User talk:Sannse

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bureaucrat flag
Hi, could you please drop my 'bureaucrat' flag on ru.dragonsbloodyworld wiki (preserving sysop flag)? Thank you. Wassily Steik 07:47, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, what's the problem? Something wrong there? -- sannse (talk) 12:28, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There're no problems :) Just because of my inactivity. The project has another bureaucrat which is more active than me... :) Wassily Steik 15:44, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Then I would suggest just leaving it :) then it's there is you ever need it, but there is no obligation to use it -- sannse (talk) 09:28, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Guild Wiki movement to wikia softwere
Hey, Guild Wiki has recently been moved to Wikia softwere, one of the things that has changed, is that we now have adverts on the right hand sidebar, instead of at the bottom of the page.

This change, has caused many problems, pages that are designed from the start for a fullscreen width, have stopped displaying correctly, it will require a change of policy (as our signature policy relys on lines of text for screen resolution) and has made many editors angry.

We do not wish to switch to another skin, and the IRC #wikia chat room reccomended that I asked you if it would be possible to change the adverts to the bottom, this would prevent dispute. Thank you for your time either way, if possible, could you contact me at Guild Wiki with any queries you may have. RT | Talk  08:20, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi RT. I'm just back from being away to have a minor operation, and am trying to catch up.  I'll talk to people who know more about what's been going on over the last week as soon as they are awake (San Francisco time) and hopefully get a better grasp of the situation.  Sorry about the delay! -- sannse (talk) 10:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I've replied on your GW talk page -- 90.206.92.213 07:44, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Aion Sysop
Hey there Sannse,

Wondering if I can be set as a Sysop on Aion wiki? Just that way I can play with the css somewhat and make it look more appealing. :) Daworm 01:05, 7 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Daworm, I'll get back to you by the end of the day on this one :) -- sannse (talk) 07:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, it's the end of the day somewhere :-/
 * You are now admin and bureaucrat there, have fun! -- sannse (talk) 10:17, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikia Helper
Hi Sannse, I have a question. I asked Angela about the requirements for becoming a Wikia Helper, and she told me that you could tell me more about becoming one. Best regards, Eu ( Talk! Contribs ) 19:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi. "Helpers" are people who are either doing some contract work for Wikia, or are on official internships with the company. Basically, the way to get that position is to be seen and invited by one of the staff looking for an intern or contractor... although you are welcome to send an application to Wikia for staff to consider.  But usually it just means doing great work on wikis and talking to staff and other users a lot.  It's similar for "Janitors", who are volunteers who work on spam control and other cross-Wikia tasks.  They are chosen from active users with good reputations.  That's a more casual position and I keep a mental list of people who might be suitable and interested.  I'm not planning on adding new janitors just yet, but in a couple of months I will probably be looking around and talking to other staff about who to add.


 * Hope that answers the question :) -- sannse (talk) 12:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, it does :)

Also though, I was wondering if you could make me a Sysop on the Guitar Hero Wiki. They two Sysops there are away for some reason, and there's a lot I could add, both content- and aesthetics-wise. As of now, I don't have many edits there, but I do have Sysop experience at the Warriors Wiki. I'm not sure if I need a certain amount of edits there, and if I do, I'll start ASAP :) Thanks for all your help! Eu ( Talk! Contribs ) 21:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * In that case, it looks like there are active editors on the wiki. So they should have a say on who becomes admin there.  I suggest you try to talk to the community and work out what everyone thinks is best.  Then let me know, and I'll click any needed buttons -- sannse (talk) 10:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

cookies2
how do you enable cookies? reply as soon as possible.


 * Hi, it depends on your browser. If you are using IE, then you need: Tools > Internet options > Privacy > Change the slider to change your cookie settings.  You may also need to look at the Security tab, or add Wikia to your list of trusted sites -- sannse (talk) 16:53, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Bureaucrat
Hi ,

I was wondering if you could please make me a bureaucrat on The Lemony Snicket Wiki. My user name is Asoue1286.

