Forum:New features!

We have three new features on Wikia today!


 * You can now embed YouTube videos on any page, simply by using id . For more see Help:YouTube
 * All pages will now show a list of contributors in the page footer. You can remove inappropriate or vandal names.  See Help:Attribution
 * And all pages will also have a quick link for adding to digg and del.icio.us. A great way of promoting the best pages on Wikia.  See Help:Footer links

Please let us know here of any issues or problems, and have fun! -- sannse (talk) 12:20, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Can we have a page in the MediaWiki namespace where we list usernames that should not appear inside of the attribution? Because it's not a good use of editor time to add vandals names to a list of ones to remove on each important page, and searches would see it and that's just not right. Trying the code in Annonnotice and Sitenotice doesn't work. Could the ability to use youtube actually be extended to installing one of the extensions that allows for local flash files to be played? Because one of the banners on the site we document is a nice flash banner and it would fit in nicely on the article about the subject of that banner. Dantman (Talk) 12:40, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, we'd prefer the use of internal flash videos instead of external ones. Using ones from youtube makes it to easy for vandals to add videos to a page without it being found. If it was for internal flash files, then we could at least look through the file list and delete the impropper files and where they are linked to. Dantman (Talk) 12:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


 * This attribution thing may become an horrible pain in the ass. Imagine having to remove the attribution to an offensive username from an history page with hundreds of edits. As far as I know, the only way would be to delete the whole page, go to restore, and click on each one of the hundreds of valid versions. Imagine the vandal comes again with a new offensive username before you get to block his whole I.P range...--Rataube 13:10, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

That's great! Smiddle 13:44, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I hate to be overly negative, but I really don't like this attributions feature. A while ago on Wookieepedia, we decided to delete userpages belonging to indefinitely blocked vandalism-only accounts in order to starve the repeat trolls behind them of attention.  Now, there those names are again, at the bottom of every page they trolled on.  I didn't mind it when they were only listed in the history pages, or on a special subpage of an article which wasn't indexed as part of the article itself &mdash; but now, in order to make the credits page on a heavily vandalized page useful by removing vandals from the list, we have to execute an extra step on each page they vandalize, either by editing the attributions list or deleting and restoring every vandalised page (and the latter, more complicated step is the only one which will actually prevent those terms from popping up in a search).  This is too much work.


 * I recognize that this was probably done to help visibly credit the majority of good wiki editors who have helped make articles on their wiki useful and informative, but I think that the current implementation is more trouble than it's worth. Unless there's an easier way to remove offensive/troll usernames, I suggest that feature be removed until it can be reworked.

The other new features are interesting, though: thanks for adding them. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 15:48, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Maybe there could be a Special:Bureauoptions page that lets bureaucrats change settings like turning on and off those features. How 'bout that? – Smiddle 16:02, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Admins can actually turn it off in the MediaWiki namespace, but I'd much rather find a way of improving what's there instead of turning it off since a lot of people have requested the attribution feature which is why we adapted this for Wikia. Perhaps showing just users with user pages or just users who aren't blocked would help with the issue of vandal names showing? We were aware of this issue which is why the  option was added, but I can see it's still a hassle, so I hope we can find a way around that and make this a more useful feature. Any suggested improvements are definitely welcome. Angela talk 16:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Those would help. I'd prefer it be for users with userpages: it would agree with our policy that indefinitely blocked users lose access to userpages, while allowing us to continue crediting users who've been temporarily blocked.  For that matter, usernames which have been permanently blocked after making useful contributions could have their userpages restored, and still be credited. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 16:36, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeh, showing only users who aren't blocked (including search results) would be great. I apologize for being overly negative before. I haven't digged into the other features but at a first site they seem cool.--Rataube 17:16, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

It would be good to collect examples of how the YouTube is being used, so please add links to Help:YouTube if you're making use of this feature. Angela talk 17:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm getting an odd rendering error in IE7. See. It's happening on Wookieepedia and Central, so I don't think it's due to our title template kludge. Is it related to this upgrade, or just a totally unrelated coincidence? -- Darth Culator 17:46, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * One more thing, I would disable the atribution feature in project pages to avoid things like this.--Rataube 19:25, 24 November 2006 (UTC)