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
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