User talk:Sarah Manley

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Welcome
Hello, I am a community Manager here at Wikia. Please add new messages to the bottom, thanks :)

If you're looking for help, you can leave a message for me here or visit our help page. If you have an idea for a new wiki, please create one!

Administrator rights on Parkour wiki
Hello, I am the president of umass parkour (http://www.umassparkour.com) and I'm looking to edit your parkour wiki, its in pretty bad shape. I've started adding a lot of new articles and cleaning up the ones that are there. I was wondering if I could be granted admin rights plainly because there seems to be no one leading it. Mrwiddim 08:05, February 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, thanks for the message. You can apply to adopt a wiki on our adoption page here. Thanks and best of luck, Sarah (talk 17:25, February 22, 2010 (UTC)

French Uncyclopedia
Hi Sarah, can you explain why you have erased a user page on Desencyclopédie yesterday (User:Ducteur Duschmoll) ? Have you recieved a specific request ? Thx. 08:49, February 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, yes there was a request by a user who said it contained personal information they did not want on the wiki and they were no longer interested in participating in the wiki. Thanks, Sarah (talk 17:24, March 1, 2010 (UTC)

logo
hi how change the wikia logo to a personal picture ? --Kdevismes 00:19, March 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, You can learn how to upload a logo here. If it is for the wiki, its best to have a logo that fits the wiki topic. Personal pictures are best for your user profile. Best, Sarah (talk 17:29, March 1, 2010 (UTC)

Warrior cats fan clans Wiki
warriorcatsfanclans.wikia.com is using a copyrighted image without permission. It's only supposed to be used on Warriors Wiki. Could you please do something about that? Thanks, Sparrowsong 04:29, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Have you spoken to the users there and asked them to remove the copied content? If you could send us an email at Special:contact with links and discussion, we can look into it further. Best, Sarah (talk 17:36, March 12, 2010 (UTC)

Regarding my email.
I sent Wikia an email asking to delete my wiki (Make Your Own Car Wiki). You replied and said you closed it. Thank you. You also said to talk to you about the wiki adoption. I am wanting to adopt Droon Wiki so I could make it so much better and an active community. The only problem is, I created a wiki a couple of days ago and I didn't even want it after I made it. So, would you either be able to make me a bureaucrat on Droon Wiki or lift the 60 day thing? I try my best to make any wiki I visit better whether it is 1 edit or 100 edits, I think I would be a good leader of Droon Wiki. Please answer on my talk page ASAP, Will k.

--Will k ( talk 22:42, March 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, looks like Sannse already gave you admin rights. Enjoy! Sarah (talk 17:50, March 12, 2010 (UTC)

Arabic Wikia
Hello, What do you think I should do to create an Arabic Wikia like this. because there are many wikias in other languages like french, italian... and i didnt know how. --Achraf94 17:44, March 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, You can create a new wiki here, and choose Arabic as the language. Please not that some tools that you see on English wikis may not be available there yet, since they are in the process of being translated. Best of luck and let me know if you have any questions. Best, Sarah (talk 20:30, March 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the answer, but I know how to create a new wiki. What I ment is an Arabic Cenral Wikia like fr.wikia.com or fa.wikia.com. --Achraf94 19:18, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

ACTIVATE THE RICH TEXT EDITOR PLEASE!
Can you activate the rich text editor in english in my wiki please? http://pt.wikireborn.wikia.com/ PLEASE!!!

REALY SORRY BUT I NEED IT FOR EDIT MY WIKI!


 * Please be a little bit more patient, thanks. --Avatar 17:59, March 12, 2010 (UTC)

sorry, but I need it... really sorry ;) Ok, I'll be patient.


 * OK it has been set and should load soon. Best, Sarah (talk 18:59, March 12, 2010 (UTC)

really??? thank you so mutch now i'm waiting

this is not activated yet :(


 * It is now activated. If you do not see it, be sure to check your preferences to make sure its enabled. Let me know if you still run into problems. Best, Sarah (talk 20:28, March 15, 2010 (UTC)

thanks a lot it is activated and works ;) Thanks

Nancy Drew wikia
Hello,

Thank you so much for the welcome letter for my contribution to the nancy drew wikia page. This wikia looks really run down, neglected, and abandoned. I was really wanted to help with creating the whole thing and getting it back on its feet, but i am extremely new to wikia editing, designing and all of that. Is there a page on the help wiki that i should check out, i was also wondering if there is anything that i would not be able to do without special status or something like that. (i don't even know if wikia's have special statuses.) I just really want to help this wikia become a central hub of information for nancy drew fans and a site that they can trust to have reliable facts.

