User talk:Merrystar

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Help?
Hi! Thanks for the message on my talk page. To be honest, I do have one question. I have spent a long time trying to find out how to change the name of my wiki. Although the front page says that it is called "Two Pints Wiki", on the main page it says "Two Pints and Grownups Wiki", it's old title. Could you please help me change it? I have asked on some of the help pages, but no one's answered yet. Thanks! --Twopintsfan 19:18, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok. It's been changed.  Let me know if you have any other questions!  -- Wendy  (talk ) 21:28, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! You don't know how much this has helped me!  Thanks again! --Twopintsfan 19:21, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Categorizing?
Hi Wendy,

Thanks for helping me with getting A Wiki of Unfortunate Events back up and running, but I have a question. Why does the information in my wiki have to be categorized?

And on those spoiler tags, I didn't put some of those there, the founders of the wiki did. Unfortunately, the founders abandoned the wiki about a year ago and then I found it and immediately started working on it.

Also, since you said that you recognized that I would like more people on my wiki, do you know of any ways to advertise about it somehow?

Thanks,



--Asoue 00:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi Asoue -- I answered you on your snicket talk page :o). -- Wendy  (talk ) 03:07, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Search picture
Wendy,

On Wookiepedia, I noticed that the search box had a picture on it and I thought that that would look cool on A Wiki of Unfortunate Events. I don't know if you are still checking out this section of my talk page, and I know you help with the Entertainment Wikia's, do you know how I could this search like that.

Thanks, --Asoue 01:45, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I will also post this message on your talk page.

!!!
Wendy,

I think I figured this out with that page you gave me. I also figured out how to personialize my signature ( ~ ). I can make one for you if you like <:-).

Thanks,

Jonathan "Asoue1286" Snicket (Leave a message on my Talk Page)A Wiki of Unfortunate Events

’’A Wiki of Unfortunate Events’’ Newsletter
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Jonathan "Asoue1286" Snicket Leave a message on my Talk PageA Wiki of Unfortunate Events: We're Very Concerned

’’The Daily Punctilio’’ Gets a Logo
‘’A Wiki of Unfortunate Events’’ is happy to announce that ’’The Daily Punctilio’’ has just gotten a new logo designed by one of the Volunteers Finding Depictions. You can see it now on the ’’The Daily Punctilio’’ newspaper. If you would like to become a Volunteer Finding Depictions, leave a message on Asoue1286’s Talk Page or go to the ‘’Volunteering Jobs’’ page located on the Main Sidebar.

New Personalized Wiki Signatures ( ~ )
‘’A Wiki of Unfortunate Events’’ now has personalized wiki signatures ( ~ ). They can include your username with a link to your User Page, a small picture (optional), a link to your talk page with your own message, and an optional message or ad. To get one, leave a message on Asoue1286’s Talk Page saying you want one and what you want on it. Once he creates it for you, he will give you the rest of the instructions. These signatures can be used on any other Wikia wiki, too.

’’A Wiki of Unfortunate Events’’ Is Getting a Facelift!!!
We at ‘’A Wiki of Unfortunate Events’’ are working on remodeling the whole entire wiki. That means rewriting all articles, reversing all spam, deleting all bad pages, remodeling the Main Page, and more!! But it isn’t going to be easy, and we need your help (this sounds like something off of Dora the Explorer :-). If you are interested in helping, simply edit an article or start a new one. If you don’t know where to start, check out the Suggestions page. For jobs that you can volunteer for, check out the Volunteering Jobs page, found on the Main Sidebar. ‘’’Note: If you volunteer for one of the jobs, you WILL NOT be paid.’’’

