User talk:Angela

russianworld.wikicities.com
There is a problem with pages with russian names. Conan 03:59, 17 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * I noticed something too. Am I correct in guessing that the work recently done on the website included updating support for Unicode? At first I noticed a small bug: certain Hebrew characters, even in page names, no longer appeared correctly. In fact, those pages were no longer in their correct locations. On the other hand, there was no problem typing in corrections (though the bug still appears in system messages). And then I began to notice that certain high-end unicode fonts (not Hebrew, see the Norwegian page) that didn't appear correctly before - do appear correctly now! Strange but nice! Zabek 08:33, 17 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * I've no idea why this would have happened. I've reported it as bug 90. Angela 12:20, 17 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * Dear Angela, russianworld.wikicities.com is absolutly unusable with this bug for a long time. Have you plans to fix it? May I recieve DB sql dump? Conan 05:52, 30 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * Jason is working on this today. See Database download too download the database. Angela 08:48, 30 Mar 2005 (EST)

audio and language codes
Hi Angela! You said to contact you if we needed anything larger regarding audio uploads. Most of our files are small snippets and have been well under 2M. But occassionaly you get a really long reading, like this week (nearly 10 minutes long), which came out to 3.6M. Would it be possible to lift the upper limit to 5M like on Wikipedia? In any case, the vast majority of the recordings are on the lower end of the scale.

I will get back to you regarding the language file you sent in the near future. Zabek 07:27, 17 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * It is possible, but I can't log into the new servers, so I can't do it immediately. 5mb uploads should be enabled within the next day or so though. Angela 12:20, 17 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * The upload limit is now 5mb on all wikis. Angela

hendersonville (NC) wiki
Hi Angela. I submitted a request for a "Hendersonville Hipsters" wiki for Hendersonville NC and environs over the weekend. I was aware of the WNC Wiki, but thought that was just for business stuff. It appears that it's scope is much broader, so I've set up a Hendersonville section there. I withdraw my specific request.


 * Ok, that sounds a good option.

I wonder if it would be possible to set up a separate email list for this specific purpose anyhow? Let me know if Wikicities can do that and what I should to do get it going. Thanks so much! --Thomas 00:56, 21 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * I think you could use the existing wnc list for this. It isn't being used for anything else at the moment. If other people on that wiki start to think the list is too dominated by Hendersonville stuff, we could split the lists at a later date. Angela 00:50, 23 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * I'm pretty sure that there are plans for that list. That is, Trevor and I have specific plans for that list.  I'll talk to him and see what his current thinking is, however.  Maybe we can blend the two purposes.  Thanks!  --Thomas 09:18, 23 Mar 2005 (EST)

Editing the interface
Hello Angela. I would like to know how I can edit the interface (MediaWiki) of the variants zh-cn, zh-hk, etc? I have tried to do so, but I could only modify those of the the zh variant, but not the other four.


 * The easiest way is to change your preferences to be one of those language variants, then go to Special:Allmessages and the links should point to the right version. The other way is to add the language code after the page title, so to edit the zh-ch version of MediaWiki:Mainpage, you can go to MediaWiki:Mainpage.js/zh-cn. Angela 00:50, 23 Mar 2005 (EST)

And by the way how can I set the time zone in my signature? CantoneseWiki 11:15, 22 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * You can't. These are were all set to UTC by default so everyone used the same time, and you could follow conversations more easily. This seems to have changed to EST since the new servers though. I'll try to get it back to UTC since more people are likely to know what that means than what time EST is. Angela 00:50, 23 Mar 2005 (EST)

Thanks a lot Angela. -- CantoneseWiki 01:52, 23 Mar 2005 (EST)

G'day
G'day Angela

thanks for the welcome, and it looks like an awesome project.

I'm not exactly comfortable with the proliferation of user talk pages 'though... I already have two to watch here, and AFAIK if someone creates a user page or user talk page or subpage in "my" address space, I won't even know about it. That's an existing chronic problem with MediaWiki, not just with Wikicities, but having a new user namespace and user talk namespace for each Wikicity makes it that much worse.