Thanks,


 * Hi, I've passed your request to Danny, he'll help. By the way, "Hi " looks a rather... strange... way of greeting someone :) -- sannse (talk) 17:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Bot Flag
Hello. Could you flag User:AnimeBot on The YuYu Hakusho Wiki? . Thanks. DragonBallZ 17:02, 10 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Do you have community agreement for this? Please also check out the page about bots on Help.wikia.  Thanks -- sannse (talk) 17:34, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I am the only active user there since I founded it only recently. The flag would be for the wiki to be synced with Wikia ACG, but don't worry about flagging it now though because I am working on another wiki becoming part of Wikia ACG. Thanks anyway though :) DragonBallZ 21:47, 14 April 2008 (EDT)


 * OK, let me know when -- sannse (talk) 16:48, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Log-in
I cannot log into the new wowwiki site. I keep getting redirect to a "special page" that is blank except for a head saying sign in/creat account. Paly 1 67.167.88.183 04:08, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Are you still seeing this? What about if you go directly to http://www.wowwiki.com/Special:Userlogin ?  Do you see it here on Wikia Central too?  Please can you let me know your browser and operating system if so? and I'll check it out.  Thanks -- sannse (talk) 17:38, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

We Need More Admins on the secondlife wiki
The situation is this, there is no commumity, because the wikis were merged and dormant. Recently the only active bureaucrat has become involved in an edit war and locked pages with cascade. The new users who have been trying to revive the wiki have stopped editing because of this abuse of power. We need more admins and at least one new bureaucrat. The wiki is blocked until this happens, we can't import material from other wikis, continue the off wiki programming that second life users need to access wikia, nor can we even change the parts of the front page that were locked with cascade.

Lillie Yifu 13:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure which bureaucrat you are talking about here. I see Eggy is active, and that he reverted a change to the main page, protected it, and tried to contact the person he reverted... all normal admin tasks.  We recommend not protecting the main page, but in the end it's the admin and the community's decision.  I would suggest you talk to Eggy about it.  Talking to them about new admins is also a good idea, this isn't something you need me for when you have an active bureaucrat :) -- sannse (talk) 21:23, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Bureaucrat
Hi, Sansse! I have won a bureaucracy voting in Jedipedia (finnish Star Wars wiki), so I am asking to get these bureaucrat rights. I am not sure, but I believe I should get them here. DARTH SIDIOUS 2 (Contact &mdash; contributions) 10:52, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * PS: Oh, sorry! My signature was in finnish.
 * Sigs in any language are welcome :) You have a couple of active bureaucrats on the wiki, so they can change the setting for you.  Just ask Jack or Ufsark :) -- sannse (talk) 08:20, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Who's Online
Greetings Sannse,

When is the Who's Online special page going to be back online for Fiction wikia? I'm looking forward to using it.

Cheers,

Yunzhong Hou01:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki links
Hey Sannse, how ya doing? Good I hope. Will you insert (or have inserted) the following shortcuts to the interwiki table for http://stexpanded.wikia.com/? Thanks much. (I've added these on my own wikis, so I know they work.) 24 http://24.wikia.com/wiki/$1 arc http://starcadia.sasoriza.us/wiki/$1  (if unavailable, then ap) b5 http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/$1 bsg http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/$1 dc http://en.dcdatabaseproject.com/$1 fg http://flashgordon.wikia.com/wiki/$1 help http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:$1 hp http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/$1 ma http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/$1 marvel http://en.marveldatabase.com/$1 mb http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/$1 sw http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/$1 who http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/$1 wp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1 Thanks again! --User:Sasoriza 15:11, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi. "sw" is a language code, so is already assigned to Swahili.  "help" is also no good, because of the help namespace.  We have "marveldatabase" set up already, and also "battlestarwiki", "memoryalpha" an "wikipedia".  I know these are longer than your shortcuts, but they are also more obvious.


 * We also already have interwikis set up for all wikia wikis, you just need to type w:c:name: . I'm looking into getting that simplified to wikia:name: , but need to check how many old links would be affected (Wikia: is already used to link to Central).


