User talk:Sannse

Archive 1 Archive 2

Just A Few Questions
Hi Sannse, I have a few questions regarding my potential new wiki, if you have time. I don't know if you review the requests or not, but I thought I'd try anyway. First, does the site have to be NAME.wikia.com? Obviously Uncyc has its own site name, but I'm guessing Chron did that on his own and had to pay...Secondly, when/if the site is created, will I have bureaucratic rights, so I can add sysops and what not? Thirdly, I know it says 7 days at a maximum, but how long will it usually take for my idea to be reviewed? Also, If you do review requests, I dont think I included everything about the potential site. If you need a broader explanation, feel free to ask. Basically, it will be a humor site where almost anything is allowed, so long as its not extremely offensive or hateful. I think I could really make this work, and I am committed to doing so. Please let me know regarding these questions/concerns. Thanks for your time, --Sir Cornbread 03:31, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, I've been looking at your request today and have sent you an email. Let me know if you still want any of the above questions answered -- sannse (talk) 20:10, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

*sigh* More trouble at Star Wars Fanon
There is a new user called Licorice that has a striking resemblance to Darth Vacatour. It was a striking enough comparison for me to ask an admin about it. Since StarNeptune isn't on, and you've edited recently, I thought I could just ask ip you could check whether Licorice is who he claims to be.

I hope I'm not wasting your time. 22:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Now the user is swearing at us and claiming to be Neomessiah. Bub 22:25, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiJazz
Hey there Sannse. Just replying to the question you had on the jazz wiki site, and my answer is: there aren't a whole lot of online comunities that I can get contributors at (other than the music wiki) but I have plenty of colleagues who would be willing to assist us. They all LOVE jazz, and have already told me that they would help. I hope that answers your question. Now, let's get this baby up and running! -Lord vader1414 02:04, 30 August 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, we'll give it a go. Although to make it a success, you will need to look further afield for contributors.  Promotion is a big part of starting a wiki.  I will make this in the morning -- sannse (talk) 21:20, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

WGC
I just logged onto the WGC and saw countless pages vandalized, the worst part is that Gnosis, under the name Knowledge&mdash;at least I think it's him&mdash;took a part in it. Please ban the people who did that. I'm going to start reverting the rest of it right now. Thanks! NKSCF 20:59, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

What and where is WGC? If it's on editthis, Wikia has nothing to do with that, it's a different hosting company. -- sannse (talk) 21:20, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Kuralyov is wasting his time
Please tell Kuralyov to stop hunting Crumb. "Crumb" is already blacklisted, and he is wasting his time. Kowakian 22 00:58, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Can you give me more details please? What wiki is this on, and what is happening? You are right that "crumb" is blacklisted on Wikia. -- sannse (talk)
 * This is something which happened on Wookieepedia last night: I suspect if you do a checkuser, you'll find that Kowakian 22 is using an IP address similar to some of the users on Wookieepedia's recent blocks. Some of them are Crumb usernames, which had been preemptively blocked but came back to edit their user talk pages.  Some of our admins blocked them just in case.  We can give more details over there if you want. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 12:41, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

sysop
hello. please desysop me at ZelDelet


 * Hello, What's the problem? Is there anything I can help with? -- sannse (talk) 07:25, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I can't cooperate with User:szoferka :( ZelDelet
 * Sure he can't. He is inactive since June 18, also the voting has start few days ago. And last, but not least, he made there 48 edits in half year period. Szoferka 11:07, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Fron what I can understand, the vote is only about bureaucrat rights? And the concern seems to be about inactivity.  So, ZelDelet, it looks to me as though there is room to talk about this: to agree to be more active, and to keep your sysop rights.  Of course, if you are sure you want them removed, then I will do so. -- sannse (talk) 11:34, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Bot Flag
Hi, you mentioned that there is such a thing as a "bot flag" to hide bot edits so they don't flood the Recent Changes. I'm interested in getting one of those. I switched all the sidebar tables on Wiki 24 to templates, and since we use sidebars on some 800 pages, my husband wrote a couple of programs to convert the pages and then upload them to the site. We've already done episodes and actors this way, so now we just need to do the much larger category of characters (500+ pages). Please advise on my Wiki 24 talk page. Thank you! --StBacchus 05:25, 4 September 2006 (UTC)


