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Please add new messages to the bottom, thanks :) -- sannse (talk)

Admin
How do I become admin on the Custom Bionicles Wikia??? --Terry Davis Gant 22:32, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, you should talk to the current admins/bureaucrats on the wiki. There is a list of them here. -- sannse (talk) 12:05, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Kudos to Wikia Community Team in communicating wikia status
I wanted to drop a note thanking you and the community team for your recent efforts in keeping the wikis informed. Tonight's (today's?) broadcast message warning of the temp DB lock is great (and exactly the type of thing I'm hoping to see more of during the various upgrade/stability projects). Setting the community's expectations this way is a cheap way of getting us to root for the disruptions (b/c we want to see the improvements) instead of griping/whining (because we don't know for how long or what for).

Keep up the good work. And thank you. &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 08:05, 20 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the comments, I'll pass them on to the rest of the team :) -- sannse (talk) 15:59, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Liberapedia
Liberapedia is subject to reapeat vandalism. Please help. Proxima Centauri 08:13, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I see the wiki already has w:c:liberapedia:Special:Protectsite... hummm... One thing we could do is restrict editing to logged in users. It's not something we often do, and it might just mean the vandals take time to log in, but it's an option. Other than that, it's mostly a case of "block and revert".  I'll try to check in every now and then to see how it's going. -- sannse (talk) 16:19, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Proxima Centauri 18:49, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Liberapedia has been vandalized again and it's bed time in the UK. Please look after the site. Proxima Centauri 19:40, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I was in bed too (also in the UK). But I see that Daedryon kindly looked in to help :)  So any thoughts on preventing logged out edits completely?  I'm not fond of doing that, but I think it may be worth a try in this caze... -- sannse (talk) 12:24, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

We need more sysops and janitors. Have you thought of paying Wikia employees to be janitors if you haven't got volunteers? Proxima Centauri 14:21, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

The vandal created an account as [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/TheGodfather. TheGodfather.] today. Either the vandal uses proxies or the vandal has a dynamic IP or both. Range blocks could perhaps help. Proxima Centauri 14:24, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I had gone to sleep while The Godfather did his dirty work. Seems he also vandalized my temp-userpage at Liberapedia. See Sannse, I'm not as bad as Stinkowing and Clv309 make me out to be, and I'm also not Total Rune :P  λ T 18:12, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

He's back a second time today as KMFDM. I'm going to bed soon, please look after Liberapedia whoever reads this. Proxima Centauri 19:06, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Liberapedia is getting vandalised by the same guy again. ThaMarine 5:36, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Someone else [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Proxima_Centauri#He.27s_back. has asked for check user on the vandal]. Proxima Centauri 07:35, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Preventing users who are not logged in from editing has not helped as the vandal came back with two separate accounts today, the accounts are [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/M1911. M1911.] and M1911 strikes again. I deleted a single bad edit from that user. A range block could help as could requiring email confirmation before editing. Proxima Centauri 12:18, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

There has been no further trouble for over 24 hours, I'll tell you if there is more. If nothing happens for a week I suggest letting editors that are not logged in edit again as there have been many useful contributions from unregistered users. Proxima Centauri 09:56, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, sorry I wasn't around much this weekend. On "Have you thought of paying Wikia employees to be janitors if you haven't got volunteers"...  I'm afraid that won't happen.  Wikia is here to support and help wikis, but we will never be able to directly run more than 12,000 wikis.  So it's up to communities to do that.  I know it's hard work for some topics, which seem to attract more than their fair share of vandalism... but luckily these are often topics that also attract passionate defenders.  Hopefully you will find more of those to help you protect and grow the wiki over time :) -- sannse (talk) 11:39, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Oops, I meant to say... I checked IPs... they look like open proxies. I've blocked all I saw (that weren't already blocked).  You may want to review the block here too... that is currently for anons only, but one logged in IP was in that range -- sannse (talk) 11:43, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

The vandal followed me to Wikipedia where I left you a message. Proxima Centauri 13:41, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm technically an admin there, but I'm currently inactive... sorry - sannse (talk) 16:11, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Check User request.
Hi.

