User talk:Hollowness

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RE:Hello
I was meaning if they are making cheat sheets, perhaps you could help them move the cheat sheet out of the mainspace, or comment/talk space, and into their userspace. This way they could keep the cheat sheets, but it won't be in the wiki's content. A user's userspace is the area that is subpages under their userpages. Such as for me my userspace would be User:ZamorakO_o and every subpage under it such as User:ZamorakO_o/sig. 03:43, October 6, 2011 (UTC)

Compromise
Hi. It looks like your compromise is working.... I was going to suggest a blog post as an option for where they could put their comments, so you beat me to it :).  Another option would be to move the whole page onto their own wiki -- start a new wiki, export/import that page and its talk page with the comments, and let them have at it.  But the blog post is certainly less work.

There is no way to enable comments for just one page. However, when you turned off the comments they didn't get removed. They are all still there; they just aren't displayed anywhere. Comments are just "subpages" of the regular talk page. You can see the list of ones for the GID page by going to this page. You can view the comments from this list and add whatever content is in there to the page itself if you want.

I think you have done a great job dealing with this situation; it can be hard when people are angry and don't share your goals for the wiki. You came up with a solution so these users could continue to contribute within their comfort zone on the wiki instead of being blocked. Hopefully things will calm down now and you can focus on the fun parts of editing and working on the rest of the wiki :). -- Wendy  (talk ) 03:51, October 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh. Of course. You can't click through to the pages. I should have checked only I didn't think about them not linking properly. Sorry about that! So seeing them is more difficult but still possible.  If you look at the titles you'll see that each includes the IP (or username) of the person who left the comment.  If you go to special:Contributions for the IP/user, you can probably read most of the comment in the edit summary as these were mostly pretty short.  For anything longer you can see it by clicking the time/datestamp next to the edit where they left the comment.  Or you can turn the comments back on briefly and get them that way, and then turn them back off again :).  But they aren't lost at anyrate.


 * And yes. There is a help page Help:Exporting_pages which explains some of how to export/import. I have never tried the process on a page with many comments (usually I've just done straight talk pages); but I think if you include the page "titles" of all the comments as listed it should work. -- Wendy  (talk ) 04:40, October 7, 2011 (UTC)

Comments delay
Hi again -- I'm sorry I didn't answer you sooner. The short answer is, that, the reply you got is essentially correct. The page caches and it takes a little while for that cache to be updated.

An easier solution for your posters may be to simply post again. Another post should usually "bump" the cache and show the comment they want to see without needing to purge. If they (or you) object to the extra posts they could always make them the same word (eg. "bump") and you could go delete them periodically. -- Wendy (talk ) 02:33, October 26, 2011 (UTC)