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What are your thoughts? Best. [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • <sub>[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]] / [[WikiIndex:Bureaucrats|'Crat]]</sub> • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 11:32, 14 November 2017 (PST) | What are your thoughts? Best. [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • <sub>[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]] / [[WikiIndex:Bureaucrats|'Crat]]</sub> • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 11:32, 14 November 2017 (PST) | ||
:I started this topic long ago [[Category_talk:Active_administrators_of_this_wiki#wF_asking_from_others_what_we_do_not_provide_ourselves.3F]] We just need to install the extension. --[[User talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 12:01, 14 November 2017 (PST) | :I started this topic long ago [[Category_talk:Active_administrators_of_this_wiki#wF_asking_from_others_what_we_do_not_provide_ourselves.3F]] We just need to install the extension. --[[User talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 12:01, 14 November 2017 (PST) | ||
:Well, I don't really see the value in retaining WikiFactor information if it's woefully out of date. All this really says is something about the relatively popularity of certain pages five or six years ago... If a site has some metric to measure it within the past (e.g.) 24 months, that may be useful but at some point, it's just a relic. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 21:16, 14 November 2017 (PST) | :Well, I don't really see the value in retaining WikiFactor information if it's woefully out of date. All this really says is something about the relatively popularity of certain pages five or six years ago... If a site has some metric to measure it within the past (e.g.) 24 months, that may be useful but at some point, it's just a relic. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 21:16, 14 November 2017 (PST) | ||
::What about installing the extension on WikiIndex? [[User talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 02:42, 15 November 2017 (PST) | |||
:::Ray gave me staff permissions with the goal of having me be able to access the server directly to change setting in MediaWiki but that has yet to happen and Brandon is MIA. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 11:21, 15 November 2017 (PST) | |||
::::Don't worry. Installing an extension is mostly rather easy. I did that also on my own wiki. As soon as You have set up FTP successfully is is a matter of minutes. --[[User talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 11:32, 15 November 2017 (PST) | |||
::::So, what is the progress in this matter? Just now I added [[T4-Wiki]] a wiki of 2006 that is indeed using wF (of 119). It is using MW version 1.25.1, higher than ours. So, that should not pose a problem really. --[[User talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 04:45, 5 December 2017 (PST) | |||
:::::There is none. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 09:06, 5 December 2017 (PST) | |||
== Wikipedia.org oddity == | |||
Hi Justin, you are obviously highly knowledgable regarding Wikipedia, so I hope you don't mind if I ask you a <cough> 'interesting' question. On the Alexa site for [https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org Wikipedia.org], near the bottom of the page, it lists "Other Sites Owned". Numbers 1, 3, and 5 are explanatory, but 2 and 4 have . . . erm . . . raised my eyebrows! Number 2 (at time I viewed Alexa) was <nowiki>nekkid.info</nowiki> (<u>warning</u>: NOT suitable for work/school/minors etc) is a XXX p0rn site, and number 4 was <nowiki>searchbastard.com</nowiki> (now goes to a parking domain site). | |||
So . . . is Alexa correct? Does Wikipedia actually own those two? If they do, I am guessing (though not defaming) Jimbo was the original owner. Does Wikipedia and / or the WMF have any need, or justification for owning those? My only guess is the potential revenue stream from number 2 - which might be a valid commercial reason, but is it ethical? | |||
Do you fancy asking some questions in the appropriate places? Understand if not, though. Best. [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • <sub>[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]] / [[WikiIndex:Bureaucrats|'Crat]]</sub> • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 11:03, 10 December 2017 (PST) | |||
:Ha. I don't know if you know about the history of the site but I imagine it's somehow related to Bomis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomis. That is a weird find... [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 12:24, 10 December 2017 (PST) | |||
::Wikipedia as such does not own anything at all. If some WP-thingy owns anything, it is the '''Wikimedia Foundation Inc.''' which is a non-profit organisation which has registered the domain wikipedia.org and similar domains. Besides this entry on Alexa, there is no indication that WMF owns searchbastard.com and the like. It is likely, that those domains where owned by the company Bomis Inc. (or the people who owned the company) which also registered Bomis.com. WMF was founded by the people of Bomis. There is neither need nor use or indication, that those domains should or would have been transferred to the WMF as well. Anyway no domain owns any other domain. Therefore, if Alexa states any "owned by" than Alexa should state, who is the registrar of wikipedia.org in the first place, which Alexa does not do. Even the term "to own" is wrong. Therefore this "information" of "Other Sites Owned" is questionable by design. At best, there could have been a moment in time when wikipedia.org and some of the other mentioned domains have been registered by the same institution. But this institution has not been and is not the WMF. The "ownerships" of the other domains are heavily obfuscated. I think, what this Alexa entry rally proves is the inaccuracy of Alexa because it is so obviously wrong and about such a prominent domain, that Alexa staff could not convincingly excuse it by "we can not control every little detail in our database...". They do not control any detail at all. It proves that Alexa is run by weasels. Their data collecting processes are so overly automated that blatant inaccuracy is guaranteed. We know pretty well how much work it makes to keep track with ever changing details about internet entities. We can not do it ourselves, not enough manpower. If Alexa would try to present correct data, they would have to more than triple their staff and would not be able to gain any profits for the investors. [[User talk:Manorainjan|'''<span style="color: orange;">Manorainjan</span>''']] 16:55, 10 December 2017 (PST) | |||
:::{{u|Manorainjan}} – you had better go and tell Alexa that they got the internet wrong!!! | |||
:::{{u|Koavf}} — I was only following a link that Manor posted! Thanks for the update. :-) [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • <sub>[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]] / [[WikiIndex:Bureaucrats|'Crat]]</sub> • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 18:40, 10 December 2017 (PST) | |||
== MOVED TO XEN.WIKI is at the top of xenharmonic now == | |||
[[Xenharmonic Wiki]] is migrated due to <code>wikispaces</code> closing. What to do?[[Special:Contributions/83.31.146.92|83.31.146.92]] 12:21, 21 September 2018 (UTC) | |||
:I changed it. Thanks. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 00:33, 23 September 2018 (UTC) | |||
:: | == Spammer == | ||
You just welcommed a spammer, could you take care of that? --[[User:Raltseye|Raltseye]] ([[User talk:Raltseye|talk]]) 11:37, 3 October 2018 (UTC) | |||
== Welcome back to a functioning WikiIndex == | |||
Hi koavf, I nearly gave up on WikiIndex! Glad it has been fixed. I noticed you held one of the new account requests from Dominica. I found a likely URL from the requesters email, but I don't speak Spanish, but to me, it looks just like a blog only. Can you please check if https://WikiDominicana.com is an actual wiki? Best regards --[[User:Hoof Hearted|<big>Sean</big>, <small>''aka'' Hoof Hearted</small>]] • <sub>[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]] / [[WikiIndex:Bureaucrats|'Crat]]</sub> • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 20:53, 26 April 2021 (UTC) | |||
:Yeah, this is some kind of spam tourism thing and doesn't appear to be someone's personal blog. It appears to be written by a bot. Thanks for keeping this ship sailing, Sean. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 18:31, 29 May 2021 (UTC) | |||