Any help would be very much appreciated!


 * Hey! For starters, you should check out the links on Help:Getting started for basics, and see this page for information on being an admin. However, I highly recommend editing first before asking for admin privileges. -- 04:45, March 14, 2010 (UTC)

As Charitwo mentioned, there are some basic help pages that can assist you in editing here. Once you get the hang of it, definitely apply to adopt it if there is not other active community there. Let me know here if you have any other specific questions. Best, Sarah (talk 20:23, March 15, 2010 (UTC)

take-over and Merge wikia
Hello! I come from the 馬交網際百科 of the executive administrator.

In fact, I found no one in the edit 澳門網絡大典, followed by copying the content of Wikimedia Macao. I think that 澳門網絡大典 the contents of the reputation of an absolute violation of the people of Macau.

I hope you can give my take-over 澳門網絡大典. Second, to avoid duplication ,is also Proposed to merged .Finally by [馬交網際百科] as the name after the merger. thank you! --建燁 12:13, March 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi; I've replied to this at Forum:With regard to the application to take over and merger of all the problems. The 888th Avatar   (talk)  12:17, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

Hello.(您好. )
中文原版：

您好，我來自Wikia中文，以下的問題需要你的幫助.

請把澳門網絡大典合併到馬交網際百科.

這一個wiki長期沒有人編輯與維護.

這個wiki的資料侵犯了版權.

English translation：

Hello, I'm from Wikia中文, the following questions need your help.

Please send 澳門網絡大典 to 馬交網際百科 merger

This is a wiki editing and maintenance of long-term no one.

This wiki information on copyright infringement

--用戶 16:26, March 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, Thanks for the message. As mentioned on the forum post (http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:With_regard_to_the_application_to_take_over_and_merger_of_all_the_problems), we have received an email about this, and are looking further into it. Thanks for your patience! Best, Sarah (talk 16:32, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for the answer, but I know how to create a new wiki. What I ment is an Arabic Cenral Wikia like fr.wikia.com or fa.wikia.com. --Achraf94 19:18, March 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, the best person to contact about internationalization on Wikia is Angela. You can read her on her talk page here. Best, Sarah (talk 16:29, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

Naruto Latino adopt

 * Hello, Sarah. I did the discussion as you asked me. All active users of Naruto Latino helped me adopt her: . I await your response and thank you very much for your attention. --Ivan Uchiha 19:15, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

Hello, looks like you got the rights. Best of luck, Sarah (talk 20:21, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

Hi... need your help, please x)
Hi, as the big words in black already say, need some help, rsrs.

So, I was trying to set a wikia in portuguese about a game, I made some articles, etc, but then, the administrator cut the contact whith me and he didn't give some administrator rights... x( And everyone abandoned the wikia D: No one edits it anymore, don't even acess it, I think...

Then, I created a new wikia, about the same thing (I know, i know, I could have contacted you guys and asked the administrator rights, but, about 6 weeks ago I was a newbie in this wikia thing so... forgive me... please? rsrs x) and until now it's getting awesome, some people are helping, we have 50 articles already, new monaco theme, I loved it, 5 hours to make it, tough (just the monaco theme, not the entire wikia, rsrs). But, going back to what I was explaining...

I made a test, typed the name of my wikia in Google, just to see if people who were searching for the topic that i'm writing about were finding my wikia, and then, the old wikia, the one who bugged and everyone abandoned, was showing up on the results of Google, and the one I'm making now isn't showing. T-T

So I'm here, asking for your help: What can we (or me, or you, rsrs) make to vanish with the old wikia, and put mine on the google results, i thought in erasing it, but, as I said, big newbie in this wikia thing so... Help, please? rsrs. Any solution is welcomed, and, full cooperation here too =)

Here's the links:

Old wikia: http://pt.assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal

New wikia: http://pt.assassinscreedbr.wikia.com/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal

Apreciate your help^^

PS.: I'm from Brasil and I don't get to talk to much in english, and sorry for any mistake on the typing, or anything that you can't understand, getting used to it tough... Always moving on^^

oops, the first time I forgot the signature (?) So here it is: --BrunaaAa 23:29, March 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * No one answered me yet... rsrs, 4 days, is there a problem os something? sorry for bothering =x --BrunaaAa 11:16, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

