Thanks Xavi! <3
Let's try to connect on faceboo....
I'm taking the weekend off though - so I hope you all can wait a little bit, please?
--wiggan
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| Author: | Shatuga [ Fri, Oct 17 2014, 15:08 PM ] |
| Post subject: | AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
Hi everyone! It's me, your long distant Amia friend. A few days ago, because the mediawiki software that drives Amiawiki is out of date I suppose, some hacker got in there and horked the thing to send spam. I shut it down within an hour, but that also messed up the AmiaWiki system database somehow, or something - I'm not sure what happened exactly - but next thing I knew, MySQL's innodb transaction table was .... 4 Gigabytes in size. Ugh. So I had to export and reimport all the mySQL tables because some idiot forgot to put a setting a certain way in the MySQL tables. Anyway.... I am going to TRY to recover AmiaWiki to what it was, and upgrade it.... But if I'm not able to do that, I will restore the last manual snapshot I have, which I believe is from April. Who is the lead admin on AmiaWiki these days? Who is responsible for keeping it together? If such person would send me a PM, with their contact info (is it you Xavi? If so we HAVE to figure out how to communicate more reliably), we can work on it. Thanx! -- Wiggan |
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| Author: | Xaviera [ Sat, Oct 18 2014, 0:39 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
Yep. PM sent. To the extent that anyone's doing anything with it, I'm the admin. I know we've been having that issue with Skype/MSN, but you still have my email and my FB, I think. |
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| Author: | Shatuga [ Sat, Oct 18 2014, 2:11 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
Thanks Xavi! <3 Let's try to connect on faceboo.... I'm taking the weekend off though - so I hope you all can wait a little bit, please? --wiggan |
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| Author: | Ice [ Fri, Nov 07 2014, 7:56 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
Shatuga! Bring us the daily Wiki! |
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| Author: | Shatuga [ Fri, Dec 05 2014, 12:36 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
I am still working on getting it restored. Sorry for the delay - it's been a few months! Life is hard. Someone needs to make a t-shirt. I'll keep you posted - it's not exactly simple to fix it seems 
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| Author: | LetumLux [ Fri, Dec 05 2014, 12:37 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
Thank you for your work on this, Shatuga! |
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| Author: | Shatuga [ Fri, Dec 05 2014, 16:46 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
I have some bad news ... The last FULLY functioning backup I have that has both databases and files was rather old. I spent some considerable time looking for an up to date backup. For the record, the server DOES have complete backups going all the way back to October (and forward) but the problem was that those backups exhibited the original corruption from the hack in them too. I didn't have a good backup that was old enough other than the MANUAL one I had from two years ago when I moved the site between servers. I apologize - to everyone that lost some hard work making beautiful character details. The good news is that MediaWiki is running 1.24, and that it is also pulled from git which makes it easier to update in the future. In fact, I plan to automate the update process so that it runs every week. I'm very sad - I really worked hard to get something newer for everyone. *sigh*. Please know that I have every intention to maintain the service indefinitely to honor the gift that Amia was to me during a very special time in my life. I wish for, and hope for someday, a similar environment where we can design and run our own servers with a bit more modern flair! It's pretty amazing that NWN is STILL RUNNING after all these years, and someday someone is going to realize why it is still going, and why Minecraft is so successful - people like to build their own places! And then play in them. Anyway, feel free to send me an email or PM anytime. Shatuga |
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| Author: | Murex [ Fri, Dec 05 2014, 22:17 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
Thanks, Shat (mind if I call you Shat?)! Lost a character description, but I may have saved that file on my computer...but either way, it's better than nothing. |
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| Author: | Burningoutbright [ Sat, Dec 06 2014, 8:20 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
Thanks, Shatuga. The good news is it can be rebuilt and new information can be added to be more current and relevant. Cheers. |
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| Author: | Silkelock [ Sat, Dec 06 2014, 8:28 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
Use cached searches and hope it shows up. Then copy and paste
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| Author: | Murex [ Tue, Dec 09 2014, 4:48 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
Lots of Russians making changes to the Amia Wiki on a daily basis. Nothing against Russians or nothin', it just seems......odd? |
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| Author: | Jes [ Tue, Dec 09 2014, 11:58 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
There are a crap-load of spammy user creations there... 
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| Author: | Alaria- [ Tue, Dec 09 2014, 12:02 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
Sorry if I'm being a bit slow, but is it safe to start adding new stuff now? |
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| Author: | 666WaysToHell [ Tue, Dec 09 2014, 12:54 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
Personally, a blank slate would be nice to build up from minus the out-dated or irrelevant information, but a lot of the information (as far as I'm aware) is only available via the wiki, or accessed more easily via the wiki. |
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| Author: | Xaviera [ Wed, Dec 10 2014, 14:37 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AmiaWiki horked by a$$holes |
Dammit. Looks like we need to change the password. |
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