 * repy at Wiki24 -- sannse (talk) 08:22, 4 September 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, I put up a notice in the Situation Room, and no one seems to mind. Unless you think it should stay up longer? If everything seems fine to you, the account to be flagged is Kryten 2X4B-523P, which I figure sounds sufficiently robotic. I'll also include a note on the userpage. --StBacchus 11:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * All set. You can now bot away to your heart's content ;) Have fun -- sannse (talk) 13:34, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

StargateWars Wikia
Hi there. Just writing to thank you for your work in setting up the StargateWars Wikia. I saw the edit history and noticed you did the work. :-)

Thanks again,

Hunterd 08:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem! -- sannse (talk) 09:01, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

RSS Feed
Sannse, I really see that changes in Side Bar on tools section, and I know that even me cannot change it, must be some admins trying something new. It displays RSS and Atom Feed For a while but now it's gone again,.... and to tell you the truth,.. the feed works.

I like the idea of RSS Feeds, and quite dissapointed when I see it gone again,... I think it should be put into consideration of adding RSS Feed to the Side bar.

Thank you, Agus_elex_2006

PS: Oh, I have filed the "bug" report in http://bug.wikia.com just like GreenReaper advised me. But bug or not, I really like the idea. Please conside it.


 * Hi Agus, are you sure you weren't looking at recent changes when you saw the RSS feed link? That's always there, and does work well.  There is also a rss feeds available for Special:newpages, but not yet for changes to a single article. -- sannse (talk) 08:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Sannse, I maybe looking at recent changes but I maybe not as I don't remember the page, but I do remember seeing it.


 * I'm not sure then, I think you looking at recent changes is the most likely explanation. We would like to provide more rss feeds, but as far as I know that's not something the technical team are working on at the moment. -- 07:49, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Gaiapedia (Gaia Wiki)
sannse, you said that you could give me bureaucrat status on the wikia I administrate at any time I need it. Well, I've got A bot prorject finaly underway (There are to many major repetative things to fix by hand on that wiki) So I intend to give one of my 2 bots sysop status myself, and I also have a possible linking with another wiki, so I would also like bureaucrat status in the case that I may possibly give sysop status to the administrator of the other wiki.

Also, since makebot isn't installed on wikis I need the two accounts on my wiki to be given Bot status (Don't worry, I don't intend to run them unsupervised) the two are GaiaBot and GaiaBotSys (I wish interwiki linking was working) dantman 07:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi dantman. It was Splarka you were talking to about this, I've pointed him towards this message.  Interwiki linking does work, from central you use w:c:wikiname:article name .  Outside of central, you expand thw w to wikia, so it would be wikia:c:wikiname:article name -- sannse (talk) 08:13, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Damn... your names are to similar, sorry. I read everything about interwiki linking there is arround, but none of the methods work from the central wiki, I'm sure w:c:wikiname:article name works from projects. But from central I can only get wikiname to link to the main page, nothing else works on central.

our code is "gaia":
 * wikisite:gaia:2004 wikisite:gaia:2004
 * w:c:gaia:2004 w:c:gaia:2004
 * Wikia:gaia:2004 Wikia:gaia:2004
 * Wikia:c:gaia:2004 Wikia:c:gaia:2004
 * wikicities:gaia:2004 wikicities:gaia:2004
 * wikicities:c:gaia:2004 wikicities:c:gaia:2004
 * c:gaia:2004 c:gaia:2004

One of those should link to http://gaia.wikia.com/wiki/2004 but none of them work.

While we're on the subject on interwiki linking, how would I get a external wiki onto the list. We are possibly linking to another wiki about the same site but I have a stong feeling that the porject is not on the map because it's a privately made one. http://www.gaiacast.com/wiki/index.php/Plotwiki

dantman 08:32, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * The second link down, w:c:gaia:2004, works just fine for me. What page do you get to with that?