 * So it looks to me as though the only one that needs to be added is starcadia.sasoriza.us - I'd suggest that "starcadia" would fit better with our linking plan for that. -- sannse (talk) 18:09, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * just need to type w:c:name:  - Right, but a lot of people don't know that; even I have a hard time remembering the syntax on occasion, and have to check the wikia page for refresher. (Dunno why; something about that syntax throws me. Can never remember which comes first, the c or the w.) The other, extra, shorter shortcuts are exactly why we call them shortcuts - "ma": much easier to type (and remember) than "memoryalpha". Same for "mb" (that one we could really use) and the rest. These are shortcuts we use often or are likely to use often; it would be a lot easier on us, hence the request. I understand if this is a problem, if the same interwiki table is used for several wikia; I just thought each had their own, so that these wouldn't affect others. If that's the case and you want to implement only "starcadia" (I'd suggest "arcapedia" but what the hey), then, okay. I like the suggested wikia:name: ; that would make it easier too. --Sasoriza 10:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the slow reply. I've been talking to one of the technical team, and he thinks it's possible to change over to wikia:name:, so I hope that will be done soon.  For the others, we've come up with the suggestion that you use templates as shortcuts.  So for Memory Alpha you would type  rather than Memory Alpha:article name .  If you don't know how to set that up we can help.  I'll set "arcapedia" and that will be live the next time they are updated, and I'll let you know when the change to "wikia:" has happened.  -- sannse (talk) 09:58, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

wiki kaneva
yes i was wonder if i could become the new owner or become a admin of wiki kaneva because there hasnt been any activity on it since it started until i came to it. I have already made many contrubutions to it and plan to make more and more. I am also apart of kaneva so i can keep events updated. If you would also respond to me on wiki kaneva. (Ctrain1993 )

Yep, that's no problem. I'll make you admin there, and also bureaucrat so that you can make other people admins when you find them :) -- sannse (talk) 10:07, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Search questions
Dear Sannse

We are students at the college of higher education in Chur. For one of our courses we are testing and analysing Wikia Search. For this reason we woud like to ask you a few questions to get relevant information of how Wikia Search functioning and how the users interact with Wikia:


 * How many active, registered users does Wikia have? Are there any graphics available which show the growth of the last few months?
 * What's the difference between the User-list and the Profile; how do you get on the user list?
 * Are you happy with the number of registered users yet?
 * Are there any statistics on Mini Articles: how many are already written?
 * Are you happy about what users contribute to Wikia Search? Give they good input (Mini Aricles) and helpful comments?
 * What's the percentage of acitive Wikipedia-users?
 * What do you think of the idea to link Wikipedia-pages to Wikia Search results? (e.g. you look for "Switzerland" and the user could see a link to Wikipedia where Switzerland is mentioned).

Thanks a lot for you help and best regards, Stefan & Thomas


 * Hi, I'm afraid I'm not the right person to ask these questions to. I work on the wiki side of the company rather than search.  Probably the best person to talk to is Jeremie who runs the search project.  I'm sure he'll be able to help :) If he doesn't notice a message on his talk page, try the search mailing list.  Good luck with your project -- sannse (talk) 10:13, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

request
hi. i'm part of the kirby wiki, lately the admins, the mods, the beuracrat are missing and i'd like to keep the place running. i checked the recent changes and nothings been done for a while by staff members, and decided They needed an active leader. a person on the final fantasy wiki told me to ask you. so i ask for permission to let you make me a beuracrat at the kirby wiki. could you answer me on my talk page, thanks. Bob The Geomancer

Reply at User talk:Bob the geomancer -- sannse (talk) 10:27, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Monaco questions
Greetings Sannse,

How can I place links at the top of Monaco skins (to the right of the logo) in that vast empty space? Ie. Where's the mediawiki page for editing that? Or is it still in development or going to stay empty?

Also, could you give me some good examples of custom Monaco skins (preferably off Gaming skin) with heavy modifications so that I know how to work the Monaco skin css? -- found some, but now I can't get rid of the 2-pixel border around the Monaco widgets. I would like to know how to fix it.

Thank you. --User:Yunzhong Hou13:24, 27 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Are you using an ad blocker? The space next to the logo contains a banner ad, so I'm guessing you are running a program that removes that for your view.  But of course links there won't work, because others will be seeing the advert.


