Require a specific
user-agent string/URL argument/public username-password
Everyone that does not have that gets nothing. New users get it by clicking an obvious button labeled "use-this".
This requires that users are smarter than scrapers, which i admit is a weakness, but most people at least found the Join button once.

Set the whole site under TOR. Who scrapes there?
The surface web site only has a link to the tor-browser and the onion address.
I would start on TOR anyway and just post the link to wikidot, so I would only need to buy a domain on the surface once everything is set up in The Deep Web. Pointing a server away from an onion service onto a surface web domain should be doable, but i have not looked into it for years.

I have no idea whether this is still usable, but it could be worth a shot: HTTP-Code-Tarpit-Talk implemented with nginx.

What about the Mediawiki Discussion Tool does not work for us?

So far I went through the process of actually setting up a MediaWiki instance on an nginx instance (instead of just messing with crappy local solutions) and frankly the process is quite simple. You just extract the MW provided archive, tell nginx where the root lies, and paste a ~20 lines config and that's pretty much it. However, I'll mention the two issues I ran into for the sake of posteriority anyway:

1. Don't just apt install mediawiki; that package (at least on APT, idk how it is for AUR, flatpack, etc.) comes with an apache2 webserver that, during the APT installation process, is going for full on murderization of your beautiful, lightweight nginx server¹. You can install MariaDB the necessary php dependencies manually, the Installation Requirements give you a handy overview of packages].
2. I initially had problems actually running the wiki software because for some godforsaken reason, it was expecting a php8.1-fpm socket for cgi, whilst I had php8.4 installed. I tried messing around in the nginx config to adjust that path, but after some time I gave up and simply ln php8.4-fpm.sock php8.1-fpm.sock in /var/run/php. That surprisingly worked, even thought I never expected PHP to actually use semantic versioning. Could this cause nigh-undiagnosable errors down the line? Maybe. Probably less than having two concurrent PHP versions installed? Certainly.

So I guess my next step is to try that again on an actually public-reachable server with its own domain. Since nginx also implements a mail server (which you'll need because of domain registration shenenigans) that's something I should look at. Besides that, it'll be development of the wiki theme and dealing with the forum and page ratings.

The latter is actually pretty straightforward now, becaus by virtue of being a lazy bum it seems like the RatePage extension has been developed to include basically every feature we would have needed in the meantime.

Forum… eh. There are plenty interesting things you can do with talk pages, but I'm not much of a fan, tbh. We could juts use redirect magic and use forum software on a different subdomain, but that opens up the question of user accounts. So far I think that's actually the biggest issue we'll be having.

The last thing will be bot protection. And look, I am 100% on board with handing everyone who asks a full wikidump. Period. But we also know that the scraperpocalypse is currently in full swing and you'll be flooded by arseholes trying to train their plagiarism machines on your free content the moment you go live. No idea how to handle that. We can't afford a honeypot, IP-banning doesn't work, Anubis is vibe-coded and JS-dependent, so is Gandalf (I also think Gandalf isn't open source) and CloudFlare is a no.

Oh hey looks like the guy who singelhandedly did more for the modern web than all of GAFAM combined has no clue either. Fuck.

run grep -r s.gz * in your directory base, that's the most likely culprit, if you get any hits, that's the most likely culprit. Simply run gunzip -r * in the cloudfront.net directory then and something like find ./ -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/s.gz/s/g' {} \; in the archive root to fix repair every instance.¹²

I think the --compression= command flag can help with this stuff but seriously somehow each option does something different than what you'd expect so running a fix-up script might unironically be the most pragmatic solution for now.

As for the forum: …no, I don't think I fetched any XML, but upon further inspection, I think that's for multi-page forum threads? I frankly never bothered to check beyond loading up the first page of a forum thread so I never noticed the rest being borked. I think the fix is probably also JavaScript related to load those afterwards but as of now I'm mostly guessing.

I took a look at your github link and frankly, my visceral recoil from seeing some dockerized node.js-bullshit already makes me incredibly biased against whatever the flying fuck those industry-bootlickers have cooked up now.

