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Adopt Wikitroid
Hi Angela. I am requesting to adopt Wikitroid, the Metroid wiki. There's three admins, though two haven't edited since 2005 and the third last edited in December 2006. The wiki is also not very active. Based on the WikiStats, there's about eight active users, though most have made > 10 edits. I just found the wiki recently and would like to adopt it and improve it. I've already set up help pages, project pages, templates, forums, and other things. So leave me a message on my talk page on Wikitroid after you've decided on this. Thanks.--Richard1990 talkedits 19:00, 10 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much Angela!--Richard1990 talkedits 19:25, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Why you have destroyed wiki-project Scientific Chronology?
All categories and lists of articles are removed, due to your connivance to hooligans from Ru-Wiki.-- A. Verevkin

The images are destroyed too: The spoiled personnel.-- A. Verevkin
 * Just russian names for all special namespaces (category:, image:, special:) not worked.. And Верёвкин make attack Main page  --exlex 22:47, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I've sent A. Verevkin an email about this, but I don't quite understand what the problem is. Is this related to the fact I unblocked some users on this wiki, or is there a technical problem that needs fixing? Angela (talk) 23:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * this is related technical problem, but he says that it attack from Russian Wikipedia --exlex 01:00, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Angela, Russian wikis totally broken. Doesn't work categories, templates and images. What is the matter? --Asp 14:47, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I second that there're problems (on several Russian Wikias) that need to be fixed somewhere in the central part, but as of now you can overcome them with using English names ("Category:..." instead of "Категория:...", etc). --Radaghast 15:02, 13 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Work of a resource is restored. Thank for attention. А.Б.Верёвкин 19:05, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

ru.rpg adoption
Dear Angela! You might remember me as an admin of D&D Wikia which I adopted in December last year (probably not, but a reminder like that never hurts ;) ). Since that time I've been not a daily active, but a dedicated Wikian nevertheless, contributing to not only D&D Wikia, but also to some others, and not only in the area of editing (for example, the Dragon Ball Wikia logo was drawn by me). The point is, I decided to adopt another Wikia: the RU.RPG one. As you can see from the edit history, it has been founded in November 2006 and did not have even one edit since then (before me): the founder did not make his own user page, let alone the main page of the wiki. Needless to say, it was competely empty and deserted when I stumbled upon it. It was me who put it for adoption on the 5th of July, but after talking to a couple of friends the next day we decided to try to run it ourselves. Following the adoption rules, I've edited it for a week. There are 13 pages now, several templates, categories, and we are discussing the logo (all gaming wikis have a dice for a logo, so it's hard to come up with something original).

I am a member of an already existing Russian-speaking role-playing discussion community with 16779 forum users, of which I am the fourth most active. Of course, not all of them will contribute, but some of them will if I encourage them well enough ;) A group of people there are already consistently contributing to the Russian Wikipedia, but you know how hard it is to do it in an all-purpose wiki as opposed to a topic-driven one (for example, they were allowed to create only one "Terms used in RPG" page with a short list, while I see this to be a huge category of articles). I hope to invite them to the RPG Wikia, and the content they made at WP can certainly be used as a starting point. Also there is a RPG-related Russian wiki on a different website with the lack of active users, user-friendly engine, good hosting, etc. I'll try to convince them to merge our projects (not sure that'll work out, though). There are also some people interested in the theory of RPG, and they simply don't have any place do go if they want to write about it in Russian--I guess it would be relatively easy to get them. Besides that, I run several smaller wikis (on PBwiki, WikiDot, localhost, etc) with approx.500 articles total--when license status permits, I'll move their content to the Russian RPG Wikia and encourage other people to do the same.

Those are the plans. If you like it, please make me an admin and a bureaucrat there. Cheers, Radaghast 14:59, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello
Hello Angela. We have a sockpuppeting problem at the Transformers Fanon Wiki, where we think that ItsWalky and Rotty are the same people. The ItsWalky denies he is Rotty, but we are still suspicious. Can you use CheckUser to see? Our evidence is as follows:
 * Rotty has 2 contribs which are both on the FA Nomination page.
 * The FA Nomination he voted on was ItsWalky's
 * He did not do anything else on the entire site
 * His vote was a minute after ItsWalky's
 * They are the only two people voting for it
 * Thank you for your time Angela. We already tried to use CheckUser, but it said only staff could use it. Thanks.&mdash; Darthtyler Talk 15:41, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * We'd prefer it if you left a message on our wiki, if that isn't any trouble. General Grhamtalk 16:14, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Requesting Adminship of "Monster Hunter Wiki"
Hi Angela! The current admin over at the Monster Hunter Wiki is DeathSlayer, but he's been inactive for about a month. I know he's not interested because I contacted him on AIM, and he told me so.