See how it goes I guess.

Andrew A

For Your Information: Page Blanking
FYI: There were a couple of pages blanked by an IP-ID (80.45.164.82) this morning on the NeoPets Guilds: wikicity. They've been repaired, and I've temporarily put protection on the main page. I think it's under control, but just wanted to let you know about it. -- RJ 10:18, 30 Mar 2005 (EST)

Vandalism
Please check my manual reversions of vandalism on the Central Wikicity by 70.18.200.120. -- RJ 10:33, 30 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * Thanks for reverting those. I've deleted the category page he created. Angela 11:14, 30 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * You're welcome. Similar problem with category "computingg" - marked the page.  Manually fixed main page.  -- CocoaZen 12:44, 30 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * I propose some new stewards/sysops. Of course, I'd like to nominate LouCypher for his doing so well on MozCom and marking many pages with the delete template here.  But that's just my opinion. --Tom talk/Bliki 14:21, 30 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * I've just made a new page for this at Administrators. Angela 21:02, 31 Mar 2005 (EST)

Suggestion - Interwiki link and Wikicities info page
Would the interwiki link for a Wikicity be a good addition to the the Wikicities information pages? If so, do you have any preferences about how that should be done? --CocoaZen 12:39, 31 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * Yes, I think it would be a good addition. Doing it the same way as on Mozilla would seem fine. I'll add it for new wikis, but I'm not sure if it's worth doing for all of the existing ones. Angela 15:01, 31 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * If you like, I'd be willing to do it for the older Wikicities. Would you please add it for one or two of the newer ones (so I can copy the format) and let me know which # wiki you start at, and I'll backfill the earlier ones.  ???  --CocoaZen 15:19, 31 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * See Abitur Wissen Wiki and Accounting. Accounting shows up red because it's one of the new wikis I made yesterday and hasn't been added to the interwiki map yet. I just did the first few from Template:List of Wikicities. Angela 15:24, 31 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * Okey dokey. Don't have time to do it this evening, but I will start "backfilling" as time permits.  --CocoaZen 16:03, 31 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * Got as far as the Quiz: wiki. (I'm going sequentially through the Interwiki map.)  I'll continue later.  --CocoaZen 00:54, 1 Apr 2005 (EST)


 * I couldn't find the info page for the PhpBB: in order to add the Interwiki link. --CocoaZen 15:25, 2 Apr 2005 (EST)
 * Found it! Restarting the browser let me enter the correct character case.  --CocoaZen 21:01, 2 Apr 2005 (EST)


 * The Interwiki link for military: doesn't seem to be working yet. I couldn't tell (easily, at least) whether that was because the merger of the Marines site was so recent?  --CocoaZen 20:50, 2 Apr 2005 (EST)


 * Still backfilling (very slowly). The DIY: interwiki link works fine.  The Interwiki map indicates that DIY Culture: should work too, but it doesn't seem to be active.  --CocoaZen 04:46, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Two of the 4 interwiki links for Miqra do not seem to be active:  fr.miqra (French, Français) and he.miqra (Hebrew, עברית).
 * Should I be reporting these to Jasonr instead of you? --CocoaZen 03:30, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops, it would be something as simple as mis-typing it. Thanks!  --CocoaZen 16:53, 6 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Keene, New Hampshire: isn't working. I suspect it's because of the space or comma?  I think I'm almost done with adding Interwiki links to the older Wikicity description pages.  I'll check the full list soon.  --CocoaZen 00:24, 22 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Fixed. Or, will be fixed when I next run the script to update the interwiki map. Angela (talk) 01:35, 22 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Found a few missing or incorrect Interwiki links, but I think they all work now. (As far as I'm concerned this topic is done now.  I'm not sure when you normally archive items, but I don't expect to add more to it.)  Yay!
 * I'm glad you like Add Babel templates.
 * --CocoaZen 03:19, 22 May 2005 (UTC)