 * On external wikis, we have an interwiki map that we can add to. That will make the link work on all Wikia wikis.  The page is at Interwiki map.  Just give me the interwiki name you want, and I can add it -- sannse (talk) 08:49, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Whoa, sorry. I have been checking so many different possible links so I have been using the url in the LL of my browser when I hover over that link you gave it gave me http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/c:gaia:2004, but when I clicked on it it worked. Ok, well the wiki we are possibly merging with is called the "Plotwiki" at the URL " http://www.gaiacast.com/wiki/index.php/ " so for when the community gets back on the final decission (I have a strong feeling they will agree with me...) we should be able to link with Plotwiki:ArticleName (Plotwiki:ArticleName) and I have a feeling that Plotwiki is not already in the interwiki map, and a google search finds no other wikis with that name (Note that "http://gaiaonline.pbwiki.com/" is actualy the old URL for the Plotwiki, not another wiki) so I'm sure that "Plotwiki" should work out good as the Prefix. dantman 09:03, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, I'll sort this out later today. The update script may not run for a while, but when it does, links will work -- sannse (talk) 09:16, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, thanks. I don't realy need it at the moment, so it should be finished by the time the community has made a decission on how to do it all. Now I'll just wait for Sannse's reply on our bot topic, and Angela on the Namespaces. dantman 09:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * You mean Splarka ;) he's replied on your Gaia talk page -- sannse (talk) 09:27, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Arg, these names are killing me. 2 Admins with names identical at a glance. Actualy, he has replyed, and I have been made a buerocrat, but we are prety much discussing Bots, because I have a point in the future where I will need a bot with sysop cababilitys. I put the long reason on his talkpage. dantman 09:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikia on Google AdSense
Hi Lisa! I just saw a Google ad for Muppet Wiki... I know you and I had talked about that a while ago. It looks great; I was excited to see it! -- Danny (talk ) 19:53, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * That's great! Let's hope lots of other people see it too ;) -- sannse (talk) 20:22, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Supages
Hi. We would like to have the option of subpages for the main namespace at Inciclopedia. Thanx!--Rataube 18:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * OK Rataube, I've added it to the technical to-do list (near the top ;) -- sannse (talk) 20:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * And it's been done... -- sannse (talk) 08:09, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Translation of Wikia's Main Page and Copyright Page to Bahasa Indonesia
Hi Sannse, I have translated Wikia's main page and copyright page to bahasa Indonesia. The link: Halaman_Utama and Wikia hak cipta. Please see it and please make appropriate adjustment to the links in other language's translation of those pages. Can the main page in Bahasa Indonesia be the default main page for users who use "id" as their language preference?

Thank you, --Agus elex 2005 21:21, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks great, thanks for that. There is no way to automatically redirect people to that page depending on their preferences, but we can add it to the "in other languages" box on the bottom on the sidebar.  You will also be able to link to it of course.  Thanks again -- sannse (talk) 07:49, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Matrix Wiki
Since the recent change from matrixfilms.wikia.com to matrix.wikia.com, we can't seem to upload images properly. Pleas see http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Upload for detailed error message. -o.r- 18:47, 12 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting us know, I've reported this. It's right at the top of the list, so hopefully will be fixed soon.  Sorry about the problem! -- sannse (talk) 19:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Has there been any updated news on this problem at all? It seems to have been ongoing all week, and is kind of cramping some of my edits to the wiki... Also, what would be the ease/availability of making me an admin on the wiki, The others float in and out, but I seem to be the only one there on a regular basis still. -o.r- 15:09, 15 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, the problem is right at the top of the technical/community to-do list. Which means it should be done soon.  But there are often site-wide issues and work in progress that means the technical team can't get to these things straight away.  I'll let you know if I hear more.
 * On admining. I see that three admins are in quite often, and have been there recently. So the best thing to do is to discuss it with them and the rest of the community.  If they agree, then I will admin.  It's only when there are no active admins or community that we tend to chose who to give the admin buttons to.  Usually it's up to the community. -- sannse (talk) 20:08, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Darth Coldheart
I was talking with the ex-vandal. He seems to really miss editing SWFanon, and I wanted you to ask him to unblock him. I mean, the promise that he made that he wouldn't vandalize might not be true, but he's really begging. Could you please give him another chance? It's really not that hard to ban him again if he does vandalize. There's more info here. --FireV