 * I can't see whether you can remove the border, but I'll ask JSharp to look and let you know if it can be done -- sannse (talk) 10:41, 28 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi :) To remove the border from monaco widgets set the border property of the widget class to none. Add the following to your MediaWiki:Common.css:

.widget{ border: none; } -- JSharp (talk) 19:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Logo & favicon Request
I am reqesting for my kaneva wiki w:c:kaneva:Main Page logo and favicon changed i have them right here this one is for the logo and this one is for favicon  i would very munch like to know how to add them myself incase i might need to change them. Also respond to this message on my talk page like you did befor w:c:kaneva:User talk:Ctrain1993

thank you ctrain1993


 * Reply at User talk:Ctrain1993

Spanish Marvel Database
Hi Sannse. I need very much to talk to someone of the staff. It's about the spanish marvel database proyect. I was looking, and it is very abandoned.. I put a message on Jamie Hari's talk page (he's the admin) but he still doesn't answer. I just want to know what is going on with this proyect, because it's very abandoned and it haves a lot of bad pages.. I want to help, but I don't know where to start.. And there are some pages to delete.. well, I'm waiting your answer here (you can speak in english to me). 18:29, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Replied there :) 


 * Thanks, but Zuirdj is always very busy.. Well, I just want to know one thing: ¿is this wiki disponible for adoption? Because it's very abandoned at all.. I don't want the bureucrat flag, only the sysop; because I think the wiki needs one active sysop to delete some pages and keep it fine. 11:26, 1 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Zuirdj is the person to talk to for this... and from what I understand, he will suggest you concentrate on current projects :) -- sannse (talk) 18:05, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey sannse :)
so i herd u were thinking about looking for a new janitor? I'd just like to say that I feel that I meet all the requirements of one and am familiar with the policies, so please keep me in mind. :) --Skizzerz talk 20:40, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Scenery and Fish
Hi Sannse,

Sorry about the title. Actually, I was wondering who I can get to make some changes to my languishing wiki. Specifically, if the url could be changed:

from psych.wikia.com to socialwork.wikia.com

and the name of the wiki could be changed from

Enpsycholopedia to Social Work Wiki

then the name and address would more closely correspond to the site content as-evolved. Naturally, I appreciate untruth as much as the next biped, but maybe accuracy is better in this case.

Option 2 is to just delete the whole thing, but there are quite a few articles there (nearly as many as Depression Wiki).

Hugs, etc.

--Todd Lyons 14:23, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Yay fish! All that's done, I'll fix the Central Wikia page in a moment.  It may take a short while for the changes to show, but will be visible soon.  Let me know if you need anything else :) -- sannse (talk) 18:02, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hmmm....  I'm not sure that I need anything else.  I'd love a raise.  Or unlimited power.  I could use a minivan as well, because the family's outgrowing my compact car.  But I'll settle for this.  Thanks!  :)  --Todd Lyons 00:56, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Monaco Sapphire
What is the URL (such as MediaWiki:Monobook.css) to edit the Monaco Sapphire skin? I can't seem to find it and want to edit it for Star Wars Fanon since it's a bit bland right now. -- Victor  ( talk ) 17:37, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi. You need to select "Monaco Custom" in the admin options (in your preferences) and then edit MediaWiki:Monaco.css to specify your custom CSS.  Then off you go!  I left a link on the discussion page on SWFanon to the help pages for this :) -- sannse (talk) 17:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Query on Admins
Hello, Sannse, I am a bureaucrat for Square Wiki and Kingdom Hearts Wiki. Is there a way for me to deadmin an inactive sysop? Because after I made a user into a sysop on both wikis, the user neglected them even though we are both active editors in Final Fantasy Wiki. Please reply in my talk page thank you :). Bluer 18:56, 3 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Replied on talk page

hebrew unciclopadia
we have the range of "מדריך" (handbook) and also the range of "עזרה" (help). i ask you to remove the range "עזרה" beacouse we don't need him any more and also remove the range "forum". 15:55, 4 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, I've had a look, it seems there are pages in מדריך which will be perminantly lost if they are not moved out of the namespace before it is deleted. Are you sure that's what you want?  I would recomend keeping מדריך, because that may be linked to the Help Wikia in the future (although it will probably be some time before that available in Hebrew).  Forum looks OK to remove, but an alternative would be to translate that, and create a forum like the Village Dump on Uncyclopedia.  Let me know what you prefer :) -- sannse (talk) 09:56, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * *i meaned to remove "עזרה" and to stay "מדריך".