Could you check to see if User:Toughie109 and User:BULLYWORLD24 are the same person please. Dan the Man 1983 02:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No, there's no indication on checkuser that they are the same person -- sannse (talk) 11:29, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

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Fresh Prince
Hey I was wondering if I could Adopt the Fresh Prince wikia since it's inactive and small. I know a lot about the show and watch it every day. Appreciate it- Sonyfan453 9:09 April 24, 2009.
 * Hi, please go to Adoption requests to make your request :) -- sannse (talk) 16:22, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

HELLO
tanks for the wellcomming/ i'll need help in the first days of my new WIKI. itws humor viki which prepered for religius jewish pepole. can i take advises from you? ארטיק 14:41, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure :) you can also get help from the Central Forum or from the Wikia IRC channel. And don't forget the Help Wikia -- sannse (talk) 16:23, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

A Personal Thanks
Thanks for all your help, Sannse! It's very much appreciated! :-) --Mulder 21:18, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You are very welcome :) It's good to have you here at Wikia, so I'm pleased to help any way I can -- sannse (talk) 09:04, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Liberapedia is being vandalised
A user named [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/M1911. M1911.] is currently vandalising liberapedia. Can you stop this? Thanks--Iamkay 04:21, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Request for DE-Adminship
Hello, This is Cferra from the TGWTG WIKI. I'm requesting that this user: http://thatguywiththeglasses.wikia.com/wiki/User:Shockwave132, Shockwave132 be de-adminned from the TGWTG wiki. He has lied to us about his age and has constantly deleted his personal page even after I restored it. We've tried talking to him and he doesn't follow orders. Tonight, he tried to ban Wikia admin Uberfuzzy for creating a index.php on the wiki.

So, please take care of the situation. Thanks.

Cferra 02:12, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, a bureaucrat on the wiki can do this for you now. -- sannse (talk) 11:44, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

hello, I need some help
Hello, my names Torongo, I lead a forum called Torongo Nui and am a sysop on the custom exo-force wikia. You can find my forum here. Anyways, enough with that, I accidently craeted a wiki called bionicle creations. It should eb easy to find, but i need it deleted, because I don't want it developing and there not being a admin to supervise it. I don't even want the wiki anymore! Could you give me and email back or reply, thanks!