 * That's great news. Congratulations on adding them all! Angela (talk) 03:48, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Pythonbot on Memory Alpha
Hi Angela! Since Pythonbot has a configuration for memoryalpha-family wikis, Kobi and I did experiment with it to have boring, simple maintenance work done with bots. I have a development version for Memory Alpha to change a few bug and features, the bot-framework wouldn't do. We don't have Stewards, as far as I can see it, on german and english Memory Alpha; can you please set a bot-information on Morn and DataMA for those three language versions of us? This will help to keep the recent-changes tidy and useful for other users. -- Florian -     05:02, 2 Apr 2005 (EST)

Matrix Films wiki
Hello, Yesterday I created a wiki for the Matrix Films. Today I got an email from you linking to matrix.wikicities.com, but that deals ONLY with the Matrix Online game. I am creating a wiki for the Matrix films not the online games. Please correct!!!!!! SGCommand


 * When I created the Matrix wiki, I expected it to be used for the game and the film, and any other related spin offs. I suggest you discuss at matrix:Talk:Main Page how the wiki can be used to handle these separate areas. Angela 08:33, 2 Apr 2005 (EST)

Taken from the intro ''The Matrix Online Community Wikicity is a place for players of the Matrix Online to share information about the game world. Articles will include game guides, information about player organizations, missions, items, characters, etc. '' It only deals with the online game since that is meant to be huge SGCommand


 * I'll reply at matrix:Talk:Main Page. Angela 09:22, 2 Apr 2005 (EST)

ReplyedSGCommand

Wikicity name mod?
Angela, wondering if it is possible to change a wikicity name slightly. Would like an "&" in my wikicity name rather than "and" to save some real estate in page head. At http://wlp.wikicities.com/ would like "WORKPLACE LEARNING & PERFORMANCE" rather than "WORKPLACE LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE." I know, a long title, but one that will resonate with members of our community. Gracias! David Passmore


 * Sure. I'll do this now. Is there any reason you've protected the main page? Angela 10:48, 2 Apr 2005 (EST)

Too much history?
Angela,

I'm going to make a public release of the beyondvoting wiki soon. Any way to start fresh in terms of the history? All those changes make it seem like such a drudge.

Tom Lowenhaupt


 * Replied at beyondvoting:User talk:Tom Lowenhaupt. Angela 16:53, 3 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Two Problems
Both of these relate to the dnd: Wikicity: How, if at all, do I fix these things? Thanks for your help. 15:37, 3 Apr 2005 (EDT)
 * 1) The feeds for both dnd:Special:Recentchanges and dnd:Special:Newpages are broken.
 * 2) A number of things on the dnd:Special:Statistics page are broken.


 * Replied at User talk:Mathx314. Angela 16:53, 3 Apr 2005 (EDT)
 * I've been feeding those feeds through Mozilla Thunderbird, and they don't register at all. All I get is that its an invalid feed - as Firefox says.  And I tried to email Jason, but the page is no longer working, as is the same page for emailing myself over on the dnd: wiki.   20:26, 3 Apr 2005 (EDT)

NeoPets Guilds
Thanks for cleaning out that item the other day! I just added some "ads" to the site. I don't think they violate the Wikicities policies since they are just template text to "advertise" the guild on the NeoPets site (to get more members), not advertisements for goods or services. Please correct me, if that's wrong, and I'll remove them. --RJ 17:18, 4 Apr 2005 (EDT)


 * Do you mean guilds:PLH:Ad? If so, that seems fine. It's not like you're actually selling anything via Wikicities, so that shouldn't be a problem. Angela 17:47, 4 Apr 2005 (EDT)


