All posts by Jackboog21

<div class="quote"><i> <p>MisterWoodhouse wrote: I didn't say never used. I said it wasn't proven to increase engagement, which I'm told was its intended purpose. (It was before my time) </p> </i></div>
<p>If it's used, then it shouldn't be removed. Also, what are you defining as "engagement"? </p>

<div class="quote"><i> <p>Hollowness wrote: I am someone who heavily relies on Wiki Activity (it is my wiki's top viewed page- even if it is only by me) over Recent Changes. As an admin especially- please bring it back. </p> </i></div>
<p>It's also much easier for newer users to understand. Getting rid of it opens the door to heavy vandalism not being caught. </p><p>Seems hard for me to believe the feature was never used, especially compared to RecentChanges. </p>

<div class="quote"><i> <p>Jrooksjr wrote: They stated earlier that there are no added extensions on the UCP at the present time - this is why only NEW wikis are created here and no Migration of Older wikis are done yet! </p> </i></div>
<p>It was stated that not all extensions had been, and that DPLforums wasn't a day 1 extension. I'm basically asking if Live! Chat will be eventually added or if it'll be removed, which I'm hoping it's not. </p>

<p>What I've noticed: </p>

• Bureaucrats can't create Discussion Moderators, Chat Moderators, and Rollbacks.
• Uploaded images can't have transparency. Assuming this is a bug.
• Live! Chat is missing; hoping the extension just hasn't been updated yet.
• There seems to be less room between paragraphs. Not sure if this just came with updating MediaWiki or if was done intentionally. Kinda jarring to me.
• The word "community" is added top every wiki. I find this kinda annoying since every wiki would need to contact staff to rename the wiki to a wiki. Perhaps we could have a drop down menu for this?

<p>You act as though you've re-invented highlighting a thread, and that we can't possibly fathom how amazing announcements are if we haven't tried them. </p><p>It's not complicated to understand, do you think we're 5? </p><p>So it can also highlight a page, cool, but pretty useless. It can highlight a blog? There's some use for that. It stays longer, so? Heck, a week was pretty sufficient. It can highlight a thread? Good, that's what we want. Can I get an order with 4 extra, please? </p>

<p>I honestly don't see the logic behind 1. Do you only read a newspaper with 1 story? Does Youtube restrict you to only subscribe to 1 person? </p><p>You may think you're simplifying things, but you're actually making them FAR harder for admins to inform users of stuff. I'm willing to accept a limit, but not of 1. 3-5, like everyone has said, is very reasonable. </p><p>"the vast majority of communities" - Sure, the majority...does this include the 100s of abandoned wikis with no activity? </p>

<p>3 or 5 are a perfectly reasonable amount of announcements. Perhaps instead of notifying users of all of them if they aren't on the Wiki, they instead just get one notification saying there's multiple ones on the Wiki. </p>

<p>"Discussions moderators as well as admins." - Why is this highlighted as a difference? Forums can be highlighted by Discussions Mods and Admins. </p><p>"Only one announcement can be active per community at any one time." </p><p>- I think this is a very bad move. Many wikis announce votes for new staff members by highlighting a central thread with the announcement and highlight applications. A fix to this could be a compiled page with them listed, but we'd have to create a new announcement each time someone opened a thread to run. </p>

<p>Thank you, I will contact them. </p>