User talk:PanSola/Archive 3

Thanks
Pan thank you for the warm welcome to the Wikia community, especially the gaming side. I also wanted to see what type of templates and tools you had available to share, seeing that you had made a reference in your message to me. Thanks! Jsperkins84 22:34, 8 March 2008 (UTC) Discovery Wiki

army of two game
can you play 2 player campain mode on the same playstation 3 consol

IRC meeting transcript
http://amorosity.net/March2transcript.txt -- 22:33, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Tech
I'm technologically adventurous. Can you help me out? Thanks, Obi-Maul 12 16:45, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

You asked me to ping you
Hi PanSola.

You asked me to ping you, but didn't actually have a user page on my wiki. So please check out your user page at Spelljammer Wiki for my response.

If you are doing a global survey, you might want to find a way to redirect all your user pages to one place. David Shepheard 21:30, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks Pansola. If I need help I know exactly who to contact now. Thanks again!

AsgarothXc 18:35, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for the welcome. But I need your urgent help. Since no one seems to help expand my MotorStorm Wiki, you might need to contact Sony, since they made MotorStorm and is currently making the sequel and visit and help my Wikia out. I only created 6 articles so far, yet none of the other users seems to visit my Wikia. Can you help me out? MetaCracken 19:42, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

:)
thanks for the offer, be sure to email me at Shokukun@yahoo.com if u ever need to! :) i would love to have you help with TheWorldCC WIKI we actually need all the help we can get. thankyou very much.

Shoku13 15:34, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

would u be able to help me with the desgin of dark riders wiki it has gone a bit wrong Tiblo3 17:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

the other version you show me was better could you change it to that please Tiblo3 18:19, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi
I don't have a problem making the Logo, as I have made sevral concepts of it. However, I am finding diffcuilty recruiting people to help build my site. If you could hlpe me recruit more people I would very much appreciated! Thanks :)

ShadowKnight 00:06, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Wika on a New Star Wars Expanded Universedia
Dear, PanSola


 * You asked a question march 16th on the wika request page for the said wikia request and was wondering what is in the process of processing wikia requests? If you could tell me i would be most greatful!!

Starwarsmaster101 ( Intelligence Command One ) 03:51, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

question about a SL edit of yours
Two months ago, you added to Wikia's SL hub page, but one of the external links you added ( http://www.secondlifesp ) results in an error page. Was the url supposed to be secondlife.sp? secondlifesp.com? --EarthFurst 03:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Database Backups
How do I backup a database on my Wiki? I have sysop rights, by the way.You can reach me on my talk page at http://tropico.wikia.com/wiki/User:BllasaeBllasae 06:54, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

PanSola, help me out..
can you give the ok for the Xmods Wiki to be created?? no one will answer me... thanks, Derilith 20:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

April Fool's Props
Nice job on the GW - WoW swap, hilarious! :) -Zerak talk 15:29, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
I like technology stuff. I could use some templates and functions. But I have not seen what functions could be useful for here. Type an example. Thanks for all. I will ask you some questions later. Davichito 22:25, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Disclaimers links
I forget exactly where I was when making that comment about disclaimers and links on every page. I certainly can't see them in Cologne Blue here on Central. But when one clicks on "Terms of use" one gets a page with a policies panel that includes Disclaimers. The first paragraph of the page that it gives you is :

Individual Wikia may have their own disclaimers. Please see the disclaimers link at the end of each page on the relevant wiki.

I looked for a random example and found it very quickly on Wikifur, top right (which is not "at the end"!):


 * In other languages: Česky | Deutsch | Suomi | Français | Português
 * Printable version | Disclaimers | Privacy policy

See http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/WikiFur:General_disclaimer for the target.

You can probably dig out the solution much faster than I can. Ask if you want me to help further.

Robin Patterson 03:38, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't understand all of your response on my talk page. But I agree with the last bit and totally agree that it will be good "if the link can directly be modified via mediawiki messages to point to central, instead of having nearly every page to point to a page that simply tells people to go to another page". Robin Patterson 23:47, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Help with thumbnails?
Hi! I saw your offer to help on our admin's page over at http://darkhorizons.wikia.com and there's an issue that's been plaguing me, so I thought I'd see if you know the answer!

