Minecraft Wiki:Admin noticeboard/Archive 9

User Creation system
Hello Admins,

I have found a feature in your account creation that can be exploited. In the test to find out if you are a human creating an account I have come to believe that a program could select the pictures in order, skipping the other pictures, so I suggest using a ReCaptcha similar to Wikipedia.

Please correct me if I am wrong. I would love to know more about the user creation safety.

Anon –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;). Please sign your posts with
 * No captcha system is going to be completely foolproof, however, the one we have implemented is the best that we have found that is compatible with MediaWiki software. Given the nature of a wiki, and the overall user account details, we don't feel any additional "security" is required. It is in place mostly to prevent specific types of vandalism (uploading of inappropriate images, etc.) --   22:34, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your time.

23:31, 16 July 2012 (UTC)Anon


 * Just a further note, ReCaptcha was broken by bots in January 2011, and is virtually useless in determining the "humanity" of a user at this point. We originally used ReCaptcha until this occurred and our wikis were overrun with bot registrations. --   23:34, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Excessive amount of vandalism in the last few days, by both IPs and registered users. It'll probably die down once the next version comes out, but some level of protection until then would be nice. -- 06:56, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * There have been literally dozens edits that have contributed absolutely nothing to that page. I've undone so many revisions on that page as almost all the other pages combined as of late. -- 15:20, 18 April 2012 (UTC)


 * There were many disruptive edits and vandalism in the past few days as well. - 21:43, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I can't help but notice that no one has addressed the users making these edits directly. The best way to teach people how to use and edit the wiki properly is to TALK to them. Go to their user talk pages and have a discussion with them, or go to the talk page associated to the disputed edits and TALK about it. I see a lot of requests for protection of pages, but zero attempt to educate and inform users. Page protection should be an absolute LAST RESORT, not a first line of defense. --   05:50, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, I guess could import some message templates from WP to use; that way it might be faster to edit/inform editors. -  08:27, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Update: They are at and . -   09:24, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

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Repeatedly vandalizing

Still vandalizing:, and. A short block may show him that's no playground here. -- 09:16, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Added spam. Cant seem to take it out.

Vandalized and

Vandalizing

repeated vandalism vandalism misinformation

Flooding recent changes with edits to his obbsession Herobrine and "stealing" Calinou's signature colors.-- 21:20, 18 June 2012 (UTC)


 * He's not doing anything wrong.The edits to herobrine were information.
 * Yeah, but he was doing it in smaller edits. He should have just done it in one go.


 * It's just a little mistake. You should have told him that and not report him and stealing color signatures isn't a crime. How do you think I got my signature. I edited many other peoples signatures to make mine.:D.

Vandalizing the 'Bottle o' Enchanting' page, twice.

Snapshot version 12w25a already
It's already 12w25a 12:36, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

This page is pending deletion. It should be kept as it comes in useful to many people. even though it is not considered a tutorial under the new rules, a case by case decision should be made to keep this page.

The broken history problem happened again on, revision 332472. — 17:08, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Repeatedly inserting fake information in -- 22:10, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

German wiki in French ?
http://de.minecraftwiki.net gives suddenly the french namespace. -- 22:15, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Nevermind. It was repaired / repaired itself. -- 22:46, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Req: Wiki Table CSS Tweak
[Apologies if this isn't the right place, and please let me know where I should report it instead, thx. -- 22:14, 29 June 2012 (UTC)]

Here's a typical full-width wiki table. Note that compared to the surrounding text it is flush with the text on the left, but inset by about an em on the right. Small as it is, that extra bit of right-hand space would be useful in several places, so can the table be made about an em wider? That would make it the same width as the surrounding text, and then it would line up on both sides. Checking various other tables and box-like entities in the wiki, the table code does appear to be the odd man out.

See also the example below, with a table right next to an image. The gap between table and image is wider than I think it should be. I suspect the right margin on the table isn't quite right. Note how the right-aligned thumbnail is flush right with the text, and that seems to be the case for every right-floating wiki box I have found.


 * Setting the table to take up the whole screen will ignore the margin, or you could remove the margin in the particular table you don't want it in; but the margin has to stay there normally so things floating next to it won't look weird.


