I agree!

Especially for any Wikia where the founder hasn't edited since Day 1 if ever!

[Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, 
88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand
Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974
http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp
And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chris Stafford 
  To: Central Wikia Mailing List 
  Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 6:47 AM
  Subject: [Wikia-l] new links at top of S:RC, about the 'admins'


  concerning the new links at the top of Special:Recentchanges, i'd like to 
suggest a change in link target

  the 'Admins' one currently points to Special:Listusers/sysop

  while this is fine most places, there are 2 big issues here 

  a) listusers has horrible cache problems. there is either a lengthy lag, or 
people never show up at all.
  (ie, i'm still not listed at 
http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Listusers/sysop despite being sysopd in 
october)

  b) since it a special page, users cant edit it. they cannot point out which 
users are current and which havent been around in months (years in some cases).
  again, this isnt a problem at new places, but large wikis have sysops that 
only stay for so long, and since getting a desysop is like pulling teath around 
here... 
  (ie, at eq2, we have 18 listed sysops, but only 4 are current, most are from 
before the merge from both sides, some havent edited since 2005)

  i propose changing the link to [[Project:Administrators]], (letting the 
parser change that to the local namespace) so that people can setup their own 
'admin' list area. 

  this gives them the control of redirecting the page to where they want (if 
they have a different 'admins' page setup already), listing current admins vs 
MIA admins, also listing any "junior admins" such as people with rollback or 
other non-full sysops as i've seen some places have. 

  -uberfuzzy



------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  _______________________________________________
  Wikia-l mailing list
  [email protected]
  http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
_______________________________________________
Wikia-l mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l

Reply via email to