User talk:Angela

Welcome to my talk page. Please put new messages at the end.

If you leave a message here, I might reply on this page, or I might reply on your own wiki. If you have a preference for where I reply, please let me know.

If you don't need a personal response from me, please consider leaving a message on the Forums instead, or sending an email to Wikia's community support staff via the form at Special:Contact.

Wikia Anime Project's Technical Changes
A while back when I was starting to setup the Wikia Anime Project I posted 2 topics Forum:Anime Network and Forum:Wikia Anime (and Manga?) Project. I had requested 2 sitename/project namespace changes for the project. On the Animepedia Anime was going to be changed to Animepedia, to stop conflictions with interwiki, the possible future system for linking, and it's name being to generic. Also on the Narutopedia Naruto Wiki was going to be changed to Narutopedia. But because of what happened with Essjay and how long it's been, I'm not sure if the requests (Along with the issue of +'s not working in titles, which is alreay adressed in bugzilla) have got to the tech team. Dantman (Talk) 04:58, 9 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Interwikis should never conflict with project namespaces anyway. They do right now, but that's top of the list to be fixed next week. Is the plus problem bug 395 or is there another report of this somewhere? Angela talk 07:10, 9 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The actual thing about a conflicting thing is how the project spans multiple wikia. Anime: is an interwiki which leads to the animepedia. But it's also the project namespace for the animepedia. So while Anime:Naruto will lead you to the naruto article on the animepedia from any of the other wiki, which is quite a nice linking scheme. Using that on the animepedia will actualy bring you to Anime:Anime:Naruto. The issue lies within the fact that there are a lot of templates which are mirrored exactly between the wiki. My specific problem with the + was that there is a anime called Blood+, which while an article could be located at Blood there is also the Rockman.EXE set of anime. Of which go Rockman.EXE, Rockman.EXE Axcess, Rockman.EXE Stream, Rockman.EXE Beast, and Rockman.EXE Beast+ where Rockman.EXE Beast and Rockman.EXE Beast+ are different series. So without that + character fix (which I did see in bugzilla later after I stated about it) we'll have an issue with those anime, but yes that's the issue and it's nice to see that the fix has already been explained. The big reason that Anime: won't work as a namespace in the future is because of a system I outlined in the second forum topic. The intent is to create a system which will allow anime in the project to be linked to specialy from any wikia using a special system. Anime:Ranma 1/2:Ranma could lead to Anime:Ranma 1/2/Ranma, while Anime:Naruto:Naruto Uzumaki would actualy lead to w:c:Naruto:Naruto Uzumaki. Basicly meaning that any anime can be linked to using the same style of link and it would work whether the anime has it's own wikia or is located in the animepedia. But the issue is that for that to work, the system needs to use Anime: inside of the animepedia and /$1 in the interwiki will need to be changed to /Anime:$1. Dantman (Talk) 08:09, 9 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok. This is done now. Angela talk 11:56, 10 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Wow, thanks. I never expected something that fast. Time to modify my wikiswitch function. Dantman (Talk) 20:57, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I forgot to mention it because it slipped my mind, but among the things I requested was also google analytics for the 3 wikia in the project. I'm wondering how many people are actually viewing the Animepedia, I don't know if the InuYasha Wiki is actualy 99% dead, and it would be good to know the common browsers used to make sure the common browsers support @import inside of another @import which is used to include global styles into the wikia in the project.
 * Animepedia: UA-1285044-1
 * Narutopedia: UA-1285044-2
 * InuYasha Wiki: UA-1285044-3
 * Thanks again ~Dantman(talk) 10:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I'll look into this. It may be possible to get these stats directly onto the wiki rather than via analytics. Angela talk 21:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * We can't accept any more analytics codes, but instead I will put some stats at project:traffic for you on each of those wikis. Angela talk 16:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Is there some sort of predefined limit to how many analytics codes can be put on a page? I like the analytics cause It also tells me the geographic location of the majority of viewers (good for directing content) and also what browsers readers and editors use so that I can make sure the sites are compatible with them. ~Dantman(talk) 09:25, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The limit is one of time. Michael Davis, Wikia's COO, was adding these manually and due to the number of requests decided this was no longer practical, so we are working on better ways to get the stats out to all wiki users and not just to people who "own" the analytics ID. Angela talk 16:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I see. I'd half to look deep into the technical stuff to come up with a permanent solution. Which you're probably already on. But don't you think a good temporary solution would be a easy way to add analytics ID's to the page. Basically MediaWiki:Analytics_ids would have a list of id's. Each line which matches the regex "/^UA-[0-9]+-[0-9]+$/im" would be pulled out and placed inside of it's own "_uff = 0;_uacct="___ID___"; urchinTracker;". It would basically give the admins of any Wikia the ability to add new Analytics, and it would allow them to also remove inactive ones. ~Dantman(talk) 00:34, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

A message from EVCHK
Hi, I don't know that why you are being a SYSOP since no one authorize you.

