User talk:Splarka/Archive 3

Mp3
That's not fair. But thank you anyways.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 09:01, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

That Thing
Sir, thank you for your fine craftsmanship; you are a tribute to your self and all wiki peoples.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 17:24, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Adminship voting again
Hello, While everything is going fine, couple of members in the One Piece Wikia are seeking for 2 more adminstrators. While Justyn is fine but since he rarly respond(But edit the most) to our request so we need to have two more adminstrator to manage the site and help him. Can you set up another adminstrator voting again for 2 top editors who can become an adminstrators?

(Joekido 03:27, 5 January 2007 (UTC))


 * Justyn is still active and is also a bureaucrat. This means he can hold the election and promote the winners himself, without the need for staff intervention. If he wants to do the same thing I did last time, he should go to w:c:onepiece:Special:Activeusers and make a list of all those users (minus Angela/Sannse/myself, and other staff), and hold a vote. --Splarka (talk) 03:41, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay, we'll try to get Justyn's attention and if he can't respond or start the voting, then I'll let you know. We already ask Justyn for help but he did not seem to try to set it up. We'll give this more time and if Justyn failed to start the voting then again we'll let you know.

(Joekido 09:24, 5 January 2007 (UTC))

Adminship
Hi, thanks for deleting that category from the Harry Potter Wiki. There is currently a backlog of various things for deletion but no active Admins or Bureaucrats (two of three have been inactive for over 6 months) to delete. I have been contributing heavily to the Wiki and feel that progress is hindered by this lack of Admin activity. I have contributed heavily to the English Wikipedia as well and am familiar with the interworkings of a Wiki. I am appealing to you for a promotion to Admin and Bureaucrat status so that I may cleanup pages for deletion, edit various protected pages to improve and update them, and hopefully be able to make some new Admins when the project picks up again. Thanks, John Reaves 06:36, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * It is usually suggested to users wishing to adopt a Wiki that they continue to edit there for a week or three before requesting to adopt it (you've only been editing a few days?). Also, w:c:harrypotter:Special:Activeusers indicates dozens of people are active (that is, have edited in the last month) including one Bureaucrat. You should first have the community hold a vote on new administrators, and/or contact (email/talk page) User:Chosen_One (who edited once on December 27th) to choose some new administrators. If you want, I could set a sitenotice pointing to a discussion/vote page for this purpose. --Splarka (talk) 06:45, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay, I'll wait for Chosen One or the three weeks-whatever comes first. Thanks for your help.  John Reaves 07:03, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I've had a poll up at the community portal to get the opinion of the rest of the community on gaining an Administrator/Bureaucrat and there appears to be consensus that we need one (see w:c:harrypotter:Harry Potter Wiki talk:Community Portal). Is there a place on Wikia for this to reviewed? I've ask Angela for help too, so I've also posted this message on her talk page. John Reaves (talk) 05:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay, as there has been no response from the only active bureaucrat and you've had enough community support, I've set you +sysop. (+bureaucrat to come later if there is need (if the existing ones never show)) --Splarka (talk) 07:40, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks. I think we might need a user +sysop (temporarily to edit MediaWiki) occasionally. Should I just contact you? John Reaves (talk) 02:38, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Request
Hello. I need to rename a lot of pages. I asked in forum about the problems, i'm having when doing it(errors). So, they advised to request a temporary sysop status on my wiki. I'm from ru.science.wikia.com - admin of this wiki support this idea. So, if possible please give me this status(i think the period of two weeks will be enough). Thank you. Sasha l 04:48, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, if you just want sysop status temporarily, V-admin can admin you themself and then I can remove the administrator status after a few days.


 * However, if you are just going to be moving pages and have no need for other administrator powers, I can set you +b as a bot, which will let you move as many pages as you want. Does this sound good? (as a bot, you will be hidden by default from Special:Recentchanges too). --Splarka (talk) 06:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah thats sonds good for me. The bot statis will be fine. Sasha l 06:43, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay, I set it and let the admin know. --Splarka (talk) 07:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot. Sasha l 08:10, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Tricks page
Would you mind if I copied your "tricks" subpage over to the wiki I usually edit to look through? It looks like some useful stuff, I saw it on Recent changes here. Scottch 06:17, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Go for it, available under GFDL. You might link back just so you remember where it came from ^_^. --Splarka (talk) 06:38, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and while I'm at it, I was at recent changes again (I'm playing with my monobook and found a page here for it) I saw this edit to the logo image page, and there's a red link in it. I thought I'd let you know because that page is protected and I can't edit it :(  Anyway, thanks for the tricks.  Scottch 03:15, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

js code little help?
Hi i was trying to install the Live Preview and went to the creator and found the new version InstaView so i tried to install it on w:c:Dofus:Dofus:InstaView/instaview.js, and after some bugs make it work but my almost 0 info on Java im wondering if there is code i dont need or should i keep it as it is? --Cizagna (Talk) 21:46, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


