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For French Translation of Code of Conduct
Hello Angela, Thanks for your welcome. Yes i'll add our translation in the wiki, and do what i can to participate to the French community ;-) Here is the page with teh French translation: http://blogging.wikia.com/wiki/Code_of_conduct_in_French Where do you want i link this page to? You can leave a response here jeanrem Best, 04:47, 17 April 2007

Administrators
There were two votes oppose Leon2323's request,, one mine , second by DCLXVI ,. What's the point of making him admin now? Szoferka 20:30, 16 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Because I feel that Leon has answered the opposition in the Comments and questions section. He removed the advert from his user page and explained why he did that, and explained what he meant by improving system messages - which is fine for him to do. He didn't say he wasn't going to propose big changes on the talk page first. Angela talk 20:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Ja.Howto MediaWiki namespace usage.
Hi, I am writing in response to the message about the usage of the MediaWiki namespace usage.

I would gladly try using the project's namespace, as presently the project's namespace is not used (no important articles that are linked from the main page are there).

However, if I put the pages into the project's namespace now, I am afraid that the pages might disappear after the change of the namespace in the near future. (I have made a request for the change of the namespace recently.)

So, if I put articles in that namespace, would they not disappear after the change of the namespace?

Inyuki 13:11, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Pages won't disappear if you put them in the current namespace name. Just don't put them in the new namespace until it is created. If you want to link to the pages, you can use Project: which will always redirect to the right place even after the rename. Angela talk 13:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I got it. みんでぃ 13:48, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * How do I link to the talk pages using the Project: namespace? I mean, if I make a link such as Project‐ノート:類似したサイト replacing the ウィキテク (present project namespace) with the word "Project", that wouldn't work. Is there a way to actually make a link to a talk page using the Project: namespace? みんでぃ 14:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * You can use Project talk: . Angela talk 14:29, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, thank you. It's done. By the way, is there some simpler way of dealing with multiple pages. For example, changing the links in a number of pages by some batch process? Is it necessary to use the bot for that? みんでぃ 14:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * There's no MediaWiki feature to do that, so it would need a bot. Angela talk 15:20, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, a bot is needed, but for a simple link changing you can get away with only using the replace.py bot in the pywikipedia framework.  If your old namespace was Something and the new one was Somethingelse then that would fix all the links in the main namespace of the selected wiki. Just ask me if you need help setting up a family for use with the bots. ~Dantman(talk) tricks  Apr 17, 2007 @ 16:45 (UTC)

Thanks for flooding my userlist ^^
Thanks for flooding my userlist ^^ Hello, I woke up this morning and... what a surprise! I have up to 1.000 users in my Userlist!!! One of them is you and Jimbo, Terry Foote, Pean, Emil, Gil, Sannse, Jasonr, Johnq, Roblefko... etcetera etcetera :S

WHAT ARE YOU DOING? See that!

--Eodolwa 21:34, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I've replied at w:c:ca.pokemon:Usuari Discussió:Eodolwa. Angela talk 21:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Idea for the Statistics issue
I remembered the reasoning of why GoogleAnalytics weren't being added to wiki here anymore when I was browsing MediaWiki.org for extensions which could do what I need for the Wikia Anime Project, and I ran back into one of the extensions I saw some time ago and realized it might be of some help to allowing people to view statistics on Wikia wikis without needing to add any analytics code to encyclopedias. Have you seen the FireStats extension before? It's made to be integrated into MediaWiki unlike analytics and it provides browser and OS statistics in an even more user friendly manor than Analytics does. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Apr 18, 2007 @ 02:26 (UTC)


 * Sadly that is non-free software. They say it can't be used commercially, so this isn't something we'd want to integrate with wikia. However, we are working on a wikistats solution that can be easily used on all wikis. Angela talk 11:43, 18 April 2007 (UTC)


 * That will be great ! Keep up the good work. ;-) — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 22:29, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

University wiki
Hi Angela. I just came from a meeting with my university's IT assistant director (strategic planning) and reviewed the possibilities of incorporating a wiki to NEIU. He liked the idea of starting a collaboration site designated for student interaction. Apparently, there are other departments who are in the process of considering similar options and possibilities. He would like to see our department run a test pilot of this departamental wiki, and proceed from there. He further suggested that for now, he would agree with wikia hosting the URL and was curious to know how much would it cost him to remove the ads from the site. Thanks. macRadu 15:28, 18 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I'll reply at w:c:neiu:user talk:Rdpurtuc. Angela talk 15:53, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