Anyway. I hope that you don't intervene our Wikia and we have a independent right to write an article.

Thanks!

The SYSOP of EVCHK--Honeybee (Talk) 10:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I replied on my talk page at EVCHK. Angela talk 11:56, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism on Wikigrounds
Wikigrounds has suffered large amounts of spam over the past few weeks, most of it coming from 4chan users, as they recently planned to raid Newgrounds. I have protected the entire site twice (Known as a site lockdown on wikigrounds) and permanantly banned anybody who participates in them. I want to know if there is a way to change the site so that only registered users may edit pages. This will help a lot in preventing any future spam.--Fire 14:31, 10 March 2007 (UTC)


 * It's vandalism, not spam. I'll reply at w:c:newgrounds:user talk:Fire. Angela talk 16:01, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

LOTR Wiki
Hi Angela! I'm a user from the LOTR wiki under the name KingAragorn. It seems that our wiki has no sysops active at the moment, not since january anyway. I was wondering if you could make one of our active editors who have already proved themselves, to become a sysop - I suggest userRazor77 who has definetly proved him/herself a worthy contributor. Please reply on my LOTR wiki user talk page. KingAragorn


 * Hi again, I tried contacting User:Robin_Patterson on his wikia talk page, but has not replied, and as for User:FireBird his only contribuutions was to make the first main page in early 2005.

I'll let you know if they contact me in the future, and please reply on my talk page again. thanks, KingAragorn


 * I've sent an email to the LOTR bureaucrats. Let's wait a few days and see if they show up. Angela talk

New namespaces for muzyka
Hi. Please add the following three namespaces on Muzyka:


 * Data
 * Dyskusja daty
 * Lista
 * Dyskusja listy
 * Przypis
 * Dyskusja przypisu

Please pay attention on Polish declination (data -> daty, lista -> listy, przypis -> przypisu). You could also change Forum talk to Dyskusja forum, without declination this time. All prefixes are empty and addition won't crash with anything. Thanks. Szoferka 05:02, 11 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Emil has added these. Angela talk

Clock Crew Wikia
Dear Angela -

With regard to this Wikia or, more specifically, Clock Crew Talk Page - you were the last Team member to touch this Wikia, so I bring this to your attention, as I do not know if it is vandalism or not. And I do want to bring it to someone's attention if it is vandalism. Very confusing.

I respect your schedule, even though it might not seem like it: should I bring these matters to some other Team member's attention?

One last item: As you may or may not know, I have been going through all Wikias to see what is what. Many presume that visitors know what the subject matter of the Wikia is. Like Clock Crew - I don't know if it is a social group, an encyclopedia entry on time-pieces or a Clockwork Orange movie Fan site. It would be most helpful if someone could change the initial creation template to include language to encourage the site founder to include a one or two sentence description of the Wikia before they do anything else - is it about a comic, or game, or a computer programming language. AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

Anyway - thanks for your time. I'm all over the place these days, so please reply here (on this page) or the Clock Talk page - I'll try to watch that too.

Respectfully,

Zephyrinus 22:15, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The wiki is related to Newgrounds which has also suffered vandalism lately, so I expect a lot of this is vandalism. Considering there are no active admins on the site, it might be worth merging this with newgrounds since that wiki is a bit better able to look after itself. I'll talk to the community there about it. Angela talk


 * Again, should I bother you with vandalism stuff? Is there someone else in charge of that?


 * This is something else I direct toward you: Proboards Wikia - Lala page.  First this appears to be abandoned, but I'm more concerned about:  threatening to kill someone is a criminal offence, isn't it?  Should Wikia be a partner to this activity, even if in jest?  I direct this query to you because you restored this post after the spambot removed it.  Most things you do I understand, but this I don't - not that this is my job.  Nevertheless, my strength as a "newbie" is that I can "be bold" and raise these kinds of questions; and perhaps these kinds of questions should be raised from time to time.


