User talk:PanSola/Archive 2

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Infoboxes
Hey PanSola, I had been having a discussion about incorporating some infobox templates into our wiki. i can't seem to find where that discussion went. Any chance you can help?

--Steve Sandford 18:24, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Gaming IRC chat logs
Hi PanSola, why not publishing transcript and summary of recent meetings at Forum:Gaming lounge? Медиа (Media) 10:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops will do later. Been forgetting to do that sorry.- PanSola 18:30, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I'm from Brasil and I've starting the article Bruna Manzon. You writed the article needs to use other language. Lord Insipidus 08:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Lord Insipidus 08:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Stats
The wikistats will be available for GuildWiki after the upgrade. Angela (talk) 06:13, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Happy Holidays
A wiki card for you

About the troll
Everything in that link has already been discussed and enacted on our wiki in regard to its multiple attacks. It doesn't matter. It keeps coming back, doing the exact same thing every time. Any action taken against its trolling, no matter how quiet or civil, opens the floodgates. --M Sipher 22:30, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * At no point did I say we were going to stop trying to quietly deal with the troll whenever it vomits all over the site again. This is why I've gone outside our wiki to inquire to higher admins, in fact, because doing so on the current target would only alert it to more pages to defecate on. But the point is, regardless of our actions, it keeps coming back, and regardless of our actions, within minutes, there's death threats and rampaging subliterate obscenity spewing from it. I would think that there would be SOME way for the higher-ups at wikia to attempt to stop this at its source, as it were, as it's only going to continue, just as it has for months now. (And the benefit of the doubt was not only long-spent, but is now pointless self-delusion. And in the infinitessimal chance it's not the same person and merely an imitator, what does it even matter? It's not like they deserve any better than a similar wikia-wide shutout.) --M Sipher 23:13, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Titannica
Just a quick note to say thank you for your message about the new wikia. It is great to know that there is a community aligned to the aims of this genre. I will be a little less active over the Christmas / New Year week, but I will be sure to get involved on the forums / chats etc afterwards. Thanks also for the editing of the front page and your tips. Nedueb 12:22, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello, and Help?
Hello PanSola! You probably don't remember me but I'm a moderator from the FFWiki and I was just granted Admin/Syop rights over at the Kingdom Hearts Wiki. My question is: Is there any way that you could probably advertise the KH wiki? We are a small community consisting of about 9 active users, mostly FFWiki editors. So do you think you can help us out? Azul 04:34, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so so much :) I will look into the WikiNode and drop by Jimbo and Angela's talk page. I truly thank you for all your help -Azul 05:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the offer of help
You posted on my new Folklore Game Wiki offering help. I would like to ask if there are any programs or websites that can help write up templates with switch values because Im finding it difficult to merge the code for several tables together without making a mess of it  → KarinDoll (T/C) 21:45, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Burnout Paradise wiki
Thanks a lot for the wiki support and i do have a few questions to ask. Firstly i won't be able to attend the UK chat at 9pm because it's the day before i go back to school and my parents (as sad as it may seem) wan't me in bed by nine so i'm ready to wake up early togo to school (i need my beauty sleep!). As for templates i was wondering how i can make infoboxes(for the burnout vehicles) so the articles are more detailed.

Fianally, there are some videos, which are on IGN, that i wan't to put on the main page so people can watch footage of the game, therefore promoting the game and, simultainiously, the wiki. I saw that the bioshock, and halo wiki had videos from u-tube and i was wondering how i download u-tube videos and upload them to the site. Could you please help me on these things? Thanks: ''' The Parkster Crash FM My rides 14:51, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Could you please help me on my forum page because i think i might have messed it up. I added a new topic to it and it didn't show and i can't find any other links to it. Thanks: ''' The Parkster Crash FM My rides 16:20, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

No worries i've sorted out the last issue, but at the top it still says content link 1, 2, 3 and 4 (even though it doesn't at the side). Also on the side, under content navigation, i've put "randomimage" but it doesn't go to a random image and i also want to change the name to "Random Image". Could you please sort this out, thanks: ''' The Parkster Crash FM My rides 18:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the help but i still don't know how to actually create a page, which handles random images. Could you please help me with this? ''' The Parkster Crash FM My rides

