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2024-02-20

Ugh. Spam-fighting resulted in me adding a borked regular expression to BannedHosts on 2024-02-15. Regular users were unable to post as the script refused to save anything (and crashed). I hope it’s fixed, now. I’m editing this from a private browsing window and it seems to work.

Alex Schroeder

Thanks for dealing with this, Alex. Quite a hassle. - DrewAdams

Yeah, super sad to see. I wonder if we’ll eventually revert back to logins… – Alex

Every now and then we can look at the list of locked pages and decide to unlock some. – Alex

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2024-02-07

Lots of spam-fighting today. Here’s what the wiki has to offer, if you’re an administrator:

  • ban URL’s containing regular expressions via BannedContent (weird page name, I know)
  • ban page content containing regular expressions via BannedRegexps (this is much more sweeping and I don’t like to use it)
  • ban IP numbers using regular expressions via BannedHosts (regular expressions is a stupid idea but I never got around to CIDR matching)

Also, there’s a little helper that lists all the IP numbers and the usernames they used and whether they are already banned, e.g. ban contributors to Comments on SiteMap.

Alex Schroeder

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2021-06-03

The site was down for a few hours. After some attempts at connecting to the server I decided to reboot it. I hope everything is back as it should be. If there’s something amiss, let me know. – Alex

Thanks for taking care of this, Alex. – DrewAdams

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2020-12-24

I’ve been making some changes to the wiki engine, adding header, nav, and footer elements instead of using divs with classes. This means that some CSS files might break in unexpected ways. If you notice anything weird, please let me know by leaving a comment, here.

I also changed the default CSS to automatically pick the dark theme if your browser says it prefers the dark theme. – Alex Schroeder

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2020-12-18

Sacha Chua wrote a blog post where she said: “I’d love to make all these wonderful posts and tutorials and videos more findable. Not just EmacsConf, but also the wonderful things that cross our radar in EmacsNews. I think the EmacsWiki could be a great way to do that. Imagine if people took the links from Emacs News and organized them under various topic pages (and maybe even in some kind of logical order) so that people could come across them… And when we start organizing the resources that are out there, we can map the things people want to learn (ooh! skill trees!) and then see where the missing pieces are.” – EmacsConf 2020: Emacs News Highlights and a wishlist

I’d love to see this as well! 😃 – Alex

Hear! Hear! - DrewAdams

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2020-12-09

Prompted by @tarsius@ mastodon.social: Who wants a new theme? Should we redesign the CSS? Do you want the old logo back?

https://www.emacswiki.org/pics/EmacsWiki.png

Personally, I don’t care enough about the logo and I don’t want to spend too much time on CSS fiddling. And you can always switch themes on an individual basis on the CSS page. So I guess I’m looking for somebody who both feels strongly about and will take it upon themselves to do what Brian Burns did for us, years ago (got repo).

– Alex

I’m OK with whatever’s done.

Personally, I prefer the Classic CSS theme.

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2020-10-28

As a fun little side project I’ve been involved in some Gemini-protocol wiki programming and therefore you can “enjoy” a transmogrified Emacs Wiki via gemini://emacswiki.org with an appropriate Gemini client. There’s a Gopher and Gemini client for Emacs called Elpher that I like to use.

No web browser I know of has implemented the Gemini protocol. There are a bunch of other clients that you could use instead. Gemini Clients has a list.

One would think that eww is better suited for browsing Emacs Wiki via the web, but whenever I visit HTTPS sites using eww, I suffer a two or three second delay.

Anyway. Give Gemini a try, if you’re curious.

– Alex

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