User talk:Sysy
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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.. | ||
Current revision
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..