--Torongo 23:45, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, that's sorted -- sannse (talk) 14:28, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Monaco Skins
Hi, I wanted to know if I could put my own monaco skin that I did as a background on my wiki.(Britain's Got Talent wiki). Thanks, --Matias arana 10 02:02, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure, you can customise the skin... just follow the instructions at w:c:help:Help:Customizing Monaco -- sannse (talk) 14:42, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, but I want to do a background like (Watchmen's Wiki). Or (Lostpedia)
 * Thanks a lot, --Matias arana 10 22:12, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's all done by css customisation. For example, the code added for the skin on Watchmen is at w:c:watchmen:MediaWiki:Monaco.css.  You will need to learn css to make this sort of change (or find another user who can do it for you) but the basics are all on the help page I linked above.  Other than that, it's just choices of colour scheme, and adding images where you want them -- sannse (talk) 09:21, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Disgaea wiki request
Hello Sannse. I'd like to request adminship on the Disgaea wiki. I recently took interest in that wiki, and have been rehauling many of the articles and adding structure to the wiki, along with a few friends. The founder (and only admin) has been inactive for more than a year, but has assented to passing on admin rights in an email. Unfortunately, he has been too busy to visit the wiki. We really need an admin to clean up the backlog, and the other users I've talked to have assented. Thanks in advance. &mdash; Yuan Saluto!Acta 11:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, please see Wiki adoption requests -- sannse (talk) 15:25, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Nifky...
Could you remove her admin rights on Diseases wiki? She's becoming a pushover and unblocking vandals.  Mobutu4  :|   My Talk   03:27, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Bureaucrats can now remove admin rights. Although I would suggest that you talk to her and try and sort out your differences... after all, giving someone a second chance isn't /that/ bad a thing to do ;) -- sannse (talk) 09:26, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikia Animanga
Sannse, do you remember the old topic about Wikia ACG -> Wikia Animanga and the merging of the Manga and Anime wiki? Scott never actually responded about that, is Scott still even around, I don't see him on the Staff list? ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) May 1, 2009 @ 06:04 (UTC)
 * Hi Dantman, Scott said he mailed you a while back, possibly it got lost in a spam folder or something? He's going to resend -- sannse (talk) 16:05, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * What address did he send to? Could you poke him to try resending again, and poke me when he sends it? My spam folders get emptied automatically quite quickly and I've been a little to trusting of the spamfilters and never bother to check the folder. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) May 13, 2009 @ 17:40 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'll point this conversation out to him.. but you might also want to try his talk page -- sannse (talk) 08:47, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Problems with the Quartz skin
Hello Sannse, ever since the recent the updates that have given us the on the RuneScape Wiki the user creation log (which I've been wishing for for quite sometime) I have been experiencing significant problems with the Quartz skin. The recent changes on any wiki no longer have color (expect, of course links), when I attempt to view the differences in edits to a page the text is no longer hilighted forcing me to read through every bit and determine what was changed (sort of a vandalism addition of where's Waldo). On top of this, The formating of polls no longer works and lines on tables are invisible. I've been forced to switch skins to a different skin to avoid these problems for the time being.-- 18:35, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm afraid Quartz is an obsolete skin that's not supported any more. It's only kept because a few people like it so much, but Monaco is the main site skin.  For those features, you will have to switch to Monaco.  Sorry -- sannse (talk) 16:06, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Bot flag request
Hi! I'm an admin in WikiDex. I'd like to request bot flag for the user account User:DexBot. We have seen that bureaucrats can't give it locally. If this is not the right place for this, could you indicate me where can I ask for it? Thanks in advance. Regards, --Profesor Pokémon ~ Tú dirás 19:09, 13 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I've realized today that you are not active since the sixth of May so I've moved this message to CatherineMunro's talk page. Thank you anyway. Regards, --Profesor Pokémon ~ Tú dirás 14:11, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, I see Zuirdj got to this for you :) -- sannse (talk) 08:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Problem with problems :)
Ahoy Sannse, I am an administrator of the German Uncyclopedia. We have an issue with the "problem reports". It seems I cannot address a problem reporter by mail. I can fill in the form with the email to a problem reporter, but when I click "Send" the system responds with "You are not authorized to perform this action. Reason: authorizing error" (or something to that effect, the message is in German). I should think that as an administrator I should be allowed to use this email function - who else? My co-admin confirmed that he has the same problem. Could you look into this? Thank you. 15px NaturalBornKieler (Diskussion) 09:13, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi there, I've confirmed the bug... I think it may be a by-product of another fix :-/ I've re-opened the bug report, and hopefully we should see a fix soon.  -- sannse (talk) 09:39, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Interwiki
Hello there! I have a small question, the French and Italian versions of the Alternative_History wiki do not yet have language interwiki's with the other language versions and vice versa. Could those interwikis be created? --Karsten vK (talk) 16:17, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, I've set up all the links... please let me know if I missed any (note that sometimes it takes a while for them to show, so if any aren't working yet it's best to allow 24 hours) -- sannse (talk) 09:24, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Spaaaaams!:@
Hello Lisa, I want to find the special page for "Find Spam" because it disappeared from the Special pages. Anyway, the spam is the following:


 * http://s7.bitefight.gr/c.php?uid=30542

and I can't block it...:( can you help me in someway? Admin in Greek Uncyclopedia...--nikos 17:53, 17 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, "find spam" never worked properly, so we've removed it for now. But you can always report spam at Talk:Spam Blacklist and it will be added to the global blacklist.  Or, you can set up a blacklist just for a single wiki, by editing "MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist" on that wiki.  The format is the same as for the global list.  Hope that helps -- sannse (talk)

