User talk:KyleH/Archive 1

porting monobook to Monaco
Hey KyleH,

I'm actually in the middle of using my semi-limited knowledge and understanding of CSS to port it over. As I mentioned on IRC, Angela set us up a testwiki for doing some customisation <on. I'm partly through it, still need much more to do. :)

As for the front page, I was thinking more of a modular design akin to wowwiki's. Means we can expand a section or have a large poll, without worrying about other sections stretching have having massive spaces in them. :)

There is a bit of a design on the test wiki atm, but more than willing to change it. Also, the header background is only a temporary thing atm that I'm messing about with.

Daworm 01:59, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:organization
Sorry was busy on other wikia projects/ wikipedia and mass managing lots of other stuff so didn't get a chance to see much --Cs california 08:05, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Monaco skin
I saw your comment on the RuneScape wiki Yew Grove about using Monaco. Personally, I like monobook, and I know most users at our site do. It's just simple. However... I'm really liking Monaco now (Quartz, not at all). I started to create my own Monaco skin and was actually hoping to maybe present it to the community once finished as the Custom Monaco skin for our wiki. But, I don't know CSS, so a lot of my work has been taking things from other wikis (FFXIclopedia being the one I'm referring to, which you also suggested =]) and from a personal monobook of one of our users, adapted from a Common version I think mostly created by Richard1990 (but again, we like plain monobook, so the custom one didn't last long). But I have some issues and I was wondering if you could help, or refer me to someone who could. I know there's a staff meet-up going on, so the people I've tried contacting in IRC have been busy with other things. =P What I have so far is here and what it looks like is this. I'm aiming for something like this. Links on that first bar are what I need help fixing, and the links up top where it says "Gaming" next to wikia, because that's only visible because of the monaco skin I have set in the background, I know if I changed it to say, "slate" or something, it wouldn't be readable. Links in and TOCs are blue and hard to read also. And, if there's any way to insert a temporary logo, just as a way to test things out and see how everything looks when experimenting, I could use that help too. Thanks =] Christine Talk 02:15, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Image:Gaminghublogo.png
Ops sorry this was meant for user:JoePlay --Cizagna (Talk) 17:05, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Completed (Nintendo Wiki)
Alright, it's completed (I think). If there's anything else I have to do, then be sure to tell me. Thanks for adding the site to Spotlights! --Bentendo 19:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Namespaces added to article count

 * Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikia. We need Portal, Card Lores, Card Names and Cart Artworks, added to the total article count. Thanks in advance.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 18:45, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, we need three more namespaces added (and to be specified as content namespaces, too, as well as the other four above), Set Card Lists, Set Card Galleries, and Set Card Ratios. These three need SQL commands, since they're currently occupied.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 20:23, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * That idea sounds fine to me.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 16:23, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

GuildWiki Merge
I noticed I appeared on the list of account conflicts on GuildWiki. I'm just wondering why. I set up these accounts exactly the same, or does preferences have to be the same too? Thoughtful 03:24, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * There were a few cases where people were renamed even if they had their accounts set up the same on both GuildWiki and Wikia. Please make note of the issue on the migration talk page and the tech team will take a look at it. --KyleH (talk) 06:16, 10 May 2008 (UTC)


 * According to Stabber, its fairly easy to merge contributions;

% cd wikidir/maintenance %cp ../AdminSettings.sample ../AdminSettings.php # (and edit it) % php reassignEdits.php GW-Warwick Warwick

Etc. For each person, change GW-Warwick to GW-{User}, and Warwick to {User}.

That should cause all contributions by GW-Warwick to be moved to Warwick. Though you probably already knew that. -- Warw/Wick 11:06, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, it's not quite that simple here, but we should still be able to take care of any rename requests fairly quickly. --KyleH (talk) 23:55, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Minor Navigation problem
We need the "More Hubs" button on the front page to travel back to the main wikia site like all the other hubs. But I don't really know how to add that blue arrow thingy. You might want to fix that sometime--Cs california 10:13, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Blatant content lifting by ZAM
Hi Kyle. Just a heads-up concerning a discussion going on on HammerWiki about another case of blatant content lifting. Your input would be appreciated. --Bishop
 * Hey! Thanks for the heads up ... I had just noticed it and was about to reply.  I'll reply on HammerWiki. --KyleH (talk) 22:13, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Edit button enhancement (StarCraft wiki)
We've made the changes to common.css - so I guess that means we're participating :) Kimera 757 (talk) 21:47, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Need help on evchk
Friendly KyleH,

Sorry for disturbing you, I'm one of sysop of evchk. I have requested new Parser on evchk (in topic Forum:Problem on using td tag in ifeq...), But I didn't know who I can contect for help. So, may I ask you for help?

Thanks

疾風綾希 10:22, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

TibiaWiki, version change causing problems?
Nevermind -- moved to a more appropriate page -- Sixorish 11:25, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thank you!!! I actually also did just create templates by season, so that page isn't bogged down by all those parser functions. I hope that helps. Thanks again for tending to this so quickly! --ABrose 17:33, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Title blacklist for EVCHK.
I know that there is Extension:SpamBlacklist installed for anti-spam. And one of Community Team suggest me use that to protect articles to create.

However, I think Extension:Title Blacklist is better and easier for local wikia sysop to maintain.

May I request to install it for EVCHK?

Other questions: Should the Local Spam Blacklist add in MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist or MediaWiki:Blacklist title list ( such as c:evchk:MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist or c:evchk:MediaWiki:Blacklist title list)?

Also, I don't know whether the regular expressions of Spam Blacklist is in UTF-8 mode... --疾風綾希 17:42, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * To edit the local spam blacklist, you will need to add entries to c:evchk:MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. MediaWiki:Blacklist title list is used only for our global filter; changes on the local wiki version do not take effect.


 * Why do you feel that Extension:Title Blacklist would be easier to maintain than Extension:SpamBlacklist? They both perform almost the same function, so we probably wouldn't be able to install Title Blacklist when we already have SpamBlacklist available.  --KyleH (talk) 20:16, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

e.g. I wanna to protect any titles contain the string "HKGolden" to create, but we still need put the URLs or contents contain this string. For now, I have to wirte regex in both blacklist and whitelist. (ah~ it may not be done as it checks the title and contents in same time. If I put such regex in blacklist, a tons of articles [of course these are references, NOT spam] are not able to edit. However If I put another regex in whitelist, it will make a trap to let user create the titles contain the string to vandalise.) And I have test some regex which pass the test in PHP, it seems not effective. Anonymous are still able to create such title. Especially it causes some issuses in East Asian languages, which don't use space between words.--疾風綾希 09:04, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Because Extension:Title Blacklist is designated for protecting the titles ONLY, it doesn't care about what the page contents.


 * I forget saying that one more reason is "Title Blacklist is stable while SpamBlacklist is considered experimental".:P--疾風綾希 09:07, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


 * For similar reason, please consider about Extension:Username Blacklist--疾風綾希 09:31, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Ahhh, thanks for that information. I will pass it along to our engineers so that they can evaluate the extension.  --KyleH (talk) 18:13, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * we have MediaWiki:Blacklist title list. But I don't really know how it work. --KJ (討論) 16:19, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
 * This just like KyleH said, is used only for our global filter, but not the local one.--疾風綾希 16:59, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, I didn't know the progress evaluating these two extension, and it's difficult to do with Counter-vandalism by non-spam now...--疾風綾希 16:59, 26 September 2008 (UTC) Is that function base on Extension:Title Blacklist?--疾風綾希 05:06, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe that we have found a way to enable MediaWiki:Blacklist title list for the local wiki as well. I have enabled it on evchk.  Can you try it out?  The format should be the same as MediaWiki:Blacklist_title_list here on Central. --KyleH (talk) 17:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Is it w:c:evchk:MediaWiki:Local title blacklist? And I don't know which extension in w:c:evchk:Special:Version is the exact one.
 * And can I use optional attributes such as ?--疾風綾希 05:12, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The page should be MediaWiki:Blacklist title list, but it appears that something is not working correctly. I'm looking in to it and will reply when I have more information.  You can not use optional attributes with this title blacklist.  This is just change to the existing title blacklist rather than an installation of Extension:Title Blacklist, so it doesn't have any extra features. --KyleH (talk) 23:52, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Emm...Now there is no method to do with the vandalism caused by page creation, please let us know how to counter-vandalism.--疾風綾希 12:13, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * And what about white list of "Blacklist title list"?--疾風綾希 13:24, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi! I apologize for taking so long to get back to you, but the title blacklist is cached, so it only updates on the server once every hour or so.  I have checked c:evchk:MediaWiki:Blacklist title list, and it seems to be working fine; however, you should be aware that changes to that list can take an hour or so to work properly.  There was a problem with it before, but it should be fixed now.  I am afraid that there is no whitelist.  I have requested that our engineers evaluate Extension:Title Blacklist to allow you more flexibility; however, that process will probably take a while because even simple changes to a system as large as Wikia can have dramatic impacts. --KyleH (talk) 16:22, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Strange state
Well,I request check IPs at there. However, it seems that the "Range-block-IP" is out of order, as mention at Forum:Is Range blocks IP enable?. And someguy ( such as User:JSharp* User:JSharp***) is still able to reg. more A/C to make vandalism.--疾風綾希 12:00, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

hi
at the spyro wiki i put links to the community portal on two or three peoples talk (most of the users have no talk page) and after a day nobody looked at the adoption thing on the commmunity portal the site is pretty much dead

clank 720

you can contact me here :

hi
i got one support and zero oppositions lets say give it a day or so

clank 720

hi
how do i promote others to admin
 * clank 720
 * Heya! To promote someone, all you have to do is go to Special:Userrights, enter their name, and add them as a sysop.  You should only promote people that you and the other members of your community feel are trustworthy, because you can not remove that right from them yourself if it becomes a problem (we can remove the flag for you, but only in situations where they are grossly abusing the privilege).  --KyleH (talk) 20:55, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Death Note Wiki
Hello. I just wanted to take the opportunity to apologize for my message yesterday. Upon second examination, I may have come across a little harsh in my attitude language. I was merely frustrated because it seemed like the issue was being ignored. Looking back on it today, it seems like such a trifle how I was ranting on and on about something relatively small.

I also wanted to say thank you very much for your patience and dignified treatment. Most people I know would just start firing away when confronted with such a situation. It is great to know that Wikia has such awesome staff members helping people out instead of ignoring the problem like everybody else does.

I appreciate the advice you gave to me as well. I should have contacted the user through his talk page first, and then his e-mail and myspace. However, I went through the process backwards, which is my own fault. Hopefully, I can get in contact with the user and attempt to communicate with him before he falls off the radar for another week and a half.

Once again, many thanks for your time and efforts, as they as much appreciated. I am hopeful that the next time we speak will be under more auspicious circumstances.

-Mogturmen 14:32, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, I understand your frustration. I figured that you had spoken with him privately previously, but in this case, I think it is best to try to work things out in a way that I can watch and try to help you in the process.  Let's give it a few days and see what happens. --KyleH (talk) 23:55, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Logo
in cavaleirosandantes.wikia.com when i put the file of image gives this mesage:

Aviso de envio

O arquivo encontra-se corrompido ou tem uma extensão incorreta.Verifique o ocorrido e tente novamente.

