Regarding FOSS Nepal's Wiki
Abhishek Singh
This to to inform you that FOSS Nepal's MediaWiki portal that was hosted at http://wiki.fossnepal.org is now available for use. There has been a few changes to the wiki portal and the change-log is enlisted below:
- Based on the latest stable MediaWiki Engine (version 1.15.1)
- Installed extension "CheckUser" which grants users with appropriate permission the ability to check user's IP address and other information.
- Installed extension "ConfirmAccount" which tweaks the account creation process and secures it in a way that user can no longer create their account, but they can request account creation for them and wiki administrator(s) and either accept or reject them.
- Installed extension "ConfirmEdit" which adds a simple maths based captcha at the account request page so as to discourage spamming of account requests.
- Installed extension "AjaxShowEditors" which displays a list of users which has been editing the page that you're editing and hence helps to resolve edit conflicts on the same page.
- Installed extension "AntiBot" which is a simple framework for spambot checks and trigger payloads.
- Installed extension "SocialBookmarking" which uses "addthis.com" and help readers/users bookmark a wiki page to many social media sites like Digg, Twitter, Facebook etc.
- Last, but not the least, removed many spam users from the user list and some unnecessary spam pages and edits.
I understand that disabling automatic account creation might discourage you from contributing to wiki, but acting to the massive spam activities over the wiki, I had no choice. Also this way, it makes sure that no unauthorized user can make changes to your wiki contribution. Also I would like to inform that while deleting some of the spam users I might have mistakenly deleted some valid users (though I took utmost care that I never delete a valid user), so please request your account if it has been deleted. Moreover, I saw that some users have created multiple accounts for themselves and haven't contributed even a word from any of their account. Hence I would like to request every community member and wiki user not to create multiple accounts and misuse the wiki.
Finally, on behalf of the community, I would like to apologize all of the wiki users for the inconvenience that this change in wiki and the delay in making the wiki usable again has brought. Thank you for your patience, support and contribution.
-- Abhishek Singh FOSS Nepal Community http://wiki.fossnepal.org
prabin gautam
I am so happy to know about the upgrades.
Thanx and keep it up.
On 2/1/10, Abhishek Singh <aks.ab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> This to to inform you that FOSS Nepal's MediaWiki portal
> that was hosted at http://wiki.fossnepal.org is now available for use.
> There has been a few changes to the wiki portal and the change-log is
> enlisted below:
>
> 1. Based on the latest stable MediaWiki Engine *(version 1.15.1)*
> 2. Installed extension "*CheckUser*" which grants users with
> appropriate permission the ability to check user's IP address and
> other information.
> 3. Installed extension "*ConfirmAccount*" which tweaks the account
> creation process and secures it in a way that user can no longer
> create their account, but they can request account creation for
> them and wiki administrator(s) and either accept or reject them.
> 4. Installed extension "*ConfirmEdit*" which adds a simple maths
> based captcha at the account request page so as to discourage
> spamming of account requests.
> 5. Installed extension "*AjaxShowEditors*" which displays a list of
> users which has been editing the page that you're editing and
> hence helps to resolve edit conflicts on the same page.
> 6. Installed extension "*AntiBot*" which is a simple framework for
> spambot checks and trigger payloads.
> 7. Installed extension "*SocialBookmarking*" which uses "addthis.com"
> and help readers/users bookmark a wiki page to many social media
> sites like Digg, Twitter, Facebook etc.
> 8. Last, but not the least, removed many spam users from the user
> list and some unnecessary spam pages and edits.
>
>
> I understand that disabling automatic account creation might discourage
> you from contributing to wiki, but acting to the massive spam activities
> over the wiki, I had no choice. Also this way, it makes sure that no
> unauthorized user can make changes to your wiki contribution. Also I
> would like to inform that while deleting some of the spam users I might
> have mistakenly deleted some valid users (though I took utmost care that
> I never delete a valid user), so please request your account if it has
> been deleted. Moreover, I saw that some users have created multiple
> accounts for themselves and haven't contributed even a word from any of
> their account. Hence I would like to request every community member and
> wiki user not to create multiple accounts and misuse the wiki.
>
> Finally, on behalf of the community, I would like to apologize all of
> the wiki users for the inconvenience that this change in wiki and the
> delay in making the wiki usable again has brought. Thank you for your
> patience, support and contribution.
>
> --
> Abhishek Singh
> FOSS Nepal Community
> http://wiki.fossnepal.org
>
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Prabin Gautam
M.Sc. Computing
The University of Northampton
Northamptonshire, UK
Abhishek Singh
Subir Pradhanang
>
> This to to inform you that FOSS Nepal's MediaWiki portal that was
> hosted at http://wiki.fossnepal.org is now available for use. There has been
> a few changes to the wiki portal and the change-log is enlisted below:
Good work, Abhishek! Your hard work has paid off. Now, it should help
control spam on the wiki.
Cheers,
Subir
Abhishek Singh
This is to inform you that http://fossnepal.org is up and running. Thanks to Kailash Budhathoki from the community itself and Vijay Shrestha from Outlines Hosting who have helped us to set the website up. Thanks a lot fellas, hats off to you.
Thank You.
Ritesh Tamrakar
Congratulation to all the member of website team specially Kailash for their hard work to make it happen.
Best regards,
Ritesh Man Tamrakar
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Akash Deep Shakya
I would like to acknowledge Kailash, Nitesh, Priya, Ritu and Sarba raj for all their hard work and dedication towards developing this website. We would like to mark this release as 1.0.0. Even if it took sometime to get into production, I hope we will get better with time.
If you have any suggestion regarding design and layout, you can contact Kailash, and if there is any queries about contents, then you can ask priya or ritu.
Also I would like to thank, Subir dai, Hempal dai, dadhiram dai for their logistics and administrative support. Aks and Vijay dai for handling the system things.
Regards
Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK"
FOSS Nepal Community
http://www.akashdeepshakya.com.np
akashakya at gmail dot com
P.O.Box: 8975 EPC: 4235
~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~
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Jitendra kumar
Great work and congratulations to all of us.
Regards,
Jitendra
Akash Deep Shakya
@Jitendra, thanx for your support man, I hurriedly wrote the mail. I hope you'd understand.
Regards
Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK"
FOSS Nepal Community
http://www.akashdeepshakya.com.np
akashakya at gmail dot com
P.O.Box: 8975 EPC: 4235
~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~
Jitendra kumar
I am so sorry, I missed Jitendra on my thanks list. His contribution in the development was really very important.
haha
Subir Pradhanang
> This is to inform you that http://fossnepal.org is up and
> running. Thanks to Kailash Budhathoki from the community itself and Vijay
> Shrestha from Outlines Hosting who have helped us to set the website up.
> Thanks a lot fellas, hats off to you.
Good to see it rolling, Kailash and the team! We will need to
constantly work on it and maintain it in the future.
Cheers,
Subir