>What do you think of the version I've just put on test.wikipedia.org
>which doesn't change your browser's font selection and uses only
>relative font sizes?
Much better, much more readable.
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On Wednesday 01 January 2003 04:00 am, wikitech-l-request(a)wikipedia.org wrote:
> So from a usability perspective it's a good idea to have the Wikipedias
> look and act the same. When I first visited eo.wikipedia I wasn't even
> sure if this is the same software, because I hadn't seen the Cologne skin
> yet.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik
Why is the default skin on eo set to Cologne blue? I too have been lost while
visiting eo to update interlanguage links. Since I don't speak Esperanto it
took me a minute or two to figure out where the edit the page link was. This
is not a user friendly way of doing things at all. It also really looks the
eo.wiki is running on different software and gives the impression that it is
somehow separate from the other wikis.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
WikiKarma Payment. Have you had your wiki today?
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=December_28&diff=540672&oldid=5…
Last night someone hacked the password of one of the French Wikipedia
sysops, Youssefsan. (Using IP 217.144.0.5, possibly a proxy?) They don't
appear to have done anything terribly devastating; blanked a few pages
and banned a couple IPs (since restored).
However, under the system that has been in place, it would be trivial
for any sysop to retrieve another user's password hash and use it to log
in by hand-setting the stored password cookie. (Indeed, there is some
concern that one of the other fr users who is a sysop there may be the
troublemaker.)
** Anyone with an account on the French Wikipedia, I recommend you
change your password just in case this guy snagged more. **
I've changed the sysop's SQL query to use a separate mysql user account
which has read-only access and isn't allowed to read the email and
password fields of the user table, which should close the 'malicious
sysop' hole. (However, developers still have full access.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)