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There are indeed a few conventions to decide of. Presently there are two systems for Items: the categories and the item template. I would tend to prefer the category system as it is better organized. The only problem is that elements in a sub category don't appear in the main category, so it doesn't encourage to sort items (ex: metals vs. ressources). Although I would really like to have all equipable items in one category.--Solune 08:31, 11 December 2006 (GMT)
- I'm not happy about having pages in sub-sub-categories of Items. It's not very convenient. My intention in creating the Resources category was to list non-metal resources like sulphur and power crystals. Just because metals are a kind of resource, doesn't mean they have to be in the Resources category at the expense of convenience. - Isambard 14:46, 18 December 2006 (GMT)
Another problem is the redundace between the dragon blood and DB probabilities pages. I will probably merge them in the future.--Solune 08:31, 11 December 2006 (GMT)
Dunno if I'm missing something here, but why not just use multiple categories, e.g. Item winter gear equippable for snow shoes? Naius 13:11, 18 December 2006 (GMT)
- I realize I'm late to the discussion here, but I'm with Naius. Index pages would be nice, where items are manually alphabetized, but this wiki has so few editors that they'd be instantly out of date. Auto-creating indexes by putting items in multiple categories is the way to go for this wiki. PotatoEngineer 00:54, 2 April 2007 (BST)
Namespaces
What's with the "Cities:" namespace - some pages use it, some don't, and I can't see any clear distinction of form or function...
jmb 00:21, 16 Nov 2005 (GMT)
It's what would be Wikipedia:foo on the wikipedia site. It's pages concerned with the running of the wiki, not the primary content of the wiki. On this wiki I care much less as it's not a formal reference work, just a support tool.
game css
Darn! I've just been playing with the CSS rules to try and make my Whole Wiki Experience look like the game, and you go and do it sitewide :) Is user style actually enabled on the site? My attempts at modding monobook don't seem to be coming out.
The new skin is nice, but I liked the old one too. How about making it a new and separate skin? Even if it's the default?
spam
Have you looked at any of the options in MetaWikiPedia:Anti-spam_Features ?
- keyword blocking
- domain name blocking ...
There's a new system in development by the folks at Project Honeypot which uses a realtime database of spammers IP addresses in an Apache module to deny access to known spammers. It's not production-quality yet, I'm one of the beta testers, but it's so far in a reasonable working state. Looking at the IPs used in a spam attack a few minutes ago, all of them are listed in their database (as being active in the last day or so) - a pretty good hit rate. - jmb 16:15, 31 May 2007 (BST)
No Wiki Uploads
(Also on Bugs)
Since the fresh install, file uploading isn't working:
The upload directory (/usr/local/apache/sites/wiki/mediawiki-1.5.6/images) is not writable by the webserver.
re: wiki db problem
I take it someone has tried dropping and re-creating the indices on the searchIndex table? What about running myisamchk against the table file? Or do the admins here not have the permissions to do that? MySQL Table Maintenance docs --Hotchpotch 09:22, 2 June 2006 (BST)
