No Words : Perhaps Your Reply (far-far below) is the Perfect Post to Place on the Wiki's Tombstone ...
By the way, 'Bizarre' is a very descriptive ... something . Garry http://www.killmeplease.com > No, you are correct, I think that only admins like myself and Matthias > may remove a page completely - the page we are talking about is still > there. Go to "Special pages->All pages" to see _all_ pages that are on > the wiki. If an admin completely removes a page, however, it won't > even appear here and the contents of the page will be lost forever. > > As for extending the "Recent Changes", you can do that yourself by > clicking the links at the top of the page. There you can increase the > number of changes to show and how old the changes may be. If the > numbers presented in there aren't enough, you can modify the URL > directly: > > http://rs3dwiki.the-final.info/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=500&days=300 > > This will give you the latest 500 changes that are less than 300 days > old. I suppose that you can exchange 500 and 300 with any number, > within reason. If you don't want to type this in every time, you can > bookmark the URL in your browser for easy access. > > If Matthias, as he is the only one with enough access, were to modify > the PHP code of the Mediawiki to add more links on that page, he would > make it more difficult to upgrade the wiki when that becomes > necessary. It is best to minimise the number of such modifications. > > Regards, > Fredrik Bergholtz > > P.S. > Note that, on the "All pages" page you can also easily see the > duplicate pages I was bitching about a long time ago. I think most of > the duplicates are sorted out, but some may still remain. > > Sorry , I thought only yourself had the means to comp- > > letely remove a Wiki page . My sincerest apologies . > > > > You also make good points about the pro's & con's of > > simply copying info into the Wiki from a site that is > > in a constant state of being upgraded , without foll- > > owing the S/W's Doc upgrade timetable . > > > > Well , could we not extend the timeframe of the 'Recent > > Changes' tool ? Not fair in my opinion to have an author > > wondering who and what and why , without at least some > > small info about the date thier efforts were wiped out . > > > > Of course in theory , anyone can log in and delete the > > whole site at will , but still , it would be nice to see > > a few more details concerning particular page histories , > > I think . > > > > Best . > > > > Garry > > www.parkwild.com > > > > > > > Who are these "non-contributing administrators" you speak of? The page > > > wasn't removed by any administrator, contributing or otherwise. > > > > > > The wiki has mainly contained information about RS3D, not easily found > > > in the official manual. The wiki was never intended to be a > > > carbon-copy of the manual since that only raises unnecessary problems > > > of maintaining consistency. Besides, what would be the point of having > > > redundant information on the wiki? > > > > > > Now, to relate to the greeblez! page, the initial page was, in fact, > > > the user-manual for Real Greeblez!. This was ok since, at that time, > > > the script was shipped with no manual and there was no natural "home" > > > for such a manual. This has changed, Real Greeblez! has a web site of > > > it's own, this site is linked to from the image contest site and > > > wikipedia. The Real Greeblez! script now ships with a manual and a > > > tutorial that shows how to use the script. There is no need for > > > copying the manual to the wiki, in fact, due to consistency problems, > > > its presence on the wiki could, theoretically cause more damage than > > > assistance. This means that the wiki can go back to be about things > > > _not_ explicitly listed in the official manuals. > > > > > > If you want to make a tutorial about performing a specific task, that > > > maybe nobody even thought about using Real Greeblez! for, feel free to > > > make a new page for that. But I do not think that an outdated copy of > > > the manual is helpful at all. > > > > > > As a final note, if you had taken the time to look at the page history > > > you would have noticed that it was Zaug himself who removed the link > > > to the page. And even though anyone can add and remove things from a > > > wiki, I think that the author of the product has a little bit more > > > than others to say about pages concerning his/her product. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Fredrik Bergholtz > > > > > > On 07/09/06, studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Oh my, Oww! That is a quite dated version; apparently composed prior > > > > > to > > > > > the complete rewrite/redesign and several additional small changes. It > > > > > really should be removed if it is not to be updated. In my opinion > > > > > that > > > > > would be rather redundant as Real GreebleZ! has had proper, up to > > > > > date, > > > > > documentation since May; available at the source. > > > > > > > > http://rs3dwiki.the-final.info/index.php?title=Real_GreebleZ%21 > > > > > > > > I looked for my page (above) on the wiki some time ago with the > > > > intention of updating it . Couldn't find it , so I gave up . > > > > > > > > If the page is that offensive , it could have easily been up- > > > > dated by deleting the nasty redundant content and add a link > > > > to http://www.catmtn.com/realgreeblez "for-up-to-date-Doc's" . > > > > > > > > That's the whole idea behind the wiki impetus . Edit , add , > > > > delete page content , modify ... perfect ! (verb) . It was not > > > > designed to give non-contributing administrators an opportunity > > > > to decide what should be and what should not . > > > > > > > > Oh well , such is life , n'est pas ? > > > > > > > > > Zaug > > > > > > > > Garry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/401 - Release Date: 7/26/2006 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/401 - Release Date: 7/26/2006 > >
