User talk:PanSola/Archive

Hi PanSola. Just to let you know, that faulty interwiki links on other sites should get to us now... despite the error. I haven't been able to test this, because StrategyWiki has fixed their links, but hopefully any other site with the problem should still get to us. Hope all's well with you -- Sannse 13:33, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Dark.css
Hey PanSola, I saw that dark.css skin of your on communitytest and I tested it. I made some modifications to the skin and I'd like to hear your opinion...you can see a live version of the "new" dark.css on test.jackphoenix.com, my test wiki. Please do comment. :-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 20:40, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

New Gaming hub
Hi PanSola -- I saw your new design for the Gaming hub. It's really cool; I like it! The three columns make a lot more sense than the random spotlights and "By category" stuff in the old design. This way, it highlights the newest and the most active wikis.

I tried out some revisions on Gaming/Design3 -- I wanted to space things out a little differently, and give the page some breathing room. What do you think? -- Danny (talk ) 12:08, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

MEH!!!
Okay, whatever you say, sir. Ma'am. Person. -- NOTASTAFF  GPT ( talk )( eating ) 18:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

The Suffering Wiki
Do you know stuff about the suffering? If so add it please.

Also could you please make a cool logo 4 me?-TheDevilMayCry 01:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry I don't know anything about The Suffering except what I just read on your wiki and Wikipedia. As for a cool logo, I don't trust my own artistic skills, but I know of people willing to help other wikis with creating logos.  I'll see what they can cook up (-: -PanSola 20:45, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

cool. ill add The Suffering logo to this so you can see wat i would like it to look like. TheDevilMayCry 07:28, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I just want the words The Suffering from this picture. TheDevilMayCry 07:28, 10 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey TDMC, I made 2 logos for the Suffering wiki - a wide logo for the quartz skins and a square logo for the older skins. Take a look, and let me know if you like them. square logo | wide logo -- JoePlay (talk) 01:16, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for the help.--Jargner 23:58, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

The Suffering Logo
Thanks for the logo, it looks AWESOME.--TheDevilMayCry 06:26, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Gaming wiki meeting
Is there any chance of moving it back an hour? i represent Resident Evil Wiki, Dino Crisis Wiki, and French Halopedia. it's just... I can't make it at 9... but can at 8.Forerunner 19:36, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * For this week's chat, unlikely. However, I'm hoping this can be a regular weekly or bi-weekly thing, so I'll explore different times and see which ones work best (there might be people who can't make 9 or 8 but can do 10, etc). -PanSola 22:28, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Well... my Birthday is on the 21st. after that i get an extra half hour. on schoolnights i have to log off about half an hour BEFORE going to bed. BUT... the week after the 21st is a school holiday and so i get Xtra time. So basicly the first few i may not make it, but WILL be present at 8PM-GMT.Forerunner 10:33, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

star wars modding wikia
is there any way for you to become an admin on SWMW if so please do, and is there any way for me to advitse SWMW?
 * Sorry, I'm not an actual contributor to SWMW, so I don't think I should be an admin there. As for ways to advertise it, I suggest you seek out internet forums, establish a good reputation/presence there, then advocate the use of wiki on those forums. -PanSola 22:47, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know who wrote this as he/she didn't sign, but have a bit of advice about forums if they visit your user page again.
 * When you sign up for forums, look for something in your user settings called something like a signature. You can usually add hyperlinks to your sig, so could mention your wiki there. However, don't go overboard. Look at what other people do to see what they think is acceptable. If you chat to people, as PanSola suggests, you can deep link to relivant articles on your wiki. If necessary, look for something on the forum you were thinking of writting a wiki article about and then write to order.
 * While I am at it, try to remember to use capital letters for titles, like Star Wars and for the letters at the begining of sentences. Some people can be a bit pedantic about that sort of thing and if you want to attract potential authors to your wiki, it is best to try to look as professional as the people you want to attract. Good luck! David Shepheard 23:33, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

The Quartz Skins and the White Tabs
Hi Pansola, nice to meet an admin so friendly, I saw your message at the FirstStrikeMod wiki saying we could come to you with any questions. Well I'd really appreciate your take on this one, so thanks in advanced. =)

First of all, can we have our default wiki skin changed to QuartzSlate? If so, how?

And secondly, are the Quartz skins changed regularly? Because at our wiki and Wookiepedia (two that use Quartz skins) all have turned into ugly white tabs. At least on my computer... do you see this effect too?

There are also moments when suddenly the entire page gets scrambled-- images repeat strangely or disappear, text grows horribly small, etc. And like I said, it's not just on our site, I see it at Wookiepedia too.

At moments like that, only switching to another skin such as Monobook shows a nice-looking interface, but not QuartzSmoke or QuartzSlate. Perhaps someone was making a skin change that wasn't finished? After 10 / 15 minutes, the skin's usually fixed and looking right again.

Anyways-- ever since the last glitch, we've been stuck with these ugly white tabs. It looks nice on other sites (such as Wookie) but we have a dark non-white background that really clashes with it.

If you could look into this, let me know if the default skin can be changed, if the tabs are supposed to be there, we'd much appreciate it.

