Merci beaucoup, Seb, for fixing these issues! The account creation page is also working normally now!

Spambots have now arrived on Wikimini EN. Questy Captcha should be activated there as soon as possible. I must admit that if FTP access were provided, I’d gladly take care of it myself.

Thank you for the progress!

Yes, a temporary domain would help a lot! Thank you for evaluating this possibility. I can also provide an unused domain if needed (wikimaxi.org, for example). Thanks a lot for all your work @Seb35 and @ValerioBoz-WMCH!

Here is some information regarding this animation. It was originally a Flash animation. I had adapted it myself from a Flash animation purchased online (I can’t remember which website). In 2015 or 2016, Olivier and Cédric from Nixit Informatique converted it to Javascript, probably using that old Google tool mentioned by Valerio.

Hello, it seems that spambots have found their way onto Wikimini SV since last month. Could someone enable the Questy Captcha on Wikimini SV and perhaps automatically delete the spam from the past few weeks?

Hi, thank you for the new suggestions and ideas. We may keep them in mind for the future in case of new bot registrations. For now, I’m happy to report that the issue has been fully resolved, thanks to the new QuestyCaptcha questions (big thanks to @Raphoraph!) AND the addition of hidXXXden chXXXaractXXXers that mXXXake the quXXXestiXXXons "appear" differently to bots. (Haha, I’m really proud of this clever little trick!)

I added some hidden texts (display: none) in the questions to try to deceive the bots, because there were still a lot of new account creations. Let's see what happens...

Hello everyone and thank you so much @Seb35 for everything you've already done! It looks really promising!

Just two minutes after disabling the Cloudflare proxy features, the spambots are back :-(

Unfortunately, I had to disable Cloudflare's special proxy features due to some strange issues when editing pages (likely related to SSL or caching), which resulted in unknown errors. I also noticed that changes were no longer being logged on the recent changes page and other similar pages, even with caching disabled. It's a shame because Cloudflare could have been a strong and simple solution to combat spambots and reduce server load.

Hum... I get some "unknown error" when publishing new content and the Special:RecentChanges doesn't seem to show the latest changes anymore, even with CloudFlare caching rules disabled (dev mode). Can someone confirm?

I have reactivated Cloudflare on Wikimini.org and added a strict security rule on the account creation page. I hope this will be effective. Perhaps we could even consider restoring the previous question system (which was simpler and only appeared under certain conditions).

Maybe with htaccess as a very quick fix?

In T383558#10474103, @Raphoraph wrote:

In T383558#10471949, @ValerioBoz-WMCH wrote:

P.S. there is a bug in the current MediaWiki or in the current theme: if we activate $wgEmailConfirmToEdit then the homepage for some reasons shows the error "Please verify your email", with a link to the preferences, but that cannot be seen, since it shows the same confusing error message. Gulp.

In T383558#10471450, @ValerioBoz-WMCH wrote:

OK. Lorangeo, maybe we can assume that European FR schools are not opened before 7 AM CET, and they are not opened after 19 PM, so we can activate $wgEmailConfirmToEdit accordingly to this time interval to minimize disruption of most school activities in our region. Is this something completely nonsense or maybe useful? [...]

Yes, but only as a very temporary solution, as it's dificult to require email confirmation from primary school students.

In the HTML source code of the pages https://fr.wikimini.org and https://sv.wikimini.org we can see:

Wow that's crazy! This bot will deserve a medal... and its developer too (or maybe a pizza) ;-)

That sounds good to me! 👍

There has never really been a real community on Wikimini ES. However a lot of work had be done at the beginning to create the whole set of pages/categories/templates and other elements that we use on every version of Wikimini. For exemple, we use the same standardized set of predefined categories on every Wikimini. We also have some pages that need to be translated and created on each version before its successful launch (ex: the main page, the Teachers' corner, the children's corner, the help pages and many others (see here). There are also some templates, system messages and images that need to be translated/created on every Wikimini. (The list of elements that need to be translated and created on every new version of Wikimini can be found here: https://lab.wikimini.org/wiki/Translation)

Great! Thanks for solving this and the explanations!

All the new custom system messages (see on the Lab) that we needed for the project were added to Wikimini with the help of an extension. This extension was created especially and only for this purpose, and its name is: WikiminiLanguage.

No, it's not a mockup. Everything was working fine before. The tabs were showing in Swedish before.

This extension is being used to include both the picture of the day and quote of the day, as you can see here for example:

Editing https://fr.wikimini.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice should work. But the skin had been edited not to show the sitenotice on the main page (this was a choice).

I granted you as Bureaucrat. Please feel free to add the banner, or if you prefer I can do it myself.

Ho, that's great notice! @Ilario what is your username on wikinini?

The spam content is still present on Wikimini ES. Actually, nothing has been removed. As the project was inactive, we simply locked the database in January 2017 to prevent further damages.

Just some quick inputs: