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inlivingcolor
hello i would like it for you to see the in living color wikiacity by Metlover21 Metlover21 01:33, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Metlover21, I've replied there -- sannse (talk) 07:18, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

War Wikia logo help
Hi. Can you help the founders of the War Wikia upload their atomic bomb logo I created for them? It's on the Main Page's Talk page. I'm not an admin there, so I can't upload it as the Wiki.png (I put in on that page as Wikiwarlogo.png) as the founder is politely asking me to do. Thanks! Nhprman 19:13, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Done. I've also uploaded an example favicon to match.  -- sannse (talk) 21:53, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

LOST Favicon
Thanks a lot, all three were great, and I'm going to have to agree with you that the Lost on the sand background is the best. It's distinctive, and it works great.

Thanks!

--ChristianShephard 15:28, 2 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Great! another Wikia falls in my obsessive quest to get custom favicons on them all ;) -- sannse (talk) 15:55, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Search Wikia
Re this message at the Search Wikia, thank you for the help and adminship. Although I wouldn't exactly call Search "active". There are 73 entries in Search:Special:Activeusers. For some reason some users are listed more than once; there are 45 unique usernames. 9 of those have user pages. Their last edits were in 2004(25 users), 2005 (15 users), and 2006 (5 users). There are 46 total user pages. There are 33 edits logged in 2006, done by 3 users and 10 ip addresses that I'm guessing were mostly users who forgot to log in first. Active? I don't think so.

Possibly with social bookmarking, there is no need for this Wikia anymore. Also, it seems the database the Main Page claims had 360,367 sites in it, has been lost, so if this project is to be revitalized, it apparently will be necessary to start over.

Thanks again for the assistance, adminship, and encouragement. We'll see what happens.... Charm 03:04, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * P.S. Can you do a 16x16 magnifying glass?  ;)  Charm


 * Any activity is a start :) Sometimes, just one person can get a Wikia going again. It might be that the purpose of the Wikia need adapting to changes, and it certainly looks like some links and so on need reviewing (I'll find out a bit more about this, and the status of the database).  And see what I can do with a favicon today - my favourite occupation... 16x16 images :) -- sannse (talk) 08:26, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Sannse, Angela Beesley has expressed the intention to have Search: removed very soon. I have generated a discussion page here. Please contribute any comments you may wish to make. Thank you. Charm 09:54, 13 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Charm. I'm sorry, I didn't know about that. I've left some ideas on the talk page. -- sannse (talk) 19:07, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Why redirect on main page?
Hi Sannse, just wondering why you put a redirect on sca21:Main Page? Cheers Philralph 07:52, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Just noticed small p, presumably just to do with that Philralph 07:58, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Philralph, yes - it was the small "p". I followed a link (I forget where from now) and came to the Main page, which was blank.  So I set up the redirect to stop that happening to anyone else. -- sannse (talk) 08:12, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Collaboration of the Month
You and I seem to be the only people who've commented on this possibility. Since nobody objects, I suggest we be bold and add it. If you can put together a nomination and voting page, I'll put a box on the Main Page, with placeholder text linking to the vote page. Then maybe we can have our first CoTM in May. Seahen 21:06, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. I'm not sure where it will fit on the main page, we might have to consider another place (maybe the top of recent changes?) but lets give it a go and see.  I'll work on the pages as soon as I have a moment -- sannse (talk) 19:51, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I suggest making the "Featured Wiki" box only half-width, but taller. (You'd save space overall because last lines of paragraphs wouldn't be as empty.) Then, the CoTM box would occupy the other half of the width. This layout makes sense to me: We're showcasing two wikis at once, to an equal degree, one because it's developed and one because it's undeveloped. It's almost a ying-yang duality. Seahen 21:07, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Petdiabetes wiki thanks you!
Hi Lisa!

Thanks for your help with the cleaned-up HTML of the Main Page. I have tweaked it again and it's ready to go into proper use soon as the other wiki denizens have their say. Announcement with your credit here: http://petdiabetes.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#New_Main_Page

Cheers, --Steve and Jock 23:41, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Steve (and Jock), no problem! once I figured out (with help) what I was doing wrong on the css it wen't more smoothly :) Let me know if you need more help anytime -- sannse (talk) 08:41, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Dead Wiki
Hi Sannse. This Wiki has been abandoned ZelDelet


 * Thanks ZelDelet. It's only been open for a month, so we will leave it a bit longer to see if the founder finds time to start it, and then consider whether to close it or put it up for adoption.  It's still possible that it's not dead, just resting ;) -- sannse (talk) 09:13, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Para image
Couldn't find you on IRC... one more shot:

. Bastique 15:35, 26 April 2006 (UTC)


 * looks great! Just upload it as wiki.png and you are done :) -- sannse (talk) 08:33, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Need help with D&D Wiki
Umm someone managed to mess up my main page... I can't figure out how to repair the damage.. I do think it was accidental, though..--Vercalos
 * Nevermind. Managed to fix it myself.
 * Reply over at D&D -- sannse (talk) 09:06, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the help at Austin Powers!
Howdy, stranger! Wikipedia's former "Lucky 6.9" here.

It was fun to have been asked to join up by the gentleman who created the "Austin Powers" wiki, especially in light of the fact that he'd originally sabotaged the radio control wiki but had a change of heart. He really wanted this site to take off and wanted an admin/bureaucrat he could trust to shoo off the vandals.

I'm still "Lucky 6.9" at radio control, but I'm "PMDrive1061" at eflightwiki.com. Thought a variation of the Austin Powers theme would be fun over at this new wiki, so I chose "MaxiMe."

Feel free to drop by anytime. I can't tell you how much your help is appreciated. - MaxiMe 23:47, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem, happy to help -- sannse (talk) 08:04, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Status of Ikkepedia.wikia.com
Hei! Jeg ser at du har reverted min edit hvor jeg informerer om flyttingen av Ikkepedia til ikkepedia.net. Såfremt jeg vet, er det riktig at Ikkepedia har blitt flyttet, og det er nå mye aktivitet på ikkepedia.net kontra denne wiki'n. Hvis jeg tar grundig feil, si fra. Jeg reverter ikke forsiden nå, men avventer. - Damsleth 12 May 2006.

''Hello! I see you have reverted my edit where I inform about Ikkepedia moving to ikkepedia.net. AFAIK, Ikkepedia has been moved, and there's a lot of activity on ikkepedia.net in comparison to ikkepedia.wikia.com. If I am very much mistaken, please let me know. I won't revert the front page, but await your reply.'' (rough translation of above text)


 * Hello. I'm sorry to have to reply in English.


 * It was a shame to see that you have moved on; were there problems here on Wikia? Is there anything we can do to help? There are many advantages in staying at Wikia, and with almost all of the Uncyclopedia family here, there is more possibility for cooperation and growth.  The German version is moving to us now, and the Finnish version seems to be having severe server problems, so it may be that you are the only wiki in this group to be outside of Wikia.


 * On the front page edit: I reverted you because we prefer that other wikis are not advertised on Wikia.  Even though you have left, that does not mean that there will not be a wiki here on this subject.  The site is still open, and available for someone else to take over if they wish.  The interlanguage links on Uncyclopedia and the other Wikia version will go to this site, and maybe that will encourage a Norwegian speaker to start adding content here.  We shall see how this goes.


 * Please let me know if you reconsider your move and would like to stay with Wikia. Hopefully we can help to make that a possibility -- sannse (talk) 12. mai 2006 kl.14:45 (UTC) (Wikia Community Team)


 * Hi! I'm actually not an administrator for this wiki, I just discovered it and I want to be an active contributor (possibly an administrator in the future). Based on the very low level of activity on this Wiki, I e-mailed the admins and got the response that they had moved to a stand-alone server due to performance issues on this site. I can clearly see the advantages of staying here at Wikia, and I'm sorry for being so "violent" to the front page.


 * It actually seems that the original team behind this Wiki has abandoned it. How are the rules for changing ownerships of wikis? Are there any difficulties involved with registering a "proper" domain name, and pointing it here? (Like uncyclopedia.org &lt;-&gt; uncyclopedia.wikia.com)


 * I really want to contribute to this, but I'm not sure where to begin, the wiki having been split in two. I've put some effort into the ikkepedia.net wiki in the last few days, but such data could be transferred, I guess.


 * Thanks. - Damsleth 06:46, 19 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Reply from :


 * No worry about the main page, I understand the change - the transition when users fork is always a tricky one.


 * There isn't really transfer of "ownership", because the wikis don't belong to one person. That means it's easy for someone new to adopt a Wikia and start looking after it. I have made you a sysop and a bureaucrat here, which means you have all the buttons necessary to restart this community - including adding new sysops as needed. I've also added you as adopter on the Central discription page. You may like to look at the Administrators' how-to guide on Central.


 * Redirecting your own domain name to here is no problem. Just register the name you want, and set up a redirect with your registration company. That's the way Desencyclopedie is set up, if you go to http://www.desencyclopedie.com then you are redirected to http://desencyclopedie.wikia.com . Having a set up like Uncyclopedia, where all pages are at their own URL, is more difficult. At the moment we are not setting up more of these, but it's something that we hope to offer again in the future (which may mean transferring the domain name to Wikia if you have already registered it).


