AUSubaru Tech Manual

fredsub · Post by **fredsub** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:22 am

hmm, just wondering whats the progress here with wiki? need any help?

stinky · Post by **stinky** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:04 am

**** I totally forgot about this thread. Fixed it by changing the setting in LocalSettings.php. works for me now. Sorry it took so long.

Outback bloke · Post by **Outback bloke** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:30 pm

Woohoo, it works again. Thanks stinkman.

stephendean · Post by **stephendean** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:05 pm

Some pratt had hacked a page on on the models of subarus So I have attempted to restore the page on the wiki

Venom · Post by **Venom** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:21 pm

Never seen that tech thread before, some interesting stuff on it. Quite a few of those pages are just spam links? There like 500 pages of entries from two I.P addresses that is total spam.

stephendean · Post by **stephendean** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:16 pm

I did notice the rest of it had been dtuffed by some dickhead. I will spend a bit of time trying to straightening it out.

stephendean · Post by **stephendean** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:19 pm

I think this wiki needs to be passworded. Edits were I had changed stuff back to what it was suppose to be, has been hacked again.
What is everybodies thought about this?

fredsub · Post by **fredsub** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:36 pm

needs to be pass worded and name linked with the forum. But its mediawiki and has weaknesses in this area.
Rather disappointing because I did some pages in there too, all crapped up now.
If it is to be revived, it might be best to see if there is a backup say 2 or 3 or even 4 years old - before spammers got to it.

phillatdarwin · Post by **phillatdarwin** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:12 pm

put pass word on it

Venom · Post by **Venom** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:59 am

Password would be good, it could be made readily available via PM for anyone who wants to contribute.

stephendean · Post by **stephendean** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:36 am

Have tried to fix a few more pages on the wiki. It I think needs the admins to password protect this wiki. There is some good info here being trashed and therefore lost to the rest of the group. I might have a look at trying to copy the good stuff to my harddrive so that we have a clean copy.

stephendean · Post by **stephendean** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 8:45 pm

Well it looks like we are going to lose the Subby Manual. I have tried repairing it but it still gets hacked. I have given up on doing that as I seem to be the only one that cared. So I suggest the Admins (if there are any) close it down.

Post by **TOONGA** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 8:56 am

stephendean wrote:Well it looks like we are going to lose the Subby Manual. I have tried repairing it but it still gets hacked. I have given up on doing that as I seem to be the only one that cared. So I suggest the Admins (if there are any) close it down.

Stephen I brought this up a while ago, I don't think it is a person I believe it is a trojan/virus/program that writes a script once it realises the text has been changed. It was probably put in place by someone who doesn't even have to come to the page to make sure the script is working.

if all of the remaining information was transfered to the tech manual section on the board it would be unhackable.

I do believe there are updates available for the wiki progam to stop this but it is up to the person hosting the wiki to put these in place.

TOONGA

stephendean · Post by **stephendean** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:46 pm

Hopefully someone with admin privileges needs to fix the problem. There is nothing I ,as a humble member, can do to fix it. So it seems we will see this info just disappear.

stephendean · Post by **stephendean** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:17 pm

well it seems that the Tech Manual is going the way of the dinosaurs. A few times I have tried to fix it. Not having it password protected, and the software not being updated is were the problem is. I have decided not to try and fix it any more, pointless if the admins of the site don't want to protect this valuable resource why should I spend my time trying to. The info is still there if someone has the patients to extract it and turn it in forum posts.
But it seems the owners of the site are not worried.

spike · Post by **spike** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:22 pm

when my book is finished it will be on sale here
should have most things as on the the link but not as good as a hayes manual

stephendean · Post by **stephendean** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:17 am

Well it seems the tech manual has gone. What a waste of the time and effort of the people that contributed to this endevour. If only the admins had managed to protect it a bit better.

Post by **TOONGA** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 8:41 pm

When I try access the Tech page I get

A database error has occurred
Query: DELETE FROM `wiki_objectcache` WHERE exptime<'2012-01-03 10:39:24'
Function: MediaWikiBagOStuff:_doquery
Error: 1194 Table 'wiki_objectcache' is marked as crashed and should be repaired (localhost)

Backtrace:

Database.php line 345 calls wfDebugDieBacktrace()
Database.php line 297 calls Database::reportQueryError()
ObjectCache.php line 379 calls Database::query()
ObjectCache.php line 279 calls MediaWikiBagOStuff::_doquery()
ObjectCache.php line 329 calls SqlBagOStuff::_query()
ObjectCache.php line 322 calls SqlBagOStuff::expireall()
ObjectCache.php line 225 calls SqlBagOStuff::garbageCollect()
MessageCache.php line 75 calls SqlBagOStuff::get()
MessageCache.php line 240 calls MessageCache::load()
GlobalFunctions.php line 392 calls MessageCache::get()
GlobalFunctions.php line 338 calls wfMsgReal()
Setup.php line 391 calls wfMsg()
index.php line 26 calls require_once()

looks like is was all deleted

TOONGA

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:06 pm

TOONGA wrote:looks like is was all deleted

and before these error codes it was pretty messed up in there. As Jonno said above, it's a shame it's ended up this way, but those spammers got in there and shot it all up...

Cheers

Bennie

Post by **TOONGA** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:08 pm

Sadly if one of the active members had administrator rights to the tech manual this could be repaired.

TOONGA