User talk:Angela

Welcome to my talk page!

I will be offline until January 2nd, so I suggest you contact Wikia staff using the contact form or contact the community on the forums rather than leaving a message here.

If you do want to leave a message here, please add it to the end of the page and I will get back to you in January.

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)

Oncyclopedia Neerlandica
Hello Angela. thank you for your kind offer to "adopt" Oncyclopedie. Speaking as moderator of that site: In the past we have already discussed this matter on our forum and we are perfectly happy with our present situation. We already have that thing "that all uncyclopedians love", the choose option thingy. If you are interested in our discussion at the moment, see: here. and if you want, i'll give you the link to our previous discussions on this matter.

Then I would like to ask you if it is normal policy to send offers like these by email to random users of wikis? I would think it more appropriate if offers like these were presented to the whole community, i.e. on the site itself.

Then speaking for myself personally: As you may know, i have worked for wikia on two wikis (which i helped create), and i feel i've been treated very badly by the wikia community, with staff supporting continuous disruptive actions by a certain Manticore + companions. I have decided not to edit for wikia-wikis anymore. Personally i am happy no great community with overlords (wikiastaff, janitors, admins from all kinds of wikis and wannabees) is interfering with the oncyclopedia community. we have a good thing going there, a growing community of writers and articles + projects and the idea of moving oncyclopedie to wikia will ruin my enthousiasm for the site for which i have made almost 9.000 edits in the last year. I do that unpaid and i do it for fun. If the fun goes out of it for any reason, i will stop doing it. D. G. Neree - User talk 16:55, 16 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't know what Vsotvep has told you, but I have not made any offer. I simply replied to something he posted on nunyepedia and at the same time asked "have you ever considering moving Oncyclopedia to Wikia?". It was just a question, asked because that site was down again. I hope that has not been mis-represented on that forum post, but of course oncyclopedia.net is offline so I can't actually check! Angela (talk) 06:45, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oncyclopedia.net is fine. It is not offline. Our servers work smoothly and are much faster than wikia's. Your answer is very dissapointing because it's a lie. you sent a 14 year old schoolkid, who has just recently begun editing on oncyclopedie and who hasn't a clue what's going on an Email, asking if he would consider moving to wikia, promising support and gadgets. This is considered spam and i think it is even an illegal breach of privacy. Suffice it to say that your action has caused a lot of negative reactions on oncyclopedie and if wikia's strategy to "adopt" more wikis is emailing 14 year olds, i find that disgusting. Be straight about it and post requests on the site itself. D. G. Neree - User talk 11:41, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I wasn't lying - Oncyclopedia was down when I posted that message - check your server logs if you need proof. I wasn't promising Vsotvep anything. I was just telling him about Wikia because he came here and edited and left a message on one of my sites. A reply to a question he left is not spam. I'm sorry you see it that way, but I think you're just taking out your aggression on me because you're upset that you didn't get your own way here. Angela (talk) 12:03, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Well it sure was a relief to be rid of you guys. I am not going into this old discussion again, it's over and done and so is my cooperation with wikia. Especially as i see you keep on distorting the truth and giving a link without the context and taking away the email from your talk page. Anyway, the discussion is closed and so is the discussion on wether Oncyclopedie is joining wikia. The answer is no, and that doesn't come only from me but from the community there. So i would like to ask you to stop your unsollicited requests there and also to fight your battle with Carl elsewhere. Unsollicited interference is btw the reason for my reactions to Manticore as you can see in the history of paradoxology. (not speaking of the fact that he started banning me from the uncyclopedia channel for no reason). In other words: Why don't you just leave the people at Oncyclopedie alone? D. G. Neree - User talk 13:38, 17 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)

#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)

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)

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)