User talk:JoePlay

Logo
Hi! I would need help with one image. http://ratchet.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ratchet_and_Clank_series.png Could you remove the background from it, please? It would help me a lot. HiQu (My talk) 16:38, November 20, 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot! HiQu (My talk) 20:47, November 20, 2009 (UTC)

Galactic Codex: Essentials Edition 2183
Hello,

I was wondering if all the information from the Galactic Codex: Essentials Edition 2183 made it to the Mass Effect Wikia. I know there is no place where it is all typed word-for-word, but is there any information still missing from the Wikia that can only be found in the Galactic Codex: Essentials Edition 2183?

Thank you!

--Question answered by Tullis. Thanks!

Images
Hi! I took these images and thought that they would look better without the light blue background. Could you remove the background from these two images when you have time? There's no need to hurry, I don't need these that much. :) HiQu (My talk) 20:27, November 24, 2009 (UTC)

Here are the images:

http://ratchet.wikia.com/wiki/File:Razor_Talons.png

http://ratchet.wikia.com/wiki/File:Phoenix_Launcher.png

HiQu (My talk) 20:28, November 24, 2009 (UTC)

Well, thanks! :) HiQu (My talk) 10:04, November 25, 2009 (UTC)

Changing background color
Hi!

Stigma-231 told me that you were the one who created the background of the bioshock wikia. I'm creating the hungarian version of the site and I would like the same background color as the original one.

So could you help me, please? :)

HUN_ter

hi can you change the saints row wikia skin and logo its bit outdated

Combine OverWiki
Hey there! In October 2007, you created. I know it's old, but was that for? Wikia Spotlight?... Klow 23:32, December 1, 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that quick answer. I actually just restored it, to showcase the wiki's logo history. Are you the one who made this and this, then?... Klow 10:10, December 2, 2009 (UTC)

Ongoing Vandalism at Borderlands Wikia
An anonymous user with the IP 209.80.253.1 has been blanking pages on the Borderlands Wikia. A few other users and I have been reverting the damage as best we can. Pdboddy 16:07, December 4, 2009 (UTC)

Intermittent Skin
Hey Joe,

I have set up a wiki at SigmaStorm 2 Test Wiki to test out ideas for the SigmaStorm 2 before making them live. One thing I was happy about was that I was able to copy the WoW Monaco.css skin to make a new skin for the test wiki. This was working fine on Friday, but when I accessed the test site today, it was not working.

Is there anything special I need to do to get this to work consistently? Please drop me a line at the Test sigmastorm page if you can help me with this.

Thank you in advance,

Mrjoeterrace 22:17, December 7, 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, again for your help on the wiki!

---<- @ Mrjoeterrace 17:44, December 8, 2009 (UTC)

Importing CSS
Hi Joe,

do you know whether there's a way to import CSS from an URL in MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Monaco.css? I've tried the usual  but either I was too impatient when waiting for the cache update (:P) or it doesn't work.

The reason why I'm asking is that being able to import CSS would be very useful for the various non-English Fallout wikis. While they share the skin of en.fallout, most of them do not have users who know their way around CSS and the skin CSS there does not get updated nearly as regularly as the one of the English wiki. As a result, new Wikia features usually remain unskinned - which doesn't look all that great. If it were possible to import CSS, I could seperate the skin CSS from the one for templates and the non-English wikis could simply import the skin-specific CSS, resulting in the skin CSS automatically being updated across all language versions. -- Porter21 (talk) 17:38, December 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that's what I tried to use. I saw you using it on w:c:masseffect a while back and copied it :P Guess I was just to impatient or the cache was updating slowly that day. Thanks anyway :) -- Porter21 (talk) 19:28, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

Odin Sphere Wiki
Hello JoePlay, sorry to bother you but I was hoping that if it's not too much trouble you could improve the skin and appearance of the Odin Sphere Wiki and give it a feel similar to the Resident Evil Wiki or the Zelda Wiki, but if it's too much trouble I understand and thank you for taking the time to read this... -The Forgotten Beast 23:08, December 11, 2009 (UTC)

SC Wiki referral numbers changing
I activated the "Referrals" widget a year or two ago and constantly watch the numbers for the StarCraft Wiki. At least twice the numbers have dropped or jumped massively, making me think that occasionally the measuring system has changed. In any case, Google is always listed as the largest source of referrals by far.

