Minecraft Wiki:Admin noticeboard

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Current issues

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Redstone Lamp
Can't view redstone lamp page. it says it cant be accessed. says to make a note of it here? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.169.146.68 (Talk) 00:37, 21 March 2013 (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * . –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk Contribs 01:19, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Water
Corrupt hotdogPi--t--c 20:26, 23 March 2013 (UTC)


 * . -- Orthotope 21:03, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Data values
Corrupt. ILeon 17:45, 26 March 2013 (UTC)


 * . -- Orthotope 18:57, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

User:1234567890Number/Dimensions
Corrupt. -- BrandonSkyPimenta  (Need help?) 20:14, 26 March 2013 (UTC)


 * . -- Orthotope 05:59, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Daylight Sensor
Corrupt. --46.146.205.201 15:11, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

. -- Orthotope 19:35, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Sword
usual message. --Mental Mouse 21:53, 1 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Fixed by Ultradude. -- Orthotope 09:13, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Please review/approve my edit which removes a section
I tried to edit the spawn page, and amalgamate the multiplayer and singleplayer player spawn sections, seeing as they are one and the same since the client/server merge. However I get a message telling me my edit was automatically identified as harmful and that I should contact and administrator, so here I am. --Majaha 18:46, 18 March 2013 (UTC)


 * . If you join the Autoconfirmed users group you won't be bothered by restrictions like that. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk Contribs 01:19, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Please block! Vandalism! ILeon 12:12, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * He also emptied my talk page in German MCWiki. ILeon 12:22, 26 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Banned, haven't gone through to make sure all his edits were reverted yet. -- Orthotope 18:57, 26 March 2013 (UTC)


 * If on this page is no "top" after a page name, then this is not the latest version of the page. ILeon 20:28, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Moving File
Could someone move the file File:AetherCSS.png to, File:AetherCSSEN.png so there are no problems with the German MCWiki anymore. Because the German MCWiki use another under the same name. ILeon 13:26, 29 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Why don't you move your file instead? Ours is already used on tons of pages, yours isn't used on any. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk Contribs 13:35, 29 March 2013 (UTC)


 * You are right. Sorry. ILeon 13:42, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Vandalized the Diamond and Lava pages. Warned the user 2 times. -- BrandonSkyPimenta  (Need help?) 17:49, 29 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Seems to have stopped after the warnings, no admin action needed at this time. -- Orthotope 09:13, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

April Fool's Day.
For non-Americans, please note that today is April Fool's Day, on which it is traditional to play pranks. Given that some folk have a low standard for pranks, it might be a busy day on the anti-vandalism front. (It's just about 9AM Eastern Time here, doesn't look too bad so far.) --Mental Mouse 12:59, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes. The german wiki enjoy this day! :D de:NPC-Dorf (Nether), de:Netherbrunnen. ILeon 13:03, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Inappropriate username. ILeon 22:35, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * And a spam article (90000 bytes) MISSPELLED. 5 minutes after it was created (that's when I got home), I replaced it with the delete template. It still hasn't been deleted. hotdogPi--t--c--QUIZ! 22:56, 3 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Blocked by Ultradude. -- Orthotope 09:13, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Edit conflict shouldn't happen as often
I've been getting edit conflicts when I was editing a completely different section from the other person, and this shouldn't happen. hotdogPi--t--c--QUIZ! 22:56, 3 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a MediaWiki issue, which we don't have much control over. Hopefully the upgrade in a few months will fix this. -- Orthotope 09:13, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism (Diamond). --GreenStone(cont) (ru.Wiki Admin) 22:26, 4 April 2013 (UTC)


 * User also uploaded File:Ermagerd.png which has already been tagged for deletion. -- Numbermaniac  - T  - C 23:22, 4 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Blocked by Ultradude. -- Orthotope 09:13, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Server overloaded?
I've been getting a lot of blank screens and "Server at capacity" messages when trying to save an edited page. This has been happening since at least yesterday afternoon (EDT). Not sure what you can do about it, but it's a problem. --Mental Mouse 15:40, 5 April 2013 (UTC)


 * It happens from time to time. The wiki is not the only thing that Curse hosts and when this happens, a lot of other Curse sites also have issues. In response to the idea that the Schematic template is causing it, I doubt it.  18:28, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, it wasn't happening when I was doing other edits, and went away rapidly when I started moving sections to sub-pages. I think I was in fact beating on the server too hard.  --Mental Mouse 21:16, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Curse has been under almost constant DDoS attacks for the past 6 months. We do have mitigation processes in place, so that you will rarely see any serious downtime, but occasionally they still cause momentary blips in our service. It's almost impossible that any type of edits from a single user is going to be at the root of these sorts of blips. The ONLY exception to this is when heavily used templates are changed. This can cause an overwhelming server load while the changes are parsed out to every instance of the template, which is why most of the most heavily used templates are only editable by admins.-- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  01:26, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Why would someone attack us with denial of service attacks?! -- Numbermaniac  - T  - C 02:31, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Human nature. There will always be someone out there with the mentality to perform negative things for no good reason.  02:39, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


 * It's fun or a test of skill or some other reason. Rcmaehl 02:48, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Seeing some of the vandalism here, I guess I'm not surprised. -- Numbermaniac  - T  - C 02:54, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


 * It's likely a test of skill as hackers tend to test their tools on small sites before trying to attack larger ones. For Example, (LOIC TEST) –Preceding unsigned comment was added by Rcmaehl (Talk&#124;Contribs) 02:59, 6 April 2013 (UTC). Please sign your posts with

Minecraft is a big game, and I would assume a wiki on it would be pretty big. -- Numbermaniac  - T  - C 03:32, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I mean like small sites compared to something bigger than the site they're testing on. It's likely they're testing their tools for a site larger than minecraftwiki, especially if the DDoS has been getting larger and larger overtime, showing optimization of their tools. Rcmaehl 03:45, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


 * True. There's nothing much we can do, but hopefully it stops soon. -- Numbermaniac  - T  - C 04:29, 6 April 2013 (UTC)