User:Antonio

Hi everyone, my name is Antonio, or Anthony.

I am fascinated by the Wikimedia Foundation projects with the whole concept of a wiki being internationally editable, and therefore I have decided that I would like to create my own. I tried to host MediaWiki myself, but soon discovered that it was way too complicated. Therefore, I have turned to wiki farms as an alternate solution.

I started at Wikia, but did not like them because they do not support the vector MediaWiki skin, their system administrators are extremely slow at handling any feature requests, and many of the installed customizations are only available to the staff. The ads on Wikia do not bother me because they blend in nicely with the default skin that is offered.

I then went to ShoutWiki, and at first was successful there. The ShoutWiki staff are more reliable and efficient, and don't hog quite as many tools to themselves. The only tools that they reserve are highly technical and dangerous ones like CheckUser and deleting wikis, which I am not surprised about. The main problems with ShoutWiki are that their ads do clutter wiki pages and spam the site, and they have user account issues. Because they use a different global link extension than CentralAuth (which I see Miraheze is using), accounts that exist on another wiki automatically exist on every wiki, even if they haven't been locally created. Therefore, staff accounts, spambots, and others were included in my Special:ListUsers list, which was annoying.

I am ready for a clean start at Miraheze. I have already read the FAQ and the gist of the global policies, and I agree to all of them. I notice that CheckUser, Oversight, and CentralAuth actions are restricted to system administrators, but I can understand that because one accident with these tools can cause mass disruption. It's happened on WMF projects before.

Anyway, I'll see you around!