WikiIslam:Administrators: Difference between revisions

Vandalism Related

Lock down/protected Mode

This mode is enabled on the wiki to protect against ongoing vandalism which may involve multiple users, user accounts or IP addresses.

This mode disables anonymous edits and new user accounts.

• No Anonymous edits: (click on either link and save the page): On | Off

This disables anonymous edits from IP. Its helpful for spam or vandalism. The page WikiIslam:Forum can still be edited by IP users. For spam on that page, protect it temporarily separately.

Blocking/Unblocking

• Block user or IP | Block log | Auto Block log
• Range blocks: (for persistent vandalism using similar IP's) Range Blocks (mediawiki.org) | IP Range Block calculator

• • To ban IP address 111.x.x.x: 111.0.0.0/8
  • To ban IP address 111.222.x.x: 111.222.0.0/16
  • To ban IP address 111.222.333.x: 111.222.333.0/24
• Banned template: {{banned|reason}}
• Unblock: Currently Blocked IP addresses and usernames (for current blocks and unblocking)
• MediaWiki:Auto Block:
  • Auto Block log
  • Edit Throttle Help Page (clear ET Table now) - use after unblocking a user that has been blocked by AB by mistake.
  • MediaWiki:AB Block Message - template for message shown to users blocked by Auto Block
  • Username lists
    • MediaWiki:Bpl-1 (use for new editors for less monitoring)
    • MediaWiki:Bpl-2 (trusted and frequent editors only; use this list with caution)

Utilities

Recent Changes Cleanup

• Recent Changes Cleanup: for hiding vandalism-related items from the Recent Changes page. These changes will still show up if 'show-bots' is clicked on the RC page.

Spam

IP addresses for spam can be blocked for 3-6 months:

• Related template: Template:Captcha response - page that contains the anti-spam response
• MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist - blacklist spam websites to prevent reinsertion of spam links

If a spam bot keeps recreating a certain page:

• If you dont want to create the page see Wikipedia's help on protecting pages from being created. Steps for that should be:
  1. Delete the page
  2. Click on the red link for the page. If you cant access the page, type its URL in the browser.
  3. In the dropdown for that page, click "Change protection".
  4. You'll see protection options in a new "Create" box. Choose "Admins only" and click "Confirm".
  5. After protection, you should see this in the Recent changes: Admin (Talk) protected "Spam page Title"‎ ‎[create=autoconfirmed] (indefinite)
• Another way to protect a page from a spam bot is to write a hidden comment in the page, save and protect the page for a few months from IP and new users (if its predicted that genuine new and IP users will most likely not edit the page)

Use MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist to blacklist URL's from persistent spammers.

Links

• Latest Spam Blacklist | Main page for SBL

Useful Links and Information

• Special:SpecialPages - this a collection of all available tools/features
  • Special:Statistics (total pages, edits, user information)
  • Special:Version - version of current software, and extensions installed
  • Special:UnreviewedPages - pages that need to be reviewed (Help page for Flagged revisions)
• WikiIslam:Form Submissions (pages that use form submissions)
• Site Statistics (Job que length) - in XML (job queues are created when templates are updated info on mediawiki.org)
• Use with caution: Clear Site Cache - The Site Caches store previously retrieved data and pages to speed up site performance. If cleared, it will increase our average CPU usage on the server for some time and effect speed slightly for about an hour or so as new caches are created. Only clear the site cache when there are problems with multiple templates or pages not showing up their most recent versions. If clearing the site cache does not solve the issue, the problem might be something else.

Inactive

• WikiIslam:Users For Recent Activity Email Notification (currently inactive; sends emails for edits from new and anonymous users)
• MediaWiki:Titleblacklist (used only if the extension is enabled)
• WikiIslam:Database Compaction

User management and information

• New Users log
• User list
• User rename
• User Rights Management (for giving rights such as reviewer, editor, etc)
• User lists related to Autoblock:
  • MediaWiki:Bpl-1 (use for new editors for less monitoring)
  • MediaWiki:Bpl-2 (trusted and frequent editors only; use this list with caution)

Site Appearance and Interface

Site Javascript and CSS

• MediaWiki:Common.js (for edit toolbar)
• MediaWiki:Common.css

Changing the site menu bar on the left

• MediaWiki:Sidebar (help on Mediawiki)

Footer

• Changing MW Footer |

System messages

System messages are shown for the website and editing interface and are edited like any other page:

• All System messages
• MediaWiki:Loginsuccess - shown after login is successful
• MediaWiki:Welcomecreation - shown after a user account has been created
• MediaWiki:Edittools - edit tools at the bottom of edit box
• MediaWiki:Sitenotice - shown at top of every page. This is usually blank unless a site-wide notice has to be shown
• MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning - warning shown if a login is not detected (shown for IP address users) (wikipedia's anon edit warning)
• Dropdown options for: Delete | File Delete | Block | Page Protection

• MediaWiki:Searchresulttext - currently blank, see [1]
• MediaWiki:Recentchangestext - currently blank, see [2]
• MediaWiki:Whitelistedittext - only relevant when logins are required to edit pages

Mobile skin

When a mobile device is detected, our site uses WPTouch, a skin for mobile devices. According to our traffic reports, mobile traffic is 25% of all traffic.

Related Links:

• WPTouch
• Simple mobile skin auto change (Mediawiki.org)

See Also

• Category:Administrators - current administrators