User talk:Rieke Hain

Irish archaeology wikia
Hi Rieke, thanks for the encouragement for the Irish archaeology Wikia. However I feel this should not be part of a general archaeology wikia as it is a tiny tiny aspect of a tiny part of the world and that it would not make sense to lump these sites together with the Pyramids etc. What I want to do is create a database for Irish researchers and I have not the time or interest in global archaeology. I feel that to make my project part of the large wikia would only confuse people. If you can have so many separate fan sites then maybe you can make room in your heart for this one??? Thanks again John McCarthy 143.117.30.204 15:29, 13. Okt 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi John, I'm answring this per email. Don't worry :-) --rieke 03:22, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

eWrestling admin or something like that
I am so interested in this position. Email me with details how I optian this right. Thanks Sundogs 18:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * done :-) --rieke 14:17, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you so much Rieke! One question, I deleted things that had 'delete' on it and I deleted it, question - How do I remove the links in the maintenance page? Thanks again. Sundogs 17:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Sundogs, your deletions were all correct :-) As you may have noticed already, you are also able to view or restore pages that were deleted. But be careful with images: they are still not recoverable when they were deleted (this will be possible in the future, when we'll upgrade MediaWiki).
 * Hmm, which "links in the maintenance page" do you mean exactly? Most of the entries in Category:Maintenance are supposed to be there, or not? --rieke 18:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I ment the page(s) that had the marked for deletion on them were in the maintenance page, with me so far, and I deleted them except for the needed files. After the deletion was done, the page were deleted were still listed as needed to be deleted. How do I get them off of there. Thanks. Sundogs 18:14, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. Please simply try to reload the page or clear your cache. If this doesn't help, you may purge that page. Hope, this helps :-) --rieke 18:25, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Rieke, may I make a small change to the Main Page to let everyone know about the switch of Administrators? Or should I post this in the Discussion Page? Also, I like to have a Administrator's Box (a content box where I, and other staff, can only post thoughts, notices, and other related things) on the Main Page? Thanks again for helping. Sundogs 03:14, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Quick help here, I am trying to make a Company Template. Each time I do it; it comes out offsidedly. What is the easiest way to do this without the headache? Thanks. Sundogs 05:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Comic Series Wikia
You're welcome. I've pretty much just been holding the line with shipping dates and schedules since most of our other frequent contributors faded away. It'd be nice to attract some more people to get this a little more robust... --Davidscarter 20:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * answer --rieke 18:19, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Pen Pal Wiki
Can you check the Pen Pal Wiki when you get the time? I've done a lot of restructuring, there. See if you think it's on the right track. CQ 10:20, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Ein Bitte und eine Frage
Vielen Dank für das andere Symbol! Aber wäre es nicht möglich, dieses Symbol als Symbol hierfür oben links einzusetzen?

Noch eine Technixsche Frage: Hat Wikia eine andere Software wie die Wikipedia, oder muss ich bestimmte Dinge hier noch programmieren? Z.B. erscheint eine Navigationsleiste hier nicht so wie in der Wikipedia, obwohl alles genau übernommen wurde.

In jedem Fall Dank' im Vorraus und

Gruß aus dem Allgäu, Lupíro Lupirka 14:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * answer --rieke 19:08, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Deleting talk pages
Hello, i might have it wrong, but in most places i've seen that use wikis it's quite rude to edit/delete talk pages, unless they are the act of vandalism. The fact that you don't see the page as needed doesn't mean that it's actually not useful to anybody else. At very least you could request for the actual editor to do so. Thanks. Ethical Anarhist 06:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Ethical Anarhist, thanks for this note. The pages you're probably talking about were orphaned redirects, or very old one-or-two-entry-lists that were (already) better substituted by a category. Can you tell me what the use of Student associations (an orphaned redirect, also broken before) and the page College and University Student associations (from 2005, only one entry) is in comparison to the open Category:Student Associations?


 * Hum, the only talk page I've recently deleted on Students Wikia, was Talk:How do I... - and that was your question ("Can somebody please explain to me the purpose of this page? Ethical Anarhist 08:10, 30 Mar 2005") regarding the use of the page How do I... (only content since March 2005: "Please list in alphabetical order [Follow cricket]"). So, do you really want to restore that page? Or, what is its need, if the correcponding page itself is without a need? To get it right: Do you want to keep talk pages of regularly deleted articles?
 * And what do you mean with "it's quite rude to edit/(...) talk pages"? A bit puzzled ... --rieke 09:21, 29 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I actually agreed to the deletion of How do I... article, but with the removal of the Talk page i think you jumped the gun. Does it waste space in the database? No, because after deletion it's still there. Does it ensure that the page doesn't get recreated? No, in fact it doesn't raise the point of page having no merrit.
 * I'm just saying this because i'm an admin on a few wikis and i've made a very simmilar error, and upset some people causing them to leave. Try to assume good faith. Ethical Anarhist 09:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, this is known, but what is the actual need of keeping talk pages of deleted articles, especially if their is no real "discussion" on this talk page, that could be seen as useful in the future in any way? Otherwise you could also argue, that we have to keep every "stupid" and never worked out attempt for a new page (like "The food at HSU is bad." - created in 2005, don't even know where this university should be, or if this abbreviation exists), unless it is clear vandalism like SHIT-F*** or so ;-)
 * My experience is, that you have to keep a wiki clear, and remove obviously pointless or offtopic pages, to get it up and running. This is because nearly all visitors dislike seeing such "empty pages" (without real content) after every second click. They feel lost when there are no links between pages (that they can follow through the project) and when there is nothing or nothing worthy to read after the first three or four clicks. Then, they'll leave the site. This behaviour is well known... We have to create good content, that is what counts :-) You see, I don't delete because of database issues (what would be wrong, as you correctly pointed out above), but because of user friendliness.
 * So, I can't see the deletion in this precise case as an error, sorry. --rieke 09:53, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Misbehaving footer - some CSS help wanted
Hello Rieke,

I've noticed you made some modifications on the recently started hungarian WoWWiki Wikia to make the custom css code more readable. Thank you for that. I have a question you might be able to answer. Here goes:

If you take a look at this page you can see that the footer (including the disclaimers, etc.) is "under" the google ads bar. The problem is more noticeable at a screen resolution of 1024x768. Now my question would be: is there a way to "tell" the footer in some css code or whatever to behave and move itself down under the bottom border of the "largest" bar on the page? (So that the top border of the footer would be under the end of the google ads bar.) Or if there is a solution to make the footer "shrink" somewhat and fit under the main article, would also be a good solution. It would be very good to teach this footer element some manners because this would otherwise be a problem on any of the wiki pages where the main article is "shorter" than the google ads bar.

Anyway thanks for reading and I hope you can share some wisdom in this issue. --rpotor 05:40, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Wiki creation
Hi Rieke, Got a request at  I've been working on. Everything is agreed, but the code is wrong - it should be gl. and not ga. But gl isn't on the selection list, so I can't make it. I've asked Jason, but he's not come back on channel and I have to go. I'd really like this made soon, this guy has waited so long already, so is there any chance you could try and get it made? If Jason can help that is... The description page is ready, it just needs making and the founder mailing. Thanks for any help, see you next week -- sannse (talk) 00:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi sannse, I'll care about it. See you :-) --rieke 06:28, 3 November 2006 (UTC)