User talk:PARAGON-TonyV

Edit Patrol

Can you turn off editpatrol? It's such a silly feature -- rarely used except on big wikis. -- Taxibot Yellow 23:49, 30 Nov 2005 (CST)

It's mainly on because that's the default setting when MediaWiki is installed. I don't really see any reason to turn it off, it's not really hurting anything. I think I'd rather leave it on in case I decide to start using it someday than turn it off and not have it available.

I posed an announcement of the wiki on the official boards, and if I'm lucky, maybe the wiki will start getting a lot more attention. If so, there may be folks out there who want to use edit patrol, so I'll leave it on for now.

Oh, and for anyone reading this who doesn't know what edit patrol is, there is more information at the Wikipedia help site about it.

-- TonyV

You can turn it back on without a problem, if you want to use it in the future. I really wish it would default off. -- Taxibot Yellow 19:20, 10 Jan 2006 (CST)

Spam

You may want to check out MediaWiki anti-spam features... -- Taxibot Yellow 12:31, 15 Jan 2006 (CST)

Checking it out now, thanks! -- TonyV 12:36, 15 Jan 2006 (CST)

Version update

Latest MediaWiki 1.4 is 1.4.14.

Wikipedia appears to run 1.6alpha, and they have this nifty features where pages can be protected against new users & anonymous edits while leaving it open to existing users. I'm trying to see if this feature is available in earlier versions.

-- Taxibot Yellow 16:00, 20 Jan 2006 (CST)

That's cool. Since it's relatively stable as it is, I haven't really bothered checking up on upgrades and such. I know I do need to, since I don't want to miss out on any potential security patches. 8-/

I want to keep it to the stable versions, so I might check into the 1.4.14 version. I'll hold off on the Alpha until it's released as stable. I just hope that when they do the upgrades, they don't change the database schema or make an easy way to upgrade it as well.

-- TonyV 10:55, 21 Jan 2006 (CST)

Regarding edit links

Tony, regarding what you said in email about the edit links, I noticed that there's an option under misc. preferences to turn them on and off. If it was set to default to off, that might improve the look for someone just wandering by. --StarGeek 13:13, 22 Jan 2006 (CST)