User talk:Toughpigs

Please start new headings at the top.

Priorities
One Life to Live before Fluffy Bunnies -- where are your priorities, Danny?? --CocoaZen 23:36, 8 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I know... It's terrible, isn't it? Fluffy Bunny just wasn't the same once Jason told me that he'd gone over to the other side. -- Danny (talk ) 23:44, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikia Mentoring Project
Hello. Can I sign up there or it's only for English-speakers for now? Szoferka 23:26, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


 * That would be great! What language do you speak? -- Danny (talk ) 00:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm a Polish native speaker, there's a bit of Polish wikis, but hm... what's the promotion of this initiative? How do poeple can know something about it? However I'm signing up. :) Szoferka 00:24, 8 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Great, it's nice to meet you! My name's Danny -- can you tell me yours? (I'm terrible at remembering screennames, and I'm much better with names.) I'm still working on that page -- I'll add more details very soon. -- Danny (talk ) 01:23, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * So hi again, I'm Karolina (en. Caroline). I'm looking forward to increasing this project. Szoferka 01:36, 8 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Danny, You deleted my request for a mentor, but I'd like to stay posted in case other mentors take an interest. Please revert. Also, I think it will be good to keep a list of maybe 5-10 mentored projects there, so people can see the benefits and progress of your Mentoring project. Thanks; Leo|Talk 12:29, 10 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, I didn't delete it -- I moved it down to the next section. Robin signed up to be the mentor for your wiki, and I believe she's helping out there now. That next section is supposed to be the list of projects that are currently being mentored -- I'll change the heading so it's a little more clear.


 * The idea is that you just get one mentor -- there's so many new wikis that need help, and there's only a few of us so far who are volunteering to be mentors. If you feel like you need more help, talk to Robin about how to attract more contributors to your project. You can also check out the pages at Will Wikis Work? for more help. -- Danny (talk ) 13:14, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I see what you're trying to do. Thanks for clarifying; Leo|Talk 13:34, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Added your article to Will Wikis Work
Hi Danny,

I think your article is really good, and deserved more than a little, See Also link at the bottom of the Will Wikis Work article. I've added it to another page on Wikia, making it part 3 of a 3 part article. Have a look at the Will Wikis Work article again and you will see what I mean.

Perhaps we can write part 2: Attracting Contributors together? with the help of some other Wiki admins? Let me know what you think.

Tom
 * Mostly Zen [[Image:Baby_tao.jpg]] (talk ) 19:04, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, cool! That's a good structure to keep building those pages, and I'm proud to have my piece become a part of that. I just posted a note on the discussion of page 2... I'll definitely be working some more on that stuff later on. -- Danny (talk ) 23:47, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Small wikis
I just read your survey answers and your user page. You are so right about making the smaller Wikis work! I found your Beginners Guide for the Muppet Wiki, and changed it around a lot to use on the Psychology Wiki (where I'm an admin). People seem to think that Wikia wikis will all work like Wikipedia and they are wrong. You beginners guide has helped us a lot, thanks, and the Muppet Wiki is great.

I was wondering if you wanted to have a look at this article I started on why some wikis are working and others have died. Your perspective on making small wikis work would be valuable in improving the article: Will Wikis Work? thanks Mostly Zen 14:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, thanks for saying hi and (unintentionally) kicking my ass to finish that piece I was writing on my user page. I've been meaning to get to it for a long time, but knowing that someone was actually reading the thing got me working on it again! So I just added a bunch of stuff to that page -- if you get around to reading the new version, I'd love to know what you think.


 * I also just posted some additions to Will Wikis Work?, and some comments on the talk page. It's cool that you're getting some discussion started on these issues; I think it's really important, and fun to talk about.


 * So if you read my user page thing, you'll see that I have a thing about knowing people's actual first names -- can you tell me yours? :) -- Danny (talk ) 20:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Danny, my name is Tom Michael. I like the contributions you've made to the Will Wikis Work article.  Honestly I'm amazed that more people aren't asking this stuff, considering how many dead wikis there are.  I am thinking of asking the Admins of all the active Wikis to read/contribute to this article and make related articles on how to make things work better.  You idea of making small communities is spot on.  I made the analogy of a thriving village compared to a dead city.


 * Our wiki (Psychology) is 5th largest in terms of content, but we dont have that many contributors, I think you are 4th largest and then its the Starwars and star trek wikis. We really need to work on getting the critical number of contributors for our wikis individually.


 * If i get tired of editing my Wiki, I will pop by and clean up/add to some muppet articles, because your project looks like so much fun, ours can be too serious sometimes :) Mostly Zen [[Image:Baby_tao.jpg]] (talk ) 22:36, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, Tom, it's nice to meet you! I think people are getting more interested in talking about the "will wikis work" issues -- there's been some related discussion on the Central Wikia mailing list, and I know that there's going to be a lot of that at the Wikimania conference in August. I think you started writing about this just at the right time -- it'll be interesting to see how other people add to and comment on your piece.


