...UTC (<tt>$wgLocaltimezone = "UTC";</tt> in LocalSettings.php), as it's the most neutral option for our international community. In any case, each user can
...Much of the spam seems to be automated, so questycaptcha should screen out most of the chaff. Just simple questions, like "What webcomic does this site exp
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: Maybe the page [[latest]] should redirect to the most recent comic? Could that be taken care of by some sort of script/template s
...ould have a page [[most recent comic]] that automagically redirects to the most recent comic? [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 12:42, 8 S
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...under the trivia category, a new section is warranted. This isn't the case most of the time though, so editors usually fold the content of extraneous secti
: '''Alright. So the discussion's been had, and the most oft recommended name appears to be Hairy. All in favor, say aye. If more th
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...on the <s>blog</s> wiki as spam or notify admins of the existence of it? (Most stuff can be simply removed.) What about user pages? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] (
:* Delete the userpages (and spam edits) and block indefinitely. A vandal might be someone having fun but who can be converted into an editor if nurt
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...deal with several issues that have been plaguing the wiki for a while now, most notably spam, but also the image scaling problem, a possible extension for
...e we still not addressed the bug that doesn't allow image resizing? I know most of us don't have access to that kind of lower-level coding on the site, but
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...available anti-vandalism and anti-spam measures. But you have perhaps the most technically inclined, supportive, and motivated audience you could hope for
...poking registered users' Talk pages with genuine queries or comments under most circumstances that may actually warrant it.
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...isplayed. The sidebar is important real estate, and we should put only the most essential links there. There's no reason we'd need have the XKCD store link
* Jibberish vandal: Somebody creating content that isn't spam, but just repeated ''asdf'' or
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Was there a reason you deleted most of the List of all comics? [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]] ([[User talk:Lcarsos|ta
...at link to an extra image on the site when they are clicked. On this wiki, most of the time, the explanations just contain a direct link to this image. How
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::No, some of the unblankings were done by the vandal. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.131.214|172.70.131.214]] 21:29, 21 February
...e by the same IP as the blanker they reverted, were definitely done by the vandal. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.65|172.70.126.65]] 21:56, 21 February 2
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...dows for blocks in all directions, and be more than sufficient to kill the vandal along with others in the surrounding area. This is clearly overkill for suc
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Hi, do you want me to delete this page because it was created by a vandal? Or are you fine with the page existing? [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span titl
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...en most - editors are just IPs. This action today is just a signal to that vandal. Further older discussions are here: [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_
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...re I would have changed - since I would think that Cueball should have the most interesting story, and also that this Cueball is Randall as it is known tha
...00 total comics), lurked on explainxkcd and made anonymous minor edits for most of that time. I set up an account in July 2013, when I began making more r
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...es on the wiki: If you like Justin Bieber or if you are a sock, spammer or vandal
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...been reverted, apparently. That was one of the strings of text that the/a vandal had left.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.58.251|172.68.58.251]] 17:46, 2 Feb
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...WILL BE REVEALED”. Knock it off please, you aren’t cool, just edgy, a vandal, and an annoyance. Also, to no ones surprise, the Russians and Nazis did ba
...hat way does speculation about in-universe organizations count as being a "vandal?" And in what universe did 162.158.93.27 ever say "SOON THE TRUTH WILL BE R
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...self, but at this '''talk page''' anybody can tell you everything unless a vandal is acting. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:28, 23 Febr
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...e are several IP vandals they're all the same person. I'm not blaming that vandal for Explain xkcd using Cloudflare. Anyways, I've removed that bit, sorry if
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:Ah, thanks for letting me know that the vandal sadly found a workaround. Sorry I wasn't aware at the time! [[User:Paintspo
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:It would help if Anticrap was most likely not an account also being used by the crapper themself (and therefor
...mption that it's a genuine editor (very strange to be our current resident vandal, to do that, so I'm assuming good faith in the original attempt, and anothe
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