 * And do, please, remember that I am sincere when I sign . ..


 * Respectfully,


 * Zephyrinus 22:21, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * It's fine for you to come directly to me, especially if the wiki concerned has no active admins, though you could also post to the forums about it. The lala page was moved from Talk:Main Page and was just an odd comment from an unregistered user so I've deleted it. Angela talk 22:43, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your graciousness.


 * I must apologise for posting these comments on your Talk Page. Since my comments questioned the propriety of your actions, I think it would have been more proper for me to send you a personal e-mail rather than post to your public user page.  I will try to be more careful in the future.  But as my comments were in public, so must my apology be.


 * I expect that being a public wiki-figure subjects you to criticism - criticism which is more than offset by well wishes and thanks.


 * Respectfully, Zephyrinus 23:46, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Health Wiki
Just as matter of curiosity, what happened to the original health wiki? The address seems to lead to an entirely new website with no connection to user database. --Kirk 22:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The wiki has moved over to the ArmchairGM format. I think any content is still there, but with a new type of main page that automatically displays the wiki's best content based on ratings made by visitors and editors. I'll get sannse to explain more since she has been working on these new magazine-style sites. Angela talk 02:08, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi. The content is being added to the new wiki today (all being well).  That will be the starting point of the content for the "book" part of the wiki, which is accessed by the tabs at the top.  At the moment it will be a bit buried under all the blank templates waiting to be filled in - but it will be there -- Sannse 19:52, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * It's been added. The old main page was added and then deleted (at "old main page") so it can be recovered if anyone wants it.  The other content is at the same page name as before -- Sannse 20:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Scheibenwelt - Wiki
Hi, I'm Bravomike (one of my bigger userpages is .  /de/wiki/Benutzer:Bravomike here at the German Version of Memory Alpha).

I'm interestet in the german Scheibenwelt-Wikia and created the first account there more than 3 months ago. I also left some notes there (one of them got deleted by you when you cleaned up some vandalism ;-) ) and edited some articles, but there was no response by anybody. I also tried to contact the founder of the wiki given at the Scheibenwelt-page here at wikia.com, but there was no response, too. His userpage is empty, and he don't seems interested in "his" wiki anymore, because if he has visited in the last weeks he would have noticed my work and my questions at his user-talk.

Could you please contact somebody responsible for this wiki, and if there is no one to contact, is there a way to "adopt" this wiki (sysop and that stuff)?

PS: Please tolerate my horrible English ;-)--Bravomike 19:02, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I'll make you an admin there since the founder has never even edited. Angela talk 21:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot--Bravomike 21:46, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Hike
Please See the changes at Wikia Requests.--שומבלע 22:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

F1, The Formula 1 Wiki
Hi Angela, A week ago I requested a new wiki called F1, The Formula 1 Wiki. What I didn't realise was that it would take as longer than a week for a wiki request to be accepted. The reason for this message is that I wondered if you could have a look at my request for me, at your earliest convenience, as I had hoped to get the wiki up and running before the 1st Grand Prix of the season; which is this Sunday... Many Thanks, Simon...


 * I need to know your email address to make the wiki. Please can you put it in your preferences? Angela talk 17:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

SW Battlefront Wikia
I was wondering if I could become an admin of the Battlefront wikia. I do a lot of work to the website (you can check for yourself) and have made it quite a bit better. See if you can't make me an admin or something. Thenks- Kanogul


 * Ok, but please read the Administrators' how-to guide. Angela talk 01:19, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Some namespace matter
Hi, I have a little dilema. Already explained things here : Help_talk:Custom_namespaces But if you need me to explain some more, just ask. And thanks for all in advance. --§: TůζipVõrζąx Talk 04:04, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I've replied there. Angela talk

Admin privileges for ZyMOS
Hi, Angela.

I have found a message from ZyMOS on my talk page, asking for admin privileges for deleting the unnecessary pages. I think there really are many of the pages that are pretty much empty, so, I think it is a good thing to do.

So, I agree, but do not remember how I could give him the privileges, particularly on the English version of the HowTo wiki. I think I should be able to do that by myself, right?

