On Saturday 24 August 2002 12:01 pm, Karen wrote:
Something I wondered - how do you know who the new users to greet them? Do you just look for user names you haven't seen before or is there some way to identify them? I'd be happy to do the meet-and-greet but I don't know how to do it.
Well - I guess I do it the hard way and scan each edit in all Recent Changes for a 24 hour period looking for edit link user names (a dead give-a-away) and for user names I don't remember seeing before. This works for me since I pretty good reading comprehension and memory.
What would be most useful is a listing of new users that can be accessed from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Listusers. That way this job would be much easier.
BTW we really /do not/ have 3498 real users -- a good many of these "users" logged in only to abuse our upload utility or for other nefarious or non-contributing reasons (I don't greet any user who hasn't contributed at all). Is there a way to get rid of many of these no-longer used user accounts Lee (just the ones that have been inactive for months and whose user pages are still edit links)?
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Hum, just a comment...bug report...
The last 2 mails Maverick sent, had date set on the 24th of august 2001. Not 2002.
I checked on the mailing list, and there they were, in 2001.
Is it related to Mav or to Wikip�dia ?
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While I am at it, I tried a few days ago to remove some articles from my watch list. And it aint working properly.
When I select an article page (in bold), the fact I watch for it is recognised, and I can stop watching it When I select a talk page, it is indicated I don't watch for it. hence I can't remove it for talk pages. The articles stay in the watch list whatever I do. This is true whatever the date of the last update (feb 2002, before july and after july)
Did anybody noticed that ? Is there something I missed ?
anthere
--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
On Saturday 24 August 2002 12:01 pm, Karen wrote:
Something I wondered - how do you know who the new
users to greet them?
Do you just look for user names you haven't seen
before or is there some
way to identify them? I'd be happy to do the
meet-and-greet but I don't
know how to do it.
Well - I guess I do it the hard way and scan each edit in all Recent Changes for a 24 hour period looking for edit link user names (a dead give-a-away) and for user names I don't remember seeing before. This works for me since I pretty good reading comprehension and memory.
What would be most useful is a listing of new users that can be accessed from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Listusers. That way this job would be much easier.
BTW we really /do not/ have 3498 real users -- a good many of these "users" logged in only to abuse our upload utility or for other nefarious or non-contributing reasons (I don't greet any user who hasn't contributed at all). Is there a way to get rid of many of these no-longer used user accounts Lee (just the ones that have been inactive for months and whose user pages are still edit links)?
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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Anthere wrote:
Hum, just a comment...bug report...
The last 2 mails Maverick sent, had date set on the 24th of august 2001. Not 2002.
I checked on the mailing list, and there they were, in 2001.
Is it related to Mav or to Wikipédia ?
I suspect Mav is living in the past... :)
While I am at it, I tried a few days ago to remove some articles from my watch list. And it aint working properly.
When I select an article page (in bold), the fact I watch for it is recognised, and I can stop watching it When I select a talk page, it is indicated I don't watch for it. hence I can't remove it for talk pages. The articles stay in the watch list whatever I do. This is true whatever the date of the last update (feb 2002, before july and after july)
If you're watching a page, its talk page will automatically show up in your watchlist (you'll notice it's not in bold, unless you've explicitly selected to watch it as well).
This is a feature! If you're interested in what happens to an article, the talk page is something you'll want to keep tabs on as well.
I'm going to have to improve the message that pops up when you add something to the watch list so it's actually useful and explanitory.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
What would be most useful is a listing of new users that can be accessed from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Listusers. That way this job would be much easier.
At one time thes were in order of joining (which can be useless in its own way). Can some kind of a sort function be applied.
BTW we really /do not/ have 3498 real users -- a good many of these "users" logged in only to abuse our upload utility or for other nefarious or non-contributing reasons (I don't greet any user who hasn't contributed at all). Is there a way to get rid of many of these no-longer used user accounts Lee (just the ones that have been inactive for months and whose user pages are still edit links)?
Can there be a "Wikepedia reserve army" list where anybody that hasn't been seen in 90 days is listed. To get back on the main list, one simple log-in would do the trick. I would not object to seeing a lot of "accidental" registrations cancelled completely; many of these people have probably even forgotten that Wikipedia exists. They can always re-register if they want.
Eclecticology
Can there be a "Wikepedia reserve army" list where anybody that hasn't been seen in 90 days is listed. To get back on the main list, one simple log-in would do the trick. I would not object to seeing a lot of "accidental" registrations cancelled completely; many of these people have probably even forgotten that Wikipedia exists. They can always re-register if they want.
There might also be cases of people who come to Wikipedia, register, forget about it, then return a few months later, and completely forgot their password, maybe even their registration name, and re-register under another name.
Andre Engels
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