 * If it ain't broke, don't fix it, is my motto ^_^. In a quick glance there are a few things that aren't needed, but it might be harder to remove them than leave them in. --Splarka (talk) 01:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * ha ha ha ok, nice motto, just a little extra thing can i move the insta button and where its display like here at wikia? as i have found it more pleasant --Cizagna (Talk) 04:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Can you be more specific? --Splarka (talk) 04:20, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikias Live Preview button appears directly below the normal edit box and on top of the copywriters notice, but the InstaView has the button between the "save page" and the "show preview" button, its nice, but all the warning message about copywriters eats a chunk of my visual space making it some times unpleasant (as far i have experimented) but i dont know how to change that to be display as livepreview. By the way thanks for the move i did not thing to use Mediawiki namespace to protect it.--Cizagna (Talk) 04:50, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Hmm, you could put this CSS into your user/monobook.css on dofus to hide them and give you more visual space:


 * 1) editpage-copywarn { display: none ; }
 * 2) editpage-tools { display: none ; }
 * I'll have to ponder on the best way to move the button. --Splarka (talk) 05:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Try this as a replacement for the top function in that script:

addOnloadHook(function{ if (document.getElementById('editpage-copywarn')) {    var oldPreview = document.getElementById('wpPreview');    var insertPoint = document.getElementById('editpage-copywarn');    var newPreview = document.createElement('input');    newPreview.setAttribute('type', 'button');    newPreview.setAttribute('style', 'font-style: italic;');    newPreview.setAttribute('value', 'InstaView');    newPreview.setAttribute('onclick', "InstaView.dump('wpTextbox1', 'InstaViewDump')");    insertPoint.parentNode.insertBefore(newPreview, insertPoint);    oldPreview.parentNode.innerHTML += ' ';    oldPreview.value = 'Classic Preview';  } });
 * You should be able to insert it wherever you want by modifying  to the ID of any element in the edit form. --Splarka (talk) 05:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok i did a little playing:

addOnloadHook(function{ if (document.getElementById('editpage-copywarn')) {    var newPreview = document.createElement('input');    var oldPreview = document.getElementById('editpage-copywarn');    newPreview.setAttribute('type', 'button');    newPreview.setAttribute('value', 'InstaView');    newPreview.setAttribute('onclick', "InstaView.dump('wpTextbox1', 'InstaViewDump')");    oldPreview.parentNode.insertBefore(newPreview, oldPreview);    oldPreview.parentNode.innerHTML += ' ';    oldPreview.value = 'Classic Preview';    } });
 * I remove the Style
 * I change  for
 * And looks like its working, but i dont seem to be able to move the preview box up, look at this image that shows the wikia live bar, againts my bar in dofus in My user page for toying arround, think i did something that i should not by removing the  line

--Cizagna (Talk) 04:07, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Take 2
Ahh, you did not make it clear to me that you wanted to move the preview box, you only indicated that you wanted to move the preview button. Also, be careful of the changes you make. By changing the oldPreview ID to 'editpage-copywarn' you've made a later re-assignment of the old preview a few lines down a bit broken. That is why in my example I added a new variable for the insertion. Moving the preview box is not as easy, as it was appended to the form at the end. To customarily insert it would be easier using another insertBefore (see example). Try this (exactly as is, mindful if you make changes): addOnloadHook(function{ if (document.getElementById('editpage-copywarn')) {    var oldPreview = document.getElementById('wpPreview');    oldPreview.value = 'Classic Preview';    var insertPoint = document.getElementById('editpage-copywarn');

var newPreview = document.createElement('input'); newPreview.setAttribute('type', 'button'); newPreview.setAttribute('style', 'font-style: italic;'); newPreview.setAttribute('value', 'InstaView'); newPreview.setAttribute('onclick', "InstaView.dump('wpTextbox1', 'InstaViewDump')");

var editWindow = document.createElement('div'); editWindow.setAttribute('style', 'margin: 5px 0 5px 0; padding: 5px; border: 2px solid orange;'); editWindow.setAttribute('id', 'InstaViewDump');

