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For some reason our site has been | Anonymous edits are back on. Testing the waters. I've added [http://recaptcha.net CAPTCHA's] to user account creation and anonymous edits that add links to external URLs. There are more options, but I figure I'll ramp up protection as needed until it becomes manageable. --[[User:WikiSysop|WikiSysop]] 21:13, 21 November 2011 (EST) | ||
For some reason our site has been targeted for vandalism. The first few edits were for links to knock-off purse sites, then came a torrent of random replies spread over the site and a lot of new pages. Currently I'm working on getting things back together and removing all of the vandalism. For now I've ratcheted down the settings on the site. For a little while I'm not going to allow anonymous edits (must be logged in to edit - setting up an account is free). I'm never going to allow anonymous page creation anymore. I've also restricted that your account must be at least 4 days old to create new pages as well. Cleaning up the added pages has been a mess. --[[User:WikiSysop|WikiSysop]] 15:33, 20 May 2011 (EDT) | |||
Extremely slow site performance noticed on April 4th. I'm not sure what's going on but I am increasingly frustrated with Network Solutions, our webhost. I hope this will improve both in the short term with them and long term with a switch of providers. --[[User:Tim|Tim]] 18:11, 4 April 2011 (EDT) | Extremely slow site performance noticed on April 4th. I'm not sure what's going on but I am increasingly frustrated with Network Solutions, our webhost. I hope this will improve both in the short term with them and long term with a switch of providers. --[[User:Tim|Tim]] 18:11, 4 April 2011 (EDT) | ||
Latest revision as of 21:13, 21 November 2011
Anonymous edits are back on. Testing the waters. I've added CAPTCHA's to user account creation and anonymous edits that add links to external URLs. There are more options, but I figure I'll ramp up protection as needed until it becomes manageable. --WikiSysop 21:13, 21 November 2011 (EST)
For some reason our site has been targeted for vandalism. The first few edits were for links to knock-off purse sites, then came a torrent of random replies spread over the site and a lot of new pages. Currently I'm working on getting things back together and removing all of the vandalism. For now I've ratcheted down the settings on the site. For a little while I'm not going to allow anonymous edits (must be logged in to edit - setting up an account is free). I'm never going to allow anonymous page creation anymore. I've also restricted that your account must be at least 4 days old to create new pages as well. Cleaning up the added pages has been a mess. --WikiSysop 15:33, 20 May 2011 (EDT)
Extremely slow site performance noticed on April 4th. I'm not sure what's going on but I am increasingly frustrated with Network Solutions, our webhost. I hope this will improve both in the short term with them and long term with a switch of providers. --Tim 18:11, 4 April 2011 (EDT)