User talk:IAlex/archive

New settings
You are adding new pages in the manual namespace about configuration settings like Manual:$wgImportTargetNamespace, Manual:$wgExportMaxHistory, etc; but please also add them to Manual:Configuration settings and Manual:Configuration settings (alphabetical). Thanks, SPQRobin 21:38, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It's what I'm doing, I'm editing Manual:Configuration settings at the moment and adding in it new settings each time I create one, I'll save it when I'll finish. i Alex  21:41, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok (I have just edited that page, I don't know if you'll have any problems) SPQRobin 21:46, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I added that one in a other section named 'Special pages' that I just created, maybe Localization section is better. i Alex  21:49, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank You!
Thank you for all your fantastic work on tidying, categorising and checking all the MediaWiki configuration settings. I fell way behind in my self-appointed task of checking the version numbers and filling in the gaps (I got up to about 1.5.0), and it's great to have someone inspire me to carry on and finish the job (although I suspect that you've already covered a lot of the work I planned to do... in which case thank you again!!). I just wanted to let you know that all your hard work is really appreciated. --HappyDog 20:32, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you, but I thinks this is not finished, I only did the new settings for 1.7 (not 1.6), and deprecated settings up to the version 1.4. i Alex  20:42, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I've been working from v1.1.0 upwards and have added details about all modifications, additions and deletions up to 1.6.0, which I'm working on at the moment, and which I've done everything except for about 25 settings that aren't on the wiki yet (i.e. all the changes for settings that were already on the wiki have been documented), so you don't need to worry about any versions lower than that. --HappyDog 00:37, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Your deleting my image before I was even done was the last straw for me. I'm quitting wiki
From User talk:CAlan Wikis are getting just too darn hard and too darn legalistic for average users like me to use anymore. What you just did to me is a perfect example of this For example -- I'm trying to set up a album page for a singer I like (Michelle Shocked). I see that -- all over -- people are uploading small images of the covers. Fine -- so I tried to EXACTLY COPY what others have done and while I'm uploading, my image gets deleted before I'm even done! Probably I violated some sort of copyright for about fifteen seconds as I was uploading it. That's just too much! At least let me create the file and rationalize it's use before deleting it! Cripes. I give up.
 * ''This wiki is only about the MediaWiki software, if you want to create an article about a singer you like, you can create it on Wikipedia, not here, see About this site. iAlex 16:08, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

''
 * I WAS creating it on Wikipedia (until I gave up.) I was posting the cover here in Wikimedia because I saw that a another album cover said "powered by Wikimedia."
 * OK, I got it wrong. Obvisously.
 * What was so frustrating was you deleting my image WHILE I WAS STILL WORKING ON IT. This kind of heavy handed policing is all over the wikis and, I suspect, will be the end of the golden age of wikis. At least it is for me. The way you dealt with me is the so typical in the wikis and I'm giving up on contributing to wikis. Bye.