 * Reply at the swfanon forum -- sannse (talk) 20:08, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Spider-Man Wiki
Hello, Sannse. I was debating whether or not to ask you to make me an admin over at the Spider-Man wiki, as I am one of three people who sporadically uses it. I assumed that the original admin left for some reason and left it defenseless. I ask to be an admin there in case of something happening, vandalwise, or to help clean it up, as in deleting unneeded images, etc. I can understand if you do not wish me to be an admin there and respect any decision you make. Thanks for listening! NKSCF NK says NK's 'mazin' articles 20:02, 16 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Reply at User talk:NKSCF -- sannse (talk) 08:30, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

DV sockpuppet
There is a DV sockpuppet, Vendeta Arachnoid, at the SWFanon wiki. Could you please block him and protect his talk page? Bub 21:40, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Nonsensopedia sysop resignation
hello Sannse, please remove my sysop and bureaucrat status on nonsensopedia Zeartul 15:50, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Can you tell me more about what the problem is, Zeartul? Usually it's easy enough just to leave admin rights if you are not editing for a while... -- sannse (talk) 09:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Having talked to Szoferka, she has assured me there is no conflict involved, so I have done this. But please let me know if you want it replaced any time -- sannse (talk) 10:35, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
thank you sannse for allowing my wiki go on spider rider, how do I edit it? The link I canot follow!


 * Reply at User talk:Jesie -- sannse (talk) 09:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh sure! Thank you so much! I answered, --Jesie 00:24, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

SWFanon vandal
Sannse, could you please stop the vandal "Sysops". He's moving pages left right an center. Thanks. Jasca Ducato 11:15, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * done -- sannse (talk) 11:36, 22 September 2006 (UTC)


 * An IP is attacking Bub's Uesr page and user talk page. Can you help?

He is also attacking multiple other user's pages. Please come ASAP. Thanks.

Admins
I am a admin of miasta.wikia.com. I bestow admins flag from user Ziomek. He corrupt this wiki. Please you retrieve flag of admin. Michał W.


 * Hi, I've removed the sysop flag. Please could you explain what happened exactly?  Thanks -- sannse (talk) 07:10, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikia screencasts
Hi Lisa. Thanks for your feedback on the drafts of the Wikia training videos. I redid the Help video as you'd suggested. Please let me know if that works for you here. The other drafts are posted here. - Leo|Talk 14:38, 23 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Reply there - wonderful stuff! -- sannse (talk) 19:56, 23 September 2006 (UTC) 

Sig
How can i use User:Darth Sauron/sig as my signature.--Ð٨ŘŦΗ ۍΆUŘΏŅ 19:12, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

You need to create the page, and then change your preferences. Where it says "Your nickname (for signatures)", you type in. This will mean that ~ will show as the signature you have on that page. Remember, this will only work on the same wikia as you have the page on. So, if the page is on swfanon, it will be broken if you try to use it here. -- sannse (talk) 20:03, 23 September 2006 (UTC)


 * If this hasn't worked, please link me to where you have tried it. Thanks -- sannse (talk) 21:42, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

There are several vandal users on SWFanon. Please ban them.Bub 23:04, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Moving to Wikia
You told me to start my wikia at the scatchpad, so that is exactly what I did. However, it would be easier to edit with a dedicated namespace. Here is the Truth Wiki at the scratchpad - - can I move it to the truth.wikia.com ? --The God of War 03:23, 25 September 2006 (UTC)


 * The idea of scratchpad is to show that your idea can work - that it can gather a community and become a sustainable wiki community. At the moment, you are the only contributor and have only edited for two days.  So I'm afraid this isn't yet at a stage where we would reconsider having this as a full wikia.  Sorry to disapoint -- sannse (talk) 08:40, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Account Termination
Do you know if a decision was made to make an option for account termination yet? Or when they're going to decide? Exp.Fl.Cmndr. Mitth&#39;raw&#39;nuruodo 12:11, 25 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what you mean by this. Account termination? -- sannse (talk) 18:26, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Silent Hill wikia
Thanks for approving my wikia. I'm not certain about other communities but am aware that the Silent Hill and other related pages on Wikipedia are extremely actively edited. There are also a number of popular fansites. I noticed that the wikia is not active at silent.wikia.com and links to the notreal.wikia.com page. I was wondering whether this was an oversight or whether the wikia has still to be activated?