Re: Spotlight
Hey Wendy, Thanks in advance for the spotlight on the L&O wiki! I'll make sure that every article is categorized. Greetings, --ThePegasus 16:02, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi again Wendy, I was wondering how long the waiting list for the spotlights could be. I requested the spotlight a month ago...and still nothing. Several other wikia's (for example GTA and Recipes wikia) do appear, although they haven't been on the waiting list. Anyway, just checking. I hope the spotlight will appear soon. Thanks for your help.
 * Greetings, --ThePegasus 20:43, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Wanted Articles
Hi, Merrystar, I was wondering if you could tell me how to delete wanted articles off of the wanted articles page, because there's an article that's not supposed to be there, at all, wanted or otherwise. If there's a way to remove it, could you please send me a message here on how to do so. Thanks. Pyro Python 00:17, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Merrystar, that article's gone now. :)
 * Pyro Python 22:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Categorizing Pages
Merrystar or Wendy, whichever you prefer, I was wondering if there was a way that when a page with a certain prefix is created that a category is automatically included. I mean like with the Card Trivia: and Card Tips: prefix pages. If there is a way, could you tell me how? If not, is there something similar to it? Thanks either way! U.D.K. (Talk Contribs Local Local Talk) 00:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Question
Hi Wendy, first of all, thanks for all of your help in getting the WWiki up for spotlighting. Secondly, though, on April 4th, you left me a message on my talk page, saying that my spotlight had gone up. I haven't seen it yet. Is it coincidental that I haven't seen it, or is it not up yet? Thanks again, Eu ( Talk! Contribs ) 13:14, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks :)

About the monaco skins. I made them the default skin for the site, but my fellow Bureacrat, Kitsufox reverted it, going back to Quartz. I've fixed it back now, hopefully she'll let me keep it this way this time :p Eu ( Talk! Contribs ) 17:47, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Lemony Snicket Wiki Spotlight
Hi Wendy!

I was wondering if I could use the Quartz-custom skin instead of the Monacco skins. The Monnaco skins just don't- eh...-fit on that wiki and I'm just not too keen on them (except that the custom ones look awesome on the Doofus wiki and others like it). Also, what all would I put on a welcome page?

Thanks,

Asoue1286

Hi Wendy,

Thank you for your offer to help with records.wikia.com I started this wikia earlier but soon I found out that, even with my basic html knowledge, I was having hard time setting up the wikia. I'm afraid I won't be any use to this wikia any longer. If anyone else is interested to take it over, please do so.

kind regards, arthur Urarthur 12:21, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Dark Angel Wiki
Greetings! I appreciate your offer of help, and I could use some of it. So here's my question: How do I create a new infoboxes for my Wiki? Mighty MeYou may speak 01:34, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

For the moment, I just need a Character Infobox. If you can make that for me, I can probably base the other ones off of it when the time comes.

I'll need it to have the following fields:
 * Species
 * Group
 * Occupation
 * Status
 * Portrayed By

If I think of others, I should be able to add them myself. Mighty MeYou may speak 03:20, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Layout question
Hi, Wendy. Thanks for offering your help over on GingaWiki. I have a question about layouts. You see, I'm an idiot when it comes to css coding, and I tryed to enter a css layout on my page, via the Monobook.css page, but it doesn't show up on the site. Could you please help? :)

Also, I was wondering if there is any site out there that offers Wikia layouts, as me and my pals are too busy/dumb to make one ourselves. Thanks.

Icerobot 23:13, 5 May 2008 (UTC)Icerobot

Layout Question
Sorry, I acidently posted twice. :|

Icerobot 23:13, 5 May 2008 (UTC)Icerobot

Club Penguin Wiki spotlight
Hi again. Actually, we do have a Welcome template. It's found at Template:Welc on the Club Penguin Wiki. I'll have some of the other users on the wiki to start working on the categories. When we're done either stop by or I'll drop you a line. Thanks!-- B a r k j o n 16:56, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

on the wikia spotlight page
people are clicking leave message and so arn't seeing the message saying please put new requests at top, maybe you should consider putting that message on the top of the page (visibly) so people can actually take note of it.

