User talk:JoePlay

Battlefield Wiki
Hi. We've had a major flame war recently. It got so bad, as admins, we've set up a new wiki to discuss what should happen, but we don't want any of the users involved finding out. I caused a little problem though. I was editing MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage so I could copy it for the new wiki, and accidentally saved the altered version back in the same place, including the title of the secretive wiki. I've reverted it, but I was wondering if you could use oversight it to get rid of the revision from the history, just in case. Please, your help would be appreciated. And can you reply here please - 21:25, July 25, 2010 (UTC)

Alien Swarm Wiki
Hi JoePlay. I'm an admin on a non-wikia Alien Swarm Wiki. You have a response to a comment you made on that wiki, in case you miss it. Thanks. surlyanduncouth (talk) 18:31, July 28, 2010 (UTC)

Swarmhub
The guys at swarm hub have discussed with me the idea of moving the wiki there, i dont really get if theres any point either way, still they seem to think so, is there a way that i can promote someone else to become administrator?

Request for intervention at the Prototype Wiki
Hey Joe, I'd like to request for your help. Earlier today, I've been unfairly banned from the Prototype Wiki by the bureaucrat you appointed, Supermutantslayer450. However, his accussations and reason for the block are ridiculous. I've spent the better part of the last month revising the navigation, standardising article layouts, adding info- and navboxes to the articles and finally fitted the wiki with a proper timeline article and navigation menu in the sidebar. That all is on top of rewriting and expanding articles.

However, recently, the bureaucrat in question has come back, started claiming that I've violated rules of the wiki and after repeated attempts to bully me into submission by threatening me with blocking and removing my admin privileges, he blocked me for disagreeing with him and making, quote, unconstructive edits, unquote. The rules he claims I violated were never posted anywhere on the site; they were never discussed publcily; they were never agreed upon by the community. He claims they were passed on to him by the wiki's founder on an IRC channel, but since Wikia is a community driven enterprise, not a one man show, I don't consider them binding, for the reasons stated above.

Bottom line, I need your help. I've put a lot of effort into the wiki only to see it all go to waste now, as the bureaucrat is now liberally deleting my work, ignoring any and all voices from the community.

All I want is to be able to expand the wiki and not be harassed by people abusing the powers granted to them. http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/0/08/Personal_Sig_Image.gif Tagaziel (call!) 23:17, August 4, 2010 (UTC)

Problem with Monaco.css
Hey there Joe, I was referred to you by Matias arana 10, and I'd like to know if you could help me sort out a bit of an issue that I'm having on my test wiki. I'm testing out a new skin that I designed, but for some reason, the user pages don't show the background accent on the left side, while the talk pages and my home do. See, I want the whole thing to look like this, but something in the coding or some lack of coding is causing the user pages to display this. Thanks for your time, and I'd be appreciative if you could help me out on this one. 00:55, August 6, 2010 (UTC)

Widget Frames
Hey, I would like to use the widget frames you supplied for the Assassin's Creed Wiki for the wiki I'm on, Pirates Online Wiki. May I? -Obsidion (talk) 16:32, August 9, 2010 (UTC)

Template help!
A template here suddenly malfunctioned. The only changes were adding things to the bottom of the page, yet the entire template structure no longer works. Please look at the difference between the final edit and the one before it, to see if anything else went wrong. The tree template might also have some limit that I'm not aware of. PSH aka Kimera 757 (talk) contribs) 18:16, August 9, 2010 (UTC)

Disabling achievements
I solved my template problem when I found |Wikia Templates. But what I do need is for achievements to be turned off or disabled. They have become, and it seems always were detrimental to the orderly running of the Alien Swarm wiki. --Basique 04:01, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

RE:Widget Frames
Hey, I added the frames yesterday, but even though I changed the colours, the boxes are the same as on the AC wiki. Is there an error in the code, or is it just a delayed update? I've had that happen before. Is there a way to get it to update faster? - Obsidion (talk) 13:04, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Weirdness
I haven't logged in over at Alien Swarm because I've seen some weirdness today, every other retrieves a cached page qualified by "Retrieved from", and we now seem to have an extra sysop named Sacarathe. --Basique 16:41, August 12, 2010 (UTC)

Resident Evil Character Page
Forerunner and myself (The Uncharted Agent), were having a discussion about the Character Page on the Resident Evil Wiki. If you could take a look at our discussion, here: http://residentevil.wikia.com/Category_talk:Characters. Forerunner informed me that you are the one in control of this page, so this does concern you.