 * Yes, that's the page I meant. (I also have some rough drafts, including "ads" for the wiki on guilds:User:RJ/plh.  And no, they are not for the purpose of selling anything, just standard text to use on NeoPets to let people know about a guild (PLH) and the guilds: Wikicities site.  Thanks for helping me understand and stay within the appropriate use!  --RJ 11:49, 5 Apr 2005 (EDT)

advice on events
Hi Angela, I'm looking at the possibility of organising some kind of event or part of an event within London Sustainability Weeks (5 -19 June) to try and give people (who might be interested in contributing to the sca21 wiki) a little hands on taster of using the wiki. I've discovered one possible venue with some computers but it's not very central. Another option might be within another event already organised e.g. sca21:Grassroots_innovations_for_sustainable_development but then I'd need to find a way of getting at least one lap top there, as at the Brimingham gathering that you came to. Any ideas, suggestions, etc? Thanks (ps I don't have any kind of budget or funding for this, but looking at possibilities anyway).Philralph 03:56, 5 Apr 2005 (EDT)
 * Thanks for your reply Using a test wiki is a great idea! I'll contact you again nearer the time if I can get the rest in place. Cheers Philralph 06:34, 6 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Favicon update
Angela, I uploaded an Image:Favicon.ico and protected it, purged the page. The icon however doesn't seem to be updated. (Updating Wiki.png did work fine). Dedalus 15:15, 5 Apr 2005 (EDT), that is on RLS
 * Well, I'm seeing your favicon fine.. 15:44, 5 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Your Message
Would it be alright if I move them to my Stargate wiki? SGCommand


 * Are they related to Stargate? Angela 14:54, 7 Apr 2005 (EDT)

My adminship
Thanks Angela. I'll be on the lookout for things I can do to help out. --JamesTeterenko 12:00, 8 Apr 2005 (EDT)

MediaWiki and time stamp
Hello Angela. I would like to know if it is possible to change namespaces, say "User" and "Category", to the default language of a WikiCity? (like Benutzer and Kategorie in German Wikipedia) And when will the time stamp problem (EDT/UTC) be fixed? Thanks - CantoneseWiki 16:34, 8 Apr 2005 (EDT)

The namespaces should already be in the default language of the Wikicity. Do you have an example where this is not the case? I don't know when the UTC bug will be fixed. You could email Jason about this. Angela 19:39, 9 Apr 2005 (EDT)
 * "Category" and "user" namespaces of Cantonese Community, for instance. CantoneseWiki 17:00, 10 Apr 2005 (EDT)
 * Ok. These could be changed in the language file. I don't know why they're currently like this, but it is the same on the Chinese Wikipedia. What would you like them changed to? Angela
 * Basically all namespaces. Can I change it by myself? CantoneseWiki 15:29, 13 Apr 2005 (EDT)
 * Replied at cantonese:User talk:CantoneseWiki.

Alternate Date System
Because the dnd: wiki focuses on an imaginary world, it uses an imaginary calendar. The calendar is designed just like the real one, but it has different names for months. Is there a way to change what the wiki would display when you type in August ? Mathx314(talk)(email) 20:06, 9 Apr 2005 (EDT)


 * replied at dnd:User talk:Mathx314
 * Ah ha! Thank you!  Mathx314(talk)(email) 20:18, 9 Apr 2005 (EDT)
 * Oh, and is there a way to get just the day's number, so to speak, like 9 of April? Mathx314(talk)(email) 20:37, 9 Apr 2005 (EDT)
 * Yes, yes I do. Thank you! Mathx314(talk)(email) 21:11, 9 Apr 2005 (EDT)

RLS started it's own blog
Read your comment on John's comment. Here it is: Subscribe with Bloglines Dedalus 15:51, 10 Apr 2005 (EDT)
 * And the Blog is http://www.bloglines.com/blog/RealLifeSoap Dedalus 16:11, 10 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Wkirhyme
G'day Angela

Thanks for comments on Wikirhyme (that was fast!) at my English Wikipedia talk page. I've replied there. Andrewa 01:01, 11 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Main Page Purging
Is there a way to purge the main page of a wiki (namely dnd:) without just going in and editing without changing anything? Mathx314(talk)(email) 17:52, 11 Apr 2005 (EDT)


 * Clicking a purge link would do it, but this isn't part of the interface, so you'd either need to add purge to the page, or click "edit" and then change the URL to say purge instead of edit. Angela

Thanks Angela - Someting Else
1. Thanks for the pic Angela. Much welcome!