--Inyuki


 * There : w:c:HowTo:Special:Makesysop
 * I'll put that on is wikia talk too.
 * §: TůζipVõrζąx Talk 07:24, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

American Dad Wikia
Hi. Why is w:c:americandad called "American Dad Wikia" I thought it was a convention to include simply "Wiki" to the name of each Wikia. Like "Star Wars Wiki", "Wiki 24", and so on. ―  T hailog  21:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * It used to be, but we're moving to calling them Wikia now since changes to the software in the future will make "Wikia" something much better than "just Wiki". Angela talk 16:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

.Hack//Wiki
Over at .Hack//wiki, CRtwenty blocked my newly made alternate account, and my IP address, when all l did was edit only those two, after Kulaguy blocked my main account for removing my comments, all were blocked for one week, starting today and ending on the 22 of March.--Rhinokabuterimon 21:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * If you were blocked, you should not be making new accounts to circumvent that block. Please just wait until your block expires. Angela talk 16:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)


 * They have blocked Kite X and The Ellimist, telling them to cool off for 3 days, and all Kite X did was make The Ellimist angry enough to say dirty words, but they should block vandals, like Willie on Wheels or OWTFBBQ, not users who were in an fanboy war over an female fictional character with green hair(Natsume Ougro), and makes them(Kulaguy, and CRtwenty) mad enough to block my two accounts plus my IP address, to quote Kulaguy idiotic and just one of the reasons why you're blocked, see, he called me an idiot, but l am not the one who did that.

http://dothack.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Daipenmon

--Rhinokabuterimon 18:54, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Changing the Footer
I'm an editor from Halopedia, and we need (well, just want, actually) a link in the footer to our disclaimer. But the footer is in MonoBook.php, which I don't think local sysops have access to, so if you could just add 'disclaimer' to the list, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! g u e s t y -p e r s o n y -t h i <font color="#00ff00">n <font color="#44ff44">g <font color="#99ff99">y  22:29, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure there's a way to do this for one wiki anymore. An alternative way is to link the disclaimer in your MediaWiki:Sidebar. Angela talk 16:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah... I wasn't sure how your site worked, but I suspected it was all one website with the subdomain just choosing which database, so I'll tell our admins that there's nothing you can do. Thanks anyway! <font color="#000000">g <font color="#770000">u <font color="#cc0000">e <font color="#ff0000">s <font color="#ff3333">t <font color="#ff6666">y -<font color="#9999ff">p <font color="#6666ff">e <font color="#3333ff">r <font color="#0000ff">s <font color="#0000cc">o <font color="#000066">n <font color="#000000">y -<font color="#000000">t <font color="#007700">h <font color="#00cc00">i <font color="#00ff00">n <font color="#44ff44">g <font color="#99ff99">y  20:54, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

A Shopping/Consumer guide magazine
Hi Angela,

I sent you an E-mail about this issue but I think it came out somewhat cryptic so I will try again here :-)

I saw the new Wiki Magazines and I really like their format. I think this format would be much more suitable for a Shopping/Consumer guide wiki (that is like the English shopping wiki and the Hebrew Kwish wiki) than the conventional "Wikipedia like" format. In fact, some of the feedback I got about Kwish would indicate exactly that.

Thus I would like to offer to initiate a multi-language shopping magazine. We can start by copying over the content from Kwish and from the English shopping wikia. I think in this manner we can attract many more readers than with the current format.

Please let me know what you think of this.

Many thanks, --Oshani 07:45, 16 March 2007 (UTC)


 * We're not making new wikis in this format just yet except for certain magazines that we are launching, but the plan is to get these new features more integrated with Wikia so that any wiki can choose to use them. I'm not sure exactly when that will happen though. Angela talk 16:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

New namespaces for Nonsensopedia
Hi. Please add these two namespaces on Nonsensopedia:


 * Słownik
 * Dyskusja słownika


 * Poradnik
 * Dyskusja poradnika

"ł" is the same letter that is in Nonźródła namespace. Thanks. Szoferka 09:26, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Religions user boxes
Is a wikia allowed to restrict the use of religions user boxes?--Herbsewell 15:17, 17 March 2007 (UTC)


 * There's no overall Wikia policy on that. It's up to each community to make such rules if they think they need them. Angela talk 18:09, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Intrigued about ComputerRPG
I'm intrigued regarding the creation of a new wikia that has no founder and no content. Specifically, I'm interested in figuring out how the ComputerRPG wikia will be able to distinguish itself from being merely a strict subset of either GameInfo and/or Gaming. From my current perspective, specialization of computer gaming topics by game genre does not seem to have an advantage (unless a particular genre is monopolized by a single series of games, which isn't the case for computer RPGs).

