User talk:Barista~mediawikiwiki

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If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and find this site a beneficial documentation of the MediaWiki software. Thanks, and regards, -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  06:07, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello
I saw you made a couple posts on the Support desk, feel free to join the Support team if you want. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  06:07, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


 * No problem, no obligation to join, thank you for helping out. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  03:52, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Barista, a belated thanks for your suggestions re: the slow load time of my pages, and for your timely heads-up as well. I've worked to resolve some of the latter issues, and will invoke stronger measures as necessary. I've just finished teaching for the summer, so I'll be able to look into your suggestions for improving the page loading speed. I've felt a bit handicapped here because I'm not the person who initially installed MediaWiki on our server, so I'm missing some basic skills/experiences, but this is a good time to catch up! I confess to being a bit skeptical that it's a server problem rather than a settings problem, because I can upload external MediaWiki pages in a heartbeat, and huge, complex, local (but not wiki) pages also take no time. I also hope that's not the problem, because getting a new server is not a likely option.

(Hmm, I just noticed that I can see the editing icons above this box, even though I'm using Safari; those icons don't show in Safari for our wiki pages. I'll have to check that out too).

By the way, I checked out your site; pretty impressive! It looks like you've integrated wiki and non-wiki coding to an extent I didn't realize was possible. So much to learn!

Anyways, thanks again for your help. -- Alan H 16:36, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Barista. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Barista~mediawikiwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 03:22, 18 March 2015 (UTC)