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Welcome to Wikitravel Shared, Wrh2! If you want to specialize your experience you may want to consider editing your preferences. Before uploading please take a second to read over the copyleft, policies and guidelines, and the image policy but feel free to upload travel images. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the Travellers' pub.

[edit] Uploading

Hey, since you've been doing a lot of uploading I wanted to ask you a favor. Before you add any information about an image in the "Summary" boxes would you please click in the Summary box, then scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on the "Image Credit" template. This will automagically import the template into the Summary box. To use the template simply fill out all of the values. When you use the "Location=" value simply type in the the name of the place the image was taken, don't link to the page. Jani edited the template which reads the input and automagically turns what you type into a link and categorizes the image. Thanks. -- Andrew Haggard (Sapphire) 06:47, 11 January 2007 (EST)

[edit] Break tag

If blacklisting < br > is causing problems, I did suggest removing it without hesitation -- and in fact, this talk page itself was caught by it too! Still, it has been remarkably effective, and since there are so few actual page edits on Shared, I'm tempted to keep it around (or at least the capitalized version) for a short while longer in the hopes we'll reach the end of the current spammer wave. -- D. Guillaime 16:46, 6 July 2011 (EDT)

Fair enough - as long as we remove the pattern if/when this current attack ends there shouldn't be too much collateral damage. For what it's worth, the current spam attack hit another site that I manage with the exact same user names as are showing up on Wikitravel. Implementing Captcha almost completely stopped it, although that's obviously something that requires IB's attention to put in place here... -- Ryan 16:58, 6 July 2011 (EDT)

[edit] Tech:CAPTCHA for registration

Hi Ryan, I have added the Tech:CAPTCHA for registration to Top bugs. Perhaps you'd like to add your vote? Riggwelter 11:25, 14 July 2011 (EDT)

Done, thanks. -- Ryan 12:37, 14 July 2011 (EDT)

[edit] Weak blocks?

Somehow the ip you blocked earlier still edited [1] this evening? --Peter ^Talk 00:28, 5 October 2011 (EDT)

This is inconsistent across language versions, but a blocked user can still edit his/her talk page on shared. I tried a test block on en: and didn't see that behavior. The workaround I've been using is to protect the talk page for repeat offenders. -- Ryan 12:15, 5 October 2011 (EDT)