-- Semaj draehs - Talk page 09:26, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

R.E. Illogicopedia
Thanks for the reply, we're not decided on what to do about monaco yet as consensus has been taken, but at least you said we were doing well, so have an Illogicopedian pat on the back & my own personal thumbs up :D -- 07:16, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: The X-Files Wiki
Hi, Merrystar. Thanks for your message on The X-Files Wiki. I definitely think the site could be improved by adding more to the help/style pages, so new users have a better guide as to how to contribute, but I have very little idea as to how to do this and how to phrase help text properly (I also know hardly anything about css - most of the style of The X-Files Wiki was copied from Memory Alpha, the main Star Trek wiki)! There are several issues that frequently crop up that I'd like to avoid happening, so often (such as users often copying info from wikipedia/other internet sources, verbatim).

Also, help with moving over to the new Monaco stylesheet would be much appreciated! Is there anything that you/wikia can do about more advertising for the site, as there are tons of X-Files fans & sites out there and yet not much of a community on The X-Files Wiki (usually about three/four users maximum at a time) - is/are there any indication(s) as to what would increase the popularity of the site, apart from the new movie coming out?! Despite its name, The X-Files Wiki is about more than just The X-Files - it's also about related series Millennium and The Lone Gunmen but the majority of users who contribute don't seem to know this, so raising awareness with fans of the other, lesser known series would be good.

Any help would be muchly appreciated, even if it was only advice on how to improve the wiki or gain more assistance, but practical help would admittedly be more valuable! --Mulder 00:22, 9 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply and your compliment regarding The X-Files logo I created - I've always thought it might be good if it included an element from each of the three series the site encompasses, but it could also look too busy! In regards to a welcome template, there is Template:welcome. I did start using it, but no users have "stuck around" (even if they were "welcomed"!) so gave up using the template! Most users show very little interest in any rules/regulations/structured method(s) of contributing, but edit the pages only as they want to! For example, I've deleted several images that have been "badly named" (images uploaded to a namespace that's the same as the episode the image is taken from, rather than a description of what the image includes so there's more of an option whether it will be used to represent the episode or not on the relevant episode page - hope that makes sence; intentional spelling error!) :-), but they're still uploaded (check out the recent changes to see what I mean)! In regard to the new monaco skin, it would be best to copy the style that is already implemented, but there are still a few brown parts from MA that I've always wondered how to change. These include the introductory tables at the top of articles about main characters and episodes, as well as the middle of the three lines in the navigation templates used at the bottom of episode and season articles. Could you show me how to recolor these sections (what lines of css do this) so they can be color coordinated with the mainly blue style of the rest of the site? I was also wondering if wikia could spread the news about this wiki to all the users of wikipedia in Category:Wikipedians who like The X-Files - this is obviously more than a one-person job, though! --Mulder 06:28, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: UK Railways Wiki + Tractor Wiki
Hi Wendy I've been looking round other vehicle and transport Wikis and found the Railways Wiki the front page has been (attempted) to be modified to match the UK Tram Wiki one by a sysop / admin but they appear to have abandoned it and left it with a title that says Tram Wiki, a picture of a Tram and various non existent pages / templates. I am not up on coding yet (tried a little bit on Tractors Wiki but not got it yet). Can it be fixed or a Standard front page re fixed (Wiki not active by the look but I've made a few edits and other Wikis point to it).

Are there any criteria to get a Wiki featured as I've now got 350 page but no editors for the tractor Wiki, it now appears in some searches on yahoo on the front page when I've search for stuff and search list shows over 1300 for Google, is this good ?

Can I get some help / point me to good examples to customise the side bar on tractor Wiki, my coding attempts not functioning very well. Also tried to copy Wikipedia templates for tags but not looking right (cleanup) and (Image required) - Thanks in advance - BulldozerD11 12:02, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks Wendy for sorting out Railways Wiki back to working front page. As it looked daft saying Trams Wiki on it. Can see what & when they tried to change it, but leaving it a mess was poor.


 * Will look at criteria later thanks.