(Acknowledgment of sending The archive meets corrupted or has a incorrect extension. For gentility, it verifies the occurrence and it tries again. Gotten in " http://cavaleirosandantes.wikia.com/wiki/Especial:Carregar_imagem" in english)

Please help-me Artorius invictus 17:53, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi! I was able to successfully upload a new Wiki.png file to your wiki.  You can only upload files ending in .png for your wiki logo.  Are you sure that the file you're trying to upload is a PNG file? --KyleH (talk) 21:26, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Becoming a trusted member of the community
Hello KyleH,

If you have no answer for this, it is ok. How long does it take the average account person to get trusted in a wikia? this is a hard question so if you dont know than you can erase this. Thank you.TriforceKnight 20:35, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Tritem! There is no definite answer for that because it varies from wiki to wiki; however, I would discourage you from thinking about adminship as some status for you to strive to attain.  Being an admin is nothing special.  They're just people that have put a lot of work in to the wiki, so the community has determined that they can be trusted with a few extra tools which, for practical reasons, can't be given to everyone.  That's not to say that they don't have an important role, because they do, but they get there just because they are dedicated people who are trying to improve the wiki in any way that they can. --KyleH (talk) 21:25, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

DeathNote Wiki
Hello there. I don't know if you remember me or my e-mail from a week ago, yet I wanted to get in contact with you again. I took your advice to wait a week for this user to appear, when last night Dreamanderson finally decided to show his "face" after over two (2) weeks neglecting Death Note Wiki. However, when he did stop in, very briefly, he chose to completely ignore my most sincere request to join the site, deciding instead to begin reverting and squelching all my valid and helpful contributions once again. After this, I would be very lucky to see any sign of him for at least another few weeks...

It is my sincere belief that this user will continue to undermine my (and other user's) edits in order to merely suit his ego. In the past 3 weeks, I've done everything within my ability for this Wiki, which is more than he's done in a year! All that, only to be treated like dirt by this person who has a power complex as well as an addiction to cocaine. The way that this user enacts his Napoleon-like issues as well as flaunting his drug abuse serves only to disgrace Wikia.com. It is also a very negative image for all the users who seek help, guidance and advice in regards to Death Note Wiki, all of which they never get from this so-called "sysop."

This user has no intention to work with me (or others) as a team, which is how a Community works. This kid only desires the power to alone have complete rule over the website that he himself was only appointed to a few months ago! He has no interest in allowing me or other people to help out, which is ironic, as he never shows up but once a month. Even then, what help is it for the Wiki to change little more than a couple letters, then disappearing again for who knows how long?! Please bring an end to this drama, as I have done all that I can and then some for the Wiki that I loyally defend and build up every day!

-Mogturmen 16:51, 4 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Mogturmen,


 * I have been watching the wiki for the past two weeks, and while I understand your concerns, I'm afraid that I'm just not seeing the issues the same way that you are. It is true that Dreamanderson hasn't been around too terribly much, but I am not seeing that his absence is having a negative impact on the wiki.  You are already welcoming new users and giving them guidance and advice without being a sysop.  That's the great thing about a wiki ... you don't have to be anyone special or have any elevated privileges to make a significant impact on the wiki.


 * I left a message on Dreamanderson's talk page. If there are any changes that you feel need to be made which require sysop privileges, such as changing MediaWiki messages or unprotecting certain pages, let me know and I'll be happy to help.  I don't, however, believe that there is a compelling reason for us to dive in and take things over.  Doing so would probably cause more problems that it would solve, especially since there aren't a bunch of compelling issues which require admin attention at this time. --KyleH (talk) 21:59, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Tritem 00:04, 25 October 2008 (UTC)== batman fanon wiki ==

Hello KyleH.I requested Batman Fanon wikia but ive got no response.

De-adminship of me on Spyro Wiki
Hi, about a month ago, I was made an admin on The Spyro Wiki. However, I don't want to be an admin and I only ever edit occasionly. I'd like to be de-sysoped. Thanks. YOWUZA TALK 2 ME! 11:51, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Yowuza. I'm sorry to hear that you aren't interested in being an admin for the Spyro Wiki.  Is there any particular reason that you want to be de-sysoped?  Leaving the sysop flag on your account doesn't really hurt anything, and it makes things easier in case you ever do decide to return and help out a little bit more.  If you really want me to remove it, though, I'll be happy to, just let me know that you're sure you really want me to do it.  --KyleH (talk) 20:16, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

F.E.A.R. wiki Administrator
Apologizes in advance if this is in the wrong place but over at the F.E.A.R. wiki we no longer have a active administrator and need one I would suggest one or all of the following users be made administrators at the wiki as they are all active members who are trusted by the community. Seven279 05:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Blackhound (http://fear.wikia.com/wiki/User:Blackhound)
 * Antihero276 (http://fear.wikia.com/wiki/User:Antihero276)
 * Derekproxy (http://fear.wikia.com/wiki/User:Derekproxy)
 * Hi Seven276! It sounds like you guys are off to a pretty good start there.  Since you already have an active group of people there, you should all get together and elect a new administrator.  Try posting your suggestion on the Community Portal and post to the talk pages of active members asking them to provide their input.  I can also put a link to the Community Portal in the site notice so everyone who visits knows about it.  Once the community agrees on who should become administrators, post on the Wiki adoption requests page here on central with the results.  Let me know if you have any questions!  --KyleH (talk) 06:51, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the speedy reply. Seven279 01:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

batman Fanon wikia
Hi KyleH I requested batman fanon wikia and i got no answer.Tritem 00:24, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Tritem. I notice some strange things happening on the adoptions page, but it looks like Catherine replied.  Let me know if you have any other questions. --KyleH (talk) 01:59, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

w:c:doom:Doom Wiki:Central Processing
Sorry if my indenting was confusing &mdash; that rant was in no way directed at you personally or at the concept of changing the default skin. On the other hand, starting and finishing any sort of abstract policy conversation on that site is like pulling teeth, so I think your edit is defensible. :>    Ryan W 19:27, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * No worries, it wasn't confusing at all. Thanks for voicing your opinion, and I understand where you're coming from.  I looked over the earlier discussion, and had I felt like it there was any substantial disagreement about the change, I would have held off ... but really, I think it just got forgotten. --KyleH (talk) 01:55, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Template trouble on Christianity wikia English
Hi, I'm User:Kathleen.wright5 from Christianity Wikia English. I've been having trouble with Template:Infobox Pope. Its OK on its own template page but not on articles. So I had a look at the same template on Wikipedia and I noticed it had Template:UF-hcard-person, which I put on its own page at Christianity Wikia. The articles it was linked to looked the same so I put Template:UF-hcard-person on the same page as the above template. When I looked at the articles that were linked to the templates I noticed the sidebar had the image missing. I then removed the content from Template:UF-hcard-person, but not deleted (I'm not an Admin). I then removed the templates from the article pages by putting the information from it into list form. The article pages still have the image missing on the sidebar. The articles that were linked are - Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I, Pope John XXIII, Pope Pius XII, Pope Pius XI, Pope Anacletus, Pope Pius IX, Pope Boniface VIII and Pope Clement I. Infobox Pope can be found under Category:Templates and Template:UF-hcard-person can be found at Category:Template templates. Could you please delete both of them. User:Kathleen.wright5 08:50, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Forget about deleting the templates I've now been made a Sysop by User:Sannse, but the problem with the missing image is still there. User:Kathleen.wright5 at Wikia Christianity English 12:23, 4 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry, somehow I missed this yesterday. I'll take a look at it this afternoon. --KyleH (talk) 18:19, 4 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I did have trouble but its now been corrected by User:Sannse User:Kathleen.wright5 20:30, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Buzz out loud wiki
Although this isn't strictly gaming wiki related, I didn't know which channels to go through, so i'll go here. I'm a sysop at http://buzzoutloud.wikia.com/ and wondered if I could have bcrat powers as the wiki bcrat (User:Pb30) is never online. Could you forward this to whoever is necessary, thanks RT  18:06, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I take care of more than gaming now, so you can ask me anything. It looks like Pb30's last edit was only a little over a month ago, so it's possible that he may still be keeping an eye on things.  For the time being, try asking on his talk page first, and if he doesn't respond one way or another within a few days, ping me and I'll take care of it.  --KyleH (talk) 18:33, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

UnRuneScape adoption
Hi. I posted a request for adoption on that Wiki nearly a week ago, but I have recieved no response. I'm not blaming you, but I was told that I should contact you if I recieved no response; I would like you to look at my request. Thanks. -- 18:58, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Pig House! Catherine is responding to adoption requests, and I am sure that she will get to it soon.  That said, I would encourage you to take a look at the requirements at the top of the Wiki adoption requests page.  To be more specific, there are other active users there, and they should have a say in who becomes an admin.  Try posting on the forum or the community portal suggesting that you become an admin, and get their support as well. --KyleH (talk) 05:12, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

New admin is needed for Hungarian Star Wars Wiki
Hi. As the original admin for the hungarian star wars wiki site (http://hu.starwars.wikia.com/wiki/) has been missing for a long time our small group of users decided to elect a new admin for the site for practical reasons (vandalism, development, etc.). We tried to solve the problem by leaving a message at help desk, where others suggested to ask someone of the wikia staff to set that rights. Our elected user for the new admin is Kamocsaip. Thx, Bikov 19:41, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Bikov! I have made Kamocsiap an administrator on the Hungarian Star Wars wiki.  Please let me know if you need further assistance. --KyleH (talk) 22:22, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

KanzakaDex repeated vandalism
Hi. Someone seems to have a vendetta against our user AstroNerdBoy (perhaps because of his anime blog? who knows?) and has been vandalizing his user and user talk page repeatedly. After they've been protected to prevent unregistered edits, he/she has started posting the same stuff on my talk page... I wonder whether there is way to solve this problem (like semi-protecting all pages for a limited time) or do I have to protect every single page which was a target of vandalism until the guy gives up? (Your spam filter interestingly tried to block out my edit because of the word "vandalism". Strange. :/ ) --Pip25 08:16, 20 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey, Pip! The most important thing to make a vandal lose interest is to pay them as little attention as possible. Just revert, block, and ignore. Generic block reasons like "vandalism" or "intimidating behavior/harassment" are ideal because they don't get personal. The first two IPs are from completely different states, however 194.110.160.24 looks a bit like a proxy, so it may or may not be a coordinated attack. -- 13:39, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip. :) I'll try that. --Pip25 21:22, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

French RuneScape
Hi there. Sometime this month, RuneScape will come out with a French version of their game. I went to the French RuneScape wiki located here to check on its status since it would now be quite useful and much more popular once the update comes out. Unfortunately, the wiki is abandoned and in disrepair. Of the 15 articles, some are only vandalism and some are bad computer translations. Moreover, templates were created in English and refer and link to articles and users of the English RuneScape wiki. Is there any way to "reset" the wikia or, failing that, could you grant me administrator rights so that I can start repairing the site? Thanks.-- 15:40, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Diberville! The French Runescape wiki definitely needs some love.  There is still a lot that you can do as a regular user though.  Why don't you start out by making a few contributions, then once you have spent a little bit of time there yourself, you can request to adopt the wiki here. --KyleH (talk) 18:51, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh, so I'm guessing that's a "No" on both the reset and admin rights. I had thought that perhaps the adoption process was the way to go were this the case and thank you for your forethought in telling me that it is.  Two final quick questions: 1) could you delete the article I linked to above and 2) when requesting adoption, does my work on the English RuneScape wiki have any weight or is that wholly irrelevant?  Thanks again.-- 01:25, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I've deleted the article per your request. You're right that it's a "no", but only for right this second. ;)  The wiki desperately needs an admin.  We very rarely delete and recreate wikis, but I doubt you'll have any trouble adopting the wiki once you have a few contributions in it.  It's great that you have contributed a lot to the English Runescape wiki, but the wiki adoption process isn't really about who is "worthy" of adopting the wiki ... we just want to make sure that you be active on and dedicated to the community that you want to adopt.  Plus, the steps listed at the top of the adoption request page are things that will help make the wiki a great wiki anyway! --KyleH (talk) 01:55, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Great. Thanks for your help!-- 03:10, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Sorry to bother you again but I have three questions. 1) Could you please delete this page, 2) how do I change the generic Wikia logo in the navigation panel to and 3) do the 20 new pages required for the adoption include or exclude templates?  Thanks! -- 02:38, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I have deleted that page for you. To change the wiki's logo, just upload Image:Wiki.png to the wiki.  Regarding the 20 pages, generally those pages should be main namespace pages.  This is for a number of reasons, but it's mainly because content pages are what make up the meat of the wiki, and they're what show up in Google. --KyleH (talk) 05:05, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

