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Current issues

Serious Vandalism

Ip 188.40.105.142 is causing trouble in the wiki by adding html scripts on pages. This creates a big white box on the page and block users to read articles. I hope administrators can act as soon as possible and ban the ip address.

Mentalistpro 13:58, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

 Blocked by Dinoguy1000. -- Anoymous712 12:57, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Corrupted pages

TNT

I got the message asking to report in this page! –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.151.239.219 ^(Talk) 00:49, 29 April 2013 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

 Fixed — Hower64 01:18, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Redstone Comparator

The page is corrupt, just figured I report it. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.120.204.24 ^(Talk) 03:51, 16 April 2013‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Already fixed a little over 6 hours ago. I verified it is accessible at this moment. Try clearing your cache. —Kanegasi ☺C 03:55, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Locked Chest

Corrupted page. --GreenStone^(cont) (ru.Wiki Admin) 16:30, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

 Fixed —Kanegasi ☺C 16:47, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Splash Potions

Corrupted page. --GreenStone^(cont) (ru.Wiki Admin) 16:44, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

 Fixed. -- Orthotope 16:50, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Anvil

Corrupted page. 213.37.139.229 20:03, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

 Fixed. -- Orthotope 20:14, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Fire

this revision works, but clicking the next edit button doesn't. -- ^(T) Numbermaniac _(C) 02:22, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

It seems to have appeared in the Recent Changes and the page itself displays a next link, but the next edit won't appear in the history. -- ^(T) Numbermaniac _(C) 02:24, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

 Fixed — Hower64 02:50, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

User:1234567890Number/Category_Pages

hotdogPi-t--c--^{Try my quiz!} _{Do not click!} 14:36, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Fixed by Ultradude. -- Orthotope ^talk 22:44, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

209.34.114.228 (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Vandalism. Looks like this one vandalized the wiki before, but was not blocked. --GreenStone^(cont) (ru.Wiki Admin) 15:22, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

 Blocked. —Kanegasi ☺C 16:12, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

24.197.114.6 (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Vandalism. --GreenStone^(cont) (ru.Wiki Admin) 20:55, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

 Blocked. —Kanegasi ☺C 21:30, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Move video

Could an admin please move Tutorials/Mob Farm/video to Tutorials/Mob farm/video? Many thanks. – Goandgoo ᐸ Talk
Contribs
Edit count 13:01, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

 Done — Hower64 13:04, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Could an admin also move Tutorials/Piston Uses/video to Tutorials/Piston uses/video? – Goandgoo ᐸ Talk
Contribs
Edit count 07:36, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

 Done — Hower64 07:38, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Template:Version 13w18c

Template:Version needs to have the dev version updated to 13w18c ----007a83 ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 14:28, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Fucktaard (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Inappropriate user name? Wait until the user makes an edit? --GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 14:09, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

 Blocked —Kanegasi ☺C 16:20, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Version history/Development versions

I created Version history/Development versions old to store all the pre 1.6 stuff, updated Template:Version history nav to point to it, but because a new user, I can't update the version history file to exclude the previous history (which is quite understandable....)

So I'm proposing to remove the contents of the version history page which is now found in Version history/Development versions old...

- Red nnnno 18:14, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

As mentioned on the talk page, the problem with splitting it is that {{Version link}} needs to be updated as well, which is a nontrivial task. There is a planned MediaWiki upgrade (hopefully in the relatively near future) which will make this easier, so please try to be patient. -- Orthotope 18:39, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

72.230.86.142 (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Vandalizing "Brewing", the same way three times (and been reverted three times). --Mental Mouse 23:32, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

 Blocked and please use {{user}}, it helps. —Kanegasi ☺C 23:49, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Why are you allowing malware?

"You must update flash player!" IT'S MALWARE! Why are you allowing it as an advertisement? The advertisements should be for restaurants or other buildings, or maybe for products. They should not be "shoot 5 ducks", "you are the 100000th visitor", "you are [town name]'s lucky winner", and DEFINITELY NOT MALWARE! Can you stop allowing malware advertisements? (There is more than one.) hotdogPi--t--c--QUIZ! 15:52, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Wiki admins can't do anything about this; you should contact Curse directly if they're serving bad ads. Be prepared to give them screenshots of the offending ads, and the URLs they link to.