 * Thanks for fixing side bar. will discus that on your talk on tractor wiki. Templates look good now, i just need to add a camera logo to image one. and gets some others. The cataloguing of entries (pages) its applied to was part of the point of using them as on wikipedia. - BulldozerD11 19:43, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

New! Add Images feature
Hi Wendy comment on the "New! Add Images" feature; When using it only 3/4 of Dialogue box contents visible, the Comment box is half hidden by the border, and the buttons not visible ?

Also when I have loaded one image and click to load another, it will only let u select from image library, not up load ? If there is a better place to ask about this please point me there, thanks BulldozerD11 19:53, 15 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Not the sidebar but the Dialogue box's border. Im on Mozilla Firefox on a Laptop, will try on the desk top latter - BulldozerD11 20:32, 15 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Tried on the desktop and it looks OK with full box contents visable, so dialogue box must not resize correctly for Laptops screen ratio.


 * Think Ive got the Side bar editing sorted now and have expanded it. Borrowed a few bits of help/policy bits and simple templates from Muppet wiki. Is there a guide to coding as the Talkheader from Wikipedia is a nightmare with transcluded ??? pages, that the more you find the more you need. The cleanup tag looks good now, just got to sort the others to auto generate the list of pages needing work.- BulldozerD11 02:38, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Less Then Jake - Dopeman (Beastie Boy Remix)?
Hello, I'm a Beastie Boy fan and I was wondering if you had any further information on this track? I seem to remember hearing that this was a DJ Hurricane remix of the track, but I cannot find anything on the LTJ wiki about it. Any info you've got would rock.

Muchos Danke!

Campbeln [at] gmail [dot] com


 * Hi. I have very little knowledge about LTJ -- I just help out at the wiki.  I'd ask the founder there.  -- Wendy  (talk ) 18:05, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Spawn Wiki
Hey Wendy! I was wondering if you could help me settop templates for my Spawn Wiki! Please get back to me as soon as you can! :)

Re: Templates
Well, I needs a lot of templates for heroes, villians,objects,Artists, Writers,and Comics. I am still thinking about all the other templates I need but I will get back to you with all of them ASAP :)

Xenopedia
Would it be possible for me to administer Xenopedia? It seemed that the previous admin has done a poor job at returning the Wiki's standard and preventing vandals from altering informations. I've tried contacting the Administrator but still received no answers.

P.S. I've imported a lot of standard templates but was shocked when Xenopedia didn't have a Help Page within the Wiki..Little _ Missy</tt> -  15:57, 27 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi LittleMissy. I took a look at xenopedia, and there is still one active admin -- VampyrumSpectrum08.  You might try leaving a message on his talk page about any concerns you have.  In the meanwhile, keep working on the wiki (you're doing a nice job there it looks like), and if he agrees I can see about making you an admin as well.  -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 01:27, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Irwin Allen Wiki spotlight
Hi Wendy, and thanks for puting the IAW in the spotlight! I am really looking forward to the results! Thanks for your kind complement about the wiki being organized. Well, the article info might be well organized but the templates aren't i'm afraid. We do have a welcome template (for ip addresses and registered users) its just hard to find. I will work on that. I'll keep an eye out for those uncategorized pages to. Thanks again — Mary ( talk ) 03:02, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you mind if I ask a quick question? Do you have any idea when the Irwin Allen spotlight will go up? I'm trying to get the wiki ready, improving templates, categorys, ect. Thanks in advance! — Mary ( talk ) 16:00, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

The Flash Wiki Site Skin
Hi Wendy I was wondering if you could make a skin for my wiki site for The Flash it is badly need of a new skin the look of the skin I kind of want is the colors and the simple basic look of The Flash's uniform or costume that you see in the comics user Doomlurker recomended you because he thought you were the best person for the job and I agreed with him because I saw how amazing the skins look on both of his sites the Batman site and the Aquaman site. I simply hoping you can help me solve this problem and get a new skin for my wiki site The Flash. If you need to reach me just send me a message on my talk page on either one of the two main sites that I run which are Green Arrow and The Flash. Well thats it talk to you later and thanks again I hope you can help.