'''the site is gatting bigger so we opened dougter rangesto hebrew uncyclopadia.thank. 12:51, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * to remove forum becouse until now we didn't decided to open range for talks.
 * to change "איןמילון talk" to "שיחת איןמילון"
 * to change "איןציטוט talk" to "שיחת איןציטוט"
 * to open 3 more ranges: "איןטקסט", "איןדבר", "איןספר" (equal to unews' unbook and untext in Uncyclopadia)/
 * to give space for speacial logo for each range/
 * hello again, we also need an otomatic system that check if the user have vote right (100 contributes and month of activity). can those user have a title (like "sysop" or "rollback") like "vote right"? we mean contributes only in main range,or "איןמילון", "איןציטוט", "איןטקסט", "איןדבר", "אין ספר" ranges. 11:46, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, so this is turning out rather complicated - it seems my tools don't like right-to-left languages! So I'm going to need to get some technical help.  But first, let's make sure I have the namespaces right.  Don't worry about the numbers, just let me know if all of the namespaces are as you want them.
 * On special logos... that's not something that can be done by Wikia - but the English Uncyclopedia worked out a way to do it with their own javascript. You can ask them for help in getting that on the Hebrew version
 * On an automatic system to check rights etc... I don't know of any way to do that. A user right like "rollback" has to be set manually, it's not done automatically.  You can get information on edit counts from Special:Editcount, but again, that would be manual -- sannse (talk) 19:03, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * -2: מדיה
 * -1: מיוחד
 * 0:
 * 1: שיחה
 * 2: משתמש
 * 3: שיחת משתמש
 * 4: איןציקלופדיה
 * 5: שיחת איןציקלופדיה
 * 6: תמונה
 * 7: שיחת תמונה
 * 8: מדיה ויקי
 * 9: שיחת מדיה ויקי
 * 10: תבנית
 * 11: שיחת תבנית
 * 12: מדריך
 * 13: שיחת מדריך
 * 14: קטגוריה
 * 15: שיחת קטגוריה
 * 100: איןציטוט
 * 101: שיחת איןציטוט
 * 120: איןמילון
 * 121: שיחת איןמילון
 * 112: איןספר
 * 113: שיחת איןספר
 * 114: איןדבר
 * 115: שיחת איןדבר
 * 116: איןטקסט
 * 117: שיחת איןטקסט
 * a.0 means the main range? b.i thoght about it' we can use also the range "forum" but please change is name to ""בית קפה" and it's talk pages to "שיחת בית קפה". c. i had a mistake, i meaned "איןחדש" and wrote mistakly "איןדבר"/ the other ranges is o.k. thanks.


 * Yes, 0 is the main namespace. I had to do some moving around to get ready for this.  I know that means that the handbook pages are in "עזרה", but don't worry about that.  It will be fixed as they are changed.  Thanks for your patience in getting this right! -- sannse (talk) 17:31, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

the new ranges in hebrew eincyclopadia
tanks about the improving. 3 notes: 22:22 19 May 2008 (UTC) tanks, again. 22:02, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * please rename "עזרה" to "מדריך", as our community decided.
 * please rename "איןדבר" to "איןחדש", as i altered my ask.
 * please add "בית קפה" range (forum new name).


