User talk:Wonderfl

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Welcome to the Central Wikia, Drtomjenkins!

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Enjoy! &mdash; 15:18, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Whitespace on Home Page
Why is this ocurring at my IGI Wiki home page? Drtomjenkins 05:58, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Whitespace
That whitespace should be an ad. The image on the right is what I see.

Wiki name
Hi, my wiki is igi.wikia.com, pages within the wiki are titled "Page Name - IGI". I'd like this to be "Page Name - IGI Wiki". How can I change the wiki name / title globally?

First of all I must thank you for your amazingly quick response. Is there any way of blocking / hiding. For eg. can you see the ad on the Thief Wiki too? Drtomjenkins 02:03, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Ads and Pagetitle
If you want an ad blocked, Help:Bad advertisements has all the details. As for the "Page - IGI Wiki", all you have to do is change MediaWiki:Pagetitle to

Re: Next / Prev bar
I've never done those kinds of templates, though I know subpages (such as Page/Stuff/More Stuff) do something like what you want. You could just create a template that has the links that take you to the next/prev page by adding something like

Previous: Page 1

Next: Page 3

and make it float to the right or place it at the bottom. E.g. like the bottom of Metal Gear Solid 4 Walkthrough/Act 1 at Metal Gear Wiki.--Richardtalk 20:47, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Google Indexing?
Hi Richard! Its been more than a week since I started the IGI Wiki and as you can see here, I've listed it on many different websites (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), and added my site manually (twice!) using the "Add URL to Google" page, as recommended by the Wikia SEO help.

But yet, its not indexed by Google. What gives? Whats wrong? Should I wait some more time?

Re: Google index
Yeah give it some more time. I've noticed it some times takes a day to a week for a wiki to pop up in Google.--Richardtalk 17:13, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Breadcrumb navigation bar
I found something that could do what I want. Its more like a template. Wiki: Home >

But I'm having some trouble with it on my Wiki, the box appears white instead of grey. See this page. How can I make it grey? Change some template/CSS?

Drtomjenkins 16:22, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Gray
Add this code to your wiki's MediaWiki:Common.css: /*** Forum formatting (by -Algorithm & -Splaka) ***/ .forumheader { border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; margin-top: 1em; padding: 12px; } .forumlist td.forum_edited a { color: black; text-decoration: none } .forumlist td.forum_title a { padding-left: 20px; } .forumlist td.forum_title a.forum_new { font-weight: bold; background: url(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/central/images/4/4e/Forum_new.gif) center left no-repeat; padding-left: 20px; } .forumlist td.forum_title a.forum_new:visited { font-weight: normal; background: none; padding-left: 20px; } .forumlist th.forum_title { padding-left: 20px; } That should do it.--Richardtalk 20:06, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Gaming skin edits
How do I change the yellow color of the Gaming skin? See my wiki home page.

Which CSS file would that be in? Or would I have to use the custom option? Can I copy the gaming skin CSS settings into the custom then work on that?

Drtomjenkins 03:06, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Gaming skin
If you want to change skin colors, you can do that at MediaWiki:Monaco.css or at User:Drtomjenkins/monaco.css. To change the background, I believe the code is

wikia_page { background-color:#000; }

which is for the article area. For the area behind the article, you could use color1:

.color1 { background-color: #EEC947; }

Hopefully this helps. I'll see if I can find the code for the gaming skin, I know it is somewhere. I found it: http://images.wikia.com/common/skins/monaco/gaming/css/main.css --Richardtalk 17:04, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Navbox like Wikipedia
I'd like a neat navbox (like Wikipedia's) instead of an ugly table. Any idea how I can create that template or whatever to get one that looks similar to WP's, for these 2 weapon navboxes?

Drtomjenkins 03:38, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Navbox
I put a sample at the sandbox. Basically, the code would be like:

Which would look like:

--Richardtalk 16:55, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Flash on my Wiki
Hi Joe! I'm going to make a Flash animation type thing to choose a weapon/character for my IGI Wiki. I've tried the typical syntax used by the Flash extension but it doesn't seem to be understood by Wikia. Is it possible to use flash on a Wikia page? If not, would you request the Wikia staff to install that flash extension so I can? It would really be a help. Thank you! -- Tom Jenkins (Reply) 14:32, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Wiki title
Hi Richard, can you please tell me why my Wiki still shows "IGI" as the title of the Mainpage instead of "IGI Databank"?? -- Tom Jenkins (Reply) 04:00, September 7, 2009 (UTC)


 * About changing the title on top of every page, you'll have to change MediaWiki:Pagetitle and MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage. Tedjuh10 (Talk) 11:11, September 7, 2009 (UTC)

More capabilities to edit
Hi Richard,

I've been part of the Thief Wiki for a long time now, and have contributed significantly (top 3 member, based on edit count), writing heaps about the topics I know (see my rated contribs list), and adding pictures (about 120 at last count).

