User talk:Jack Phoenix

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Beglium
Why did you delete my page as spam that had my initials on it? I am a moderator of this topic.... please do not delete people's pages with initials on them, as that is the class instructions from the professor. —This unsigned comment is by MPollitt (talk • contribs).


 * I presume this is about internationalbusiness.wikia.com, is it not?


 * Well, the pages were reported as spam on Talk:Spam Blacklist by another user and after examining those pages, they indeed looked like spam to me, so I deleted. Three to six letters on a page (especially since most of those pages were created by unregistered users) looked like common spam instead of any meaningful content related to international business. Spam is an annoying problem that can be quite hard to control at times, and Wikia janitors, such as myself, have been tasked with spam removal across Wikia's 5600+ different wikis. I apologize if I accidentally deleted content from the wiki, but I still fail to see how three to six letters are meaningful content. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 19:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Favicon for Jack Phoenix's Wiki
'Ello Jack Phoenix,

I can create a favicon for your wiki if you like.I am going to start now and tell me if you want to see it.-- Techie 22:46, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


 * If you don't have anything better to do, feel free to create a favicon for my wiki. :-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 13:23, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Major Outbreak of Vandalism on Second Life Wiki
Looks like someone who is doing the PN radier thing... Patriotic Nigra spam on doznes of pages. We really need to have some more administrators created on this wiki... who do I talk to? Lillie Yifu —This unsigned comment is by 68.244.94.204 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !


 * I've blocked the vandal now. You can talk to the Community Team about more administrators for the wiki. Thankfully Wikia has some very good tools for fighting spam: you can add the URL that the vandal spammed to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist on the Second Life Wikia (requires admin rights). That's the local Spam Blacklist for that wiki. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 12:11, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! Lillie Yifu

Import Flickr Images
Hello again,

I am a sysop at cannabis.wikia.com
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/User:Timeshifter
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

I tried out this new tool:
 * http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/Import_Flickr_Images

I left some questions at the talk page for it, but User:Yukichi deleted them. I don't know why. See
 * http://inside.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Yukichi
 * http://inside.wikia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Import_Flickr_Images&action=edit

Could my comments there be undeleted? --Timeshifter 08:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Timeshifter, I've restored the talk page. Mistakes might happen with page deletion, as sadly too often people test out the cool new features on the Inside Wikia, which means that it gets a lot of test pages & images that do not belong in the Inside Wikia. Please let me know if you need further help with ImportFreeImages tool or any other feature. :-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 13:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I started a new section below with some questions I have concerning interwiki links. --Timeshifter 18:40, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

(unindent) Do you have any ideas concerning my questions at w:c:inside:Talk:Import Flickr Images?

Please respond there. Others may be informed by that thread. --Timeshifter 23:55, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki links
I have some questions about interwiki links. Please see also:
 * w:Help talk:Interwiki link/technical

I have studied the interwiki help pages linked farther down, and learned how to use interwiki links to link to some pages. But there seems to be some inconsistency across Wikia concerning whether interwiki links work.


 * Help:Introduction
 * Help:Interwiki link/technical

Examples:
 * http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/Import_Flickr_Images
 * w:c:inside:Import_Flickr_Images


 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
 * w:c:cannabis:Main Page

But this does not work:

Cannabis:Main Page

Cannabis:Main Page

This last method is recommended here: Help:Introduction

It gives this example:

Creatures:Main Page

Creatures:Main Page

That example works here, but not Cannabis:Main Page

Can this be fixed? --Timeshifter 18:46, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * To quote some wise man / woman, "it's not a bug, it's a feature". Back when Wikia (then Wikicities) was a new project, new wikis would get their entry in the interwiki table. That allows links such as StarWars:Main Page or Creatures:Main Page. This system is quite buggy and this practice was abandoned - as it states on Help:Interwiki link, "Note：starting from July 10, 2005, no new Wikia was given a simple wiki prefix (w:c: redirect is used instead); see announcement.". So the standard is to use links such as w:c:cannabis:Main Page. c:cannabis:Main Page works only in this wiki, the Central Wikia, but w:c:cannabis:Main Page works on every Wikia. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 19:46, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks again.


 * I copied some of your reply in order to update this: Help:Introduction. --Timeshifter 22:12, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Cool, thanks for keeping the documentation up-to-date. :-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 22:24, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Special:MultipleUpload
I was wondering if there was an introductory text page that I could edit for
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Special:MultipleUpload

I edit http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Uploadtext which is the transcluded text page for:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Upload

But http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Special:MultipleUpload is a different upload page.

And I don't know if you noticed my additional questions at that I added later. --Timeshifter 02:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * MultiUpload's messages are prefixed with multiupload as of now, but do note that the MultiUpload version that Wikia runs is a bit outdated, there have been changes in message names between the trunk version and Wikia's version. You could check out your wiki's Special:Allmessages to find out what messages MultiUpload uses...(compare Special:MultipleUpload page's text to the various messages on Special:Allmessages).


 * Regarding ImportFreeImages extension questions: you can create the template (actually, it seems like a system message...very odd) on cannabis.wikia, of course. I don't know what to put in there though, sorry. The developer of this extension seems to have forgotten a thing or two...or maybe he wanted to give individual wikis the change to create the templates from scratch? Dunno really. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 12:48, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for all the links! It took me awhile to figure some things out, but it was worth it. I found the page that I can edit:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Multipleupload-text
 * Now I need to study your info on ImportFreeImages. --Timeshifter 00:44, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I left some more comments and questions at w:c:inside:Talk:Import Flickr Images and
 * http://inside.wikia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=53


 * What system message were you referring to? Maybe I can find someone who knows a lot about creating templates. I have seen some very complex templates. So I don't know how to create them. I only know some very basic stuff about transcluding one page into another page. --Timeshifter 01:57, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * System messages like MediaWiki:Flickr4 (the one you used in your question) - they're not real templates, but instead system messages that are used as templates. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 12:07, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I guess the Special:ImportFreeImages extension creates a custom system message each time it imports an image. I don't know. Maybe the creator of the extension will explain things at the forum or talk pages I asked at. --Timeshifter 13:52, 15 March 2008 (UTC)