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

::Good question in need of a good answer!  What, specifically does the 1.20 branch offer over and above the 1.19 branch?  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • _{[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]} • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 06:14, 4 May 2013 (PDT)

:::New diff view, new special page, new magic word (not so important)... (See [[mw:MediaWiki 1.20]]) --[[YiFei]] | <small>[[User talk:Zhuyifei1999|talk]]</small>  06:50, 4 May 2013 (PDT)

== Images ==

##AntiSpoof is a very useful extension to install, too, so it's hardly a ''con'', more like a ''pro''. --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Jack Phoenix|talk]]) 06:44, 28 April 2013 (PDT)

##+ from me --[[User:Kghbln|&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93;]] ([[User talk:Kghbln|talk]]) 14:22, 3 May 2013 (PDT)

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

##+ from me --[[User:Kghbln|&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93;]] ([[User talk:Kghbln|talk]]) 14:22, 3 May 2013 (PDT)

# [[mw:Extension:CheckUser]] — ''Pro:'' used for checking IP addresses - ''Con:'' Any?

## It's beyond me how come, as of 2013 (sic), CheckUser ''still'' isn't a part of MediaWiki core; and why on Earth isn't this extension installed on WikiIndex already?! --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Jack Phoenix|talk]]) 14:41, 22 December 2012 (PST)

##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)

##This would be very useful. The only arguments I've seen against CheckUser over the years are about privacy of legitimate users being compromised by snooping admins, but there's no reason for use to do that. Besides, that spammer who likes to create a giant cluster of accounts could theoretically be using a single IP address. '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]'''  3 May 2013

# [[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.

##Spambots aren't (thankfully) very intelligent; usually they create a (bogus) User: page and a main namespace with the same title, i.e. <code>User:FooBar123</code> and <code>FooBar123</code>. In my experience, this type of spam is commonly done by IP addresses as opposed to registered users. As such, installing the NoBogusUserpages extension would cut down this type of spam by 50%, which isn't a bad rate at all. The code is simple enough that it should work even with the latest version of MediaWiki. --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Jack Phoenix|talk]]) 06:44, 28 April 2013 (PDT)

###Definitely install Nuke, just like with the CheckUser extension, there shouldn't be any discussion or debate about this. It's a very useful extension for deleting spam, vandalism and just misguided humans' creations. Sure, it's not useful for each and every spam case, but it definitely helps us humans to focus on the content creation instead of just cleaning up after spambots. --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Jack Phoenix|talk]]) 06:44, 28 April 2013 (PDT)

####+ from me --[[User:Kghbln|&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93;]] ([[User talk:Kghbln|talk]]) 14:22, 3 May 2013 (PDT)

==Account creation protection==

# [[mw:Extension:TitleBlacklist]] — ''Pro:'' can be used to stop spambots from creating accounts – ''Con:'' looks complicated

## + from me. Allows to use foreign Blacklists. It is just a matter of configuration. No explicit need to have an additional blacklist here. --[[User:Kghbln|&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93;]] ([[User talk:Kghbln|talk]]) 14:33, 3 May 2013 (PDT)

# [[mw:Extension:Renameuser]] — ''Pro:'' allows people who registered under an alias to have account changed to [[RealName]] and maintain edit histories – ''Con:'' none

##Can't wait for this to be installed so I can finally rename myself. '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]'''  3 May 2013

## + from me --[[User:Kghbln|&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93;]] ([[User talk:Kghbln|talk]]) 14:33, 3 May 2013 (PDT)

# [[mw:Extension:User Merge and Delete]] — ''Pro:'' Rename changes the name of one account, whereas this can merge or combine two accounts into one, and deletes the account not needed.  – ''Con:'' Very dangerous, can permanently delete user accounts'' (but this can be set for 'crat permission only)

## ''Pro:'' I've used it on my own localhost wiki to get rid of surplus test accounts when testing out extensions, and while the danger of screwing up an actual account is real, it could be used to trim the database of obvious spam accounts. ''Con'': Cannot be done as a batch, must do one merge and delete job at a time. [[User:Arcane|Arcane]] ([[User talk:Arcane|talk]]) 05:34, 30 April 2013 (PDT)Arcane  - so basically you are saying we could clean up the spam accounts by deleting the one at a time? ~~ [[MarkDilley]] - Yes, unfortunately. It may be possible to code a bot or script with a selected list of spam accounts to trim and execute this script multiple times, never tried it myself, but in-wiki, it only works one at a time. [[User:Arcane|Arcane]] ([[User talk:Arcane|talk]]) 14:10, 30 April 2013 (PDT)Arcane  - ''sounds brilliant, with the bot thing :-) I could see one person having control over a bot and a list. ~~ [[MarkDilley]]''

## The associated global variable is [[mw:Manual:$wgPasswordSender|$wgPasswordSender]]. --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Jack Phoenix|talk]]) 06:44, 28 April 2013 (PDT)

## What shall we change this too?  I am willing for it to come from me, markwdilley@gmail but am ok with different solution. ~~ [[MarkDilley]]

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

## + from me --[[User:Kghbln|&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93;]] ([[User talk:Kghbln|talk]]) 14:28, 3 May 2013 (PDT)

#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)

## strong + from me --[[User:Kghbln|&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93;]] ([[User talk:Kghbln|talk]]) 14:28, 3 May 2013 (PDT)

# http://wikiindex.org/LocalSettings.php is the place to change the date stamping.  

# Setting <code>[[mw:Manual:$wgLoginLanguageSelector|$wgLoginLanguageSelector = true;]]</code> in LocalSettings.php to enable a fancy language selector on the [[Special:UserLogin|login page]] to (hopefully!) attract more multilingual editors. --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Jack Phoenix|talk]]) 06:58, 12 May 2013 (PDT)

# [[mw:Extension:WikiEditor]] — ''Pro'' - More user friendly editing interface, simpler to understand and has many features to assist inexperienced editors [[User:Arcane|Arcane]] ([[User talk:Arcane|talk]]) 15:17, 21 January 2013 (PST)Arcane

## I'm not sure if this is really needed.  And more importantly, is this compatible with Semantic MediaWiki?  Are there any SMW sites which use this?  [[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)