Hello dear all, I don't know if it is the right place to send this EMail, I will see soon... Sorry in adavance for my poor english :-[ I'm trying to build a wiki web site for a professional use. I'm paleontologist and I want to create a databank on fossil species with the help of my colleague dispersed all around the world. It will be a non-public website, the subject is too much specialized for non professionals. I have no good knowledge in informatic, therefore, it is not very easy for me. I have different questions to ask, if somebody can help me on those topics, thank you in advance: 1) As sysop, normally I can block users. To test this function I have tried to block an user but the system refuse the username and ask for the IP address? How can I solve this problem? IP address is not interesting as many of us use different computers with different IP adresses. By example: I have three computers connected to internet with, of course, three different IP adresses. In addition I don't know the IP address of the other users. 2) In the page "special pages for all users" the different entries towards the different special pages are not alphabetically organized, isn't possible to sort them in alphabetic order? 3) It is the same for the special page on categories. They are all mixed. Isn't possible to sort them in an alphabetic order? 4) In the Wikipedia website, I have seen that it is possible, in editing a page, to insert special characters in using a table containing them in the lower part of the edited page. This is a very useful tool. How can I add this in my wiki website?

Sorry to ask you so much questions. Thanks a lot for all help. Regards Philippe

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