 * I hope that's covered everything, please let me know if you need help for anything. And good luck in getting this site back going again! -- sannse (talk) 12:08, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Disappearing community portal
Hi, Sannse. I'm a user of the Transformeres wikia at transformers.wikia.com. At some point in the last couple weeks, our community portal and its talk page disappeared as if they had been deleted. They became blank, with no page histories, so they can't be reverted by normal means. There is some vestige of them left in the database, because I can dig out old versions by going through people's contribution lists, but those old versions are not editable in order to do a tidy revert. Here is a link showing, possibly, the last edit of our portal's talk page:

http://transformers.wikia.com/index.php?title=Teletraan-1:_The_Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal&diff=prev&oldid=12487

One of our sysops, ItsWalky, is my roommate, and he says he can't figure out what happened. Do you have more power than he? Can you restore the pages, or should I just paste in their content and redo all the formatting and links by hand?

--Steve-o 02:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Steve-o. The disapearing history certainly is a strange one.  It's one for the technical types, so I've passed it on to Jason.  He's going to have a look and see if he can fix it.  He can see the problem, so hopefully he'll be able to cure it. -- sannse (talk) 19:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, sannse! It's restored now.  Hopefully that won't happen again!  --Steve-o 03:34, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

MIscellaneous Top 10
Hi - perusing through Wikia, I want to commend you for excellent work! Three weeks ago I founded The Top 10. I'm at the point where I would like to get exposure to internet contributors. What are your suggestions for going about this? -- Can you make me a getter favicon? I tried, but it's not clear. I can email the Photshop PSD file if you want to start there. -- Who should go to WikiMania 2006 (I work full time M-F, and it will be difficult to break away)? --Dreams2go 01:08, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Hello Dreams2go, I've seen The Top Ten - it looks like it's going really well.


 * We have a page about promotion with some good advice. I think the main point is to get out there and talk about what you are doing.  If there are communities related to your subject, then they will often be willing to hear about a new wiki.  You can also write to bloggers and other writers that might like to know about the wiki and be interested in writing about it.  For something like the Top 10, you might think about adding lists that will interest certain communities and inviting them to edit - maybe ask advice on the top 10 Pink Floyd songs at pinkfloydonline.com or ask how you would find the all-time top goal scorers at  thefootballforum.net, and so on.  The idea is to get your message out there, in a way that will interest people and make them want to look a the wiki.  But do be careful that you don't spam.  That will put people off and hurt your reputation.  The best way is to think of the messages that you would be interested in, and the type you delete on sight.  I hope that helps!


 * No problem on the favicon, I'll look at that today :)


 * Wikimania is all about wikis, especially Wikimedia wikis, but spreading out to wikis in general. It's for anyone who is interested in wikis and wiki communities.  There will be a few of us from Wikia, so it's a good chance to meet the team and some other Wikians.  A lot of the programme is still to be decided, but maybe you should have a look at the Wikimania site and see if it's something you fancy!


 * --sannse (talk) 14:00, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you! --Dreams2go 18:35, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Page delete...Etc.
Thanks, Sannse, for that page delete on Activism. I wasn't familiar with creating sub-pages, and created one before I realized I wouldn't be able to delete it.

Out of curiosity, how did you even find my request for a delete? I really meant that more as a note to myself. I didn't figure that anyone would notice it, especially not someone who wasn't working directly on Activism. And it wasn't even on my main user page! Anyway, thanks again.

By the way, are admin requirements similar here as they are on the 'pedia? I'd like to do a lot of work on Activism, and if I stick to it, I might be interested in adminship in a few months.

Also, is it possible to create categories for pages on Activism? I don't see any ability to do that...there isn't even a "Random category" link in the navigation sidebar, as on Wikia or Wikipedia. I think categories will be helpful to organize pages by movement. Is it a feature that just needs to be turned on by an admin, or what?
 * I have since figured out how to add categories. But I still wonder, why isn't there a link in the navigation toolbar called "Random Category"?

– Nabarry


 * Admin requirements here are very varied. You can request to adopt a semi-inactive wikia and receive bureaucrat powers almost de-facto, but on a very active wiki the requirements may be more restrictive and cumbersome than even wikipedia (whatever the community agrees on).


 * To create categories, you should be able to just start adding tags, and clicking on the red link to create said category. The random category link on the sidebar is simply a link to Special:Random using the namespace parameter, eg: Special:Random/Category (you could have a random user link with: Special:Random/User, for example), and has been added via MediaWiki:Sidebar. -- Splarka 06:26, 26 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I think Splarka got it all in there (thanks S.) except how I found your message of course.  I spend a lot of time wiki-hopping - bringing up the recent changes page of various Wikia and looking at random edits.  It's a way to get a feel for what's going on, and finding out where people need help.  So I noticed the edit you made and that there wasn't an active admin there to help.


 * I've added "Random Category" (after a couple of mistakes!) let me know if there is anything else you want changed. And I think with no active admin, it would be a good idea to get one or more sooner rather than later.  I think there were two of you particularly active on activism?  Maybe an idea to admin you both.  Perhaps you two (and anyone else active) could discuss it, and let me know -- sannse (talk) 12:16, 26 May 2006 (UTC)