SSF:About

w:Copyleft is called "the user's right" in Finnish as it gives the user lots of rights, which the user may forfeit through being a dirty pirate, but who pirates free stuff?

• Description: The Stop Synthetic Filth! SSF! wiki at stop-synthetic-filth.org/wiki/ is a free and non-profit public service since Monday 2020-03-23 served to the Internet from Helsinki, Finland by User:Juho Kunsola and is intended for informational purposes.
• About the wiki : The Stop Synthetic Filth! wiki is running on mw:Mediawiki 1.39.10 (2967077) and has 521 pages out of which 23 are articles with 4,557 edits. There are 105 uploaded files. There are 8 registered users out of which 1 user is admin.
• Accounts are available by request : There was a problem with spammers registering accounts, so now accounts are available upon reasonable request.
• Contact info for SSF! wiki: If you have any questions you can contact Juho Kunsola through this email form or alternatively leave a note on my my talk page or send SMS to the phone number or email to the address shown on my user page.
• Content licensing: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 4.0, except where other w:copyright or other copyleft license already exists.
• Predecessor: #SSF!'s predecessor domain is Ban-Covert-Modeling.org #BCM!, which was registered on Thursday 2019-03-14 and will expire on Wednesday 2029-03-14, unless renewed.
• Systems: Mediawiki with w:MariaDB and w:Apache2 running on w:Debian w:GNU/w:Linux, running on w:KVM, running on a modern server in w:Helsinki, w:Finland.
• Electricity: From renewable sources
• Backups: Backups of the system are made daily by the hosting company with latest 7 kept. Also occasionally manually triggered semi-automated backups when it is time to do changes to the system or just because anyways backupping the servers.
• Linking praxis: Links to Wikipedia occurring outside of {{Q}} and transcluded articles should bear the notice 'w:' i.e. [[w:Article name]]. Red links mostly used to indicate that Wikipedia does not yet have them.
• Emails from the wiki: Emails sent by MediaWiki come from the address s e r v i c e s @ stop - synthetic - filth (dot) org and are sent via Gandi.net's SMTP over SSL, so the first machine in the email envelope is something.gandi.net

Stop Synthetic Filth! wiki is hosted in Helsinki, Finland at a hosting business that uses electricity from renewable sources only. (Check)

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MediaWiki

The #SSF! wiki has the following configuration:

ConfirmAccount

The mw:Extension:ConfirmAccount settings are as follows:

$wgMakeUserPageFromBio = false;

$wgAutoWelcomeNewUsers = false;

$wgConfirmAccountRequestFormItems = array(

       'UserName'        => array( 'enabled' => true ), # Your choice of user name
       'RealName'        => array( 'enabled' => false ), # Not asked, this would be a nice field to have, if it was possible to add it as an optional field
       'Biography'       => array( 'enabled' => false, 'minWords' => 50 ),
       'AreasOfInterest' => array( 'enabled' => false ),
       'CV'              => array( 'enabled' => false ),
       'Notes'           => array( 'enabled' => true ), # Optional / Can be blank - Any info you want to provide
       'Links'           => array( 'enabled' => true ), # Optional / Can be blank - Any info you want to provide
       'TermsOfService'  => array( 'enabled' => false ),

);

reCAPTCHA settings

reCAPTCHA settings for the server

$wgGroupPermissions['*'            ]['skipcaptcha'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user'         ]['skipcaptcha'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['bot'          ]['skipcaptcha'] = true; // registered bots
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop'        ]['skipcaptcha'] = true;

$wgCaptchaTriggers['edit']          = true; 
$wgCaptchaTriggers['create']        = true; 
$wgCaptchaTriggers['addurl']        = true; 
$wgCaptchaTriggers['createaccount'] = true;
$wgCaptchaTriggers['badlogin']      = true;

reCAPTCHA settings explained for humans

In human readable terms the reCAPTCHA settings are as follows:

1. Anonymous users have to pass the captcha always
2. Non-autoconfirmed users have to pass the captcha always
3. Autoconfirmed users do not have to pass the CAPTCHA (See #Autopromotion settings explained for humans to figure out when you will be autoconfirmed)

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Autopromotion to skip CAPTCHA permanently praxis

“Make 7 edits, and when your account has existed for at least 1 hour and have clicked the "Verify my email"-link sent to verify possession of a valid email account and you can skip captcha permanently.”