I suppose, since the WD API is a strong case of WikiDon't, this might be somewhat useful if you actually want the retrieve the per-page revision history and changelogs and whatnot; somewhat superfluous for our size.

Also, like, wget is a preinstalled utility on pretty much every linux distro ever and has an unblemished 30-year history of doing exactly what it's supposed to do, with extensive documentation and interoperability and customization options.

That options is so fundamentally broken they expect you to run it containerized³ from the get-go (where it will slurp up unreasonable amounts of resources) and I furthermore based on Node.js and adsfdadfdgeafh I don't even know where to start there. Was there even one week this year that disgrace upon human achievement did not have some critical eco-system-wide CVE and/or package-based worm? No kinkshaming, but I'm really not into the whole pain and humiliation that brings with it.

I haven't grabbed the sandbox yet, but might, frankly.

Oh yeah, also since I'm currently in the middle of moving (for the second time this year), that means I technically have off-site backups as of now. Yeah, we're playing in the big leagues.

Here are a few thoughts:

1. The anomaly has no reason to have errors in its documentation. There are anomalies that require errors for storage purposes, for example if an anomaly replicates via 1:1 knowledge about it, but this is not the case here.
2. "No Hazardous Properties Detected", as you work with a number instead of a name, let me put it in SCP terms: If it thinks it is at least Euclid. Even if it were just a normal guy with a very informative tattoo he can still steal a gun and shot someone. Also we need to be sure that we do not use the affected color. It is generally bad if a bad batch of paint might leak CI data to what ever entity makes the records.
3. "Reported Anomaly [REDACTED]", if a Beta reads this you better explain why the second highest authority is required to open the article and only the top people get to know what is actually going on.
4. "not so useless and not so useful for being considered an useless or useful anomaly" not a thing. We either have a use for the guy or we do not. There once was a discussion about it where an author had made a gun so great no one was ever allowed to use it. A gun that will never be used is useless.
5. You invoke high security/secrecy and than do not list what we use it for. The Budget Committee does not work on "Trust me bro". If we pay money to conceal it we need a reason why it has to be concealed.
6. "480 ronnabytes data about the color Red Purple", near infinite information about a color? Could be interesting and useful, but you do not describe it well. Does it have info on every paint bucket to ever have that color, does the info update or is it static, what about "white" that by definition includes all color? Also we have a storage problem. According to a quick search earth has about 3.6 x 10^51 atoms. Ronnabytes would be "ronna 10^80" and "bytes 1 byte = 8 bits" for a total of 8 x 10^80 units of information in 1 ronnabyte. Even if it saves on every atom on earth we are orders of magnitude away from it all fitting, completly disregarding the "Normal man shape" the article claims.
7. "for Chaos Insurgency steal", why do we even need to steal it? If it has all information about something we can just make our own. Why risk it?
8. "and was used so", it would be nice if you kept punctuation, so that i know that you did intent to end the article there.
9. "The Infographic Man", still no idea why it has that name.

I had to take down a lot of my work, but it is all still available if someone (like me) wants to take another go at it. I also recommend the "Introduction to Item Creation". People seem to get value out of it.

I have a few questions:

And thanks to the defensive help from the In-Worlders

This part of usage just ends. Why?

Why is the anomaly marked as non-living and non-sentient? If things can sigh and enforce treaties I would expect at least some mind, the Archonian stuff further down seems to also point to at least sentience.

How do we know that the Foundation has difficulties intercepting these messages? If a person can decode it an office full of people can do so too.

source code, development history, or physical host system

Why do we trust something like this?
That thing could be entirely run by the Foundation for all we know.

modified game client labeled "Kingdomcraft"

Does this have source code? Who modified it?

Even if Foundation personnel gain access to a transmission, though it is highly unlikely

and

Foundation cyberwarfare divisions have reportedly intercepted thousands of transmissions yet recovered nothing but seemingly random gameplay logs

Contradict each other.

