Open Source Activism

The above error is appears to be a common occurrence when you upgrade your Mediawiki installation from version 1.11 to 1.12. To fix this you need to have your system administrator do the following:

yum -y install php-xml
service httpd restart

The installs the XML modules into PHP. Restarting httpd allows the web server, in this case Apache, to load the new modules.

This solution came from the Mediawiki Support Desk.

This procedure is for the more experienced since you will have to directly edit PHP code to do this filtering. Here are the steps to filter offensive or spam keywords inside the wordpress loop:
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Here are the steps to filter out a registered blog that you now longer want appearing in the syndicated feed list (We are using FeedWordPress to syndicate our feeds):
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Here are the steps to remove posts from your current syndicated feed (We are using FeedWordPress to syndicate our feeds):

Reminder, once you delete a post it cannot be restored in the admin screens. It can only be restored from a database backup or reposting.
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Here are the steps to prevent the registration of blogs from spammer domains or offensive domain names techniques:
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Here are the steps to prevent the registration of blogs with offensive names or words associated with spamming techniques:
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Here are the steps to delete a blog:

Reminder, once you delete a blog it cannot be restored in the admin screens. It can only be restored from a database backup.
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Here are the steps to mark a blog as a spammer:
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Marking a user as a spammer in Wordpress MU is rather straightfoward. The steps to do this are below.
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Deleting a user in Wordpress MU is rather straightfoward. The steps to do this are below. Remember, you cannot undelete a user in the admin screen. You can only do that by restoring a database backup which you should not do under most normal circumstance.
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