I'm not sure what happened or who's fault it is, but my weekly news, video box and help section, on the main page of the burnout paradise wiki, has gone. I didn't do it and it looks pretty recent. It may be the computer that i am using and so can you please just look and see if it has gone. The text replacing it is some text, some of which says, malicious link. Now i'm not sure what this meens or who put it there (you were the last user to edit the main page sice me, so that's why i am commenting you) but i need to know, because i am not happy about it. Thanks for the help so far: ''' The Parkster Crash FM My rides 12:55, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I know for sure that it wasn't a prank but mabye i did something wrong myself. Nether-the-less i will watch out for more vandilism and if it occurs again i will take more action and inform one of the community team. Thanks:''' The Parkster Crash FM My rides 18:26, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

strange thing is; the last editor (except me) was you, and as it is not you, and this has happened afterthe day you edited, i can't see how it went wrong. Mabye it was my accidental fault but i'll let it go for now. Other things i wanted to ask was, whether you knew how to createa random image page, which goes to a random image. Also i want to change the name of it on the content navigation bar. Could you help me on this please? Finally, i know this may sound odd, but what is the difference between wiki and wikia? ''' The Parkster Crash FM My rides 18:51, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

It does help thanks. You've been a major help to my wiki so far and i am truly greatful for it! Thanks:''' The Parkster Crash FM My rides 20:07, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks :)
Thank you for offering your services to me :). I will ask you if I need to :)

Alpert 20:57, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Site name
Okay, we are trying it again, this time with the help of an administrator from Halopedia, our big cousin. We will need some persuasion help from this site. I am asking for help, not for voting, but just for persuasion. I don't believe that we allow you guys to vote because you aren't really community members. Link: So anyways, please help thanks, H*bad (talk)


 * He's right, you know. *Massive* numbers of users don't want it changed... the wiki's not a democracy, so Staff will probably listen more to the discussion than votes, but we still need help showin' that Fan Fiction > Fanon. Kthxbai! =D  Guesty - Persony - Thingy  04:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Tools and templates
Thanks for the help- The SQ and KQ encyclopedias are somewhat established already, but we'd always love to improve them. The primary reason we moved to wikia was to reduce spam- No matter how many blacklists and captchas we added, there was still a problem.

How do you add extensions in a hosted (wikia) environment? What would you recommend for our Omnipedia? Spacequest.wikia.com and Kingsquest.wikia.com

Thanks! -Colin

welcome
Welcome to the SS Free's official wiki, thanks for joining, I hope you enjoy it so far, feel free to join the forums/site as well. http://www.ssfree.net.tc/.--Xgmx 02:08, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Tabletop RPG template
I've made a start on the Tabletop RPG wikis template. I thought I'd let you know! Fw190a8 03:42, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Lovely, thanks (-: -PanSola 03:47, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello ^^ A new admin from Domo Wiki
Hi, I was just recently added as a mod for Domo Wiki and had a small question about user styles. Well, not so much 'user' but some changes I'm trying to make to the commons to fix an issue I seem to be getting on Firefox viewing the gamer skin. Dark skin styles (or at least... just the gamer skin) seem to have an issue displaying framed images and showing a large ugly white box. As far as I can discern without looking directly at the gamer skin style code (which... actually I can't seem to find) it seems to be something I'd need to fix straight from the commons. I've been manually fixing what I could concerning the forum header and copyright templates, but for this issue it seems like an issue better solved from the CSS since it directly effects the wiki coding for framing images (which is what I would like to do).

View this page with the gamer skin to see the problem that I am running across. I know if I avoid using this skin it wouldn't e an issue, but I like to keep an open mind on who would like to view the page (and personally I like the gamer skin's dark background, even if it doesn't quite fit the theme of the game).

