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nate
2013-02-23 02:02:53 pm
a week from today i will be blowing away the users table of the kb database. so there will be no more kb-specific user accounts (and no more spambots or spam). instead you'll log in with your forum account to make edits. no content will be lost except for anything you may have added to your personal page, e.g. https://kb.speeddemosarchive.com/User:whoever. just go to edit and copy/paste to notepad to back it up if you want it to be saved. otherwise there's no need to do anything. can just sit back and watch the fireworks as thousands of spambots cry out and then are suddenly silenced. special thanks to gammadragon for making this possible.
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Heidrage
2013-02-23 02:05:55 pm
Willing to teach you the impossible
♥
Carcinogen
2013-02-23 02:21:15 pm
Quote from nate:
thousands of spambots cry out and then are suddenly silenced.

I see what you did there.
doicm
2013-02-23 03:42:57 pm
Looking forward to this. Smiley
Flip
2013-02-24 08:52:30 am
1-Up!
Seconding the thanks to gammadragon! Looking forward to an SDA future with a usable KB!
Manocheese
2013-02-24 01:29:43 pm
Yes, a cucco riding the ground.
Sounds good. I think the complaints about spam were way out of proportion, but it's still nice to get rid of it.
Freezard
2013-02-24 04:52:55 pm
Good to hear Smiley
gammadragon
2013-02-24 10:21:58 pm
Might be magic...
And reflecting the thanks to the SDA staff, who do such an awesome job Smiley
tjp7154
2013-02-24 10:27:41 pm
#Casual
aaaaand so everyone, get your (updated) game speedrunning information at the ready!
nate
2013-03-02 02:08:57 pm
and we are live. please report any problems you may encounter here. thanks.
Sir VG
2013-03-02 02:15:37 pm
Fucking Weeaboo
Any place where we can report spam pages that are still on the Wiki?
nate
2013-03-02 02:16:32 pm
here works. thanks.
UraniumAnchor
2013-03-02 02:25:12 pm
Not a walrus
Could just delete em yourself if the permissions are set up that way (admittedly it's been a while since I did anything other than read the KB so I'm not sure).
Sir VG
2013-03-02 02:26:16 pm
Fucking Weeaboo
Bah, I was gonna start linking some, but the sheer number I was finding has just pretty much lead me to just link you to the orphaned pages. It's absolutely incredible how many there are. There's a few on the page that appear to be legit pages, but the vast majority are crap. (And UA, I can edit/blank them, but not delete.)

https://kb.speeddemosarchive.com/Special:LonelyPages
Sir VG
2013-03-02 03:17:03 pm
Fucking Weeaboo
nate, I'm not gay, but damn I love ya man.
Sonikkustar
Sonikkustar
Edit history:
Sonikkustar: 2013-03-02 03:52:19 pm
2013-03-02 03:51:58 pm
The Loony Bin
I noticed a lot of those Orphan Pages already have links. Does it not count pages that have [[Category:Games]] as actual links?
moooh
2013-03-02 03:53:57 pm
Exoray
Orphan page means that no other page is referring to that page. Yeah categories and collective pages like it are not counted.
gammadragon
2013-03-02 04:48:15 pm
Might be magic...
Just a quick post to explain why some people might see strange usernames in the Knowledge Base.

MediaWiki does not allow certain characters in usernames. On top of that, underscores are treated as spaces. To work around this and give everybody a guaranteed unique username in MediaWiki we have had to escape usernames using a system similar to URL encoding, but using an exclamation mark instead of a percent sign (since MediaWiki does not allow those either).

There are also potentially some cases where people may not be able to log into the KB due to some unknown factors. If you find this to be the case, please post here and we will try to fix things as soon as possible.
__sdfg
2013-03-02 04:55:09 pm
D:
I know this probably isn't what you were talking about in your last paragraph, but I can confirm that there were no login issues for me even with the weird username.  Also, I kind of like !5f!5fsdfg.
gammadragon
2013-03-02 05:33:10 pm
Might be magic...
Quote from __sdfg:
I know this probably isn't what you were talking about in your last paragraph, but I can confirm that there were no login issues for me even with the weird username.  Also, I kind of like !5f!5fsdfg.


Excellent - that's exactly as expected. Thanks for the feedback.
jayTOH
2013-03-02 10:39:34 pm
RAMENhamehaaa
Quote from gammadragon:
There are also potentially some cases where people may not be able to log into the KB due to some unknown factors. If you find this to be the case, please post here and we will try to fix things as soon as possible.

Here! Don't see anywhere where I can login, nor can I edit anything Cry I use Chrome version 25.0.1364.97m and Windows 7, if it's any help?
gammadragon
2013-03-02 10:53:33 pm
Might be magic...
We've removed the "Log In" button from the KB as it should now do that automatically, as long as you are currently logged in to the forum. If it doesn't show your username in the top right when you navigate around the KB then something went wrong Sad I'll check it out and see why it's not working.

For everyone else, image attached of what the screen looks like in my browser (note the username at the top of the screen)

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KB-new.png
UraniumAnchor
UraniumAnchor
Edit history:
UraniumAnchor: 2013-03-02 10:58:34 pm
2013-03-02 10:56:36 pm
Not a walrus
It might be the same problem the queue has: If you have a really old login cookie, it won't have the domain set correctly and you'll have to log out of the forum and back in before the subdomains will recognize you. Not sure if that's what's happening here, but it's worth a shot.

Worth noting is that jaytoh has never logged into the queue, as it has no entry for him, so this seems even more likely now.