User talk:Sarah Manley

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Welcome
Hello, I am a community Manager here at Wikia. Please add new messages to the bottom, thanks :)

If you're looking for help, you can leave a message for me here or visit our help page. If you have an idea for a new wiki, please create one!

Numbers
Hey, I started a new wiki, [NUMB3RS], and I just wanted to ask if you had any advice? I started with 1 page yesterday, and I can't get admin rights for atleast a 2 or 4 months. Do you have any advice on like how to build a community?

Also, what do you think of how the site looks so far?

Frederick (Talk) {Twitter} 21:17, December 23, 2011 (UTC) -


 * Awesome job there - looks like you are doing a wonderful job! I would recommend checking out the resources we have in founder &amp; admin central. There are lots of help guides and a support forum. You might also want to check out our webinar series. Best of luck! Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:35, January 3, 2012 (UTC)

A short suggestion
Good day, I have seen how on the Avatar wiki, the activity section has an auto-refresh possibility. I wonder if it would be possible to make the wiki activity refresh itself since I press the refresh button or the wiki activity button about 100 times a day to check if vandalism occurs, new blogs, new forums, new comments and other appear. And I sincerely got a tired of clicking those two so much.

I can suggest that the time between the edit and the current moment to not be changed unless a new edit, comment... is made. I would love to not use refresh so much anymore XD

Thanks for reading this. User:Ricizubi 17:55, December 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * I know you can install this feature for the more advanced Recent Changes tool, follow the instructions at w:c:dev:AjaxRC. This might also work for WikiActivity. --  Random Time  18:02, December 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * If you import from Dev wiki, there is an option to set any page you want to auto refresh.--

Expanded navigation problem
The expanded navigation at my wiki isn't working, no matter what I do. The forums didn't help, so I was wondering if you could fix it. The categories won't update. MissingNo. here! Talk with me! 02:02, December 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * What exactly is happening? I don't see it enabled on your wiki currently? The categories don't always update automatically but can take a few days (the data is cached so it updates usually one once every couple of days). If there is a specific category you are having an issue with link me to it and I can try and help. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:38, January 3, 2012 (UTC)

POTBS Players Wiki
I am aware you (you as in Wikia Staff, not you personally) let Trickster22 adopt the POTBS Players Wiki. Even though Lord Cad Bane, the founder, was inactive, he has recently become active again, and was planning to work on it, only to find it stolen. Trickster22 is not of age to be using Wikia, he has admitted that on the POTCO Players Wiki in a blog of his (I don't have the exact name of the blog, but it's in his recent three I think). I would ask you please restore rightful rights to Lord Cad Bane. Thank you!

--John Breasly 14:34, December 28, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey, I was not aware. Probably best to contact the staff member who gave them the rights. Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:43, January 3, 2012 (UTC)

Sulfur
Worked hard on all wikis. he should be a member of wikia utilities.
 * Sulfur is a member of VSTF. Only staff members need the wikia utilities as it is a backend right that allows for deeper access to the site. It is not given out just because a user has worked hard.--
 * Yep thats a staff tool. Cheers, Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:45, January 3, 2012 (UTC)

Login Errors on 4 Different Wikis, Something's WRONG!!
Hi Sarah. I'm TheCoreyyDarnell. Well, I'm not logged in. The reason why is because for some reason, every time I tried to log on (4 different wikis, 4 times each), it said "It canceled my request as a precaution for hijacked sessions" or something like that. Can you try to get that fixed, I have some important business to take care of on a few wikis. Reply on my my talk page.

Thanks in advance, -TheCoreyyDarnell


 * Sorry for the delayed response - this got lost in the shuffle. You still having issues? Sarah (help forum | blog) 19:34, January 23, 2012 (UTC)

Help
Theres a 11 yo on PnF Chat!

VManJustice 18:46, December 30, 2011 (UTC)MAH BOI!


