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This '''WikiIndex community talk''' page is a space to ask a question when the question is not directed towards a [[:Category:Wiki People|individual person]] but towards the whole group; or if you don't know who to ask here at {{tag|WikiIndex}}.  A similar page with similar purposes is '''[[WikiIndex talk:Community portal]]'''.

How do you [[Move|rename]] a [[Special:Categories|category]]?  I don't mean cutting and pasting text to a new page.  You should be able to move the page and its [[edit history]] to a new location.  I can't do it even if I copy the old page title to the move page URL.  Can any admin do it?

I prepared to move Category:OddMuse to [[:Category:Oddmuse]], since it is Oddmuse accroding to its [http://www.Oddmuse.org official website].  I opened all the articles with the OddMuse category in new tabs, edited them, and then noticed that I can't move the category.  Ouch.  [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]] 18:10, 7 Mar 2006 (EST)

:It seems {{WMF-Meta|Help:Category#Moving a category page|no-one can move categories}}.  [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]]

==[[:Category:Wiki Language]]?==

*[[:Category:Confluence|Confluence]] [[:Category:Atlassian|Atlassian]] - https://www.Atlassian.com/software/confluence - Mike fron [[RecentChangesCamp]]

Hello folks, I don't use watched pages very much.  But I do on my [[user talk]] page, or did, way back when and I try to unwatch it.  that doesn't work, every time I unwatch it, the next login, it is being watched again, any ideas? [[MarkDilley]]

:::It seems that our '''[[user talk]]''' pages are always in bold, is that true? [[MarkDilley]]

I recently put my wiki up [[Trendpedia]] and today I saw an article on my wiki http://Trendpedia.ElWiki.com/WikiNode and I am trying to figure out what the article is supposed to be.  Since it was done by an [[IP editor|IP]] and I'm not sure if they'll check back, I'm asking here.  The thing is, it looks like a welcome message.  I am not sure how to develop it.  Is it supposed to be an article about [[WikiNode]] or [[WikiIndex]]?  Why does it link to my wiki's recent changes and main page?  [[User:ZealPalace|ZealPalace]] 05:29, 22 August 2006 (EDT)

::I still don't quite get it, but I also think all of my wiki is lost.  Please see my comment at [[Category talk:ElWiki]].  [[User:ZealPalace|ZealPalace]] 14:10, 23 August 2006 (EDT)

Well it's back up now without explanation.  It's really hard to find a good [[wiki farm]], I find, though.  [[EditThis.info]] has a size limit.  [[:Category:Wikia|Wikia]] may cause you to lose control of your wiki at any time.  The rest either give you a single page or are not [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]].  [[User:ZealPalace|ZealPalace]] 21:29, 23 August 2006 (EDT)

On my wiki's article here <nowiki>https://WikiIndex.org/Trendpedia well</nowiki> it's hotlinking my logo.  I can't find how this happens.  {{{logo}}} with three { and } instead of two is the only thing I see and that's in the wiki template, which is full of the three { and } things.  Two is templates.  So what are the three?  I'm more interested in how this is done and what the three { } are above.  I would actually prefer to keep the image hotlinked because it lets me test if I have hotlinks blocked, which I think I finally figured out how to do thanks to this site.  [[User:ZealPalace|ZealPalace]] 05:52, 9 September 2006 (EDT)

:One caveat with hotlinking: As of MediaWiki 1.8, this appears to be turned off by default (although it can be re-enabled by system administrators by changing LocalSettings.php). Default in earlier versions was to replace any exposed link to an external image URL with the hotlinked image itself.  

