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Is there any way we can stop that from happening? It's getting troublesome to keep track in the Recent Changes tab with that thing greeting every anon that makes a post...--TheUltimate3 13:53, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- Marking those edits as bot, as well as the ability to stop creation of the automatic userpage is on the ToDo list for Wikia. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Mar 19, 2009 @ 16:52 (UTC)
- Another thing...Why is my account used in their message thing?!--TheUltimate3 16:20, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
- The greeting is signed by the last active sysop on the wiki. The general idea of that was to get new users to contact admins for help more often. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Mar 20, 2009 @ 21:08 (UTC)
- Hi guys -- We just added some new customization to the welcome tool, so now we can make it work the way that you want. I saw that Dantman was deleting user pages, so I turned that piece off in MediaWiki:Welcome-enabled. We can also make User:Wikia a bot, if you want to take it out of Recent changes. Let me know how I can help... -- Danny (talk) 22:42, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Aye ok. Just a shock when suddenly I got more traffic on my previously non-important (and ignored) Talk Page, and then found out I was in the greeting.--TheUltimate3 23:02, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, for sure. We sent out a talk page message to give everyone a heads-up that this was coming... but those messages are really easy to dismiss and not pay attention to. Sorry for the shock! -- Danny (talk) 23:40, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
- Ya, bot would be a good setting. Though, it looks like greetings have stopped. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Mar 21, 2009 @ 00:14 (UTC)
- Okay, I'll do that. I'm not sure why it's not leaving messages right now... I'll play with it for a minute and see if I can figure it out. -- Danny (talk) 00:48, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
- Hmmm... It does seem to have stopped leaving messages here, but not on any of the other wikis that I've been to. I just tested it on another wiki and it's still running... and it doesn't seem to be related to @sysop or the Welcome-enabled change. We're going to try to figure out why that's happening. Meanwhile, I'm going to leave it without a bot flag for now -- it'll be easier for us to figure it out without having to switch to "show bots". :) But once we have it straightened out, I'll turn the bot flag on for you. Let me know if you notice anything interesting... -- Danny (talk) 00:59, 21 March 2009 (UTC)