User talk:Angela/Archive 5

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Closing wiki
Could you please delete my (upreka) wiki? Edward Chernenkoo a 12:05, 20 June 2006 (UTC)


 * See my reply at User talk:Edward Chernenko. Angela (talk)

Religion
allright. I will move all of my religous content into the religion area if you tell me how to move it.Tyluthan 22:13, 21 June 2006 (UTC)


 * See my reply at User talk:Tyluthan. Angela (talk)

81.77.17.119
I've had to revert a couple javascript vandalisms done by this IP so far. Once on theDemocracy wiki, and again on the Email wiki. And I think Mindspillage had to revert the same thing earlier before I could figure out how to get around it. The javascript creates a message box claiming that Democracy is Gay. Having caught it on a second wiki, I'm thinking it might be worth checking on where else the IP has struck.--Kirk 00:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for reporting this. The only wiki he still had unreverted edits on was dragonball. Angela (talk) 05:58, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

OSSwiki Namespaces
Hi, could you please change the project namespace of both de.oss and oss to OSSwiki for a consistent look. The current namespace for de.oss (Free and Open Source Software Wiki) is a little too long. -- Muffin 09:56, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Addition: Having an extra Glossary(en) / Glossar(de) namespace for explaining technical terms like FTP might also be useful. -- Muffin 15:04, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll reply at w:c:de.oss:Benutzer Diskussion:Muffin. Angela (talk) 05:58, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

News box
Hey. I've translated MediaWiki:News box into Polish, but the Polish version it's viewable only here and on pages where default langauge is not Polish. On all wikis in Polish newsbox is still in English. Do you know what's wrong? Szoferka 03:06, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll have a look later today. Last time this happened it was just a caching issue and it started working by itself after a few hours, so maybe that'll happen again. Angela (talk) 03:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It's not cache, I've transalted it a 12 day ago and still nothing. Szoferka 03:12, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok. I've reopened 161. Angela (talk) 02:54, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Bureaucrat at Stargate Wikia
Hi Angela! I'm an admin at the Stargate Wikia and wants to make Marco Polo an admin as well. He has earned it, but somehow I don't have the priviligies to make him an admin. Since the "leader" of Stargate Wikia is nowhere to be seen, I wonder if you could make me a bureaucrat so that I can make Marco Polo an admin? Thanks in advance for anything you can help me out with. All blessings! Peter R 09:58, 27 June 2006 (UTC) (Answer at my Stargate talk page)
 * Hey Angela, thanks for helping out by setting Peter R's status to beaurocrat. However, Peter said he would be on vacation and I don't think he'll be around for a while. So can you sysop me directly? —Marco Polo 20:13, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure. I'll do that now. Angela (talk) 01:24, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Shorthand subdomain
How can I create a shorthand subdomain for stargate.wikia.com like sg.wikia.com? I know it can be done, because w:c:ff redirects to w:c:frequentflier.


 * ff only redirects because the wiki was originally at ff but later moved to frequentflier (ff should actually have been reserved for a wiki in Fula). We usually try to avoid using language codes as the subdomain since we're saving those to be translations for the Central Wikia. For example, the Polish Wikia base is pl.wikia.com. It's possible we'll want the Sango version at sg.wikia.com one day. Also, redirects are only added when necessary (like when a wiki has moved) and not just to make a shorter URL since it can be confusing both for readers and search engines to have multiple locations for the wiki. Angela (talk) 01:40, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Image Uploading
Hello Blipo. This is the Central Wikia, so I don't think images like Image:Gather.png are relevant here. Did you mean to upload these to a different wiki? Perhaps you could find where you're meant to be from the List of Wikia. Let me know if you need any help. Angela (talk) 05:10, 29 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Well damn. I don't know what I'm doing here! My friends said, "make a wiki for us!" So I did. I have no idea what I'm doing; I found an image upload function and uploaded my images. Could you explain what I did wrong, and what I should do? I made a wiki page on the Scratchpad, |here.

