Forum:Questions

That's pretty much it.--Richard (Talk - Contribs) 00:06, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Why doesn't work?
 * 2) Is there a way to put in a user creation log?

G .He (Talk!) 00:09, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) The wiki you're using it on probably isn't MW1.10+ (r21319)
 * 2) Not really, as Wikia has a shared database and a creation on one wiki would mean a creation on all. A possible idea is to have a combined log (probably just on Central) and hide the creations from the recent changes.

I tried using on a Wikia with MediaWiki 1.10a, though it didn't work... Oh and I got another one. Users on our wiki have been uploading a bunch of images for use on their user pages, though other users have a problem with this and keep listing them up for deletion. It doesn't bother me that people are doing this, though I don't like seeing users getting mad seeing their images getting tagged for deletion. Is there an image use policy? Like, "you're not allowed to upload images that don't relate to the wiki's subject" or something? I know our wiki could make up one, though I want to see if there's a Wikia-wide policy. The search bar seems to be acting weird on MW1.10a.--Richard (Talk - Contribs) 15:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * No, I think you'll have to write the policy yourself, or with help of other people (using one shared policy wouldn't bee too varied...) – Smiddle / talk 16:29, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It all depends on the wiki. On central generally a few images are allowed, I use a few L?GPL images on my userpages to make my Useful Links section work well. But on The Gaiapedia the site being documended has over a million users, and we get so many people coming in who create a userpage, and then never come back. Because of that, we delete userpages if a user has not made any contributions to the wiki for around a week after they made the page, and personal images, avatars, etc... Are deleted, if someone wants an image on their userpage they half to externally embed it from a image host. But on my other wiki we generaly allow it. So it all depends on the wiki. Just remember that Fair use images can't be placed on userpages, so stick to things like the images uploaded to commons. ~Dantman(talk) tricks  Apr 30, 2007 @ 19:24 (UTC)

If I make an image, and put it on the wiki, does it have to be under the GNU Free Documentation License? Like, is it OK if I create my own image and say "For use only on (wiki name)?"--Richard (Talk - Contribs) 16:42, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm prty sure you can... – Smiddle / talk 16:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It doesn't half to be GFDL. But generally just saying that X wiki can use it isn't allowed. Mostly for the reasons that Wikipedia does not allow that; The encyclopedias are for free content, thus stuff which is NonCommercial, can only be used for one wiki, or even doesn't allow derivitives, etc... may not be allowed, moreso when it's someone releasing an original image a file already licensed like that elsewhere might get in, but letting users restrict free content when we can make it properly free like the Wiki itself is is counterintuitive. But there are plenty of licenses which can be used; Creative Commons (But generally not nc or nd though sa is great), FAL, Artistic-2, GPL, LGPL, BSD, etc... Though remember that insignificant images usually can't be licensed and are PD. ~Dantman(talk) tricks May 4, 2007 @ 19:43 (UTC)