When he joined, he only made one page, which I still fixed up. When I joined, in about 3 days I had already made about 50-60 articles.

I'm the only person so far consistently contributing. If you'd make me an admin for me, it'd be a great help to further progress the wiki. Thanks for your time! PitchBlack696 11:33, 14 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you! PitchBlack696 19:00, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Thats strange
When i log in and click go on the search for User:Angela, it comes up with no matches. but if i search User: Angela it does, but sends me to ur userpage which is written User:Angela so basicaly i'm confused with the use of Spaces. F


 * There's a bug we're aware of that causes problems when searching for anything with a colon in it. Angela (talk) 18:27, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Halopedia again
RelentessRecusant blocked me for...


 * 1) Your personal attacks against users regarding certain opinionated topics
 * 2) Your harassment of myself
 * 3) Sockpuppeting on IRC and hostile noncompliance to polite requests to stop
 * 4) Suspected sockpuppeteering on Halopedia
 * 5) General disruptive behavior on Halopedia and on the IRC

my defence

(Note: this has been edited so that i'm talking to you and talking about R2)
 * 1) Me + GPT called it off ages ago + we're even, i told You whist i was blocked that he could get rid of ma comment to become equal ages ago.
 * 2) harassment is if i followed him everywear!! All i did was get an Email from him and suggested it was his name.
 * 3) Cos he banned Forerunner whilst i was sayin somat and he neva said i should stop. some friends found out that IP was SIMILAR and told RR and he kicked me out saying sockpuppet (or somat like that)
 * 4) I already know Chief2552 is a sockpuppet i designed him back in Febuary. (cos the computer i used wasn'tgood and when i went on a skin think it was cologneblue, it stopped me from changing skins and clicking on edit)
 * 5) IRC=saying his name (thats not distruptive! anyway it never occured to him to say MY name) Halopedia=deleting a comment which was in the wrong Category but appologised already!!!

in fact i'm gettin tired of Halopedia and am planning to use another wiki instead. help, F


 * You should not reveal personal information about a user that you got from an email. I suggest you find a different wiki to edit whilst you're blocked on the halo wiki. Angela (talk) 18:09, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Dear Angela, ma'am, with all due respect, I have discussed the permanent block of Forerunner with Sannse and several other users, including administrators, before carrying it out. If there is an issue with my conduct, please let me know, and I'd be glad to share my thoughts about it with you and also to change my behavior! :-) Cheers, User:RelentlessRecusant 04:03, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Logo and Background Color
Hey Angela, back again.

1) Does the logo HAVE to be .png? 'Cause I already made a logo, I just dont know how to actually put it up. Here's the link to the logo: http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Image:MonsterHunter.jpg

2) After an hour of trying to configure the background color and still failing, now I come for help.

What I'm aiming for is:


 * Background Color: "wheat"
 * Labels: A darker brown than wheat, but still able to comfortably see the black text.
 * Normal Links: Brown
 * Wanted/Empty Links: Still red.
 * Regular Text: Still black.

3) And just a question, for changes to show on the entire site, you would have to put the code in the monobook right? Sorry for asking for so much, but I'd really appreciate it. PitchBlack696 18:58, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Angela! It looks great. But can you make it a little horizontally smaller so it can line up with the line? It's unpleasing to have it go over the line like that. I tried to do it myself to save time for you, but couldnt. PitchBlack696 23:53, 15 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm not completely sure what you mean by that, but sure, try it. I just don't like how your eye notices the line going up into the picture like that. PitchBlack696 00:04, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Angela? PitchBlack696 23:41, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I changed w:c:monsterhunter:MediaWiki:Common.css which should fix the problem. If you still see it, try refreshing your cache of that page by pressing Ctrl and F5 on it. Let me know if that doesn't help. Angela (talk) 23:43, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I went on a friends computer the other day and it looks great. For some reason, I cant see it on my own computer, even though I refreshed and restarted. But it's okay, I'll just ignore it. As long as other people see it that way, I'm fine. Thanks for the help, I'll come back later if I ever need help. =) PitchBlack696 16:51, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

mario wiki
is it possible for me to adopt mario wiki, since you said it "needs a founder"?  Phil.e.  [Talk to me] 00:46, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

thank you! :D  Phil.e.   [Talk to me] 01:22, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Strange formating
Is there a way for me to be able to see Wikia in the old site format when it looked like Wikipedia? Because this is just too confusing, and I can't find my way around anymore.