How do you use in Wikia?
I am customizing my wiki and seem to have hit a wall when I try to add the add character box on the bottom of Wikipedia's edit page to mine by copying MediaWiki:Edittools from Wikipedia to my wiki. The edit box uses scriptlets embedded using a  This confirms that without special provision, the only extensions allowed are: 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', and 'ogg'. It also mentions php coding, so I know that only people with access to the database, like [ staff], can do the necessary adjustments. What do you think? —Marco Polo 12:50, 2 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I've replied at D'ni. Angela (talk) 12:54, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, the site is very old and in at least GDFL, if not PD. But I guess it would just be best if I linked to the site instead of uploading it myself. Thanks! —Marco Polo 13:01, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Legal Terms
Angela, I'm from SUWiki where you contacted me about chaging the license. THANK YOU THANK YOU, I really don't know what I'm doing, but I'm trying hard. However, I don't understand quite what I need to do. Lets say I want all text, ideas, images/files, to be freely distributable and modifiable. Is that adviseable? If that is ok, how would I write the license to be legally accurate? Do I just put in the words "Free Content" with a link to the freecontent definition site you gave me? Any help would be great, as I'm pretty clueless with legal terms. Chris Fullmer

Admin question for Halo
Hi Angela! I'm just wondering how to change the logo for the Halo wikia? Do you have to be admin to do this? If so who is the admin? Thanks for your time. Esemono 15:42, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Upload image as wiki.png under sysop account. Edward Chernenkoo a 09:13, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

The House of Fanon
In the last two months Ive been here at this Wiki the election for administrators has not stopped. And yet we have a war, the Vandal War going on right behind us. We cant entrust simple users to take out vandals, what if they just want glory and fame. It could be them. Than the administrators, what if they don't like eachother or dont work together or if theyre power hungry vandals than what? We need a goverment not individual governors. The goverment is called the House of Fanon representide by two partys, the Typhillian Council and the Fanon Council. We meet their, take opinions from users and other stuff to make this community better.- Darth Vacatour
 * I disagree with Vacatour, we do need admins. Otherwise the wiki will just collapse from Vandal attacks. If the two "houses" disagree then we'll see and end to the SWF wiki. Admins should stay. &mdash; Jasca Ducato

Thats why users and members of the council will bring us together. Administrators disagree but find ways to work together, so can we.
 * You've basically just proven my point. Why bother changing just for one wiki. it should stay as it is. But its up to Angela and co. &mdash; Jasca Ducato

As you probably know, some users are trying to organize a government on SW Fanon Wiki to replace admins. Not that I speak for the whole Wiki but I'm just saying that if the House of Fanon is approved, when we finally get admins they'll be good for nothing, so says what the house is saying. Anyway, it's your descision, the house right now or admins later. Not trying to be rude or put pressure on you. MaulYoda

Apologizing for Prop 270
I have had a change of heart. Proposition 270 is no longer in effect and administrators will stay. However The House of Fanon will stay and work as a sub goverment beneath the administrators. Hopefully we can also work with The Fanon Council. Sincerly apologizing, DV

I say get rid of the whole thing and keep the fanon council until we get admins, which is going to be a while. But it's your call. MaulYoda

When I'll blog about the Campaigns Wikia
Hi Angela! I'll gladly blog about this place once I figure out what its character is going to be. I want to make sure there will be healthy discussion rather than violent deletion of opposing viewpoints.

Blogging about Campaigns Wikia
Angela, thanks for the prompt welcome to the site.

I've now added a link to Campaigns Wikia to the top of the Start Page of the PDParty.us wiki, and put a new article about this effort on my blog. I'm very excited by what could come from this, and I plan to do whatever I can to make it work.

Rblumberg 16:51, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Why can't I post new articles.
There are a couple of things I might want to do on New York, but discover I cannot post, only edit. Why? I've been around awhile, elsewhere in the wikiverse, and did login here a couple or three days ago.

So much of this is abandoned real estate.--Allamakee Democrat 04:03, 6 July 2006 (UTC)


 * You should be able to post on any Wikia. See Help:New page. Angela (talk)

eek. changed your education entry around a bit.
Hello there!

I'm a wiki newbie.

I changed your initial education entry quite a bit. I didn't change what you wrote, I only changed where it is.

Don't know if this is ok?

Thanks,

Bill


 * That's fine. Thanks for helping! Angela (talk)

DMCA.
Greets, I've suggested DMCA as a campaign in the forum in the first post. I thought it would be a good topic for folks to work on as it is international in impact and as bloggers and wikifolk we would be all likely to share some appreciation of what peer to peer and freedom of info can be about.? Cheers Lucychili 16:46, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

you bad bot - you
--Gil 06:50, 8 July 2006 (UTC)



Forums
Angela, Thanks for your help. I'm still curious to know if the Wikia forums are indeed "threaded." When I think of threaded, I think of the mail clients and news readers (Thunderbird, for example) that display email, listserve, USENET postings, etc with the subject headings indented to indicate the chronology,who's responding to whom, etc. --Artie 19:04, 8 July 2006 (UTC)