Karloffian32 15:56, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, the wiki hasn't been made yet, I was waiting to hear back from you before making it :) As you've replied here, I'll make it now.  You'll get another mail shortly with details about the wiki and other useful information  -- sannse (talk) 18:34, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Admin privileges for Amanda
I'm not sure quite how to link to the Amanda wiki from here, but...

Is there any way I can be granted Administrator priveleges for dealing with vandalism on the Amanda wiki? Thanks! (I posted this on your user talk there but didn't realize you wouldn't be alerted here.) &mdash; Rob (  talk  ) 21:38, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Rob, sorry I missed this on amanda.wikia. I'm not sure how admining is going to work on that wiki yet, but I will find about and get back to you.  Thanks for all you are doing there -- sannse (talk) 22:07, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Getting the form working.
I was wondering, how did you fix the problem with the form as discussed below: (I am having the same problem on my wiki)

I got the following error when I requested for a new Wikia:

Fatal error: Call to a member function toString on a non-object in /home/wikia/wiki16svn/includes/UserMailer.php on line 123

--Nino Gonzales 04:00, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

This has been fixed. The request form shows up properly again -- sannse (talk) 15:34, 12 April 2006 (UTC) Actually the request form shows up fine. The error happens when you submit a request. I tried it again and still the same error. --Nino  Gonzales 07:58, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

It's working now. Thanks! --Nino Gonzales 06:54, 17 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It needed a correction by the technical staff, which wiki are you having the problem with? -- sannse (talk) 18:03, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually my wiki is internal on an intranet. But I am having the EXACT same problem with the form page found on Special:CreateWiki. I was just wondering how you got this issue resolved.


 * I'm sorry, I don't know. I'm community support rather than technical, so just pass on the "it's fixed" message.  You could try asking Jason, but I can't recall which of our technical team it was that actually fixed it.  I suggest asking for help on #mediawiki on freenode.  Sorry not to be of more help -- sannse (talk) 20:09, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Encyclopediadramatica.com block on Spam Blacklist
Hello, I was just wondering what was the reasoning behind encyclopediadramatica.com's block on Wikia's spam blacklist. If vandals are spamming and linking to encyclopediadramatica.com, could you kindly provide me with diff links? ~ Krade 13:54, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Finding the diffs would mean viewing the images again, and I'm not prepared to do that. The situation is, vandals are using images from Encyclopedia Dramatica, such as the "pain" images, embedded on random pages.  I hoped that the spam blacklist would stop this, but it's not currently stoping images.  Hopefully this should be fixed soon, and the listing will stop these highly offensive images being used on Wikia. -- sannse (talk) 18:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll ask if it's possible to disable image hotlinking on the ED server. Would you consider blocking pr0n.encyclopediadramatica.com and encyclopediadramatica.com/images instead, until then? All the images for ED are either served from that domain or that directory, depending on the current setup, and the current block breaks links on other Wikia wikis like WikiFur. It saddens me a lot that vandals are using ED resources to vandalize wikis, which unfortunately, makes the rest of us seem bad. (Believe me, I had my quota of Willy on Wheels wannabes to revert, I don't find vandalism particularly amusing) Another thing; I'm aware Wikia does not usually give the IP of its users away, even if they're vandals, but if you could perform CheckUser lookups on the vandals that were banned for spamming images from ED and email the results to me so I could check them against the ED CheckUser database, I'd be greatly appreciated. I doubt that whoever was spamming is also an editor at ED, but in that case, I'd like to be able to take the proper measures. Oh, I forgot to introduce myself properly, I'm currently a sysop on Encyclopedia Dramatica, I hope that fact won't make you think any less of me. ~ Krade 19:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think I can block the second of those, but I will talk to other staff about us removing the block and finding a way to make it image specific. On the IPs, if I recall, they were AOL or open proxies - so not a lot of point going back to find the edits and check them.  As you say, our privacy rules mean that we don't give out IPs, but with this level of vandalism it may be that we can consider doing so.... if I get any useful results from checkuser in the future.  Thanks for talking about this -- sannse (talk) 19:56, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * You can block the second one on the spam blacklist with "encyclopediadramatica\.com\/images". (no "", obviously). It's currently being used to block some Geocities sites on Wikia's blacklist, so I assume it will work. Thanks for being so helpful. :) ~ Krade 20:04, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