insertPoint.parentNode.insertBefore(editWindow, insertPoint); insertPoint.parentNode.insertBefore(newPreview, insertPoint); } }); --Splarka (talk) 11:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah sorry yes i was referring to the whole thing but only knew how to mention the button, the only thing i modify now is that i swap the 2  rows between them so that the button appears on top and the preview box below the "InstaView" button. Aside from that Thank you very much for all your help ^_^ --Cizagna (Talk) 14:03, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Randomising (again)
Hey Splarka thanks again for the help before. I thought I had what I wanted working but IEs being a pain. http://pikmin.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Excerpt displays as intended on firefox but IE seems only to process one instance of, the tables also broken frames and bleeds off into the google ads. http://pikmin.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Quote could be causing problems I copied it from wikipedia but have changed it slightly. I don't really have any ideas other than IE sucks at tables. Discordance 13:06, 13 January 2007 (UTC)


 * can't be broken in IE and work in Firefox, because is completely server-side. If you stack two together do they break in IE? --Splarka (talk) 22:01, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah the problems definitely with quote, I should have realised that. After some checking it was the table's attribute of align="left" that was causing problems, don't know why but I've removed that from the template and it works fine. Discordance 14:34, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorttable
Sorttable is something ive been looking to use in wikis for almost 2 years ever since i found Ævar's experiments in mediazilla. Apparently it made it into mediawiki 1.9, is Wikia going to update from 1.7a anytime soon? Wikipedia's using 1.10a by now. Discordance 00:54, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * We'll wait to get it when we upgrade, I think. It is still experimental and they are having lots of complaints about it. --Splarka (talk) 01:29, 19 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah i've seen quite a few of the problems with the sorting order, I wasn't asking for it to be installed separately though, I was wondering about how and when Wikia decides to use a newer version of MediaWiki. Discordance 04:43, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to be a pain i'm such a feature whore, but i've been trying to use Wikipedia:Wikipedia:NavFrame to hide spoiler sections. From the wikipedia documentation its done client-side with some css and js. I've copied the relevant sections to MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js but I'm not getting the show/hide buttons added to http://pikmin.wikia.com/wiki/User:Discordance/draft2. I then added the js to Monobook.js and it works under the monobook skin. As i'm just copying and pasting code I can't see why it doesn't work in common.js. Having it work just for the monobook skin isn't ideal, any thoughts? I noticed that Tooltips and access keys which are defined on wikipedia in common.js are defined in monobook.js does wikia not use common.js? Has the Pikmin wikia been setup not to? Discordance 19:53, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki:Common.js functionality wasn't added until 1.9 . --Splarka (talk) 01:29, 19 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I'll just leave a note on the monobook.js to move it to commmon.js later then. Discordance 04:43, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks again for the meta link. 21:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikithanks [[Image:Thanks sunflower.png]]
Thank you for helping me and the Neverwinter community by making this edit. For that, I'm giving you this 'Thanks sunflower'! You can display this on your user page using Template:Awards.

P.S. Also, thanks for creating User:Splarka/tricks which I use a lot to improve the wiki. --Leon (talk ) 22:16, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Can I get...
a clean looking 300 dpi version of the logo of wikiality.com? --uno 02:20, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Answering at w:c:wikiality:User_talk:Dauno. --Splarka (talk) 04:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Tricks
A real nice trick page you've put up. Thanks for those! Very useful (for me, at least). ;) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 16:43, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Spammer's return
On Prison Break Wiki. I won't delete it until you have reviewed it. I don't know should I have posted this on Spam blacklist talk or on your talk page, so please forgive me. :) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 14:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Most likely spam, as it's been deleted several times on Central. Splarka can block the phrase to prevent it from happening again, but the spammers will probably just come up with a new phrase... G .He (Talk!) 16:02, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Sysopping
Thanks for sysopping me on the kitsch Wikia. I'll do my best to bring the wiki to a higher standard. --Leon (talk ) 23:54, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Checkuser
Heya, we got a recurring vandal on uncyc. Can you tell me what range to block, since he seems a little persistent? Links to his contribs pages here. Ta muchly. Codeine 00:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, was gone, did others handle this for you? --Splarka (talk) 08:32, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Template troubles...
Hello, I'm from the Sonic wiki, and we really need some help with our templates. They can't seem to format properly, and I'm not sure if it's something we're doing or something we're not doing. Can you find what's causing this and tell us so we don't have to ask for help? Thanks in advance. Sacre Fi 23:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Answering on w:c:sonic:User talk:Sacre Fi. --Splarka (talk) 08:32, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that information, but I am still having trouble fixing the w:c:sonic:Template:Character page! Any help would be appreciated! Navij11
 * Thank you very much! Sacre Fi 17:45, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Desysoping
Hello, please remove my sysop status on Nonsensopedia. Lapa666 13:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. Can you give me some background info as to why (if you want/can)? --Splarka (talk) 08:32, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Foster Care Assistance
Hi there. Thank-you for getting back to me so quickly. I can be msn'd at afterfostercare @ hotmail.com if that is easier or we can work in this page back and forth. What do you prefer?