For the past two months the numbers from Google have declined quite a bit; I think in the 20% range, but it's not one of the measuring system changes. Given the slow news period, I wasn't particularly surprised, and can't think of any changes to the front page that would account for this.

However, the number of total visits, according to Google Analytics, decreased less than 1% between September and October and actually increased (by less than 1%) between October and November.

So it seems that for some reason, perhaps Google doesn't like the wiki anymore. I was wondering if the SEO changes need to be changed again.

On the plus side, I'm seeing the wiki getting referenced a lot more in various unofficial forums, and it even won this "poll", beating out SC2Armory, although I've got no way to measure how many times it gets referred to. Images also get linked a lot. (Fan forums rarely appear in the Referrals widget.) PSH aka Kimera 757 (talk) 01:10, December 17, 2009 (UTC)

Mafia Wars Wiki
Hi Joe, 2 weeks ago, you mention to me that Wikia is talking with Parizad at Zynga to promote Mafia Wars Wiki in the Official Mafia Wars blog, until now I still dont see any blog entry from them, is the discussion still going on?

Edricteo

Sonic Wiki
Hi JoePlay. As you just left a comment at the Sonic Wiki, I was wondering if you could help me out with a problem I've had there with the Monaco skin. I recently tried changing the colour scheme, so that the user masthead is blue with orange letters and the tabs at the top of regular pages (the ones that say 'Article' and 'Talk Page') are white with black lettering.

However, when you create a subpage of a userpage, the tabs that should be white-and-black instead have white tabs with blue-and-orange boxes in the middle (here's an example). Sonic Wiki has a huge number of such user subpages, so this is quite widespread, but I can't figure out how to change the Monaco skin to prevent it from happening. Do you think you could have a look and tell me what's gone wrong - or, at least, point me in the direction of someone else who could help me? Thank you in advance, Supermorff 23:01, December 23, 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much for helping with those colours, Joe! I'd have had no chance figuring it out by myself. I took your advice with the text colour in the pill buttons too. Thanks again! -- Supermorff 04:01, December 30, 2009 (UTC)


 * Ooh, nice! Thanks for showing me that! -- Supermorff 21:10, December 30, 2009 (UTC)

Hey Joe, I'm Kagimizu, an admin at the Sonic Wiki. You see, a while back I tried to implement the Archive Tool, and while it's there visiually, it doesn't seem to work properly. Could you fix that please?--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 19:35, December 29, 2009 (UTC)

Well, I tried asking his to fix it once before, but he never responded.--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 22:41, December 29, 2009 (UTC)

help please
these two users are vandalizing the articles in Assassin's Creed Wiki: and. Our admin is currently not around so could please ban them? - Silver  Summoner TaLk 06:04, December 31, 2009 (UTC)


 * Both have been blocked, and their edits have been already cleaned up. Joey (talk) 08:46, December 31, 2009 (UTC)

One image
Hi! I'd need one image to be transparent. http://ratchet.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lord_Vorselon.jpg No hurry. HiQu (My talk) 15:35, December 31, 2009 (UTC)

Contact
Excuse me, but could you give me a link to the Contact for Wikia? I need to ask a question. Better yet, is it possible for you to tell me what Wikia's virus protection is? My family has been having some issues, and my dad would like to know what Wikia's virus protection is, to see if Wikia is the source of our problems. If you can answer this question, please answer on my talkpage. If not, please give me a link on my talkpage. Thank you.--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 04:52, January 1, 2010 (UTC)

Call of Duty Wiki
I've created a Call of Duty Wiki in Spanish: es.cod.wikia.com. I know that you made the skin of callofduty.wikia.com and I like it. Can you make a skin like callofduty.wikia.com but in blue colors? In the logo you can put: Call of Duty Wiki Todo sobre esta gran saga (in english means something like: All about this great series)

And in the small icon that appears near URL bar it can be like this: COD1icon Thanks

Tell me something here--sandan 11:19, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

WoooW!! you did a very good work. And very fast! Thanks a lot

I've 2 questions: how can I change the colour of this template to the new blue colour?