Your idea has well studied real-world parallels (with sum drug groups organizing in Minecraft). Once game logs are known they can be matched to observed CI behaviors and used to establish a pattern.

Sometimes the only thing needed to get the log-in from some guys "Cookie Sovereign". How do you input that into the game with the client?

regularly finish assigned quests within the game to maintain Archonian peace

If our inputs are encoded within the game-world what makes us think theirs are not? Maybe we are doing wood-gathering quests, but in reality the Archonian just need human input to bypass an arcane lock that "can only be opened by humans".

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Please explain to me:

• What the item is
• Why the Insurgency would have its documentation riddled with errors
• Why we woulds want to expose new recruits to it

From what I could gather: Something in the pool talks, this causes suicide or people getting murdered by the pool. If you are lucky (shorter than 3 hours) you get a book that has no value. Torturing people with near death is something some cells do, but those cells tend to implode. You do not torture someone than give them a gun and tell them you might torture them again, while they have a gun.
The pool might be an expert in its field, but that does not explain why it dumbs down the item file.

Usually if item files are affected by an anomaly someone that has never interacted with the anomaly will clean up the file. It is also generally a bad idea to push most if not all new recruits through something that messes up their brain to the point that they can no longer write.

Even if we disregard the hidden items and imported items I do not think we have to make a big deal out of it. It might cause a block as a special 100 page might put the thing under so much scrutiny that nothing looks good enough. Maybe some lucky member just happens to post two items back-to-back and get it that way.

I do not use automated grammar checks and only old-school spellcheck. If you see something you would like to correct you have my permission to edit the page. If you are more comfortable with giving me a list of mistakes, I will fix them myself.

Also yes, Item 100 is coming up soon and it definitely needs to be memorable.

Otherwise I would like to mention that, we are two items off from reaching the 100 mark.

Here are some ideas to add to the pot:

SCP trope contest: Participants must submit a worl featuring a containment fiction trope, regardless if its subverted or not. Think the exploration log slaughter, the thing that is too good at its job, the one thats meta for no reason, or the iteration farmer.

Monster Manual contest: This one requires participants to write an Item featuring a hostile entity. This was once the bread of the bread to the butter.

Fear Bingo: Lets ignore Zesc suspicions and just make a grid with the 25th most common phobias. Though 25 may be a little too much.

Event: Think the Haos resurgence/the tango. Every participant gives their own 2 cents about a predetermined event. The event in question can be anything. (Maybe conflict escalates with an underused GoI, or a defeat got CI on the retreat or the gradual exploration of the ruins of Atlantis)

My last backup is a bit older by now and once I am back on a machine that does not run on a core2duo I get myself one of main and sandbox, just to be sure.
Does your backup catch the forums as well? I never got it to pull those.

EDIT: I was looking into https://github.com/scp-cs/wikicomma as a better alternative to wget, but had no luck getting it to run so far.

I have no idea how this reads to someone not familiar with my body of work, but it should be able to be a story that can read on its own.
It does a bit of world building and a bit of character setup, but I hope that it asks questions that can be answered.

I once pitched the Idea that the Insurgency would love to work with the new style of US Government, but I can also see why that Government would force the other side into CI hands as well. Good to see an interpretation of the Chaos Insurgency that at least makes the attempt to look like the good guys.

I'm still not fully back, but found myself with some bandwidth and idle CPU time. I'll get around to reading all the new articles and participating in the forum soon enough. (At least with my usual verbosity, it's believable that answering takes some time.)

All ideas are appreciated. It might be difficult to actually judge corrupted files, since even written in clear-text and English a lot of author intent can go missing.

Maybe I should just use the bounty system and put together a contest with a grab-bag of options with a "pick at least two" and everything more give bonus points.

We have a lot of members you only know are actually active by article votes. We have people who are members but never said anything and we have the people that disappear and reappear at random.

If you visit small wikis you should already experience the speed difference between wikis. The CI-Wiki is a lot slower than SCP, but not a dead wiki that has not updated in months to years.

