our actions.

As of 3:00pm on 04/11/2009, we have used our removal tool to delete the encrypted data payloads that our system stored on third-party MediaWiki sites. As we cannot remove pages from sites without the proper privileges, the links below should help guide site operators in removing the pages from their MediaWiki installations permanently. We also highly recommend that site operators enable spam-protection technologies (i.e., CAPTCHAs) to protect from unwanted data postings. In particular, we found the reCAPTCHA project to be the most effective countermeasure in our experiments.
 
Vehem, could you please set the Wiki to require you to register in order to edit? Keep getting spam from the same person... Links to places where you can get Viagra, apparently.

K - will sort something out that includes a CAPTCHA as well as MediaWikis are too easy to bot register on otherwise. Shame, but it's the nature of the net. Bit idealistic to think it might remain hidden from the spam nets when we have links from a busy forum I guess...
 
Yeah... It would be nice to not have to worry about it, but this is the fourth IP we've had spam from now. :cry:

A simple reset of the ADSL results in a different IP. I don't think the IP banning is an effective procedure. Only registration can solve some of the issues.
 
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