 * Also, the margin between the table and the image would be exactly the same even if you removed all the table's margin. When two margins meet they combine, so since thumbnails have a larger margin than the table, its margin is essentially ignored. – (&#124;) at 02:26, 30 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I think you may be mistaken about that - I don't believe the CSS box model gives overlaps in the way you describe, but I haven't had a chance to mock up a test to double-check yet. Similarly you should still get margins even if you set an element to full page width. -- 01:19, 2 July 2012 (UTC)


 * You're wrong in both cases. We use full-width tables in various places on the wiki and the margins are ignored, see this image the table's margin is outside the content div. Additionally, you can clearly see in this image that the table is right up against the thumbnail's margin. You can try removing the right margin from the table and you'll see it stays in exactly the same place. – (&#124;) at 04:20, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Jacobhross
Suspected of Vandalism of Xbox 360 Edition -- 00:27, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

CATPTCHA not working
Moved to 

216.66.173.141
Massive spammer. Anyone reading this if you find any edits by this IP undo/revert ASAP! -- 00:15, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Forgot my password
So I tried to log in today to contribute to the wiki, only to realize I can't remember my password and apparently my username (Tiwuno) doesn't have an email address on file. It's not a very common username, but it's one I've been using for ages and would like to avoid creating an additional username. I have a Twitter account set up with the same username, I can tweet from that profile for validation. Not sure where to submit this, so if here is inappropriate please let me know. -- 01:12, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You may need to contact the Curse.com team. -- 02:23, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Moving
'Moved' to by copy-pasting, needs an admin to do it properly. --

History of is broken (again?)
e.g. This changeset will throw an database error. Appears in of July 09 as  -- 15:25, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Random page
Random page does not save the user's language and will jump to any page on the wiki. -- 19:50, 9 July 2012 (UTC)


 * What do you think 'random' means? – (&#124;) at 19:51, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The languages that the random page jumps to are on this English wiki. They are non-completed language projects, who doesn't have there own wiki yet. -  NL Admin  22:50, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Massive spammer / vandalizer -- 20:38, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Agreed. Tried to revert most of messages, but he kept on re-writing. Must be blocked. ASAP. 20:45, 12 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Wynthyst. We should be safe for now :D 20:52, 12 July 2012 (UTC)


 * He is back D: He has a different IP now D: 21:18, 12 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, ultradude! 21:29, 12 July 2012 (UTC)


 * He's back right now: -- 06:53, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

and
was promoting cheese on the Chicken page named his edit "(:P PIE IS YUMMY xD)" so that made me think what has he done, so I checked it and he only put "TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL" which I class as spam Anyways, Trowing it in there (if it happens again! 14:29, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Been there, done that ;)-- -  MCWiki Administrator  14:35, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Vandalized and  with incorrect information such as "cake can be used 6,000 times" and "Inc Sacs are obtained by killing creepers".

Can't login
I have created an account on Minecraft Forum (named Tag365) and when I login using that account name, it said that there is no user named "Tag365", then I attempted to login using "Tag360" as the username instead, and it said that account does not exist. So I attempted to create an account on Minecraft Wiki, but the Asirra challenge is too hard to complete, so I can't create an account. Can you create an account named "Tag365" on the Minecraft Wiki so I can login? -- 14:55, 19 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Clicking on cats is too hard? And you know the account created here isn't used on the forum right? – (&#124;) at 15:12, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Talk Page Garbage
On the talk page of the upcoming features of Minecraft PE, the majority of the discussions is just users stating what they'd like to see in the next update instead of actual questions like the vandilism. Me, coming from a more strict wiki, am just wondering if anything can be done with the promblem like removing all the wishlist from the talk page since its a real annoyance, or to me at the least. 07:25, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

History of broken (again)
The last diff of throws the usual database error. -- 07:00, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Snapshot version
It's 12w30c already. 12:54, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism on
Hiya admins. There's some repeat vandalism going on in 's wiki entry. I was attempting to revert it; however, my edit is being blocked -- "Section removal 2". If you could make the edit and perhaps protect the page, that'd be nice. While I can't verify that Nathan drops a baby Ocelot when killed in Minecraft, I'm sure he doesn't wear ribbons in his hair. :p

