User talk:Anno1404

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Enjoy! -- CatherineMunro (Talk) 20:06, 2009 October 30

Slight correction
When I banned Karensarahrocks, Ash Crimson actually changed the ban to unblocked saying I had no authority on the wiki. Wikiar 19:06, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * edit diffs please. Thanks.
 * See: http://deadrising.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=ash+Crimson&page=User%3AKarensarahrocks&year=&month=-1
 * Anno1404 19:11, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

Re: New Gallery problems
Hi and thanks for your message. I posted on the blog as well. Kind regards, Waitingforspring 16:31, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

This is it-- Ken zen   Elev  en!  20:54, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

aw man :( Reddy!! :) :( :D xD DX &gt;:D ;Reddy loves emotioncons. 13:41, July 20, 2010 (UTC)

Backing off
The short answer is, No, I am not aware of a time when Wikia has backed off from a change such as this current change even in the face of significant negative feedback. Also, I am not "involved in the bureaucracy" at community.wikia.com ... I am not shy about sharing my opinion but in the final analysis it is just one person's opinion and whether it influences Wikia staff or not is just as much a mystery to me as it is to you.

I can recall some smaller features that were offered and then withdrawn perhaps as a result of negative feedback but more likely as a result of increasingly complicated technical support required to make the feature truly useful. (Those yellow post-it style notes that used to be a feature of the MyHome page comes to mind. Widgets are about to be phased out with the current change.)

The apparent pattern is:
 * 1) Wikia promotes something new and rolls it out to all but "the select few" wikis with an opt-out flag available within each user's preferences.
 * 2) One staff member solicits feedback and responds to a subset of feedback left by users.
 * 3) Wikia staff gather statistics on the change in peoples clicking or editing or opting out or whatever and sometimes publish data that makes the change appear to have been for the greater good.
 * 4) After some time has passed the alternative/legacy feature is deprecated. Usually citing "low usage" or "high support cost" or similar data.

Keep in mind that I have only been on this Wikia scene since April 2008 and so there are many other users who have been around much longer than me and may have seen more evidence of Wikia's ability to take negative feedback on the chin and then graciously back down.


 * As far as this current change is concerned - I think it is a fait accompli ... so resistance is futile and you will assimilate your favorite wiki(s) to the new skin.

Alternatives
This does create an opportunity for migration away from Wikia for some communities. However, the truth of the matter is that Wikia does a very good job of lowering the overhead involved in creating and administering a wiki; they also manage to advance the significance of Wikia hosted wikis within such search engine result pages as Google, Yahoo, Bing and so on and so forth. For so long as Wikia hosting is free it is difficult to find a comparable free "wiki farm" to migrate to.


 * The free-hosting alternative that I am evaluating is wikkii.com - their "Advanced hosting" product would appear to offer all of the flexibility that Wikia has offered in the past but goes further to allow each wiki founder to add any available MediaWiki extension. The burden of technical support rests with each community - so this is going to be a deterrent for many would-be founders until such time as the community-based self-help forums and help pages have matured.

Happy hacking! -- najevi 03:27, September 14, 2010 (UTC)

Sigh
For once, our opinions are exactly the same. Wikia's choice of skin is entirely composed of fail. Basically they're turning Wikia into a new Facebook. Wikia staff is pretty much saying "Stop being a bitch and get used to this, because fuck you" to the whole community. I seriously wish there was something we could do about this! Maybe we could try to rally a bunch of wikis into doing something? Petition's ain't gonna work; they never have and never will... Maybe we can think of something. It's just that all the ideas I can think of have either been tried, failed, or are too long of a shot to work. The only thing I could find out that might work is if we could get a bunch of editors (by a bunch I mean a thousand some) to just drop editing and kinda protest this... But there's not really any way we'd be able to organize that. Sigh. What do you think? Any ideas? http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png Frank - West  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 16:57, September 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * But they can't ban someone for trying to organize a protest. It's abusing admin powers. That's like shooting everyone at a peaceful protest, because you don't like what they're saying about you. I dunno... Any ideas would be appreciated. I want to fight for what I think is right. I really don't wanna just sit by and do nothing and let them have all power without listening to the community. I guess it's your choice to not participate. I'd just appreciate some help. http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png Frank - West  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 18:15, September 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * Dammit... You're right. But this isn't Wikipedia. The wikia staff of all people wouldn't unfairly ban someone. Although, the dispute about Wikiar's bureaucrat powers a while back proved futile and was promptly ignored. Thanks for trying. I guess there really isn't anything more we can do. =/ I just wish there was something... FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png Frank - West  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 18:43, September 17, 2010 (UTC)

My Comments
Is that message you left me unfinished? I'd like to see the end of it. =/ anyway, even if I figured out what supported wikia, I wouldn't be able to do anything to it. I mean, I just don't think I'd be able to have an impact, even if I figured out a way to do it. I suppose you are right though, we are having somewhat of an impact as it is. I have no idea what has caused wikia to back off before. I really, REALLY am going to need help from you if I'm gonna try and stop this, as well as help from other users. I have apologized to the staff and fixed my comments, as well as left a new one. http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png Frank - West  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 19:12, October 5, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Comics
Your reasoning on removing the comments is valid. As a fellow censor-mongerer, I see whay you did it: it defames the Staff.

