WikiIndex:2013-2014 bugs and upgrades: Difference between revisions

: Update: [[mw:Release notes/1.20|1.20.4]] is the very latest version, and [[mw:Release notes/1.19|1.19.5]] is the latest of the '1.19' branch.  1.19.5 seems to include a few security updates over our current version.  If you arn't inclined to go down the latest 1.20 version, then at least upgrade to 1.19.5  -- :)  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • _{[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]} • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 12:28, 21 April 2013 (PDT)

== Images ==

# Favicon - [[File:WI Favicon.png]] — ''Pro'' - it is awesome ~~ [[MarkDilley]]  ''Con'' - Can it be keys?  ~~ [[MarkDilley]]

## Keys would be lost in an image which is 6mm (quarter inch) square.  And who outside of regular WikiIndex editors/readers would understand what the keys meant?  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • _{[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]} • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 01:55, 22 April 2013 (PDT)  -- ''It was a keys favicon for the first few years.  Maybe I am being sentimental. ~~ [[MarkDilley]] ''

# http://wikiapiary.com/w/images/wikiapiary/b/b4/Monitored_by_WikiApiary.png — [http://WikiApiary.com/wiki/WikiApiary:Monitored_by WikiApiary:Monitored by]

## Why???

; Need -

# [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter]] — ''Pro:'' as discussed [[User talk:Elassint#Spammers - and new account names|here]] and [[Jack]] suggested using this. - ''Con:'' needs [[mw:Extension:AntiSpoof]] (which we don't currently have)

## # [[mw:Extension:AntiSpoof]] — ''Pro:'' we need this if we also want [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter]]

# [[mw:Extension:SimpleAntiSpam]] — ''Pro:'' [[Jack]] suggested using this

##I think it is really important, since some admins spend almost a whole day blocking new accounts. --[[User:Zhuyifei1999|Zhuyifei1999]] ([[User talk:Zhuyifei1999|talk]]) 02:45, 13 April 2013 (PDT)

# [[mw:Extension:NoBogusUserpages]] — ''Pro:'' - would obviate the need to police User: (IP address) pages since they cannot be created by anyone except the legitimate user of the IP - ''Con'' - would not stop spammer from posting spam on the User IP page if that is their actual IP.

; Want -

# [[mw:Extension:Nuke]] — ''Pro:'' allows sysops to delete numerous pages as one - ''Con:'' Not necessary, since those spams are from different usernames and IPs. --[[User:Zhuyifei1999|Zhuyifei1999]] ([[User talk:Zhuyifei1999|talk]]) 21:29, 13 April 2013 (PDT) - so I will strike this if this is correct.

##Comment: can't agree [[User:Zhuyifei1999|Zhuyifei1999]] - we have had many instances in the past where certain prolific religious spammers create masses of pages from one user account (though I accept we ''seem'' to have this under control at the moment).  Just because we have a particular extension installed, it doesn't mean we have to actually use it!  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • _{[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]} • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 01:49, 22 April 2013 (PDT)

==Account creation protection==

### Don't think so.  The default config is for only Bureaucrats to control this, but permissions can also be granted to Sysops - so as long as we have a regular patrol of sysops - this should work well.  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • _{[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]} • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 02:01, 22 April 2013 (PDT)

#### So if not something sysops or bureaucrats can change, I want us to take the next smallest steps to trying to solve the problem and it feels like confirm edit is a big hammer, so I would like to try this after all these other extensions are tried. ~~ [[MarkDilley]]

==General housekeeping==

; Need -

# Change default email for WikiIndex messages.  Right now it is it coming from John Stanton's personal email and he is not active here anymore.

# [[mw:Extension:Admin Links]] — ''Pro:'' anything to help sysops has gotta be a bonus - ''Con:'' grumpy sysops if you don't :p

#Change the default timestamp to UTC — ''Pro:'' the default for all MediaWiki edit operations is recorded in UTC, and WikiIndex ought to be a 'global' resource by aligning to UTC (and I don't understand why my timestamps have to display PDT????)  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • _{[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]} • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 04:59, 22 April 2013 (PDT)

# [[mw:Extension:Maps]] — ''Pro:'' this would be really good for our City-Wiki entries, uses maps from more than one source (Google, Yahoo, OpenStreetMaps, etc) - ''Con:'' Any?

# [[mw:Extension:SpecialUserScore]] — ''Pro:'' it just lists edit counts of people (something interesting for stats geeks) and it helps people to see who is building WikiIndex - ''Con:'' probably doesn't add any real value to WikiIndex

# [[mw:Extension:LastUserLogin]] — ''Pro:'' would let us know a person's activity and it helps people to see who is building WikiIndex.  - ''Con:'' Why?????  Either use [[Special:RecentChanges]], or if you want to watch a specific user, add them to your watchlist :/  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • _{[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]} • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 02:39, 22 April 2013 (PDT)  ''Con:'' timestamps in wiki are pretty useless from my view, something to try to change, best if we could find documentation so dev could check into it easily. ~~ [[MarkDilley]]

# <s>[[mw:Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion]]</s> — ''Pro:'' would help select a part to transclusion and we need it for the relationship among [[Template:Wiki]],[[Template:Wiki boilerplate]], [[Template:NewWiki boilerplate]], and [[Community Portal]].--[[User:Zhuyifei1999|Zhuyifei1999]] ([[User talk:Zhuyifei1999|talk]]) 05:00, 13 April 2013 (PDT)  - ''Con:'' I'm not convinced.  This seems to work well on Wikipedia, which relies heavily on linking between articles.  Here on WikiIndex, we rarely link between articles, and [[Template:NewWiki boilerplate]] is obsolete (whichever 'boilerplate' is used, be they the [[Template:Wikia boilerplate|Wikia version]] or any of the language-specific versions, they all call on just one template - [[Template:Wiki]] to render the infobox).  So not needed.  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • _{[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]} • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 02:39, 22 April 2013 (PDT)

1) Sometimes people get their sidebar reset to MediaWiki standard.  I have had it happen myself just recently as well.  ~~ [[MarkDilley]]

: This is most apparent between when you are logged in or logged out.  I don't think it is specific to any browser - I use either IE8, Firefox, Chrome or Maxthon 3 - and they all do it. [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • _{[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]} • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 03:49, 20 March 2013 (PDT)

2) Atom feed (on Android devices) - seems to lag a few 'edits' behind current desktop version.  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • _{[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]} • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 03:49, 20 March 2013 (PDT)