AfterFostercare 11:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)Afterfostercare


 * Actually, I have to sleep soon, but if you could list your conundrum and what you need solved about it, I might help some tonight (the live wiki help link can be more helpful in the daytime, you just might have to hang around there for ~10 min or so to get an answer sometimes). --Splarka (talk) 11:59, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok great, I appreciate it. My conundrum is that I created a page (scratchpad wiki) at http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Foster_care And that is going well. I created some headers using the double equals sign so that the page will have some "topics" and made a link in each one to a named link  corresponding page of which I will begin working on. My problem seems to be that I can never create a "Category" link at the bottom of the page back to the appropriate foster care page because I have created ones with different capitalization of the same name and when I do a category link to "Foster Care" it goes to the page "Foster care".

1. I'll try it here.

versus (I'll save this and see what happens, then come back. (Note: I added two categories see bottom of page) 2. Ok, I created two category links (which appear below) yet they say edit instead of taking me to the category I requested. Is it because I am in YOUR page and not in my own original scratchpad "foster care" page that the category's don't work right? Am I in essence creating new categories in YOUR page or User_Talk page instead of referring to my own main category of Foster Care? How do I make my links to "Foster Care" refer back to my own Foster Care scratchpad page with the "new" header at the top (the search box which creates a new page. Oh boy, confused you now huh? :)


 * Yes, sleepy. To create interwiki links: w:c:scratchpad:Category:Foster Care w:c:scratchpad:Category:Foster care. TO create local non-interwiki non-embedded links use a colon: Category:Foster care . Too tired to look at scratchpad, bug me in the morning ^_^. --Splarka (talk) 12:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much for your offer of assistance. Talk to you next time around.

MediaWiki
On the top of the Recent Changes page there are various links. How can I add a similar tab to another wikia? ―  T hailog  19:57, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Replying at w:c:dcanimated:User_talk:Thailog. --Splarka (talk) 23:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

My wiki
Well, recently on my wiki Habbopedia. Angela removed my user rights because my brother was using my account and making inappropriate edits without my knowledge. The matter is now resolved and I got my admin rights back, but I think she forgot to give me my beauracratic rights back also, as I cannot promote more users to admin. I am the founder of this site.


 * I've fixed this. Angela talk 10:06, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

MediaWiki Satellites
Awhile ago you mentioned something about a discussion on creating wikia which share an article database at Forum:Wikia Anime (and Manga?) Project. I was wondering if there was any discussion on the topic going on anywhere because I remembered some things from my past dealings with MediaWiki. They don't technicaly need to be in the same database just the same database server, when I setup a MediaWiki installation which had a shared usertable and semi-shared permissions (Permissions which had some tags shared and some local), I had it setup with a shared database, and an individual database for each wiki. And the system worked quite nicely. I was wondering if there was any discussion on the topic because I'd be happy to contribute the few tricks I learned and used to setup that setup without much mess. Dantman (Talk) 00:02, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


 * It was talked about hypothetically, but not technically. You might email your ideas/request to technical@wikia.com and see what they think. --Splarka (talk) 05:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Dismissing the sitenotice
Do you know to enabling dismissing of the sitenotice ? (like Wikipedia had during the fundraiser) See w:c:harrypotter:MediaWiki:Sitenotice. John Reaves (talk) 00:12, 22 February 2007 (UTC)


 * It is an extension (not a default part of MediaWiki). It should be coming soon (possibly today). --Splarka (talk) 01:33, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks. Would you mind letting me know when it's enabled? John Reaves (talk) 01:57, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd like to make the image background transparent, shift the "new messages" text more toward the middle of the box and change what $1 and $2 translate to (I don't understand where this is done). John Reaves (talk) 03:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)


 * To make the background of the div transparent, you just use 'transparent' for a color value. To make the image transparent, you can use a png or gif with transparent sections or alpha transparency. You can even do both, for example (along with centering it):

.usermessage { background: transparent url('http://images.wikia.com/central/images/3/31/Gradient24.png') 0 0 repeat; border: 1px inset #777777; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; }
 * I don't think you can translate all the messages such as the actual name of the wiki, because the extensionb takes the literal of the wiki. --Splarka (talk) 03:35, 22 February 2007 (UTC)