Feed The Beast Wiki:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive/2013

Setup stage

 * Set up CAPTCHA on the wiki.
 * Set up an IRC channel for the wiki.
 * Clean up the Community portal
 * Protect important pages.
 * Require email confirmation.
 * Configure ConfirmEdit CAPTCHA trigger settings.
 * Setup group permissions.
 * Add the Nuke and Renameuser extensions.
 * Remove unused accounts.
 * Inform team members about their new responsibilities.

Testing stage

 * Test user rights.
 * Test account creation.
 * Test email confirmation.
 * Test CAPTCHA triggers.

Finalization stage

 * Grant group ' ':.
 * Grant group ' ' (all):.
 * Rebuild statistics.

Post-finalization stage

 * Announce on forums.
 * Start recruiting new team members.

Vandalism and Spam

 * New page spam/vandalism response time (delete):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Spam/Vandalism response time (revert):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Consecutive spam/vandalism response time (rollback):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Excessive spam/vandalism response time (protect):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * User spam/vandalism response time (notify).
 * User spam/vandalism response time (warn).
 * User spam/vandalism response time (block) (>5 counts):
 * Excessive user spam/vandalism response time (nuke):  N/A   N/A   N/A

Quality assessment

 * Tag bad articles with template (community):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Tag bad articles with template (staff)
 * Fix/Resolve (community):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Fix/Resolve (staff):  N/A   N/A   N/A

Maintenance

 * RFD (normal):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * RFC (deletion):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Patrol (revision)
 * Patrol (new page)

Requests and Help

 * Help desk (community):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Help desk (staff/sysop):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * IRC help (community):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * IRC help (staff/sysop):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Admin noticeboard:  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Staff noticeboard:  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Translator noticeboard:  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Bot operator noticeboard:  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Issues:  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * RFC:  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * Skin bugs:  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * AFC submissions (accept):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * AFC submissions (review):  N/A   N/A   N/A
 * AFC submissions (merge):  N/A   N/A   N/A

New extensions proposals

 * mw:Extension:TitleBlacklist
 * mw:Extension:AbuseFilter
 * mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs
 * Discussion
 * I like this extension because staff can review and assess the quality of the article at the same time, administrators can also stabilize the quality of pages with a tool included. -- Jinbobo SysOp &middot;&#32;BotOp &middot;&#32;talk &middot;&#32;contribs 11:29, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Poll
 * This poll will end in 1 day.
 * Support: Please add done and a comment if you want this extension to be installed.
 * Against: Please add done and a comment if you want this extension to not be installed.
 * Conditional support: Please add partlydone and a comment if you want this extension to be installed only under some circumstances.
 * I think this is a good idea. -- auris331
 * This should be good, provided we can quickly learn the new system. -- AgentTadpole Staff &middot; talk &middot; contribs 12:24, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Blacklisting new account names
We have figured out a few username patterns that spambots like to use, we will be blocking these usernames that match these regex patterns in the near-future, use Jinbobo's Blocked username list to test the following regex, by default, patterns are case insensitive:
 * Usernames with 4 or more consecutive consonants (Easy fix for real users is to add a space between words?)
 * Pattern:
 * Usernames with 3 or more consecutive capital letters (Case sensitive)
 * Pattern:
 * Usernames with 2 or more consecutive capital letters at the end (Case sensitive)
 * Pattern:
 * Usernames with 2 or more consecutive numbers
 * Pattern:
 * Usernames containing the following words: car, limo, home, house, service, move, moving, guide, clean.
 * Pattern:
 * Usernames with 20+ letters.
 * Pattern:

Upgrading mediawiki software to 1.22.2
This checklist can be viewed at after the database has been locked.

Pre-upgrade checklist

 * Backup database.
 * Backup files.
 * Download & extract mw 1.22.2 tarball.
 * Configure staging site.
 * Lock database.
 * Backup database again.
 * Backup files again.

