User talk:Angela/Archive 13

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Can the new PHPBB forums be added to our Wikis?
I would prefer that over the straight Wiki forums. I asked at Forum:Can the wiki I admin have its own forum like the new Inside wiki has?, but no staff responded. The person that did respond wasn't sure and said to directly ask a staff member. I went to the IRC channel, but no staff member that I knew was online. Will (Talk - contribs) 23:08, 12 December 2007 (UTC)


 * c:ChristianMusic: Will (Talk - contribs) 06:20, 17 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok. I've requested those be added for that wiki. It might not happen until after the upgrade though. Angela (talk) 06:45, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

The forum is now [|here] but it's a little buggy at the moment - i will try to get that error message removed. Angela (talk) 04:16, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, someone e-mailed me on that. I sent him a list of forums to create (just two for now, but I might need them grouped for later).  Please note that it doesn't have the right name, favicon, or logo. Will (Talk - contribs) 04:20, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The new forums have been created, but there are bugs.
 * Still no favicon.
 * The logo is no correct.
 * The Music Topics forum is read only for me. Everyone should be able to post when logged in.
 * Will (Talk - contribs) 19:46, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

New bug: Each ChristianMusic page has a forum link at the top (in the Quartz skin). However, it links to a non-existant page at c:ChristianMusic:Forum:Index. That needs to be fixed if anyone is to find the forum. Thanks. Will (Talk - contribs) 03:09, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Not again...
Total Rune has been vandalising the RuneScape Wiki again. He keeps claiming crap like "If you delete my page, I'll report you for sysop-power abuse", when he is making personal attacks and the like on his page. I'm getting fed up with him; is it possible to mass block him from Wikia? He doesn't seem to care anymore. --Stinkowing 15:55, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Just block him, ignore him, and move on. I think there's too much drama around this which is encouraging him to keep coming back. Angela (talk) 06:45, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Is it possible to have an extension installed?
If at all possible/allowed, we'd like MW:Extension:OggHandler installed at the Pikipedia. For more information, please see this page. - Greenpickle(talk) 15:04, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Pardon me, but I'm the one who is going to upload (most likely) all the files. I have cut them to a length of 15-20 seconds (the actuall melodies are usually 1-2 minutes long). They are samples of what is heard during the different levels. However, that would make about 20 or so samples, which I will not all upload, merely the ones that are more prominent. It is possible for me to upload any type of file (mp³, Wave, AAC, FLAC, GSM, etc.), so should the OggHandler not be possible for some reason, it wouldn't be dramatic. Also, the samples should all fall under the "fair use" so far (we are planning to add more information on copyrights of all the media on the wiki, but please consider that that might require some time).--Prezintenden(talk)13:42, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Has the matter progressed any further yet? - Greenpickle(talk)

Content deleting
I wonder if it is possible to delete all pages and images from Wiki at once. Might and Magic Wiki has a problem with users who add copied, copyrighted content - both articles and images - from other sites on this topic, without adding neither source information nor copyright status. That's the way I ask you to delete all articles and images from there. As I remember, some months ago similar situation occured at Wikimedia's French Wikisource. Could you do the same with Might and Magic Wiki? There are some users who'd like to work on re-established project. Anyway, thank you for interest. Michał 13:45, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Angela...
What do I have to say more...? Thanks! Three times! EgídioCampos Diz! 12:34, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Wiki clone?
Now that the Total Rune fiasco is over with, I have a question. We have the normal RuneScape wiki (for community usage), the Dark RuneScape Wiki (for scam prevention), the RuneScape Fanfiction Wiki (for fake items and such) and UnRuneScape (haven't been on there). However, a fifth RuneScape Wiki, known as the RuneScape Addicts Wiki, has popped up, and it looks...suspicious. Let me see how many things I can remember that's wrong with it: I'm NOT asking you to shut down that Wiki. I would simply like you to investigate it, as it is basically copying and poorly paraphrasing our hard work. Also, it appears they are not set up on Wikia. Here's a link: http://www.runescapeaddicts.com/Main_Page Thank you. --Stinkowing 13:18, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Nuetral-Point-of-View (NPOV) gone-most of their articles are biased and opinionated. The real RSW has a NPOV policy that prevents things like opinions from working their way into articles.
 * Poorly-written articles-Usage of Internet slang, RS lingo, player slang, and all caps are abundantly evident.
 * Little understanding of a community-the entire RSAW community (if you can call it that) is based on the HUGE forums, which pretty much dwarf the Wiki. It also has a small handful of rude users who are almost never editing on the actual wiki, and who think that adminship is absolute power. Those that do are in a competition to see who can make the most articles before a deadline, thus leading to the sloppiness of articles.
 * No undestanding of adminship-the lone sysop on the RSAW does not have a user page, and his talk page is blocked from anyone editing it.

