User talk:Bennyp

Hi Bennyp. Sorry I wasn't available when you were asking questions on IRC earlier. I'm glad to hear the teknival was successful.

If a lot of people are coming in and making changes without logging in, it might be worth adding links to Special:Userlogin in more places on the site encouraging them to log in. You can also leave them welcome messages asking them to log in, since could bring in some more regular editors who stay with your wiki.

Wikicities doesn't allow preventing changes from anonymous users. One reason is because we want to keep the site as open as possible. Another is that disabling anonymous edits can make the problem worse. If the anon editors are vandals, then it is much easier to catch their vandalism when they are anonymous than if they were logged in, since you can filter recent changes. See Special:Recentchanges/hideliu - there is a link to this on Special:Recentchanges called "hide logged in users".

Removing anonymous editors won't make your site any more accurate. It takes 10 seconds to create an account and doesn't give a user any more accountability. In fact, it gives them less, since their IP address will no longer be publicly visible, so you can't check where they are from or whether they've edited from similar IPs before.

There has been a lot of discussion about this on Wikipedia. See:
 * Disabling edits by unregistered users (and the vote archive)
 * Anonymous users should not be allowed to edit articles
 * Abolish anonymous users

You also said on IRC that you want a div, floated right, text aligned left, but with a thumb style border, but not thumb, because thumb makes the text center. Are you sure it does? I see the word "foo" in this example aligned left.

You can add small amounts of white space to a page using, but please remember that a wiki is about the content and the community, not the layout, so I would advise that the focus be on ease of editing rather than on trying to get fancy formats which were never meant for a wiki and might not display well in all browsers. It isn't possible to use tabs, but, for normal indenting, just use colons. The colons must be the first thing on a line.


 * This will indent


 * This will indent



Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any more questions. Angela (talk) 06:17, 21 Jul 2005 (UTC)