 * Please send in these types of reports to Special:Contact. Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:46, January 3, 2012 (UTC)

Video of Wiki Closing
Can you PLEASE make a video of closing a wikia? IanPlaystationNerd 00:15, December 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * Only Staff can close a wiki. It is little more than pressing a button. There is no need for a video of it being done as again, only staff can do it--


 * She IS a wikia utility and has a youtube account named Wikia. IanPlaystationNerd 01:10, December 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, Yes that is a staff only tool so there isn't a reason to have a public video. Are there others that interest you? Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:47, January 3, 2012 (UTC)

How Do You Close A Wiki?
please tell me the process on how to close wikis. Does it block the founder? IanPlaystationNerd 01:31, January 5, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello, We don't always close wikis, but when we do it will delete the wiki and generally free up the url for another user. It doesn't block the founder because it will no longer exist. You can send in requests via Special:Contact. Cheers, Sarah (help forum | blog) 19:32, January 23, 2012 (UTC)

disbale Crashbanidcootrocks2 account
can you PLEASE disable User:Crashbanidcootrocks2? it was misspelled so I want you to disable it IanPlaystationNerd 15:21, January 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Ian, For both of these, please send in a message via Special:Contact. Thanks, Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:26, January 6, 2012 (UTC)

Re:Webinar times
Hi. Thanks for the reply. It's Random no by the way. I might be able to come to one at 2:30pm-3:30pm PST. User:Randomno Admin on the w:c:simpsons:Simpsons Wiki  18:54, January 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, noted for the future. Cheers, --Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:16, January 12, 2012 (UTC)

How to improve our wiki?
Hi my name is amr I am an admin in a wiki which calls Readourabcomics and I wanna ask how to make our wiki famous and popular.and how to improve it too.that's all I am waiting for your answer see ya.
 * You should check out our Founder & Admin Central to learn tips & tricks. Best of luck, --Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:16, January 12, 2012 (UTC)

Auto Wiki Browser
Hi. How do I get Auto Wiki Browser for Wikia? User:Randomno Admin on the w:c:simpsons:Simpsons Wiki  20:42, January 11, 2012 (UTC)


 * See this page. Once you have it installed go to options -> preferences -> site -> choose wikia and enter your site name.--
 * Yep follow those steps - and then ask in the forum if you need further help (I don't have much experience with AWB). Best of luck, --Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:16, January 12, 2012 (UTC)

re: Webinar topic
I have a suggestion for a webinar: Wikia and the Law. Topics woulds include specially what is meant by Fair Use, Free Speech vs. Ownership, how SOPA may effect wikis, what a legitimate takedown notice looks like, etc.

Thanks for the webinars so far. I've watched all of them and found them informative. I'm looking forward to more.

Darkseid01 11:32, January 12, 2012 (UTC)
 * Awesome idea - thanks! --Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:16, January 12, 2012 (UTC)

Hi. Im from the Hunger games wiki. On this wiki we make games using "tributes" other people make and we basically follow the rule of the hunger games and kill them off until 1 is left. I had an idea that if people were making a games and it was really good but then they left the wiki, we could put it into a type of storage thing, as if like putting it in a filling cabinet until someone wanted to take it over. The only problem is the blogs are only able to be assighned to the person that created them. Would there be a way that we could transfer the editing privilidges to another Person to finish the blog.
 * Unfortunately no. I would recommend just recreating the blog post. Best of luck, --Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:25, January 13, 2012 (UTC)

question
im wondering about tomorrows webinar.how will it work? how will it send us your messages? please reply before tomorrow. dark meow 00:07, January 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi there, So you register for the webinar here. It will then send you an email with a link. At 330pm PST click that link and the gotowebinar software will load. In there you will see our presentation and be able to submit questions. Hope you can make it! --Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:25, January 13, 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism on My Wiki
Hi, TheCoreyyDarnell, my account (which I am not logged onto) created the original Lab Rats Wiki (www.labratsseries.wikia.com). I left it for a little while to do other Wiki Projects. When I came back, JessyPop, vandalized my homepage, leaving a link to their Lab Rats Wiki quoting "THIS IS NOT THE ORIGINAL LAB RATS WIKI". It is still there. Please do something!!
 * You can remove the link yourself by editing the page. If there is other vandalism, you can contact the VSTF and they can help.--

re: suggestion for the webinar page
You should activate Article Comments for the webinar page so that people who view them off the webinar page but were not actually present for the session can have the chance to ask questions that were not brought up or get more clarification on topics, perhaps also to suggest topics for future webinars.

Darkseid01 16:43, January 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * Nice idea. Community central doesn't use article comments so its not possible - but thanks for the idea. Sarah (help forum | blog) 18:48, January 16, 2012 (UTC)

Is it possible to activate Article Comments for a single page instead of the entire wiki?

