Talk:WikiIndex: Difference between revisions

should the langauge here be multilingual or english? --[[User:Rathbone|Ray]] 11:43, 22 Jan 2006 (EST)

== Publicize! ==

It is a shame that WikiIndex has such limited community visibility!  Would one of the founders please put articles about WikiIndex in at least Wikinfo and WikiKnowledge, where I believe they would be welcome?  I would do it, but I can't figure out the cross-licensing hassles...  Or, please release a description of WikiIndex into the Public Domain, that anyone can freely post anywhere?  (Do quite like the WikiIndex History article, by the way.)  Took me over a day of searching to stumble on the existence of WI -- Let's try to make it easier for others to find.  (I understand, there is really nothing we can do about the low visibility in the wiki-which-must-not-be-named, where it would be most appropriate and useful.)--[[User:69.87.200.5|69.87.200.5]] 18:07, 4 February 2007 (PST)

:: Much discussion about the next step for WikiIndex at RecentChangesCamp in Portland this last weekend (Feb 2-4, 2007) see the [http://2007.recentchangescamp.org/Wiki_Index session notes]. The theme of the session was really how to make it more of a community resource and we welcome any discussion/suggestions along that line. [[User:John Stanton|John]] 07:57, 5 February 2007 (PST)

::: So much to talk about...  Could someone please work on giving us all access to useful recent traffic/pageview data, so we can see how much general use this wiki is getting, and whether it is increasing? http://www.wikiindex.org/Special:Popularpages would almost be useful, but needs at least one more column for "views in the last 30 days" -- total views ever is just not very useful (and it doesn't even tell us, starting from when). http://www.wikiindex.org/Special:Statistics also suffers from not giving us any recent-time-window data.  What we really want to see is some nice weekly/monthly graphs for the last year. *** Its weird that the standard MediaWiki software is so limited in some ways. ***  Many websites have not populated their Project:Copyrights page!  You should add a direct link for that to your template here for wiki articles. (It has not been populated at the recentchangescamp wiki you link to above.) --[[User:69.87.199.195|69.87.199.195]] 07:32, 6 February 2007 (PST)

Why doesn't this website have a favicon?--[[User:69.87.199.195|69.87.199.195]] 07:34, 6 February 2007 (PST)

: ''I like the way you folks are thinking! I created a favicon [[Image:Preview 16x16.png]] but don't know where to store the .ico - after I can get it stored on the web, then I can ask [[John Stanton]] to add it.  Best, [[MarkDilley]]''

:: The generic standard is, name it favicon.ico and store it in the html root folder.  But each page served can call out a favicon file, I guess, so maybe MediaWiki has its own special way of doing things?  I'm afraid your design takes the standard graphic too small -- I could not tell what it was supposed to be, even though I am familiar with the current graphic, until I compared them visually.  I think it needs to be "simplified", plainer, more contrast, to work on such a small scale.  And maybe the keys should be re-arranged but better use the square area available?  Maybe just two separate keys?--[[User:69.87.203.22|69.87.203.22]] 06:36, 12 February 2007 (PST)

There seems to be no clear system here for how/where to discuss how WikiIndex works.  This page is one place.  [[WikiIndex:Community_talk]] is another place.  [[WikiIndexFaq]] is another place.  User talk pages is another place, particularly those pages of the core folk (you can get a list of them here: [[Special:Listusers]]). (In some cases, you can discuss the matter right at the appropriate location, but for some matters there is no such location.)--[[User:69.87.199.67|69.87.199.67]] 06:15, 15 February 2007 (PST)

== Be Merciful ==

Let us spread mercy, not conflict. Let us drop the boiler plate phrase "'''edited mercilessly'''".  It pretends to be a cute warning to newcomers, but is actually in deadly earnest.  It is no coincidence that WP is awash in a tidal wave of antagonism, building on such a base. Let's not repeat this threat to contributors, nor encourage editors to treat other's work in such a fashion.  Let us rather encourage ourselves to be '''sincere, careful, and considerate'''. *** Here is a suggestion for improved boiler plate:

:All contributions to WikiIndex are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Logos are displayed here as Fair Use, with copyrights retained by their owners (see Project:Copyrights for details). '''Anything you write here may be changed by others, and redistributed.''' You are promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!

:: I like this. What is the page to edit for me to change it?  [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 10:03, 17 February 2007 (PST)

::: Good question.  There are two superficial matches at [[Special:Allmessages]], linking to [[MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]] and [[MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning2]].  Those two pages are locked from edits, but they don't really match the edit boiler plate, anyway, so the true source seems more deeply hidden in the software.--[[User:69.87.202.225|69.87.202.225]] 10:27, 17 February 2007 (PST)

 

:::: It seems I've made the change to [[MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]] and it works.  Please verify. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 03:59, 27 February 2007 (PST)

 

Also, it would improve the editing process if this boiler plate were moved down below the Summary box and Save button. Or, maybe Summary/Save could be right over the toolbar above the edit box?--[[User:69.87.199.67|69.87.199.67]] 06:45, 15 February 2007 (PST)

 

 

::: Neither one, from my perspective, but I'm not up for a logo search.  Anyone else? [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small>