User talk:The 888th Avatar

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Friends
I know I have said and done bad things to you and other members of A W but I am sorry, I only want you to forgive me. You may here from me very little now as our main place of meeting LOL is no longer available. I just hope we can remain friends. I am not asking to eb unblocked. -  Luvingazula  -  Talk  15:53, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

I was about to say sorry but it seems that I already have. There is no harm in saying it again is there? Luvingazula -  Talk  07:46, 15 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, not really. Feel free to talk to me any time, but the block stays on Avatar Wiki. The 888th Avatar  (Talk) 07:50, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Can you not see the bold text? Talk to you anytime? If I want to bore myself I will. Luvingazula -  Talk  07:54, 15 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Sure, but preferably on IRC. It's faster that way. Join the channel ##wjxhuang. The 888th Avatar  (Talk) 08:04, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

I will but give me 4 hours or so. I got to kick ass on the golf course! 08:23, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Scooby
Yeah, it looks like Scooby is about to play dead :) The main page is top priority, I just took a peak and started a sandbox for it - but no ground breaking stages reached. A lot needs HK, some news, about, directing new visitors etc - though it needs regular troopers who know what that are doing. I don't want to drain the Avatar resources, not that anyone is not welcome to help. BTW, I stood back from Avatar, but not likely to stay away. Needs a little water under the bridge and a fresh take/perspective. I don't see myself as a fold my arms and bite my lip person - that would be giving up. I'm hoping it cools down a little. I'm sure everyone is relieved that there is ambiguity wrestling :). Do you think Zero would make himself busy now he is semi retired in Avatar?

Scooby 2Doo(s)
Your right - this is a challenge, especially for the unskilled (me) and so on.... Good night - or when you read this .. good morning! Piandao Talk 15:42, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Main Page - WIP/888
 * Side Bar
 * About Scooby-Doo wiki - WIP/Piandao
 * Templates
 * Categories
 * News (site and media)
 * Templates - welcome (urgent), News (main page link),
 * more stubs added
 * disambiguation


 * Still around :) Good to know that you may be back on Avatar, but don't worry, I'm not draining myself to help other wikis, I do it all the time (evidenced by the prevalence of my user page template - which is actually far less common than some othe people I know). Yeah, I've just sorted out a beta skin design, you can copy into your personal css and preview it.
 * About the main page - I'll deal with that tomorrow night.
 * Sidebar - you'll need adminship before we can sort that out :(
 * About the wiki - definitely your job, I'll be taking your lead here
 * Templates - let me know what you'll want, but infoboxes will take me the longest, because they get me muddled up. I can deal with the rest fairly quickly though. I can get the welcome sorted out very quickly though.
 * Categories - Should be fairly easy but boring to sort out
 * News - Still thinking about it...
 * Stubs - Annoying, try to get Joey to bot that...
 * Disambigs - Low priority in my opinion, but will get around to it.
 * In summary, I'll be dealing with the main page, the welcome template and the categorisation in the next one or two days, before moving on to the rest. Glad to be able to help! :D Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 15:49, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Yeah disambigs are not urgent but they cause issues with 1k ways to write Scoob, Scooby, Scooby doo/-doo/-Doo etc too often The is used in the title and many repeat pages. The people editing/creating should not have to look for The Ghost of Captain Cutler/Captain Cuters Ghost, I guess there wil be impetuous editors with little experience. I'm thinking it's less maintenance until the site has regulars for maintenance. Did not know a bot could sort stubs - I went over 40 if not fifty last night, bring it o Jeoy.. Can it do pages that need bring up to standard - for get that it will be on over 90 of 100 pages :D Pin a another star/wiki on your badge/template :) Oh and the list is for everyone - I'm not whipping you. I'll add it to my scooby user page for now Piandao  Talk 16:04, 4 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm planning for the worst case scenario - just you and me doing the work of what would normally be ten editors. I can see why the disambigs are up there, the wiki has been left in the wild for too long, no-one's been carefully checking everyone for...years? Joey's bot can't really sort stubs, what it does is it looks through the list, and marks every page under 1kb (just as an example) as a stub. Bot != Articifical Intelligence :( Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 16:07, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Resurrection
Resurrecting The Daily Edit? I am excited to hear. If you need any help at all, I am here. -- Mattkenn3 Talk 13:09, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay
Hey, but how do you know about the other Suite Life wiki? The current boss, Andrewrox has gone until 21st of August so he cannot make me an admin. Could you maybe talk to him and ask him not to delete the stuff ive put down? I like the Avatar guy, I just dont want him deleting my posts. --PointsGuy 09:12, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