w:Pomorze
Could you look what causes moving down the sidebar on w:p:Pomorze:Aquieil and eliminate it? Thank you :) Michał 16:42, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Wow, that is... not pretty code. I added four missed &lt;/div>s and removed a stray |-  There may be other improvements that can be made, but that fixed the distortion at least -- sannse (talk) 18:20, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

kulinarna wiki
Hi! Is there way to make this wiki adopted after no activity by me? Korwin 19:24, 30 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, looks like the founder has never edited there, so you can have a go at getting in going. I've given you rights there.  Good luck! -- sannse (talk) 17:44, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Template already done
Dear Sannse, The visit/lang2 template already done. Take a look here: template:Visit/xx. If it was wrong or just anything that is not correct, please write in my talk page on Karl May Wiki. Sincerely, --Agus elex 2005 10:29, 1 October 2006 (UTC)


 * That's great! Many thanks Agus -- sannse (talk) 17:45, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Strange thing happened, please see
Sannse, I already made the infobox template and already copied it to starter wiki, but strange thing happened. Please compare this two pages:

The talk page of w:c:id.karlmay:Templat:Infobox and the talk page of w:c:starter:Template:Infobox.

I don't know why this could happen. Maybe you know or could ask someone who knows. I already ask GreeenReaper and szoferka, they didn't know why. I want to ask splarka but he's not around. Please keep me informed.

Thank you, --Agus elex 2005 15:15, 1 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Agus, looks like I may be seeing something different from you? To me they look exactly the same.  What do you see? -- sannse (talk) 17:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)


 * OH, I was looking at the wrong page... sorry, will look further -- sannse (talk) 17:53, 1 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I think that may be one for the technical team, I can't see any reason for it on the editing side. I'll try and catch Jason next time he's on-line.  Thanks for the work! -- sannse (talk) 17:57, 1 October 2006 (UTC)


 * There was a line return after the pipe in Template:Pipe, --Splarka (talk) 03:35, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Wiki
I requested a new wiki from my wiki:. So what will happen to it. How will it happen?--Darth Sauron. Main page. Link establishing. Don't worry this line is clear.  19:27, 1 October 2006 (UTC)


 * It takes a few days for me to get to new requests, I research and review them and then email you about it. Hopefully it shouldn't be more than a couple of days until you hear more -- sannse (talk) 07:45, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Bronze Star
Wow a bronze star! I certainly don't expect to receive this as my contributions are just too view to mention, hehehe. It's great! Thanks so much sannse. Now, that's something to be proud of. --Agus elex 2005 01:16, 2 October 2006 (UTC)


 * :) Enjoy... and as you are doing another volunteer task... there will be another on the way soon -- sannse (talk) 07:45, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Two Questions
I have two questions for you. The first one is about admins on SW Fanon. Now that the community had buckled down and stopped troll feeding, there are a few overdue admins such as myself, Jasca Ducato, Aiddat, and I believe Ewoksfist. A few users, I'm sure, would like it with more than one admin. Secondly, some of us are curious about the sudden disppearence of our founded. If you could enlighten us about his disappearence, that would be nice but you don't have too. Thanks :) MaulYoda


 * I will look again at admins, and discuss it with Angela and others as soon as I can (got a lot on at the moment, and it involves doing some checks). I don't know why the founder left, it's not uncommon for people to lose interest or get too busy in real life after requesting a wiki.  People move on and find other things to do :) -- sannse (talk) 06:24, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. You don't need to appoint all of us if you decide to but at least appoint Aiddat (and me for suggesting it if you want). MaulYoda

SWFANON VANDAL
Hi sansse, could you please ban Jeremiah Ebenezer Boodle from SWFANON, he is impersonating me, as i am still banned i cant sign in, but if you check my user page User:JheremEboodle, you will see i have the credentials for the real account and he is a vandal trying to cinvince people that he is the original boodle. regards jeremy


 * looking -- sannse (talk) 08:12, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

SWfanon
Hi Sannse, if you don't mind. Could you take a look at '''Jasca Ducato Sith Council (Sith campaign) 08:23, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Bot Request
We haven't voted on whether or not we should have bots but my brother, user:Nihilusdude, would like to volunteer his account to become one. He wants to know how to set that up. MaulYoda


 * I'm afraid the first requirement for a bot flag is knowing how to set up for one :) and it's not done on a user account like this anyway. So the answer is definitely no for this one -- sannse (talk) 19:42, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Volunteer portal changes
Hi,

On the Volunteer portal you added a task for making some changes to the volunteer portal by using templates.