From Rod12

Happy Tree Friends Wiki
Hello. The founder, and only bureaucrat/admin at http://www.happytreefriends.wikia.com, is inactive. May I be an administrator there so that I can take care of deletions, blocks, etc.? Thank you. --UberScienceNerd 18:36, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Loss of Edit Buttons (Icons)
Hi Wendy I seem to have lost some of the edit Window Buttons (At the Tractors Wiki), I think I actually dragged them on to the page (Pages have been slow loading) and then deleted them thinking it was something I'd pasted wrong and the bit of auto added code that you get when you click the bold, italic and image buttons across the top. Example

Can you point me to a template Expert as having problems with wikipedia templates (Convert function) Example, (Navbox) and others this shows edit display and Navbox under construction which will not display right and effects the Spotlight logos some times. Had left a message for one of the other Wikia Admin /Helpers here who had Visited and left a message on my talk but no reply.talk:BulldozerD11 my Talk

Asking you as you fixed the Side bar form before, after my editing attempts went wrong before - Thanks- BulldozerD11 13:59, 13 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Wendy see you had a look at the problems. The Icons have reappeared, but Load image button does not work ?. (Left a message on your talk page at Tractor wiki last week), Thought Id check in here as not sure how your getting on as no message :(

The {pp-xxxxxxx} templates are only to put a message up on pages that are edit locked (most pages that had them i commented them out, unless I missing something totally this should not be effecting the none display or corrupt display that is happening on template pages or in template out put. The first odd display was getting appearing. The transcluded doc pages with transcluded message boxes on them display the Icon outside them with a bit of code, so some things jumping out side a loop or a functions missing. Importing Doc pages brings yet more call to other templates used as examples, I've stopped some by replacing with a dummy Example. The doc pages often ref to wikipedia pages which I swapped some to Tractor wiki pages to replace them. Others need to go to the Wikia equivalent, whats the correct way to address these pages other than Full http:/ /www.xxxxxx/wiki/item. Id missed that some bits need the .js .css files altering. Can you point me to any documentation on this. Is there a dictionary of wiki markup code ?

Why are lines breaking after Example is used in a line so the part after jumps to a second line unlike this one? ---BulldozerD11 00:43, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks Wendy, Peterparker (Nathan) has got the PP- messages working so thats a start, and I'll have a read of the pages at the link on coding you left me. With Help can probably get a version that works of the templates that are most useful as was trying to avoid re writing all the pages, I striped a lot of the never used links out on import of pages, so its getting the other bits working, by building New Infoboxes is probably quickest, like you suggested. Was hopping to get to 500 pages by end of this month, but for individual models realy need to Standardise the pages with pre done templates.


 * Thank for explanation on pp-meta and why not working. Icons are back but found that Upload Image dose not function is this due to JS or CSS file changes ? - BulldozerD11 17:34, 21 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes Wendy; the one on the Edit toolbar / New add Image above. It was working just after I lost the Icons but then it stopped working. (the one that was displaying slightly wonky) That ones easier to use only problem is the lack of license options "Non or CC y sa 3.0". And the Form (box) not resizing correctly for different screen ratio. Image uploads tedious but i've found the multi upload tool to try. I've still got 100's of images to upload. Is there any way to catalogue them other than manually adding each one individually (have added auto cataloguing to the Licence tags.


 * Can you get images from wikicommons Example (one of my photos Ive used on WP) without down loading them (to local HD) and then uploading them ( so can retain the copyright data and attributions, without having to re type it / cut and paste it). Thanks for help - BulldozerD11 19:43, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Adrian Mole Wiki:Adoption request
Thanks for your advice, I will wait it out till I pass the 60 day since i became an admin on advance wars wiki mark then.(I have contacted the current admin, but as he/she was only on between 4 and a half hours at all i'm not to hopeful)

Thank you

-- Semaj draehs - Talk page 18:57, 20 August 2008 (UTC)