~ Juboxi on Current settings of the autopromotion

Autopromotion settings

Autopromotion settings for the server

$wgAutopromote = array(
        'autoconfirmed' => array(
                '&',
                APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED,
                array( APCOND_EDITCOUNT, 7 ),
                array( APCOND_AGE, 60*60 ),
        ),
);

Autopromotion settings explained for humans

In human readable terms:

1. Users will be automatically promoted to autoconfirmed when all three conditions are met
   1. They have confirmed their email address by clicking on the confirmation link in the email sent by the system when registering an account
   2. They have made 7 edits
   3. Their account has existed for at least one hour

These values may need to be adjusted in the future. The goal of these settings is to

1. Avoid spamming, vandals etc.
2. To give genuine contributors ability to edit without needing to solve CAPTCHAs reasonably quickly

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Email settings

1. $wgEnableEmail = true;

   Email is enabled. See mw:Manual:$wgEnableEmail for more info.

2. $wgEnableUserEmail = true;

   Emailing users with [[Special:EmailUser/Username]] is enabled if the user has verified his/her email address and has not disabled receiving mail via wiki. See mw:Manual:$wgEnableUserEmail for more info.

3. $wgEnotifUserTalk = true;

   Emailing notices about someone else having edited your talk page are enabled. See mw:Manual:$wgEnotifUserTalk for more info

4. $wgEnotifWatchlist = true;

   Email notices about someone editing a page on your Special:Watchlist are enabled. See mw:Manual:$wgEnotifWatchlist for more info.

5. $wgEmailAuthentication = true;

   Requirement to verify your email address is enabled. Without having a verified email address of the email functions only the sending new password via email will work. Also not verifying email address stops a user from being autopromoted to autoconfirmed-status. See mw:Manual:$wgEmailAuthentication for more info.

Scary transclusion

$wgEnableScaryTransclusion = true; is enabled and Special:Interwiki adjusted so that pages with the interwiki prefix 'wikipedia:' can be transcluded by writing {{wikipedia::Article name}}

Mobile interface

mw:Extension:MobileFrontend (MF) and mw:Skin:Minerva Neue together make a mobile view.

Advanced Mobile Contributions (AMC) needs to be enabled for all users in order for them to see a link to Special:RecentChanges and Special:SpecialPages

• In the following configuration
• "base" => all mobile users
• "beta" => users that have enabled the beta features in the mobile menu -> settings
• "amc" => users that have enabled AMC in mobile menu -> settings

Here is the configuration for the mobile interface:

wfLoadSkin( 'MinervaNeue' );  # load skin specifically developed for mobile device audience
$wgMFDefaultSkinClass = 'SkinMinerva'; # default skin for MF
wfLoadExtension( 'MobileFrontend' ); # load MF
$wgMFAutodetectMobileView = true; # explicit setting of this is not required since Mediawiki version (???)
$wgMFAdvancedMobileContributions = true; # allow AMC. Obs. without this there will be no reasonable minimum menu
$wgMinervaPageActions = array( # show UI for page actions: edit, talk, watch, switch language
        'edit' => true,
        'talk' => true,
        'watch' => true,
        'switch-language' => true
);
$wgMinervaHistoryInPageActions = array( # show UI for page history in mobile menu to all mobile users
  'beta' => true,
  'base' => true,
  'amc' => true
);
$wgMinervaAdvancedMainMenu = array(  # Enable Advanced Main Menu in mobile menu to all mobile users
  'beta' => true,
  'base' => true,
  'amc' => true
);
$wgMinervaPersonalMenu = array( # Show personal menu in mobile menu to all mobile users
  'beta' => true,
  'base' => true,
  'amc' => true
);

Magic words

See mw:Help:Magic words