 * I looked at the Psychology wiki -- wow, I can't believe you guys have put together 7500 articles! That's awesome. I'm a little confused by the site indexing -- it seems like you've built a big extra index infrastructure, instead of just using the category tags. I've found that categories can be a really helpful navigation tool; you just have to be thoughtful about how you set up the category structure. Is there a reason why you guys are using categories the way that you are?


 * And yeah, absolutely, come hang out at Muppet Wiki sometime! It would be cool to see you there. -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 00:14, 22 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I added a small video about Cookie monster (see the bottom of that article) that I found on Wikipedia. He is on some womans cookery show causing havoc.  Shame I can't make it to Wikimania because it would be great to meet all you people.  My friend Joe is going there, he is the founder of the Psychology Wiki.  If and when I find anything funny and muppet related, I will post it on the Muppet Wiki... in fact, I think I may have found something. <font color="Blue">Mostly Zen  [[Image:Baby_tao.jpg]] (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 10:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

User survey
Hi. I moved your survey to Wikia Brand Audit User Survey/5 since the numbering on the index page was wrong and we ended up with two 4s. Thanks a lot for helping with this survey. Angela (talk) 18:18, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for helping with the branding survey
Thank you for completing the Brand Audit User Survey. We really appreciate your responses. Lots of improvements and new features were suggested, and I hope you'll see these being implemented over time. The results are now being analysed by a PR firm, so you might see some interesting changes to the design of the site as a result. If you have any more feedback, we always welcome that in the Wikia forums. Angela (talk) 17:33, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

help plz
Could you please help me with my new wiki American Football wiki I need a logo I cant do that because i dont have any program that will edit pictures i also dont know how to make new pages and please could you tell people about this wiki Trefmawr 00:12, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi there! It looks like Chad has already offered to help on your wiki... Check out your user page there, or leave a message on Chad's page. Good luck with your new wiki! -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 14:26, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Need someone to hold my hand
I am a novice wiki user and I need someone to hold my hand.

On October 24, 2006 I created a mini wiki using the Scratchpad. It's called "Hometown: Haddonfield NJ." Already, I've got a couple of problems, the most frustrating of which is that I cannot access "Live chat and support." I keep getting an error message that says my nickname is invalid. The system won't let me go any further. I don't know if this – User talk:Toughpigs – is the appropriate place to ask for this kind of help, but it's the only place I could find.

Problem #1: I have created a number of pages (articles?), all beginning with the letter "A." One of them is titled "Alumni Society." But "Alumni Society" also shows up on the ""Hometown: Haddonfield NJ" home page (category page?). It doesn't belong there and I don't know how to get rid of it.

Problem #2: I wanted to create a page (article?) titled "Adult School" but I accidently created something else, somewhere else, instead, and now the system won't let me create a page (article?) for "Adult School" within "Hometown: Haddonfield NJ."

Please help! Thank you. (To the extent possible, please reply in plain English. It's taking me some time to learn the wiki language.)

Oz
The Oz wiki is abandoned,and on Vovat(the creators page) you said you wanted to help. Since your cofounder of muppet wiki i think you are talented enough to adopt it(i would,but im not good enough yet). Please help out Random123 03:49, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

education wiki help
Thanks for your input over there. I am curious if the double exclaimation marks can cause a problem, or if it was a stylistic matter (I happen to agree with the stylistic choice if that is what it was). As you may have guessed, we are a bunch of newbees over there. My first attempt at using wikia was in January, and I blindly lead 20 students into the project. Kirk has been very welcoming and helpful. It is nice to have that level of support from somone I have never met. There will be six new pages in the next couple of weeks.Dmccabe 14:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Image use
There do not seem to be standard templates for images here as there are in Wikipedia. I have established three over in education (based on Wikipedia templates and properly attributed). Are there any that are general to Wikia?Dmccabe

Template:Maintop
Hi Danny. Is there a reason you're adding confusing HTML to new wikis instead of leaving the maintop template there? The idea of the templates is to keep the main page free of confusing code for new users so they can more easily find where to type their content.

Imagine seeing an edit box for the first time and seeing this instead of simply

{|width=100%|
 * valign="top"|

Please can you let me know if there was any reason for that, and which wikis you have done this on? Thanks. Angela talk 00:28, 15 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Angela -- I'm sorry, I was just trying to help them out a little. I didn't realize that there was a specific rationale behind the maintop template. I just thought that that box looked nicer. I didn't think about how confusing the HTML would look; you're right. -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:53, 15 April 2007 (UTC)