WikiIslam:Administrators

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Administrative Links

Administration: 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.

  • Protection Mode (click on either link and save the page): On | Off

This mode disables anonymous edits and new user accounts.

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  • 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
    • 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)


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:

If a spam bot keeps recreating a certain page:

  • 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

Admin Related Useful Links and Information

Site Javascript and CSS
User management and information
Changing the site menu bar on the left

System messages

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

Links

Changing MW Footer |

See Also