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Double toolbar patch
Hi!. As you know, on MW1.12 wikias, on Monobook there's a double edit toolbar. I don't know when it will get fixed (as it isn't an emergency) but if you think is good, there's a code that can be put in MediaWiki:Global.js to patch it until it gets fixed. It also prevents the MiniUpload button to appear, since it's broken. If no, there's no problem, I'll put it in the forum so individual wikis could patch it if they want, just wanted to have a more global solution and the patch could be removed also globally when gets fixed. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 20:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * This has now been fixed. Angela (talk)


 * I'm afraid no. Look for example. The function that adds the toolbar (mwSetupToolbar) is called twice when the page loads, using hookEvent("load", mwSetupToolbar);, the first here and the second here, so the buttons are added twice. In fact, seems that all the code in wikibits.js is repeated in allinone.js, so this is just one visible the problems -there are others, yes. I'd done a hard reload of the page, in firefox and internet explorer.


 * Oh, and this happens only in monobook, but my patch works well for any skin, because in case that there's no toolbar (exactly less than 5 images in the toolbar, because somebody (like me) could had added some buttons "by hand", I put 5 as example) 2 seconds after the load finishes, it calls the mwSetupToolbar to set it up. So the patch should be put inside an if (skin!=monobook) or something. Note that I put the patch in Common.js, so you can test that the toolbar still appears in other skins. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 18:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Search
Also, after some chat with the community on #searchwikia and the approval from Jimbo, it would be best that ConfirmEdit for new external links be added to search.wikia to help filter spambots from real people creating mini articles. If you would find some time to turn that on.

Thanks a lot! :) -- 07:46, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Unregistered users, not everyone. -- 13:34, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I've asked the tech team to implement this. Angela (talk)

Contact in Germany
Hi Angela:

I am looking for a contact of Wikia in Germany. Thanks for your help.

Best. Matthias

Matthias Grenda Project biografieBLOG.com e-mail: matthias@biografieblog.com Homepage: www.biografieblog.com


 * We don't have anyone based in Germany yet, but will do from February. You should be getting a reply to your email about this soon. Angela (talk) 16:45, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

RE: OggHandler
I'm afraid that the example use of OggHandler here doesn't seem to work. - Greenpickle(talk)

It still doesn't work. I know my computer has the appropriate plugins, as it works for me at Wikipedia. The error given is  Not allowed http://images.wikia.com/genealogy/images/b/b1/%27s_Kitchen1.2.ogg , so there must be some installation error. - Greenpickle(talk)


 * If I may add here, IE 7, as well as Firefox, with Windows Vista and the Quicktime player that is installable from the link, works superbly. However, the advised Java player still gives the same message as Greenpickle mentioned.--Prezintenden(talk) 14:43, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * If it is only the java player causing problems, would making one of the other players the default help? Angela (talk) 12:29, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Pls come back and check if it works for you. -- Nef (talk) 13:39, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, no errors whatsoever. I am assuming that the last step necessary would be the installation? Thank you for the assistance.--Prezintenden(talk)16:28, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yep, working. - Greenpickle(talk)

Administrator on Search Wikia
I would serve as an administrator on Search Wikia, if you will have me. Fred Bauder 21:17, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

IRC cloak request
Hi Angela! I am Tomsen on freenode and I would like the cloak wikia/tomsen. Greetings Tomsen (talk) 13:37, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I've asked seanw for this, but he's offline right now. Let me know in a couple of days if you still don't have a cloak. Angela (talk) 04:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I have the cloak. Thanks, Angela. Greetings Tomsen (talk) 11:20, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Christian Music forums not working
Support for the favicon will be added soon. The music forum is working for me. Can you see this post? I've asked the tech team to make the forum name changes since the interface to edit these directly on the wiki seems to have stopped working. Angela (talk) 12:24, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No. Just a similar message.  I see the forum in the forum list again, but it doesn't work as before.  As for favicons, many pages at ChristianMusic use the default W icon.

Would you prefer to use the normal wiki-based forums (like these)? We don't really have any staff who understand how to use phpbb well enough to resolve these problems. I can't find any reason why |this post would not be visible to you. Angela (talk) 04:18, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No. I specifically waited rather than implementing them because of problems with that system.  Those included things like confusing thread layouts (for the typical user predicted for Christian Music, that wouldn't take much). Will (Talk - contribs) 20:09, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * TOR is looking into the remaining problems here. Angela (talk)

Sysop rights
Hello Angela. I'm the unic user of the Italian Harry Potter Wikia, a project founded on october 2007 but that weren't never really started (the original admins have no edits). I would ask you to give me the sysop rights on the wiki, if you can, because I want starting the project but I can't edit the main page or the grafic (and I can't publicize a wiki without main page ;-)) Could you do it? Thanks, —K (talk) P.S.: sorry for my bad English.