Thanks! ShadowfaxSTF 03:43, 14 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi there.
 * Yes it's possible to change default skin to QuartzSlate. Currently you would need to talk to a Wikia staff (such as Angela) for them to change it for you.
 * Yes, the Quartz skins are still under developement, and tweaks/experimentations/improvements are being made to them. I see the white tabs too, and I'm pretty sure it can be removed via CSS.  I'll look into exactly how to remove them or change their color later (I personally liked the white tab)
 * Not sure about entire page getting scrambled. It might be a connection issues so that the relevant CSS aren't all being loaded right (maybe getting timed out).
 * -PanSola 19:30, 14 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi again, just left a message with Angela, thanks for the tip. I finally found the CSS to change for the tabs, added this to my MediaWiki:Quartzslate.css:

/* change the white tabs to normal text */ .articleBar a { background-color: transparent; border-style: none; display: block; float: left; height: 20px; margin: 5px 2px 0 2px; padding: 0 5px; text-decoration: none;
 * And I agree that it does look pretty good, just not with our dark site. :P
 * Thanks again for the explanation.
 * ShadowfaxSTF 03:35, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Well now that you have the CSS code, it's fairly trivial to change the tabs to a dark color to match with your dark site d-: -PanSola 16:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * ShadowfaxSTF 03:35, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Well now that you have the CSS code, it's fairly trivial to change the tabs to a dark color to match with your dark site d-: -PanSola 16:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Well now that you have the CSS code, it's fairly trivial to change the tabs to a dark color to match with your dark site d-: -PanSola 16:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Poll
Answered it, and added my two bits in the sandbox. —Ellia • Talk to me • Please sign! 02:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your Greetings PanSola
Thanks for your helpful comments on my Spelljammer Wiki User talk page.

I've been having connection problems with my ISP, but they seem to have finally been fixed tonight. I couldn't make the Gaming chat, but I'd definately like to try to make one of the future meetings.

I'm currently looking at other wikis to get ideas to improve my main page design. To be honest, I had very few pages when I got moved over from my mini-wiki, so it is hard to get direct links in yet. I need to create a few more starter articles, so that I can have at least one per category. (I might go on a bit of a stub-fest and then come back to the main page.)

Your comments on my logo were also helpful. I've got artists from the Spelljammer Mailing List working on ideas for me, but will ask them to check out the pages you mention.

I definately want to learn more about templates. There are some great templates for role-playing articles on Wikipedia and I think that they really help organise the information. I've already copied one template to put a message on the top of my userpage. I want to do a lot more of that sort of stuff. But I realise that hacking (not cracking) the wiki code. Templates work differently to normal wiki pages, but I know if I put the time in I can look at other people's templates and see how to do similar stuff.

I haven't got much to pay back to the community, but I do want to help support other wikis, so thanks for adding that Gaming box. My sort of gaming is more tabletop RPG than computer gaming, so I'll probably need to swap all those links for ones to the D&D Wikia, the Forgotten Realms Wiki and other similar wikis. I'll have a good search before editing the box.

Anyhoo, thanks for all your suggestions, and I hope it isn't too long before I can help you with something! David Shepheard 18:33, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Hubs and stars
Hey, currently all the Hubs have lists of popular wikis, and wikis with a certain number of articles have a golden star by them. But I had a thought... what about, instead of using Template:Star2, make a new template for those lists, where it either doesn't have a star if it has relatively few articles, a Bronze star if it has quite a few articles, a silver star if it has rather a lot of articles, or a gold star if it has a ton of articles? It would be a lot of work to change over the templates and check the numbers of articles and stuff... but I could rig up a quick way to do it and convert all of the hubs this weekend, if you like the idea. What thinkst thou!? Hope to here from you soon! *hugs and kisses* -- NOTASTAFF  GPT ( talk )( eating ) 23:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Above quote from Angies's talk page. She said to post on the hubs talk page to get a conversation going, but I couldn't find it, and she also said you were working on the hubs page. So whaddya think? -- NOTASTAFF  GPT ( talk )( eating ) 23:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Changing the Default Skin
Hey there and thanks for the welcome.

I'm looking to change my wiki's (jass.wikia.com) default skin to Monobook. Right now it seems to be stuck on another skin. I can't seem to find out how to change the default for logged out users.


 * First, log in to the account with admin access, then go to Special:Preferences. Under the "Skin" tab, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and you should see a dropdown menu to specify it.  After setting it, use a different computer to test the changes (since a cookie on your browser might remember your logged-in personal preference even after you log out).  If that doesn't work, then that's a bug in the new skin, and not your fault. -PanSola 07:21, 30 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks, but still it only allows the Quartz skin and "custom." I'm looking for the monobook one. Could I change it by using custom? And if so, how?

Unfortunately you will not be able to use Monobook. All new Wikia have Quartz set as the default skin for anons and new users. All existing Wikia are being changed over as well. Users can changed their personal preferences to Monobook, but it isn't possible to have it set as the default. -- Manticore  Talk 15:38, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Interlanguage
Hi,

Are you aware that now that interlanguages links have been fully activated, the french Guild Wars wikia has lots and lots of pages linking to GuildWiki.org ? I'm also wondering, should we tell them ? They migth not take this as a good thing... since some of them feel abuse by the move... But if you think it's ok, i'll tell them, i just dont know on wich page.. — TulipVorlax 10:41, 30 October 2007 (UTC)