On 10.10.2010, 6:36 Andrew wrote:
Do we seriously need such an obnoxious message here?
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,
instead of an English Wikipedia style giant stop sign at the top of
the page. It really hurts my eyes.
I must admit, the stop hand pic was added by me. The problem here is
not that we need to delete crap - making several clicks is easy.
However, people often spend significant amounts time writing a page
intended for Wikipedia or their internal wiki only to see it deleted
in a few minutes. That's not very nice either. And I must admit that
the impact of my changes to the warning text was insignificant.
Total delinking would be strange, as this seems a stndard practice
among other free web apps. And you can't seriously suggest that we
remove
mw.org links from the post-install message, too. There could be
several other options:
* Make
mw.org look less alike to default installs. Changing skin to,
say, Modern would be good, but our site must remain a showcase for our
product, so we must stick to default look.
* Change skins/common/images/wiki.png to not contain the MW logo.
This will have only moderate effect, though.
* Create some kind of advanced protection, for example site JS that
makes anons click on "continue" before seeing edit page. Not really an
option in this particular way, but maybe something in this line could
work. An extreme way to prevent many unwanted edits would be to
restrict content page creation by anons, but I don't think we need it
ATM.
On 10.10.2010, 11:34 MZMcBride wrote:
I reset it to the default.
The default message is not very helpful, probably something that gives
warnings in a less intrusive way would do, such as
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Newarticletext&old…
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Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])