I have now adopted the wiki! I just want to thank you for your help and advice with the adoption, it was greatly appreciated.-- 04:16, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Great! I'm thrilled to see that the wiki is in good hands. :)   --KyleH (talk) 00:48, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Spoiler/Hidden template
Hello KyleH

You recently helped the Warhammer Online Wikia getting a collapsible spoiler tempalte (|here). I've been trying to add one of those to the Forgotten Realms wiki, but with no luck. Think you can work your magic over here too? :) Thanks in advance. Zeraktalk 09:04, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Zerak! I'll try to take a look at this for you tomorrow.  --KyleH (talk) 05:01, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Generic Starter Wikia
Hi. What's the purpose and/or future of Generic? — Robin Patterson (Talk) 11:49, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Generic starter is planned to be used for new wikis in languages that don't have their own starter. It uses MediaWiki namespace messages which have already been translated so that it will appear in the user's own language (Welsh for example). Angela (talk) 12:16, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I may copy some of that reply elsewhere. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 04:33, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Mediation
Hi. I am requesting mediation for this Forum:De-adminship_of_Jorge_Queirolo_Bravo_on_es.literatura. That page has all the information about it. Thanks in advance. --David 15:00, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi! It looks like Zuirdj has taken care of that issue.  Please let me know if you need additional assistance. --KyleH (talk) 18:59, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Help
Hiya, KyleH! I'm BNK from Kirby Wiki, and I was wondering if you could tell me how I could demote the inactive administrators there. Can you help? If you can, could you demote the following users?
 * Dantman ‎(Bureaucrat, Sysop) (inactive for 4 months)
 * Katshuma ‎(Sysop) (inactive for 2 months)
 * KirbyFan ‎(Sysop) (inactive for 3 months)
 * ParaGoomba348 ‎(Sysop) (didn't even deserve adminship, inactive for 3 months)
 * Wiismartey ‎(Sysop) (inactive for well over a year)
 * YoshiFan ‎(Sysop) (inactive for well over a year)

The reason this comes up now is because some of the new users at Kirby Wiki request adminship without making any contributions or just making only a few. I want the users to take the wiki seriously, so if the new users see all the admins on the SysOp list, they'll think adminship is simply handed out. Also, Max2 (the founder) is inactive. He only logs in to whine about his ban at the Mario Wiki and promote his "friends" (our main problem; he's promoted users that barely made any contribs, but are his friends). He never responds to any help, nor does he do anything around the Wiki. Thank you in advance!  Blue Ninjakoopa Talk 22:56, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi BNK! I just looked at your list, and it does look like most of them are inactive; however, are having those people as administrators really doing any harm to the wiki?  I understand that sometimes it can make things confusing for users who need to contact an administrator, but you can edit the administrators page to make it clear that the other admins are inactive.  That said, if the community there decides that these changes need to happen, I will be happy to help.  First, however, everyone involved in the community should have a chance to voice his or her opinion.  Can you create a page or a talk page message on the issue, link to it in the site notice, and then come back to me once there is a consensus to make these changes? --KyleH (talk) 18:55, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry I didn't respond sooner. I think I can do put that they're inactive, and maybe make an inactive template. The community has made the decision (the active users requested it). I will do that, and tell you when the site notice is created. Thank you!  Blue Ninjakoopa Talk 22:41, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, and one other thing. How do I remove "discussion" from Forum pages? Forums basically ARE discussion, so it isn't needed. Plz halp. http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z25/Jumpie7/Mario/ani_smwkoopatroopared.gif  Blue  Ninjakoopa  http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z25/Jumpie7/Mario/ani_smwkoopatroopared.gif 05:19, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Admin change
Hey, I'm the original admin at Spore Modding Wikia and i'm wondering if you could remove DavidJohnson123‎ from the admin group as for the moment we only wish for me and void to be the admin.

Regards BalLightning 23:13, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! I was just looking through the Spore Modding wiki, and I'm a little bit confused about why you want to remove his sysop flag.  It looks like DavidJohnson123 has made a number of quality edits to the wiki, and while it is a little bit strange that he wants his user page deleted, that doesn't take away from the fact that he really is helping out.  Have you discussed this change with him or any of the other users on the wiki? --KyleH (talk) 23:51, 12 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry if I'm interfering, but I have to make a comment here. I am semi-active on the Spore Modding wiki, and this is a number of reasons you should remove DavidJohnson123's adminship.  BalLightning should respond to these as well KyleH.


 * 1) DavidJohnson123 is what I would say not using his protect power nicely. Example: Sometimes I make an edit that he disagrees with.  He'll simply make it however he wants it and protect it so no one but Sysops can edit.
 * 2) His edits are not what I would consider "quality," as what you said. He makes a number of mistakes in his writing and does not proofread his work, making it harder for people to use it for reference.
 * 3) His first post was a request to become an admin at the wikia, and I'm pretty that was supposed to guarantee you will not become an admin any time soon.
 * 4) I have observed he does not understand Wikia Format, but he's getting a little better. For example, he uses ==Error== "If you meant this link please go there.", instead of #REDIRECT link

Thank-you for listening to my comments.

Thanks, TimeMaster Talk Main Contribs 20:53, 13 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I'd just like to say that i'm confirming what TimeMaster and i have said Regards BalLightning 01:04, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I understand why you feel this way, but it isn't fair for us to discuss these changes behind his back without actually talking to him about them. It's entirely possible that he doesn't understand that his behavior isn't constructive, and would adjust it accordingly if someone talked to him.  Why don't you start a discussion with him, and see if these issues can't be resolved amicably first? --KyleH (talk) 19:24, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok then, I've alerted David and he says he is sorry about his misconduct and that he is fine with his adminship getting removed. Thanks, TimeMaster Talk Main Contribs 23:40, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Alright. I'm glad that you had a chance to talk it out.  I have made the change for you.  Let me know if you need anything else. --KyleH (talk) 01:41, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Shared Help announcement seems to have a bad link in it
Your announcement at http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Shared_Help_-_new_feature%21 says "You can read more about Shared Help here" but the page it links to does not exist --Jason C.K. 01:24, 13 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Fixed that -- Sixorish 01:44, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --KyleH (talk) 17:52, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Need Change for Group Rights of EVCHK
I'm one sysop of Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities in Hong Kong. As seldom vandalism occurs, it seems that we should let anyone, including anonymous, has the edit right for making members grown.--疾風綾希 22:46, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Could I get a name change?
I just realize, that I would like a username change if possible. If it could be done, I would greatly appreciate my username to be Glow, as it is a bit more what I would like. I apoligize for any trouble I may have caused. Thanks. BTW, I would like to have my password Not Changed Thanks again.--Eulalia! 00:02, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi Eulalia!, currently Wikia's staff can not do username changes (technical limitation when using a shared user database), you have one of two options however... You can change your signature in your preferences to display a different name when you sign talk pages something like Newname (talk) or you can register a new account and have your old userpage inform others of the new name. -- 00:15, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! SO I just make a new account? Then I say that I did? --Eulalia! 01:05, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Book Infobox
Hi, I have a problem in my wiki, Jack Sparrow Novels Wiki, I don't know how to create an infobox, for a book or for a character, it just says Template: Character Infobox and I'm confused. Thank you very much, Matias arana 10 22:16, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Matias! What is the URL (website address) for your wiki?  I'll be happy to take a look at it and see where I can help.  --KyleH (talk) 17:54, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Halopedia's Template:Rating
Hello Kyle!

A few hours ago, Halopedia (Halo Wiki) had updated its Monaco Skin. Problems surfaced as always and a few of them were resolved. One problem that remained to mystify me is the Rating Template. The template seems to overlap the Era Template, rendering both templates useless. Could you look into this problem? Cheers! - 5 ub7 ank (7alk ) 21:25, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I think that I was able to fix the problem. Things are going to be a little bit wonky while the template change goes through the job queue, but once that finishes, everything should look fine.  --KyleH (talk) 19:08, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Halopedia Comments
I was wondering if you could set the comments on Halopedia so that when someone replies to a comment, the person who wrote the comment would get an email notifications. This would get people to check the replies and possibly answer questions that repliers ask. Thanks. BPL 23:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * That's a good idea! Right now we are working on a new blog article feature similar to what is on Halopedia.  I'll make sure that suggestion reaches our tech team.  Thanks! --KyleH (talk) 00:39, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Fear wiki
hello I'm from the Fear wiki an i was told that a user had been permanetly baned by the wiki headquarter (you guys) and well he just came back he's caused damage to the wiki posted game mods as factand deleted user pages when confronted about posting false dat he was warned then blocked when he didn't follow the rules he came back and used Derekassto mock me and continue vandalising the site as an admin for fear i can't permanetly ban him completely for good he's back and is going to do all the damage he did again and it took me and the site more then four weeks to repair ithis page is Feargm he won't stop running amuck we need you to stop him completelyDerekproxy 19:35, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Please help us to anti-vandalism.
Sorry for disturbing you, I'm one of sysop of EVCHK.

Please disable API-right for non-sysop&bureaucrat&bot in EVCHK, and turn on captcha editing pages for all non-sysop&bureaucrat&bot.--疾風綾希 02:13, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I think that Uberfuzzy helped you out yesterday. Please let me know if you still need some help. --KyleH (talk) 21:48, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Pokemon Crater Wiki
Hi! I am a user in Pokemon Crater Wiki. This is a new wiki and I recently contributed more than 25 pages and was looking forward to become the administrator on that wiki. The founder of that wiki accepted me as an admin and said I should ask a Wiki Staff for admin access. I am a user from 2006 and I have contributed in Wikipedia and some other wikis also (like dragon ball wiki). I am not involved in vandalism. So can you please make me an administrator of that wiki? Deshkap 2006 17:11, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! You're doing awesome work there!  I checked out the conversation that you had with Kingdonfin and made you an admin.  Let me know if you need any more help! --KyleH (talk) 17:41, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

...

Thanks for your help.

Fish Wrangler Wiki (Anti-Vandalism)
Hey Kyle,

I'm one of the senior users of the Fish Wrangler Wiki. In the past two weeks there have been at least 8 known cases of vandalism, but the admins have not been online to deal with them.

I would like to request for Jasman and I for Sysop rights so as to deal with the recent cases of vandalism.

I would also appreciate if you could tell me if these templates are appropriate.

Thanks in Advance --MarcD 15:13, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Marc! It looks like MatthewB was active within the past few weeks.  Why don't you try talking to him first to see if he can make you a sysop?  If he doesn't respond to your request on his talk page, you can request to adopt the wiki here.  Regarding the templates, I would generally recommend against using any template like that.  Using those templates really just gives vandals more attention.  It's best to just quietly revert the vandalism and block them as necessary. --KyleH (talk) 21:55, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Bioshock Welcoming New Users
Kyle,

I've noticed that over at Bioshock there seems to be a bot welcoming new users and thanking them for posting.

Is there anyway to make it so the bot won't leave talk for unregistered users? I don't know if there's much value in have tons of "User talk:" pages.

Thanks,

--Klivian 22:01, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, some really cool happens when you leave a welcome message for an anonymous user. In the few weeks following the release of the new welcome bot, we found that new user registrations increased over 20%!  So the welcome tool leaving IPs a message encouraging them to register an account actually helps a lot.  That said, there are a lot of different ways that you can customize the welcome bot to work well for your wiki.  You can see all of the options here. --KyleH (talk) 22:10, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Account Registration
When I try to make an account on the Donkey Kong Wiki, it says 'unable to register you at this time'. Help please.


