Tag: Update

The site is no longer in read-only mode

Posted on by Trollpedia Admin

Hey another update for those who didn’t catch it earlier, but the site is no longer in read-only mode since 3 days ago.

I would have reported that sooner on the blog, but I was writing another blog post simultaneously and I wanted to make sure everything worked as intended before making this post. I really do not want for my site to put-off people because it fails to function correctly.

Regardless, you should be able to resume editing again.

 

I blame myself for this, I should have probably done something about those issues sooner.

Anyhow, have fun editing!  ~Trollpedia’s Admin

Trollpedia is read-only

Posted on by Trollpedia Admin

Yesterday, you likely visited the site to be greeted by an error message stating that the database is locked.

If you did not know already, the wiki site, Trollpedia, is currently read-only – This is to ensure that no problem are caused by the users while updating the site since editing the articles will update the database all the while I update several components of the site, and I do not wish for Trollpedia to end up on the same fate as Aediot’s Encyclopedia Dramatica.

We are updating our insfrastucture to fix issues that we previously encountered including the Visual Editor not working as intended.

All the planned changes are as follow:

  1. Updating the PHP to a version more adequate for Trollpedia.
  2. Making sure the RestBASE and Parsoid apis work and then re-enable the Visual Editor.
  3. Make the email for password resets and mail confirmation work correctly (Currently they bounce back, we covered that issue in another post earlier).
  4. Add and update a few extensions.

Do note that we currently do not intend to update the Mediawiki version used by the site, I wanna make sure that no issue occurs when I do update Mediawiki to its most recent stable build and many people have encountered and reported such issues on Mediawiki.org.

This might lasts one week because I’m clumsy when it comes to computers, and I never handled servers previously.

Trollpedia was hit with a wave of obnoxious spam

Posted on by Trollpedia Admin
Silouhette of a scary person in a trench coat.

Big news! I had to block 110 IP addresses in one single day because of the unbearable spam on the wiki! Recently, a slew of Black Hat SEO spammers infested the site, unfortunately for them (and for me), there is the moderation extension and the Abuse Filter, I then check their IP and ban it.

With that said, I had the intention to make this post for a while, so I saved every permalink to each IP I tested on Robtex due to how unbearable it is becoming.

Just look at everything we have gotten in the past few days:

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Epic news! Now, the site can generate dumps!

Posted on by Trollpedia Admin

Hey troll enthusiasts! I am very happy to announce to you all that I just installed DataDump on my wiki, so now I can regularly back up Trollpedia.

Trolls had the luxury to take down the wiki for a while now and undo all the work done there, but they’re too late! But not only that, I could have done something that could have caused the wiki to go permanently offline like Aediot; the previous head honcho of Encyclopedia Dramatica, since I am new to this webmaster stuff.

If I had issues installing it I had another extension ready to be deployed called “DumpsOnDemand” and I still do just in case, though I am more familiar with DataDump, so that is my prefered choice.

In other news

The wiki now officially supports spoilers, I installed an extension for that. That is not really the most important thing it needs, I still have to fix some other issues with the wiki, but it is there if anyone needs it. Otherwise, we have the template available too, which still works the last time I checked.

Peace out!

Oh, that’s annoying…

Posted on by Trollpedia Admin

There is a gif file on Miraheze that won’t download, it gives me “18 errors – transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining”.

It was completely fine when I sent it to Miraheze 1 year ago, so did it somehow get damaged? Can gif files corrupt themselves or did it get corrupted because of Miraheze? I will not be pointing fingers at the moment because I have no idea why that problem happens.

For reference, here’s the file:

It should display normally since it is an img tag linking back to Miraheze, but that is it really. Now, it is not really important since it was just used once to warn a troll, it is not used constructively anywhere on the wiki, so I’d say whatever.

If you did not receive any email from Trollpedia after signing up with your email, that’s not your fault

Posted on by Trollpedia Admin
Screenshot of an email header.

It came to my attention that emails sent from Trollpedia would not come through, in fact, those same emails came back to me with this short message attached:

I’m sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It’s attached below.

As well as the forwarded email.

I am working to get this fixed, but in the meantime please write down your password on a piece of paper, otherwise, you won’t be able to recover your account if you ever forget the password.

If you do forget your password and are unable to log in, get in touch with an admin to get your account back.

PHP Issues

Posted on by Trollpedia Admin

Hello, folks! You are on the first blog post on that beautiful WordPress site.

This is mostly to try out WordPress.

Anyway, as you have read in the title I had a few issues setting up this website.

There is the following error below I get whenever I set Mediawiki to Memcached.

A PHP error.

I know my host supports Memcached, so I really do not understand what it entails and the error gives me no result when doing a simple Google search. At the end of the day, I thought it was better to set Mediawiki to “Cache Anything” instead, works like a charm.