On Jul 20, 2013, at 5:38 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 6:52 PM, janI <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi >> >> the mwiki contact page has been removed after a offlist question from rob >> weir, so we are back where we started a couple of weeks ago I have not >> reopened the BZ issue with the request for a contact page. >> >> all footers on wiki contain the text: >> >> Contact: [email protected] >> >> That message is NOT translated as with the rest of mwiki. >> > > Jan, > > I asked for the removal of that page because it was mainly generating > spam. Moderators had to deal with 15 examples of this from the wiki > admin form in one day. > > But now you've added the string "Contact: [email protected]" > *twice* to the footer of every wiki page, with no mention that there > are other more appropriate avenues to go for support. > > I'm not certain now that you understand or appreciate what the issue > is. Putting *any* prominent note to contact [email protected] is a > very bad idea and will merely lead to misdirected support requests, > causing a bad experience for users as well as volunteers. > > So a -1 from me to your additions to the page footer. Please remove > it. And please review any further changes of this nature here on the > dev list before making it.
Add my -1 as well the footer is broken in several ways. +1000 to a review on the list. These kinds of changes need discussion as we all miss aspects. > > Remember, the number of people who have admin-related questions about > the wiki are very, very, very few in number. They will be best served > by directing them to some variation of a page like the one we have on > the main website: > > http://www.openoffice.org/contact_us.html +1 to a contact us. Sorry I saw trouble separately and started another thread. My list is not dev@ but 6 other important matters. Regards, Dave > > Thanks! > > -Rob > > > >> rgds. >> Jan I. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