Yet, if you object to my work and feared a Staffer would be angered, then why did you keep Airhogs' depiction of Sarah Manley in front of the crucified Jesus? That one is worse than mine because it uses a man that some (me included) see as God Himself. I'm a censor-mongerer and was tempted to remove that AND the one that nearly used the F-word, but I didn't in respect that they wouldn't remove my own. If I respect their work, they will in turn respect mine. Surely, Sarah in front of Christ (with Monaco placed over His head) is worse than "Know Your Staff Speak" or calling them hypocrites. That's a direct depiction of a Staffer too. The file is even called "Sarah's Way". If you must enforce revoking my comics because of Staff portraits, you must remove that one, as well, or you're being hypocritical.

I wouldn't mind if my portraits were removed on censorship and decency grounds, but I mind that only I was targeted when Sarah in front of Jesus with Monaco over His head was kept.

Also, Wikia couldn't perform any legal action. Their self-portraits are licensed the same as Wikia and can be re-used on basis fair use. No slander could be taken to court, because it would amount to Wikia suing itself, because its users are unlocated.

As for the moral reasons and whether or not it is in good taste, I'll leave that to the individual. My religion commands me to respect those placed in charge of me, to respect authorities, be it parents, leaders, managers, presidents, or kings. If I slander an individual person, they have to be really rotten people. Plus, I haven't done anything violent to the Staff! I haven't depicted them shot or hanged, hurt or maimed, smacked or harmed. I have only depicted them as hypocrties, and hypocrites they are!

My comics with the Staff are more of political cartoons than slander. I don't see it as bad taste, because I am not depicting anything untrue, and there is no violence or harm done to the Staffers in portraits.

-- † TurtleShroom™! Jesus Loves You and Died for You!! †    :)  :)  OASIS?! DO NOT WANT; DO NOT WANT!! Come, my friends! Together, we shall make a new look for Wikia! We shall make... THE OASIS!! 19:45, October 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * All righty. Now that you have proved you are not a hypocrite, I am at ease with your removals. Thank you for being fair and non-exclusive, and for being so polite. Your new addition to the AWA, where people give opinions as to why the Oasis skin is evil will be a good read when it is developed. The hard part is that my opinions have been scattered across this site and buried under mounds of commentary. If I can collect them, I will be honored to assist you. It's good to have a friend on board. Your display of fairness in censorship is commendable and reminds me highly of myself. I commend you for it, and I hope you succeed in what you do from here on out. Thank you. -- † TurtleShroom™! Jesus Loves You and Died for You!! †     :)  :)  OASIS?! DO NOT WANT; DO NOT WANT!! Come, my friends! Together, we shall make a new look for Wikia! We shall make... THE OASIS!! 19:59, October 6, 2010 (UTC)

Link to talk page
For your convience, here is a permanent link to my Central Wikia talk page: w:c:wikia:user_talk:TurtleShroom.

Confusion
There has been some confusion and misunderstanding of the group Anti-Wikia Alliance.

Firstly, the Wikia in Ant-Wikia Alliance, is referring to the SKIN called Wikia (some people unofficially call it oasis), not the company.

Secondly, please stop changing around things on the AWA page. It was built on a certain format. Thanks. --Smiley12 was here at 00:51, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

RE:Revote
We haven't revoted yet, I dunno if we will. If I start seeing more complaints on the wiki I'll hold a revote. I support your move, if there's anything I can help with with that feel free to ask. http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png Frank - West  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 23:02, November 6, 2010 (UTC)

RE:Slight name change suggestion
Smiley12 supports the namechange, but I think that it's too late for the AWA to have one. We could've changed it in the first few hours of its existence, but now its name is too well known, it might confuse users coming back for something (although, unlike Wikia, I acknowledge that most of those users will be experienced ones.) If you really think this is necessary, leave a message on my talk page and we can move forward with thought. As to the three suggestions thing, Smiley12 seconds it, and I third it, so I think it would be fine to add it to the main page. Help:Smelly Users (talk) was last edited at 13:11, November 8, 2010 (UTC)

step 6
Hello!

I will explain the step 6 for Windows. Step 6 states Instead of step 6, copy all subdirectories of dumps/_downloaded to the <path_to_your_mediawiki_directory>/images..

When running a perl script gathering information, in a perl command line navigate to the folder containing the MediaWikiDumper perl scripts. Let`s assume this folder is C:\MWD. After running the scripts, C:\MWD\dumps\ folder will be created. And C:\MWD\dumps\_downloaded will contain the downloaded images.

<path_to_your_mediawiki_directory> - is a folder containing extracted MediaWiki sources. Let`s say it is D:\MediaWiki\mediawiki-1.16.0 and there we have D:\ProgInstallers\MediaWiki\mediawiki-1.16.0\images - images for our wikia.

Now you have to copy all the folders located in C:\MWD\dumps\_downloaded\ to D:\ProgInstallers\MediaWiki\mediawiki-1.16.0\images. Teyandee 18:54, November 8, 2010 (UTC)

RE:AWA
I think I've moved all the AWA pages to, but if I've missed one, contact Sannse. Help:Smelly Users (talk) was last edited at 22:07, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. :)  I was trying to think of good ones, if I come up with any more, I'll let you know.   Thanks for  the Giving  I lub me some food 15:36, November 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Help:Smelly Users (talk) was last edited at 15:50, November 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * A thing for you. Help:Smelly Users (talk) was last edited at 01:14, November 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * thank you modified it slightly and added link. Anno1404 17:58, November 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * I think it would e better if it was a link to the shoutwiki wiki. Anyways, I added it to my WP userpage here. Help:Smelly Users (talk) was last edited at 00:06, November 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * I suppose that's a good train of thought. Help:Smelly Users (talk) was last edited at 01:29, November 30, 2010 (UTC)

It's me
It's me, Jax. Just clearin' things up. http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png <font color="Blue">Jax - <font color= "Blue">Kenobi  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 02:07, December 1, 2010 (UTC)