How can I change the small icon that I mentioned before? --sandan 22:26, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

The favicon has appeared, thanks. I've tried to put this colors in my template: 015184, 013354, 0E192D, but they're very dark; look here. Can you give me a lighter colour? Another thing, I can't put the first column of this table in blue color. Can you help me? And how can I put the lines between these tables in grey colour? Thanks for all --sandan 20:23, January 6, 2010 (UTC)

I put all the borders in the tables, but when I put the borders in this template they are different, and very ugly. Why happen this? --sandan 15:33, January 7, 2010 (UTC)

Hi JoePlay, sorry if I'm annoying but I've more questions. I created a navbox based on this template but it doesn't work in my wiki and its exactly the same code that in english version. And I tryied here and works! Look: --sandan 22:36, January 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hiya! I've fixed it for you. If you want to change the colours, you can visit this page and change the "hex's" (#000000). Good luck!
 * Thereby, Joe, maybe w:c:es.callofduty should be merged with w:c:es.cod. Mark (Talk) • (Contribs) 22:53, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

LOTR new skin??
I much prefer black print on white or pale background, which in this case means http://gamingskin3.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page or http://gamingskin4.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page or http://gamingskin5.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page.

But LOTR is a Tolkien encyclopedia, not a gaming Wikia. Its front page has a prominent link to w:c:lotrgames.

(DarkLantern is back editing today.)

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 05:46, January 19, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Custom skin (Pixar wiki)
Thanks, I'll try out the new skin and let you know what I think. --Jeff (talk ) 14:29, January 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * The import statement is working fine, thanks. And I like the colors a lot. The only strange thing I noticed is when I'm on a user or user's talk page - the "Edit this page" tab is outlined in white with blue surrounding the words "Edit this page" in white again. On most pages the Edit tab has a white background with the words in black. It's not a big deal to me, I just wasn't sure that's what you were expecting? Otherwise it looks great! Thanks! --Jeff (talk ) 03:48, February 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * The new skin looks great! Thanks for updating the site with it. --Jeff (talk ) 19:30, February 8, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Image
Thank you! HiQu (My talk) 20:05, January 20, 2010 (UTC)

Mass Effect Wiki
Most of our admins and senior editors are taking breaks from the wiki to avoid spoilers before ME2 comes out. There seems to be an awful lot of spoilerish material appearing at the moment, possibly from released videos or leaked copies (or people making stuff up : ) ) so we've already made the decision to stay away. However that does leave us vulnerable to vandalism which has been a major problem lately. Is there any way you could keep an eye on things to ensure the wiki doesn't suffer major vandalism / damage until we're available again? Thanks. --Tullis 13:50, January 23, 2010 (UTC)

Mafia Wars Wiki

 * Just wondering if it was possible to port the entire Wiki, including skins and such to a spanish version of the wikia on wikia.com? This is so we can save time by not trying to recode page by page of stuff and just stuck with translating it. Thanks, Da Irish Kid, mafia wars wiki admin.

Re: Mafia Wars Wiki

 * Cool deal! Altho I noticed that on the main page, both in chrome and firefox, the navigation menu overlaps the logo and such. Not sure if this is a bug or such. Thanks! Da Irish Kid, mafia wars wiki admin.
 * Awesome! Thank you very much! Da Irish Kid

Avatar skin
Hello, I am an admin on the Avatar Wiki, under Matias. We can't quite decide on the skin yet, some of us like it, some of us don't, so we decided to ask the comunity to decide on it. Either way, I would like to thank you for the work you've done. One thing brought up was the fuzziness of the background picture, is there anything you can do to reduce that, it looks like that maybe its zoomed in or it was stretched or something. Matias is leaving on tuesday, so if you can leave a message on my Talk page. Thanks in advance. JayBO
 * Hey just noticed another little thing, our templates don't come out well in the skin, in example the Youmay template is impossible to read. I skimmed through the code and didn't know where to find that bit, is that our fault or does the skin create a lighter background? If you could help with this, making the template background a bit darker, a black or grey, I would much appreciate it. If you could add the edit on my css page so I can see the change it would be great aswell. Again thanks in advance, and I love all the blues on the theme. JayBO
 * Ok, I'm pretty much beta testing now... I have a little problem. I am currently using the theme under my own namespace css page, B/c of this the 2 faces on our main page overlap the Bioluminesence background. This wouldn't be a problem if the theme is set default but, I unchecked "Let the admins override my skin choice." and the faces disappear. Now when I have that disabled, the main page Poll extends into the column next to it, this isn't supposed to happen obviously. But this also was happening last night when we put the skin on the wiki to show it off, the same problem occurred. Matias has informed me that this happened with the older star night skin, and that Multimoog had to change something in the skin code to set it right. again sorry to keep bugging you, but your help is much appreciated. JayBO
 * By the time you read down this far, you probably already hate me. But on the "my Home" page in the activity feed, it is very hard to read the words "Section edited" and "Summary" and even harder to read farther down the page. If those could stand out a little better it would be perfect. and please don't hate me :) JayBO
 * Very nice, those fixes worked beautifully, thank you very much. for the templates, I didn't change anything and it is still quite hard to see. I myself couldn't find the color code. I didn't think it through that you wouldn't see the changes, sorry about that. JayBO
 * Ok, If I understand you right, its an error in coding in the template itself, I jumped to conclusions thinking it was all the templates that are similar, I checked, and they aren't. Thank you for the help, I'll be changing that template. 02:01, February 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem this time, just trying something out, I wanted to see what the blue skin borders and links would look like on the original skin. with the stary background and solid box behind the text, with no transpanecy, I tried myself. but could only get the repeating background, I couldn't find the transparency code. The original background was:

and the text box background was color there were also 2 faces on the sides of the main page, but I don't need that now, and think I can insert that myself. I myself love the skin, but apparantly a little more than half like the original better, so I'm trying to make a comprimise. Thanks again for any help you can provide. JayBO
 * http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/jamescameronsavatar/images/a/a6/Starfield_lrg.jpg'); background-repeat: repeat;
 * 0B0B0B
 * hopefully this is the last time I have to bug you, can you add tje fade effect like on the original picture to this one here people seem to be liking that more. Again, thanks http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/User:JayBO JayBO]
 * Ok, this is just a thank you, for all the work you have done for me in the past week. JayBO

RE: Fixed width main page
Thanks of the offer, but I don't feel that the Fable wiki needs a fixed width. Personally, I feel that it's ugly and unnecessary. There's also some negative feedback in response to your offer on my talk page. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 12:53, February 3, 2010 (UTC)

Template Information Pulling
Is there a way I can make a page pull information from all the pages that have a category? For instance, I have 3 pages with the category Companion and I want a page, aka Page A, to list these in a row, and when I add another page in the category companion I would like for it to automatically be on page A.  Is there a help document somewhere to show me the way? http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/User:Polexian

yo joe
hi i have been doing a lot of contributingto the darkfall wiki. I have noticed though that when i take care of broken pages tehy still remain on the page. I know this is due to the fact that the page needs to be rechached. I dont know if you can or will but i am asking for permission to do such a thing. Or just knowing that when it needs done i can tell you i guess. let me know what you think, thanks man.

ME Wiki sidebar
Hey JoePlay. I've been trying to update the MEWiki sidebar, but I've run into some issues with it. This is the format I've been trying to put it into, but it doesn't seem to be updating:


 * mainpage
 * Characters|Characters
 * Alien Races
 * Classes
 * Screenshots|Screenshots
 * Timeline|Story Timeline
 * Mass Effect
 * Mass_Effect_Guide|Walkthroughs
 * ME_Assignments|Assignments
 * ME_Achievements|Achievements
 * ME Planets|Planets
 * Mass Effect 2
 * Mass_Effect_2 _Guide|Walkthroughs
 * ME2_Assignments|Assignments
 * ME2_Achievements|Achievements
 * ME2 Planets|Planets
 * Mass Effect Galaxy
 * Books
 * Mass Effect: Revelation|Revelation
 * Mass Effect: Ascension|Ascension
 * Mass Effect: Retribution|Retribution
 * Mass Effect Redemption
 * Mass Effect Wiki|Community
 * #topusers#|Featured users
 * portal-url|Community portal
 * forum-url|Forum
 * http://irc.wikia.com/gaming/|Gaming IRC Channel
 * Mass Effect Wiki|Top Content
 * popular#|most_popular
 * visited#|Most visited
 * voted#|highest_ratings
 * newlychanged#|Newly changed
 * blogs-recent-url|blogs-recent-url-text

Any chance you can help us out? --Tullis 20:13, February 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * All wikia wikis have a cache, it'll take some time before you're changes are actually visible. Using  may speed it up. &mdash; Balistic  21:23, February 14, 2010 (UTC)