williswoody wrote:Also, with the photos, maybe you have to CHMOD the directory that the images are uploaded to to 777? Would this be the issue? You can do it with this thing:

At the moment, file uploading is turned off from the wiki, as soon as that is enabled it'll be fine ( I hope...)

First thing, I had to dig trough the thread to find this:
http://wiki.volvo300mania.com/index.php/Main_Page

That is certainly logical place for wiki as it is in same url thing as rest of the site, but I'm still unsure after reading all this that if this is which you are going to work with?

Admin or OP could edit first post to reflect location of wiki and current status.

Second thing.

I'm one of the admins of rFactor2 wiki, which is still under construction, we have talked from it with great length with other admins, about style etc.

One of the best wiki I have seen is this http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page How things are laid out, categorized etc is really good in there, first you pick what is your area of interest (could be engine, drivetrain, suspension etc) then you pick what are in there (maybe something like 340 1.4 ?) Modding and such could be also there next to car models or it could be whole main category.

One have to think like if you would be searching information to solve some issue on your car as that is how most likely users are coming to wiki, there is something they want, that something has main category where it belongs and some sub area in that category.

Worse thing to do is just throw stuff in there without planning.

Searching is often used to access information, but also some menusystem like in modwiki is really great when one is browsing for information.

Third thing.

Yes, I have hosted some stuff, but then again I have 50GB storage with unlimited bandwith (200GB/month has not been an issue yet), so there is no problem for me to host stuff, it is only a 5 toymoney in a month and it is my photo hosting and other file hosting at the same time too.

Important thing.

There is potential problem and security risk when one uses chmod 777, that should not be needed if users and groups are set properly, especially bad it is with directories, but even with pics you give then any low level hacker keys to remove/replace them and as nowdays even jpg contains viruses, he could replace images with those containing viruses, making whole lot of problem and issues. 664 or 644 are ones that should do the work.
777 itself is not very dangerous, but you can think it being one door of many and if first door is busted and second door is open, there is nothing standing in evildoer's way.

Anyway that might give some food for some thoughts.

Edit: You can use help of Wikipedia to format articles properly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout at least I need a lot of that page to be able to get matching style, when I start making pages for rf2 wiki, it is still bit of starting phase, though.

http://wiki.volvo300mania.com/

Progress so far is a big fat NIL since 24th February.

We cannot embed pictures.
We cannot delete spam users.
We cannot delete spam pages, only blank them.
No one has yet managed to get hold of Aymat.

No volunteers have been given admin rights to deal with the above.

Since the 20th March, the wiki has been getting spam users signing up and spam pages created. I have blanked 110 spam pages to date of which 21 were in the last 24 hours.

This is getting silly.

I suggest to resolve this we either:

a) get hold of Aymat to fix the above issues.
b) host another wiki somewhere else.

It's a great shame that presently a good idea and potentially useful resource is going doing the toilet.

(Edit: due to change the figures - two more spam pages went up whilst I was typing)

We NEED to get hold of him :/ we have struggled though. No one has a phone number?

@Mac - have you tried contacting Aymat? When I contacted him about the Wiki, it was up within a week. So there's some teething trouble... sounds like some permission errors for the uploads or something simple, and setting some user roles. Try dropping him an email

I have sent him an email...and no joy.

You know yourself that you were lucky to get a fast response. Maybe it was coincidence, or maybe he just listens to you?

All this can be sorted if the man with "bureaucrat" rights (Aymat), appoint a few folk with "administrator" rights. The wiki needs to be open, but only to registered users and a Captcha hurdle added.

Anyway, someone give me a nudge in a couple of years when it has been sorted. I've got other things like cars to fix.

Holy shit, I didn't expect so much spam on the wiki, I'll change this right now... Same for the upload feature!

macplaxton wrote:the man with "bureaucrat" rights (Aymat)

The man with bureaucrat rights thanks you This is not really what I am

Any chance of some appointing some janitors to look after things in your absence?

We'll look after it...promise...just throw a few basic rules and we can refine it as we go along.

Quick! dont let him get away!

Duvel78 wrote:

macplaxton wrote:the man with "bureaucrat" rights (Aymat)

The man with bureaucrat rights thanks you This is not really what I am

Gosh! I am really 39 now? Those two years went quick.

Ok, little update, the massive spam on the wiki is manually deleted (I never expected that problem so quickly!!!)

The Wiki is now temporary out of use because I need to perform some changes (spam protection), but I'm going to bed now

Ok. Thanks for taking the time to do the manual deletion of the spam.

Any chance of getting this back? It's been a while...

cheers

James

There is a chance James, there is a chance