 * Hey there. If you tried to register with a birthdate after today's date in 1996, you would encounter that error. This is in accordance with Wikia's Terms of Use. -- 13:29, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Fairy Tail Wikia
Is there a way to request myself to be a moderator or admin of it? I don't think it currently has one or if it does they are not active. Drunk Samurai 08:26, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You can request to adopt the wiki here. --KyleH (talk) 00:29, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your welcome
Thank you for your welcome. I always admire Asimov's work, and I have a collection of most, if not all, of his works. But I have not read them all actually, but will be. By the way, may I ask for your help? I want to establish Indonesian Asimov wiki. I cannot ask wikia to grant me a new wiki because in the past I had 3 wikis but I have not been active for a long time so I have to release 2 of my wikis. I still retain 1 wiki though, that is Indonesian Karl May Wiki. So, I don't think wikia will grant me another wiki. I also would like to ask you how to customize the main menu like that on English Asimov Wiki. Thank you. Agustinus[ kirim pesan (leave me a message) ] 20:14, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You can edit the side menu by editing MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar on your wiki. You can read more about that here.  Our new wiki creation process allows you to instantly create a new wiki, so if you want to create that Indonesian Asimov wiki, you can do so here. --KyleH (talk) 00:37, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

GFDL 1.3 and CC-by-sa
Hi! I asked this at the watercooler, but I guess it slipped by... will Wikia projects be following Wikimedia in taking advantage of the window of opportunity to switch from GFDL to CC-by-sa? Seeing as how "GFDL 1.2 or later" was adopted for Wikia (with exceptions for wikis that started beyond Wikia) to ensure compatibility with Wikipedia, it would seem like the natural thing to do (assuming Wikimedia actually does go through with it, but that seems very likely). But I haven't seen anything about it from Wikia.--71.235.240.19 05:07, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You should see something about this on the forums some time within the next few days. --KyleH (talk) 19:08, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Monaco-sidebar
1. Hi, notice something, If I change my language preference to other languages, the changes I made to the sidebar is gone and return to default. Is this true?
 * Kind of. Customizing MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar only customizes the English version of the sidebar.  If you want to edit the German version, you will need to edit MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar/de.

2. Is there a variable that can display the current user language preference? (I don't mean the default content language, but the language preference chosen by each user).
 * Not that I know of. One thing that might help is the "int" magic word.  If you enter, for example, , it will include MediaWiki:Foo for English users, MediaWiki:Foo/de for German users, etc.  If MediaWiki:Foo/de doesn't exist, then it will default back to MediaWiki:Foo.  I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to do, but that might help you by allow you to display different messages to different users. --KyleH (talk) 17:37, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


 * In the wiki, I have made several mainpages for several languages. I would like each user to be directed to the main pages of the language of their choice, for example, if a user choose Spanish as his choice of language, everytime he click the logo, he would be directed to the Spanish language main page. Can this be done? --Agustinus[ kirim pesan (leave me a message) ] 23:11, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

3. The wiki name of worldesl has one "Wiki" word too many, so the name becomes "English as Second Language Wiki Wiki". Can you remove the second "Wiki"?
 * Done!

--Agustinus[ kirim pesan (leave me a message) ] 16:20, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Please let me know if you have any other questions or need additional help. --KyleH (talk) 17:37, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Admin needed
Hi. Our Wiki needs an admin and we are unsure how to get one. Could you comment there? --Piotrus 23:53, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Responded on the wiki. --KyleH (talk) 17:39, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Urban Rivals wikia
Hello, I've started to gather content to the urban rivals wiki, but there is only one admin... I've tried to contact him, but he didn't respond to me.. So could you help? http://urban-rivals.wikia.com/wiki/Urban_Rivals_Wiki
 * Sure! If the admin on a wiki is inactive, you can request to adopt that wiki and become an administrator yourself here!. --KyleH (talk) 23:14, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Machinipedia
I am a Machinima freak and I really would love to submit thing to machinima.wikia.com. But it looks like the site is basically dead. Is there any chance to revive it?
 * Yeah, it doesn't look particularly active ... but you can help revive it yourself. The best thing that you can do is add new content yourself.  As you add more things to the wiki, your wiki will rank higher in Google, and more people will find your site and add to it.  It's not easy--sometimes it can be lonely starting out when you're the only one around--but things hae to start somewhere.  If you want to adopt the wiki and become an administrator, you can request to do that here. --KyleH (talk) 23:18, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for posting wikia status updates at the water cooler.
Thanks for posting a wikia status update at the water cooler. It scores at least 9/10 on public relations (apology, specifics about issues, specifics about responses, some specifics about timelines, and request for patience). Nice job. &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 02:24, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem! We're working providing more updates on a timely basis, so you should see more of that soon. --KyleH (talk) 23:35, 14 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Another great step today, using the broadcast message to alert ppl to the planned, temp DB lock. Good stuff &mdash; Thank you.  &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 07:53, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello.
I recently just fixed the bottom of an entry for Taz, that some kook apparently, typed in with random crap.

I hope it helps!
 * Great! Thanks for the help. :) --KyleH (talk) 22:35, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Vandlism
A user on happy meal wiki typed cuse words on page Lego.--Coupon11 21:12, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * It looks like you took care of it. Thanks for the help!  :) --KyleH (talk) 22:36, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Official Guides
Would it be legal if I was to put information from an official guide book (In this case a Dragon Quest VIII guide book) into a wiki?
 * I'm not really qualified to give out legal advice, but I would suggest against it. The the text from official guide books is copyrighted, and while using excerpts may be considered fair use, in most cases I don't believe that wholesale copying of the content would qualify as such. --KyleH (talk) 22:39, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Eyeshield 21 Wiki
Hi, it seems to be hard to get up momentum for the wiki. Also, I've noticed that the articles are not wikified yet; Ive tried my best to change one of them (see http://eyeshield21.wikia.com/wiki/Raimon_Taro here). I've also noticed that the only way to create new pages is to make a broken link in an existing page, then click on the broken link (as opposed to other wikis where you just type in what you want to create). Help with both of these issues would be much appreciated. 02:24, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Ban User
How do you block user from vandalising your wiki page? I need block a user by the name of User:Syylk
 * You have to be an admin. If you aren't, which I assume you're not, you need to ask a current admin to block the person for you. [[Image:Jebus.JPG|66px]] 02:49, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

www.islandtrolltribes.wikia.com
Hi KyleH

I'm a fan of island troll tribes and i remember asking you to allow me to adopt a wiki last year. now what's happened is that the old bureacrat, the one that abandoned the wiki, has now taken it back and blocked me from it, after all the work that I've put into it (around 700 edits as opposed to him, who has made less than 40 edits). Also he hates me alot for standing up to his abuse. Is there any way you can resolve this?

Best regards,

PoZoR

Deletion
Hey It's Sonyfan453. I mad becuase a user by the name Dantman deleted my User page on Narutopedia. I angrier becuase I worked on that telling about my favs on that show.

Posting the page
I'm trying to show a freind what I edited, but I copy pasted the URL to them and it keeps telling them that page has yet to be started.. What am I doing wrong?

Image?
If I've created my own little wiki for my school group, how should I change the image to a different one? At my Wiki, the top left bar shows an image that says "Wiki Lifestyle" and an image below that, which when clicked, will lead to the main page of my wiki. Do you know how to change the bottom image to one of my liking? Narto928

Admin for Reborn! Wikia
The original Admin for the Wikia doesn't come around all that much(never) anymore, and I was hoping you could give me and another regular editor of the page administrative privilege. He and I edit mot often and most faithfully. And if you can spare some time, you could see how we have been trying to keep the wikia together. I say more on your talk on the Reborn! Wikia, but, whenever you get around to it's fine.

P.S.: Sorry for being such a jerk and calling you a hypocrite. I didn't realize you were so important. Navyblack15 01:38, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Spam filter Problem
It seems that there are problems of spam filter in EVCHK. Now we cannot edit any pages, even sysop could not.

It just shows that "The page you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a link to a blacklisted external site. "

--疾風綾希 12:37, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Reviving the Earthrise wiki
Hi Kyle! As recently my interest of the game Earthrise have increased, I'm looking forward to building on the Earhtrise wiki, there is only a few questions that I hope you could help me answer.


 * 1) I have contacted the local sysops that I found through searching (Common Sense(founder) and CHibi), but since they haven't been logged in for a while, I'm not sure that I will get any answers, if they are found missing from the face of the earth, is there a way to pass on the managing onto someone else without their consent?
 * 2) I would like to see that the wiki takes the Monaco shape since it is much more practical and has some neat features. Does it involve any problems or complications? And how advanced is it to reskin for a more fitting colour-scheme?

I'll be back if I have something more to add, greetings from Sweden! 14:28, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Just checking back in to tell you that I've had a chat with CHibi, things are under control, thanks anyway :) 12:04, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Traffic
Correct me if I'm reading this wrong, but according to Forum:MediaWiki 1.14 upgrade is that telling me that the Narutopedia is the wiki on Wikia ranked 10th in traffic? ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Apr 23, 2009 @ 18:01 (UTC)
 * Yup. You can check out traffic statistics on Quanticast.  This page sorts wikis by global number of unique visitors, although that doesn't necessarily translate to traffic. --KyleH (talk) 20:48, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

how do they get those statistics? do you need to pass traffic information or what? -- Sixorish 23:14, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Greetings
How are you? I just made a cheat section on my user page in Portal Wiki.

If you got Portal on PS3, X360 OR PC, give me a message!

--DBZWii09 11:34, 24 April 2009 (UTC)DBZWii09DBZWii09 11:34, 24 April 2009 (UTC)--
 * Great! Welcome to Wikia! --KyleH (talk) 22:13, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Turok
Hey, I saw your message on the Turok; I'll be sure to ask you if we could use your help. Thanks for asking :)
 * No problem ... welcome! --KyleH (talk) 22:13, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

problems / tommy atkins
i got myself a "wikia" because of the class session i am in. i really do see the potential, but so far i have been unable to subscribe to information and etc. can anyone give me some help?
 * What kind of information are you looking for? We have wikis on everything from Star Wars to World of Warcraft to Vintage Patterns.  If you're looking for help starting your wiki, check out Wikia Help.  --KyleH (talk) 22:13, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Welcome user on the Combine OverWiki
Hi there, I wanted to know how to set an automatic signature in the Welcomeuser MediaWiki pages. Thanks for your help! Klow 10:53, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! To change the message and signature that are left, you need to edit the MediaWiki messages associated with the tool.  There are instructions and links to all of those messages here. Let me know if you need any more help! --KyleH (talk) 22:06, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I put @latest in MediaWiki:Welcome-user, but that doesn't seem to work. I mean, the message works, but it's not signed. And I don't understand the point "The welcome messages have four special variables". Where do I have to put those numbers?... Klow 22:12, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Ahhh, I see. What you need to do is just add "$3" (without the quotes) to MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user where you want the signature to appear. --KyleH (talk) 21:51, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Okaaay! Thanks! Klow 21:55, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

In the Night Garden - missing character
Hiya Kyle,

I do not plan to become a regular contributor, but whilst in charge of a 2-year old, I have been forced into some interest in kids' progs like "In the Night Garden".

I have been doing some editing tonight (mainly to correct English grammar, rather than content, although I have added a little to that). I noticed the absence of a character from the list - 'The Ball'. Whilst not a humanoid character, The Ball has particular properties, and I was trying to add it in order to detail some of them.

The front page of "In the Night Garden" has been locked so that I could not add it. Perhaps you could add it for me?

Thanks,

Harvey
 * Hi! Welcome to Wikia!  I went ahead and unlocked the front page of the In the Night Garden wiki so that you can edit it yourself.  Let me know if you need any more help. :) --KyleH (talk) 21:54, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Kyle
Hi, Kyle, I couldn't figure out how to send a message from Twitter so I followed yoyr link from your page there. Unsolveled Mysteries is now on Spike TV. They're running restructured and recreated episodes from pre-existed cases from 11AM I think to 1PM before CSI NY. I hope you like the wikia page I made for the series. Some of the case files descriptions are sparase because of limited non-series resurces but i'm really hoping to get all the cases from the series listed and every other case refererenced to the show covered and cross-refrerenced in a way that fans can appreciate. Thor2000 15:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Awesome! Thanks for the info ... I'll have to be sure to catch those next time they're on. --KyleH (talk) 00:35, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Reborn! Administrators again
We gave Retro about 7 or 8 days to get back to us on that, and we(both Mastermarth and 1), have decided that that was enough time. So, I'm back here today to ask you to promote the two of us to administrators. We've really stepped up our editing, but there are still some things we can only do with administrative rights.

