Forum:Something odd at a ShoutWiki wiki.

Hello all,

Yes this is about a ShoutWiki wiki, so perhaps this is not the best place to discuss it, but Wiki's are Wiki's and they all kinda work the same.

Anyway, this morning I received two e-mails from ShoutWiki ("MediaWiki Mail"), on the wiki WikiGardener there was a page created called "User talk:Zantam03" by 216.66.154.200. Two hours later I received another e-mail which said the same, but this time it was created by a certain User:Lynton.

I find this strange for four reasons:
 * 1) I don't know that Wiki and I've never been there.
 * 2) Thus I never registered/logged in on that Wiki.
 * 3) Why would someone create a page called "User talk:Zantam03"?
 * 4) Why on earth was I e-mailed about this? How is it possible I get automatically mailed by a Wiki I've never heard of before??

Is this dubious or what? Also, User:Lynton deleted his own talkpage shortly after I received that automatic e-mail. Its just so strange that for some reason my e-mail (how can he know my e-mail?) is registered on that wiki.

Well... I'll probably have to head over to SW to solve this, but just wanted to post this here. --- Zantam03 ( Talk ) 16:30, March 1, 2012 (UTC)
 * Was the ShoutWiki moved from Wikia? There were a lot of wikis that moved from Wikia when Oasis came out, that brought along all the users, pages, etc, and that includes User talks. Cat 16:37, March 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hmm, good point... still don't recall visiting any gardening Wiki. --- Zantam03 ( Talk ) 16:46, March 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, looking at the Recent Activity on that Wiki it shows my page wasn't the only one that was deleted. Loads of edits by 216.66.154.200 were reverted today. --- Zantam03 ( Talk ) 16:49, March 1, 2012 (UTC)
 * Very odd - I don't think database dumps from Wikia contain email info on users, does anyone know? --  Random Time  16:56, March 1, 2012 (UTC)
 * From what I've heard, mw:Extension:MediaWikiAuth &mdash; the extension used to import wikis to ShoutWiki &mdash; does contain the email. 1358  (Talk)  19:21, March 1, 2012 (UTC)