Edit: Disregard; seems like Marc actually has a valid account and is just messing with Dinnerbone. :D

Additionally, while I'm new to this Wiki specifically, I have good standing on other wikis, including the English Wikipedia. I don't have hundreds of edits but on the other hand, I'm not a malicious bot or vandal. I was wondering if there was a permission level on this wiki that allows me to override some of the more strict editing rules, such as this one; if so, how would I go about obtaining said permission? Thanks -- (&#124;) 11:40, 25 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I've put some comments into the source of the Dinnerbone page to clarify that a bit. -- 12:19, 25 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Technically no matter which way you look at it, it is vandalism, even if it was done by a Mojang employee. I think we can assume their conversation on Twitter about it was sarcastic just by looking at the way they worded it. I think it should be removed; people reading through would get confused. 12:26, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Don't be too serious, because to be consistently with your argumentation you'll too have to delete the columns Special talent, Notes and About: Mojang AB: Employees on the page . Keep it. If the vandalism annoys Dinnerbone or Marc Watson, they can remove that by their selfs. -- 12:58, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Spamming new pages wth advertisements. Example page:. -- 14:41, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

24.86.22.21/24.80.241.67
Hi, the 2 IPs: 24.86.22.21/24.80.241.67 (which I believe to be MCDawn devs) keeps reverting my edits to sort the list alphabetically, and keeps placing MCDawn at the bottom. Please do something about this. The relevant history can be found here: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/index.php?title=Custom_servers/MCLawl_Forks&action=history Thank you. 12:49, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Bug Tracker has lost /some/ of its edit links
The 1.3.1 Known Bugs page has lost /some/ of its edit links, and I don't see how. Can someone knowledgeable investigate? I can't see anything obviously wrong in the code. 'Gameplay' has a clickable link, allowing you to edit that section, but the Mobs section, for example, doesn't. But then after that the 'Sounds' section does. It's about a 60/40 split. ?? -- 17:31, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm still seeing this problem, even on a different browser. (Chrome on Mac rather than Firefox on Mac) The 'Known Bugs' section I added (to flag the issue and to mark the section in the bug tracker where it ends) has been removed twice now, so I'm not going to put it back in again. But help is needed, please. -- 14:23, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Mods page broken
When you try to edit page "mods", it will give you an error and you cannot edit it: and when you try to edit a section: 22:03, 7 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Fixed. For the record, this isn't the first time this has happened, and most of the active admins *should* know how to fix it (if you're an active admin, you're reading this, and you don't know, just delete and then restore the "broken" page), so if this happens again (whether to the Mods page or some other), you should be able to just say "hey, this page is corrupted again" and an admin will know what to do. ;) 「」· 01:39, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

The mods page is broken again, this time I can't even access it. When I try to go to the mods page via the Main Page or by typing the URL in the browser bar, this comes up:

La base de datos no encuentra el texto de una página que debería hallarse, llamada «Mods».

La causa de esto suele deberse a un diff anacrónico o un enlace al historial de una página que ha sido borrada.

Si no fuera el caso, puedes haber encontrado un fallo en el software.

Por favor, avisa a un administrador, tomando nota de la URL.

My browser is English, and I don't understand Spanish very well.


 * Confirming that the Mods page is broken. Not entirely sure why the error page is in Spanish. But with so many mods updating from 1.2.5 to 1.3.2, it's kinda important to have that page up so we can watch as mods get updated. -- 03:21, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism by maxwell the scribblenaut
Maxwell been posting random picture over random minecraft icon, such as the diamond block, brown mushroom, mob spawner, and diamond block. I really not sure how to put the photo back so ya. If you can check it out let me know.

Repeatedly inserting fake / false information. See the history of his talk page, he's got warnings several times, but deletes the warnings from his talk page. -- 08:46, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Also keeps reverting File:Gear.png to the wrong picture. Latest trick is to insert an image and alter the wiki activity log text so that at first glance the change appears to be a reversion to the correct image.

