Monkeying with Scifipedia

The SciFi Channel webmasters have launched Scifipedia, based on MediaWiki. Unfortunately, in my opinion, they’ve destroyed much of the usability offered by the out-of-box template. Just try finding the “Recent Changes” page.

So, I was annoyed enough to crack open a text editor and give it the Greasemonkey treatment:

I mean, I can understand wanting to brand things – and this is a free site after all – but try not to muck with the essentials.

This entry was written by l.m.orchard, posted on April 28, 2006 at 10:35 am, filed under asides. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Rijk
    Posted April 29, 2006 at 7:05 am | Permalink

    This userscript also works well in Opera 9.

  2. gK
    Posted July 18, 2006 at 2:45 pm | Permalink

    Worse yet is their antediluvial copyright policy. See their Terms of Use: http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/SCIFIPEDIA:TermsofUse

    I may edit there for some things that I want to publicize, but I won’t do any major editing there. It’s either got to give the authors a byline, or have a copyleft license such as the GFDL or Creative Commons.

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