User talk:Sysy

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See http://jrandomhacker.info/User_talk:Sy

Improving the wiki

• Special:Version reports that you're using a truly ancient version of MediaWiki. It's fast and painless to update.
  • Back everything up (the database and files)
  • delete the maintainance directory.
  • Uncompress the latest version, overwriting the existing files.
  • Edit AdminSettings.php (see AdminSettings.sample for info) to add the database info.
  • cd maintainance;php update.php

• enable $wgSpamRegex
  • Mine bans all div tags: $wgSpamRegex="/<div/i";
  • You might like: $wgSpamRegex="/overflow\s*:\s*auto/i";

• Install Bad Behavior my notes .. it's VERY easy to install.

• Install http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension .. it's a bit annoying but it's worth it.

At this point you could probably safely allow anonymous editing again.

• Update MediaWiki:Sidebar
  • See mine for info.

I have all kinds of notes on http://jrandomhacker.info/MediaWiki especially MediaWiki security and MediaWiki tricks and tips.

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Benefits of updating

• Security security security!
• Speed improvements:
• Administrator improvements. It's a lot easier to administer ex.: change the sidebar, change the css, change the javascripts all within the wiki. Better banning, reversions, etc.
• Better recent changes (like not displaying your own edits)
• Email features -- get notified of changes via email.
• and lots more..