Hello, Sorry to have taken a while, but we are very busy here at Wikia! There isn't a way for us to control what is searched in google, but you can make changes to your wiki to help it climb ahead on the search ranking. Please read through out advice page here: Advice on Raising your Google Rank The more content and people you have, the better your chances in rising. So keep it up and have fun. Best, Sarah (talk 20:19, March 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Sure, no prob, it's fine since you answered^^ Thanks for the help, but, there isn't a way to erase the old wikia? <--Bothering you again, haha. Thanks for the answer =) --BrunaaAa 20:26, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

Wikis are community spaces, so we do not delete them if is there are community members there. Best, Sarah (talk 20:32, March 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I know if there's people editing, there's no reason to erase, but, there's no one there... The only editing made there was made by me, putting redirects to my new wikia, you can check the records... But thanks for the help, I understand and I'll see what I can do to raise my own wikia on Google, thanks for the help Sarah, have a nice week =) --BrunaaAa 21:01, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

Admin on vtmb wikia
Goodmorning Sarah,

Thanks you for removing that page on vtmb. As you suggested in your email I am requesting admin rights for the vtmb wikia.

Regards, Amy Awien 08:50, March 23, 2010 (UTC)

Problema con usuario
Perdón por escribir en español, ya sé que esta wikia es en inglés, pero he decidido contactar con el staff por un usuario (Andrés Bonilla 196) que abusa de sus poderes de administrador y burócrata. En DialgaPedia todo iba muy bien hasta que llegó él. Resulta que creó el equipo de comunidad de Dialgapedia. Eso me parece perfecto. En el menú de inicio puso una lista con el equipo de comunidad. No me molestó en absoluto. Yo puse una lista con los administradores, y entonces él me dijo que no se podía y la borró. Le pedí una explicación de por qué él podía poner una lista con el equipo de comunidad y yo no podía poner una con los administradores y no me la dio, por lo que volví a poner la lista. Por hacerlo, me bloqueó durante un día. Les pido por favor que hagan algo con este usuario, ya que abusa de sus poderes de administrador y burócrata. Gracias por su atención.

Firmado: Polo


 * Hello, I have responded to you about this issue through email. Best, Sarah (talk 17:38, March 24, 2010 (UTC)

W:c:dialgapoke
This user lie. I'm only block per him make many edits without preview. 20:14, March 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * Please work together to build community and consensus there. You may want to come up with some guidelines for admin rights, behaviors and policies. There are a lot of good examples of this across Wikia, so take a look around. You may also want to re-read the Admin how to guide. Best, Sarah (talk 16:34, March 25, 2010 (UTC)

Lost Wiki
Hello, I just want to inform you that you may have looked over Station7's adoption request for LOST wiki. I know this was unintentional, so I suggest you or another one of the adoption request moderators check it out. The reason why I think his request was looked over is that there are several requests that were posted after his, and they have been accepted or denied.

If I am wrong, and you have noticed his request and is in the process of accepting it, then I apologize for bothering you with this message. Thank you for taking the time to read this. :) - Bluethunder Contact 02:30, March 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, Thanks for the reminder. It looks like daNASCAT has posted a response recently. Best,--Sarah (talk 18:42, March 30, 2010 (UTC)

And how do I come to his e-mailadress? I don't know the users e-maildress!--Station7 20:17, March 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * Click on their avatar on their user page, and you should be prompted to a drop down menu which gives to the option to email the user. Let me know if you don't see this. Best, Sarah (talk 22:40, March 31, 2010 (UTC)