Foregoing Retro was something we probably needed to do, because it's starting to look like he rarely checks is talk page updates. So, thanks in advance for whatever input you decide on.Navyblack15 08:37, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Also, I just found out, when attempting to find some other admin or bureaucrat, I stumbled onto | this page, which confirms that he's the only person above a regular user. And I found | this page to say that me and Mastermarth4 not only log in muliple times every day, but also we have the two top revisions counts. While Retro7 has only edited 25 times himself.

Please, (s)he and I absolutely need admin-ship. I hope my case was persuasive enough. Navyblack15 18:31, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! You can request to adopt the wiki and become an administrator here. --KyleH (talk) 00:35, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Help Special:Createpage is broken
On a wiki I have been editing a lot perl6.wikia.com the page Special:Createpage broke all of a sudden and I cannot really contribute that much anymore and I cannot figure how to contact the wiki administrator either. If anyone can help to fix Special:Createpage that would be great thanks.
 * We had some difficulty with Special:Createpage last week, but it appears to be working now. Are you still having difficulty? --KyleH (talk) 00:36, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Starting the Forum
Hi, I edit regularly on the | RollerCoaster Tycoon Wiki, and I was wondering if you could please set up the forum. On the help wiki, it said that older wikis didn't have the forum automatically made, and to contact staff if this applied to you. Can you please make it? thanks--Matt 20 1 12:23, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello, Matt. These can easily be adapted by anyone from Wikia Starter, I went ahead and set them up for you. :) -- 15:57, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Welcome user on the Combine OverWiki, 2
Hi again. I was wondering if the signature of the latest admin would work if I put the welcome message as a template in the MediaWiki page. I wanted to do that so that I do further changes to the welcome message without creating inconsistencies within the user talk pages. Klow 12:26, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The welcome tool automatically adds subst: to all templates, so while you can use a template in the welcome message, only the static wiki text gets included. This is done because changing the text on hundreds or thousands of user pages makes our servers slow.  Fortunately, while this does mean that the user talk pages may be inconsistent, the users will almost always see the message as soon as it is left, so it will almost always be up-to-date when they first see it. --KyleH (talk) 00:40, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * So if I want it to be signed properly, I need to have the signature number outside of the template? And what is "subst:"? Klow 00:45, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

KyleH
tihs boy or girl datman wont let me back on here what would i do your friend sailormoon21
 * It is up to the local wiki admins to determine the local blocking policy and enforce it. You should talk to the admin who blocked you to discuss the block.  --KyleH (talk) 00:41, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

HI! (From EIGAPEDIA)
Hello, I'm new on the wiki, I would like to know if you can tell me a page where I could download (from servers like Megaupload or Rapidshare) some of these japanese movies (if it includes subs, better yet). Thanks a lot, I found this wiki very helpful. Zeruel 25
 * Unfortunately, I'm afraid that I don't know of any. I imagine that the films are copyrighted, so I would recommend buying the DVDs online. --KyleH (talk) 18:12, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Adminship and the Mythology Wiki
Hi there,

The individual who founded the Mythology Wiki hasn't contributed in two years. The wikia is suffering from terrible vandalisms and neglect. I've written quite a few articles, either under my own user name or anonymously, and undone quite a few vandalisms. Is there any way I could have administrative control of the Mythology Wiki so that I can block IP addresses that repeatedly vandalize the site?

Thanks!

Qui-Gon Reborn  Enter the realm of the fifth dimension...   21:36, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! You can request to adopt the Mythology Wiki here. --KyleH (talk) 18:07, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Page Creation Limited
Hi Kyle,

I've run into a problem in creating pages for the Twilight Zone Wiki in creating pages. It is more or less the exact problem that Quizzical had in this forum post: Forum:Page creation disabled?

Like his situation, the only administrator seems to have bailed on the project or at least is taking a long break, so I can't ask him to help with anything. I saw that you were able to help Quizzical back in 2008, so I figured I'd ask for some help. If you can do anything to help remedy the situation or can offer some suggestions, I'd be very grateful. Thanks for any help you can offer,

Waxheadrobot 11:11, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Update: I don't know if you did something or the problem righted itself, but it's been resolved. Thanks either way!

Waxheadrobot 02:11, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

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can you please help me datman lock me out of inuyasha wiki can you please help me thanks sailormoon21
 * Hello! You should talk to Dantman about your block.  It's not my place to override a block on a local wiki unless I believe that the local admin acted contrary to the best interest of the wiki.  That is not the case here, so you'll have to talk to the admin that blocked you. --KyleH (talk) 22:10, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello! From Mimewire.
Thanks Kyle I Actually started the story arcs page but I recently created a login. I haven't been on lately but I will continue my page when I can!
 * No problem! :) --KyleH (talk) 22:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Girl Genius Wiki - did I break something?
I noticed GirlGenius:User:Wikia failed to catch two new accounts, and this was after I made edits to the MediaWiki files. I double-checked and I'm pretty certain everything is in order, but... --m 23:00, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It looks like it's working now. Have you see seen it miss any more since then? --KyleH (talk) 17:22, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Need Admins
Hey i'm Derekproxy and I was given the right to block users that caused problems for http://fear.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page and the man who was the admin is now gone and no official Admins remain I need to be made an admin so that there will be a group of active administratorsDerekproxy 00:01, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Because the other bureaucrats are inactive, I went ahead and promoted you. Please let me know if you need further assistance. --KyleH (talk) 00:54, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Admin/Bureaucrat Sous-vide Wiki
Hi KyleH,

I am Dr.med. Peter Gruber from Switzerland, in the sous-vide community I am called Pedro or PedroG http://sousvide.wikia.com/wiki/User:PedroG

I am engaged in home sous-vide cooking and I am in E-Mail contact with like-minded people, namely:

Bob Jueneman from Milpitas/California Peter Black from Sydney/Australia Frank Hsu from Toronto/Canada

We plan to activate the Sous-vide Wiki. Bob has prepared a Powerpoint presentation on Sous-vide cooking, Peter has published an article "Sous Vide@Home" on http://www.australiangourmetpages.com/ http://www.classic.com.au/wizard/SousVide.htm http://sousvide.wikia.com/wiki/Sous_Vide_@_Home, Frank is the one who sells us the PID-Controllers for our waterbaths (http://www.freshmealssolutions.com), and I myself might contribute technical hints on thermometer calibration, PID-Controller tuning, vacuuming etc., and I am trying to get into contact with specialists on food safety in Switzerland to make sure we will not publish and recommend anything that might kill people.

As some of my friends are afraid of vandalism on a wiki, we ask you to grant us administrator / bureaucrat rights.

And may I ask you for help on my User page http://sousvide.wikia.com/wiki/User:PedroG where I did not manage to get the Babelbox right-aligned.

Thank you very much, and kind regards --PedroG 13:39, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Pedro! It certainly looks like the Sous-vide Wiki could use an active administrator.  Please post your request on the adoption requests page and Catherine will take care of that for you.  Regarding your user page, I made an edit there which should make your language box right-aligned.  Please let me know if you need any more help! --KyleH (talk) 22:39, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Kyle! Thanks a lot, the Babelbox is now right-aligned. How can I get rid of the unnecessary spaces between some of the language boxes? I just made an article "°F-°C Conversion table"; is it possible to make it show up in the left sidebar so it is visible while reading other articles? Regards --PedroG 23:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC) The Problem of °F-°C Conversion table is solved, I put it in WikiPage. Language boxes are also better. How can I get Language Box and Image on the same line, using less vertical space? --PedroG 20:02, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Pedro. I made some tweaks to your user page.  Moving the babel box to the top of the section did the trick. --KyleH (talk) 23:21, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Sous-vide Wiki Multilingual ??
Hi Kyle,

as my native language is German, I might translate the key articles of Sous-vide Wiki to German. Should I create a new "German Sous-vide Wiki", or is it ok to make a Wiki multilingual?

Regards

--PedroG 23:29, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * It's generally better to create separate wikis for each language. You can create a new wiki for German here.  Once that wiki is created, if you give me a link to it, I can enable interlanguage links for both wikis for you. --KyleH (talk) 23:23, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Kyle,

thanks for your help! Here's the link to the German Sous-Vide Wiki: http://de.sousvide.wikia.com/wiki/Sous-Vide_Wiki

--PedroG 06:42, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Alright! I linked the two wikis.  You should now be able to use interlanguage links. --KyleH (talk) 21:18, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Sysop Status
Is there anyway to request for a wikia to have more sysops? We need some more on the One Piece Wikia but the only person who had bureaucrat status has not edited the wikia since early 2008 and that was only 4 edits. Drunk Samurai 08:32, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! You can request to adopt the wiki here. --KyleH (talk) 19:56, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

One Tree Hill Wikia
Hi, I've been editing your One Tree Hill page, could u make me an administrator to let me edit it further, if it needs 2. jamesb2302
 * Hi! You can request to adopt the wiki here. --KyleH (talk) 19:57, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Removing b'crat on French RuneScape Wikia
Hi there!

I was wondering if you could removed a user's bureaucratic rights since he has only made three minor edits in January 2007 and then left. Thanks!--Diberville 15:19, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Done! Let me know if you need any more help. --KyleH (talk) 00:03, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Skin Monaco
Hi, KyleH! Got a question: Are you a user of Wikia Staff? Yeah. I have a wiki and, although it is very advanced, but when I made a wiki for Skin monaco, ja ja joda. Anyway, See you! Pokémon493 - talk!
 * Yup! I'm a member of the Wikia Staff, and I'll be happy to help you customize Monaco if you need some help.  You can also check out Help:Customizing Monaco.  --KyleH (talk) 22:01, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Je je je thanks KyleH. I said that the wiki is not very advanced. Although I would like more information when you have a new skin, if I decide I do not like Monaco or the WikiDex but if you want help, it will be a pleasure to help me! Oh and if you can translate some messages to Spanish, I understand better, because my native language is Spanish. Pokémon493 SuperMarioWiki- talk!
 * je je je. Hello again, KyleH, I saw Help: Skin s and the Monaco is very good. Ah, I have 2 wikis because I put a design Monobook, this is the wiki of Monaco:, the Monobook: . The latter have not. Goodbye . Pokémon493

Brady Bunch wiki
I was looking at The Brady Bunch wiki, and it seems to need an administrator. How do I become one? --Arvan Swordwielder | Talk | Contributions 21:39, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Never Mind --Arvan Swordwielder | Talk | Contributions 23:39, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Default interface language and bug
Well, whlie EVCHK updates to MediaWiki 1.14, there are a few problems.

The "language" of links had been changed to simplified Chinese, such as changing Special:Preferences to Special:参数设置. Even changed Language setting in my preferences, the "language" still stucks on S.Chinese. How to change it back to English, for easy input in pages?

EVCHK is just a traditional Chinese site introducing web culture of Hong Kong. Also, there is no any plan to make it inherently multilingual. But, it is too diffical to force the default interface language for all users or made interfaces synchronization with zh- perfix languages. Are there any ways for that?

