User talk:Bob the Hamster

Grady: Hey Bob, i thought this would be an inappropriate question to ask on the HOWTO & FAQ so i decided to ask it here, can i please have some help on how to use MediaWiki or whatever it is on my website, if you don't mind? Thanks :)

Bob: Sure! I reccomend installing it on a Linux box. Trying to do it on a Windows box is possible, but a huge pain.

1. Download the latest Mediawiki 1.4.x from http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/
2. Follow the instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Installation
3. If you have problems, mail me, or ask questions here, but I will answer your questions (if I can) by editing and improving http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Installation

Grady: Okay, Hmm.. the reccomended ram is a bit high, i only have 128 MB, and alot of that is used by Windows XP :P Oh well i'll give it a shot anyway, dosen't hurt to try, thing is i have to find a decent server that gives free MySQL and PHP and whatever the hell else it needs :P

Mike: http://swifthost.net - Best. Hosts. Evar.

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Bob: Spam filtering still works just fine in Mediawiki 1.5 ... I just forgot that logged-in users are allowed to say "viagra" without getting filtered.

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Mike: Surely there's a way to get an IP address attached to a username. But, I looked, and couldn't find anything. Or, is that just a 'Bureaucrat' feature?

Bob: I would have to check the server logs to get that spammer's IP. Bereaucrat just means you can grant Sysop to other users.

James Paige Hey! I really object to the editorial slant of this article! And I especially don't like that bit about encouraging people to bug me about finishing wandering hamster. I have a big enough backlog of e-mail already!

Bob the Hamster Oh, what? Were you just sitting there hitting "reload" on the recent changes page, or what? I thought you were busy!?

James Paige Oh, much better. Now you make me sound both lazy and crass. Seriously, buying me books is not a good way to get me to work on WH. it is a good way to get me to spend hours and hours of my free time reading books, and specificly not working on Wandering Hamster. And it is my lunch break right now. I am aloud to spend my lunch break obsessively reloading and web page I please, aren't I?

The Geek: I could be really cheeky here and say "what lunch break, oh you mean the one that +never ends?", but I won't :)

Bob the Hamster The Geek, when you posted that, it was blocked by the spam filter because James hates you because you were not logged in, and this page contains the word "viagra". (unfortunately, the spam filter currently uses the full-text of the page, not just the changed parts)

Mike C. You know you have problems when you have fake arguments with yourself in public places...

James Paige I am perfectly sane. Bob is the one with problems.

The Geek: There, I am a user now. I didn't realize you didn't need to give an +e-mail address. Thanks for restoring the post. And I agree with Mike :)

Bob the Hamster Actually, the above post was blocked too, because I had not yet added you to the not evil list. Now you can post without fear of accadentalluy triggering the filter. I really need to fix the filter so it only filters changes. Any page where someone has ever spoken a blocked word like the v-word is practically locked down. :(

The Geek: Hey, it works most of the time! And thanks again for restoring the post.

Wiki issue

Can you fix the Mediawiki namespace so that we can actually make use of the Special:Wantedpages ?