New hubs
Hello. It has been quite a few days since the new hubs were released. While I like the images at the top, and the improved layout, the link to the list of all wikis in the hub still isn't there – have you got a time frame for when this link will be added? It's not optional, it's vital; how else are less popular wikis going to get any visitors? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I would have thought it's a fairly simple operation to add a "See more wikis" button to these pages. As you can see on your blog post, it's a feature several people called for. I apologise for chasing you over this (!), but I feel it's pretty important. Thanks, Bethel23 (talk) 11:07, March 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * While I'm certainly not an authority on the subject, I can guess that there are plenty of reasons why Wikia would not acquiesce immediately to something like this. It's not the small technical stuff involved in adding a link to the hubs that takes time. It's the decision of whether to do so, and exploring all possible options (and looking for the best one), that takes time. This is especially true of a suggestion like this, assuming Wikia has considered it. For example: Do the hubs on Community Central provide good lists of wikis? (Certainly not.) Would providing an automated list on the corporate wiki be better than the always-out-of-date manual lists on Central? (Probably.) Is it practical to provide a list of several thousand wikis at once, for a listed total of 90,000 wikis, and making it automatically update constantly whenever a new wiki is made? (Probably not, that's why they stopped updating the old list on Central.) As you can see, no simple operation, even if their line of reasoning is drastically different to mine, which it probably is. :P I understand the frustration of not having a wiki listed somewhere official, and obviously, Wikia can improve in regard to surfacing good wikis, but I personally don't think another list, or at least a big "full list", is the way to go. Sorry about the wall of text! The 888th Avatar   (talk)  12:17, March 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the detailed and quick response, The 888th Avatar. I agree the Hubs on Community Central aren't perfect, but I think they're reasonable, as they list the wikis which people have actually bothered to put on that page – so this eliminates the many thousands of wikis with sort of 1 article. An automated list would probably be better, though, I agree. We don't want thousands of wikis listed, obviously. My suggestion would be to have an automated list of all wikis in that hub with edits in the last month. That should avoid the majority of the wikis which don't have anything useful on. However, I can see your point about Wikia's decision. I do think, though, that somewhere, somehow there should be a list of (active) smaller wikis, for people to browse through. One of the many reasons for this is the search on Wikia's main page. I was told it is a "cross-wiki search", but what it actually does is search for individual pages on wikis – so the text in the box "Find a wiki" is not true, it should be "Find a page". For instance, searching Children's Books comes up with results from Fallout, Star Wars and Lost – just because these wikis have pages with "book" in the page title. So, apart from searching it in Google, there's no way anybody's going to find Children's Books Wiki. Sorry for another wall of text :) Bethel23 (talk) 12:48, March 27, 2010 (UTC)

Bethel23 and The 888th Avatar, thanks for your messages. We are alway working on ways to improve how we surface, new/active/small wikis. I have shared your feedback with the product team, and hopefully in the future, we will have better ways of surfacing all the great content out there. Thanks for all your work here and love of your wikis! Cheers, Sarah (talk 22:47, March 31, 2010 (UTC)

Request
Please to look my request on Community_Central:Adoption_requests Retnuh Reed 19:02, March 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * I have responded there. Sarah (talk 22:51, March 31, 2010 (UTC)

Ice Age wiki
The person who asked for the Ice Age wiki and the other wiki on the adoption request asked to adopt the Ice Age wiki. If you want to make sure, check my talk page. - Bluethunder Contact 00:18, April 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, thanks. Can you please encourage them to post on the adoptions page? That way it is all in one place. Best, Sarah (talk 20:48, April 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * I did, but I don't know if they read the message. - Bluethunder Contact 21:15, April 5, 2010 (UTC)

Well, it's up to them now. Thanks for all your help. --Sarah (talk 00:10, April 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem. -Bluethunder Contact 00:16, April 15, 2010 (UTC)

Backgrounds
Hi, How can I change backgrounds on my wikis? SpongeWriter123 17:18, April 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * You may want to check out Help:Customizing Monaco :) -- 22:08, April 6, 2010 (UTC)

You can read about customizing on the page Charitwo listed. If you want to use one of our preset skins, you can change that in your preferences. Best, Sarah (talk 17:44, April 8, 2010 (UTC)

Your response on the help wiki
Thanks for your response to my inquiry on Help talk:User access levels. The reason I asked is because I've started a wiki on roleplaying on Livejournal-based websites due to the already-existing wiki on the subject, right here, being nothing more than a cesspit of articles such as this. While I know dedicated trolls would still be able to log in to make problematic edits, it's been my experience that in the Livejournal RP "culture" users are less likely to be trolls if they know someone is actively watching them. (For example, a popular anonymous discussion community saw a drastic reduction in trolling when the maintainer turned on IP logging, even though there wasn't really anything that could be done with the IP addresses gathered.)

This is the reason I wanted to be able to disable logged-out editing on the wiki I started; if there is a negative effect on community growth, personally I see that as an acceptable tradeoff.

Sorry to be a bother; Shiftnoise 21:46, April 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, as I mentioned we can enable this, but generally don't until there is significant vandalism. If this happens, let us know. You many also want to promote active users to admins, so they can help if fighting an initial spam. Best of luck, Sarah (talk 17:51, April 8, 2010 (UTC)

How to add new catg in contents table
Thanks for welcome letter :) I wish to add information about Pakistan in Camera Club articles of Photo Wikia. Tried but faild. What is proper method? Raees Mughal 22:00, April 7, 2010 (UTC)Raees Mughal


 * You just need to click on the edit button and get started. You may want to read through our intro help pages here. They provide a lot of tips on how to get started. Welcome to Wikia! Sarah (talk 17:53, April 8, 2010 (UTC)

Spongebob Fanon Wiki
Hi. I don't want to sound rude or something, but...

