AmigaCoding logbook
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This logbook contains information like:
- technical updates
- hosting stuff
- permissions
- larger content stuff
2012
- 9 aug
- customizing the UserMergeAndDelete extention for MediaWiki to also provide mass merging/deleting users
- 8 aug
- removed 778 spamaccounts which all had 0 edits
- 5 aug
- Updated from MediaWiki v1.17beta1 to MediaWiki v1.19.1
- Added the Nuke and SimpleAntiSpam extensions to combat spam (so we now have 6 methods to combat spam, although I still have to reinsert my custom anti-spam measure after the MediaWiki update)
- 26 apr - a few tweaks done which hopefully also aid in slowing down spam
- 14 jan - added more blacklisted phrases against the ever increasing wiki spam
2011
- 2 jun - added custom spam prevention measures and added more blacklisted phrases
- .. may - added some blacklisted phrases (ones that worked good)
- 29 may - account creation now requires typing over a Captcha (against spam)
- 27 may - some more blacklisted phrases and urls against spam
- 25 may - some more blacklisted phrases added against spam
- 24 may - in an attempt to protect against the massive incoming waves of spam, enabled proxy blocking, added blacklisting by regular expression and added my own blacklisted urls to SpamBlackList
- 19 may - installed the SpamBlackList extension (which doesn't allow saving an article if it includes a banned URL)
- 17 may - Updated from MediaWiki v1.12 to v1.17beta1
- 10 feb - bad luck struck again, had to make a change to the DNS settings and the website should be reachable again soon
- 1 feb - database was corrupt, might have been since 3 days ago. Manually fixing failed, problem solved five minutes after mailing my webhost :).
2010
- 9 apr - trying again to solve the out of memory after saving a page. might have to update mediawiki
2009
- not as eventfull as last year due to personal circumstances
2008 May
- 17 may - uploaded the 'AMOSPro collection'
- 17 may - added .7z as allowed filetype and increased max filesize of uploads
- 17 may - manually updated MediaWiki from 1.11.1 to 1.12.0
2008 Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr
- 4 apr - website seems to be running at full speed again
- 2 apr - redirect from old URL to new to purge old URL from searchengines and help people use the correct address (with 301: Permanent Redirect)
- 1 apr - submitted support ticket at webhost (because website has been slow for at least a week)
- 24 mar - added syntax highlighting for code
- 7 mar - got permission from Kyzer to use his articles on AMOS File Formats
- 1 feb - moved to another hosting account/server (better speed/uptime, no redirecting of url)
- ? - added the text from 'A potted history of AMOS' to AMOS:History
- ...
2007 December
- ? - Amos Optimalization list integrated into the WIKI
- ...
2007 November
- 20 nov - Finished with getting the AMOShelp into the WIKI !! :D
- 19 nov - Some more converting and fixing
- 18 nov - By hand converting lists and tables in AMOShelp pages
- 17 nov - Visited a performance of the C64 orchestra + C-Men in the evening, so couldn't finish up today
- 17 nov - Converted and imported the AMOShelp into the AmigaCoding WIKI
- 17 nov - AMOShelp 2 WIKI convert script seems ready for first usage
- 10 nov - asked and got permission from Chris Hodges to use the content from the AMCAF AmigaGuide/AMOSHelpfile in the WIKI
- 8 nov - My presentation for my study
2007 October
- 21 oct - installed Google Analytics
- 19 oct - finally got DNS setup correctly for Google Apps
- 15 oct - installed measures to prevent spambots
- 13 oct - put back the persons namespace, accidently removed while adding C and Blitz (+fixed in database)
- 13 oct - Got permission from Francois Lionet to use the helpfile and publish whatever I want (including AMOS itself)
- 12 oct - Emailed Francois Lionet to request permission for using helpfile content in the WIKI
- 12 oct - wrote a PHP script to read the AMOSPro helpfiles
- 1 oct - improved look of main page with CSS
2007 September
- 27 sep - added a C and Blitz namespace
- 27 sep - posted link on AMOS factory website
- 26 sep - started adding some knowledge from AMOS-list (1993) to the WIKI
- 25 sep - posted link on amos-list
- 23 sep - Added 'Persons' namespace
- 18 sep - fixed namespaces (config and database), .htaccess
- 17 sep - fixed DNS, starting on first tutorial
- 12 sep - domainname www.gamecoding.com can be activated
- 11 sep - requested registering of www.gamecoding.com
- 10 sep - setup MediaWiki + 680x0 and AMOS namespaces
- 9 sep - Remembered my plans for an Amiga related codingsite after both an amos-list post (about an AMOS database) and EAB post (about learning 680x0 asm) on the same day