RE: Problems
Eu has been behaving themselves. But, this has happened in the past when I've reported them. They'll behave themselves for a couple of weeks and then things go back to normal. I have no faith that this issue has been solved. I guess I'll update you again when the negative behavior resumes. Kitsufox Fox's Den 15:12, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Ufology
Hi, just to say that I have left a comment here: !!!--Kushan_I.A.K.J (Talk) (---Eaglemedia:---) 16:36, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Wiki name as displayed in messages
A few days ago I posted the following on the Help forum:


 * "There are a number of system messages in which the name of the Wiki is displayed as a part of the message. In the case of one I run, it is shown as "Radio-TV broadcast history." Since this is the title of the Wiki, I think it should display as "Radio-TV Broadcast History" (note the capitalization). Is there something I can edit to fix this, or does Central Wikia have to do the change, and if the latter, how do I request it?"

The responses seemed to be to contact the Community Team, but the page on the Community Team referred back to the Forum. Nobody from the Team seems to have noticed my post, however, so I'm putting my post here where, hopefully, it'll be read. -- BruceG 21:03, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

User Rights
Are you able to remove the bureaucracy flag from all users, but keep CalD, and Cmelbye sysops. I do not know the difference between bureaucrat and sysop, and I'd like to see. Thank you for your time :) P.S Could you reply to my talk page on my wiki? Toshiba Wiki.  Thanks again,

SudoKing

re:Deleting a whole wiki
Yes, I'm talking about Polish MM Wiki. At our forum we've reached a consensus, that it's better to remove all pages and reopen the wiki with something like NWN/NWN2 Wiki feel, with focusing more on games' mechanics than on its plot. I hope using this bot to delete all content - articles, meta-pages, images and so on - is not a big problem. Sorry for causing trouble. The only thing we would like to maintain is our logo. Thank you in advance. Michał 19:29, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Ufology
How do you make accouncements on a Wiki?--Kushan_I.A.K.J (Talk) 07:21, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Lack of Admins
The [|Super Smash Bros. Wiki] has no active admins right now and administrative tasks are piling up. Our wiki has no favicon, logo and the pages needing deleted are growing. The last edit by an administrator was on November 20. I'm am very active here however so I am requesting adminship from you. See my contributions |here. Thanks! Bonko24 19:26, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * False alarm our admins are back in action. Bonko24 19:15, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Recent changes
Hi Angela,

on my Wikia (http://nation.wikia.com/) the Recent Changes don't show colored numbers anymore. They used to be green or red and even bold, but now there all plain black. This seems also to be on other Wiki's. Can this be solved? 20:06, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

stats for my wiki
Hi Angela, would it be possible to look up the traffic stats for the AliceSoft wiki between 2006 December and 2007 Feb? Much appreciated. -Afker 04:35, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Before you go offline...
... can you please create this wiki: Wikiland. Thx and enjoy the holidays! --Maarten (???) 11:38, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Championmedia
Hi, can you have a little look at this wiki, because i want it to get accepted as quick as possible.  Sunder land 06   22:35, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Externally hosted images
Hi Angela. Can you help me please? I would need to insert this image or this  (or maybe both) here http://bucuresti.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Statistics (do you think the images will be visible as pictures if they will be inserted in this place http://bucuresti.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitestatstext ?) Thank you, --Pixi 09:29, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Smallville Admin status
Hello! I'm interested in admin'ing the Smallville site... I've been fairly active there for a few months now. Can you let me know the process for getting admin status? Thanks! --Kanamekun 02:12, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