Help
On the Webkinz wiki, how would we be able to increase traffic? Is there any way that other users can know about it more? By the way, does the Webkinz wiki have Checkuser, please respond on my talk page as I may not remember to check back here for a while. Me has a talk page /  and an amazing editcount  + this thing 02:27, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * reply at User talk:Ventress112 -- sannse (talk) 10:18, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

'Sorry for the delay in replying everyone, I've not been around much for the last week. I'm back, and catching up now :) '

Images
Hi there. I've been noticing that recently many of the images on the Castle Crashers Wiki are not displaying. Some examples of this are the main page, there should be four knights displayed and their are only three, and the Thin Sword page, there should be an image in the infobox but there isn't. Do you have any suggestions for fixing this? Thanks- Aburnett 23:07, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, it looks OK to me now. I know there have been some problems with the server cache recently - which means images (and templates) are not being updated as quickly as they should be.  But I understand that's fixed now.  I'll find out more on that today.  If you see the problem again, try adding "?action=purge" (no quotes) to the end of the URL for the page.  That may force it to update.  And let me know if you see the problem again.  Thanks -- sannse (talk) 08:52, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, that's strange, its still not displaying correctly for me, even after using "?action=purge". I've checked and I have the most recent version of Firefox, so I don't believe that that's the problem. if you have any other tips they would be appreciated, but if it's displaying correctly for other users than hopefully it will work itself out for me! Aburnett 18:37, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh dear, I must have accidentally right clicked Block images from wikia.nocookie.com at some point. Now that that's been undone, everything looks fine. Thanks for humoring me! --Aburnett 01:23, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you found the problem :) -- sannse (talk) 12:13, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Can user access levels be modified?
Hi, I would like to know if it would be possible to change the user access levels required to grant rights on a certain wiki without changing them for the rest of Wikia (for example, bureaucrats granting bot flags and administrators granting rollback). I haven't started a discussion about this yet; I would just like to know if it would be possible if there were consensus on a wiki to do so. Thanks. SUL 17:16, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, SUL. Yes, it is possible to make such changes, if this is something your community wants as a change, you need some discussion/consensus, and then ask Wikia. I'm not sure what changes they're willing to make, however. -- 17:24, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * As Charitwo says, it's technically possible. However, we don't often make such changes, simply because it becomes more difficult to manage thousands of wikis with lots of different settings and such.  If there is a really good reason to make the change, we'll consider it, but I can't guarantee anything :) -- 12:15, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Hey
Hi sannse, I made a spotlight request and it's been 2 days since I made it, I checked the other requests their requests were answered in 1 day, so I just want to make sure no one forgot my request--Ventress112
 * Hi, please remember that staff often don't work at weekends, and sometimes even have national holidays as days off!! ;) We also have varying tasks, which sometimes means we can't work on a particular task every day.  Depending on what other work they have to do, the people who look at spotlights should visit the page sometime over the next few days.  Please be patient.  Thanks -- sannse (talk) 08:41, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

you have a fan/impersonator
Hey Sannse, look what i found [http://help.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:Sannse. this user] looks like a fan possible impersonator.--
 * Hi Cizagna. Yep, he's been blocked globally (along with his many other accounts :) Thanks for letting me know though! -- sannse (talk) 22:16, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Daedryon.wikia.com
No thanks, lol. If I did though, I'd have it permanently set to Admin only. Plus, I'm a low-key type of guy, usually just hiding in the shadows until I'm needed. Regardless of the fact that I do own a website and a blog (daedryon.webs.com & daedryon.blogspot.com), as well as the obviously named YouTube account, I don't want a Wikia in my name to become a reason for anyone with a grudge against me to try to hack me and gain control of my account.  λ T 01:25, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Toastmasters: Articles and Categories deleted
User:ArthurOgawa writing on 2009 May 30:

I see you have deleted eleven articles in the Toastmasters wiki, all on the grounds of “Possible copyright violation”. I appreciate your attention to our wiki, and I am sure that you have the best interests of all involved at heart.

In creating the wiki and in enriching its content, the guiding principle has been to provide a vehicle for Toastmasters worldwide to help each other with the self-directed program of education created by Toastmasters International. The wiki has the potential to be the vehicle for over a quarter million Toastmasters to each make their own contribution to this program.

