Me too. So far.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gok
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Me too. So far.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gok
Where did I say anon edits were rejected outright? Like most wikis (unless they're ones without a large number of regular contributors), anonymous edits are held in lower regard, and we'd prefer it if people went to the extra trouble of registering an account to edit. No anon users are forbidden from editing. I myself actually argued against forcing people to register when somebody from Wikia (when we were on their servers) suggested we do that.
Once again, we are not the wikipedia, and by majority consensus, we like our bias and our tone. If somebody attempts to remove it in the name of "neutral voice" or trying to make the wiki more like the Wikipedia, then it's vandalism.
I'll take all the Wiki's bias happily if it means articles like Pat Lee and ruined forever exist in that style. Gold.
Going back to what dirge said before:
That pretty much sums up my conclusion on this matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by dirge
I was reading shortpacked to maintain my sanity at work and came across this:
http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20060411.html
Heh... I wouldn't waste my time doing that. Like I said, I spent a bit of time trying to contribute to TFwiki but since it's clear that my contributions aren't welcome, I just don't bother.
Just for those who may not know, I'm pretty certain that the author of Shortpacked is also the head honcho of the Wiki.Quote:
Originally Posted by kup
He was also one of the head honchos of #wiijii... I have nothing terribly pleasant to say about that IRC channel so I'll just shut my big yap now. ;)
Does that make David Willis "Nemesis Prime"? :D
I'm glad Willis can see a funny-side to Wiki's critics... :) (which proves the comments/feedback aren't all getting marked as spam :D)
Just a note: If anybody here visiting the wiki sees weird sh-t going on (like random gibberish or articles that are blanked and replaced with links to dodgy-looking URLs, it's because we're under heavy spambot attacks at the moment. We apologise for the inconvenience.
That sucks. While I'm not the biggest fan of TFwiki, I don't condone deliberate spamming or vandalism of it. If people don't like it, just leave it alone. :/ If it's people trying to advertise Viagra, then they deserve a good kick to the janglies.
Don't judge spambots as a race...judge them as individuals. If it wasn't for spambots I wouldn't have any friends on Myspace.:o
Seriously though....bastard hackers. :mad:
Digger, You realise all those femme myspace friends are actually guys? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by TheDirtyDigger
....and......Quote:
Originally Posted by Pulse
The attack went on for about 7 hours, and basically it was all hands on deck for the available staff and actual users to revert and repair articles.
Hopefully we'll be able to install more security software plugins for the server, but with Thanksgiving, our American staffers may not have time to do so until after the holiday.
What I consider to be a last resort is restricting editing only to registered users (meaning you need to make an account to do any editing). I personally feel this makes the site unfriendly to people who wander in and might want to fix small things like spelling errors or minor mistakes, like I sometimes do when wandering around Wikis I don't really contribute to. Spambots would get around registration eventually.
If spambots weren't enough of a problem, we also have a serial pest who attacks the wiki every now and then. He was a serial pest across Wikia's wikis and when we moved to our own server, he followed. Ever since one of our regular users reverted his spam and vandalism edits, the pest became obessessed by him, and registers dozens of accounts insulting that particular user, his heritage and making allegations about his sexuality.
Oy.
No chance of IP banning such individuals? Or perhaps frequently vandalised pages will need to be locked so that only registered users can edit them - that way you can track precisely who the offenders are and possibly ban them if you know who's doing it. I'm not sure how wikis work so I'm just assuming this based on what happens with message boards. The problem with IP banning are those really annoying pests who will move between internet cafés and troll from changing IP addresses (Japanese board trolls are notorious for doing this (-_-)).
IP banning is typically ineffective as mostly only business grade internet connections have static (consistent) IPs. A simple restart of your broadband modem will usually give you a new address.
We've done all of that. The bots switch IPs so rapidly that when one is banned, another one pops up. As for tracking them, somebody suggested that the bots are piggybacking off of heavily-infected systems, unbeknownst to their owners.
Geez, half a day of editing was wasted, no significant work was done during that 7-hour period.
What about locking TFwiki so that only registered users can edit? I know wikipedia does that with heavily vandalised pages. It's not ideal, but you could do it as a temporary measure to give you guys time to undo the damage and then consider unlocking afterwards. *shrug*
Kind of like transforming Autobot City, but hopefully locking the Wiki doesn't require two people running around pushing buttons, levers and knobs ;)
(Reminds me of that fanfic I did when the Ozformers board was attacked by Spam.)
If the attacks continue and/or get worse that may be considered, but I fear that would turn off readers who may simply wish to fix our spelling mistakes and minor issues (like forgetting a square bracket in a wikilink.)Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Hopefully new security measures will be installed so we don't need to do this.
It might be needed just as a temporary measure - you could put a notice up on the locked pages or on the main page to let people know why it's in place.
Some of the locked pages already have this message when you attempt to edit it.
The key difference between the TFWiki and an Encyclopaedia is an Encyclopaedia is written for the benefit of others, and the TFWiki is written for the amusement of the children that write it.
Typical example: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rartorata - "Basically, the only differences between Rappakaffalatta and Injector are that Throatwarbler Mangrove has a lighter, charcoal gray plastic instead of Injector's black."
The whole article is much the same, replacing Rartorata's name with something even more nonsensical. Even though it's very lowbrow humour, completely unnecessary and downright confusing to the uninitiated, one of the admins thinks it's funny so it stays.
I've made a few contributions here and there, which seem to have stuck, but I really don't have the patience to deal with the juvaniles running the show.
I'll take what he says as a compliment, because we're all pretty childish to be buying children's toys at our age.
