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New servers
As many of you noticed earlier, uncyclopedia.org (hosted on the same servers as all Wikicities sites) was mentioned on Slashdot this morning. The traffic caused by this link brought the servers to a halt. I got 3 new servers online to handle the heavy traffic, but there were some problems (including logo mix-ups, where many sites ended up displaying the "pirateopedia" logo instead of their correct logo) with the configuration when I first got them online (and for a few hours after). Everything should be working correctly now, though the site is running on the slow side.

Thank you all for your patience during this time. Jason 00:11, 20 Sep 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the hard work, Jason. I saw the Slashdot story and figured that was the cause. I noticed I was displaying Memory Alpha's background texture and favicon for a time.


 * Anyhow, there seems to be a weird problem when editing pages... I constantly get the "this is just a preview, the page has not been changed" message. I can hit "Submit" as many times as I want, and it keeps sending me to that page, without actually updating the page.


 * The rare time the change takes, it often doesn't actually kick in (even on Recent Changes) for several minutes. I created a new template and then started altering some pages to use it, but Recent Changes is showing that many of the pages got changed before the templates were created. Which is just weird.


 * Don't know what the problem could be, but thought I'd let you know. IanWatson 12:00, 20 Sep 2005 (EDT)


 * I'll go along with what Ian said. I'm going to put a guess that some of the pages were corrupted? when the crash happened, because on one particular page, no matter what I do to the page, the change never occurs on the actual page.  It does appear to have worked on the edit and preview page, but when I save the page it doesn't finish the work, even though it might have registered as actually having been changed on the date.  It's strange.  --diaskeaus 20:45, 20 Sep 2005 (PDT)


 * The Computing Knowledgebase Wikicity keep's displaying the wrong favicon, too, even after a re-upload. It reads 'MA' in the Firefox tab (Whereas IE shows nothing). Looks like a very weird problem. --TwoTailedFox 10:25, 23 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * Update: Clearing the Browser Cache appears to work. --TwoTailedFox 10:27, 23 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * Could the whole Pirateopedia logo have come from Talk Like a Pirate Day? Someone reminded me of that afterward. -- Riffsyphon1024 00:38, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, in part. Uncyclopedia used that logo because of "Talk Like a Pirate Day".  Then, when it got too many hits because of the SlashDot artcle, there was a problem that caused it to show up on other wikis too.  --CocoaZen 00:43, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.5
When will Wikicities move to 1.5? Please don't answer "when it's released", I'd prefer a date, even if approximate. - Sikon 07:30, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)


 * We had been waiting for 1.5 to become stable, since there have been a lot of bugs with it. However, now Wikipedia is running on 1.6 Alpha, it seems there is little interest in putting out a stable 1.5 release, so we're going to install this regardless of whether it moves out of beta. Jason still needs to make shared messages work in 1.5, but once that's complete, we will be upgrading. This is expected to happen next week. Angela (talk) 18:00, 28 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * According to the SourceForge page, 1.5 became stable on October 5. - Sikon [ Talk ] 12:46, 6 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * Did this happen? From what I can tell, it looks like the Unofficial Konfabulator Wiki is still running 1.4... --Slthytove 20:37, 18 Oct 2005 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately not. I'll leave Jason to predict when it will happen. Angela (talk) 11:23, 6 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Icon Not Uploading Correctly
I made a new logo/icon for my wiki, I save it as Wiki.png and I upload it. It asks if I want to save or re-upload, I click on save and the logo does not change.--Drizzt 19:43, 1 Oct 2005 (UTC)


 * This has probably fixed itself for you already, but what you'll need to do is click on the filename link on the image page (or if you're seeing the actual icon inline then right-click and choose View Image or similar) and then hit Ctrl+F5 (or equivalent). Nothing's wrong, and visitors will see the new icon, it's just that your browser is still storing the old one. This happens with any other same-filename image, you need to hard-refresh it to see the update. Anyway, hope that helps. :) Garrett 14:55, 5 Oct 2005 (UTC)