Resolving the issue of which pages had material copyrighted by Toastmasters International was the subject of an ongoing correspondence between User:ErichV, myself, and the representative of Toastmasters International, [mailto:CMcGeath@toastmasters.org Camy McGeath], dating from 24 April 2009. (The pages you deleted are exactly those mentioned in her email of that date.) However, we ourselves were already engaged in our own review of all of the pages in the document tree (not just the top-level pages you deleted). Our most recent communication from Ms McGeath was, “I will wait to hear back from you.” By deleting the pages, you have made these efforts moot.

Some of the pages deleted, though, were not actually claimed to contain copyrighted information. Ms McGeath's exact language was “we have found pages that are under construction to display further copyrighted materials”. This does not seem to me to be “Possible copyright violation” at all, and Ms McGeath's construction of our intent to display copyrighted information is itself a speculation on her part, not a claim of copyright violation.

There is an aspect of the present discussion that you may not be aware of, namely that the Toastmasters International online catalog is expressly 'not' under copyright, and that much of the content on the pages under consideration was based on that source. I believe that what Ms McGeath might be confused over is that some of that same content may appear in other, copyrighted, material (e.g., the Toastmasters International catalog, which is itself available for free download from their website, albeit copyrighted). Furthermore, substantially the same information is being served up on multiple websites on the Internet, and these pages have been in existence for years.

As one of the concerned parties and the creator of the pages involved, I would like to know what Erich and I may expect in future? Will our wiki pages be deleted whenever a claim of copyright violation is communicated to you, regardless of its merit? What will satisfy wikia.com that a page we may create is free of copyright violation in the face of possibly erroneous claims to the contrary by a third party (like Toastmasters International. Inc.)? (I do understand the legal exposure of your own firm in this matter, and I certainly have no desire to jeopardize your firm or our relationship.)


 * Hi, this is an issue we will have to deal with via email. You can contact us at community@wikia.com or via the contact form.  In the mean time, admins are able to view deleted pages, categories with deleted text will still show lists of categorised pages (for example this one), and there is a full list of all pages on the wiki at w:c:toastmasters:Special:AllPages.  So you should be able to review the other pages and solve any copyright issues.  It's great to hear you are already working on this :) -- sannse (talk) 21:51, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Hide IP ?
Hi,

On Désencyclopédie, Morpheusneon edited the Page Zététique while he had forgotten to log in. He asked me to hide his IP address so that no one could see it in the page history. Is it possible ? -- 20:16, 31 May 2009 (UTC)


 * You can delete the article, then restore all but that 1 edit. -- 20:19, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Adminship removal
Hi Sannse, a while ago I requested to become an admin on the Dynasty Warriors Wiki and so i did become one, now however I would like to have that adminship removed. I am leaving the DW wiki due to the fact that I have no time to edit it anymore and have lsot the desire to do so, therfore I would like to have my adminship removed. Thanks in advance.--Aeon lord92 10:13, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, we don't usually worry about removing flags when admins decide to move on... there's no harm in leaving them in most cases, and it means they are there if the admin changes their mind one day. So I'd recommend just leaving it, there is no obligation for you to edit :) -- sannse (talk) 20:35, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Admin Tools Wiki
Hi, after you replied to my messages at, I started 2 polls and a discussion on Admin Tools Wiki about allowing bureaucrats to give +/- bot and administrators to give +/- rollback. The discussions and polls at Admin Tools Wiki:Noticeboard have lasted for 2 weeks now and there is clear consensus that most users would like these changes. The reason for these changes is mainly because several users on the wiki would like to test the bot user rights that are not included in other user groups (such as bot, nominornewtalk and suppressredirect); therefore, it would be easier if the bureaucrat (User:RyanCross) could give bot flags to users so that it is not necessary to ask Wikia Staff every time. Since administrator rights are given to almost any user who is active on other wikis, administrators giving rollback should not be a problem either. Please could you tell me how these changes can be made? Thanks. SUL 15:35, 3 June 2009 (UTC)