To Derision

[Drajor]

(I was not able to PM you for some reason)..

Heya, I notice that you take care of most of the spam removal on the wiki. I have been removing any that I see as well. Do you know if there is a way to get a notification when someone makes a change on the wiki? This would help me in removing it promptly as well :)

[c0ncrete]

you could write something to periodically check the following URL and send you a notification on any updates that match a certain criteria (user responsible for change/creation is not in a list of known contributors, for example):

http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=RecentChanges/recentchanges.xml

[Drajor]

Oh I did not know there was an xml version of that page. I am hoping there is something built into the wiki for notifications, otherwise yeah I will just scrape and diff to detect changes. Thanks c0ncrete!

[c0ncrete]

SevenTipsForShortHairGirlsToFashion
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=SevenTipsForShortHairGirlsToFashio n/show&time=2013-01-25+06%3A44%3A46
2013-01-25 06:44:46 by EusebioShannon3217

would be a good example, obviously :)

i guess as there are more updates made to the wiki, you might miss a few entries, depending on the speed at which your check occurs. i'm not really sure if there is a limit to the number of updates that are visible at one time there, or if it gets truncated somehow.

[Derision]

I have that URL for the .xml that c0ncrete posted added as a feed in Google Reader, but I also have http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=RecentChanges open in a tab in Chrome and occasionally have a look at it and clear out any spam pages that I see.

[jdoran]

VBulletin has RSS support, which is turned off by default. That sounds like a good solution for the OP.

[Drajor]

Thanks guys!