On our thumbnailed images, we get a buffer of white space - my assumption is that this is to force room for the picture and that it really should be the color of our background, but I have no idea how one changes this (although I've seen other wikis using the same skin that don't have this thumbnail problem, such as http://diablo.wikia.com). Any idea? An example is on http://darkhorizons.wikia.com/wiki/Republic_Guard.

Thanks!

Briseis 15:56, 14 April 2008 (UTC)-


 * Thanks muchly for your quick fix and reply, but survey on the game indicates a vast preference for the Quartz skin, if you don't mind? Fixing the thumbnails is not a top-priority so much as a niggling detail. ;)
 * Briseis 18:43, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the Warm Welcome. I'll be making up a Monobook logo in just a while. ^_^ WillSWC 02:21, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello
Thank you for the welcome. Actually, it would be good if you could help me with making a Duel Masters Wikia logo, a car info table for Duel Masters cards, and possibly offer a better way to organize the information. Thank you! EHeroFlareNeos 23:45, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello!
Hi Pansola. Thanks for the welcome note! I already posted a logo request at the page you specified. I might have to take you up on the template offer sometime in the future. Thanks w3stfa11 06:04, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Need help posting image
How do I post up an image into the top-right corner on my wiki? I uploaded my file as Image:Wiki_wide.png but the wiki renamed it Image-Wiki_wide.png afterwards. I don't know what to do. Windrider07 01:36, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thank you for the offers, and I'll be sure to take you up on them as soon as I need help! Starting a new wiki really can seem daunting, but I'm glad to know that there are people who are willing to help out eachother!

ZeeroYui 16:51, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Help with a MapMapping Aplication
Hello, first of all, thank you to offer your help to our wiki and forgive me about my realy bad english ^^!. I need some help with a thing... i found an interesting aplication on inet, MapLib, this let you, and everyone, to edit Maps Markers in a online picture, and add it to your website by a. This will be usefull to me, to add some Game Maps on my wikia, and let users to edit comments as: NPC Positions, Monsters Spawn Points, etc. I asked in chat to add an iframe on wikia and said to me that is only posible by javascript editing Common.js but i dont know how to do it work correctly, can you help me with this?

Ralstlin 22:33, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

template help
I was wondering if you could help me add this template to the Video Game Sales wiki. I tried a few things, but couldn't get it to work. I just need a basic notice template where I can put some comments. w3stfa11 16:52, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you! w3stfa11 02:14, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

handy tools that can enrich the formatting and organization!
you mentioned "handy tools that can enrich the formatting and organization of the wiki such as templates, parser functions, and various MediaWiki extensions". It would be great to have them! I've been struggling with pywikipedia for a while because it's support to wikia isn't working well. So anything you can provide us with would be really nice!

Thank you! Mmoroz 20:03, 28 April 2008 (UTC)  -- twewy wikia

maintaining a database of items
One question we couldn't solve is this. The game has about 1000 items and we'd like to avoid retyping the same information multiple times. Would it be possible to create some kind of repository (something like a database, maybe just a very long article in a certain format). That repository would contain all the information, and any other article that needs it would just look it up from there?

For instance, we might have item #424, type: ttt, name: xxx, value: yyy, power: zzz, etc. Then in some article, we'd like to create a list of all items of type ttt, and with just their names and values - so we'd grab that info from the "repository".

Of course, if we could use a sql database that would take care of it, but since that is probably not realistic, do you know of any tricks to achieve the same goal?

Thank you so much!

Mmoroz 00:15, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

hello
Hello, and thank you for your requests Pansola, I am in the process of getting people on my wikia and i hope it will go smoothly thanks lukedaman45

Hi, about game programming wiki
I think Game Dev Wiki is inactive. I would like to adopt it and in sometime, when I have written a bunch of articles, I would appreciate you to unprotect the main page, for me to link to my new articles.

Also, I read you said to Swirl bureaucrat, on his talk page:

>>Main Page protection - It is a general Wikia policy to not protect the Main Page unless vandalism is a recurring problem. See w:Help:Main Page for a more detailed explanation.

Then I think I am right asking for the unprotection of the main page.

Thanks in advance...

Freud2008 19:00, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the unprotection. Freud2008 00:44, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Question
Hi PanSola,

It's Daarklord from the new wiki on DikuMUD Nilgiri. I just created a forums for discussion about in-game trade but I want to check that it's okay with Wikia policy to have such a forums. If you want a clearer idea what I'm talking about, go to the forum.