I've had a go at this (although not on the actual volunteer portal)!

It uses a number of major templates, plus a whole heap of minor ones for each task which store information about that task, and allows easy automation and control over displaying both the information boxes on the portal page and on the details pages.

I've made the following templates which it currently uses (if it is adopted, you'd probably want to move some of them):
 * Template:Volunteer task - used to display the info box about each task
 * Template:Volunteer/New - the template which each new task page is copied off
 * Template:Volunteer details - a template for the details page which allows you to customise the appearance of every details page

I have the test setup of this all running at User:Markdarb/Sandbox, where you can see a sample task I've made to test it out, and you can test out the system for yourself. The steps are as follows:
 * Use the form to create the main page for the task
 * On that page, enter the exact name of the task (which you've already entered when you made the page) as the parameter of the template that's called
 * Follow all the links on that page to enter each appropriate piece of information.
 * Add the information box for the task on the volunteer portal, or sandbox or whatever, with
 * If you want to change any piece of information, it can be changed once to automatically update wherever it's displayed

I hope it's the sort of thing you're after, and I hope my instructions were clear enough! I believe that it's got the required structure, although you'll probably agree that the layout of the templates needs to be improved. The advantage is it's very easy to make layout/design changes, and it's also easy to choose what information is displayed where and even introduce more information templates if necessary.

Please reply on User_talk:Markdarb

Thanks, Markdarb 10:30, 9 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for all the work! It's good, but I think it's too complicated for what I'm looking for.  I think it should be possible to use the current page style, but have a section of the subpages showing on the main page to show who has claimed that task.  Maybe with except for the small section?  I think having so many pages for each task will be a bit over the top, although I do like the simplicity of each section.  Thanks again -- sannse (talk) 11:24, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I understand what you mean about being too complicated, but on the other hand I personally believe it automates the use of the templates quite well, and it can certainly be improved upon. Do you think the system I've set up could be simplified in any way to suit the task better? If not, which of the following do you think is most ideal?
 * Putting the noinclude around everything except the list of volunteers, so that only the list of volunteers is shown when the template is called from the main volunteer page, and that all the other information has to be added manually, as it currently is.
 * Having a generic table or section on each subpage which displays all the basic information as you want it to display on the volunteer portal, so that you can just call the template for that task on the volunteer portal and not have to manually add the information.
 * Something else!
 * I hope I haven't just given you a bit of bother instead of the solution you were looking for! Markdarb 04:51, 10 October 2006 (UTC)


 * It's great to have another mind on this! I was sort of thinking of the first, but perhaps some other solution would be good.  I like the formatting on the main portal page, and don't think we should have too many sub-pages, but it would be good to get the required information on the portal page as smoothly as possible.  At the moment I can't really see how to do that for the best. -- sannse (talk) 18:50, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, the volunteer portal's design is good, as are the subpages, so the actual designs definitely don't need changing (well, maybe a bit on the subpage for each task, but only to make it work with the template system)! I personally think perhaps the best idea would be the second one I listed. It could be put inside a table to distinguish it from the rest of the page, but then the table coding could be noincluded so that it just imports the text when you use the template on the volunteer portal. I'll do that this afternoon/evening (New Zealand time, that is, as that's where I live) in my Sandbox to show you just what I mean and see what you think of it. Markdarb 21:21, 10 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Cool! thanks Markdarb -- sannse (talk) 07:31, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

"Egyptolopedia"
I accept all the things that you suggest in your mail. I agree with you about capitalising to "Egyptolopedia". Tell me if there's anything else I should concern before starting a wiki. And how can I choose the logo? --Hathor 17:09, 10 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Hathor, that all sounds great. I will make this first thing in the morning. -- sannse (talk) 18:50, 10 October 2006 (UTC)