#mediawiki

#MediaWiki question: Is there a way of blocking anonymous (i.e. "not logged in") users from accessing the "Special:RecentChanges" page? There are 3,809 such requests in my latest Apache logs alone, and I doubt that ordinary users are making _that_ many requests.

I am happy with how this turned out. This is for a local startup business that wants an internal wiki (asked for mediawiki) and the ability to have more php-mariadb (mysql) custom web apps. Why a GUI for a server? Just in case it is needed. I am not going to be doing all the work and I want it as easy as possible to use. Linux Mint Debian Edition is a good fit, as then I can just treat it like a Debian server. That's similar to a lot of the other Linux consulting I do. I have a hard disk drive for versioned backup. Configured Time Shift to back up everything to it. Seems to work well, as I can browse the Timeshift snapshot in the file browser. I also set up MediaWiki for them. Learned a few things there. I had to set a root mariadb password. I customized it with a logo and also made some other adjustments to the MediaWiki LocalSettings.php file. #LinuxMint #Debian #Linux #MediaWiki #wiki

Still trying to figure out my website outages. To recap: I have two #MediaWiki wikis and one #WordPress site. And there seems to be _some_ background process which starts soon after 23:00 UTC (or 24:00 in France, where the servers are located) which puts such a strain on the website that I get a lot of "504" errors for a few hours. The exact duration is variable - sometimes it lasts for one or two hours, and sometimes it lasts way into the morning. But I cannot identify what causes it from the Apache logs - there is no clear, consistent trigger to be found there. Last time I asked customer support, they suggested that I check my plugins and background processes. But I don't know enough about website administration to know where to look. For what it's worth, my WordPress website uses the following plugins (all updated to the latest versions): ActivityPub Contact Form 7 Include Mastodon Feed JM Twitter Cards Leaflet Map MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress TablePress WP DSGVO Tools (GDPR) The site is here: https://sunkencastles.com/ The extensions on my wiki can be found here: https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Special:Version Does _anyone_ have any idea what kinds of background processes on MediaWiki or WordPress might cause this kind of outage, and how I could check it? #FediHelp

#MediaWiki question: I want to use a screenshot of the interactive map embedded on the main page of the wiki as its social media preview card because that map is such an eye catcher. But I want to do so _without_ adding this screenshot to the actual page. The best I can think of is to cheat by adding this image with a scaled size of 1 pixel somewhere on the page so that it doesn't get noticed, but are there other options? https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Main_Page