User talk:Elassint

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Upgrade and logo stuff

Please check out WikiIndex:NewLogoDecision and WikiIndex:Spring 2011 Upgrade Path, Best, MarkDilley

Deleting Wiki from WikiIndex

Hey Elassint, looking forward to hearing what your thinking is in regards to moving away from Category:Inactive. Best, MarkDilley

I don't think it really makes any sense to list sites that are long dead, especially if there is little or no information about the defunct wiki. EdBooks for example has been dead for at least 5 years, and the domain for Nepwiki seems to have never been registered. Is there any reason to keep these pages? Elassint, 06 18 2011

We have over 800 in the archive right now Category:Inactive. It had been a decision at the outset to keep the pages of dead wiki for historical purposes. The question can be raised to folks to see if we should just delete them. I think that we have a unique position in the wiki world to show the projects that have failed. Am open to figuring out a new policy. But maybe till that is decided, keep them...? Best, MarkDilley

Check this out

I think this might have been something you were looking for? Form:Wiki. Best, MarkDilley

New User

I'm impressed with how quickly you blocked User:Careforyouuu gupta, which was obviously spam, and who registered just before me. I hope I followed your procedures in registering and creating the pages Scott Schaefer and LexingtonWiki. Please let me know if I need to edit. Thank you.

[[Scott Schaefer]] | <small>[[User talk:ScottSchaefer|talk]]</small> 07:57, 5 July 2011 (PDT)

Whooo Hooo - pot calling the kettle black. Going by Special:Contributions/ScottSchaefer - you TOO are a blatant spammer - why else has the vast majority of your contributions now been deleted???? Further comment here on fellow Admin DavidCary's talk page. Best regards to Elassint and all the Admins here on WikiIndex -- Hoof Hearted 15:38, 30 December 2011 (PST)

Thanks!

Thanks for the page move! --MarvelZuvembie 15:59, 13 July 2011 (PDT)

Vandalism on my user page

Thanks for deleting. -- Supermorff 12:55, 29 July 2011 (PDT)

rocking work on spam patrolling

I am asking everywhere - and I haven't found a clear answer on what to do. I think having a random, number, answer, recaptcha might be the answer. Best, MarkDilley

There where no external links involved in the spam attack, so the weird gibberish/comment bots did not have to go through capatcha at all. Just tested it myself. Elassint, 07 30 2011

Do you know how to do that? If there are clear instructions, I might be able to get in and flip that switch. ~~ MarkDilley

I don't, but great job with the vandal! --MarvelZuvembie 16:21, 6 September 2011 (PDT)

I posted a possible fix for this on Mark's talk page. It would require a CAPTCHA for any edit, with a link or not. However, if I understand correctly, it would only require it once. It's not a fix-all solution, but it might stop this bot at least. --MarvelZuvembie 13:10, 7 September 2011 (PDT)

At present only Werdna's Extension:AbuseFilter or Extension:Bad Behavior seem like valid options..--Comets 20:51, 7 September 2011 (PDT)

I'd support either. I'm sure that Elassint and Tera S have better things to do with their time. I'd support using a blacklist, if we could find one. Googling these IPs, I can see that they've been used several times before, so I would imagine that there is a blacklist out there somewhere that includes them. --MarvelZuvembie 15:56, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

Tera's also been asking about solutions to this, over here. --MarvelZuvembie 16:03, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

Columns

Thanks for the welcome. I know how to make templates but the "Template:Columns-list" is quite complicated. And it's a basic template. Many mediawiki users can make use of that. WikiFan 02:25, 2 November 2011 (PDT)

Thanks

Did you do that through the form, or by hand?

I used the form. It's working pretty well. Elassint, 05 21 2012

wikiFactor "crash"

Dear Elassint, I have just noticed the wikiFactor "crash" for Citizendium, and it is indeed a curious phenomenon. They seem to be running MediaWiki 1.16.5 (CZ modified) (r249), but on my wiki I have gone through these versions and the MySQL database did not lose any significant number of page counts, so I fail to see how a wikiFactor "crash" can occur. Interesting. -- Carl McBride (talk) 03:13, 25 May 2012 (PDT)

My guess is that it's the odd way Citizendium users manage their site. That or something happened that reset the view counters and since then that's how many views they've got. Elassint, 05 25 2012

No rename

Hi, I have wanted this for a while, but you are the first person to mention it. Let's put it on the feature request list. How does that sound? Best, MarkDilley

OK, that should be good for now. Elassint, 05 25 2012

Welcoming

Hi, saw you removed that from the sidebar. Would like to know your thoughts on it. ~~ MarkDilley

Welcoming is a good thing to do, but I don't see how a sidebar link to an article on the subject is going to actually do much of anything. The sidebar is pretty big as it is anyway. Elassint^Admin 17 June 2012

URL organization

I don't think it's a good idea how URLs are organized throughout this wiki, messing with pages and MediaWiki's files in the same directory. Maybe you want to move that files to a subdirectoy beginning with a lowercase letter, like I do on my wikis, and keep the base url solely for page names. This would also allow for non-directory-based rewrite rules in the server configuration and therefore save on subrequests and server load. --Bachsau 05:03, 28 June 2012 (PDT)