2. ''The Matrix Online Community Wikicity is a place for players of the Matrix Online to share information about the game world. Articles will include game guides, information about player organizations, missions, items, characters, etc''

Note that the description above deals with the Matrix wiki and that it says that it deals with the Matrix Online game only. No way does it mention the films therefore I propose that I start the MatrixFilms wiki please

SGCommand


 * I don't think the two should be split. See matrix:Talk:Main Page. Angela 12:57, 14 Apr 2005 (EDT)


 * You should 'cause he only wants to do about the game? I don't think he will do the films. -- SGCommand


 * The wiki doesn't belong to one person. Angela 04:48, 15 Apr 2005 (EDT)


 * Its quite clear that it should be split since that wiki is all about the Online game. There is no evidence whatsoever that he will do the movies. -- SGCommand


 * That isn't the point - you can write about the movies. You don't need to wait for someone else to do so. Angela 14:38, 15 Apr 2005 (EDT)


 * But that is just about the Online game. The description doesn't include the movies -- SGCommand


 * I added a line about the movies being acceptable because it provides backstory, to Matrix. Therefore, you can write about the movies.  I agree with angela, it doesn't need to be seperated.  One of the reasons I disagree with the Sage wiki, but I digress... --Tom talk/Bliki 19:32, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

From the looks of it, at least one member of MatrixOnline agrees with me -- SGCommand


 * I don't think this wiki should be split. Star Wars Wiki for example. It's all about Star Wars films, games, books, comics, etc. Let The Matrix fans know they have ONE wiki, that is matrix dot wikicities dot com. --LouCypher &#9742; 13:32, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I felt like indenting it because, wow, it's like SGCommand just refuses to learn how to do anything more advanced than improperly wikilink his name. --Tom talk/Bliki 16:19, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Admin
You're now an admin. This is a bit earlier than the rules I made up state you should be (ie - less than a week) because I don't know if I'll have internet access this week, so wanted to make sure you and Tom had admin access to look after the wiki while I'm gone. Good luck. Angela 07:21, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * I'll try not to break Wikicities too much. :-)
 * Hope you manage to get online, and either way, have a good time! -- 21:01, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Acceptable image copyrights for uploaded files
What's the thinking on acceptable images at the moment - same as Wikipedia, same as Commons, or something else? Alphax 07:25, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I should have checked Copyrights. Alphax 05:34, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Taken from Gen1s from MatrixOnline wiki
''When I asked to start this wiki, I had intended for it to be just for the game, but put a Matrix Lore section in case someone wanted to discuss the movies. I've kinda flip-flopped on whether it would be best to have a wiki for the movies and one for MxO, but I'll throw some things out. First, there are now and will be in the future other Matrix games besides MxO, so I could see someone arguing that the site should be able to support those games as well. Second, MxO is intended as a continuation of the movie storyline, so there is a story-line relation. Third, there is a precident for split wikis (see the Star Wars Wiki and the | Star Wars Galaxies Wiki (which was the inspiration for starting this site). Fourthly, MxO players do have very different needs than Matrix film fans, such as discussing game strategies, player organizations, and the like.  I guess what I'm really saying is that there's no clear answer about where there should be one site or two.  I personally lean towards the notion of this site remaining primarily game-centric, but it's not my descision.  I view the site as an open-source strategy guide for an online game, but this is a community site, so if the community would like to categorize the site for the Matrix movies, comics, and individual games, then that's that.  Remember, there's no one person to decide the direction of the site, but rather the community of readers.

Gens1s 22:00, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)''

SGCommand

Congratulations with ConferencesWiki:
Hi, Angela, congratulations with your own conferences wiki. I wish that wiki will become active - I have hopped around quite a few wikicities that are not so very active at all. Dedalus 12:34, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sexuality-related wikis
Hi Angela, I'm new here and I have a question. I'm planning to create a factual, reputable wiki on spanking-related visual arts, movies and literature, which is a topic mainly of interest to people of the corresponding paraphilia, spanking fetishism.

