User talk:Steel359

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Good luck! -- SB_Johnny | talk 23:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Autoconfirmed users
Are you sure that autoconfirm works the same on all projects? -- SB_Johnny | talk 23:50, 14 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I dunno... Though I think autoconfirmation is something that can be turned on and off using bugzilla (iirc, there was some discussion of this on the wikiversity irc channel a few months ago when we were setting it up). There are a number of software features that work differently on different projects: for example, blocked accounts on wikibooks apparently can't edit their own talk pages. -- SB_Johnny | talk 14:43, 16 November 2006 (UTC)


 * "Makes writing a cross-project handbook difficult" -- indeed it does :). The plan is to have chapters about the basics of the tools on the main chapter, then have separate chapters for each wiki's particular quirks. If autoconfirmed is different by project, the best approach will probably be to use some sort of table.
 * BTW: could you give us some comment about blocked users editing talk pages, and how well it's worked for wikipedia? A few of us want to adopt that here (it definitely doesn't work here... I blocked myself to check, and no dice). Discussion is on the staff lounge (i.e. "Village Pump") here. -- SB_Johnny | talk 17:24, 16 November 2006 (UTC)