 * Hi, there are some problems with getting this right, but I'll keep working with the techs to sort it out. Sorry about this -- sannse (talk) 20:18, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Danny Phantom Infobox
I am the editor for the Danny Phantom Wiki. I;m getting off the ground with some help from a few fans. One thing I;m trying to do is create an infobox for episodes. How do I make an Infobox? Markcambrone 00:46, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi. An infobox is simply a table on the top right of the page.  To make them easier to add, people often use templates with variables.  A good, simple example is the Muppet's template at http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Song
 * Info boxes can get very complicated, but the idea is to make a template on one page, and then use it on another with variables. The best way to make one, is to find a template that looks good to you, and copy it over to your wiki.  Some use /very/ complicated code, so it's best to avoid them, but you should find something useful.  You can ask other users for help with this in the Forums or on the Wikia IRC channel -- sannse (talk) 10:36, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

$wgFileExtensions
Hello Sannse,its me again (The Oracle from Custom Bionicles)

If you can please,add the file extension  to  to  of our wiki, Custom Bionicles.

P.S:Crazy-Lihkan38 and Toa Retyk (the other two admins on our wiki) have been gone for a while.Have you seen them contributing to another wiki,or are they on some sort of vacation?I can't really handle the site by myself!(I left a couple of messages to Crazy-Lihkan about other things,but he never replied)

-- Seth Laugh Edits 21:52, 6 May 2008 (UTC)


 * .bmp images are not a good think to add to a wiki. They tend to be very large, unnecessarily so.  Is there a special reason you want them?  It's generally much better to convert to a more sensible compressed format like .jpg or .gif


 * On the other admins, I've not seen them, but they could be somewhere... why not try the "email this user" link? Maybe that will reach them?  You might also want to think about adding new admins to the wiki.  I've made you a bureaucrat on custombionicle so you can do that.  Hope that helps -- sannse (talk) 20:36, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Well,one of the new users to the wiki (I think he came from our sister wiki,Bioniclepedia) has a lot of  files.
 * I tried e-mailing Crazy Lihkan before,he either blocked that option or doesn't have an email.I'm going to try e-mail Toa Retyk now,though.
 * -- Seth Laugh <span title="It's what I do!">Edits 21:22, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * [Edit:I e-mailed Toa Retyk,so now I am going to wait.I am going to make Hodoka2 a admin for now.]


 * It's much better for those files to be converted to .jpg or .gif rather than uploaded as .bmp - which is very easy to do. All you need to do is open them in any image manipulation program, and the "save as" changing the file type.  If you know how to set it to compress them at the same time, that's great, but even changing the file type will be a big improvement in the size of the files.  -- sannse (talk) 19:52, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Desysop
Can I have my sysops removed at Wookieepedia please? Thank you. 16:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi StarNeptune, is there a problem? If it's just that you are inactive at the moment, why not leave them in case you want them in the future?  There's no harm to that :) -- sannse (talk) 20:37, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

help me
help, some vandal is defacing the kirby wiki, i don't have banning rights to ban him, can you help, or at least get help? Bob The Geomancer 21:30, 7 May 2008 (UTC) Please help, please help, i can't turn the corner without him vandaling, he's even vandaled my talk page Bob The Geomancer 21:50, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * All fixed, and the IP is blocked. You can often find help faster in you ask in the Wikia IRC channel.  There is a web-interface at http://irc.wikia.com/ .  So why don't you just ask Dantman if you can become an admin there? :) -- sannse (talk) 09:44, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Domain
I notice that memory-alpha address has a domain in it http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Star_Trek Was wondering could I as well I have one by godaddy (Benjeman Washington 03:13, 14 May 2008 (UTC))


 * Some very large wikis that moved to Wikia kept their domain names as they moved. But generally, we don't offer that.  I'm afraid the wikia URL has to stay -- sannse (talk) 17:40, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

help to do peace in our site
hellow' it's me again from hebrew eincyclopadia. before tow weeks we had vote about closing the site for 1 day- which in Isreal is the memory day of the holocost/ a user' who is sysop on english Unsyclopadia' called "Mordillo" called me a dictator and make a fight between me and some other users (teenagers). until than our community was vary peaceful and harmonyful community. since then almost every day i get words from those users that call me dictator and angry about me/ as you see my English is not so good, but i want to be peace in the communty. please answer me in my talk page here to don't make the fire up. thanks/ 17:20, 15 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Reply at User talk:ינון