I hope to see you around. Read some stuff, find some gems, some weird stuff and something human.

You can call me a variety of names including Vektor, Mr 9, Doctor V or just whatever seems fit at the time.

I’m active mainly in the Chinese SCP foundation Wiki and the English Wiki, but you can also see me in random wikis.

Don’t worry, I’m just checking things out.

I’m an artist and writer, but I procrastinate often and haven’t posted a single article yet on the SCP sites.

I guess we’ll wait and see when it comes to whether I’ll write anything.

In the meantime, feel free to call me up when you need artistic assistance.

Very glad that recent additions break the character drought we had. +1

If I would have to levy crit against it, its that it reads like a rejected Scp. (The use of the number, the disclaimer, the foundation terminology, the use of the imperial system)

Also cognitohazardous implies that cameras can think. Maybe distorting would be a better term.

Insu was also characterized as pleasantly ruthless.

Glad to see a new face here and have a nice day.

If it was still April 1th i might have deployed that valentines css i never put on main.

I might even be able to just use the illogic-i theme from 2016 (2014 star-css would probably do funny things to the layout).

Try reverting it and then start with the real (if slightly early) easter egg hunt for the true source.

Try looking in the admin panel.

Doing contests made for fears is a sound idea thou. I will think further on this.

From what I can gleam, It would be broad enough for your idea to fit in, while also not being tied to Easter. Its also rather easy to write for, with literal (burried alive) and non literal interpretations being allowed. (being buried in debts or paperwork/Homework to say the most obvious)

If it works, we can make a second one with like Agraphobia or something. The ABCs were rather sucssesfull on the SCP wiki, so mabe bake our own version of this cake.

If I had a full idea in mind I would have just written the item, so not even I know where this is going.

I was thinking about how we kind of lost sight on the 'someone came back from the dead' part of Easter.
When Christianity swallowed the pagan symbols we got bunnies and eggs, than we added sweats and TV ads. I am pretty sure there is an item in there somewhere. How about we try to get it out?

I don't have much luck with this kind of contests, but how about it?

Did you come over from the SCP Wiki or did you come by our corner some other way?

The speed here is something to look out for so do not get discouraged. It moves. It just does not snap.

If the audio log is part of the item file Insurgency command knows and would ether leave a note about what is wrong or would stop deployment immediately.I get why the transcript is there from a narrative point of view, but in universe there has to be "someone that put it there because X". Just saying "there is a problem, these two know, no further action required" seems incomplete.

Also if we can not disassemble it we might just use X-Ray and if that is also to risky ultrasound.

I am looking forward to your effort.

A quick correction about SCP-CI history. Back in 2014 CI staff began a mass rewrite project and several pieces were deleted to comply with SCP quality standards. Following the rewrite much of the original community dispersed and even after that the CI-Wiki did not meet SCP's standards.

As for Cad, he pops in from time to time, usually just an upvote or a few posts every year or so. If you wait around long enough and his pattern holds you will eventually meet him.

Glad to see a new face here.

The reason we arent a sister site to the SCP wiki is that way back when CI started the site was below the SCP wikis standard, and there were no serious attempts to sororitice the sites since then. I dont think it will work today either.

As for Caduceus, no idea. I guess hes just, an adult now.

Have a nice day!

These are the item and tale announcement thread. Most people just use the per-page-discussion nowadays (which is the thread we are writing in now).

For the designations i was thinking in terms of this interpretation of our command structure. Having a General handle something that might compromise them seems dangerous. Letting Alpha personnel even touch the thing seems needlessly risky (if there is a touch effect). The Insurgency is no stranger to internal revolts. I thought the article implied that A-04 was already addicted to the item and working on a defection ("I read it."). Would not be the first time Fractal Music Box.

I think having something affect the mind is a dangerous, but compared to something like"Witching Well" which actually has caused loss of personnel in the past, the book has shown no indication of being that dangerous to CI-Personnel to the extend that admin staff has to sign for every use.