One of our admins actually hates the gag in Bartfarger's page.
I agree with TheHandsomeCrab's sentiments there.
I disagree. I don't necessarily think that collecting toys is necessarily childish. I play with my toys too... maybe that's kinda childish, but not at the same level of juvenile behaviour that THC is talking about - and I don't think that the way I usually play with my toys is necessarily child-like. A lot of it depends on one's "nature of fandom."Quote:
Originally Posted by FFN
Albert Einstein is well known for having said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." and it's well known that children who enjoy playing and exhibit good imagination and creative skills tend to be quite intelligent. One way we try to identify gifted and talented students is through their creativity - which is why Einstein said that it's more important than knowledge because imagination is the mother of invention... we only invent and create things that we dream of, such as Leonardo Da Vinci's dreams of aircrafts some 500 years before the Wright brothers took their maiden flight. And just because you grow older, doesn't mean that you suddenly have to stop being creative and imaginative... I think most of us don't do that sort of thing as much as we used to as kids primarily because we just don't have the time (not necessarily because we don't want to). Just yesterday evening I was playing with my Classics/Universe figures in a short campaign (I usually only have time to run short stories - unlike my younger days when I would run epic sagas for days, weeks or even months). And most of us are avid fans of TF fiction - be it cartoons, comics, movies, fan fics, fan essays etc.
The Merriem-Webster Dictionary defines "childish" as a "lack of poise" and "lacking complexity." To me, TFwiki fits that definition, but I wouldn't necessarily say that Transfandom necessarily fits that description. It might for some fans, but not for all.
Beginning from this term we have commenced a new syllabus in NSW for HSC 3 Unit Japanese Extension called "Animé Technique and Themes in Spirited Away" using Miyazaki Hayao's animé movie "Spirited Away" as the primary text; but in teaching this course I have already made several references to Transformers (as well as other animé, manga and sci-fi/fantasy titles) when breaking down and analysing the issues that students are currently studying for this course.
So I definitely don't agree with the notion that collecting toys and being a fan of animation and comic books necessarily makes one childish.
You take yourselves too seriously. Like, mellow out :p
I like it enough to have my web browser rigged so I can perform tfwiki searches directly from the address bar.
How do you do that Geminii?
Great idea!Quote:
Originally Posted by Geminii
Inspired by Gemeni, I made a bookmarklet for you Digger. If you add this as a Favorite/Bookmark address and put it in your button bar you should get the desired effect:Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDirtyDigger
It will pop open a search prompt and when you hit OK, it's like hitting "Go" on the Wiki (I can make it act like "Search" instead if desired). If you leave it blank and hit OK, you just go to the Wiki home page, and if you Cancel, nothing happens.Code:javascript:theQuery=prompt('TF%20Wiki%20search%20(leave%20blank%20for%20home%20page):');if(theQuery){window.location.href='http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Special:Search?search='%20+%20theQuery+'&go=Go';}else%20if(theQuery==''){window.location.href='http://tfwiki.net/';};
Whoa! Appreciated mate but can you just dumb down the instructions a little from the part after...'Inspired by...'Quote:
Originally Posted by jaydisc
just make a new bookmark dd, and use the code that jay made as the target, ie the website
TF Wiki? MORE LIKE SEE WHO CAN BE THE FUNNIEST AND TRY TO IMPRESS DAVID WILLIS THE MOST WIKI, AM I RIGHT?
The crazy wacky zany captions and jokes are just too HILARIOUS for me.
The wiki also has a Go! Button sig image/link to use on boards that enable HTML in sigs. It randomly loads a Go! Button for one of our articles. Unfortunately, since most boards don't allow HTML in sigs...
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/A_GoBox_of_your_own!
It's a built-in function in the latest version of Opera. Visit any webpage with a search box, right-click it and choose "Create Search", then supply a keyword. Then, any time you want to do a search without having to navigate to the website first, hotkey to the address bar and type "keyword searchterm".Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDirtyDigger
So I can fire up a blank webbrowser page (much faster than loading the tfu.info main page, and also cuts their server load), and type the "address" of, for instance, tfu megatron in order to get all the Megatron search results.
Opera comes with a ton of these built-in, usually with one-letter keywords. So I can type "g jhiaxus" to Google for jhiaxus, "w Transformers" to search Wikipedia for Transformers, "e MP02" to search eBay for 20th Anniversary Ultra Magnus, etc. I even overwrote the default eBay keyword so it now searches Australian eBay instead of the US.
It also comes with keyword searches for download.com, yahoo, bittorrent, in-page search, amazon.com, Google groups and news etc. I've personally added keyword searches for Youtube, the Transformers Wiki, BBTS, IMDB, eBay search-by-auction-number, and a stack of other sites I visit regularly. All of the entries - including the supplied defaults - can be manually edited, copied, overwritten etc, and there's no limit to the length of the keyword (although short ones are faster to type).
Likewise, Firefox can now do much the same thing. Right-click any WWW search field and choose "Add a keyword for this search". The searches are stored as bookmarks of the corresponding search string URL, and you'll notice all Firefox bookmarks have a keyword field for this. (It can also be used so a keyword brings up any non-search site, too - in that case, any search terms are discarded.)
For G1 Axer, the tf wiki mentions something about him crossing over into another continuity. But it doesn't have any references etc
any info?
I believe it might have been info from Hasbro, that G1 Axer and RID Axer are considered to be the same guy. RID Axer's bio states rather ambiguously that he went into a black hole on some sort of rescue mission and hints at the two different names used for Axer's original bike vehicle accessory.
I'll try to get clarification for you.