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:It seems [[meta-wiki:Help:Category#Moving a category page|no-one can move categories]].  [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]]

Is there a wiki for the G programming language?  If one exists, I'd like to list it in the [[WikiIndex]].  I see what appears to be one using [[:Category:TikiWiki|TikiWiki]] at http://OpenG.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Whats%20New , but the big red warning at the top makes me suspect that it is going offline soon(?), to be replaced by a phpBB (which is non-wiki, right?).  (Or do they plan to keep both running indefinitely, so people can use whichever one they feel comfortable with?).  (G is the [[visual]] programming language used in [[Wikipedia:LabVIEW]]).  --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 11:11, 24 June 2006 (EDT)

:There's a more useful page at [[mw:Extension:OpenID]]. I would ''love'' to help someone at WikiIndex install this software, step-by-step if needed. --[[User:Evan|Evan]] 14:20, 3 February 2007 (PST)

If I want to change my [[username]], should I just open a new account, or is possible (easy) to change it and keep the [[edit history]], like I did on [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] at [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Changing username]]? Thanks --[[User:Singkong2005|Chris Watkins/Singkong2005]] <small>^{[[User talk:Singkong2005|talk]]}</small> 00:41, 19 December 2006 (PST)

::[[Meta-Wiki:Renameuser|Yes it is]]. They have [[Wikipedia:Special:Version|quite a few]] pretty nifty extensions there. &mdash;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Arial;">[[User:Sean Fennel]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|@]]</span> 15:44, 20 December 2006 (PST)

:We use the wikimedia blacklist for most of our link spam filtering see: [[meta-wiki:Spam blacklist|spam blacklist]] if your url appears in that blacklist you should probably notify them because many wikis use that list to control spam. [[User:John Stanton|John]] 18:53, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

Hi there!  My name is Jim Sutton and I'm undertaking research in the School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies, UCL, [[:Category:London|London]].  http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/

My research is being carried out jointly with Melissa Terras at UCL http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/ .  Her email address is m.terras (at) ucl.ac.uk .

There are several wikis in [[:Category:Wiki Korean]] for which the PAGENAME is written in Korean characters which cannot be reproduced on my computer.  I don't know {{W|Unicode}} from a {{W|unicorn}}, but my computer can display a surprising variety of characters from different languages (Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Thai, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.), but it has trouble with Korean and Burmese.  I'm wondering if these pages should be moved to a new PAGENAME.  I'm not trying to be English-centric (or Roman-alphabet-centric), notwithstanding that this site is already pretty much that way.  But standing operating procedure seems to be to use the English name ({{W|exonym|an exonym}}) in the namespace and then add [[redirect]]s to that page for the name in the native language ({{W|endonym}}).  Alternatively, we could leave these articles as they are but add redirects using the Roman alphabet (assuming we can find a translation).  I think I'm going to use that plan for now.  I'm just wondering what would be of most benefit for our visitors. --[[User:MarvelZuvembie|MarvelZuvembie]] 19:43, 9 May 2009 (EDT)

Hi all.  Before starting to participate in this wiki, I would like to know if there are public dumps or backups.  I mean, I like to have copies of the free licensed projects where I collaborate.  I don't like when a fantastic projects disappear in a data disaster.  [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] contains a script for generating dumps.  You can read more about this [[mw:Manual:Backing up a wiki#XML dump|here]].  Regards. [[User:Emijrp|Emijrp]] 02:30, 3 November 2010 (PDT)

::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: [[wikipedia: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)

*[[mw:Project:WikiProject SysAdmins|WikiProject SysAdmins]]

*[[mw:Project:WikiProject Extensions|WikiProject Extensions]]

Everyone is invited to attend.  [[Developer]]s interested in serving as "extensions" or "MediaWiki 1.19" experts are encouraged to signup as participants at: [[mw:Project:WikiProject Extensions/MediaWiki Workshops#MediaWiki 1.19 Experts]]

More information: [[mw:Project:WikiProject Extensions/MediaWiki Workshops]]

MediaWiki.org's WikiProject SysAdmins will also likely host similar MediaWiki Workshops to help third-party wiki system administrators.  Stay tuned for more information, and chime in at: [[mw:Project:WikiProject SysAdmins/Ideas]]

::::If MediaWiki were as easy to administer as, say, [[:Category:WordPress|WordPress]], it probably wouldn't be such an issue. Unfortunately, attempts to modify MediaWiki to mimic what has worked well for WordPress and other CMS'es [[mw:Summer of Code Past Projects#Extension management platform|didn't end well]]. We still are not at a point at which, say, use of [[mw:Extension:Configure]] is the default. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 00:49, 22 November 2012 (PST)

I notice that according to {{W|Wikia}}, "Wikia hosts several hundred thousand wikis". Of course, WikiIndex only lists a small fraction of those. I wonder how many of those several hundred thousand were test wikis and the like, and were [[:Category:GoalAbandoned|abandoned]] almost immediately? My guess is a lot.

Anyway, I suppose we can operate under the assumption that any wiki that nobody bothered to list at WikiIndex probably isn't all that important. The significance is that whatever wikis aren't listed at WikiIndex aren't going to end up in the [[Proposal:Interwiki list|interwiki list]], unless I do a separate run to grab that data off of [[:Category:Wikia|Wikia]] and other wiki farms. Whether that would be desirable given the potentially high rate of useless Wikia wikis is another story. It might hurt the [[mw:Canonical interwiki prefixes|interwiki map]] project to clog up the list with a bunch of items pertaining to low-quality wikis. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 00:43, 22 November 2012 (PST)

Should 11,000 characters be regarded as pretty much the maximum, and optimal for providing enough information but still being short enough to read and navigate comfortable for many [[user]]s? So then, if anyone wanted to add content to such an article, he would need to remove something less important from that article. It definitely limits how comprehensive such an article could be. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia weighs in at 53,000 characters. {{W|Wikipedia}} is 197,000 characters long. Articles definitely ''could'' include a lot more information, if that were what we were going for. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 07:16, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Are [[citation]]s of sources for statements made in articles encouraged? E.g., if you say "xWiki says y" is it good to give the URL, so that people can verify your claim? I've been citing sources inline like this.[http://example.com] Of course, we don't have [[mw:Extension:Cite]], so there's no pretty way of doing it, currently. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 13:08, 8 March 2014 (UTC)