Forum:Gaiapedia's Requests

Well, I made the requests arround the site, but something has stopped a few of them from getting through. So because other places on Wikia to easily number up and make it hard to spot all the requests. I'll list out the remaining requests of my wiki's community.

I listed it on Angela's talk page but unfortunately multiple other things turned up after my section and it appears that since they have been responded to, the number of other things have hidden my request from view.

They were requested a long time ago, but since the community had little means of communication there was no concensus on the request. But we are requesting for 3 Custom Namespaces. The community has given consensus, and we now have 9 votes for the Namespaces, 1 who says only for a single one of them, and 2 who voted no but never commented on why.

The 3 Namespaces are "Item", "NPC, and "Map" with the common talpage names "Item talk", "NPC talk", and "Map talk" going with the naming style of MediaWiki.

The community discussion on that is here.

Onto the second one:

Well, I'm just listing it here, Sannse helped with it, I asked for Plotwiki to be added to the interwiki map because we had the possibility of merging with it. Sannse said e added it to the Interwiki page and that it would start working once the script ran to update it. I was also told that e would sort it out later so I'm just partly listing this for listing sake, but I don't know if I get the system right, but dosent it work like You add something to Interwiki map and then when the script runs it is added to the database from there, or is it the other way around, and the script updates that page, because When I scanned the page where was no mention of the plotwiki. But if we need concensus on the decission before the link is added then we have the dicission now, we've got 6 votes for, and none against. and on our small community, 6-11 votes are all you will probably get. [1]

Oh... just for the sake of saying, there's no word out on it, but to make one of our features work, we may need the installation of the Show/Hide Extension, but I'll say something if we actualy need it.

Oh ya, tell me if I need concensus... but we have a few Templates in the Nemplate namespace that sorta take use of the Subpages feature, so it would be helpfull of subpages were on in Templates. Dantman (Talk) 05:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I thought I had done that interwiki change, but looks like I didn't! Sorry about that, it's on there now.  The database will be updated next time the script is run.


 * On namespaces, there are a few things to check listed at Help:Custom namespaces. If everything there is OK, then please use the contact form to mail us with the namespaces.  Once we have that, and know all is ready, I can put it on the todo list (it will go near the top).  Thanks -- sannse (talk) 09:11, 9 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Everything on that list was checked off the first time I requested the namespaces, I just didn't use the contact form the second time because It was more of a follow up to the previous request than a actual request. But I'll use it now.

Here's the checklist (I'm gonna link the form to this page, space was the second reason I didn't use the form):
 * 1) Requesting max 3 Namespaces: "Item", "NPC", "Map"
 * 2) I only had one article under Item: and I moved that out, and NPC and Map have never been used. You can double check with w:c:gaia:Special:Prefixindex/Item:, w:c:gaia:Special:Prefixindex/NPC:, and w:c:gaia:Special:Prefixindex/Map:.
 * 3) Using Find when on the interwiki page draws blankerrors for Item and NPC, and when using map it only finds the map in the title and text, and map which is only a part of 2 links. Plus you can't do anything with Item:, NPC:, or Map:.
 * 4) Concensus is current at (9 For, 1 for Item but not NPC or Map, and 2 Against for unknown reasons)(We have few members).
 * 5) Common naming gives the talkpages "Item talk:", "NPC talk", and "Map talk".

Dantman (Talk) 23:04, 9 September 2006 (UTC)


 * This is now on the priority list, I'll try and keep and eye on it and let you know when it's done -- sannse (talk) 16:12, 13 September 2006 (UTC)


 * The Plotwiki link hasen't started working yet, but it has been on the map page for a week. It dosen't look like the current system is very efficient, might I make a recomendation on a possible system. I've been doing some development testing for the possibility that the Gaiapedia could expand and create a GaiaMeta Organization N.P.O. and I have 4 wikis built so that every one of them shares the same users, interwiki, extensions, includes, language files, skins, and a special system for partialy shared permissions. The permissions system is to complex and has to much possibility for glitch to be used here, and you don't need the folder sharing. But if you want to know how I control the interwiki table.

In the includes/Database.php file I go into the "tableName" function and look for the line: if ( isset( $wgSharedDB ) && "{$this->mTablePrefix}user" == $name ) { and I replace it with the addition alteration: if ( isset( $wgSharedDB ) && ( "{$this->mTablePrefix}user" == $name || "{$this->mTablePrefix}interwiki" == $name ) ) { Doing that causes the interwiki table on the shared database to be the only interwiki table used on any of my wikis. After that a simple instalation of the Special:Interwiki allows me to set our staff flag, or give someone the interwiki flag to be able to edit the only interwiki table from any wiki in our network of 4. Dantman (Talk) 01:55, 17 September 2006 (UTC)