Talk:Community Central/Archive 4


 * See Archive 1 for discussion between October 2004 and April 2005.

Protecting the Main Page
Someone, identified by IP only, suggested, "I recommend that the front page should be locked from anyone editing it " on the main page. I removed that comment and am putting it here on the discussion page for further consideration. --CocoaZen 17:42, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * It is probably getting to the point where we should be protecting the front page. It seems to be one of the most vandalized pages.  Also, as the entry point for most users, we should do what we can to keep it clean.  Looking at the edit history, it is rare that a non-admin has contributed other than to vandalize or revert vandalism.  -- JamesTeterenko 18:54, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Protection goes against the wikiway, though... Then again, petty vandalism on the main page could detract newbies (still, being able to edit the first page you see is an encouragement). 19:28, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Templating it and then protecting it (but not protecting the templates) seems to have halted significant vandalism at Creatures Wiki. -- 21:52, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Protection of the main page of new Wikicities is one of the most annoying mistakes that keeps happening over and over again despite there being no need for it and no history of vandalism in the vast majority of cases. The Central Wikicity should be setting an example by not protecting this, despite some vandalism. The vandalism is not yet major, and is reverted quickly enough. The template solution is ok once we get to the stage where the vandalism is so bad that we'd prefer new users' first experience of Wikicities is an uneditable page rather than a damaged one, but I don't think we're at that stage yet. Protecting this would just give out all the wrong signals about how wikis should work. People requesting new wikis should be aware of the dangers of vandalism, not shielded from it by protecting this page. Angela (talk) 23:54, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Best place on the net to send folks for an intro to all that is Wiki?
Should it not be "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiki"? Regardless how much that one page may come to breaking with its True Wiki Nature as a result of such an onerous burden being place upon it, should it not be The Spot for such? -:)Ozzyslovechild 04:39, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I generally send people to Wiki. -- JamesTeterenko 05:17, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * So do I. The Wikipedia articles tells people what a wiki actually is, rather than just what the word means. However, I'd prefer to keep internal links on the main page, which is why I linked to wiki, not wiki. I have just added a link to Wikipedia from that though. Angela (talk) 13:54, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Searching box
it is confusing to users in scum.wikicities to use the search function - because above the search box it is written "Wikicities" - and the users think that will search wikicities, not scum.wikicities. it is very misleading to the unknowing user, and it should be changed to read WikiSCUM.

i realize the wikicities "button" links to wikicities, but that is much less important to the scum.wikicities users than seeing where to do a scum.wikicities seach - in fact, it is very confusing users. Kingturtle 19:29, 30 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * You can replace the Google logo by uploading a file called "Search_logo.png". Angela (talk) 05:38, 10 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Creating a new page.
For some reason, creating a new page here doesn't work the same way it does on wikipedia.

On wikipedia, you can create a new page by "searching" for a page of the name you want, and when it is not found, it gives you the option of creating that page.

Here, it only lets you search, not create a new page. Does anyone know how to create a new page here?

PsiSeveredHead 22:34, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * Try editing your user page and place there a link to your new page. Or use Sandbox. Other way is to point your browser to http://wikicities.com/wiki/Sample_article_title . --DCLXVI 22:44, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * It isn't a default in MediaWiki, but you can change this to allow creation from the search box. See Help:Searching for instructions. Angela (talk) 05:38, 10 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Need your help for a workers' portal
Hi,

I wish to set up a workers' rights and struggles devoted portal in italian. My idea is to make it in a similar way to Wikicities. Is it the Wikimedia customization running Wikicities available for download? What are the mods applied to MediaWiki software? Using the Wikicities' Wikimedia customization is there a way to have an automated creation of wiki field, related subdomain and mailing list?

Thanks. magius


 * Already discussed on Skype. For anyone else interested in doing this, the relevant links are mediawiki.org to download the software, wikidev.net for instructions on making a wiki farm, and wikimedia.org/conf for Wikimedia's config files which should be similar to the Wikicities ones. Angela (talk) 00:03, 26 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Elevator pitch
Many people arrive at this page and have no idea what it is all about. I suggest that the first line somebody reads here is a short description of what it is all about. Like "It's geocities for wikis" or something along this lines. Comments? Gödel 13:41, 22 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * It is so not geocities. If there's a good intro, that could be included, but we're about communities, not random personal websites. Angela (talk) 00:17, 26 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Language and CSS
If the user interface langauge is set to a language other than English, the monobook stylesheet returns a blank, which causes BabelBox to not display properly.&mdash;Danielwang 00:50, 4 Aug 2005 (UTC)