If i understand you correctly, it is the book and not its content that is anomalous? If so, a photocopy would have no effect.

Item’s activation is possible through simply reading it’s content.

This suggested otherwise.
I was thinking it was something like Bygone Jocundity, where the content is the anomaly and not the medium. If so, copies of the content would have the same effect as the original.

When it comes to the "recovery" I agree with you. I must have misread something in the usage section.

I would advise you to consult the Tag Guide and redo the tags for the page. Tags like "hope", "book" and "wolf" are already to specific (i suggest artifact and animal as tags) and while "cognitohazard" is in the terms page, the Insurgency uses the "mind-affecting" tag. There are a few more tags I would like to change, but i think you should try first.

I think there were some spelling mistakes in there, but before I go hunting for those I would like to have the content straight in my head.

I would not call it convoluted, I would call it either "incomplete" (I could not find a touch effect) or "suspicious" (why is someone under the influence of a mind-affecting artifact allowed to keep handling it and be able to write its deployment procedure in a way that keeps them getting in contact with it? Someone not addicted would not write "loss is not an option" into the document. The Insurgency has let go of great things when their cost grew to high).

In my mind Alpha Command should bother with direct threat to the organisation and not let lower ranks handle it but ok i will change it to probably like ''For gamma personel and higher only'' . Secondly, it just gives the exposed person maybe a vision and the effect of hope so you would open the book and then close it after some time with the large feeling of hope.

Thirdly i don't think that replacing a possibly religious cognitohazard or an artefact is doable. In the report it is clearly mentioned that Mrs. Olsen was recovered due to discovery of an annomaly which wasn't somehing CI planned as well… they discovered it, when Item is in use the person can be exposed and then item stolen by the Sigma opperative infiltrating the ranks of the gang/paramilitary since the effect doesn't end.
Lastly,
The runes should tranlate into ''Wolf smiles upon you '' and ''Wolf laughs happily'' or simmilar but due to using diffrent translators and Old Norse gramaticc rules it got messed up in the translation.

TLDR: I nontheless think the report is in a perfect state eventually if more people come to dicuss i will change the level of Apendix to Gamma (give or take might change or not). Additionally if i get it right is my writing to hard to understand or to convuluted? Would love to know,.
P.S: Thank you for checking it out and taking your time ;3

Also your link points to nowhere. Please post articles before linking to them.

I just saw your article. Usually when people post they announce it somewhere, be that under the file itself or the appropriate announcement page. That is usually done because sometimes the passive members just check the recent posts and not the front page.

For what this does I would not trouble Alpha Command. Usually when you get past Gamma this get world ending really fast. I also find it unclear weather the book is written in an easy to understand language or it translates itself. Your handling procedures require gloves, but I have not seen a contact effect in either description. I would also be interested in the effects of translations and photocopies.

If we can just print 20 of these we can let recovery fall to the wayside and have police deal with it. Worst case scenario the Foundation gets involved wasting their time and money and best case we might have a lot more Insurgence at our hand that have actual training by being criminals for longer.

I have also not seen why we should get people nudges over the edge and then immediately extract them. If we need to deploy items in the wild that usually means that we can not get to a target otherwise. Getting two guys in black suits some official looking badges is easier than actually extracting people already wanted by police. If we want these people to be criminals for us do to their position extracting them seems counterproductive.

As for the runes: I do not get the bed, smile or shine, but I appreciate the attempt. It has been a while since I had to use a translator for CI matters.

The file is save, but this looks like an author self-delete. Sometimes when people leave Wikidot they clean up after themself. There is no mention of it in the "deletions thread" which was still active around that time. Baronjoe removed it from the Arsenal on 25 Sep 2021.

Edit: The author of Tógálaí is listed as AtypicallyAzathoth in the Spanish translation.
The Chinese Never-More translation credits Doctor Xythinien, and I know Xyt had an alt account do to this thread. Xyt, is also known for deleting alts. Considering that Tógálaí is the squeal and both authors are deleted I am 75% confident to a attribute Nevermore to that user as well.