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  "title": "Monkeying with Scifipedia",
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  "html": "<p>The <a href=\"http://www.scifi.com\">SciFi Channel</a> webmasters have launched <a href=\"http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/Main_Page\">Scifipedia</a>, based on <a href=\"http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki\">MediaWiki</a>.  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.</p>\n <p>So, I was annoyed enough to crack open a text editor and give it the Greasemonkey treatment:</p>\n     <ul>\n     <li>\n     <span><a href=\"http://decafbad.com/2006/04/scifipediatweaks.user.js\">scifipediatweaks.user.js</a></span>\n     </li>\n     </ul>\n\n\n <p>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.</p>\n\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221082718\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=13b3457866acb33e384fabc0d8073b19&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/\">Rijk</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221082718\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-04-29T12:05:04\">2006-04-29T12:05:04</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>This userscript also works well in Opera 9.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221082720\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=518fd9b72611b8628f499eac180042ed&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\">gK</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221082720\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-07-18T19:45:13\">2006-07-18T19:45:13</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Worse yet is their antediluvial copyright policy. See their Terms of Use: http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/SCIFIPEDIA:Terms<em>of</em>Use</p>\n<p>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.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": " <p>The <a href=\"http://www.scifi.com\">SciFi Channel</a> webmasters have launched <a href=\"http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/Main_Page\">Scifipedia</a>, based on <a href=\"http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki\">MediaWiki</a>.  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.</p>\r\n <p>So, I was annoyed enough to crack open a text editor and give it the Greasemonkey treatment:</p>\r\n     <ul>\r\n     <li>\r\n     <span><a href=\"http://decafbad.com/2006/04/scifipediatweaks.user.js\">scifipediatweaks.user.js</a></span>\r\n     </li>\r\n     </ul>\r\n <p>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.</p>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221082718\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=13b3457866acb33e384fabc0d8073b19&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/\">Rijk</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221082718\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-04-29T12:05:04\">2006-04-29T12:05:04</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>This userscript also works well in Opera 9.</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221082720\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=518fd9b72611b8628f499eac180042ed&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"\">gK</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221082720\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-07-18T19:45:13\">2006-07-18T19:45:13</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Worse yet is their antediluvial copyright policy. See their Terms of Use: http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/SCIFIPEDIA:Terms<em>of</em>Use</p>\r\n\r\n<p>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.</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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