 * tanks, it's seem like the peace return (i hope). 22:15, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Help with related communities
Hi Sannse, some time ago I came across a way to make the Related Communities box not display when I'm signed in. I now see from Green Wikia that it looks as if I can customise this box which would be good to reciprocate links with them and others, but I'm really stumped as to how to get the box to display again. Hope you can help! Philralph @ sca21 16:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, I'm not sure about this... I don't recall seeing that box for a while now. Possibly it was an experiment that didn't catch on.  Let me check it out, and I'll get back to you -- sannse (talk) 11:49, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Found the answer quicker than I thought :) the box is still there - but only for logged out users. You can edit it at MediaWiki:Monaco-related-communities... but it's an extra for anons, to encourage them to find wikis they want to sign in to, rather than a standard part of the sidebar for all -- sannse (talk) 12:06, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, Thanks for this Philralph @ sca21 15:41, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

NWN2Wiki going to monaco
Yes please let us implement and change it ourselves, folks changing our skins on us makes our community get defensive which has happened a few times, but i like what you did.

Last time i made a change I implemented it just for my own account so i could refine and test it. Can i do it like this with the monaco you did. This way I can try it for a week or so before I change the default, and others can too. I'll make the larger community aware of this after i get a chance to look at it - this site acts as the real manual for the game so it is very active because of that, and we have quite a few sub communities here as well. I want to make sure each groups leader has a chance to say they like the change.

I think folks would not mind a change, they just need their favorite buttons where they can find them. Pain 20:16, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Reply at w:c:nwn2:User talk:Pain

Sin City Admin
Hi sorry if I get anything wrong while posting here...I'm very new to this. I've been adding new pages to the long dead Sin City wiki and after working a bit on it (13 or so new pages) I found out about becoming the new Administrator. If you don't mind, could you do me the kindness of making me the new site admin? Once again I apologize if anything in this post is incorrect for this kind of request. SerenityValley


 * Sure :) I've made you admin and bureaucrat there... let me know if you need any help with the buttons. Have fun! -- sannse (talk) 12:11, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Adopt Bahrain
Hi, I'd like to revive and adopt the Bahrain wikia. Can I get adminship rights? Thanks --Arabbi 20:47, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, that's fine, you are all set :) You may need to log out and in again to see the change. Good luck with the wiki! -- sannse (talk) 19:00, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello Sannse!
I've been having this problem with a template that the users of the FFWiki had made. We made it and people asked if they could use it for their wiki. We said yes, just as long as the credit us for making it. The other day a user from the wiki that I edit told me about it. He said a user from the Homestar Runner wiki had made it. I go over to investigate. I put the credits on the Template page and they get reverted. I ask the user that put the coding on the wiki about it, my edits get reverted, I ask the person who reverted my edits why he did it, they were also reverted. So I go and get proof and post it on the Template's talkpage. That is also reverted. Then, well look.Can you please help me out? P.S most of them have been rude to me, all except a user named Znex -Azul 21:35, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


 * While it may not be strictly proper, copying template code has generally been considered as harmless on wikis. In fact, it's generally considered to be the best way to learn about and develop templates.  I can understand your annoyance, as this is a particularly unique template, but I'm not sure this was worth more than a polite request on a talk page to add attribution (and that to the template page, not to the template).  If you want to take this further, you will have to contact the admins and hosts of hrwiki - it's not a Wikia wiki, so I can't help with that. -- sannse (talk) 19:35, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Merging
Hello Sannse,

Its the Oracle again.Me and the people at Custom Bionicles plus the people of BioFanFic wiki are thinking about merging,since BioFanFic & Custom Bionicles have the same topic but different names.If you would help with this it would be greatly appreciated.

-- <font style="background:blue" color="white"> Seth <font style="background:blue" color="white">Laugh <font style="background:blue" color="white"><span title="It's what I do!">Edits 23:25, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Sure :) I'll ask JSharp to help with this. -- sannse (talk) 19:37, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Interlanguages
Hi Sannse, Can you take a look at this.--BlueDevil Talk 22:07, 20 May 2008 (UTC)


 * A good reminder thanks :) I'll try and look at interlanguage links today -- sannse (talk) 08:41, 21 May 2008 (UTC)