Thank You for your time. The Uncharted Agent 23:02, August 13, 2010 (UTC)The Uncharted Agent

New Skin on Mass Effect Fanon
Hey Joe, I'd like wiki's skin to be more of a Mass Effect related cityscape than just space. Good city/landscapes to use would be one of the Citadel or other good quality images. I'd also like the wiki to utilize slightly brighter colors, not too bright,though. Slightly lighter blues and even purple. For the color purple, I'd like the color to be similar to the code that I'm providing (#6931BD). Keep in mind that I'd rather have a clean, fresh looking wiki than one that looks so gloomy. Thank you so much. -Bluethunder Contact 23:24, August 13, 2010 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Monaco.css on BlazBlue Wiki
Hey Joe, an admin and I decided that we should change the skin of the BlazBlue Wiki. We updated it but nothing has changed. Could you please take a look at it and see if there is anything wrong? Thanks. Judge Balthier 19:06, August 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * Me again, The skin looks great! But the background image isn't fully covering the whole page. Could you please fix it for us? Judge Balthier 23:22, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

Translation of a Wiki
Hi Joe, Enodoc from Fable again. Missingnox has suggested that he translate Fable Wiki into French (see here), and has already set up a site at http://fr.fablefr.wikia.com. Could you tell me please if there is a quick way of copying all the pages across, or if I need to do it all by Special:Export and Special:Import. Thanks. -- Enodoc (Talk ) 14:48, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

Call of Duty Wiki
I'm a bureaucrat there. About a year ago, I recall that you designed a fresh, new skin for us. Much of the community is now in discussion about a new logo, and a new skin to go with it. Would it possible for you to make a new skin in a Call of Duty: Black Ops type of style? - Bovell (talk) 15:08, September 2, 2010 (UTC)

Images
Don't know if it's just me, but recently, something seems to have gone wrong with image sections of various wikis, with images being displayed vertically rather than horizontally. I don't know if it's due to a change in wikia's coding, a glitch or something localized. More asthetics than a true problem I guess, but I was wondering if you could provide feedback. Thanks.--Hawki 01:30, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

Spec Ops
Hey mate, do you reackon you could fix the logo on the Spec Ops wikia? No matter what I do, it just stays the same. You should see the updated version on the wiki.png page. Cheers :) Kranitoko (talk) 21:07, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

Hey Man i need help
hey i got a new wiki and i need help dude can we go to the irc later and disscuss how we can improve my wiki?

i already made an irc channel :) IRC ps leave any messages on my wikis talk page

my talk page on my wiki :)

thanks if you help! Mega Hyper Nova 10:23, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

Fable III giveaway
OK then. We will see how the achievements go then. Just a question, is the giveaway only for US residents again? if so, I am really going to hate it and will not promote it myself. especially as Lionhead is a British company. ☆ The   Solar   Dragon  ☆ 20:44, September 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Sounds interesting, a shame that it's just for the US. So how did you find out about this giveaway then, and how does it work? -- Enodoc (Talk ) 23:15, September 10, 2010 (UTC)

Template talk:FacebookGameWikis
Hi, Joe. I'm capable of adding the Fairyland Wiki by myself, but I really want to see the list alphabetical. Can you think of an easy way to do it while still leaving "br" at each line-end and a blob between all other pairs of games? — Robin Patterson (Talk) 01:04, September 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for quick response and alphabetizing. I'll add Fairyland soon. It occurs to me that Wikia might benefit from an active approach to developers of Facebook games encouraging them to give Wikia sites official fansite status in exchange for some promotion of that particular game and that developer's other games (and thus, from our point of view, reducing the likelihood of other non-official competition). — Robin Patterson (Talk) 07:53, September 18, 2010 (UTC)

