User talk:Kirkburn

new skins
Re: your changes of the default skin on policypedia. Is the new skin design stable? They were working on all that chat stuff for the right hand column last summer and this look is completely different. Why should I invest more time in look and feel if the rug is going to get pulled out from under me? Jmesserly 00:19, 6 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, it's stable. 08:26, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Extensions...
If you want to add an extension, such as collapsible tables, to a wiki, who would you ask for help? I'm trying that on the StarCraft wiki, but it doesn't work. Kimera 757 (talk) 11:36, 8 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Collapsible tables aren't an extension - most use the code from w:c:help:Help:Dynamic navigation. 11:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the help, would you like to be an admin? -- User:Dark Energy 00:12, 9 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I am too busy with other projects! Working for Wikia, I have admin rights on every wiki anyway (though I rarely use them), so it's not really important unless I am a frequent editor of a wiki. 13:06, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Skins issue
Hi Kirkburn, thanks for the help switching over to the Monaco theme on the SinsOfASolarEmpire wikia. After checking on the various versions, I selected the gaming theme as the probable best (this is a deep space game). However, two of the fields on the front page have black text on a dark blue background. I have tried fixing it with little success. If you have any thoughts on how to fix it, I would appreciate it. Strideth 07:25, 9 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorted locally. 13:06, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

God of War Wiki
I wanted to thank you for your small contributions on my Wiki, they do not go unrecognized. --Administrator Enyalius 08:58, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Having Issues
Hey Kirkburn; not sure if this is the write place, but I'm having troubles creating a page on my wiki Legacies of Cormanthyr. I'm attempting to create an article called Elves (no matter what I'm inputting), I get an error "This article already exists. Edit". Is there something you can do to help me out? Mendahu 00:11, 13 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the report, which I have confirmed. I've passed it on to the tech team - they are working on it at the moment. 13:04, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Poll
Hey Kirkburn, Thanks for helping us out with the new changes at the Banjo-Kazooie Wiki. I had a question though, I took a look at the WoWWiki and saw their poll. How can we get our poll to be like theirs is in the left column. Thanks, Dekudan312


 * Fairly easily - it just requires a few tweaks to your MediaWiki:Common.css. If you want to try it yourself, look at and the section titled /* poll stuff */  20:18, 13 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, so I got the poll to change to fit the left columns but I now can't get it to change colors.

Dekudan312

plz help me
im from monster hunter wikia but for some reason i cant edit a thing. pitch sed im not on the block list.i have to go through a long prosses to get any thing done.plz help me.



Re: About nested td tags
I talked to you about 10 days ago about an html td tag problem I had. I brought it to Meta developer metawikipedia:User:Brion VIBBER. Here is the discussion we had:

This is pretty much what you had told me, that the mediawiki software wasn't up to date. Do you know if it is okay to ask to update the supcom wiki, or should I just wait for a wikia-wide update? I'm asking you because you are the person I've had the most contact with, but if you think someone else might be better suited, please redirect me :)

thx, happypal (Talk) Admin@SupCom.wikia.com 16:51, 19 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Enabled the new parser :) 17:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Supcom wiki main page
I did some modifications. could you look at them?

I'm just wondering if it is possible to edit the column-left and column-right tags, so I don't have to put a table inside the entire column... But I haven't found where the tag is defined.

Also, when the window is a bit small, the columns overlap a bit. Do you think you would know how to fix it?

Sorry for the double post, but it's for different things. happypal (Talk) Admin@SupCom.wikia.com 16:55, 19 August 2008 (UTC)


 * No problem. You can't really edit the tags - I can only really point to w:c:help:Help:Main page column tags for information on what you can do.
 * As for the overlap, it's due to the images being side-by-side. Unfortunately there isn't a simple fix for this, other than reducing the size of the images. 17:10, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Navbox at HaloFanon
Thanks for helping out on the Template at HaloFanon Wiki. Appreciated the help a lot. Wish I can give you something...(Gives cookie at Kirkburn)... :P

Little _ Missy -  18:45, 19 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Yay, cookie! 18:57, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Burnopedia Update
Thanks for the help. I was wondering if you could edit our main page so as to make the second ad functional. Thanks. Exlonox 19:37, 20 August 2008 (UTC) of the Burnout Paradise Wiki


 * Done! 20:09, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for moving the article to my talk page. I was being an idiot and didn't realize that I this was actually a Wiki, I thought it was a page in our other Wiki, so I clicked on the link to get here and wrote an article that should have been on a different Wiki. Thanks for moving it.