 * A few quick searches and some browsing got me enough information to go along with. :) I can talk to The avatar, if you want me to. Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 09:24, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks 888! As I am sure you are aware we are merging with them. Since we have lots of messed up articles, categories, images, etc. I agreed to merge into tipton wiki. However, that is a month down the road. Thanks for all the help!-- Ava tar Talk 01:00, September 13, 2009 (UTC)

mass changes at central
Would you please find me online, I need to talk to you. --Uberfuzzy 22:56, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Change to central hubs logos
Hi There, I saw the changes you made to the central hubs logos, they look great! Thanks for the help. Cheers, --Sarah (talk 18:38, December 8, 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks! :) Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 22:09, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi there. My apologies, I'm a month late to the party because I'm not active on Wikia Central.
 * I'd just like to thank you for so much for this particular edit as it means a lot to see that you chose our Logo.
 * Have a great day, A_F_K_sig_2.jpg A F K When  Needed  17:19, January 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * :D Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 04:55, January 28, 2010 (UTC)

Blue boxes
Hey. I had already seen that blog, actually, but thanks for showing me anyway. While it explains why the blue boxes are disappearing, it doesn't explain what I should do instead. -- Supermorff 13:49, February 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, I see - what Wikia says we should be doing instead is searching for wikis via the search bar, because it searches across wikis, negating the need for blue box pages. Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 01:48, February 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Okay, but that searches by page, meaning that you're far more likely to come across large and active wikis than small, inactive ones, which is what I used the blue boxes to look for. How am I supposed to find the small, inactive wikias that are duplicates of larger wikis and have little to no chance of standing up independently? -- Supermorff 08:54, February 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * That is a good question. I'm guessing that perhaps part of the reason Wikia did this in the first place was to keep the large, active wikis large and active. This pleases the majority of users who wanted to find the big one anyway. To find the small ones will now be a very difficult task. Why did you want to find the small wikis? Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 09:48, February 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, mostly to merge any info into the large ones and avoid duplication of effort. It's a shame when a knowledgeable user creates a wiki for a subject, not realising there's a big one (and this is now very easy to do, thanks to "Create a new wiki" button on top of every page). That wiki is doomed to be ignored, and their info is going to go to waste unless someone finds it and does something with it. Even worse, the lack of attention on their wiki will just demotivate them from adding more info elsewhere. I've seen it, I know it happens. -- Supermorff 09:54, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

I can see what you mean. I think this is interesting. I think the majority of well-meaning, knowledgeable users would try to see if there was an big wiki on the subject before trying to create their own. The minority who do create their own regardless usually want to do a better job than the existing wiki. The real minority, that you speak of, are the people who didn't think of searching before taking the plunge. The new changes make it very hard to find these people. You could perhaps suggest to Wikia staff to suggest to users using w:Special:CreateWiki that joining an exisiting wiki may be a better, more productive idea. Wjxhuang, the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 10:03, February 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Maybe, but that doesn't really help deal with the wikis that slip through the cracks. Another problem is when a user wants to set up a wiki, but there is already an existing wiki that's quite small. Using the search bar, they'd have little chance of finding it. What we really need is some way of searching wikis without searching the content of wikis... Hm. Anyway, how would you suggest I go about contacting the Wikia staff about this? -- Supermorff 20:19, February 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Special:Contact is the way to go, as usual. Maybe suggesting on the appropriate staff blog is good as well. Public comments always build up interest. Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 05:59, February 8, 2010 (UTC)