Errors on pages with the image EffectsCSS.png
On pages using the image EffectsCSS.png you get the error message "Error creating thumbnail: Unable to create destination directory" every time it appears. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 11:56, 26 August 2012 (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * This is a known issue affecting a lot of images; see for some discussion. In my experience, at least, this can be resolved for a given page by purging that page (you can do this by adding   to the end of a page's URL; if that results in an error, use   instead). 「」· 17:26, 26 August 2012 (UTC)


 * The same thumbnail-issue happened earlier this year around June 9th - 10th (especially on the german wiki), see the post from :  -- 19:02, 26 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Could be an imagemagic issue... especially if you've just recently updated the wiki it may have overwritten the localsettings.php file and caused the imagemagic settings to be turned off. I had the same problem on a wiki that I administrate.  The fix is to simply re-enable the imagemagic 'plugin' and/or confirm the path is correct in localsettings.php.  13:53, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

broken again
Last edit history gives the usual database error and itself links to the same database error in French. -- 22:42, 30 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Seems to be broken again... 06:54, 1 September 2012 (UTC)


 * And yet again. Page displays normally (well, aside from the vandalism), but editing fails and stepping through the history reveals more database corruption. -- 07:29, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

File:Spider+SkeletonFace.png gives Error 404
The page is still there, but the image file throws error 404. That image is at least used on. The Error creating thumbnail: Unable to create destination directory is still present, maybe the same issue. -- 09:03, 1 September 2012 (UTC)


 * It's a problem with the CDN. Other files with + in or other special characters in their name or files that aren't standard image types (SVG, OGG, etc.) either didn't get copied over to the CDN, or it doesn't know what to do with them and just displays an error. Luckily, SVGs are converted to PNG when viewed, so it's only the original file that is inaccessible. – (&#124;) at 09:54, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the hint. The file is uploaded with a different name. -- 20:51, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Minor Wiki bug
If you do a multiple file upload, the success message page contains some broken HTML; it displays &amp;lt;successfulupload&amp;gt;, complete with &amp;lt; and &amp;gt; rather than whatever text it's supposed to be displaying. --] 20:19, 3 September 2012 (UTC)


 * That means it's trying to display, which doesn't exist. According to , it seems to have been unused since at least 2007, so I have no idea why the wiki would be trying to load it now of all times. 「」· 22:52, 3 September 2012 (UTC)


 * It's been like that forever, multi upload is an awfully outdated and broken extension. Why do we even still have it installed? – (&#124;) at 09:50, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, I've used it twice, and forgotten to use it... I don't know how many times, so I wouldn't miss it particularly. If it's showing signs of bitrot, ditching it might be wise. -- 22:43, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Wait, it's an extension? I always thought it was part of core... I guess I spend too much time on Wikia. =D 「」· 11:12, 5 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Or instead of ditching it, we could fix it with a bit of good ol' PHP knowledge? 12:32, 9 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Nah, there's a newer version of it. If we keep it, the first thing to try would be updating it. 「」· 05:10, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Pocket Edition version
is out. 11:16, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Adding youtube videos to version history/development page. The videos he adds link to wwesmackdowns account which have been added over and over every time a new version comes out using many different sock puppet accounts. -- 18:14, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Upload
Im uploadet the file  and get a error message:

 error storing file in '/dev/shm/phpS2tZOB.png': upload_directory_missing; /home/minecraftwiki/public_html/images Backtrace:
 * 1) 0 /home/minecraftwiki/public_html/includes/upload/UploadBase.php(752): UploadStash->stashFile('/dev/shm/phpS2t...', 'file', NULL)
 * 2) 1 /home/minecraftwiki/public_html/includes/upload/UploadBase.php(764): UploadBase->stashFile(NULL)
 * 3) 2 /home/minecraftwiki/public_html/includes/upload/UploadBase.php(774): UploadBase->stashFileGetKey(NULL)
 * 4) 3 /home/minecraftwiki/public_html/includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(365): UploadBase->stashSession
 * 5) 4 /home/minecraftwiki/public_html/includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(458): SpecialUpload->showUploadWarning(Array)
 * 6) 5 /home/minecraftwiki/public_html/includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(195): SpecialUpload->processUpload
 * 7) 6 /home/minecraftwiki/public_html/includes/SpecialPageFactory.php(458): SpecialUpload->execute(NULL)
 * 8) 7 /home/minecraftwiki/public_html/includes/Wiki.php(240): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Object(Title), Object(RequestContext))
 * 9) 8 /home/minecraftwiki/public_html/includes/Wiki.php(640): MediaWiki->performRequest
 * 10) 9 /home/minecraftwiki/public_html/includes/Wiki.php(547): MediaWiki->main
 * 11) 10 /home/minecraftwiki/public_html/index.php(57): MediaWiki->run
 * 12) 11 {main}