I frequently ask the Admin to upgrade features of the Wiki which he is both reluctant to do (like navboxes), and mostly unavailable due to his busy schedule.

I was wondering if I could get more capabilities, like being allowed to edit the Common.css and like. Although I am NOT asking for Admin-like powers such as user control, main page editing etc, I just need a little more to be able to upgrade the wiki better, instead of wasting my time arguing with the other contributors about unrelated philosophies. And all arguments are pointless because finally I'm allowed to do the needful (like navboxes).

Please let me know whether my request is technically possible (non-admin but allowed to edit more pages).

Thank you. -- Drtomjenkins 00:25, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: More capabilites to edit
I don't think this is possible, to edit MediaWiki messages you have to be a sysop, bureacrat, helper, or Wikia Staff. However, bureacrats are now able to add and remove sysop status, so you could ask the bureacrat on Thief Wiki if you can have sysop status for a few days and then when you're done with it tell him to remove it from you. Other than that, I don't think there's anything else you can do.--Richardtalk 21:00, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Mass find and replace
Hi Richard, I want to do a find and replace command on all the pages (about 2000) in the Thief Wiki. What is an easy way to do this? Does the Wikia include a Special page or extension to do "find & replace in all"?.. Or can you show me how to make/reuse an existing a Bot to do this? -- Tom Jenkins (Reply) 12:11, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Find and replace
I use pywikipedia, which has a "replace.py" option that replaces text with other text. It's fairly simple to use, you could try that.--Richardtalk 18:48, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Problem with Admin of Thief wiki
Dear Richard,

The admin keeps moving content I wrote on the Weapons page to the Category:Weapons page. This makes for confusing navigation as the content is designed like an article, and I have already written separate content for the category page (Category:Weapons) which he has kept on the talk page of the category.

This is in violation of basic wiki rules that articles stay on article pages. And this is unlike all the other pages, "Keepers" and "Hammerites" also have categories, but their content is allowed to stay on the article pages!.

Why it confuses:
 * The subcategories displayed at the bottom of the page make it confusing
 * The entire list of pages under the Weapons category make it really confusing
 * This is also redundant as all weapons are listed in the article itself
 * Finally, the page title of "Category:Weapons" instead of what the user asked for, "Weapons".

Why it is non-standard:
 * Keepers has a category Category:Keepers but its content is on the main article.
 * Same for Hammerites and its category Category:Hammerites
 * Same for Abilities and its category Category:Abilities
 * Weapons should be following this same system.

Now he has locked this page for editing for no reason.

It is also notable that the admin does not respond to talks I initiate and, even closed a problem report I filed, as "spam".

If you could please tell the admin to leave the article content of Weapons on the Weapons page and not to move it onto the Category:Weapons page. I believe that would improve his behavior towards me. And even though I am the only active contributor (who really writes) and the 3rd top member of this wiki he plays around with such rubbish just to fuel his ego of having supreme control of the wiki. Not that he contributes in anything either, except for adding pictures of the game level-editor.

Thanking you, and sincerely awaiting your intervention in this matter. Drtomjenkins 22:06, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Wiki title
Hi Richard, can you please tell me why my Wiki still shows "IGI" as the title of the Mainpage instead of "IGI Databank"?? -- Tom Jenkins (Reply) 04:00, September 7, 2009 (UTC)


 * About changing the title on top of every page, you'll have to change MediaWiki:Pagetitle and MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage. Tedjuh10 (Talk) 11:11, September 7, 2009 (UTC)

Green gaming skin
Where can I get a dark green gaming skin for my wiki, the IGI Databank? Something like this.. or alternatively a light green "tech" kind of feel something like this? Basically I'm asking you because you might know of existing Wikia's that have similar color schemes. -- Tom Jenkins (Reply) 03:06, September 6, 2009 (UTC)

IGI Databank
For the skin, you'll have to make one yourself by putting code in your wiki's MediaWiki:Monaco.css. See Help:Customizing Monaco for more information. As for the title on the Main Page, I see "IGI Databank" rather than "IGI", so it seems to be working like you want it to.--Richardtalk 16:12, September 8, 2009 (UTC)


 * As you can probably see by my recent efforts, the wiki looks quite nice and customized. I've started off with the WoWWiki skin and taken it forward. Green text on the top, green menus, blue links, yellow text at the bottom, like the Project IGI colors.


 * BTW, any feedback on the look and feel / organization is appreciated!


 * But most importantly, do you know of any existing wikis on Wikia that have similar dark green / techie kind of feels so I can use those for inspiration / reference?


 * Thank you ever so much. -- Tom Jenkins (Reply) 21:17, September 8, 2009 (UTC)