Darkseid01 22:41, January 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * Not at this time. Thanks for the idea though :) Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:43, January 20, 2012 (UTC)

re: request for technical assistance
Hi Sarah. Two of the other DC admins and I were discussing in chat room the way that Marvel has blogs on their main page. Our bureaucrat rollbacked these blogs on the DC wiki main page because he felt the quality of new user blogs left something to be desired. We were wondering if there was some way to display only admin blogs on the main page? The trouble is, none of the current admins are technically adept. Is there someone available whom we could ask for help with this? Thanks.

P.S. Maybe a possible webinar topic here in making adjustments to main page?

Darkseid01 22:38, January 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, You will likely just need to create a blog category for admins (as we do for the staff blog), then display that list. I sent Joeplay from the Community Development team your message, and he said he could help. So you will be hearing from his soon. Cheers, Sarah (help forum | blog) 18:33, January 20, 2012 (UTC)

Two things.
Hi Sarah, I'm Jayden, one of the Administrators of the True Blood Wiki. There's two things I'd like to discuss with you. If you're in a position to help, that is. Firstly, I'd like to explore the option of introducing traditional talk-pages on the True Blood Wiki, instead of comment boxes. Basicaly, they're not what's best for our community. They're being high-jacked buy people who don't contribute to the site, and who use them to post dozens upon dozens of, frankly, inane comments every single day. These flood the recent activity page, make checking for vandalism extremely difficult, and need to be patrolled, and, more often than not, deleted. We already have three modes of casual conversation: ICR, blogs, and forums. We do not need a fourth. What we do need is somewhere we can discuss the content of the individual articles themselves, where people can suggest ways to improve them, vote on new main images, etc. The second piece of buissiness (which is rather more unfortunate) is that I'm afraid I need to request the desysoping of our founder and bueracrat, "The Scourge". He's become increasingly inactive over the past two years, his contributions always being extremely minimal, and his attitude, appaling. His activity on the wiki only ever occurs in the two month window when a new series of True Blood is being aired. These periods of activity are characterised by his attempts to establish himself as absoloute tyrant over the community, admins and regular users alike, and are always unhappy, unproductive times where very little activity occurs due to his aggresive behaviour. Last month he blanked his user page, replacing it with a request to direct "any and all inquiries elsewhere". I took this mean that he no longer whishes to be part of our team, and, frankly, the feeling's mutual. Sorry this has been so long, but if you are able to assit us, I would be extremely gratefull. Thank you. Jayden Matthews 16:19, January 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Go here to deactivate Article Comments. In terms of removing a bureaucrat, you should start a discussion on the wiki about removing his rights. If you reach a consensus to demote him, send a message with the link to the discussion to Special:Contact and staff can act from there.--
 * Now, how did I not know that? Done. Thanks, for your help. As for the other matter, we have no active community, to speak of. It's just us two admins, and we both want him gone. Any suggestions? Jayden Matthews 16:35, January 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * If there is no active community, just send a link to where the other admin agrees to the removal of the rights.--
 * Thank you. I will do so. Jayden Matthews 16:39, January 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey Jayden - Godisme answered what I would say, so just have a discussion and send in a message via Special:Contact. Thanks, Sarah (help forum | blog) 19:39, January 23, 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Features
Hello Sarah, I'm RoxasNobody from the Kingdom Hearts wiki. Pleased to meet you. At our wiki, we were thinking about possible activating some of the wiki features, but were unsure if we could. I know that we're in the minority of wikis, but a large majority of our users use Monobook instead of Oasis, and my question is, will the new features (achievements, category exhibitions, etc.) work in Monobook?   Roxas  Nobody  17:27, January 19, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello, Most of the new features don't work in monobook but they shouldn't mess with the monobook user experience (they just won't see those features). I would recommend trying them out, then if there is an issue please have users send in bug reports via Special:Contact. Let me know if you have any other questions. Cheers, Sarah (help forum | blog) 19:30, January 23, 2012 (UTC)

Help
Hi, I've already contacted you some years ago because I was having trouble about someone who made a defamatory page about me in your system... Oh well, it happened again. My name is Angélica Casarin Hartmann, 22, Desciclopédia sysop, and someone made this defamatory page about me:

pt.hipocritas.wikia.com/wiki/Angelica_casarin_hartmann Could you please, delete it, and possibly check the user? Thank you! 189.73.185.190 05:43, January 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, Please send in reports like this via Special:Contact. That is the place we handle these types of requests. Thanks, Sarah (help forum | blog) 19:31, January 23, 2012 (UTC)