 * Yes, you can choose the monobook skin in your preferences, or if you don't want to log in, you can switch to monobook using this link. Angela (talk) 13:42, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

can u change the site name (not adress) cos i want Biohazard Wiki instead of Resident Evil Wiki which my predecessor used. this way it has more origonality and also is smaller sized name. F

Since it is the Resident Evil Wiki, I think the original name is better since it will help people to find the site when they're searching for it. Have you tried discussing this with anyone on the wiki? Angela (talk) 18:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Request for Forums associated with a wiki
http://geomag.wikia.com/wiki/Geomag_Forum_Proposal

The people on the Geomag forum miss a place where they can have threaded chats about Geomag topics: the wiki feels like a place where more formal writeups of our models belong.

Has the Wikia staff considered hosting forums for the wikis - with the usual threading and ability to have messages with embedded pictures.

--Karl Horton 15:38, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * We're trialing this with the Runescape wiki. See their forum. Would that be useful for the Geomag wiki? Do you think many people would use it? Angela (talk) 18:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I liked the look of that: but they didn't like me using their board as a testing ground .... oops .... I got rebuked:

http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk%3AKarl_Horton

To answer your question about usage, I think it would be fairly low - no more that a dozen posters right now. If you'd like to enable the Geomag wiki with that, it would be great, thanks.

meanwhile other contributors are looking for alternative forum hosting: the common view is that both types of interaction are appropriate for the Geomag group.

--Karl Horton 01:35, 17 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I'll reply on the geomag wiki. Angela (talk) 01:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

He-Man wiki
Hello, thanks a ton for getting the He-Man wiki up and running! I'm wondering though if it's too late to tweak the title and the name of the site. "he-man.wikia.com" would be much better than "heman.wikia.com", as it's the correct spelling of the character's name. Additionally, I think I'd prefer the namespace be "Wiki Grayskull" rather than "Castle Grayskull," to avoid confusion with the fictional location itself and make the site easier to promote. If these things can't be changed, I understand, but if it's possible, I'd be deeply grateful to have it happen. Thanks for your time. --Proudhug 18:11, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hyphens in URLs have caused problems on Wikia before. It's quite easy for a setting to go a bit wrong and wiki becomes inaccessible, so we avoid using any charatcers like that. I can change the project namespace though. Angela (talk) 18:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks a lot. I knew it wasn't impossible, though, since the X-Files Wiki has a hypen in its URL. --Proudhug 18:21, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Aeres Wikia
Hello Angela, I've just found out that on the information label of the Aeres Wikia you've written that it's a constructed language. Actually it isn't. The official name is "Ourish". Shall I change the information label? -Markvondeegel 10:50, 17 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, it's fine to change the category there. I misunderstood the request. Angela (talk) 13:09, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Everybody can! I didn't knew the English name, so I used the normal aeres-name. 4512980355a 13:14, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Foreign Friends
on my ResidentEvil wiki on the MediaWiki:Sidebar... i decided to send a link to an Italian Resident Evil wiki. but i don't know its name. i know its it.residentevil.wikia.com but i wanted the W:C: thing. Help!!!F


 * You can link to it using w:c:it.residentevil . Angela (talk) 16:02, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikis needing logos
Hi Angela! I was wondering if it would be okay for me to create a page in the forum where people can list wikis that need a logo? Is that what Forum:Logo creation campaign is for, or is there already a place for this? If not, I'll create a page in the forum. Thanks! Swannie talk to me 21:29, 19 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Forum:Logo creation campaign can be used for that, but I suggest you check with Muppets101 since he was talking about starting a group of people who could work on logos. Angela (talk) 22:13, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Gamesystems
Hi, Angela. Is it possible to claim a wiki? Because I was looking for information on video game consoles because I was going to buy one soon, and I found this wiki. I looked on the recent changes and there were no edits. I looked at Great White's (the founder's) contributions and he last made an edit June 17th which was close to one month ago. It looks as if the founder completely abandoned his/her's wiki. Great White isn't an admin anymore, he/she probably requested it, but the wiki is completely inactive. I really want to revive the wiki and make it active, so, can you give me admin and bureacrat access on the wiki? Thanks. Zapdos 01:45, 20 July 2007 (UTC)