 * You can see them at Forum:Index - I'm not sure if you'd call that threaded in the same way as email though. Angela (talk)

Vandal
Sorry to bother you, but the Star Wars Fanon Wiki is being vandalized, at the moment. The vandal has produced multiple accounts, and is assaulting this wiki. Please help us. 154.5.130.212 23:49, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Please help sw fanon. He keeps unbanning himself. Please I tried alone but i cant suceed. He destroyed my user page.- DV

Switch func broken
I have a rather extensive system set up involving the function on the D'ni Wiki, and it all seems to have come tumbling down when the function showed instead a Template:Switch:bla link, which obviously doesn't exist. Is this your or another staff member's doing, is this a php problem (?), or is this a side effect of moving to the function? (If it is the latter, hooray!) —Marco Polo 19:15, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


 * The syntax of parser functions has changed (actually it changed soon after they were introduced, although Wikia was stuck with that particular version for a long while). Se ParserFunctions (however, they are still be broken temporarily while the upgrade is finalized). --Splarka (talk) 22:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Featuring the Psychology Wiki
Hey Angela,

Sorry to hear about you leaving Wikimedia Foundation. I hope you are still happy working with the Wikia stuff, which you have been very useful and helpful with :) I just nominated the Psychology Wiki to be featured here: Featured wikia and was wondering how we get it to be featured?  Do we need lots of our contributors to second the nomination?

I also asked Jim Wales to take a look at us and see what he thinks. I think he will like the idea as he always goes on about free knowledge and stuff like that.

Helping us to get featured in August, or something along those lines would be great :) We really need more contributors!  I am on a massive marketing spree at present...

Mostly Zen 22:03, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I'd rather not influence the vote, but I'm sure it will get featured soon since it's a great wiki and growing quite fast. Angela (talk)

Help with cross wiki templates
Hi Angela,

I'm trying to create a cross-wiki template for politics that can be used to navigate around the political wikiasphere. (hey, new term!) Can you help me format the link to Portal:Politics on Template:Politics so that it will work from inside other wikia? Chadlupkes 22:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Just using Angela (talk)

Spam Filter
Hi, there. As you may know, a vandal organization known as the ISV is attacking various wikis. They, as they state, are planning to attack each of the 1500 wikis, and that must be prevented. When they vandalize, a message is posted with various 'recruitment' information. I'd like to prevent this message from ever being distributed. If you could filter a few words/phrases for me, that would be great.

1: imwithbobby@yahoo.com 2: overthrow of the current Administration of the Wikimedia 3: VandalBots 4: We will continue to rebel against tyranny 5: tyrannical Administrators 6: We vandalize to bring about positive and pure change to the Wikimedia system. 7: THIS PAGE HAS BEEN LIBERATED 8: Long live the International Society of Vandals (ISV)! All of these words/phrases appear in the recruitment message, and I'd like to filter them. If you could do that, we would all appreciate it. Thank you. 154.5.130.212 00:41, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Just ignore the vandals and they'll go away. There's no point playing these games with them. You're only encouraging them. Angela (talk) 14:46, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Admin on fr.matf
Angela, can you make me administrator of the website http://fr.math.wikia.com (I am the founder of this website) ? Thank you !Clembou (Moved from Szoferka 11:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC))

Vandals?
Hey Angela. Just wanted to let you know, my blog vanished from the "list of participating bloggers." Could be an honest mistake, but you might want to be on the lookout for people vandalizing the page. I stuck it back there for now, and I'll keep an eye on it. Compaqdrew 20:27, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It was this pair of edits which seems to have been the problem. It looks like a browser bug but might have been intentional. I'll re-add them --Splarka (talk) 22:11, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Desysop
Yes, it's me on irc. Szoferka 04:47, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Bloggers Against Censorship Admin Rights
Could you please give admin rights to a few more people (Angelo, dinamehta, Peter & BalaPitchandi) who are maintaining the Bloggers Against Censorship Wiki. BalaPitchandi 13:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Angela,

This is a request from the team at the Bloggers Against Censorship to please give admin privileges to the following persons:

We're a bunch of folks who have been developing the tsunamihelp.info and katrinahelp.info wikis and are well-versed in Wiki etiquette and handling. We would like to help Vulturo, who is part of our Collective in handling vandals which are happening by the minute and making entries. The persons we need admin privileges for:


 * Zigzackly
 * Bala Pitchandi
 * Angelo
 * Amit Agarwal
 * Dina Mehta

This is really urgent as we are getting tons of media attention coming here ... and want to ensure the correct information is in there.

