On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Andrew Garrett agarrett@wikimedia.org wrote:
I realise that we might have had a problem in the past with people clicking on the MediaWiki logo in the corner when installing their wikis, but perhaps we could solve this problem by delinking it,
You already did that. :) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16555 At this point, I imagine most people creating test pages are finding their way to MW.org from one of the installer sidebar links or some other source (though no doubt a few are still installing 1.13 from a package).
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:27 PM, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
I still delete alot of stuff from mw wiki that shouldn't be there.
Looking at the deletion logs, it appears the extra scariness might have had a small effect on the rate of test page creations, but even if so, I'm not sure it's worth the cost.