VariablesExtension and StringFunctions
Could you install the VariablesExtension and the StringFunctions parser functions on Wikia? It would really help with many things (like automatic scorekeeping) on the Triple Triad Wiki. Please respond on my TripleTriad talk page. Thank you. --SkizzerzT - C - SW 20:47, 18 April 2007 (UTC)


 * The problem with these extensions is that they are not scalable. They have serious performance and cache issues, and poor protection against DDOS. It also makes it much harder for people to edit the wiki if the wikitext basically becomes a programming language! It's possible that the regular parser functions we have can be used to do this though. Please contact Splarka if you need help with that. Angela talk 21:48, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

WAP Code Aims?
While building the extensions for the WAP which give it it's Mini Wiki type abilitys, and it's ability to link to Anime on the Animepedia and other Wiki with the same style of simple link I ran into some code differences in includes/Title.php and now I'm thinking on what aim I should put these extensions towards. Should this be the start of another new Wikia code base (Such as the existing general Wikia, magazines code, and seperate Uncyclopedia code) which aims for the ability to create Wikia with MiniWiki capabilities and the ability to share things with other Wikia it is grouped with. Or should I aim the extensions to be something with a list of code changes which just need to be quickly re-added when a new version of the general code is added and tryes to interact with the code as little as possible. I'll give a explanation of the code difference later, can't at the moment. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Apr 19, 2007 @ 18:06 (UTC)


 * An extension would almost certainly be the best way of doing this. We hope to eventually bring the wiki & magazine codebases together, so certainly avoid trying to create another one. Angela talk 20:34, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok, I'll do it that way (Though I don't think it'll be very possible for me to make the links work like local links). My issue with includes/Title.php though was inside of the userCan($action) function. In 1.9.3 the code which auto-protects the MediaWiki namespace is:

// XXX: This is the code that prevents unprotecting a page in NS_MEDIAWIKI // from taking effect -ævar if( NS_MEDIAWIKI == $this->mNamespace &&		   !$wgUser->isAllowed('editinterface') ) { wfProfileOut( $fname ); return false; } But in 1.10 it's been rewritten to something like: if ( array_key_exists( $this->mNamespace, $wgNamespaceProtection ) ) { $nsProt = $wgNamespaceProtection[ $this->mNamespace ]; if ( !is_array($nsProt) ) $nsProt = array($nsProt); foreach( $nsProt as $right ) { if( '' != $right && !$wgUser->isAllowed( $right ) ) { wfProfileOut( $fname ); return false; }			}		} I've been using 1.9.3 code to do my work on the coding and it was a simple case of adding a few bits to that spot (Though in 1.10 I'd just probably add another small section of code). Since some Wikia use 1.10 and some use 1.9.3 and you're trying to piece them together, should I continue developing for 1.9.3 code, or should I setup a 1.10 on my localhost alongside the 1.9.3 code and develop off that? p.s. I've always been curious on how the staff tag is shared. I managed a good semi-shared permissions system using both a shared and local set of permissions tables at the same time, and managed to get the base MW functions to add, grab, and remove them from the proper locations. It popped back in my mind now cause I was debating on if Wikia's current code would support sharing permissions to a set group of Wikia. Almost like the proposed GlobalSysop group, except one which only certain Wikia recognized. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Apr 19, 2007 @ 23:44 (UTC)
 * Also, other than the Networking, the DataTable extension, and possibly a special limited Userrights/GroupAdministration/Make??????/De????? type page (if it was worth it enough) I thought of making a bit of a kind of upgrade to Special:Movepage. Currently you can only move a page, and are given the option to move the talkpage with it. I wanted to change the system around so that instead of a move talkpage box, you would be given a list with checkboxes beside each item with the talk/article page (Depending on which you're moving), existing subpages, and existing subpages of the talk/article page in the list. And any page which was checked off would be moved along with the page. That basically means that if say, we changed one Anime World which had an ID of fmp which meant all of it's pages were subpages of fmp, and we decided to make it FMP, that movepage upgrade would allow all of the article pages to be moved at the same time. Since it's going to have more than just a few changes, I'm wondering if I should build it as a file to replace includes/SpecialMovepage.php or I should create a Special:Movepage2 and have the code in mediawiki which links to Special:Movepage link to Special:Movepage2 instead. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Apr 20, 2007 @ 07:38 (UTC)


