User talk:Jack Phoenix: Difference between revisions

== Can you help determine what upgrade is needed? ==

:[[Special:Version]] says that WikiIndex is currently running MediaWiki 1.17.0, which has reached its end-of-life in this month; see the table on [[mw:Version lifecycle]] and the fancy timeline there for more information. So upgrading MediaWiki core from 1.17.0 to the latest stable, 1.19.1, would definitely be welcome.

:In addition to that, it might be useful to upgrade some of the extensions; or it might be so that some of them even ''need'' to be upgraded to function correctly. For example, as of now, WikiIndex is running Semantic MediaWiki version 1.5.6 but according to the [http://semantic-mediawiki.org/ official Semantic MediaWiki home page], the latest version is 1.7.1.

:Like I wrote on [[WikiIndex:Anti-spam measures#WikiIndex is being overwhelmed by spam bots]], some new anti-spam tools might also help; right now I'd recommend [[mw:Extension:SimpleAntiSpam]] and [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter]]; both extensions are used on the Wikimedia Foundation wikis, such as Wikipedia and related projects, so they should be stable enough.

== Translation review ==

:I didn't yet touch the machine-translated English translation, but I have to wonder why we even bother with that page. The URL listed on the article displays a message stating "off line"^{<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[wikipedia:Sic|sic]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>} and the WikiIndex article is more of a(n outdated) status update on the wiki's situation rather than an article explaining what the wiki is about, etc.<br />The article also mentions that the administration's e-mail address is aropupu[ at ]stc.cx, so maybe you'll want to contact them at that address and ask about the wiki's situation. --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Jack Phoenix|talk]]) 05:36, 21 September 2012 (PDT)

== checking in about MediaWiki version ==

Please update [https://WikiIndex.org/WikiIndex:Upgrades_needed#MediaWiki_version this section] if there is different information - thanks, [[MarkDilley]]

== The MediaWiki shuffle ==

Hi Jack,  I would like to move your user page to [[Jack Phoenix]] - with your talk page staying at [[User talk:Jack Phoenix]].  I think that for [[Wikipedia]] - putting the people who do the work - one step removed makes sense, at [[WikiIndex]], we are all about the people who do the work on wikis too.  What do you think about that?  Best, [[MarkDilley]]

: If you (or someone else) wants to create a main namespace page about me, by all means feel free to, but I don't think that moving the user page from userspace to mainspace would make that much sense. User pages, in my view, are more or less structured profiles written by the respective users, whereas main namespace pages are &mdash; or should be, in my view &mdash; more "encyclopedic". Sure, we're not the English Wikipedia or anything like that, but if we look at [[wikipedia:User:Lee Daniel Crocker|the user page of Lee Daniel Crocker, a prominent MediaWiki developer and long-time Wikipedia editor]] and the [[wikipedia:Lee Daniel Crocker|main namespace article about him]], you'll notice that there's a certain difference in tone and whatnot.<br />It'd actually be somewhat flattering to have someone write a mainspace article about me, but I'll leave that for "that someone else" as I don't want to be tooting my own horn too much. :-) --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Jack Phoenix|talk]]) 08:07, 29 April 2013 (PDT)

:: I think the main point here is that [[WikiIndex]] cultural roots are pre-wikipedia, as such, we don't really adhere to encyclopedic... anything.  In all the wiki that I worked on before [[Wikipedia]] became "the wiki" - your name page was your page - just like on any page, you or anyone else can edit it.  So, only with your permission, I would move [[User:Jack Phoenix]] to [[Jack Phoenix]] - else not.  Best, [[MarkDilley]]

== received my email? ==

== Spamming range blocked ==

Just blocked a spamming range -- <span class="plainlinks">[http://wikiindex.org/index.php?title=Special:CheckUser&user=198.27.74.0%2F24 198.27.74.0/24]</span>. I haven't find any palse positives yet. --[[YiFei]] | <small>[[User talk:Zhuyifei1999|talk]]</small> 07:43, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

== Thanks for the promotion to checkuser ==

== Minor edit for Bot ==

I see [https://WikiIndex.org/index.php?title=Special%3AUserRights&user=YiFeiBot this] and I think yeah!  But then I still see the edits in [[RecentChanges]] - any thought about why?  Best, [[MarkDilley]]

: and then I figure out it is Abuse Filter -[http://wikiindex.org/Special:UserRights/Abuse_filter] and so I changed it to bot, but should it still be administrator?

== I've just been talking about you! ==

== narrowing down the problem with email verification ==

== Special:PopularPages ==

:Most bigger sites run in [[mw:Manual:$wgMiserMode|miser mode]] to disable a bunch of badly-written and/or otherwise database-intensive features, one of which is the PopularPages special page (mind you, whenever there's a front-end cache, such as Varnish, involved, the page visit count data is wildly out-of-date and thus PopularPages is rather useless).<br>It's sad that whoever came up with the whole wF concept chose to use such an unstable metric for that. Luckily each MediaWiki installation has [[Special:Statistics]], which provides you with some actually ''useful'' data, which you can use to determine if the wiki in question is a [[Darthipedia|big]] or a small one. --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Jack Phoenix|talk]]) 20:00, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

== Welcome back ==