Help
I formed an Alliance of Small Wiki's and we just opened a Department of Technical Upgrades to help inform the small wiki's in alliance of the wiki technologies. And I'm looking for a Department Head and wanted to know if you knew anyone that would be good? Prillin101 04:00, January 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, Please send in a message here with more descriptions of what you are working on and we will pass it along to the right person. Thanks, Sarah (help forum | blog) 19:41, January 23, 2012 (UTC)

Rouge bureaucrat at the World War II Wiki

 * I copied this report from Sannse's talk page, since this is getting really serious.

Hello, we're having a problem with a user (User:JAF1999) at the World War II Wiki who was made a bureaucrat recently (so we can't desysop him) who has been harassing users on other wikis, harassing them when they come to our wiki to file complaints, and blocking them when they protest against his actions. We already had one of our bureaucrats request that he dysysop himself, and he refused. I recently had a user at the Fallout Wiki threaten to report us if we do not take action.

Please remove his bureaucrat privileges. I hope the comment from the other sysop is enough of a consensus.
 * 21:27, January 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * I tried blocking JAF1999, though of course he can unblock himself, and now he's creating sock puppet accounts and giving them bureaucrat rights. Please remove the bureaucrat and admin rights of JAF1999 and his sock puppets.


 * I would like you to know that I am taking this issue very seriously, and I did not go behind anyone's back while handling it. The reason that impression came up was because I told the users at the Fallout Wiki that I would not let JAF be admin anymore after the harassment he committed; after that, I told Fargo84 (admin of the WWII Wiki) that I strongly discouraged allowing JAF to be an admin (without bureaucrat rights) after this. Fargo had wanted JAF to be an admin, but I disagreed. I added in my message that we could reevaluate JAF's standing for adminship in a few months, just to try to be diplomatic since we had a difference of opinion. I do not support what JAF has done at all, and I do not think he should be an admin, given his actions.


 * I was also fairly stuck between a rock and a hard place given the fact that I had the Fallout users (who I sympathize with very much) who want to be very harsh on JAF, and needing to negotiate my position with Fargo, who wanted to be a lot lighter on him.


 * 07:57, January 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm man enough to see how I might have overreacted to that statement. I withdraw my complaint on Sasche herself, especially after seeing what she is having to deal with at the moment. Doesn't need me exasperating things. [[file:Dragon.jpg|link=User:GarouxBloodline]] Skål! 08:04, January 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I appreciate that.


 * Also, @Sannse, I just heard from one of the anon users at the Fallout Wiki that apparently JAF gave user Nelfen bureaucrat rights, which we didn't intent him to have. He has been a good user so far though, unlike JAF.


 * 08:09, January 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * Lets continue and keep this conversation on the local wiki. Thanks, Sarah (help forum | blog) 19:43, January 23, 2012 (UTC)

re: a suggestion for improving Wiki Spotlight
Hi Sarah. First of all, I'd like to say that I like the Wiki Spotlight feature as it prominently displays some of the lesser trafficked wikis. That said, I actually haven't clicked on many of them and the reason is that if I don't know much about the TV show or game, etc. the wiki is focused on, I don't have much reason to visit. I'd like to suggest that when an admin requests the Spotlight, they need to enable chat for the wiki as well and commit to a time frame where one or more admins knowledgeable about their wiki will be in chat to discuss the wiki. It should be a short enough time for the admin not to be burdened in the event no one shows, but long enough so that people still have a chance to talk to someone if they wish. I would say twenty minutes would be adequate. For example, the way I envision the Spotlight at the bottom of the page it would look like it does now, but under the photo and wiki name there would be a message inviting people to stop by and chat with on Wed 25th 6:00-6:20 EST. Admins that are not willing to do this for their wiki I really think should be passed over for the Spotlight to wikis that have admins serious about building traffic. Thanks.

Darkseid01 19:17, January 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the suggestion. Chat is an optional feature so it might not work for all communities - but I shared your idea with our spotlight team. Thanks, Sarah (help forum | blog) 19:45, January 23, 2012 (UTC)