User talk:Jack Phoenix

Welcome to WikiIndex Jack! Best, MarkDilley

Thank you! :-) --Jack Phoenix 08:19, 26 March 2009 (EDT)

you are welcome! look forward to learning from you. Best, MarkDilley

ahh..no longer a wikia person, but a wiki person :D...--Comets 19:48, 24 November 2009 (EST)

Can you help determine what upgrade is needed?

Hi Jack, if you wouldn't mind helping to figure out what this wiki needs, I can try to get it done. Best, MarkDilley

Hi Mark, thank you for your message. :-)

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 official Semantic MediaWiki home page, the latest version is 1.7.1.

Like I wrote on WikiIndex:AntiSpamMeasures#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.

Please let me know if you have any questions. --Jack Phoenix 04:31, 29 June 2012 (PDT)