Bug:The links of Unused categories and Unused templates are both directed to Unused templates Special pages on EVCHK. Please fix that. --疾風綾希 14:19, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello! I've asked Angela to take a look at this.  She knows a little bit more about how the language settings work on MediaWiki.  I'm sure that she'll be able to figure something out. --KyleH (talk) 23:35, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Blog listing help.
How do you remove categories in blog listings? --Bentendo
 * Can you give an example of the page where you are trying to remove the category? --KyleH (talk) 23:36, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry :(
Hiya Kyle, a GuildWikian here. :) First of all, thanx for always trying to help out communities instead of just "putting in the hours". I recently started my own site UnAnswers@Wikia. It's based on Answers@Wikia, except it goes for the funny approach. It's... not a good site if you actually want to learn something ;). I've applied for a spotlight, as we're growing steadily, but our kind of site would benefit more from lots of users occasionally popping in, atm we've a few really dedicated people, but that just doesn't suit the type of wiki we are (nobody thinks of several funny jokes a day every day). While that'd help greatly, I have to admit I'm pretty... restless. I really have a strong desire to customize the site as much as possible. Now, I apologize for hounding you about something over a year old - feel free to tell me to get lost - but I couldn't help but notice this. This really interested me, of course. The idea of a Wikia guru personally helping people with customizing skins really got my attention, and I couldn't help but admire Wikia even more for it. Playing with skins cannot possibly be a profitable end of the spectrum, so it really shows that Wikia cares about it's communities. Sorry for the small novel I'm writing here, I'm legendary for writing "short notes" like this one. I was just wanting to know if such a thing would be possible for Answers@Wikia. We pretty much got a copy & paste job from them, so what's impossible for them is... unfortunate for us. I'd be very grateful if you could tell me if our site's limitations would get in the way of this We can't change the skin in preferences. I'd mostly just love to change the white background to a dark gray (#2D2D2D I like) with the text white by default, something rather akin to WoW, I'm also in love with their approach to sections, truth be told :) So... yeah, sorry again about the size of all of this. If you could tell me if such a thing is possible for us, or point me in the direction of a different Wikia person to go throw WoTs at, please do :) To be honest, I know it's already a pretty custom style, and we had a few database errors when we first started, so I'm too frightened to go play with this kind of coding until someone says it's safe. Thanks for your time (reading all of this must've taken a fair while), Kyle. A F K When Needed 12:11, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

...nope...
Well, I've played around with my own personal settings, and looks like the Answers skin doesn't support it at all :/ Don't suppose you know who I should go to about that? A F K When Needed 16:56, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry for taking a little while to respond--I was out for the holiday. As you noticed, answers-type wikis use a special skin, but you can still adjust many aspects of it by editing MediaWiki:Answers.css and MediaWiki:Common.css.  Try adding the following code to Answers.css:

body { background: #2D2D2D url(http://images.wikia.com/common/skins/answers/images/sidebar_bg.png) repeat-y scroll right top; color: #FFF; }

color: #70B8FF; } Hopefully that will at least give you a start ... --KyleH (talk) 23:45, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) bodyContent a, #bodyContent a:visited {
 * YES! Thank you Kyle! =) A_F_K_sig_2.jpg A F K When Needed 09:59, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hope you had a cool time when you went out Kyle :)
 * I tried that, it'll change things correctly (The Recent UnAnswered Questions box, The Popular Catagories Header, the section of the Answers.css page I edited...) but on the average page, it will change the colour of the text, no problem, but it refuses to change the colour of the background >< A_F_K_sig_2.jpg A F K When Needed 10:10, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * AFK, you can try asking the good people at the Logo creation wiki (they do skins), or ask me. ;-P -- ◄mendel► 10:58, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

The Option
Hi again Kyle :) Mendel has totally changed the skin of UnAnswers@Wikia. I was just wondering, would it be possible to give the Answers skin the Let the admins override my skin choice option so they can return to a white background if they wish to? A F K When Needed 15:51, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, that isn't possible on the Answers skin. It's pretty much just the one skin. --KyleH (talk) 18:28, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Earthdawn Wikia
Hello KyleH!

I recently decided to find the Earthdawn Wikia page and low and behold it was barren! I obviously left a message for the original creator of the wikia, but he has been inactive since creating the page in November 2007 and I am not confident he will reply. The Administrator links suggested that I "please contact the community staff on the Central Wikia" if I wished to become an Administrator/Bureaucrat. With your gamer background I thought you'd be the best to contact! Hope to hear from you soon.

Matt P

P.S. - I read some earlier posts on your talk page and saw the one "Fairy Tail Wikia" seemed similar to my request. I'll post on the adoption page!
 * Heya! You can request to adopt the wiki here.  --KyleH (talk) 18:29, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

hi
Hi, I am one of the founders of ubcsgame.wikia.com. My user name is JosephFrost0304. But on history it will have a IP number, because i can't login. If i login my computer will freeze. Can you please answer these questions,
 * Since I created ubcsgame.wikia.com, can you please help me to know how you become a admin (because i made, there for "admin")?
 * How do you make it so only admins can edit main page.
 * And if your a admin, how do you ban people. Thank you very much. The best way to reach me is at ubcsgame.wikia.com, thank you again.
 * When you create a wiki, you are automatically made an admin of that wiki; however, you must be logged in to be an admin--you can't be an admin as an anonymous IP user. If you want to make someone else an admin, you can do so using Special:Userrights.
 * Hi! When you are logged in as an admin on a wiki, at the top bar you will see a "Protect" button (next to the "Edit this page" button).  You can click that to protect the page so that only admins can edit the page.  As a general rule, however, we recommend that you do not protect pages (even the main page) unless you are experiencing significant vandalism problems on those pages.  Proteting pages makes it so no one else can help you out on them!  Check out Help:Page protection.
 * Finally, on a wiki, you can block a user by clicking on the "Block user" button that appears on the left side of the page near the "Recent changes" button. The block button also appears in page histories, recent changes, and elsewhere on the wiki; however, you will only see it if you are logged in as an administrator.  Check out Help:Blocking.
 * If you have any other questions, please let me know! --KyleH (talk) 23:21, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Big Problem?
I figured I'd alert somone down at WC that there appears to be a glitch where all logged-in users on every Wiki can block other users at will. I'm not talking sysops, and the sort, since I am one on two Wiki's. Another user had brought this to my attention. Please tell me it's some temporary glitch, and not some new upgrade that you guys did..... 19:26, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. There was a bug where all users would see the "block" button on a user page; however, they were not able to actually perform the block.  That should be fixed shortly.  --KyleH (talk) 18:44, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Unhinged
unhinged Thanks, I set this page up but now wish it to be deleted as the movie is no longer distributed. Also it wont be re-released. I am working on a new movie and will set a new page up soon. Can you please delete it. Thanks Warren mangoclowns 17:02, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

"Belay that order and keep steering the ship toward the wind" It has been done! mangoclowns 17:19, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

May Bureaucrats could set any limitation for upload files?
I believes that many bad guys treat the EVCHK as the host of uploading images. So could you help me set the restriction on uploading, i.e. just Autoconfirmed user could have upload right or something like that?

Emm, could I know what conditions to be autoconfirmed user is?--疾風綾希 00:53, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is possible for us to restrict upload of files to autoconfirmed users. Autoconfirmed accounts are accounts which are at least 4 days old.  It is also possible to use "emailconfirmed", which is accounts which have verified their email address.  If you would like us to put those restrictions in place, please email us and we'll take care of it as quickly as possible.  Thanks! --KyleH (talk) 17:25, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Botting
Hi once again, Kyle :) Hope you don't mind me coming to you about this, but since I know of you from GuildWiki, when I had to come to Wikia your name sprang to mind ;)  I'm the Founder of UnAnswers and would like to request you could pop over here and make one of my accounts a bot. Due to our name (nature) and my personal desire for us to have a true identity, I'll be changing our Answered / Un-answered categories, and having a bot to hide all the capitalization edits which follow would be much appreciated. If you have any questions or anything, please let me know. Thanx :) A F K When Needed 11:02, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Done! In the future, please ping Special:Contact ... that'll make sure it will happen as quickly as possible. --KyleH (talk) 19:54, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry. And thank you! =) A_F_K_sig_2.jpg A F K When Needed 20:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Help
You seem to be the only active staff at the moment (the moment being 20:04, 10 August 2009 (UTC)). So, could you please delete the messages from Iceanator189 and the other guy (the one that Iceanator is talking to) from the shout box on the Webkinz Wikia? It would really help as those messages are annoying. Thanks in advance-- Webkinz112 My talk page (haha, no link for you) 20:04, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Heya! Sorry for the delay, but it looks like all the messages from Iceanator189 are gone now.  If you still need help, please let me know! --KyleH (talk) 23:07, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Help!
I just went onto the Moshi Monsters Wiki and the main page was an old version, the version that it was on when I first started work on it! No-one has been on it except for me today, and anyway I'm the only admin that has been on since the wiki was started! Is it my computer or is it just a technical difficulty? (It was fine when I went on it earlier today).--Tigan Barkwater <font color="goldenrod" size="2">Why not chat? 10:25, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Tigan! It looks like you may have accidently clicked the "Rollback" button in the article's history.  That reverts the page all the way back to the last time that someone other than the most recent author edited the page.  I went ahead and undid that change.  Take a look at it now and let me know if it looks like things are back to normal. --KyleH (talk) 23:06, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Issue on the AoE Wiki
Hi, Kyle. There's been an issue between me and another user on the Age of Empires Wiki. I believe that the user, Ajraddatz, has blocked me unjustly. Here are some talk pages to help you get acquainted with the situation: My talk page, His talk page. He has said that I have tried to convince other users to remain active, and that I have made verbal attacks, neither of which are true. - Joe   (talk) 17:00, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Situation resolved.

Wackypedia
I am not interested in contributing to the wiki the Wackypedia users moved to. I would like to for Wackypedia to be unlocked. This is what I meant to say in second email, but it was misinterpreted by another Wikia administrator. Thank you much.--FS356 03:07, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Alrighty! I unlocked the wiki for you, and went ahead and made you an administrator.  Have fun :) --KyleH (talk) 23:00, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Unencylopedia
plz, kyleH, is unencyclopedia part of wikia? if so, is it allowed? if so, why? plz respond. ty; plz repyl on my talk if u can.

Thanks!
I always thought that it reverted to the last version, like undo... now I know the difference. Thanks again!--<font color="Fuchsia ">Tigan Barkwater <font color="goldenrod" size="2">Why not chat? 08:24, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Ever since the new upgrade, I can't upload any files to my wiki because they all become .php files? Is there any way you could remove it for specific users? And if not, is there a way that you can solve my problem ,because I my computer doesn't understand .php files.--
 * That was a known issue, and it should be fixed now. Can you take a look and let me know if you still have difficulty? --KyleH (talk) 22:30, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Inactive central administrator
Hi,

User:Phil.e. hasn't made any (useful) edits for over a year now, and, judging from Administrators his administrator rights should be removed.

I have no mean to offend, but I thought it should be noted. Also, maybe this page should be archived xD, it's 70 kb to large, and takes long to edit. Mark (Tedjuh10) - Talk 14:16, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. You're right--this page should be archived.  Want to take care of that for me? ;) --KyleH (talk) 22:31, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Done it. Mark (Tedjuh10) - Talk 23:33, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Your user page
Hey,

Me again ;). Just thought I should note it; your userpage doesn't show in other languages. Try using http://community.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:KyleH&uselang=nl. Shouldn't messaging wiki automatically show the English version if another language isn't available? Mark (Tedjuh10) - Talk 22:57, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It should. Thanks for pointing it out. --KyleH (talk) 23:44, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Just saying hi
Hi this is James adams from the Cherub Wikia. I was wondering if you could spend some more time on it. Because there is only 44 articles and I reckon there should be a lot more. I will write some more but i need help.
 * Hi James! You're doing a great job on the Cherub wiki.  Unfortunately, I don't know much about Cherub or the Henderson's boys series, so I wouldn't be of much help.  Your best bet is to keep adding content.  Doing so will allow more people to find the wiki and help out. :) --KyleH (talk) 18:12, September 28, 2009 (UTC)

New search engine
If the new search engine enabled at The Vault is the same as the one currently at Central, I'm not fond of it at all. Previously, it was quite easy to find new Fallout-related wikis by searching for "Fallout" at Central, and the search showed them all. Now it doesn't - e.g. I couldn't find the newly created Fallout Humor by searching for "Fallout". Ausir(talk) 21:17, September 30, 2009 (UTC)

Godfather Game
I've noticed that the Godfather: The Game wiki (http://godfatherthegame.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) has not been updated by some one other than me for over eight months. I was wondering if you could contact the current admin of that wiki about possibly allowing me to take over the wiki, as I would love to be able to "help the ailing wiki get back on its feet". (Constantinos2 18:47, October 3, 2009 (UTC))


 * Hi, Constantinos2. The process is relatively easy, you'll want to check out Adoption requests and read the instructions there on adopting inactive wikis. Good luck. -- 18:50, October 3, 2009 (UTC)

Modern Wikia Editing Bar
You know the editing bar at the top of your screen when you edit articles, I was looking at the ''wikianswers and I saw a request delete option. I was wondering if Modern Wikia could have the same option to make it easier for users.