:Perhaps hotlinks are falling out-of-favour on some sites as they consume bandwidth on the external site to which they link, as well as being prone to abuse as a means to link 'shock images' from wiki pages. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 14:13, 15 December 2006 (EST)

[[Feedback]] – there, you have my idea. What do you think about it? Want to add your wiki? --[[User:Let's|Let&#39;s]] 12:02, 10 November 2006 (EST)

=="BuildingControlsWiki"==

On page https://wiki.Ubuntu.com/InterWiki.  I see a link to a "[[BuildingControlsWiki]]".  Apparently, that page (including that link) was copied from http://moinmaster.WikiWikiWeb.de/InterWikiMap.  Alas, it appears that wiki has gone offline.  Or perhaps it moved? does anyone know where?  --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 01:12, 22 November 2006 (EST)

If it's not too server-painful, we can upload an image for each category, for example a French flag for [[:Category:French]], or a image of an iPod at [[:Category:iPod]]. <span title="gotta love Wii">&ndash;</span> [[Smiddle]] / <small>[[User talk:Smiddle|T]]&middot;[[Special:Contributions/Smiddle|C]]&middot;[[Special:Emailuser/Smiddle|@]]</small> 11:23, 7 December 2006 (EST)

:Spambots are the source of most of the wiki linkspam at the moment, and blacklists are doing a poor job of dealing with the problems as spammers are free to just register more domain names and hide behind a long list of open proxies scattered across the net. There is an extension (ConfirmEdit) available from MediaWiki's SVN that provides a captcha (or asks for the answer to a maths problem) - I've found it to be the most effective way to stop 'bots from posting anything with any external links. This would be the majority of rubbish pages with trailing /'s, /index.php/ or other nonsense in the titles. --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 10:09, 14 May 2007 (EDT)

It's been brought up before, but the blacklist makes it impossible to edit the entry on [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. I was only planning to update the statistics and the logo. Is there a way to whitelist ED such that the article can be edited by registered users? [[User:Dianoga|Dianoga]] 18:28, 19 December 2007 (EST)

What happened to the [[RecentChanges.info]] blog (http://RecentChanges.info)? I followed the instructions on [[:Category:Draft weblog article|draft weblog article]] to add my wiki posting to [[Template:WikiSpotlight]], but RecentChanges.info seems to have had no update since August 21, 2006! --[[Special:Contributions/84.155.249.44|84.155.249.44]] 10:19, 13 January 2007 (PST)

:As of MediaWiki 1.8, ''$wgAllowExternalImages = false;'' is the default. This can only be changed from the config files (LocalSettings.php). --[[User:Carlb|Carlb]] 10:05, 14 May 2007 (EDT)

::So that we can have very nice looking signatures that don't take up six rows in the edit box.<br/>

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&ndash; '''[[User:Smiddle|<span title="My user page"><font color="012e01">S</font><font color="113e11">m</font><font color="214e21">i</font><font color="214e21">d</font><font color="315e31">d</font><font color="416e41">l</font><font color="517e51">e</font></span>]]''' <small>(''' [[User talk:Smiddle|<span title="Talk"><font color="2e0101">T</font><font color="3e1111">a</font><font color="4e2121">l</font><font color="5e3131">k</font></span>]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/Smiddle|<span title="What I've done"><font color="01012e">C</font><font color="11113e">o</font><font color="21214e">n</font><font color="31315e">t</font><font color="41416e">r</font><font color="51517e">i</font><font color="61618e">b</font><font color="71719e">s</font></span>]] ''')</small></nowiki></pre>

:Nothing technical would need to be done. Might as well set myself up one. {{User:Sean Fennel/signature}} 03:04, 31 May 2007 (EDT)'''EDIT:''' Nothing technical except allowing subpages in the "User" namespace. &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Arial;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 03:09, 31 May 2007 (EDT)

::Yeah, User namespaces have subpages turned on by default, guess I'll have to get with the program :-)  [[User:John Stanton|John]] 10:28, 31 May 2007 (EDT)

::Have a look at [[WikiSocial]] --[[User:Matthias|Matthias]] 12:45, 14 February 2008 (EST)

:Anyone considering doing this may find the [[Wikibooks:Starting and Running a Wiki Website|Wikibook: Starting and running a wiki website]] helpful.

==Wikipedia lessons==

*Create seperate Namespaces for the three main subjects that WikiIndex covers. An idea for the Namespace names would be "Wiki", "Editor", and "Idea". This would give us a first step to splitting WikiIndex up into three seperate sections.