Two design questions
Hi Joe, I'd like to add the new "Alien Swarm Wiki" logo to our front page, but cannot figure out how to do that. I'd also like to add a third column to the right which would be called "Featured Campaign" where we would cover custom content like the Tears for Tarnor campaign. I also wanted to add an "Alien Swarm News" section below that. Is there a Wikia resource that explains how to do this? --Basique 16:11, September 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks figured out the wiki logo bit and already updated it. I noticed that the Dragon Age Wiki and the Mass Effect Wiki, have a third column, or at least one on the right, but I couldn't figure out how to create one. Also since we finally reached consensus on the skin updated I was wondering if you could apply it now. --Basique 17:37, September 17, 2010 (UTC)

Image upload question
How do I edit the licensing dropdown list in order to add custom Company themed templates, specifically Valve and Black Cat Games? --Basique 16:22, September 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Nevermind, found it at MediaWiki:Licenses. --Basique 16:34, September 17, 2010 (UTC)

New skin
Thanks again for updating our skin Joe. One minor issue with the new skin, some text is showing up black against the dark background. Like when adding new categories to a page. --Basique 20:10, September 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * Also I need help formatting the front page, I was able to create a black background in one section by using table formatting, but that's just a kludge. I need to figures out how to make the entire background behind the main page's content black. --Basique 01:46, September 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey there Joe, the skin issue only shows up in one spot, the categories in edit mode. The text shows up dark on a dark background making the category text invisible. That's pretty much it, I haven't noticed any other issues. See image file here. --Basique 11:57, September 22, 2010 (UTC)

The StarCraft Wiki is having a skin problem (too?). The old version of the customized Monaco skin disappeared last week, and I had to reimpose it as standard. But now the wiki has a white skin, and I'm not even sure which one it's using (the new look? Monaco new?). In any event, the wiki is supposed to have white text on a dark skin, so quite a few pages, templates, etc look messed up.

Since I have very little idea of what's going on, I don't know what needs fixing or even how to identify the problem. PSH aka Kimera 757 (talk) contribs) 22:23, September 22, 2010 (UTC)

Traffic Stats

 * Is there a way to check the traffic stats for a particular wiki, or add a counter? I am very curious to know the numbers on the Mafia Wars Wiki.

Thanks! Da Irish Kid 19:56, September 22, 2010

League of Legends Wiki Skin
Hey Joe is there any manual, or any way I can get any sort of help in the LoL Wiki, I'm having some troubles trying to adapt the new skin to the site colors. -  KazMx (Message me!  E-Mail me!   Edits! )  02:45, September 25, 2010 (UTC)

Gearspedia
Hello JoePlay long time no talk. Gearspedia have grown a lot since the last few weeks, but still have the activity problem. But I have a request, would you update Geaspedia skin and change our logo using this that just says “Gearspedia” under the Lancer (Gun). I have yet to come up with a idea for a new background though. Please and thank you. BTW their is no timetable for this project since GoW 3 is coming out next year.--Chairman Jack the Black 14:14, September 25, 2010 (UTC)

Blocking unregistered users
I'll like to set the Wiki defaults so that only registered users can edit pages, how exactly would I do that? --Basique 15:28, September 30, 2010 (UTC)

No Admins at the FEAR wiki.
Hello, JoePlay. There has been an incident at the FEAR wiki. I used to be admin, but left due to inactivity. The other admins also faded out, so it was left to Thegod333 to run the place. It ends up that he not only deleted our user pages, but our talk pages as well, And, he banned us. I appealed to all former admins and that is when I found out that he deleted and blocked all the other ones. He found my pleas for help and of course, deleted them and blocked my IP. He promptly resigned his position at the wiki, leaving nobody in charge. If you could make me sysop and bureaucrat, as well as unblocking me, I will be able to restore IP and pages. I spend most of my time at the Thief wiki. Thank you, Big McLargeHuge 19:14, October 3, 2010 (UTC)