Additionally, it is not clear to me whether ComputerRPG is meant to simply constrast with paper-n-pencil RPGs, and therefore include Consol RPGs; or if ComputerRPG is meant to specifically focus on RPGs on computers only and not consols. At least, according to the current wikipedia, Computer RPGs and Consol RPGs are distinct (there has been a merge proposal that hasn't been going anywhere, and my current perspectives supports not merging but rather renaming both articles to reflect a difference in culture/style as opposed to a difference in specific hardware).

If at least part of the vision of the person who proposed (but didn't found) the ComputerRPG wikia can be revealed to me and attracts me, I might be interested in contributing to the point of being eligible to apply to be the founder for it. -Afker 05:53, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


 * A lot of people request a new wiki for an RPG which is too small to have its own wiki. I'd always been suggesting to those people that they start at rpg.wikia.com but that wiki is now refusing them since they want to focus on pen and paper RPGs, so a new home for all those small RPGs was needed. I thought console RPGs would fit into this topic. Would a name other than computerrpg help show that this is for all RPGs other than paper ones? Angela talk 10:11, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm... "Digital RPG", while a term nobody uses whatsoever, would definitely clear up the ambiguity. Though I'd definitely let the consol people have more say over the naming (if most of them don't mind being called "Computer RPG", then the ambiguity issue is relatively moot).
 * If those small RPG communities used to have a foothold on rpg.wikia and their pages haven't been deleted, I'll go take a look to get a feel on if I'd be interested helping with their new home. -Afker 10:25, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Back. Looks like there won't be any migrators.  From your above description, it'd sound like the "new home" would be either be the equivalent of a Computer RPG-specific scratchpad (if they cover background lore, story etc for the game universe), or an RPG subset of GameInfo (if they only cover walkthroughs and guides).  In either case my vision don't reveal how two random small RPG games (say, Ultima 2 vs Final Fantasy 8) would be more related (in a way that makes it natural to put them on the same wiki) than two random games in general (say Grand Theft Auto 2 vs Metal Gear Solid 3).  Thus I would actually encourage sending them to scratchpad, GameInfo, Gaming, or encourage the wiki to be about an entire game series (if the game in question belongs to a series sufficiently big to earn a wiki), depending on the nature of the wiki being requested.  And I wouldn't treat a request for a wiki on an RPG game too small any differently from request for a wiki on any other genre of computer/consol game too small (or create a "Computer Action Games wiki" for all the action games too small to have their own).
 * Just my 2 cents. -Afker 10:48, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

uploading funtion of bullflower.wikia.com
The problem that can't upload had last 1 week.Today bullflower can upload again.Angela thank you very much!--MagicDesigner 14:55, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.9
Oh yes! That's great news (too bad there's a small downtime...I'm a Wikia-addict)! :D --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 19:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Talkpage Template Mistake.
Angela, I've been setting up a new template for my talkpage and archives. And I just archived my talkpage by moving it to the archive (The template automatically changes the text) And I used the link given to go to to what was supposed to be the editpage for a new talkpage. Unfortunately instead of a new usertalkpage location. It pointed me to Dantman and ended up making me create a new talkpage there. But because a move was used, I can't use move to move that page overtop the talkpage. Could you please move Dantman to User talk:Dantman then delete the redirect that will be created at Dantman. ~Dantman(talk) 20:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

news box, w:c:
shared-message is using local links. -Afker 15:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

File Uploading
Angela, Thank you for fixing the file upload so quickly!--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 17:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Pirates of the Caribbean file upload problem
I can't seem to access Upload on the Pirates of the Caribbean wiki as "The upload directory (/images/pirates/images) is not writable by the webserver." Any idea how to fix this? Also, is there any way to get an interwiki link for the PotC wiki, similar to Wikipedia and Starwars:Star Wars? Please reply over at talk:Kwenn. Thanks - Kwenn 16:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)


 * A few are like this since the upgrade. I'll add it to the list of things that need fixing. Angela talk 16:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks muchly - Kwenn 12:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault on The Gaiapeda
I just thought about it now. But perhaps it would be a good idea if Item(100), NPC(102), and Map(104) were added to $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault on The Gaiapedia. ~Dantman(talk) Mar 22, 2007 @ 05:58 (UTC)

Thanks Angela!
Phillip(talk) 15:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)