Wiki-related Request/Suggestion: Separate user-page stuff from the wiki entirely.
Mon, 05/23/2011 - 19:26
It's starting to get to me. No offense, but when I go to check out the recent changes page of the wiki, and the majority of each page consists of THIRTY MINOR EDITS IN A ROW to someone's personal user profile vanity type page, it makes it difficult to keep track of changes to the pages that are actually important. And yeah, sure I can do an invert-sort out of user type pages, but half of those little personal page edits are on "user talk" pages which are an entirely separate sorting category, so I can only hide half of this cluttery mess at a time.
Now don't get me wrong, I think it's great to have our own little vanity pages, and a place to show off our equipment and whatever other personal things there may be. I just would REALLY like it if we could get something separate from the Wiki to do that in...
Or at the least, some option I can toggle to perma-hide all user and user-talk pages. :I
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 19:41
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You could also select the
You could also select the dropdown and select "Namespace: main". User vanity pages and subpages have special names in the "User:" namespace (like User:Narcissus/BlueShards ), whereas most articles are part of the regular, "main" wiki.
For convenience, you can also bookmark the resulting page:
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/index.php?namespace=0&title=Special%3ARece...
The "enhanced" recent changes page is also strongly recommended, but the rather annoying login system requires you to log in every day, whereas the link above works regardless of login status. Both tricks can be combined, of course.
You could try out the "enhanced recent changes" option at "my preferences"->"recent changes". That would fold the 30 minor edits in a row into a single line. Then again personally I don't feel that the current ratio of User:/article edits is that bad.