Dear Wikia,

''Once from usual Spongebob Wikia I found this wikia. It seemed interesting and I started editing. As number of my edits started increasing, I created account, only for this wikia. I continued my editing, and currently, I am close to 1000 edits there. But at the same time - Spam started increasing, Admin left the wikia, other users started leaving, too, but I stayed. Despite of little comebacks, spam continued to grow. I am trying my best to keep, at least, my pages without spam. A while ago, I found this page. Today I, finally, decided to request adoption of this wikia. If I would become admin, I could protect this wikia from spam and get rid of already existing spam. Please, make me admin. Check out this wikia, too! SpongeWriter123 17:35, April 4, 2010 (UTC)''

''Can you check with the community first, to make sure they agree to you becoming admin? Then let us know here and we will be happy to give you the rights. Best, Sarah@Wikia (talk 21:27, April 5, 2010 (UTC) ''

''Okay, I posted question about this there. I'll let you know if they agree! SpongeWriter123 12:01, April 6, 2010 (UTC)''

''Well, there are those who agree. SpongeWriter123 15:49, April 6, 2010 (UTC)''

''Yes, they agree! SpongeWriter123 12:23, April 7, 2010 (UTC)''

''Is something wrong? SpongeWriter123 10:51, April 9, 2010 (UTC)''

''I am happy to help SpongeWriter, I think he needs the rights to change the logo and maintain the wiki from what I have heard. I even made a new logo for the wiki. User:Rswfan 09:15, April 10, 2010 (UTC)''

''He's absolutely right! Well, if you wanted to hear agreement, then you heard it! SpongeWriter123 13:22, April 10, 2010 (UTC)''

''It makes 8 agreements over wikis! SpongeWriter123 14:10, April 11, 2010 (UTC)''

''oh and... spongewriter is not only asking for admin rights, he is also asking for b'crat. right? Why is my name in green? i am not a admin! 17:03, April 11, 2010 (UTC)''

''Yes, that's right! I only don't get why I haven't got admin and b'crat right already? SpongeWriter123 18:00, April 11, 2010 (UTC)''

This request is at "Adoption Request" for the long time and it isn't answered. SpongeWriter123 16:05, April 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that, it got lost in the mix for a bit. I have now given you admin rights there, so enjoy! Sarah (talk 21:14, April 12, 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!! Now, I'm proud I said it here. SpongeWriter123 10:28, April 13, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to bother, but community of my wiki asked me to get bureaucrat rights, too. There came helpful users, who could help me with wiki, if they would be administrators. SpongeWriter123 12:18, April 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, I have now given you bureaucrat rights, enjoy! --Sarah (talk 01:03, April 16, 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. There's nothing I want you to ask anymore. SpongeWriter123 10:33, April 16, 2010 (UTC)

Request
Please to look my request on Adoption OS-Wiki, thanks Lady-Whistler -   (Talk | Count) 08:23, April 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, thanks for the message. I have seen your request and will review it soon. Please be patient, as there are a lot of requests that we need to review. In the meantime, focus on editing! Best, --Sarah (talk 01:04, April 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, no problem, I just wait a while Lady-Whistler -   (Talk | Count) 20:43, April 16, 2010 (UTC)

Too many wikis
Hello, I am the admin on the Plants vs. Zombies Wiki. At the moment, there are a number of duplicate wikis of it that have existed for months and yet have no content; in addition to not even having the correct name. If these could be deleted, especially as they all come up first on search pages (before my wiki), it would be appreciated. Thank you for your time. Swampert rox 22:24, April 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, thanks for the message. We generally don't delete wikis, but will review them from time to time. If you focus on building content, your wiki will rise to the top of the search results. Best to focus on that first. --Sarah (talk 01:06, April 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * We have a lot of content, and there are many daily edits; yet it is one of the last search results. I did a search just now, and maybe 6 or 7 other wikis without content and a page about the game on another wiki came up before it. --Swampert rox 11:39, April 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * The wiki's may be older than yours. Which, in my experience, makes them show up first. I do think that continued editing and advertisement will cause it to rise on the list, I'm not too sure though. -Bluethunder Contact 16:34, April 16, 2010 (UTC)

Yes our search is something that is continually being worked on. Keep at your wiki, and it will rise to the top! --Sarah (talk 16:53, April 16, 2010 (UTC)