RE
No problem :)  W h o p p e r  21:44, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Please
Can you desysop user:Юлия Таллирдиева in ru.harrypotter.wikia.com? It is sockpuppet of Afinogenoff. Checkusers of russian Wikipedia proveded it in 2007 June. Look at wikipedia:ru:Википедия:Проверка участников/ЗаРодину!--Medved&#39; 13:06, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

And please, desysop me in ru.lgbt.wikia.com, I'm not more active. :)--Medved&#39; 13:11, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

#wikia-halo
You registered #wikia-halo for us, 27 weeks ago... shortly after, cchristianTP registered #halopedia, and that's what the community chose to use officially, so now #halo-wikia is just sitting there with no visitors, and nothing telling them to go to #halopedia. Because of that, you're the only person on the access list, so there's nothing that can be done to get people to the right place, apart from sitting in there waiting for visitors... so when you get the time, can you please set mode's +if #halopedia? Thanks! =D -- NOTASTAFF  GPT ( talk )( eating ) 21:37, 23 December 2007 (UTC)


 * After poking around a bit, I noticed that #wikia-halo is also in the list of channels accessible from CGI:IRC, and is the first channel listed at http://irc.wikia.com/halo/, instead of #halopedia. If you could fix that while you're at it, it would be *much* appreciated. Thanks! =D -- NOTASTAFF  GPT ( talk )( eating ) 03:05, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Same with Halo-Fanon. Please add #Halo-Fanon on the list and take away wikia-halofanon. Thanks, H*bad (talk)

Help!
Hi Angela,

I need help on two wikis

On egamia is there a way to make a bot to auto categorize specific gaming platforms on game pages which is determined by the categories in the section "platforms =" on the infobox template? I know there is probably a way because wikipedia is well categorized.

On egamia we use to have a bot which counts the all the games we had on the site. Is there a way to count the games

On orchids wiki I also have a similar problem. Counting the links under Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox would solve the problem. Is there any wiki text that does this?

Happy holidays,

--Cs california 10:22, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Burnout Paradise wiki
Hi i am the parkster and i have requested a new wiki for the new game; Burnout paradise. It said that the wiki, if accepted, would be made in two days since the request was first posted but now, it has been about four days since the request started and i have had no feedback on the subject at all (to do with it's sound creation) and so i don't know what step to take next as it is too risky for me to advertise and prepare, if i don't know whether the wiki will actually be accepted. Can you please message me on what is going to happen so i am clear about my next phase of action. Thank you: ''' The Parkster "I'm all ears" "my stuff" "Something else to say?" 21:01, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


 * The wiki is now at burnoutparadise.wikia.com. Sorry for the delay in making this. A lot of people were away over Christmas. Angela (talk)

My IP has been blocked
Hi, Angela! When I try to edit some pages, appears a message which says that my IP has been blocked because user:For great justice and epic LULZ used it for vandalize. It's very extrange because it only appears in existing pages, and it show my an IP that it's not mine ( 10.10.20.183, and my IP actually is 79.146.124.103) --Graimito Discusión 15:40, 3 January 2008 (UTC)


 * This was due to users being assigned a Wikia IP instead of their own and has now been fixed, so you should be able to edit normally. Please let me know if you can't. Angela (talk)


 * Thanks --Graimito Discusión/Talk 11:47, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Move from Scratchpad
How can I move pages from our mini wiki over to the new full wiki? Thanks Pb30 05:42, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I've done this. Angela (talk)