Also, I agree that Flash Player has plenty of issues, but it doesn't fall under the usual definition of malware. -- Orthotope 19:55, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

I assume he's talking about an advert that tells you flash player needs updating, taking you to a third party site with malware, instead of the adobe site. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Contribs 20:27, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, that is a thing. Also attempting to serve malware directly through browser exploits. Sounds like Curse needs to have a little chat with their web-ad provider. --Mental Mouse 21:01, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

We investigate and take action on EVERY report of bad ads. If we aren't given specifics, it's very difficult for us to track down, so... if you experience a bad ad, please screenshot it, or at least make note of what the ad is for, and send us a report at contact@curse.com -- Wynthyst talk 11:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

I had to shut down and restart my computer 7 times because of some stupid malware ad that my mouse just hovered over, not clicked on, hovered over. It deleted my Internet... ×Meeples10× 02:24, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

How could that have happened if you didn't install it? hotdogPi-t--c--^{Try my quiz!} _{Do not click!} 14:36, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

New one:Auto-downloaded on page load. Ad was blank white after it downloaded.hotdogPi-t--c--^{Try my quiz!} _{Do not click!} 01:29, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps Wynthyst's advice for a response should be prominently stickied on the Community portal or even the main page.... --Mental Mouse 11:22, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

hotdogPi, the last comment you made has also happened to me (this morning, actually). I had to reboot my computer 4 times because an auto-downloading ad downloaded "CookieSupreme Showcase" to my computer. By the way, what the heck does that even mean? ×Meeples10× ᐸ Talk
Contribs 01:18, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

If you're still having problems with the Auto-downloaded malware you can use the free trial of malwarebytes. It will get rid of it. --007a83 ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 03:12, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Weather368, vandalism on Item durability and Minecraft pages

Weather368 (talk • contribs • logs • block log) has twice tried to randomly change the Item Durability tables, with no discussion or citation. New user, his only prior edits are to the Minecraft page, one of which has been reverted, but they all look suspicious after seeing their M.O. on the other page. --Mental Mouse 22:02, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Next time, you should put the user template in the header. -- ^(T) Numbermaniac _(C) 06:23, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

It does not have to be in the header, even though it's more consistent to report users that way. As long as the template was used, either in the header or in the post, it's fine. I removed your rather unnecessary comment template usage. —Kanegasi ☺C 06:31, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Protect page

Logic circuit/video

—Munin295 · · 17:41, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

 Done —Kanegasi ☺C 19:42, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Merge history?

I recently split Template:SchematicSprite/ids into Template:SchematicSprite/ids-basic and Template:SchematicSprite/ids-redstone because there were so many sprites or template calls on the page that it was getting hard to edit (multiple time-outs). Unfortunately, I created two new pages instead of creating one new page and moving the old page like I should have done, because now /ids is practically orphaned along with its history.

Can an admin please merge the history of Template:SchematicSprite/ids with Template:SchematicSprite/ids-basic?

Thanks, —Munin295 · · 05:19, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

 Done. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Contribs 05:29, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Move page

I'd like to complete the move from Redstone circuits to "Redstone circuit", but Redstone circuit already exists as a redirect page. Could an admin please complete this move?

Also, the video at Redstone Circuits/video (note the slightly different path spelling from a previous article move) will need to be moved to "Redstone circuit/video".

Thanks, —Munin295 · · 15:15, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

 Done and  Done —Kanegasi ☺C 18:11, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

We need to stop the lemon spam

Various IPs have spammed lemon things, including one right now. STOP THEM PLEASE. hotdogPi-t--c--^{Try my quiz!} _{Do not click!} 21:08, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

SUGGESTION: IP ban any IP/user that more than 1 "fruitland" or lemon announcement. Just a suggestion, if you don't like it, just don't do it. ×Meeples10× ᐸ Talk
Contribs 01:14, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

I suggest banning all div tags (without blocking, just disallowing) for non-autoconfirmed users. --GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 14:05, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

e: in addition, a "red button" filter for disallowing ALL non-autoconfirmed edits (usually disabled, enabled if there's a massive anonymous attack.) --GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 14:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

We have taken steps to help prevent lemon spam, and it seems whoever was doing it got bored. Unfortunately, one of the protections we had resulted in the topic below. That will no longer occur, but there are still trigger words and things are being monitored closely for false positives. —Kanegasi ☺C 05:59, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Does that mean that if an unregistered user type "lemon" or "fruitland", they would get blocked? –- ^(T) Numbermaniac _(C) 08:14, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

No. As I said, it will no longer occur. —Kanegasi ☺C 09:07, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Abuse filter (Talk | contribs) blocked 70.181.68.226 (Talk) with an expiry time of FOREVER

Could an administrator please review this abuse filter block? --GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 14:05, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Unblocked. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 16:33, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Right to left writing

For translating wiki into Farsi (and other right to left languages) there are certain problems like wiki codes get misplaced or mixed with translated parts or we cant translate properly from English to our language because of left to right writing format this problems can be solved by having a right to left writing format in wiki so if its possible please add RTL writing format into wiki . Daenebris 18:42, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Have you heard of full stops and/or commas? –- ^(T) Numbermaniac _(C) 03:29, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

English may not be his first language, so cut him some slack. -- Anoymous712 12:48, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

There's a way to view any language in rtl, but I don't know if it's in this version of mediawiki. Without that, or an existing rtl wiki, it's not possible to know what needs to be done for rtl support. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Contribs 12:51, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

204.83.92.114 (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Vandalism in Pig && Pig.Talkpage. --GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 20:37, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Blocked. -- Orthotope ^talk 21:42, 8 June 2013 (UTC)