Forum:New features!

We have three new features on Wikia today!


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

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

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


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


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

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