Many thanks

Dinamehta 13:26, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Ditto --Vulturo 16:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Bot flag
Could you please assign bot flag to User:Edwardspec TalkBot for Absurdopedia and Chronology wikis? It performs various automated text replacements in articles - something like "+-" => "±" etc. 17:29, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok. Angela (talk)

uncyclopiedia question
hi, i applied for a wiki on uncyclopiedia, will it still be processed or should i re-aply here? i used the same username "Silent Penguin" for the aplication. thanks--Silent Penguin 20:59, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * sorry didnt see the forum, il put it there--Silent Penguin 21:02, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

bullflower.wikia.com
Thank you very much.I have set my "theme" ok.Welcome you to my wikia. :)--魔法設計師 17:36, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Swfanon
You may have recently heard that a Vandal War has broken out across wikimedia. The English Wiki, Memory Alpha, and Wookiepedia, as well as SW Fanon which suffered most of the attacks, have been attacked. At SW Fannon we created a Proposition called Prop 3 which allows users to put like a block or shield over there articles and user pages, this would stop vandals from vandalizm. The only way anyone else but the author can edit the page is if he asks on the talk page. This could be a excellent start and we have large crowds voting especially in support. I beg youll allow the prop to go through. Im guessing putting up a protect block. - DV

Yeah hey, Prop 3 has been passed on SWFanon so we need you to make like a special template that will allow users to protect their own articles and user pages to make sure noone else touches them without permision. Okay, thanks from SW Fanon - DV

Hello Angela Im DV from SW Fanon, The 313 and Head Administrator of the Haven. Recently at SWFanon we created Prop 4 which 13 users have voted in support and 0 oppose for what? On Friday we want you to elect five admins if the prop is passed and it seems it will. The community is in great need ISV attacked my wiki today, wookiepedia was recently attacked as well as editthis and swfanon. ISV is out of control and we need to secure admins by friday. please SWWFanon is begging you. - DV

HELP QUICK SW FANON IS BEING ATTACKED HELP! HELP! - DV

Angela at SWFanon this morning Prop 4 was passed with the votes of 14 support 0 oppose. In that case now swfanon is asking you by the order of our proposition to elect five administrators from to sysops election by tomorow at 3pm mountain time. Than the sysops election will end. Ok. Also i dont feel comfortable with sansees dont feed the trolls. Its making us weak against vandals! - DV


 * Please stop encouraging the vandals. These "vandal hunt" games are making the situation much worse and I'm fairly sure having admins involved is not going to help the situation. Angela (talk) 14:46, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello
I can not log onto the irc chat rooms. It says -*calvino.freenode.net- *** Banned: You have been blocked from the network due to filtering problems, please contact staff@freenode.net Thank you. 70.24.61.244 05:08, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Could you help?
 * If I did something wrong could you tell me what that was so I do not make he same mistake. Contact me At Star WarsFanon User:Darth Aeonz


 * Freenode blocked the gateway for a while, but it's working again now. Please let me know if it happens again. Angela (talk)

Swfanon
Please read: Found @ http://swfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Proposition_to_Un-ban_Darth_Mavoc

Contact me At Star WarsFanon User:Darth Aeonz
 * I have unblocked Darth mavoc, but if he ever vandalises or uses sockpuppets again, the block will be reapplied. I strongly suggest you all focus on content and not on playing games with the so-called vandals. Angela (talk) 14:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Only his user name was unblocked not his ip address coud you please fix we are eager to work on our articals...


 * I am looking in to which ranges should be unblocked. Will reply there. --Splarka (talk) 06:26, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

MapleWiki
"Welcome back to the Maplestory Wiki! This wiki's original founder, User:Kookykman, hasn't been around since December. Would you be interested in adopting this wiki? I can give you admin rights if you'd find that useful. Angela (talk) 05:28, 29 June 2006 (UTC)"

Ok I'll adopt it. I'll try my best. DarkNShadow 08:00, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Changing Content Policy
Hello Angela, you were kind enough to stop by my wiki a few weeks back and comment on the lack of a content license. I left you a message here but never heard back from you. I'm not sure how to change it or what it requires. I tihnk I just want to be under the GNU license...that means everything on the site is fair game/public domain, right? Sorry I'm so clueless, but content licesnsing is totally new to me. So if you wouldn't mind stopping by and leaving me another note, that would be great! --Chris Fullmer 11:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry that I've not had time to reply about this yet. Angela (talk)

