Forum:Blogs, sharing and email improvements

Good morning!

Please see User blog:Kirkburn/Blogs, sharing and email improvements! for details on some improvements arriving today for blog articles, emails and article sharing!

Feel free to leave feedback on the blog post or below. 12:21, September 30, 2009 (UTC)

Weird Bug?
Found a strange bug I think. If you add the wikitext in a blog comment, it categorizes it. Should it be doing this? -- LordTBT Talk! 01:31, October 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * It categorizes the comment or the blog post? 14:00, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * The comment. -- LordTBT Talk! 19:39, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * I had this behaviour too. --  zapwire @wikia:~$ _ 10:15, October 29, 2009 (UTC)


 * Blog comments exist as separate pages. Pages can be categorized. Its as simple as that. 12:36, October 29, 2009 (UTC)


 * With reference to w:c:Help:Help_talk:Blog_article if you have figured out how to access the page for a specific comment then please share. --najevi 20:56, October 29, 2009 (UTC)


 * You can get the URL from recent changes or contributions lists - just make sure you add ?redirect=no to the URL before you go to it, to prevent it redirecting to the article.
 * Per Ose, I don't think comments being categorizable is a bug. 10:50, October 30, 2009 (UTC)


 * It's probably not a bug per se, but maybe it should be considered whether that's really a desired behaviour. Personally, I don't really see why they should be categorizable given their nature. In addition, if they are (wrongly) categorized, only admins and the user who wrote the comment can correct it. Granted, that's an issue that applies to the blog posts themselves as well but at least there's some sense in categorizing the blogs and there are a lot less blogs than comments. -- Porter21 (talk) 13:04, October 30, 2009 (UTC)


 * If this blog comment being categorized could be explained (as well as how to remove the category) I'd appreciate it: -- LordTBT  Talk! 19:23, January 19, 2010 (UTC)

Unregistered contributor vs Anonymous user
When an anonymous IP is welcomed, their user page identifies them as "Unregistered contributor," however when they comment on a blog, they are "Anonymous user." Can we keep it uniform and go for the former? -- LordTBT Talk! 07:18, November 8, 2009 (UTC)


 * Found the solution: MediaWiki:Blog-comments-anonymous. But I have a better idea. When you hover your mouse over the 'Anonymous' text, the IP is shown in the tooltip. Why not just display the IP for the Anonymous text? I would like that. -- LordTBT Talk! 03:11, January 30, 2010 (UTC)