HacDC Wiki:Wiki Maintenance

Hints about taking care of the wiki.. for better or worse.

Status and Maintenance Record

2013.12.14

The wiki's software is up to date. It's running very slowly and has been for a long time. There are exactly 1 gazillion spambot accounts. Ok, it's actually 149,292 total accounts, most of which are bots.

Links

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maintenance_scripts
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php

Bad Bot Accounts

• ssh into the dreamhost site
• cd wiki.hacdc.org/
• php-5.4 maintenance/removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete >> rmunused.txt &
• tailf rmunused.txt
• go read a book

Misc

• css tweaks -> http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.css