 * It may be best to make this a separate special page so people can still use the old one if that's what they're used to and they don't want to move subpages. Were you intending to submit this to MediaWiki or just to Wikia? If you'd like it used on Wikimedia, I'd suggest you discuss it on the wikitech mailing list or IRC channel. Angela talk 22:39, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Ya, a separate special page would be best, I decided that when I started coding that. Actually, now that I think of it, it's not possible for it to replace Special:Movepage because Special:MovepageEx (The new tool) loses the ability to move an article into a talk namespace. Articles are always moved to articles, and talkpages are always moved to talknamespaces. Not only that, but while it still is a little buggy, I managed to almost lose my Main Page which I was testing on in the Deleted Revisions. Thinking about how powerful a tool it is, even if you can move something backwards that has been moved I'm starting to think that it should be a Sysop only tool. Also, instead of replacing the tab, I managed to get it to add a new Move Ex tab to the direct right of the Move tab, and it's all done without any code hacking (unlike the other extensions) so this one is done on a purely extension basis. This was just for use on specific Wikia. Other than the Top-level Wikia in the Wikia Anime Project (Most likely going to be renamed to Wikia Graphic Entertainment Project in the final stage) which use a subpage structure to hold all the articles in a Mini Wiki style environment there isn't much use for a tool like this. (Actually, I kinda used the WAP's style classes inside the table to make it look right, so the interface is not exactly compatible outside of where it would be used).

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6233/movepageexnq7.th.jpg
 * Here's a screenshot of the user interface (The one part which is basically bug free). I'm on my dad's computer using a different server setup for development on this one, so since I just started the attempt of syncing the servers like I do with browsers and files I don't the ability to properly use the other server setup which has the ConNetworking extensions so I can't show you what that has done yet though.
 * Did any of the Wikia staff ever look over the WikiSkin extension? I know it has the issue that if someone were to blank the skin page then the whole interface would disappear. And also that in his version the sidebar doesn't work properly, the footer doesn't show up right, the toolbox doesn't display, and it doesn't display titles correctly. But I managed to create the extra parts to the code to make all those other things display correctly, I also got around the issue of no skins existing at the start by creating a monobook mw message, and I also fixed the security issue of losing the entire interface and not being able to undo it by creating an uneditable default Monobook interface which shows up when you use &skin=default. Actually, I could probably add a failsafe which forces the default to be used if anything such as the content area is missing. With all of the issues fixed, and the potential to add extra boxes, position the ads in a fitting area, etc... It might be a nice addition which would handle a number of the things that other Wikians are hoping for such as the ability to use the Magazines skins on normal wikia. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Apr 22, 2007 @ 03:49 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if anyone has looked at that extension, but we are working on new skins including ways for users to add new parts to the skins, such as tools that they find useful on the wiki. Angela talk 11:32, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok. Just if you were wondering, I've finished the MovepageEx extension. I added a Error class to deal with the fact that it handles multiple pages instead of one, and I used a few ques to place the errors in the right location and also to make sure that nothing is moved before everything is validated for safety. The success page also lists all the moved pages. Other than those errors, the code is actually a modified SpecialMovepage.php so there shouldn't be any real errors anymore. Technically it could stand alone and be used in any wiki just by including that one file. Though I do admit that unless you modify MediaWiki:movepageextext the example table does rely on the css classes I built in Anime:MediaWiki:Anime-Box.css. At least I already started using the GE prefix instead of Con or Anime, I think the best final project name would be the Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project, even though the project is still in the Anime stage, because of how much work it is to change the name I think I'm going to start referring to it as the WGEP now. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Apr 22, 2007 @ 12:00 (UTC)

Wikia news message
Hey Angela. On the wikia news message suggestion box, my wiki has been in the suggestion box for a while now and I was wondering when it would be my wikis turn. My wiki has been in there for longer then at least 3, perhaps 4 of the new wikia messages that have been shown. Thanks, H*bad (talk) 13:03, 20 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't think there are enough people wanting to write halo fanon that aren't already there that will see that message for it to be useful. Instead, I'll put it in jointly with the Halo wiki one. Angela talk 22:39, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

M*A*S*H wiki
Hey Angela. Jimbo told me that I could ask you how I could go about adopting the M*A*S*H wiki. Can you help? Thanks!!--Ultric Sandov 03:12, 22 April 2007 (UTC) Thanks so much!!--Ultric Sandov 19:08, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Question
Hello, Angela! And what (except for sysop, bureaucrat, bot, rollback) it is possible to receive the rights in the local project, like such? — Afinogenoff ¾ 05:58, 23 April 2007 (UTC)