Just came across this little gem (http://wiki.bennugd.org/index.php?title=U_FUNNY_As_SHIT_U_Know_That_LOL_67) in the wiki. It's got a cash loans scamming/phishing link in there. Created 8th June.
Here's everything that this spambot has added/amended. (http://wiki.bennugd.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/173.234.123.184)
Might be worthwhile disabling unregistered edits. Won't stop all of them, but it'll at least stop opportunistic spambots like this one.
More unregistered spambots:
http://wiki.bennugd.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/64.120.38.9
http://wiki.bennugd.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/173.208.25.215
Thanks for reporting, we'll give it an eye.
Anonymous editing should be disabled. Captcha should be updated/tweaked and enabled for registering.
I do not understand, anonymous editing has been disabled long ago, or so I understood that you had done.
Anonymous editing must be disable.
Please, some guy that have permission for do it, do it.
I've just confirmed that anonymous editing is enabled, although you still need to enter the captcha.
Yes, I had it disabled.
please, disable anonymous editing...
http://wiki.bennugd.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=movie
I was looking for code on how to load a movie but what i got in return is a page full of spam. theres also
http://wiki.bennugd.org/index.php?search=penis&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns102=1&ns104=1&ns106=1&ns108=1&ns110=1&ns114=1&ns116=1&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=Search
This is sad.
When is someone going to clean it up? ???
Can anybody give me admin privileges on the wiki? At least I'll try to minimize this and delete all the spamming users.
i noticed if you type in words like aids, penis, tits, etc. (dont ban me for saying those if thats a no no) you get a whole load of those spams in the wiki search.
I say, disable wiki forever... or until fix the problem...
Who's in charge of the wiki anyway? I thought you guys were.
Quote from: BlackCurtain on July 11, 2011, 08:00:01 AM
Who's in charge of the wiki anyway? I thought you guys were.
Sounds like nobody is.
Although the wiki is being spammed, it is the only good source of documentation at the moment.
So I would find it really sad if the wiki where shutdown. Isn't it possible to provide the data from the
wiki in an alternate form, i.e. a downloadable html archive and/or as a collection of pdf files as back up?
Maybe a few selected people should be in charge of the wiki, and that other people can submit documentation
or comments to those maintainers. Preferably the wiki maintainers should be those who have a great knowledge
about bennu and it's internals, like Splinter, Sandman, Josibita, Drumpi and Freeyourmind.
I don't know how long everyone has been around here, so let me tell you the story. 3 or 4 years ago I started the wiki, back then it was for Fenix. At a certain point it was converted to Bennu and has been like that ever since. Many, many hours have gone into documenting Fenix/Bennu on there. Some other users have added some documentation as well, but it's still so that probably 90% or 95% is of my hand. I can tell you that it saddens me greatly as well to see it go to waste like this. I don't know who or why my admin privileges were revoked as at that time I was actually still the most active contributor. I don't know why DCelso deleted the Beginner's tutorial (was at the end of a spam cleanup, so probably he looked at the size of the pages or something). I do know that this has gone long enough.
Who is in charge at the moment? Shape up or get someone else to do it.
I feel, since you are the orginal creater, should have the ultimate authority over the wiki. I realize that is a bit against the spirit of a wiki,
but if it is maintained by only a few selected people, the quality and consistancy of the wiki is ensured. I envision a system where all users can contribute by submitting additions and remarks, and that the maintainers review it for accuracy and quality (but not as rigid like a peer review system).
The wiki and the spanish manual (when translated) could become the "official" manuals for bennu programming. Although I must say that the manual that came with DIV gamestudio was and to some extend still is a good source of information as well. Anyway, the wiki must stay anvailible, as it's the only comprehensive documentation in english.
Save everything you have and make your own wikia
I don't want remove wiki, but what we can do for get a solution for this problem?
shouldnt the owner/admin of the wiki be able to look at every single page on one page (like a portal)? Delete everything, then make it so you cant add or edit anything. Or like I said shut down the wiki temporarily for cleaning, create a downloadable version of that wiki. Or make a temporary wikia page that has everything.
Just wrote an email to DCelso (opne of the wiki admins) to ask him to make me administrator, too.
DoctorN. I failed creating a new account on the Wiki, so I sent a message to Dcelso a couple of days ago asking for help. I also told him about your problem, but I'm still waiting for an answer. As a matter of fact, he hasn't been online for almost a month! I hope he is ok.
I don't know whether the wiki will stay (hope so) or if we'll have to make a new one. Anyway, I made a list of missing information (mainly functions) here: ( http://forum.bennugd.org/index.php?topic=1972.0 ). I would gladly write articles too in the meantime, but my Bennu's knowledge it's not a lot better as my English skills :P