"Pornography, adult, or mature content" is listed on Prohibited content, but I'm not sure if the wiki I have in mind would fall under this definition or not. It would definitely not contain any porn, nor references to pornography as defined in the United States. Still, some people might argue that anything that has to do with human sexuality might qualify for the term "adult or mature content". However, I don't intend to put anything there that couldn't be hosted on Wikipedia as well, and fact is that no sexuality-related Wikipedia article is considered "adult or mature content", or else Wikipedia would need an AVS to allow access to those articles. The one and only reason I can't use Wikipedia for that content is that it is on a very specialized topic whose individual articles wouldn't be relevant enough for Wikipedia.

I searched for "Sexuality" on Wikicities in all namespaces and didn't get a single hit. That surprised me - either your policy is extremely strict to ban everything that's sexuality related, or it's just that Wikicities is still quite new and doesn't host too many wikis as of now. So if you feel, as I do, that a perfectly legal, non-pornographic wiki on an individual aspect of human sexuality could be hosted on Wikicities, I'd be very happy to create the wiki here. I'd suggest to create a subcategory "Sexuality" under either "Culture", "People" or "Personal life", and perhaps a sub-subcategory "Paraphilia" under that one. --Spankart 19:29, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

File Uploads
Might it be possible to allow the upload of HTML files to dnd: for the use of character sheets? Mathx314(talk)(email) 21:02, 2 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry, this can't be done. It opens up the possibility of a cross-site scripting attack, which could lead to someone stealing users' login credentials. Angela (talk) 06:25, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Right. We'll find an alternative. Mathx314(talk)(email) 16:33, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Excuse me
Excuse me Angela that I offer all users of your site will join my catalogue... Any more I shall not be... Simply I do not know other way to ask owners wiki sites to place the reference in the catalogue... And it would be desirable, that this catalogue became the fullest...:)

Angela, can be you to me will help to send the invitation to all participants http://www.wikicities.com/... I would be very grateful to you!


 * Ok. :) Angela (talk) 23:53, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

FutureWiki
Concerning the rejection of FutureWiki, I hadn't noticed the other one called "Future", but examining it, I see it's more about compiling scientific predictions that what I'm going at, a history of a fictional timeline. So, I don't think my idea's invalidated, but it does need a change of name; I'd recommend TimelineWiki, with "timeline" for the subdomain. Thanks, Djinn 00:04, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Hm. Well, the idea of that one seems to be about seeing how things might be now if something had gone differently, so I don't think a future timeline would fit in there. But, that's not explicit, at least as far as I could find; the page just says "alternate histories", which I suppose you might be able to interpret to include a future one. I'm leaning more towards not, but the choice is up to you. Thanks, Djinn 00:40, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, I found this page, which seems to indicate exclusion of future timelines. Djinn 00:59, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've asked that there. -- Djinn 03:09, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Potential Harmful pages in the PC Wikicity
Hi, This is TTF From the PC Wikicity.

Truth be told, I didn't know what to make of these 'propaganda' pages when SC made them.... At first, they looked sort of OK, but it's not good when a user uses them to spread what could potentially be very damaging misclaims regarding technology.

I was uncertain about them before, but I'm going to look at getting them removed. I've already PM'd SC through the Talk feature about taking these discussions to the PC Mailing List. --TwoTailedFox 22:31, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

PC Wikicity Name Change
In retrospect, the name PC Enthusiasts perhaps wasn't the besr title, based on what the Wiki is supposed to be on.

Is it possible to change the name to Computing Knowledgebase? That just sounds better on quite a few levels. The pc.wikicities subdomain doesn't need changing, I think, it's short, and easy to remember.--TwoTailedFox 22:31, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Tolkien Fanfiction on Wikicities?
Hi, I asked the following question already at novelas.wikicities.com, the folks there suggested that i ask you. You can reply here, or on the discussion page of their main page, or of course, on my userpage.

