Battlestar Wiki:Chiefs' noticeboard/Archive5

Review extension

We may want to add a Review extension in the near future to gain feedback from our readers. Thoughts? -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 11:41, 27 December 2007 (CST)

It may be a good way to grade a quality article. --Spencerian 19:46, 27 December 2007 (CST)

Not that fond of it. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 01:23, 28 December 2007 (CST)

The only big reservation I have is that anonymous users are also allowed to vote. I'd rather restrict voting to logged-in users. --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 08:50, 29 December 2007 (CST)

Good point. @ Shane: Any particular reason why you're not fond of it? -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 10:44, 29 December 2007 (CST)

I feel that we be rating users contributions and that could leave a mark if we said it was bad, they feel discouraged to contribute more. If we do find a bad revision we just go ahead and fix it and talk it out on talk pages, even if the information was legit. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 12:39, 29 December 2007 (CST)

Good point. I was thinking, though, that the results could be published privately so that only administrators can see them. Theoretically, this would give us the feedback we need to see what people actually like or dislike, without demoralizing any contributors. Also, the person voting won't be swayed by voting for or against any visible "grain", as it were, since they won't be able to see the results of the votes either. Without a doubt, it would require modifications to whatever extension we'd end up using, but it'd be another way we can get feedback from people who are otherwise too apathetic or disinterested in sending us a message. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 12:58, 29 December 2007 (CST)

SVG broken at HB

SVG rendering seems to be broken at the Hangar Bay, which is kind of ironic as its purpose is to play around with new designs :) --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 10:52, 3 January 2008 (CST)

Yeah, at this point, I think it's best if we start the Hangar Bay's MW install on that from scratch. (It has a separate MW installation than the rest of the Wikis, so this is easy to do.) -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 15:28, 5 January 2008 (CST)

Incorrect interwiki binding

The rc: interwiki prefix is currently bound to "http://www.robotchicken.org/$1", but that should be "http://www.robotchicken.org/index.php?title=$1". --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 14:53, 5 January 2008 (CST)

It's now fixed. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 15:27, 5 January 2008 (CST)

Vandal

At 3:19 (CST) User:Syshiran joined the wiki. At 3:20-3:24 (CST) the user posted three ads on new pages in the site found at RF Coaxial Connector, Chinese antique furniture and Web site building. I found the edits an hour later and blanked the content, posted deletion tags. I choose not to write anything on the user's talk page, as it had been over an hour since the edits, and I did not want to alert the user to the changes.--OrionFour 05:14, 7 January 2008 (CST)

That's cool, OF. Thanks for the help. Serenity's already sent the user away...far away. --Spencerian 17:24, 7 January 2008 (CST)

No problem, just happy to help get rid of these guys.--OrionFour 18:34, 7 January 2008 (CST)

Wasn't there a previous spammer who advertised coax connectors? Might be a repeat offender, but there is nothing much we can do. Doesn't happen that often anyways. --Serenity 17:45, 7 January 2008 (CST)

Yeah, there was actually. Less than six months ago, if I recall correctly. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 17:46, 7 January 2008 (CST)

User:Centurion, User:Centurian (and User:Chicken)

After running a check user on User:Centurion and User:Centurian, I've discovered that they were created at the same IP address, which is in the checkuser log. The only reason I ran the checkuser is because the two names were created within six minutes of one another.

Upon running the check user, I've discovered that someone at the IP address also created User:Chicken on January 17th.

Anyway, I've contacted the users in question and notified them of the possible sockpuppet issue. (They may be on a shared IP for all I know.) Still, keep an eye out for anything. Just FYI. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 12:22, 21 January 2008 (CST)

Copy. Very little difference on those names. :) Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 12:55, 21 January 2008 (CST)

Problem resolved. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 13:19, 21 January 2008 (CST)

Excellent. :) -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 14:11, 21 January 2008 (CST)