I would eventually like to attempt to create a new style to use for the wiki (some of the styles available look good, but I'd still like to add some small elements to them and maybe attempt to inch out just a little more room for my content which I'm trying to keep to 600 width or as close as possible) but this problem is a slight concern as I do want a color on the page's background and I do want to use the thumbnail code (I like darker pages, it doesn't hurt my eyes as much) but the excessive whitespace feels out of place and throws off the style I'm going for (see this template page to see a sample of what I'm trying to do as a general layout)

I'm not particularly CSS savvy (to be honest? I didn't touch one line of CSS coding till I started working on wikis for this game) but I'm trying to learn what I can in a rush to get what I can done for the wiki I'm working on and any assistance would be appreciated.
 * --Motarrisu 17:40, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Making tables in Wikia entries
Hey,

Thanks for the welcome to the community (automated) message we got when we set up the Superpower: Classic wiki. Only problem is I need to know how to put tables into wiki entries and I can't find a guide - can you help?

Thanks.

Burnout Paradise Wiki Quartz skin
Hi i was wondering, whether i could have some help with the customization of the BP wiki skin. It hasn't been made yet but i have some initial thoughts on what i wopuld like it to look like. The only thing is, i need someone with some advanced wiki coding skill (which i obviously don't have!). I know this is a massive thing to ask but i really want the wiki to look great before i start to put major detail in (when the game comes out). I'm not saying i would like it by then, if you accept the job, because that's just harsh! If you're interested then please message me back and i will give you a first draft on what i want it to be like. Thanks: ''' The Parkster Crash FM My rides 17:19, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

OK thanks for accepting. I'll sort something out like a discription and a picture with labels, then post it to you or put it on a page on the BP wiki. I'll message you when i've sorted it out. Thanks again, and by the way are you getting Burnout Paradise? ''' The Parkster Crash FM My rides 10:31, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Here is the draft of the quartz skin. Its just two pictures with a print screen of the BP main page and some instructions on what i want changing. It's quite striaght forward so it shouldn't be too hard to do. Thanks a load for this, you've been a greeat help and if there is anything you want me to do then i will gladly accept. Thanks so far: ''' The Parkster Crash FM My rides 16:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks :)
Thanks for touching up our front page Zerak talk 19:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and new problem (heh...)
Thanks for fixing the thumbnail issue. I still have to go back and figure out how I can adjust everything to switch over, but I came across a new issue.

I'm planning to use .png images with transparency for the wiki, but I'm noticing that any images at full size that are viewed via Internet Explorer wind up appearing in a light blue box rather than show up transparently. The odd part that occurs is that if the image is resized even by a single pixel, the transparency is fixed. While I guess I could resize everything (I plan to resize the images the previous issue was about so that's not an issue) but it makes it difficult to appropriately set up the normal images used randomly through the site. I suppose I should simply suck it up and use .gifs for the smaller file size but... it makes it take forever to properly set up the image (I'm an artist at heart, and unfortunately a perfectionist in mind...)

I did find this for a solution: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294714

Just not sure how to implement it to fix the problem. Still just baffling me that the resize is alright, but not the full size.
 * --Motarrisu 21:18, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Again, thanks for your assistance ^^

Thank you...
for the nice welcome and for the gaming wikia list on the main page and the addition to the about page. You said to ask you about templates, parser functions or other mediawiki extensions and I'm pretty versed in tempatles and parser functions but I know there are many extensions I know near nothing about. Do you know of some centralized location where I can find simple documentation (maybe w/examples?) of the extensions we have here? Thanks again for your help and the encouragement! And I'll drop by the irc channel sometimes. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 01:43, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Idea for Gaming
Hi, I was looking at Gaming hub, and I see a little bug below "Game Wiki Highlights", there is "nothing" :S Then, I think "join the conversation!" Could be on the right, and no than the left, to be "something" rather than "nothing".. -- 17:31, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

NEVERMIND I figured out my mistake (darn brackets) (#ifexist)
I've had a template that uses the #ifexist function for a while, but suddenly it doesn't seem to work anymore.

For example: Are you looking at your talk page?

Do you have a user page?

Do I have a user page?

Are you looking at your talk page?

Do you have a user page?

Do I have a user page?

This used to give the proper results, but it seems somehow #ifexist is showing in reverse (at least it is for me). My understanding was that it was: but it seems to have reversed since I last touched it (or my computer is reading it backwards... I can't really check from outside at the moment). I've even been looking at it from other sites and seeing backwards results showing up there as well. Even trying to use Internet Explorer returns the same results. Has the order of the statement reversed lately?
 * 1) ifexist | true | false


 * --Motarrisu 20:35, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

EDIT: Ah... darn brackets...