Music Wiki Forums
Hi happy new year,

Thanks for making me an admin over at w:c:Music things seem to be going well

Just a few questions:
 * Are you able to add some forums to Music for us as there don't seem to be any? I left a message for JohnQ about this here, but i guess he is busy
 * What is the difference in purpose between tunes wiki and music wiki, and could they be merged?
 * Could a music hub be created here on central? as none of the music realted wikias appear to be doing that well

I hope this is not asking too much

--Anarchyuk  (talk) 18:55, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ahh, according to the breadcrumbs below the search box on music, music is under miscellaneous, which is a bit weird. if you could move it to entertainment and then i'd be happy to discuss the possibility of a music hub with danny. But i feel entertainment is more appropriate than miscellaneous.

Anarchyuk  (talk) 17:18, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the suggestion. I've put it into entertainment now. It's cached, so it might not show up for a day or two. Angela (talk) 10:56, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Linux Sysops
What's the policy on selecting wiki Sysops? Dr.Jones 20:39, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

threat
Hi Angela,

A registred user threatened me on desencyclopédie (see and ). I'm almost certain that he is a vandal that I banned yesterday for removing the content of a few pages. Is there a way in such a case to get his IP adress ? PiRK 14:40, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Have we improved?
Back on 20 November 2006, you wrote on the Main Page Talk for 24.wikia.com that we suffered from "one of the lowest percentages of page views from logged in users." We have recently posted a brand new banner and restructured the Main Page. In looking at the site statistics for Wiki 24, has there been any kind of improvement from the old number, 98.2%, which indicated a high percentage of views from non-registered users? Blue Rook 05:51, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if we can still get stats on this, but I'll check with Michael. Angela (talk) 10:56, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

types of blocks
Could you please let the admins at Teletraan-I know about the different types of blocks? When registered users are blocked, the admins keep using the "anonymous users only, account creation disabled" setting. I'd do it myself, but I'm not an admin anywhere, so I don't know all the various options involved. Thanks. --FortMax 19:19, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I will get the help:blocking page updated to cover those options and then let them know about the page. Angela (talk) 10:56, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

IRC Cloak
I would be interested in getting an IRC Cloak from Wikia. I am GlacierWolf on freenode.  Gl ac ier Wo lf   22:09, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll ask freenode staff for that now. Angela (talk) 10:56, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I want to be an Admin
Hello,

What would it take for me to become one? I want to become one for A Wiki of Unfortunate Events only.

Thanks, --Asoue1286 04:14, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Pt-br
The "Portuguece-Brazilian Resident Evil Wikia" (long name) seems to have problems... Well... well the site can't use the special page link (the thing) to other pages on its sisters'. even more so the fact that the pt-br hasn't been created. Can you help?Forerunner 15:05, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Adoption
Myself and CommanderTony would like to adopt the military wikia at http://military.wikia.com. -- 18:36, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Fanon vs. Fan Fiction
At Halo Fanon and Fanon Wiki, I've suggested that their names be changed to "Halo Fan Fiction" and "Fan Fiction Wiki," respectively. On Halo Fanon, more people are in support of the name change than are against, and ('cause discussion counts more than votes anyway), only one person has any reason not to change the name, and their reason promotes the incorrect definition of "fanon" anyway. I was wondering if you could take a look, and maybe even change the name if you think enough people are in support for all the right reasons, and all that rot. Fanon Wiki doesn't really have any community, though, other than JMan2.0, so the only vote is mine, in support. Yeah. Thanks! =D  Guesty - Persony - Thingy  23:46, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * K... some people at Halo Fanon were wondering when the debate would close, which is the only reason I asked this soon... I'll go start the same forum on any other "Fanon" wikis, and get back to you. =D  Guesty - Persony - Thingy  22:32, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm... the majority of people seem to think different things based on where you go. At Halo Fanon, 4:3 people agree:disagree with the name change. So far as SWFanon, 0:2 people agree... but at Halo Fanon, most people actually have reasons not to change it, while, at SWFanon, they seem to have the opinion of "it's always been this so it shouldn't change." And, like you say, all should be changed at once... how about a vote on Central or something? Because this is sort of a big issue, and people's opinions shouldn't be distorted by what everyone on their wiki thinks. Bye!  Guesty - Persony - Thingy  04:36, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Brandon Rhea here. I'm an Administrator over at Star Wars Fanon. No offense to GPT intended or anything, but if this name change thing is so important then perhaps someone from Wikia staff should be sent to suggest this name change rather than someone who has never contributed to our community outside of talk pages. Also, this is only a suggestion that he posted. He never said we needed to do this, nor has a Wikia staff member, so I don't see why this is being pushed on us to begin with. --Brandon Rhea (talk)