Thanks, --Andrew Schlieffen, Executive Administrator of Modern Wikia and Valkyrie Movie Wikia 02:07, October 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * Heya! Those buttons are added by a little of javascript found in Wikianswers MediaWiki:common.js file.  If you copy the code from the top of that file to MediaWiki:common.js on your own wiki, you will get the request delete and redirect buttons. --KyleH (talk) 19:34, October 12, 2009 (UTC)


 * Slow, KyleH was slow. ~Joey~   ^Talk^  20:07, October 12, 2009 (UTC)

B'crat rights
One of our users Power courage wisdom and time has recently had his admin rights removed. He requested that all of his rights be removed, but I cannot obliege 100% because he also has b'crat rights. Can you, or someone else, remove them, please?-- C  2  / C C  00:12, October 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! Can you give me a link to where the discussion occurred?
 * Done! --KyleH (talk) 00:40, October 15, 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks!-- C  2  / C C  00:56, October 15, 2009 (UTC)

hello
hello KyleH how has your school year been so far.Mays 17:16, October 15, 2009 (UTC)

B'crat, again
Sorry if I'm troubling you, but we have another b'crat thing. Oldschoolzeldafan used to be a generally excepted admin/b'crat, but after one of our admins went through the User rights log that Oldschoolzeldafan had been nominated for rollback, but resived Admin/B'crat rights instead. While she may have proven that giving her those rights was good, but she did not go through the proper channels. She also is inactive and is editing from an IP, so I don't think it will effect her much. Sorry for being such a bother....-- C  2  / C C  23:27, October 15, 2009 (UTC)

Well, sorry if I sound impacient, but this has been hanging for a few days. I'm not in a paticular rush or anything, but I feel that this situation would have a better outcome if it is solved sooner. -- C  2  / C C  03:06, October 19, 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. Please be sure to send any important requests to Special:Contact--that's usually the quickest way to get help. :) --KyleH (talk) 00:18, October 20, 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll do that next time.-- C  2  / C C  00:12, October 21, 2009 (UTC)

Trouble Brewing Over at Capcom Database. Help!
Some coward with the IP address 76.203.175.118 is mixing links and inserting foul language on the Capcom Database Wiki (see "recent changes" over there, if you want). I am an admin. there, so I banned him for a year, but I expect more trouble. All he has to do is go on a different computer, right? There aren't too many people working over there, and I really don't feel like cleaning this up myself. I've already had a few problems like this in the past, and I'm thinking about quitting unless something is done. Any advice? icysugarspike 19:24, October 19, 2009 (UTC)
 * Heya! It looks like you're doing an awesome job on the Capcom Database Wiki.  Dealing with vandalism can be very tiring--but fortunately, MediaWiki makes it very easy to undo what they do.  It looks like you're handling it pretty well, so I don't have a whole lot of advice.  In general, most vandals don't bother coming back on different IPs once they've been banned once.  There are a few that are especially persistent, but this guy doesn't seem to be one of them--he went hasn't come back.  Just hang in there.  If you continue to add more information to the wiki, more people will find it and be able to help out.  Just keep up the good work! --KyleH (talk) 00:25, October 20, 2009 (UTC)

Administrator rights
Hi, I'm looking for a way to get administrator rights for the Shield wiki but couldn't find a specific page that explained how to do it. I've been contributing to that wiki for a couple of months now and, even though only one other editor has stepped in, I'd like to keep on working on it and perhaps elevate it to the status of other more complete, more visited wikis. Let me know what's the process I should follow. Thanks. Thief12 16:43, October 21, 2009 (UTC)

Just felt like adding that I'm a frequent contributor on the 24 Wiki as well, just in case you want to check my trajectory or something like that :-D Thief12 16:44, October 21, 2009 (UTC)
 * Heya! If none of the administrators on a wiki are active, you can request to adopt that wiki and become an administrator by posting a note here.  It looks like, however, both of those wikis have active sysops.  On The Shield Wiki, you should post a note to Kanamekun asking about how things work there.  On the 24 wiki, SignorSimon and Blue Rook are the most recently active admins. --KyleH (talk) 21:18, October 21, 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I just posted the info about the 24 Wiki in case you wanted to check if I was an active editor at Wikia. I've been contributing there for about a year and talk frequently with Blue Rook and SignorSimon. But thanks for the help. I already wrote Kanamekun and asked for his help. Thief12 22:05, October 21, 2009 (UTC)

Hi i want to do that magazine thing but can we like go on star wars wikia and do it?

Starwarswikia
ok can we like use that magazine thin on star wars wikia.com??? Jedimastermandy

Wiki with no admins
Hello KyleH. I'm a wikian who lurks around on gaming wikis, just like you. There is a serious problem in one of those, the Guitar Hero wiki.

The wiki is in complete lack of administrators. There are two bureaucrats and two sysops, all of whom have been inactive for more than 3 months each. By the way, that specific wiki is filled with crap edits, pages and users, who keep spreading panic whenever they go. There isn't anyone to check the Candidates for deletion category, rollback crap edits and ban this kind of users. Most important, there can't be new admins as all bureaucrats and sysops are inactive and therefore can't change a user's rights.

I may not even have 100 edits on that wiki, but I am active every day and taking care of bad edits. I wanted to ask you if you may come over to the wikia and appoint new admins. I would like to be one of them, since that is a wiki I am not going to abandon (though I will if action is not taken soon). So, consider, and please reply. Thanks!

Peace, JEA13  [ iTalk  ]
 * Heya! You can request to adopt this wiki and become an administrator by posting here.  Let me know if you need any more help. --KyleH (talk) 20:59, November 4, 2009 (UTC)
 * Ehm, as far as I know, adoption requests are for inactive wikis (unless I am wrong). I forgot to mention that there are a few active users on that wiki already along with me. - JEA13  [ iTalk  ] 15:31, November 5, 2009 (UTC)
 * Ahh, you're right--that is a little bit different. In that case, there needs to be a consensus among the active editors to make you an admin.  Your best bet is to post on the forums or the community portal and propose the change, and let other users know about the proposals by posting on their talk pages.  Once there is a consensus, send us a message via Special:Contact pointing us to the page, and we can take care of it. --KyleH (talk) 21:48, November 6, 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure thing, thanks for listening! - JEA13  [ iTalk  ] 22:02, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

Ninja Gaiden Wiki
I am requesting I be made an administrator/ bureaucrat of Ninja Gaiden wiki. I recently went over the wiki and was amazed at how underdeveloped it is. Many pages are a combination of subjects that could be an article on their own. There appears to be no activity at the moment and many of the users are small timers who make quick minor edits and have since rarely appeared again. I have history with being an administrator/ bureaucrat as I adopted the Dead Space Wiki and monitor it on a daily basis. My capabilities for the ninja gaiden wiki are limited due to my status as a regular user and I hope by adjusting my status to administrator I can reorganize and bring the wiki to prominence as well as assign proper duties to those willing to commit to the wiki as �I have with my other wiki. I'm hoping you're the person to talk to about this but if not could you redirect me to who is?--MasterM 15:41, November 6, 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi MasterM! You can request to adopt that wiki and become an administrator by posting here. --KyleH (talk) 21:49, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

Wikiaphone
Thanks for the tip on Wikiaphone.css, I've encased the entire main page in the "nomobile" class and plan on making one just for mobiles, however if you could detail the class for common.css for "mobile only" more that would be great. Thanks Kyle. -- <font color="Green">LordTBT <font color="Green" size="2">Talk! 19:24, November 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay in replying--I've been out of the office since Wednesday. Creating something that will only display for mobile users is actually pretty simple. First, give all tables and divs that you want only to display to mobile users a class of "mobileonly".  Second, add the following to MediaWiki:Common.css:

.mobileonly { display:none; }
 * Finally, add the following to MediaWiki:Wikiaphone.css:

.mobileonly { display:block !important; }
 * The "!important" may not be necessary, but it shouldn't hurt anything either. The code in common.css hides the elements for all skins, then the code in wikiaphone.css overrides that and makes it display for wikiaphone only. --KyleH (talk) 00:56, November 14, 2009 (UTC)


 * No problem, thanks for responding. Am I cheating if I do something like  and use a template in there? When I just previewed the page with that code, the template appears. -- <font color="Green">LordTBT  <font color="Green" size="2">Talk! 04:47, November 14, 2009 (UTC)


 * That should work just fine, I would think. (You could put the div within the template too.)  I assume that this is on redwall.wikia.com?  I'll take a look this afternoon. --KyleH (talk) 18:21, November 16, 2009 (UTC)


 * Looks like it works for me. Is it possible that you were viewing with cached CSS? --KyleH (talk) 18:25, November 16, 2009 (UTC)

Growing number of Spams
Hey KyleH,

Quite recently after Halloween, Halopedia and HaloFanon have been receiving quite a number of spam articles made by several IP users. We don't know the intention of these IP users but it seems they focus only on these two wikis. I believe they are spambots or IPs slaved by some other spambots. We've been having several spams from Russia (based on the content and the use of "ru" at the end of an external link). Is there any method to avoid these or reduce the amount of spam in the near future?

Toodles! - <font face="Century Gothic"> <font color="#FF4F00">5 əb<font color="#FF4F00">'7 aŋk (<font color="#FF4F00">7alk ) 11:37, November 19, 2009 (UTC)


 * Hey Subtank, that spam you're recognizing is actually a global problem for Wikia. They strike all of Wikia creating either obvious spam articles or simply useless articles with few words. This spam is usually taken care of across Wikia to reduce annoyance from local editors like yourself, but as those two wikis are rather active you beat the cross-Wikia deletion.


 * And with the current rate this comes out, it's probably best to just delete and ignore it. If you'd like to help all of Wikia stay free from spam it'd be appreciated as well. Preventing article creation by anonymous contributors or putting in any restrictions will just do more bad than good. Joey (talk) 01:38, November 20, 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply. No, I won't be putting any restrictions on anonymous contributors as I know tons of them being good editors. Good to know that the two wikis are not the only ones having the problem.- <font face="Century Gothic"> <font color="#FF4F00">5 əb<font color="#FF4F00">'7 aŋk (<font color="#FF4F00">7alk ) 13:10, November 22, 2009 (UTC)

Banning
Hey KyleH

This is Sidekickjason I have been working on the www.ttte.wikia.com or a while but there is a user who banned me for unproductive contributes but all of the stuff I have put in is correct he has delected almost very contribute I made and could you please check this out for me cause I can't talk to him cause he banned me but he basicly has been cyber bullying me by delecting the stuff I contributed which I put back all the stuff I so if he banned me for being unproductive then he should be banned because of the way he has deleted stuff making it unproductive which kind of makes me mad cause I spent a hole day editing some stuff but in a little while he reversed it all. I don't mean to be a tatle tale for any thing like that but I just want to say how I don't think it was fair.