  13:51, 8 September 2012 (UTC)


 * This should now be resolved. Please report any further image errors as soon as possible with as much detail as possible. Thanks! --   16:17, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * no problem :D   11:58, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Vandalizing in and  -- 12:45, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Upon attempting to view the recent change to the page by this IP, I am not able to reach the page. The wiki is reporting corruption and throws an error page on both the main page and diff, and the history doesn't show that edit, only the last one on the 7th. --   13:05, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Received a missing/corrupt page message at: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Mods

This user seems to be making random pages. -- 01:12, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ??? He has made one page:, see -- 07:46, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Two. The first one he made,, has already been deleted. I made this post after assuming he would make more, "nipping it in the bud". I believe I may have jumped the gun a bit. --  07:56, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Corrupt. -- 12:21, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Page BED deleted. 23:50, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

User: anonymous Still corrupt after delete. First time I have been at the page.

Corrupt.-- 23:16, 17 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I saw it was corrupted too. Come to my page! 19:46, 18 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Still corrupted. We need faster admins. 08:27, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Issues/Weekly
Using produces a issues template for a full release, not a weekly. On the weekly you have to tweak the text and version number in a couple of places. We now have a 12w38a issues page, but the weekly link still points to the older release which claims to be the latest. A clear recipe for confusion. I could fix some of this if I'm not beaten to it, but I can't do it right this minute, so I'm logging the problems here in the meantime. -- 14:58, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * When a new weekly comes out, the Issues/Weekly page gets moved to a named page for that version. The plain Issues/Weekly is for the current version, but no one has made the move yet. I'm not too keen on a change that big and hopefully someone more knowledgeable does it soon before too many 38 issues get mixed in with 37's. -- 15:08, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Watching what did, I have a general idea of how it goes. I'll keep that in mind in the future. Also, I moved 12w37a to Weekly_12w37a to match previous "issue archives". --  15:59, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * And a link to the system proposal if you want to more info. -- 04:48, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Bad Response From Server
Not sure if this is the right place, I've never messed with editing wikis before, but almost every time I try to go to a page I get "bad response from server" and have to refresh several times (anywhere from 5 to 20) to make the page load.

s
The following message is given on the s page: Doors cannot be accessed. This is usually caused by a corruption in the latest version of the page and requires the page to be deleted and undeleted to fix it. Please report this on the admin noticeboard, making note of the page name.

I have recieved this error as well. Also the topmost history entry displays this error Doors (Diff: 372432, 380576) cannot be accessed. This is usually caused by a corruption in the latest version of the page and requires the page to be deleted and undeleted to fix it.

Please report this on the admin noticeboard, making note of the page name.

In the meantime, you can go to the history and click the topmost history entry to see the page.

Edit warring, abusive language, vandalism, possible sockpuppeting as. -- 05:38, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * and sockpuppeting as -- 08:22, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * More sockpuppets and  -- 16:09, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * More and  -- 16:11, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * This guy is just terrible. He is also blanking the user and user talk pages of anyone involved with reverting his edits, along with inappropriate language added. -- 01:44, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Is definitely a sock puppet, they show up at the same time. Heffe has also vandalized my page and talk page numerous times. -- 01:53, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * and --  03:29, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Vandalizing by continuously reverting and adding that YouTube user. There is a pretty old discussion about that YouTube user on but since the only official response on the issue was  saying no, I figured the topic was settled. -- 01:40, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * This IP reverted Far Lands again. Please look into it. -- 00:13, 28 September 2012 (UTC)