Comments on: Wiki spammers have trouble viewing images in Opera

By: ReyBrujo

ReyBrujo — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:22:00 +0000

Oh, we have had an Talk:Main_Page/ article in Wikipedia since August. Now that is curious. Thanks for the tip, I will pay more attention to / URLs. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page/&action=history

People like to create subpages for their spam. Just take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixindex&from=Comparison+of+Internet+forum+software&namespace=1

Take care,
RB

By: Angela Beesley

Angela Beesley — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:24:11 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out Johan. I just deleted the Wikipedia ones I could find.

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:49:40 +0000

There are also 12 hits for wikipedia.org:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Why+i+can%27t+see+images+on+this+resource%22+site:wikipedia.org&filter=0

By: helix84

helix84 — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:27:37 +0000

Actually, I’m an Opera user, too and sometimes the images indeed stop showing in Opera while still showing in other browsers. IIRC clearing cache and/or cookies helps.

By: Angela Beesley

Angela Beesley — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:05:46 +0000

If anything, it's going to turn people against Opera since there are now 56000 Google hits suggesting images don't work with Opera. Perhaps Opera should be sueing the spammers for the damage to opinions about their product.

By: Minh Nguyễn

Minh Nguyễn — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:55:27 +0000

The funny thing is that, after someone asked that question at the Vietnamese Wikisource, I downloaded Opera just to see, and the images actually weren’t showing up for me. (The images were showing up just fine in Firefox.) It could’ve been a coincidence, because I think upload.wikimedia.org had problems on-and-off that day. Heh, maybe they’re spamming for Opera, trying to get Wikimedians to download the software so they can increase the download counter. :^) – Minh Nguyễn