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Mike: Damnit, I hate spammers, don't you?

Bob: I banned the IP's of the repeat offenders from last night, but I doubt it will help. These guys are almost certainly using anonymizers or zombie-proxies... so I dug through the wikimedia source code, and discovered some nice filter options I can enable. We ought to be seeing a lot less wikispam in the future >:)

Mike: Yay! Filters are good! :P

Bob: I just added support for the wiki spammer blacklist at http://chongqed.org/ , which is pretty darn cool. Even better than the filters I added the other day (which have been blocking about one spamming every six hours)

Mike: Well, it doesn't stop "I don't know how to use a WIKI" spam...

[edit] And now for something different

Mike: Erm, where did Bob go? His picture (which I was just in the process of almost using in an OHR related project) is gone! Gone I say!

Bob You mean the picture of Bob in the top left corner of the wiki? [1] ... It is there. Perhaps your browser?

Mike: Hmm, you're right... When I go to that URL, it pops-up a message saying "it can't be found", which is not like other 404 messages... Interesting...

Mike: D'oh! It shows up again when I clear my cache... and I thought Firefox was perfect... :(

[edit] RE: The "Q&A" section

Mike: Why?

[edit] Future Website Plans

Bob: I love mediawiki. With the addition of the editable sidebar in version 1.5, I think I am now ready to convert the entire OHRRPGCE website to mediawiki. The first step is to move all the content from http://HamsterRepublic.com/ohrrpgce/ to wiki pages. Some of the more important info, such as the official download links, will be on "protected" pages that only sysops can edit. Then I will replace http://HamsterRepublic.com/ohrrpgce/ with a nightly-updated copy of this wiki, similar to the one at http://mirrors/motherhamster.org/ . That way, people will normally browse the static copy at HamsterRepublic.com but if they click an "edit" link, they will be taken to gilgamesh. That means we get delayed updates (for spam control) distributed redundancy, and better performance (since the static copy at HR will put zero PHP/mysql load on the server)

Mike: Hmm. Very interesting... I think this is a very good idea.

[edit] Editing the Main Page

Bob: The main page uses some extra spam-filtering rules because it is the most spammed page. Only logged-in users will be able to change it. If you try to edit it when you are not logged in, it will look like it worked, but actually nothing happens.

Mike: I propose similar rules for the News page, since it's not really a content page the way everything else is. Or, maybe just protecting it would be better.

[edit] Screenshots

Guest: Hi people! Where are the screenshots? Could you add some? Could avoid useless downloads.

TMC: Oh.. I miss those screenshots that used to be on the download page. What does everyone think of adding them back? (there's also a screenshot for custom on the HR download page. Speaking of which... James! I think you forgot to update wandering hamster! (or at least, you forgot to update the "last updated" text... and why do wandering hamster on the HR download page and wandering hamster on the HR OHR games list point to different zips?))

Bob: Yes. We should definitely have a screenshots page, and we should link it from the sidebar. Newcomers will definitely want to see screenshots both of the ditor and some games. (Re: Wandering Hamster, I have not update it at all, and probably will not do so until tirgoviste. The HR downloads page points to the same zip via a symbolic link.)

The Geek: I concur. The only time I ever download something without seeing screenshots first is if it has come with a very, very high recommendation.

[edit] April Fool's

The Geek: Must... resist... urge... to... make... April Fool's day edit...

Mike: Damnit, I didn't even think about that. :( :( :(

[edit] Categorization

Mike: I'm thinking that we need to use Namespaces more often. Specifically, we need to use them.

I was thinking about how to organize the Editor menus and stuff, so I thought "Menu:Edit Graphics" or whatever. Then, I was looking at the Sword of Jade page that FyreWulff edited earlier, and I thought "Game:Sword of Jade".

It's that kind of contextual organization that makes MediaWiki great.

Edit: James, take a look at The Meta-Wiki page on the configuration file. Also, could you enable the Sub-pages feature? That would be immensly awesome for stuff like Sword of Jade/Screenshots or Graphics menu/Tileset Editor, for example.

Bob: I added three new namespaces (with subpages) menu: game: and br:

[edit] Lots of changes in the Recent Changes section?

The Geek: What happened?! There's like, 150 changes that MediaWiki made, apparently all to special pages/restricted pages and page titles throughout the wiki aren't working right!

Bob the Hamster That was me upgrading to MediaWiki version 1.6.3. The page titles were screwed up because I didn't know about MediaWiki:Pagetitle, which Mike has already fixed.

The Geek: Ah, thanks :)

[edit] Redirector

The Geek: For those of you like me who are too lazy to type the whole URL every time you want to visit the OHRRPGCE-Wiki, I've set up two redirectors with doip.com - go to http://doiop.com/ohrrpgce or http://doiop.com/ohrrpgce-wiki to be instantly directed to the Main Page! Spiffy, eh?

[edit] Stupid Error

Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in.

Mike C. Logging out and in again doesn't do anything. It doesn't hamper my ability to do anything (it shows up right when I hit edit on a page, and when I save my changes, it doesn't come back), but it's irritating... anyone else getting this?

Bob the Hamster: I have seen that before, but not recently. Is it still doing it now? I would check and see if your cookie really gets deleted when you log out. If it persists, let me know, and I will search the logs for database errors.

Mike C.: It is still doing that, yes. I manually deleted the cookies, logged back in, and it's still there.

Anonymous: I had this problem, and it was solved by looking in /etc/php.ini for the variable "session.save_path", and then making the directory it listed (/var/lib/php/session) writable by the apache user. chown apache:apache /var/lib/php/session ; chmod 770 /var/lib/php/session

Hope it helps. -Nate

Bob the Hamster: We already solved the problem a long time ago, but thank you for the info anyway, anonymous poster.

If you guys resolved it a while ago then why didnt you post the solution? DING!

[edit] Wiki Logo

The Mad Cacti: What happened to the picture of Bob in the top left hand corner? It's gone!

James Paige: Hmmm... I'll look into it...

Anonymous: If you guys resolved it a while ago then why didnt you post the solution? DING!

James Paige: It is a mystery

[edit] Question for Bob and/or James

Wouldn't it be wise to have James use Wandering Hamster as a bugtest game for anything that may crop up? ~raekuul

Bob the Hamster: Oh, I often do. But simplified test-case games are always the best for fixing the really tricky bugs.

[edit] ya!

Thanks for making this Rpg maker. Anything else probably would have been to difficult for my feeble mind. =P So, yeah, hamster dudes. XP Legodude760 20:59, 16 January 2008 (PST)

Bob the Hamster: You are welcome :)

Legodude760: YOu guys invented a new way of talking. I'll try to do it as well. :P

[edit] Warning message when browsing anonymously

The Mad Cacti:I noticed today that when not logged in, nearly every page, but not the Main Page, shows a warning message:

Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/wiki/ohrrpgce/includes/User.php on line 3634

Also, earlier today I saw a warning message when my edit conflicted with David's, but I didn't note it down.

Bob the Hamster: I think this was introduced by a mediawiki bug a couple days ago, and fixed this morning. I forced an early upgrade, and the message is gone now.