Upgrade checklist

 * Copy & paste LocalSettings.php
 * Upgrade extensions:
 * mw:Extension:CheckUser
 * mw:Extension:Echo
 * mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs
 * mw:Extension:Nuke
 * mw:Extension:RenameUser
 * MLEB
 * mw:Extension:DynamicPageList (third-party)
 * mw:Extension:MsUpload
 * mw:Extension:ParserFunction
 * mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight GeSHi
 * mw:Extension:Variables
 * mw:Extension:AbuseFilter
 * mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit
 * mw:Extension:SimpleAntiSpam
 * mw:Extension:Title Blacklist
 * mw:Extension:TorBlock
 * mw:Extension:CodeEditor
 * mw:Extension:WikiEditor
 * Execute maintenance/upgrade.php

Post-upgrade checklist

 * Install extensions:
 * mw:Extension:CategoryTree
 * mw:Extension:GettingStarted
 * mw:Extension:PageTriage
 * mw:Extension:InputBox
 * mw:Extension:VisualEditor
 * mw:Extension:TemplateData
 * mw:Extension:AntiBot
 * mw:Extension:ApiSandbox
 * mw:Extension:BetaFeatures
 * mw:Extension:DismissableSiteNotice
 * mw:Extension:Gadgets
 * mw:Extension:GuidedTour
 * mw:Extension:SecurePoll
 * mw:Extension:Thanks
 * mw:Extension:WikiLove

Deployment checklist

 * Unlock database.
 * Deploy.

Allowing image uploads for "normal" people
Is there any reason why image uploads are disabled for "normal" people? It is quite annoying to have to post an image URL and wait for a sysop to upload it for you (like for Writing Desk and Talk:Writing Desk). It's not a big vandalism problem - I've been on a rather frequented wiki with image uploads active for anonymous, and have only seen a single case of upload vandalism in a few months. --dgelessus (talk &middot; contribs) 20:59, 11 October 2013 (BST)
 * In order to upload images, you simply have to be auto-confirmed, which means a few edits patrolled by the wiki team, and then you'll be able to upload images without any issues Retep998 (talk) 00:46, 12 October 2013 (BST)
 * actually you have to get 50 edits and your account must be 1 week old to get autoconfirmed. The reason you see no vandal on other wikis is because there are more active admins there. --  Jin bo  bo  04:34, 12 October 2013 (BST)
 * Let's say I've been actively watching the recent changes/logs, so I would've noticed anyway. Also, is "patrolled" the same as "checked" on this wiki, or is that separate? And will the annoying captchas be gone once I am autoconfirmed? --dgelessus (talk &middot; contribs) 10:37, 12 October 2013 (BST)
 * yes being autoconfirmed will allow you to skip CAPTCHA tests. Checking is limited to pages in the main and template namespace. --  Jin  bo  bo  16:17, 12 October 2013 (BST)

Server not responding after template edits
okay, you probably already noticed this - every time a template is edited the server stops responding for some time afterwards. Probably because it's updating all the pages, but normally the job queue should do that over time. --dgelessus (talk &middot; contribs) 15:09, 12 October 2013 (BST)
 * can you tell me what you were editing that caused this? --  Jin bo  bo  16:17, 12 October 2013 (BST)
 * Template:P and Template:Infobox. Not sure if Template:Navbox RedPower 2 did it as well... It only lasted a few minutes though. The server problems I posted about on the forums a few weeks ago were probably the same thing. --dgelessus (talk &middot; contribs) 18:03, 12 October 2013 (BST)
 * I'll try work with the web team to figure out this problem, but no promises, we've tried some stuff already but none seems to work. --  Jin bo  bo  19:27, 12 October 2013 (BST)
 * Okay, I'm no expert on this, but have you already tried setting the job queue's rate lower? AFAIK that's what updates the templates transcluded onto pages. --dgelessus (talk &middot; contribs) 19:36, 12 October 2013 (BST)
 * ok, will take a look when I have the time. --  Jin bo  bo  21:21, 12 October 2013 (BST)