Hi everybody.  I've just signed up.  Can one create an "article" here on say, Barack Obama, to use as a link farm to other wikis: e.g. Wikipedia article on Obama, [[Conservapedia]] article on Obama, [[Uncyclopedia]] article on Obama, et al?  If not there where can this be done?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks  [[User:Yartet|Yartet]] 15:56, 15 December 2008 (EST)

:I would love for Mr. Obama to create a page at WikiIndex about himself, a page that would show the world that he is, in fact, one of the [[:Category:Wiki People]]

:Since Mr. Obama is not, himself, a wiki, nor (yet) one of the [[:Category:Wiki People]], I don't think it is really appropriate for either of us to create an article about Mr. Obama here at WikiIndex.

of a structure and naming scheme for wiki sites with multiple language versions: have a look [[WikiIndex:Naming conventions#multiple language versions|here]] and discuss it before it gets a new recommended standard or so...--[[User:Speckmade|Speckmade]] 18:44, 29 January 2009 (EST)

I've seen a number of other [[wiki]]s that have bots that go around and do minor cleanup jobs.  Would it possible to create a [[:Category:User Bot|bot]] that goes around and checks any pages that contain [[Template:Size]]?  This [[:Category:Templates|template]] contains the size of the wiki, but also has a link where the new size can be read.  A bot should (hopefully) be able to follow the link, look at the current size of the wiki and then update the number of pages back on [[:Category:All|WikiIndex]].

If a number of [[:Category:User Bot|bots]] could be created to do these minor update tasks, the pages the bots can not cope with could be added to some sort of 'Wikis that need manual patrol' category, and people could use that category to help find the pages that don't look after themselves.  [[User:David Shepheard|David Shepheard]] 09:05, 9 May 2009 (EDT)

==Template:New Person==

What is the purpose of [[Template:New Person]]?  I also looked at the discussion page of that template, which left me even more confused.  --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 10:10, 22 October 2009 (EDT)

:p.s.: Is there a category that means "wiki-on-wiki conversation is on-topic", so I can tag WikiSpeedia and [[MeatballWiki]] and [[CommunityWiki.org]] and [[MediaWiki.org]] and other appropriate pages here with that category? --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 09:30, 1 February 2011 (PST)

::A central web site for everything related to Wikis is extremely necessary. I just found WikiIndex today and it looks like the best place for that. Too bad that it took me more than 1 year to find it... One weakness at Wikipedia is that it doesn't have a web forum. The {{Wp|Wikipedia:Village pump|Village Pump}} is good, but far from good enough. It's practically impossible to follow an idea posted weeks ago (there are archives for each day - for example {{Wp|Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2007 November 24|2007 November 24}}). That's why a forum is required. A forum for everything related to Wiki. On a forum it is possible to write on the same thread even after weeks, months and years from the last post, coming with a creative and valuable answer or idea. The forum should have sub-forums for ''mediawiki and for other wiki engines'', another one for ''wiki farms'', another one for ''wikis by category'', another one for ''ideas for new wikis'' where people can search for partners to start new wikis with, another one for ''technical hep'', and so on. For example, I need to translate a template like this: {{Wp|Template:Columns-list}} to my own wiki and I don't know how to do it. Many other mediawiki users need some basic templates for their wikis and they don't know how to get them. That's why WikiSpeedia can be so helpful. It's extremely important to have a central hub for all wiki users and experts. [[User:WikiFan|WikiFan]] 20:34, 1 November 2011 (PDT)

[[WikiIndex:Creating New Articles]] says, "Most of the articles created in this [[WikiIndex]] wiki will be about other individual [[wiki]]s. Please refer to [[WikiIndex:Add a Wiki]] for further information. Other very limited topics are also appropriate, about [[:Category:Wiki People|wiki people]], wiki terms, [[:Category:WikiIdea|wiki ideas]], and how to use this wiki. Please be restrained in adding such peripheral material."

I notice that we don't actually have a lot of pages in [[:Category:Wiki concept]] and [[:Category:WikiIdea]]. To what extent is it actually encouraged to add these kinds of pages? There's a lot that one could write about wiki-philosophy, wiki norms, etc. However, I don't want to do it if it'll be frowned upon. A 'meatball wiki' is basically one that "describes the general tendencies observed on wikis and other on-line communities; for example the life cycles of wikis, and people's behavior on them." To what extent are you cool with hosting that kind of content? [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 07:31, 8 March 2014 (UTC)