User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-876022-20110720155605/@comment-876022-20110721164251

I really haven't been down to the real world recently. How is it like? Actually, I think I came down after reading your comment Chris.

To be fair, I had noticed some projects like those from the Wikia Hack-A-Thon haven't moved much or at all since that week. On my side, some extensions don't even work well with a clean MediaWiki (1.17) repository (tried it on my VM for SearchLog and found out why I was had seen errors on some Devboxes). Some things, like WikiaQuiz, turn out differently than I had imagined when seeing it in-use on the Smurf Wiki or how MergeHistory only works with text and not files (still handy!).

Some things like how I mentioned TitleBlacklist can be bypassed with AbuseFilter, albeit my efforts were in-vain seeing how buggy certain actions were. AbuseFilter is one extension that can work the same as many other limiting extensions, just a bit buggier. That reminds me:

http://runescape.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=7 - Our RTE filter for the rare failed RTE edit since the tenth of this month has caught 22-4 (because four of those edits were in 2010 before it was re-purposed). That information might be of use to others.

After following TRAC and keeping up to date on the SVN repo, I don't consider myself as a super user. I still don't know PHP and SQL as much as I'd like to and understanding of those languages will require a bit more time of self-teaching. I admit I do have a bit of "drinking from the firehouse" when I should just stand-by and watch. There aren't many times I could say I felt ashamed of myself, seeing how much I ask of Wikia is daunting and potentially self-centered even if it is for the betterment of one wiki.

I'll just see what works and what doesn't as time goes along then. Anyway, I'll stop bugging about extensions from now on and just see what happens from time to time. I have one question or two questions left, but they'll wait for contact. 16:42, July 21, 2011 (UTC)