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25
Feb 09

Mediawiki reCAPTCHA plugin prevents Wiki spam and vandalism

After years of fighting spam and vandalism on my WL-HDD site – involving making many complex spam rules and heavily restricting user’s editing permissions, I have finally found a more ideal solution to the problem – reCAPTCHA.

Many of you will already be familiar with reCAPTCHA via other websites – where it is often used to block spam comments on blogs or on user registration forms. Basically, it requires you to recognize two words in a picture and to type them into an input box as a means of proving that you are a human and not a spambot. You can see an example of reCAPTCHA in action in the screenshot provided.

Screenshot-Editing Sprayfly-sandbox- - WL-HDD Wiki - Mozilla Firefox

I currently have the plugin setup so that it is activated on:

  • New user registration
  • Creation of new pages
  • Anonymous edits that contain new external links
  • Brute-force password cracking

If you are interested in implementing the plugin on your own blog, there is more information available here. It is a very straightforward and simple procedure.

Site News / WL-HDD / Wiki — No Comments
9
Feb 08

WL-HDD Wiki Back Online

After a bit of a blunder I made when bashing the keyboard in the SSH shell the other day I managed to ruin my Mediawiki installation. Whilst the database was not damaged, all the server files were lost, including all of the images used on the wiki. Unfortunately all backups were at home on my old computer so I was not able to access them. I eventually managed to get my sister to email me the backup files and now the wiki is back online and everything is back to normal again. Even better, I’ve updated to the latest version of Mediawiki which should improve performance and security on the site.
Thanks for your patience, sorry for any inconveniences caused to anyone trying to access the wiki.

Linux / Site News / The Web / WL-HDD — 2 Comments
17
Dec 07

WL-HDD Wiki Downtime

I recently became aware of some MySQL issues with my WL-HDD wiki which have made the site inaccessible recently. I am currently working on the problem and hope to have it fixed as soon as possible. Please bear with me as this is quite difficult to do on an incredibly temporamental internet connection on the other side of the world (China) and without my own PC and tools.
Hope this has not caused too much inconvenience. If you are desperate to use a particular tutorial you can always use the cached version via a google search.
Will keep you updated on this.

Linux / WL-HDD / Wiki / Windows — No Comments
25
May 06

OpenVPN Guide for WL-HDD and WL500g

I have recently added a guide on my wiki at http://www.sprayfly.com/wiki/OpenVPN which details the entire setup process for an OpenVPN client on Windows XP and server on an Asus WL-HDD or WL500g. Its probably the first of its kind and goes into great depth.

Whats it about?

The guide goes into a lot of detail, both in installing the server on the WL-HDD/WL500g to installing and setting up the client on the windows XP computer. Furthermore, all the key and certificate generation is also covered. I have tested the guide fully and from it, I have a fully working setup with no errors encountered along the way.

OpenVPN allows you to access windows shares over the internet, securely! This is great if you need to access files on the office network or want to be able to share photos or documents with other members of your family.

All credit for this guide goes to Propa who was the original contributor to the Wiki. All I have done is make the guide more user friendly and have restructured it a bit.

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