I'm pondering to start a Tolkien fanfiction project at novelas. But i'm uneasy about posting fanfiction under the GFDL, and especially for a fandom such as Tolkien, where the copyright holders still have vivid finacial interests in the matter and have been known to sue websites. I mean, GFDL allows comercial reprints. What do you think on this? Alternatives would be either looking for another place to publish it, or set the thing in a generic fantasy universe, but the latter might make it difficult to get others interested. But i do want this project to be interactive, so i would love to do it in a wiki.

Eulalia 21:49, 9 May 2005 (UTC)


 * replied at fiction:Talk:Main Page. Angela (talk) 22:30, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for welcome :)
I am not reading documentation so often :) I was wandering why there are no such kind of wikis: for novels, essays, etc. (Btw, is there Wikicity for essays? I want to move some essays from sr.wikipedia...) In general, I support this kind of commercial sites: (1) it is GFDL and (2) advertizing is not hard. Also, I saw that this site is used for suport to Wikimedia, which is one more good thing. --millosh (talk) 13:40, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

I don't think that I would be active anywhere at Wikicities except at novels, but I'll say to people to use Wikicities if such Wikimedia project doesn't exist. (But, I think that you and Jimbo are taking care about it.) --millosh (talk)

Very soon, maybe today, I'll start with copying of my 20 years of work on pseudo-history in Serbian into novels :) --millosh (talk) 13:40, 11 May 2005 (UTC)


 * We don't have a wiki for essays yet. I'm not sure what these would come under. If they're educational ones, they could go at Education:, but otherwise there might be a need for a new wiki. The idea is to have wikis suited to particular communities rather than trying to be too broad and cover everything in one place. Pseudo-history might fit better at althistory: than fiction:. You could also request a Serbian language version of althistory. Angela (talk) 14:34, 11 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, it seems that we need other wiki. Essays can be educational, but it is not the only type of essays. The point is that a number of contributors to sr.wikipedia likes to write essays instead of encyclopedic articles. As it can be a nice source for encyclopedic articles, I don't prefer to remove them, but there is no suited Wikimedia project (Wikibooks are for books, Wikisources doesn't include original essays). I am sure that it is not only the problem of sr.wikipedia. --millosh (talk) 19:01, 11 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Wikiversity might provide a place for essays. The essays idea could be discussed at proposed wikis if anyone is interested in starting this. --Angela (talk) 23:26, 11 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Thank you for telling me for althistory:. It seems that I'll go there instead of novelas:. --millosh (talk) 19:01, 11 May 2005 (UTC)


 * And it seems that althistory: wiki doesn't have good interwiki table: if you write link althistory: at Althistory, it would point on the page althistory. And it seems that MediaWiki engine is old... I am sure that I can't make mistake if I contact you for this matter :) --millosh (talk) 19:19, 11 May 2005 (UTC)


 * This is the correct behaviour for the interwiki table. Interwiki links can't point to themselves, so here About should point to a page in the project namespace, not be an interwiki link. The MediaWiki version is 1.4, so not too old, but I have asked Jason about getting the latest version. --Angela (talk) 23:26, 11 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Hmmm... My sign which is "althistory:user:millosh..." points there to the article called "althistory:user:millosh...", not to my user page. Your sign here points to your user page. --millosh (talk) 07:04, 12 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I see what you mean. You need to create redirects (on your home wiki only). For example, Wikicities:User talk:Angela redirects here. You should add a redirect from althistory:althistory:user talk:Millosh to althistory:user talk:Millosh. I only did it for my user talk page, not user page since it can be useful to go to a user's page on the same wiki to check their contributions list. --Angela (talk) 08:46, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Class assignment
Hi Angela, I'm J. Lamer, who teaches Intro to Web Publishing at Northwest Missouri State University. I've been assigning analysis of Wikipedia and Wikicities to my students, as you've noted. Any suggestions on how to improve my assignment?

Next week I'll be teaching this class at Hogeshool Zuyd in Holland, and I plan to give a similar assignment to students there. Would you be interested in being a guest in our class blog on this assignment, perhaps commenting on some student responses?

