User talk:Pstudier

A Zillion Users

I note that this wiki has 1,120,520 users, most of them spam. Bummer. My wiki has 213,073 users and has not allowed any edits since April 2010. How do you disable user creation? Pstudier 00:18, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

... And that's not really what I'm wanting here -- it was an act of desperation that's been almost impossible to get undone, nevermind fixing the underlying vulnerabilities that led to it (LPedia.org was getting more than 100 new garbage articles and accounts per minute, which completely overwhelmed the bot I created to deal with the earlier, still bad, level of deluge.).

In LocalSettings.php add $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

I'm not sure if this is the exact way it's don on LPedia.org as I do not have access to anything server side and never have. I'm trying to figure out how to ask how to get the LNC staff to allow it to be migrated to a different hosting arrangement, as they completely do not have the time to do anything for LPedia.org and never really have.

What is the current URL for Libertarianwiki? You sent me files to attempt to get a editable mirror up and running but I was unsuccessful and can't find them anymore.

Are you on Facebook? There's now a Libertarian Party History group that may or may not be worth your time. It isn't getting a lot of traffic right now, and mostly from me, but there are several other interested members of the group who mostly are lacking a spare moment. https://www.facebook.com/groups/LPHistory/

-- Strangelv 00:06, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

I was getting 100 new users a day. I tried to disable new users, but didn't do it right, and then got frustrated. Haven't done any work like this in a long time, new computer, can't get old tools to work, etc. So I deleted everything. Had second thoughts and undeleted my database.

Keeping up on things including updating Mediawiki is a real pain. Probably the way to go is with a Wiki Hosting Service.

As for me, I have not been active politically for the last several years. There were two wikis that took my content and both are defunct now. Since you show an interest, and I feel that I owe it to the editors not to lose their data, I will restore the wiki. It will be at libertarianwiki.paulstudier.com.