I was searching the wiki and its been destroyed with spam! I don't know how to change it back or else I would while I sit at work. Someone help!
Quote from: utgunslinger13 on January 09, 2009, 10:41:55 AM
I was searching the wiki and its been destroyed with spam! I don't know how to change it back or else I would while I sit at work. Someone help!
Click on the "history" tab at the top of a spammed page. Then find where the page was changed to spam and click the "restore" link just underneath. Then save.
:thumb:
I just did this for the maintenance page, but I don't have time to find and fix any others right now.
Unless I'm an idiot, thats not working for me? I click save then goto view and its still the same spam!
Quote from: utgunslinger13 on January 09, 2009, 11:30:11 AM
Unless I'm an idiot, thats not working for me? I click save then goto view and its still the same spam!
Hmmm, that's strange.
When you click "restore", you should be taken to an editing window where you can see the code of the wiki page that you are restoring. You then have to go to the bottom of this editing window and click "save". Did this window show up for you? Maybe you missed this last step?
I figured it out, I wasn't putting in an Author's name! lol :technical: :technical: :technical:
Don't know if I missed it or what but I couldn't find anything in there from the carb rebuild?! its just blank now?!
The wicki has been getting daily attacks of late.
We need spam protection!!!!
So you mean to tell me this shiz will happen again? And I spent all that time changing it? Wtf?!
I sent a PM to Sanjay (keeper of the wiki). Maybe he will have some ideas :dunno_black:
yes, it will happen again. it takes time to figure out how to keep the spammers dead. :(
CAPTCHA!!
that's the annoying thing where you have to type in Gh74Iuw and it takes three times to get it right and is so annoying that you never go back to that site again.
HOORAY! :thumb:
f%$king spammers
If you fix the WIKI, you get to put your name in for all GS'ers to admire and adore!
I just did a bunch, but I left two for you!!
Go here:
http://cgi.stanford.edu/~sanjayd/gs500/Site/AllRecentChanges (http://cgi.stanford.edu/~sanjayd/gs500/Site/AllRecentChanges)
Click on the most recent spam atrocity
Click history
Scroll down until you find the last time there was real content
Hit restore.
GO!! :woohoo:
20 more pages need fixing. You will be loved and admired by all for your Wiki Fixi!
No sooner do you fix them as they are defaced again :(
I think I got it caught back up. Why the hell do these people do this. I just don't get it? Boy if I could get a hold of one of these slimey little you know what's I'd put out a lot of frustration :2guns:. This stuff is :bs:
Mary
They do it so there are more pages with links to their website. Then when google counts how many people love their website enough to link to them, they get a higher search rating, and show up first on a search.
I would never do anything like that to boost the rating of my website, http://beergarage.com (http://beergarage.com). That would be wrong, and no one from http://beergarage.com (http://beergarage.com) would ever do that, because http://beergarage.com (http://beergarage.com) says NO to that kind of chikanery!
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it seems like there is some kind of code that automatically messes it up after you hit restore.
I could be making this up but where it says To: there is a bunch of stuff that looks like code that I cant seem to erase :dunno_white:
I should probably flesh out these instructions a bit. Sorry the earlier Wiki Fixi was so thin.
1.
Follow me.
http://cgi.stanford.edu/~sanjayd/gs500/Site/AllRecentChanges (http://cgi.stanford.edu/~sanjayd/gs500/Site/AllRecentChanges)
2.
For example, one of the recent spam atrocities:
Troubleshooting.NeutralLight . . . January 11, 2009, at 03:32 PM by TestName: JzUIywTvQGf
click the text "Troubleshooting.NeutralLight" that is a link to that page.
3.
Then , on the top of the Troubleshooting.NeutralLight page, click the "History" tab.
4.
Then, scroll all the way down to the
very bottom of the page. That is the last time there was any real content that was not spam. It reads:
Quote
November 03, 2008, at 07:58 AM by arni - PFgLErcEiNIWjq
Changed lines 1-4 from:
See these threads:
Recent thread
John Bates' how-to on checking the circuit
to:
PXIOX3 it's nice site <a href=" http://spamsite ">magix ringtone maker</a> mlbx <a href=" http://spamsite ">swim ringtones</a> 784 <a href=" http://spamsite ">ringtone media studio</a> hkwjt
Restore
November 14, 2006, at 09:51 PM by Sanjay -
Added lines 1-4:
See these threads:
Recent thread
John Bates' how-to on checking the circuit
Restore
Hit the
next to last "Restore." This will take you to an Edit page, but it will have already filled in all the restored text.
If you hit the very last "Restore", you will restore it to the nothing that it was before Sanjay created it. If you hit the second to last restore, that restores it from the 2008 edit to the 2006 original.
5.
Now we are on this edit page. Immediately below the edit box, you type the "Summary:" of your edit, "stoopid spam" or something.
6.
below "Summary:" is "Author:". This is you. You type in your name or your ID or your CB handle or whatever, and then whenever anyone looks at these edits, they will see that it was YOU who saved the day.
7.
Click "Save"
8.
Collect the admiration of your peers, the lust of the women, the bacon off the top of the meat loaf. Huzzah! The day is yours!
(edit to make more grammaryer and colorey)