Does Wikia participate at the London Internet World? http://www.internetworld.co.uk/

Jacquie Lamer


 * Hi Jacquie. Welcome to Wikicities. :) It was interesting to see Wikicities as the topic of an assignment. I'd love to be involved. I'm semi-offline until Sunday, but feel free to email me about this at beesley at gmail.com. We're not involved with the internetworld conference. --Angela (talk) 23:30, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

MyWikicities
Don't know if you follow the Village Pump at Wikipedia, but there's a Wikicities related request there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump#A_proposal_for_another_revenue_stream_for_Wikipedia

I agree with the original poster and think there is a market for secure Wiki service providers. Wikicities, as a commercial entity, should try to leverage the Wikipedia infrastructure. I've started a Business plan at MyWikicities. Samw 21:39, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

ancientworld Wikicity
Hello Angela, the Stats on ancientworld.wikicities.com doesn't work, it shows only the value -1. It seems to me that there is something wrong with the MediaWiki namespace (МедияУики:). If I hit edit to change something in the interface messages, it opens an empty page to edit and create. Is it possible to have there the Aoineko's extension for MediaWiki WikiHiero? We have a lot of texts, written with egyptian hieroglyphs and that extension will be very useful. We'll also need the TimeLine extension. Thanks. Regards, DCLXVI 00:32, 16 May 2005 (UTC)


 * replied at ancientworld. Angela (talk) 02:24, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

stats
the stats often fail ... or are not up to date ... or gathering data only a few days a month. right now this page is NOT stats for the peace wiki: http://peace.wikicities.com/webalizer/usage_200505.html


 * Those like the stats that I have been getting with the Calgary May Webalizer stats. I have logged it in Bugzilla.  -- JamesTeterenko 05:00, 19 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I'd recommend using the Wikistats rather than Special:Statistics or the Webalizer ones. Angela (talk) 01:35, 22 May 2005 (UTC)


 * The Webalizer has stats that Wikistats doesn't.
 * They are good for seeing how individual pages are doing ...
 * plus some user stats.
 * They are there ... but not reflecting the proper group.


 * I definitely prefer the webalizer stats to the Wikistats (when they are working). It is the only insight I get into how others use the site.  -- JamesTeterenko 05:00, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Templates and images from Commons.wikimedia
3 questions:
 * 1) is it possible to use the templates 'GFDL' and 'Insignia2' from Commons.wikipedia?
 * 2) is it possible to use images uploaded in Commons?
 * 3) is it possible to link pages of a national wikipedia (for me it.wiki)?

Thank you Massimop 21:32, 22 May 2005 (UTC)


 * replied at User talk:Massimop. Angela (talk) 21:40, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

whitewolf.wikicities.com
''Hi Ian. Please check the terms of use again since I think there has been a misunderstanding. All content on every Wikicity needs to be available under the GFDL, not a CC licence. Please fix the pages which claim the wiki is under a CC license and delete any edits where users have not agreed to release their text under the GFDL. If there are any problems with this, please let me know. Thanks.''

Hey, Angela. Sorry for any problem I may have inadvertently caused. Because of the vast amount of text involved, I've largely been copying help files mostly unaltered from memory-alpha.org. I'll happily alter any related files, and apologize again for an unintentional difficulty I may have caused. IanWatson 00:58, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Lucid wikicities copyright
Heys, sorry about that. I saw no license metadata so I felt I had to write something.

I don't think anybody would object to the GFDL license. Is it really necessary to remove their content?

Specifically, lucid:User:R3m0t and lucid:User:IDX would obviously immediately agree. lucid:User:Quippo knows a bit about free licenses and I can contact her if I must. lucid:User:212.219.116.250 is the anonymous IP of IDX. lucid:User:83.177.144.10 is the anonymous IP of pasQuale. I don't think anybody else has written much. lucid:User:69.238.170.74 perhaps. r3m0t 09:54, 23 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I think it would be best to contact them just to make sure the content is cleanly licensed under the GFDL. Angela (talk) 03:36, 24 May 2005 (UTC)