User talk:Joannac

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Admin function to Rename/Move a Category?

Do you as an admin have the ability to change the name of a category without having to change it on every page? See the discussion at Category_talk:Expedition_Outcomes#"Failed" Should Be "Thwarted".

User to Block

All requests up to date :) --joannac 20:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Please don't send me spammers to block unless they've hit >1 page. There are a few spam networks that keep changing IP addresses, and there's no need to ban an IP if it's never getting used for spam again. --joannac 22:39, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

To-do list

• update All Graticules with any stray pages
• Map NSW and Victoria
• Tag images
• Fix retro hashes
• Clear out Category:Tagged_for_deletion
• Fix inconsistent Swedish grats (mainly around Stockholm) -- ekorren's job!
• Tag expedition pages properly (Coords reached, Coords not reached, meetup on ..., meetup in ..., retro, failed, etc)
• Check all the day pages are well-formed

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works. ty! [1]

Two Ideas

1. Could the Achievement List in the nav bar point to the Achievements page instead of the category? It seems a much friendlier entry point for browsing achievements.

Yep, will do this later if I don't forget again >.<

2. Some Wikis have a topic of the week or daily news section on the front page. Can we do that? I'd love to have a venue to bring people's attention to things like Naming conventions and Category:Galleries by topic. It could be used to announce a photo of the month ontest (throughout the month, anyone can add Category:Nominated for April 2009 photo of the month to any photo, then over the next month draw their attention to the gallery thus created and logged in users can vote for their favourite nominees). There are the fanatical few who log in and check Recent Changes often enough to stay on top of things, but for the people who don't it can be a way to get them more into the community. One of the topics could be about not linking to the Main Page until the write up is ready! Another could be working out a process for introducing new achievements. -Robyn 23:14, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Isn't this just a section like the gallery? The news section is just another section, right? Nothing fancy?

And I think creating "photo of the month" gallery shouldn't be too hard *touch wood*. --joannac 20:17, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

I thought I'd seen it in the sidebar, but I see now that the wiki I was looking at has a two-column front page layout. I see now that I can probably copy what others have done on the front page to figure out how to do it. I can do the photo galleries I was tlkain g about, I just needed a way to get people's attention to it. For some reason modifying the Main Page myself didn't ocur to me. Thanks for the Achievements change. You rule. -Robyn 03:29, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

protect a page forever

Regarding you inquiry in the recent changes: It's "infinite". (at least it used to be in older mediawiki versions) Koepfel _talk 11:53, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Weird Quasi-Spam

I put a delete tag on a page called Developer. It was the third biggest page on the wiki, and appeared to be full of spam. There was a notice at the top of it that it was a research project, and gave a link to click on for more info. It was a Brown University link, so I followed it. It came up with a page saying "WARNING" and my IP address. So I ditched that IP address. I then chopped the back part of the link and went to graffiti.cs.brown.edu . It looks like it's real, but it also looks like there's people not happy about it, and I think understandably so. They say they won't delete it, but if we want to and scrub our logs, we can. But part of their thing is that they want the spam to persist as long as possible. I looks fishy. I figure you know more about wiki'ing in general than I do, and you're a sysop, so enjoy.  :-) --excellentdude 05:00, 11 April 2009 (UTC)