editor behavior
Hi. I go to a Wikia to experiment edit and practise my English. It is call Final Fantasy Wiki. I make correction and small article so that when I come back I can make it big later, but the man in charge delete it. Then come a lot of editor they harass me and insult my English. one of them this guy: "Maverick King - Hannibal Lecter eats all including your precious Auron and Sephiroth: TALK - When the lambs stopped screaming Why you no like help? We only help you, you no need to be donkey about help. Lorr supposed be lol right? You talk about all action bu you no have userpage yet. lorr. go back dry cleaning" this what he say to me. So I no good English, but I add article for the wiki. Then I got ban. The editor in that Wiki not very good to newcomer. This where they talk to me User talk:60.49.50.231. I now create account and try learn how to edit better, but the people in that wiki they need to learn how to behave to newcomer. Thank you and keep good working. Samseng 09:26, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

AutoCAD wiki
Hi, Angela. I hope you are having a nice day, and that Wikia is doing well. I am a very new immigrant here from Wikipedia, where you welcomed me graciously in 2003 at the Book of Mormon page, and I have since become an admin and all. It has been a wonderfully transforming experience for me. You did a great thing being nice to me then.

Anyway, I am looking carefully into starting a meaningful wiki for the DWG/AutoCAD/Intellicad/Bricscad/CAD(maybe) community, and I see that you made the first edit to AutoCAD wiki in Feb 2007 here. Pretty much nothing has happened since then, and I am wondering if you could point me in the direction of the original requester for that wiki. Thanks a million! Tom Haws 17:40, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Here's a little more info on where I may be headed. I am coordinating this with others so that we do this right. So movement may be a little slow. I may want to adopt the AutoCAD wiki, since no action has happened since February. I would propose leaving the current owner's rights intact, and then giving me bureaucrat and sysop rights there. But not yet. I also may be interested in "renaming" or "moving" the AutoCAD wiki to DWGWiki (more Corporation/Software agnostic, if you know what I mean; there do exist AutoCAD clones) or CADWiki (huge scope and lots of softwares), depending on my talks. Would that be possible? It only has like two pages currently, one of which I added last week, and two templates I added. I believe there is demand in the huge online DWG community for this, so I want to do it right and keep my eyes and ears open. Any help you can give me, Angela, will be golden. Tom Haws 20:02, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I've left you a reply on AutoCAD wiki. Angela (talk) 10:55, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much, Angela. I see you have even made yourself a user page there!  I am so new to Wikia I am not sure what all the conventions, etc. are here, so I'm replying to you here.  I am in active talks this week with AutoCAD community folks, and I will be making some tests.  Hopefully I can settle on a URL and name within a week or two.  Can you please give me a pointer to an explanation of Wiki naming and urls at Wikia?  Thanks Tom Haws 14:41, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Warcraft wiki
Hello Angela I am Dark Overlord and I want to start a warcraft wiki for info about the Strategy games and sent a request, but I know I alone can't make it all, so in any way could you help me make my wiki dream come true? Ultimate Doom 04:11, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm going to seek some other opinions on this to check it doesn't conflict with existing wikis we have. Angela (talk) 10:55, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Next step after bureaucrat
I recall one of the requirements of becoming a steward on wikia as being at least 18. Well, that was possibly a year ago, and I've recently turned 18, so now I'm wondering what other requirements I must meet, and what else I should get around to doing, before I can become a steward. I've been active on Fiction Wikia for a long time now with over 10,000 edits large and small, and have been bureaucrat of multiple wikias for a while. What other qualifications do I need? --Yunzhong Hou 20:39, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Improving Traffic and others.
Angela,

I just sure hope that haven't been bugging you about the tiniest things (sorry if I am), but I need a bit more advice please.

1.) What are some ways to improve traffic to a wikia? 2.) Are there widgets for these wikis? 3.) How can I put links on the toolboox navigation like you can for the main navigation?

Thank you very much,

Asoue1286