www.felixcohen.co.uk

I've been playing with mediawiki a lot recently, and ended up having to roll a quick plugin. There seems to be a bit of interest around this, so here it is. It adds a back to top link next to each edit link on the page...not very complicated. This should be deprecated in the latest versions, as it has a hook already for changing the contents of the edit link section, so that would be cleaner...

It's a pretty simple thing to do, but there appear to be no howto's anywhere online.

So, I've finally got round to dealing with the mounting trackback spam on the site; lots of nasty porn and drug links popping up, so I was forced to turn off trackbacks for a while.
Firstly, I installed the spam module, and set it up to be fairly aggressive in looking for spam; no surprises here. I'll also be blacklisting spam and looking to use some spam blacklists to make the problem disappear.
Secondly, I took a bit of a scorched earth approach, and deleted every entry in the the trackback table in the drupal database: the database is called 'trackback_received', and will be in your drupal database. Easy to empty; just run the SQL command TRUNCATE TABLE `trackback_received`; in your choice of SQL client (I use PHPmyAdmin, for ease).