 * Refreshing, as Garrett suggests, may help, but there is a problem with some systems and the way the logo and favicon work. Clearing the cache may also fix the problem.  So, you might want to report a problem to User:Jasonr or post about it on Talk:Technical support.  --CocoaZen 04:00, 6 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Potentially Inappropriate Ads

 * moved to Talk:Advertising

Wikicurrency

 * moved to Proposed wikis/Wikicurrency

Navigation Link...Somewhat Working?
Alrighty, as you can see on the OberinWiki main page, it clearly says "Current Events" on the navigation bar. Now, click random age (or move to another page) and it switches to "RTQ Reports". How can I get this to stop (I want RTQ Reports to be vieweable on the main page, as well as the others).--Drizzt 23:15, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Monterrey wikicity
First of all, thanks for [http://monterrey.wikicities.com/wiki/Portada Wiki Monterrey. Second of all, just wanted to tell everyone in charge (Angela and Jason, sorry my e-mail isn't working) that I'll be EXTREMELY busy for the next days and I won't have much time to work on the wiki. I know it takes time for a busy to get in shape so please don't label it inactive or something. Oh, and something else, could someone change the interface language to Spanish, I forgot to ask that on the request. Thanks to all of you. I love Wikicities.--Tico 04:47, 25 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Wikilink
Hello, I'm new in wikicities but not in wikipedia. I would like to know how can I make a link between communities in wikicities and link between wikicities and wikipedia. Thank you for your help. Roscoe x 18:02, 2 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * Hello, Roscoe x. From a wikicity to the English WP, just prefix "wikipedia:", eg 2005. Between wikicities, use the Interwiki link shown for each wikicity on its Wikicity Central page, eg genealogy: or cities: or the slightly more complex newer ones such as what you can see at Visual Basic. Now for the official answer see Help:Interwiki link. Robin Patterson 09:51, 5 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Link Color in Monobook.css
Hello, I have a custom skin at OberinWiki and I would like to know how to change the link color and link mouse-over color. Any help would be great! Thanks--Drizzt 05:00, 4 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Blogging here at Wikicities??
I'm not sure whether you want to encourage personal blogging here at the main Wikicities domain, but if not, how about we start one especially for personal blogging? You can see a proof-of-concept at User:Brettz9/blog or go directly to http://brettz9.blogspot.com to see the possible advantage of blogging via wiki.

Notice the use of calendars, templates, and categories as well as transclusion in a templatable (blogspot.com) site, which unlike Wikicities at the moment at least offers users the ability to share any ad revenues if they are signed up with AdSense, and which can accept iframes to transclude not only one's Wikicities blog, but also, if desired, a Wikicities "related changes" page which effectively shows all recent edits to the subentries of the blog. Non-wiki blogs from what I have seen do not have the ability to show recent edits, even to old blog entries, much less to show them in the same window as the entries, so this provides a unique mechanism (albeit not RSS, though Feedster could conceivably be made to do this--e.g, create XML for a search of Wikicities, the user name, and perhaps "blog" or whatever one has in the URL?) for showing updates to one's blog.)...Thoughts?? Brettz9 18:07, 8 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure how the ad revenue issue would work, but it's an interesting idea. As for the iframes it's probably possible to use an XML feed of at least Special:Recentchanges to strip off the unnecessary menus etc. so that it will load quicker.
 * I also wonder if this could maybe be an evolution of the inidividual wikis' mailing lists. Right now they're underused because they're essentially an email discussion group, but people feel a lot more easygoing about stumbling through a quick blog post, it's as informal as a forum. Transclusion could play a big part here; for example I could write a personal blog entry about highly anticipated Xbox 360 games and tag it with a handful of categories; due to several cities' "home" blogs sharing those same categories my post would automatically appear in, say, the Gameinfo and Halo blogs. However entries posted by those wikis' administrators directly to their "home" blogs about, pffft, the completion of the 50th game guide and the first screenshots of Halo 3 would take precedence over my probably only vaguely related personal mumblings.
 * Hm. The more I think about this, the more I like it... if the mechanics of it can work. Hopefully not too much PHP-level customisation will be necessary. Garrett 03:01, 9 Dec 2005 (UTC)