-Daarklord 12:26, 3 May 2008 (UTC)


 * So I read the policy pages in Wikia and there was nothing against using Wikia for forums about in-game trade. Yes there are probably better forum tools out there but this way people might be more inclined to contribute to other parts of the wiki. Mwa ha ha ha ha! Thanks for reading.
 * -Daarklord 17:58, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Better way to create pages with only small amount of differences?
"Don't hesitate to ask." Great, then it's time to ask!

I am the founder of the RoboWar wiki, and one of my goals is to put together the Instruction Reference, which is basically an appendix of each call, what it does, and how it works.

There are maybe 50-100 different entries for the reference, and I'd like to know if there's any kind of automated or semi-automated method for creating many pages without having to click on a link to an uncreated page, type in things, save, click on a link, type in things, save, click on a link, type in things, save...

Is there any way to take a file, and have the wiki add pages according to the file's content? For example,

... ====SWAP==== Name: Swap Kind: Operator ===Conditions=== Takes two items Returns two items ===Pseudocode=== Read the first and second items off the stack Remove the first and second items off the stack Place the first item onto the stack Place the second item onto the stack //** end of page marker, new page begins... **// ====SYNC==== Name: Sync Kind: Operator ===Conditions=== ...

If there is some kind of alternate way to do an automated or multi batch page creation, this could save me about two hours of work and let me focus on more interactive and engaging topics.

If it cannot be done... I don't know, I guess I'll write a GUI script to handle it for me. Mproud 05:19, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

extensions
Hi PanSola! Thanks for welcoming me to the Gaming Wikia section! You said if I have any questions just ask, well, I'm here! I was wondering, what are the extensions for wikia?

Thanks
Thanks for the support with rpgtalk. I am sometimes inclined to be technologically adventurous, but free time can be an issue. :) Right now, I am focusing on the bread and butter of the site design so I can start promoting it and get some editors. TTYL PlatonicSolid 07:30, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Top title
Thanks for your warm welcome. My first question (of many I imagine) as I set the new wiki up, but looking to my main page oxfordchess it says Oxford Chess Wiki at the top of the main section, whilst (for example) muppet has no such title. Just a minor point, but one I haven't been able to fix...

KieranSmallbone 17:11, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Op-ing
Hello PanSola, it is Azul from the FFWiki. We are having some problems Op-ing some people on the IRC. I've looked at the list and me Bluerfn, Mymindislost and you are the only people who can OP. I am there alot and so is Bluerfn, but we live in different timezones than most of the spammers/trolls. My question is, can you add more to the list of people who can OP? -Azul 01:32, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiBarn
Hi,

I'm an admin for wikibarn and i'd you to join my wiki.

Elbutler 21:50, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Image thumbs
I have a couple images that don't display if I set the "px" width to anything lower than the original size. In the preview I got a gray box with an error "Error creating thumbnail:". They are the ones under "Secrets". Sxerks 04:56, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Sysop
I'm Teesam but i use this account on Wednesday

How can i delete all sysops from test card wiki? --356556 11:27, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

IRC
Hey Pan, it's me Bluerfn from the Final Fantasy Wiki. This is about the FFWiki IRC chatroom. Unknoiwngly, I Dropped my nickname. I have re-registered and identified the nickname again, but I lost all the flags I needed to maintain the channel. Can you please grant me the flags again? They are v,o,t,s,r,i,R and A. Sorry for disturbing you, and thanks. Bluer 16:43, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Template help?
Hello, oh helpful one!

I am having a pain as I try to start creating templates. The template looks just squeaky fine - until we add content and headings in the main area. Then it plop the content menu inside my template! Can you help pretty please?


 * The template in question
 * The Nexus page which uses it
 * The Hegen Hub page, which also uses it

Any help or thoughts you can provide would be greatly appreciated! I have poked around at some other wiki's templates and some guides, but can't seem to track down what's causing my problem.

Thank you!

-Briseis 00:17, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Blue Dragon Wiki issue
You don't seem to have been active lately, but this is worth a shot. I recently joined the Blue dragon wiki and it is in a bad state. There are no admins or active users and Messia has stated that he wants it deleted. If he doesn't want it, I would be very happy to manage that wiki to the best of my abilities.-Super Sephiroth