User talk:Macv

Hello, welcome to the wiki. It has been brought to my attention that you have been creating a lot of pages (including a lot of templates) which look like they are simply copied from other Wikimedia wikis. Please can you let me know your reasons for doing this. You should be aware that the nature of this project is very different to other wikis (see about this site if you are not clear about this). Please get back to me as soon as possible - I will begin deleting the unwanted pages in the next day or so if I do not hear from you, either on this page or on my talk page. Cheers --HappyDog 23:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * ImportToMediaWiki is used when a page is in Meta and would be in MediaWiki
 * ...and is therefore useless on this site.
 * No, MediaWiki users can import the page from Meta.
 * Shortcut is used in a lot of pages and templates (it´s originally from Wikipedia, bus with an universal use in Wikimedia projects and non-Wikimedia projects that uses MediaWiki( see Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Shortcut
 * ...and has no use on this wiki at the moment.
 * No, really it only appears in :


 * Archive table (inclusion)
 * Categorylinks table (inclusion)
 * Externallinks table (inclusion)
 * Filearchive table (inclusion)
 * Hitcounter table (inclusion)
 * Image table (inclusion)
 * Imagelinks table (inclusion)
 * Interwiki table (inclusion)
 * Ipblocks table (inclusion)
 * Job table (inclusion)
 * Langlinks table (inclusion)
 * Logging table (inclusion)
 * Math table (inclusion)
 * Objectcache table (inclusion)
 * Oldimage table (inclusion)
 * Page table (inclusion)
 * Pagelinks table (inclusion)
 * Querycache table (inclusion)
 * Querycachetwo table (inclusion)
 * Querycache info table (inclusion)
 * Recentchanges table (inclusion)
 * Redirect table (inclusion)
 * Revision table (inclusion)
 * Searchindex table (inclusion)
 * Site stats table (inclusion)
 * Templatelinks table (inclusion)
 * Text table (inclusion)
 * Trackbacks table (inclusion)
 * Transcache table (inclusion)
 * User table (inclusion)
 * User groups table (inclusion)
 * User newtalk table (inclusion)
 * Watchlist table (inclusion)
 * Validate table (inclusion)
 * Blobs table (inclusion)
 * Brokenlinks table (inclusion)
 * Cur table (inclusion)
 * Links table (inclusion)
 * Linkscc table (inclusion)
 * Old table (inclusion)
 * Template:Process header (inclusion)
 * Template talk:Process header (inclusion)
 * Template:Database layout (inclusion)
 * Page restrictions table (inclusion)
 * Project:Request pages (inclusion)
 * Manual:OS specific help (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Linux (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Fedora Core (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Red Hat Linux (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Debian GNU/Linux (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Ubuntu GNU/Linux (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Gentoo Linux (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Mandrake (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Slackware Linux (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on SuSE Linux 9.3 (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Solaris 10 (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Solaris 9 (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Mac OS X (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on NetWare (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on FreeBSD (inclusion)
 * Manual:Installing MediaWiki on Windows XP (inclusion)
 * Manual:Installing MediaWiki on Windows XP - MediaWiki 1.9.2 (inclusion)
 * Manual:Installing MediaWiki on Windows XP - MediaWiki 1.7.1 (inclusion)
 * Manual:Installing MediaWiki on Windows XP - MediaWiki 1.5 (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Windows (inclusion)
 * Manual:Newcomers guide to installing on Windows (inclusion)
 * Manual:Simple Windows Apache Installation (inclusion)
 * Manual:Streamlined Windows Install Guide (inclusion)
 * Manual:Installing MediaWiki on Windows Server 2003 (inclusion)
 * Manual:Wiki on a stick (inclusion)
 * Manual:Installation (inclusion)
 * Template:Installation (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Ubuntu (inclusion)
 * Manual:Before installing (inclusion)
 * Manual:Running MediaWiki on Solaris (inclusion)

See http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Shortcut&limit=500&from=0 as said.


 * H:h_Help is used in help pages and templates (see Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:H:h_Help --Macv 14:27, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * ...and should not be necessary here. The narrower focus should mean we don't need further navigational aids...
 * That said, I can see that the latter two items may be needed at some point in the distant future... however that is no reason to create them now. There is absolutely no reason to import templates 'because they exist in other wikis'.  Templates should be created because there is a real need for them.  In particular we want to avoid the nested template nightmares and cryptic naming schemes of en & meta, as embodied by H:h_help, so even if those templates were thought to be useful here, they would be likely be redesigned quite heavily. --HappyDog 02:19, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, but don´t delete usefull pages and templates, because are used in this Wiki. In any case, this MediaWiki would include help about how to use it. This is its wake point. --Macv 13:17, 13 May 2007 (UTC)