I forgot
I forgot what my wikia email address was. Please email it to me. &mdash; The thing  Talk 16:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Now you can. &mdash; The thing  Talk 16:59, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Replied on your talk page. Angela (talk)
 * Look at my talk page then. :-| &mdash; The thing  Talk 15:23, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Zlatibor Wiki
Hello, Angela. Can you tell me how to set sr-zb language file as the primary language on Zlatibor wiki and how to edit (translate) it? Also, is it possible to change the title of a wiki? Thank you. --Ђорђе Д. Божовић (разговор) 10:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC)


 * If you tell me what you want the title changed to, I can do that. I'm not sure there is a sr-zb language file, but you can translate the interface using the MediaWiki namespace. See w:c:zb:Special:Allmessages. Angela (talk) 14:46, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Favicon
Hello, Angela I'm trying to change the Favicon (The small icon in the browser) at the Halo Site but the upload page won't allow .ico files. Do you or anyone else have any info on how to change the Favicon. Please reply on my user page Esemono 14:26, 23 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I replied at w:c:halo:User talk:Esemono. Angela (talk) 14:31, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Recommended Admin for es.campaigns.wikia.com
User:Waldsen has been doing some great work on the English Language Campaigns site, and I would like to recommend that he be made an Admin for the Spanish language site. He and I have been building templates and css edits that he would now like to incorporate into the wiki that he will be working on from Chili. I don't quite know the procedure for this, but I thought I would make the recommendation. Chadlupkes 01:26, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Just in case you don't often check your talk page on other wikis
Here is what I've written:

Note: the new wiki is indeed under a free license. Though I see your point in removing the reference to the wiki, my goal has always been to service the community and the server slowness here is what kept me from being able to promote this wiki as a legitimate source. My first and foremost goal has always been to get as much information on Korea as possible to those who need it, and removal of the reference damages that in my opinion. Mithridates. 02:17, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Note: it doesn't damage it much; I was just hoping that the main page there made it clear that the Korea Wiki is no longer even close to the definitive source of info for information on the country, nor updated by the person who originally applied for it (me). Mithridates 02:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I think there is still potential for a Korea wiki on Wikia. I've replied about the copyright on that wiki. Angela (talk) 13:10, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Vandal in the french uncyclopedia
Hi,

The french uncyclopedia is a bit vandalized by a guy without humor. Actually he is dormant but he was active 2 hours ago. Can you take a look please? Ducon 12:02, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


 * 217.167.255.177 is now blocked. Thanks for reporting it. Angela (talk)

vendalism
What vendalism? It's not true!


 * blanking the main page is vandalism. Angela (talk) 12:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, can you help me?
Hello

Few days ago I ;) started pl.bass.wikia.com - polish wiki about bass guitar. Can you please take a look at this terms of use, and tell me, if it's ok to upload pictures of bass models from this site to "my" wiki? My english isn't great, it seams it'd be fine, but I want to be sure, and sysops from polish uncyclopedia recomended you. Thanks and good luck Serekdietetyczny 15:48, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I've replied at w:c:pl.bass:Dyskusja użytkownika:Serekdietetyczny. Angela (talk) 16:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

X-Files Wiki CSS
I wonder if you could help me - the X-Files Wiki seems to be looking odd on my computer, the links in the navigation table at the left side have too much space between them and the links at the top of the page turn white when I hover my cursor over them. Is this something to do with Wikis as a whole or just that 1 site? Any help would be greatly appreciated. --Mulder 10:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)


 * The spacing was actually normal (or so it looked to me) but I reduced it anyways. I found the culprits of the other problems (see this diff). Go ahead and edit those as you need. You also might look at The Memory Alpha css for complete dark reskin hints (some pages are still broken-colored on x-files, like Special:Preferences). --Splarka (talk) 11:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Favicon Canada
I noticed that you uploaded the favicon.ico on the Canada wiki but it doesn't appear when I load the Canada wiki pages. I still see the old Wikicity icon. I've emptied the cache and it still doesn't appear. Is it just my computer or is there something wrong with the symbol? Wikada - Talk Contributions 17:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * It's probably your cache. Try pressing the reload on your browser on this page. Angela (talk) 19:20, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Note that because Wikia uses a 302 redirect to load the favicon.ico, it can be very hard to clear the cache in some browsers. --Splarka (talk) 02:25, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm on Apple's Safari 2.0.4. Would that browser work differently with favicons than others? Wikada - Talk Contributions 12:52, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Safari is known to have problems with redirected favicons, as are some versions of Opera. I've added a &lt;link&gt; tag to your javascript there, clear your cache and see if that does the trick. --Splarka (talk) 00:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)