Forum:Vandalized by an administrator

This is a problem on w:c:conmyth. What exactly happened to mediaWiki:Common.js? It contains usernames and seems to make Special:RecentChanges to hide information unless I disable javascript in the browser. LP (speak page) 17:58, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

The special page does not redirect anymore, but some users are having redirecting accounts. I hope that it will be corrected soon. LP (speak page) 19:28, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Have you tried expressing your concerns to Mighty Erick yet? Also, what does that stuff he place in there do? What are Mattkenn3's and Golden Eagle's roles in the wiki? --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 20:25, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Can a staffmember please unprotect w:c:conmyth:User talk:Mighty Erick? There isn't any way to properly contact him. What type of wiki is this anyway? It's totally messed up. This Mighty Erick person must have something against Mattkenn3 and Golden Eagle. He blocked them from logging in by manipulating w:c:conmyth:MediaWiki:Common.js. I recommend that someone should remove Mighty Erick of his administrative powers. He obviously doesn't want opponents like Mattkenn3 and Golden Eagle to edit there. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 20:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

The main page will have to be updated at the beginning of February, so we hope that Mighty Erick will do this. Else, we will just ask for unprotecting it. We have also made other suggestions/requests wich will need help, perhaps from Mighty Erick, perhaps from here. The discussion is currently kept on talk pages on w:c:conmyth. LP (speak page) 11:43, 17 January 2009 (UTC)


 * The amount of wikis starters that dont understand that they dont own the wiki is ridiculously high. When i explore wikia wikis, i often come across wikis that have the main page (and some other) protected for no reason. And when i say to them that it's against the rules on Wikia, sometimes they ignore me others times they replied that they want it that way.
 * By the way, if people want that sort of things (you were talking about) taken care of more rapidly, i think you should use the "contact wikia" form. See the link at top of this page. — TulipVorlax 11:48, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

The main page is protected and its talk page too, and the last one has only been vandalized once, guess by who... What about unprotecting Constructed Mythology talk:Main? LP (speak page) 20:35, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Leaves wiki deleting main page
w:c:conmyth:User:Mighty Erick has left w:c:conmyth leaving requests on User talk:Mighty Erick, but deleting the page. This user also deleted the main page, so we will have to create a new one. Can anyone move Pegasus to Main Page without its talk page (or move the comments from w:c:conmyth:talk:Main Page to w:c:conmyth:talk:Pegasus and then move Pegasus to Main Page? Other things will have to be done but the community will have to discuss what before. LP (speak page) 17:22, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * We have been aware of the situation there and have been monitoring it closely. --Uberfuzzy 21:18, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

...blocking himself (and perhaps someone else)
I am not sure about something, can someone see if User:Golden Eagle has written anywhere to be the same as User:Mighty Erick. If not, some checkuser should check if the seccond one created a false reason for blocking one more account than necessary. Here is the full explanation of my reasons to believe the accounts to bellong to different people: I am nearly sure that at least one of the accounts which Mighty Erick blocked recently do not really belong to the user who Mighty Erick writes that they all belong to. The account is Golden Eagle and my reason for believing that the reason for blocking the account is false are based on the fact that it was one of two users who got a personal attack some time ago. I considerated this:


 * User:Golden Eagle made the same edits to several wikis. A spelling mistake in one of these was calling the GFDL “GPDL”. I believed that this was the real reason for Mighty Erick to attack Golden Eagle from mediaWiki:Common.js. Golden Eagle has never written to be Mighty Erick according to what I know.
 * This would not make sense if the accounts belonged to the same user, unless Mighty Erick speciffically wanted us to believe that they belonged to different users. Now, Mighty Erick has blocked “all of his accounts”, being Mighty Erick and Golden Eagle two of these.

I believe that only checkusers can then write that two, so different accounts are a single user. LP (speak page) 21:26, 23 January 2009 (UTC)


 * In the annals of my watching wiki communities over the years, I have never seen such massive damage to a wiki as has happened here. The range and depth that this person has trashed the wiki and has so completely misunderstood the concept of collaborative writing via GFDL (or any open source license) principles is just enough to drop my jaw.  I understand people leaving is a huff, but this is horrible.


 * I hope that you can repair the damage to this wiki, but it appears to be a huge undertaking. There still is deleted content that needs to be repaired and restored, and for the community to be rebuilt.... which apparently you are doing.  The forensics on trying to figure out what exactly happened here is also something that would be difficult to evaluate.


 * At least with the wiki way, what is done can (usually) be undone. Good luck on this project, and I wish your wiki success in the future.  --Robert Horning 01:39, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

The community has now solved all known consequence problems. The wiki has even got corrected the "content link"s in the sidebar (It seems like Erick had made something that could only be vewed in the Monaco skin or it would have useless links.) We are also making it possible to view pages with deleted templates more or less well. Lars (Poet) (speak page) 19:31, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * That isn't Erick's fault. Most new users don't realize that Monobook exists, since Monaco is set as the default. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 00:32, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * You are right. He even corrected it. He deleted the page which made those links to appear. Lars (Poet) (speak page) 18:41, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

A bot attacked the admin
It seems that the problem is moving. Can anyone delete "all contributions made by" This page has lots of consecutive edits which are hiding other pages from Special:RecentChanges. These edits should be patrolled. Oh no! Look at me go!!! I'll do it!!!! (This page has lots of consecutive edits which are hiding other pages from Special:RecentChanges. These edits should be patrolled. Oh no! Look at me go!!! I'll do it!!!!|Talk | w:c:dragonrp:Special:Contributions/This page has lots of consecutive edits which are hiding other pages from Special:RecentChanges. These edits should be patrolled. Oh no! Look at me go!!! I'll do it!!!!|contribs) on w:c:dragonrp. Appart from the unsourced "quotation" of a username, this user is trying to make Mighty Erick to leave by vandalizing everything with something which I bet is a bot! Lars (Poet) (speak page) 17:08, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * So it was Mighty Erick! I thought that if he left he would try to delete something rather than creating all that. I wonder why he did so. Creating all of them from a single account just made it much faster for Uberfuzzy to delete them (perhaps the author of those pages wanted them deleted). Lars (Poet) (speak page) 16:34, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you to everyone who has helped solving this problem and the related problems which appeared. There might at some time be created some new page with the name mediaWiki:Common.js, but that will be something much different (and what is not known yet). What we know is that if something was written there it would have to be aproved democratically by the community before, so we believe that we will never have so bad vandalism again. Lars (Poet) (speak page) 16:34, 6 February 2009 (UTC)