A part of Wiki Community/Future — the future planning process for DW/WS (i.e., both Davis Wiki's needs and the interwiki needs of Wiki Spot).
This page is for everything minor that doesn't really belong in Wiki Community/Future/Software Features: ways for the highly involved users to find content that they need to fix.
Related pages: Wiki Community/Future/Spammers and Newbies, 
Feature Requests
I'd like to see some sort of replacement for Abandoned Pages — finding the pages that haven't been edited for a long, long time. —BrentLaabs
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A ban system that doesn't suck. I'd like to be able to do global account bans to fight spammers. I'd also like the ability to globally ban IP addresses or a range of IP addresses. Automatically expiring bans with documentation for the ban reason could also be helpful. Also, it would be handy to see all the edits that an IP address has made logged out like we can see all the edits that a user has made.
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The ability to move a page and all its files from one wiki to another as easily as we can rename pages on the wiki. We get a lot of stuff on the hub that's intended for other wikis. —WilliamLewis
There's a lot of fairly simple stuff that could be done with IP addresses. Per some thoughts I posted on Wiki Community/Technical Discussion, I'd love to see (1) IP address cross-referencing. Have clickable IP addresses showing all editors to use an IP and all edits made. (2) IP Address Lists in user info. Just a quick list of IPs used by a given editor. —TomGarberson
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[[include(wiki:somewhere:something)]] and [wiki:somewhere:"Something"] that is dotted if it does not exist.
And expose an entry list for other sites and networks to do the same and reciprocate... (ahem).
1) Improved notification, both on-screen and via email. (This is both a gnome feature and a software feature. 2) Ability to see change comments at the same time as the actual changes. —CovertProfessor
1: IP address cross-checking / listing as mentioned by William and Tom. It'd be a great tool to improve gnoming. (Countless time's I've spent hours cross-checking user accounts...) 2: Improved notification visibility, as mentioned by CP. Rather than a global change, could this come in the form of an include? Such as [Include(Attention)]. When put on a user page, this would trigger an email to be sent to the account as well as a larger, more visible banner on the wiki page. This would be far better than changing notifications for userpage edits, and would limit the amount of spam as it'd only need to be used once. I'd imagine this would be a very helpful tool used by wiki regulars and gnomes than casual users.
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Okay, I'm going to try to do something that may well fix this (notification visibility) later today. It may be obnoxious at first, but we'll have a better situation within the next 12 hours, folks. Anybody on later tonight (Monday, 2010-05-10) willing to give feedback, let me know when you see me uploading CSS in Recent Changes. I can only do CSS changes, but that should put us a good step toward an improved situation. -jw
It would be neat to cross reference IP addresses to filter out sockpuppets. The wiki could deny two user accounts using the same Ip address or automatically put the "bla bla and bla bla2 share the same ip address" disclaimer that we often see. —DagonJones
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Jason did something like this, I think. I can see if he still has it. -jw
