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==Obligatory Caution== |
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s23/seti23 is not responsible for any damages or data loss you experience by following this tutorial. |
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===What for?=== |
===What for?=== |
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Maybe Wikipedia/Mediawiki developers are taking care of things in the next version of Mediawiki, but in the mean time smaller wikis are getting totally blasted with spam. This is totally wearing the wiki maintainers down and stifling creativity and constructivness with most of the energies spent on making repetitive rollbacking to non-spammed versions and IP blocking which is ineffective since the attacks come from multiple IPs. So this wikipage has been created to help those folks who are looking to control the amount of spam on their wiki. This tutorial assumes that you are somewhat familiar with: using a *nix shell, installing patches, recompiling sourcecode, and reinstalling the mediawiki installation. |
Maybe Wikipedia/Mediawiki developers are taking care of things in the next version of Mediawiki, but in the mean time smaller wikis are getting totally blasted with spam. This is totally wearing the wiki maintainers down and stifling creativity and constructivness with most of the energies spent on making repetitive rollbacking to non-spammed versions and IP blocking which is ineffective since the attacks come from multiple IPs. So this wikipage has been created to help those folks who are looking to control the amount of spam on their wiki. This tutorial assumes that you are somewhat familiar with: using a *nix shell, installing patches, recompiling sourcecode, and reinstalling the mediawiki installation. |
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*A working [[mediawiki]] installation of the 1.4 or 1.5 branch. (Yes, sadly you will need to upgrade to a these more recent branches, and only then patch and recompile) |
*A working [[mediawiki]] installation of the 1.4 or 1.5 branch. (Yes, sadly you will need to upgrade to a these more recent branches, and only then patch and recompile). See [[Mediawiki Upgrade Tutorial with Spamblacklist patch#Upgrading Mediawiki]] |
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*The [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension SpamBlacklist extension] Download files [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/SpamBlacklist/#dirlist here]. |
*The [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension SpamBlacklist extension] Download files [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/SpamBlacklist/#dirlist here]. |
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===Upgrading Mediawiki=== |
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Check out [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Upgrading_MediaWiki Upgrading Mediawiki] <br> |
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IMPORTANT: Make sure you read the [[Mediawiki Upgrade Tutorial with Spamblacklist patch#Backup before you Upgrade|Backup before you Upgrade]] step before you start this. |
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Here you can find [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension#Compatible_Blacklists compatible blacklists] or create your own, just like we have here in the s23 wiki --> [[Spam blacklist]] |
Here you can find [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension#Compatible_Blacklists compatible blacklists] or create your own, just like we have here in the s23 wiki --> [[Spam blacklist]] |
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===Backup before you Upgrade=== |
===Backup before you Upgrade=== |
Revision as of 20:23, 18 December 2005
Please drop a line on the talk page with feedback or comments on this page
Obligatory Caution
s23/seti23 is not responsible for any damages or data loss you experience by following this tutorial.
What for?
Maybe Wikipedia/Mediawiki developers are taking care of things in the next version of Mediawiki, but in the mean time smaller wikis are getting totally blasted with spam. This is totally wearing the wiki maintainers down and stifling creativity and constructivness with most of the energies spent on making repetitive rollbacking to non-spammed versions and IP blocking which is ineffective since the attacks come from multiple IPs. So this wikipage has been created to help those folks who are looking to control the amount of spam on their wiki. This tutorial assumes that you are somewhat familiar with: using a *nix shell, installing patches, recompiling sourcecode, and reinstalling the mediawiki installation.
Requirements
- A working mediawiki installation of the 1.4 or 1.5 branch. (Yes, sadly you will need to upgrade to a these more recent branches, and only then patch and recompile). See Mediawiki Upgrade Tutorial with Spamblacklist patch#Upgrading Mediawiki
- The SpamBlacklist extension Download files here.
Upgrading Mediawiki
(If you have Version 1.4 or 1.5 skip this step)
Check out Upgrading Mediawiki
IMPORTANT: Make sure you read the Backup before you Upgrade step before you start this.
SpamBlacklist
Here you can find compatible blacklists or create your own, just like we have here in the s23 wiki --> Spam blacklist
Backup before you Upgrade
Making a backup of a mediawiki installation is basically a four-step process. Copying the regular files, making a database backup,compressing the files and sending them to a remote backup location.
Copy "w" directory
1. If you follow the standard wikipedia way to hide "index.php" in URLs and your webserver's document root is /var/www/, you will have the wiki physically installed in /var/www/w and an alias for /var/www/wiki in your apache config. Hence, something like:
- cp -r /var/www/w /home/backup/w_20051223
would be sufficient.
Dump Database
2. To make a dump of the Mysql database, use the "mysqldump" command on a console.
- mysqldump -u root -p wikidb > wikidb_20051223.sql
Compress Data
3. To save diskspace and bandwidth you can now compress the files, f.e. with .tar.gz (or zip).
- tar zcvf wikidb_20051223.sql.tar.gz wikidb_20051223.sql
- tar zcvf w_20051223.tar.gz /home/backup/w_20051223
Copy to remote location
4. Finally copy the files to a remote server, f.e. via scp (or ftp).
- scp wikidb_20051223.sql.tar.gz user@backupserver.com:/home/user/backups/
- scp w_20051223.tar.gz user@backupserver.com:/home/user/backups/
Beware!
Keep in mind that your backup files will include passwords for the wiki database.
Before putting them in a public location consider editing LocalSettings.php (and possibly AdminSettings.php if existing).