Thank you

Sidekickjason --Sidekickjason 00:14, November 22, 2009 (UTC)
 * I've had a quick look through your contribs, and they look productive to me... I wonder what Kyle will say... anyways, good luck! 09:12, November 22, 2009 (UTC)
 * It looks like Thomasfan already unblocked you, but if you have any more trouble, please let me know. --KyleH (talk) 00:25, November 24, 2009 (UTC)

Advise
Hello, I'm Angélica Casarin Hartmann, 20 years, a Brazilian sysop from Desciclopédia (the Brazilian Uncyclopedia) and an user was banned because he/she didn't respect our rules, and now he/she create a page on your wiki only to offend me. Please, I need that your staff delet it, and preferencially give me the IP from the user. I need your help, thank you. 189.30.215.225 21:51, November 24, 2009 (UTC)

Removal of Bureaucrat Privileges
Greetings. I would like to request the removal of my bureaucrat privileges on the Command & Conquer Wiki. Alas, I no longer have the time, energy, or incentive to put in the work needed there. Thank you for your time. - Meco (talk, contribs) 00:25, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Meco. I've taken care of your request.  Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance. --KyleH (talk) 18:37, December 7, 2009 (UTC)

Help me!
Hello Kyle, could you help me? I'm admnistrator on Lost The Journey Wiki and I don't know how you can get that thing from that you're an admnistrator on your wiki. This is the same thing I wanna doing with Lostienumberone, but it didn't work. <- This is what I mean. So people can see that you're an administrator, thanks! Here is the link: http://losthejourney.wikia.com/wiki/Lost_The_Journey:_Administrators.--Station7 19:09, December 7, 2009 (UTC)

Solarus Rao
kyle how do i set up a new wiki. I have tried on the create a new wiki and it runs me in a circle talk

Halopedia Image Error
Hey KyleH,

I'm trying to replace Halopedia's Wiki Logo (The Master Chief with Halopedia on it) via MediaWiki:Monaco.css with something else but it appears I cannot find the file in the wiki. Oddly, I found an alternate file which has the same image but it doesn't lead to the same URL.

So, here's the problem:
 * The Monaco_Accent File that I cannot find in the Wiki
 * The (Alternate?) Monaco File that I found in the Wiki but it doesn't lead to the URL above.

On another related issue, after I modified Halopedia's MediaWiki.css (Replaced the "I Cannot Find That" image with the "Oh, this is something different" image), the Monaco_Accent file overlaps the Monaco file. I checked through MediaWiki:Monaco.css but found none link of The Monaco_Accent File.

Hope you respond to this quickly. We need to bring up the Christmas Theme!- <font face="Century Gothic"> <font color="#FF4F00">5 əb<font color="#FF4F00">'7 aŋk (<font color="#FF4F00">7alk ) 13:24, December 19, 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi! Everything looks good to me right now.  Are you still having trouble, or did you manage to get it fixed?  --KyleH (talk) 19:04, December 21, 2009 (UTC)

Admin rights to Gruntipedia
Hello KyleH, I am Scot 113. I have just started going on Gruntipedia, and have relized that the admins are either not active or just not there. So with that, I want to administrative rights to Gruntipedia, or atleast a Wikia janitor's rights, only to protect the site and run it (only if needed). Please get back to me on this, and have a nice day! -Scot 113 01:26, December 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Scot! You can request to adopt that wiki and becoming an administrator by posting a message here.  --KyleH (talk) 19:50, January 7, 2010 (UTC)

I need help!
I posted on the Mega Man Knowlage Base about the other six robot masters for Mega Man 10 being revealed. But earilar, I posted that ClockMan.EXE's possible original counterpart was Time Man from MegaMan Powered Up. These two guys erased my post and thought I was lying when I said about the Mega Man 10 robot masters. And they blocked me from the wiki. I have proof about the Mega Man 10 robot masters in the form of the Youtube video, "Megaman 10: Stage Select Screenshot and Temporary Title Theme Music", but I don't know how to link, can you find this video and show it to these two? Their usernames are Vizing and Zalbaag. User:E-124 Poldege

Hello from Zombiepedia
Our administrators haven't been active for quite some time, is there anyway you can help me become a admin at zombie.wikia.com -Corporal John
 * You could adopt the wiki. Please see Adoption requests‎. 03:01, January 15, 2010 (UTC)

We've been emailing each other
Hey Kyle, I'm Dusti, the individual who has been talking to you about custom user rights. Are you around? Dahowe09 02:14, January 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey Dusti ... I just responded to one of your emial messages yesterday. Is there something else I can help you with? --KyleH (talk) 18:34, January 27, 2010 (UTC)

Search
Hi, KyleH. I am the admin of Children's Books Wiki (I need more contributors!). :) Recently, I thought I'd use your search at community.wikia.com to find my wiki. I was horrified to find that searching in the "What do you love?" search box for children's books did not come up with my wiki. Surely this search needs to be improved? Should it not search domain names first (it would then find childrensbooks.wikia.com) before specific pages on other wikis? It's ridiculous to have entries from Fallout and Star Wars just because they have articles with "book" or "books" in the title, and not have the wiki about children's books. So, could you please improve this search, so it actually comes up with wikis as well as pages? Thanks, Bethel23 (talk) 14:34, January 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Bethel. Thanks for the feedback!  We are actively working on improving search results.  I'll pass this information along to the team.  Unfortunately, cross-wiki search is a bit tricky: we do take domain name in to consideration when presenting results, and while we certainly want childrensbooks.wikia.com to rank high on a search for children's books, we would still would want certain pages from Fallout or Star Wars to rank higher than the main page of an empty wiki at childrensbooks12345.wikia.com.  Nonetheless, I agree that things aren't quite perfect yet, so we are working hard to improve them. --KyleH (talk) 18:38, January 27, 2010 (UTC)

Kyle,

could you make this wikia better i will make you an admin and the other thing plz

The future of Central Wikia
I read in "The future of Central Wikia" that Central Wikia is being split into two. Usually, global JS and CSS files were placed in Central Wikia. These files were moved to http://community.wikia.com/, so I checked the HTML source files...

They were still being linked to the corporate Wikia, instead of the community one:

These: http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:Azliq7/global.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:Azliq7/global.css&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s

should be: http://community.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:Azliq7/global.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s http://community.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:Azliq7/global.css&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s

Could you please fix the links? Thanks. 17:05, February 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Those look identical to me ... am I missing something? In the source of my page currently they look correct as well. --KyleH (talk) 20:06, February 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Typo, my bad. The links were pointing to "www.wikia.com" instead of "community.wikia.com". Nevermind, it was fixed a day later. 20:46, February 12, 2010 (UTC)

www.zoids.wikia.com
please. hte zoids wiki is under a major vandalism attack going on right now! I know I left you a message on the zoids wiki already so please dont ban me for spamming or whatever Im leaving a message here in case he vandalises your page as well. I just don't know what to do! This Antithomastrainowner is going to kill our Wiki! We need immediate help! Thank you kindly sirLeon35 21:01, February 5, 2010 (UTC)

um sir Kyle?
 * It looks like some others have helped out with that. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help. --KyleH (talk) 00:24, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Subject Change
My wiki has ended up in Lifestyle instead of Entertainment. Is there any way to move my wiki to Entertainment? (I'm too lazy to make a new one) I already contacted Wikia Staff... Crambojapaneseguy 21:18, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

Update: Whooops! I forgot.

Thing is, can you forget about the Wiki Subject Change thing? Please? I have a more serious issue.


 * What wiki is it? Kyle and/or anyone else won't be able to help without knowing that. =) - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 21:26, February 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * What he said. :) Reply with your wiki name and I will be happy to help. --KyleH (talk) 00:24, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

Eliminate Pro Wiki
Hey, I originally came here looking to see if you could help us solve our admin and bureaucrat crisis on the eliminate pro wiki. However, I looked around community central and found the adopt-a-wiki page and applied. If you could take a look at it, that would be great! - Rbatrack 04:03, February 13, 2010 (UTC)

Phillip A. Batz Wiki
Hi Kyle!

I sent you an e-mail already as well, but thought it best to cover my bases. If you could visit my new Wiki and leave a rave (or rant!), I would appreciate it. Thank you!

Phill

--TheLastWordSword 20:22, February 14, 2010 (UTC)

Namesquatting Issues
I think, strangely, that there's a lot of namesquatting going around.

I was looking to use the account Pain for an account, but it was taken (of course)

Then, I looked for about 67 more accounts similar to Pain, and they were all taken.

The strange thing is, none of them seemed to have any activity!

I have a feeling there's 1 user behind all of this.

I'm not sure.

I tried:

Pain

TheDevaPath

xxPain

xxxxPain

and 64 others.

I'm way too lazy to make an account with a username 20 characters long.

Can't remember, but namesquatting isn't specified in Terms of Use on Wikia.

Shouldn't the Wikia Staff do something about this?

Where I read about namesquatting:

youtube

97.122.92.176 02:57, February 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * Wikia's been around for many years, and has over 85000 wikis, and over 1.8million users, Its quite possible they are all, or were actual users. --Uberfuzzy 03:59, February 15, 2010 (UTC)

I messed up?
OK! Here's the serious problem I've been pondering about!

The thing is, I'm sick of some wikis!

I make a wiki, make a couple pages, then.....I realize someone else set up one that looks all professional...and I lose hope.

Someone just completely bomb.

Here's the wikis I've been talking about.

Can you either wipe them clean or give them to someone else?

www.hobbesworld.wikia.com

www.chucknorrisfacts.wikia.com

www.dictionarians.wikia.com (is that how its spelled?)

I'll post more when I think of them.

Why I'm doing this is I think I'll sit in the shadows for a while until a phenomoen happens and then I'll create it.

Until then...I'm just going to contribute to wikis.

Crambojapaneseguy 03:08, February 15, 2010 (UTC)

No Active B'crats on the Combat Arms Wiki
We have no active Admins or B'crats on the Combat Arms Wiki. We have had a growing problem with Vandalism in the past few weeks and there is no way to deal with it except copy/paste the old history to the vandalised page. I am an AVID ( to say the least ) and would gladly accept any invitation to be a B'Crat, as I have been using this Wiki for 7 weeks now as an unregistered user, and finally made an account so i can see my edit count. 30+ edits in 2 days. Like I said, a Fanatic.

PS: You should try Combat Arms. =)


 * Please check out the adoption page to learn how to get admin and bureaucrat rights on the wiki. In the mean time, if you have vandal pages, I can delete them for you. -- 01:40, February 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * We still have active members, but most of the admins log-in once a week or so. And the Main admin announced his leaving.


 * You should probably address this by having a discussion on the wiki about choosing new admins. You can then ask staff to promote the nominated users. Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 23:15, February 17, 2010 (UTC)

Concerns
Hi Kyle. Yes, that does answer most of the problems I had, particularly regarding the automatic search when someone types in the name of a new wiki - as you guessed, I hadn't seen that feature. And I wasn't saying that blue box pages were necessarily a good thing for wikia - I had read your blog so knew all about the reasons for eliminating them. I was just saying that they provided a function that was useful for hardcore Wikia users and which has yet to be replaced.

I only recently discovered the existence of the Community Central:List of Wikia, which has some promise in this area. Would it be possible to make this searchable somehow (as opposed to browsable)? That would solve most of my complaints at a swoop. -- Supermorff 18:03, February 18, 2010 (UTC)

DB Wiki in spanish
Hi Kyle. Well first i don´t speak or write very well in english but i wish that you can understand me. Well i want to be bureaucrat in the Dragon Ball wiki in spanish but the bureaucrat leave the wiki and now í´m a sysop in this wiki but now i want to be bureaucrat in this wiki. i´m here because zuirdj is ausent. Thanks I wait for your answer --<font size="3" face="Impact"> Danke  7  23:32, February 23, 2010 (UTC)

Problem with linking to www.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiaStats
Hey Kyle,

I was looking through FarmVille wiki's WikiaStats page, and near the top I saw the words. Being overly curious, I clicked the link, only to have it link me to a very yucky looking page on www, instead of community. Since you were the mastermind behind the central redesign, I figured that you would be the best person to alert about this.

Thanks, Ajraddatz Talk 18:37, March 1, 2010 (UTC)

Sysop Priviliges
Hey Kyle, I've recently started editing on the Battlefield wikia, and there are only two admins there. They're both not too active and not too knowledgeable about what to do.

I'd like to have sysop privileges on the Battlefield wikia so I can help edit better.

Thanks, User:EightOhEight


 * Replied here. Active bureaucrat can grant admin rights. -- 21:20, March 9, 2010 (UTC)