Are you looking at your talk page?

Do you have a user page?

Do I have a user page?

Am I going to smack myself? Yes (and I don't need an #ifexist to do that lol)


 * --Motarrisu 22:59, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Ownership
I'm disappointed by this turn of events. Unfortunately I've been waiting for over a week now for Angela to reply on this issue and she still has not replied straight-on. If Wikia doesn't recognize the need for such a license with creative works, there will come a day when most of the people on AltHist, Conlang, Conworld, Imagine, Novelas, etc. will quit and join in with a website that has a more restricted license. I certainly won't be able to do that, nor would I want to see such an abandonment happen with Wikia. The conworld I was proposing proposing cc-by-nc-nd already has four people willing to contribute. So why can't Wikia create a new wiki that operates with the creative commons license I have in mind? It makes much more sense that way, and might get more people to contribute. I would much prefer if someone (you?) could give me a complete, straight-up response to the proposal I've been making.

Sincerely,

Yunzhong Hou 22:39, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Template resources
Yes, you could help me out. Is there somewhere that has a repository of standard or generic templates that I can use and customize for my wiki? --AeronPrometheus 04:32, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, in regards to the Konami music video game wiki, I think that it'd be better to go ahead and change it to gmd.wikia.com. Konami was too broad a term, and Bemani, ironically, is too constricting. Thanks

GMD vs Bemani vs Konami
The only reason I wanted it to be GMD is because it is a creative way to indicate the Konami music games department which includes games outside of the Bemani series. The wiki is intended to cover all music games that Konami puts out, and strangely only some of them are labeled as Bemani. Preferably GMD, since it stood for Game Music Department, which makes literal sense in a way. It would be a popular choice to say "Bemani games" then that would limit the project, or people would confuse outside series as being a part of Bemani when they're not. I think that what will happen is there will be a major sub-section of the wiki devoted to Bemani games, and the rest will be listed outside of this category to clarify what is and what isn't.

It's a nit picky thing, yes, and I'll stick with Bemani if this doesn't make any sense to you :P. We'll see what patterns the eggs make when they land on the ground. --AeronPrometheus
 * "response to PS", Well it IS an old term. Konami recently flushed their servers of a lot of old content save a select few. --AeronPrometheus 05:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That's why I want to change it to gmd, cause I'm going to cover games like Karaoke Revolution, Dance 86.4, etc... even though they are not Bemani. So if I start listing articles for a game not part of Bemani under the url bemani.wikia.com it would give some people the wrong impression, right? If you don't think that merits the change it's cool, just trying to help you understand my reasoning. --AeronPrometheus 07:18, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That's fine, Bemani it is. Although from the information I gathered KR and 86.4 are not Bemani. On a trivial note, neither is Mario Mix due to being developed by Nintendo not Konami, despite being a DDR title. :P --AeronPrometheus 07:54, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Reference confusion
Dance 86.4 is not a DDR title, not even an offshoot. For it to be listed within the Dance Dance Revolution titles is an error on Konami's part. Or maybe they just want it to get noticed. This is why there's no direct reference to Bemani from the game's official site; it's not Bemani.

This is one of the reason why I'm doing this wiki. Sometimes there's not going to be anything to backup a claim made, but that claim is 100% accurate cause the person who made it knows his stuff. Or there's a claim that's backed up by an incorrect reference and it's not true despite being linked to a reputable source that simply made a mistake.

This wiki is going to be a wiki in the terms of being an information repository that anyone can contribute to. But that's where the Wikipedia similarities end. If something is factual and enough people realize it's factual it's not going to be required that the editor find somewhere online or elsewhere that says exactly the same thing. The problem with Konami music games is the world wide coverage of these games are very spotty. And in some cases there simply will not be an alternate source of information on a topic. If errors start popping up due to this we'll just deal with them one at a time and gather expert opinion until the real Slim Shady stands up. If we were forced into references or bust the wiki as a whole would be filled with holes and incomplete information.

I don't know much about how wikia operates, if all wikis within are required to abide by a set of "house rules" then let me know. Otherwise that's the way I want things done. --AeronPrometheus 02:31, 14 February 2008 (UTC)