Help talk:Blogs

DB Dumps
Are blog articles and comments backed up in DB Dumps? If so, how do they interact with vanilla MediaWiki installations when imported? If not, is there a separate backup system for them? -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 17:56, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * They're just extra namespaces, so they shouldn't disappear anywhere. Kirkburn (talk) 19:14, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Deleting comments
I tweaked the section because if you try to:
 * 1) Hit Delete
 * 2) Don't use index.php?title=

you will get redirected.

Delete will redirect you because it doesn't use index.php. And you must use index.php because mediawiki will not allow you to do ?action=delete?redirect=no under a /wiki/ url. --Charitwo (talk) 17:02, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * And that's why I wrote ?action=delete&redirect=no :P Anyway, thanks! Kirkburn (talk) 17:38, 4 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Actually, you originally had only . Which implies they have to click Delete which doesn't work. You didn't add   until after I started playing around with the functionality at gaming :) --Charitwo (talk) 19:16, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

CSS
In Blogs.css, the "div.wk_blogs_post .wk_blogs_summary" selector unnecessarily sets the font color to black when the background is left unspecified.

This does nothing for wikis that don't customize their colors, and adds extra work for admins of every single wiki that uses a dark background theme. I'd advocate either remove the font color rule or force a light-colored background under the same selector, instead of having admins of each dark-background wiki override it themselves. -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 22:42, 23 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I will pass it on, thanks! Kirkburn (talk) 17:12, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

When and How
Can those with a wikia.com wiki use the blog features yet? Is there a sandbox for testing the blog page namespace at wikia now? When might this feature be enabled on all the wikia wikis? How is a request made to get this working on a wiki? Rauterkus 17:03, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * It is currently active on several Wikia wikis, including swfanon, gaming and entertainment. You can take a look there, or you can try a bit of testing on http://communitytest.wikia.com/ :) We're still working on getting the feature into a situation where we're comfortable rolling it out more widely - however, we do take requests. If you have one, give me a ping on my talk page. Kirkburn (talk) 14:08, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Is there already a date or something for when it's gonna be avaiable in all wikis? Days, weeks, months, years? I really liked and I can't wait for it =P --A.new.way 22:41, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * It is basically currently available on request, but expect a wider rollout over the next month or so. Kirkburn (talk) 17:52, 2 February 2009 (UTC)


 * uh, thanks --A.new.way 20:23, 3 February 2009 (UTC)


 * On request meaning: admins can use Special:Contact to request it :) Kirkburn (talk) 15:35, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Blog Bugs
Hi, I've noticed a couple of bugs with blogging. Thanks! --jabrwocky7 21:49, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Usernames with apostrophes create SQL errors. See this example.
 * 2) I noticed a problem report for this same user blog. Instead of linking to the post in question, it went to User_blog:user_blog. See this example.  It's linking to this instead of this.


 * The first bug should be fixed. I'll pass on the second. Kirkburn (talk) 00:08, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, just discovered another one that might be related to the apostrophe issue. The Jacob's Mama blog has a link to "older posts" even though there aren't any.  See this example. --jabrwocky7 17:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Blog feature requests
Hi, the users at Lostpedia have requested some features for blogging that I agree would be helpful.
 * 1) Enable an option to Hide blog posts and comments in the recent changes list
 * 2) Enable functionality to have an e-mail message sent to the blogger when someone posts a comment to their blog.

Please advise or let me know if there is a better place to post these requests.. Thanks, --jabrwocky7 (talk) 19:30, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * These are both great ideas, and have been added to the list. We will look enabling "Watchlist" to detect new comments. I will let you know when we have a better time estimate angies (talk) 17:39, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Categories
Is there a way to don't have the option of add categories to a blog post? I think it would cause organization problems. --A.new.way 20:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)