CreatePage
Hi Angela, not sure if it's already on the burner, but the buzztown wiki reminded me to inquire that Wikifactory script needs adjusted to remove the deprecated Special:Createpage from MediaWiki:Navlinks. -- 06:54, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I've removed it from the starter wiki which is what gets imported to new wikis. Angela (talk) 11:02, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Broadcasting Wikia name
I don't want the name changed from "Radio-TV Broadcast History" to something else. I want it changed to that form. Currently it comes up as "Radio-TV broadcast history" (small "b" and small "h"). I want it to be "Radio-TV Broadcast History" (capital "B" and capital "H"). Is this clearer now? --- BruceG 14:31, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I hadn't thought about the project namespace, but I think the answer is yes, change it to Broadcasting. -- BruceG 15:09, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

pl.mightandmagic
Thank you very much for your help, but one thing is incorrect. In the Wikia's name, the genitive ("Mocy i Magii" - of Might and Magic, Might and Magic's) is used incorrectly there. Nominative ("Moc i Magia" - Might and Magic) should be used. But as it is understandable for Poles, it's not very important case, so I'd be pleased if you simply do this if you have really more time to spend in work ;) Michał 15:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

New forums at ChristianMusic
I saw someone changed that link you mentioned at c:ChristianMusic:MediaWiki:Navlinks. I did not know that page existed until then. Thanks. Other changes I asked for have not been made yet. Will (Talk - contribs) 00:32, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Are there any problems remaining other than the favicon? Angela (talk) 10:58, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Several.
 * I have no access to the Music forum. All I see on that page is "You do not have the required permissions to read topics within this forum."
 * I asked for some changes via e-mail that weren't implemented:
 * New/Renamed forums:
 * Problems and Suggestions group would become "Administration".
 * Problems and Suggestions forum would become "Announcements" and would keep the existing topic. That forum would be read only to everyone but me.
 * New forum: "Forum Sandbox" -- Would work like a normal Wiki sandbox. All posts need to be automatically deleted after 1 day.
 * New forum: "Problems"
 * New forum: "Suggestions"
 * Forum Descriptions:
 * Administration:
 * Announcements: "All the latest news on the Christian Music Wiki"
 * Problems: "Got a problem with the Christian Music Wiki or its forums? Discuss it here."
 * Suggestions: "Did you come up with a way to make the Christian Music Wiki look or function better? Perhaps you have an idea how to attract new editors and/or visitors.  Bring it up here.  Details will tend to be appreciated, but all suggestions will be considered."
 * Forum Sandbox: "Learn how to post in these forums here. All posts will be deleted after 24 hours."

Will (Talk - contribs) 23:46, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Update:The Music forum that wasn't working is completely gone. Will (Talk - contribs) 22:21, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Gruntipedia IRC channel
Hi, many of the users on Gruntipedia have been asking for our IRC channel, #gruntipedia, to be put on CGI:IRC. Could you help out? Also, I am the founder of the wiki, but did not register the channel, so could you make me the channel contact please? The current contact is Manticore.

Thanks, Simon rjh

two things
Coming across some vandalism on NSider wiki I noticed that the licensing information on edit pages had a link error: "You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION! Once you submit materials to the NSider Wiki, they are released under this license."

There is no active admin on that wiki, so I was wondering if you could fix the link?

My Latest Wiki Request
Hi Angela

I recently suggested a wiki that would be for the purpose of helping new users see the benefits of learning and using wiki software. I called it "Wikia Testimonials". To be honest this is not what I would spend my valuable time maintaining but I thought it was a good way to get some of you interested. If you see my point regarding spreading the word. A large number of new users are quite puzzled by what goes on here. Myself included. But I like the way the software handles so much that I wanted to encourage you to consider adding a testimonials link. I know this is open source and the word Testimonials is often associated with commercial products so maybe there is a better way. In the meantime I truly believe the timing is right for this idea now that some poor reviews have surfaced.

Thanks Rick Maltese user name okfrank Okfrank 03:26, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Hiya, me again
I was hoping for a while now that someone else would step up to being an admin for WikiStates, but that's apparently not going to happen. I didn't want to seem annoying (I've already requested a position of adminship on two Wikias), but now I really need to ask again. If administrating three Wikia sites is too much, in your opinion, I can easily give up adminship on one or both of them, since they don't get a whole lot of traffic anyway. Blast 14:22, 9 January 2008 (UTC)