WikiAlpha:Community portal/Archive 1
Hi, I've just had an Email notifying me that an article I created on EN wiki has been migrated here, except it hasn't. I frequently move poorly named new articles and I wonder if that has lead to your migration bot being confused? As you haven't got the relevant history I can't see what happened in that case, but am pretty sure that would be the case. WereSpielChequers 01:47, 3 July 2011 (MDT)
Hi. Thanks, yes that page was one of the first we did, and it appears to have been accidentally removed during testing. Sorry about that. --Richard 02:14, 3 July 2011 (MDT)
Contents
Copyright/License terms
At the head of pages copied from Wikipedia you properly refer to CC-BY-SA, but at the foot of the pages and on the main page it still says "Content is available under Public Domain". That is misleading and untrue - at most it should say something like "Content is available under Public Domain unless otherwise stated at the head of the page." 79.69.225.150 (talk) 15:36, 10 July 2011 (MSD)
Status
I was wondering about the status of this site. It seems that Richard hasn't edited in a couple weeks and HistoryBot is only running sporadically. I was hoping this place would be running full steam by now. Could somebody provide a status of the site operations? Thanks. Web (talk) 06:33, 24 July 2011 (MSD)
- Hi Web, we've been a little busy the last couple of weeks but we've both been monitoring the site and the situation with wikipedia. I need to make some adjustments to HistoryBot, but it will be back up and running soon. Thanks for your contributions by the way. Cheers Richard (talk) 09:04, 24 July 2011 (MSD)
September11wiki?
See [1]. I just heard about this site, which dates back to a 2002 dispute at Wikipedia which began a trip down the wrong path... unfortunately, the site is closed, but maybe the operators could be contacted and recruited to your project? Just a thought. Wnt (talk) 22:30, 27 July 2011 (MSD)
- I think anything that adds to WikiAlpha would probably be benefitial. Web (talk) 07:46, 29 July 2011 (MSD)
Time zone
The time zone for the server appears to be UTC, while the time zone on signatures appears to be "MSD" AKA Wikipedia:Moscow Time and Wikipedia:UTC+04:00. Why the discrepancy? — Jeff G. ツ 05:09, 3 August 2011 (MSD)
Using templates from Wikipedia?
I'm going to be working on articles, but there are a number of templates I need first. I've been grabbing templates from Wikipedia for the new ones, but I was wondering if anybody would mind if I used Wikipedia's templates for existing ones, like {{cite book}} and {{cite news}}? I wanted to ask permission before I started doing this. Another one I was hoping to replace was {{infobox}}, but I want to ask first because it will change the look of all infoboxes from the yellow/orange border to black like Wikipedia.
@Richard, Govind & Mathew, I wanted to get your OK on this before I did anything since this will change how the site looks. Thanks in advance for your input. Web (talk) 07:20, 25 August 2011 (MSD)