Talk:Main Page

Image Uploads
I have enabled image uploads for registered users. I will disable it for all non-editors if there starts to be image spam, but for now we'll see how things go. --ChevyRay

a few things that come to mind
First of all, I already love this place, even if it is a little barren, I hope I'll find the time to make contributions here, and read more stuff, though I think I should provide some feedback, specifically I think file upload should be allowed, as well as off site image linking, as at the moment, awesome guides like the fathom one look pretty crap with all that html. also people writing tutorials may wish to upload their projects in a zip, or required assets for following a tutorial or whatever.

heres the ref for making mediawiki uploadable: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads

and heres the one for allowing external images: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages

these arent mods or anything, mediaWiki has it built in its just disabled by default for security.

and seeing as you asked on the beta page for folks with experience setting up mediawiki I can do this for you if you want as I have one for my flash platformer engine: http://edward.sophiehoulden.com/

if you'd like to take me up on my offer direct message me on twitter or something, anyhoo, great site guys :)

GirlFlash 07:08, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

General Plans
I mentioned off-site images and uploads to Adam before. I think he's been working on other things, though.

For anyone wanting to help with the wiki:

I've got some basic templates started, and I've got some more planned... I think it's time to open up the Flash_Game_Dojo:Community_Portal and start putting stuff there to work on. On other wikis, I've seen them list a few different items that need to be worked on, and then pick one to have the community focus on until it's 'done'. Also, I think as a group, the community needs to start thinking about and discussing policies - what is allowed/forbidden to be on the wiki - obviously, copyrighted materials are forbidden, but it should be listed somewhere with penalties, etc.

I'll try writing some stuff up when I get some (HA!) free time... I've kind of seen the wiki being divided into 2 main sections (with maybe a few other sections added over time, organically): Snippets and Tutorials. Within both of those sections would be sections for Flixel, FlashPunk, and then General. Snippets should be short, simple tips, tricks or functions that can quickly be added to achieve an effect. Tutorials should be multi-step instructions, with the goal of getting readers from a well-defined Part A, to a well-defined Part B, and then letting them modify, customize, or extend their results on their own...

So yeah, kind of Brain-dumping there, but feel free to add or change anything... we're going to want to start setting up standards for article formats, so they're consistent. --  S eifer T im  ( talk | contribs )  17:08, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Spam
Deleted/removed. Can we block some IPs or make edits require accounts?
 * Yes please. --Biomechanic 14:16, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I just deleted 3 more sections of spam. We cannot allow this to continue. You could see from the recent changes page that several past edits have been from the same IP. Can someone here get some ban power? --Hectate 21:15, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm for mandatory registration too. On Wikipedia, anonymous editing works because you have an army of people watching the site around the clock (and an army of admins for the users to call upon). For a small wiki like this, it can't be policed all the time.... Billy 22:34, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

I have restricted page editing to registered users, so we'll see how it goes this way. --ChevyRay


 * Is there a way to use any robot blocking tools to crack down on spam? Filters?  I definitely agree it can't be policed by the small user base, but registration does put up an obstacle for contribution..  Maybe once the user base reaches a certain number, then remove it?  Just thoughts..


 * update: Mediawiki.org article on Combating Spam -Segarch 22:34, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Captcha
We really need a captcha for account creation. ConfirmEdit is a good MediaWiki extension for this. I also think it is long past the point of hurting the community by forcing people to create an account to edit. --AdamHarte 17:15, 26 June 2011 (PDT)

SWF uploads disabled
What's going on with the SWF uploads? I notice it says disabled due to abuse - and also that hosted SWFs are no longer available (I get 403 forbidden errors). What gives? --Hectate 01:24, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Spam attack
Viewing "all pages" I noticed there's an alarming amount of spam pages. I don't have the power to delete them, but I blanked them all, and collected them in a category so a mod can go through and get rid of them easier: Category:Spam_pages Billy 09:55, 17 January 2011 (UTC)