User talk:Sean Fennel

Welcome

welcome! TedErnst | talk 14:18, 1 Mar 2006 (EST)

Gidday, Sean! Noticed you wondering about real names - just when I'd decided that I'd revert to my simple email and zeal.com abbreviation!
Anyway, I didn't even know about wikis till "early '04" so you may be ahead of me in many respects. What do you think of the (rather inconsistent) use of CamelCase here? Probably quite unnecessary and it strikes me as odd, but I guess the prime movers here are used to it (from what I've seen of their other activities), so I'm not rocking the boat. Enjoy! robinp 00:02, 2 Mar 2006 (EST)

Yeah, most everybody here is used to UseMod. I'm used to MediaWiki. That's to be expeced, I guess. Sean Fennel 03:58, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)

You saw this? Naming Conventions TedErnst | talk 11:53, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)

your sig

since this place isn't using the User namespace (except for talk), you might want to modify your sig to avoid the redirect. Excellent explanation of patrolling recent changes. I'll have to try that! TedErnst | talk 12:26, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)

Thanks. Glad you don't mind that I customized it like that. Joey Day at HRWiki taught me how to customize it with a template, so that every time you tewak it, every single instance of it will be simultaneously changed to reflect that. Wikipedia figured out people were doing that and so in version 1.6 of MediaWiki it forces the adition of the Subst: parameter to all sigs that are templates, thereby making using them pointless (which is what they wanted to do to reduce server load).

I didn't realize you were using a template. I just modified mine in my preferences. I actually don't want my old sigs changing if I decide to change them going forward. That seems too weird. :-) I don't mind if that's the way you do it. TedErnst | talk 12:44, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)

I'm not using one. I figured I didn;t need one here since I'm pretty well satisfied with what I've got and I don't think I'll be changing it any time in the forseeable future. —User:Sean Fennel@ 12:49, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)

re: images

Thanks for the tips. I actually did that so I'd have various sizes available to me on other websites, without having to learn their markup for re-sizing the display. Too many wikis! :-) TedErnst | talk 12:33, 3 Mar 2006 (EST)

RC patrol

Patrol recent changes - feel free to change the name to something more recognizable to yourself and other familiar with this function. TedErnst | talk 13:58, 7 Mar 2006 (EST)

Done!

I'm sure we'll be upgraded at some point. It seems John Stanton is hosting a ton of media wikis so will have to dig in to do them all at once at some point. Is it worth pushing for? TedErnst | talk 18:06, 11 Apr 2006 (EDT)

This is copied from mediawiki.org:

IMPORTANT: Running a 1.3 or 1.4 wiki and don't want to jump to 1.5 yet? Be sure to upgrade to 1.3.17 or 1.4.11, also released today. Versions prior to 1.3.16 and 1.4.10 have a serious data corruption bug which is triggered by a spambot known to operate in the wild.

Note that they're on 1.4.15 currently. 1.4.13 added protection against WMF vulnerability attacks, and 1.4.15 renders more accurately in the IE7 beta. Oh, and 1.6 also introduces CAPTCHA support. You could do it before, but it took a lot more work in 1.5 than before. So in summary, Yeah, it's worth pushing for. —User:Sean Fennel@ 20:35, 11 Apr 2006 (EDT)