Asfastasdark 22:53, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Front Pages
Hey, nice job on the front page for the Burnopedia. Can i make a request for you to make another front page for a wiki? I really think that the Gran Turismo wiki needs a new front page. The reasons are on the pages' discussion page. Crashbroke23 17:25, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I will add it to my todo list, see what I can do :) 10:06, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Xenosaga Wikia
Hi, I noticed you creating your user page in the recent changes log for the Xenosaga wiki. I was wondering if you could make both KOS-MOS Lover and me administrators there. The only sysop, Squall Deckiller, hasn’t made an edit in over a year. ➳ Quin 01:23, 28 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I sticking with using Wiki adoption requests. 10:07, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

RuneScape Wikia and a Highly Disruptive User
Blankothe3rd has been disruptive, incivil, and has evaded blocks since January of this year. He's been perm blocked, but is still causing problems. -Arias Knight

http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Blankothe3rd#Note


 * I would need more specifics than that - it seems like somewhat of an internal wiki issue. If he is still causing problems on his talk page, then you can protect it. 10:22, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Bureaucrat
Hello, and I was wondering is there a way someone on the wikia and upgrade me from an Admin to a Bureaucrat? Our only Bureaucrat and all our admins have been gone for weeks, and I could really use extra help, so I wanted to become a Bureaucrat so I could make some trusted users admins, thanks for you're help.

Also this is our wiki: http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page DeadCat 07:17, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I see their last edits were on 9th August - I would recommend asking PitchBlack. I'd rather have his agreement first.  10:13, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Star Fox Wiki
Thank you for your advice. I was just worried because the Wiki itself isn't fully developed yet. I had previously banned users named lario and lariocaro (both of them are one person) because they kept renaming articles and wouldn't stop even after I gave them a warning.

I will use my power wisely from now on and perhaps create a warning template.

Thanks again. --Blue Ninjakoopa 19:48, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppets?
Can I get a check users run on the following User Names: MMX4SSB; Range TE; Smasher201; BlackHedge. They all just showed up on the Smash Wiki and their only contributions have been a potential advertising page and arguing against deleting it. I'm pretty sure they're all the same user, but I wanted to confirm it before I let loose the bans. Thanks. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 20:52, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

WoWWiki
Hi Kirk!

Sorry about my pages! I will admit, I am a total NOOB at all this, didnt even know what the sandbox was. Read the help...got terribly confused...*sighs* You can actually delete my pages. Also, if I figure it out in the sandbox, can I move it to a finished, published page? Thanks!

Lady Aedion 15:29, 2 September 2008 (UTC)Aedion (Warcraft Wiki)


 * See User talk:Lady Aedion. 15:25, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

"Related Communities" page...
Hiya, I'm from the Nintendo Wiki and was wondering which page I head to in order to edit the "Related Communities" sidebar. Thanks for your help! --Bentendo 16:33, 11 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Possibly MediaWiki:Monaco-related-communities-2, though I am not sure. 14:18, 12 September 2008 (UTC)


 * While that wasn't it - I just decided to delete the 2 and found it - so thanks! --Bentendo 15:37, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Help with user right setting
Is it possible to only allow register user to edit my wiki? Zarela 20:52, 15 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Which wiki, and why? 10:30, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Your talk page is huge!
Please consider archiving it :) -- 13:43, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Happy now? :P 13:53, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Awesome! -- 13:57, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response
Thanks for the quick response on w:c:Help talk:WidgetTag! -- CocoaZen 02:56, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Title blacklist for EVCHK.
I know that there is Extension:SpamBlacklist installed for anti-spam. And one of Community Team suggest me use that to protect articles to create.

However, I think Extension:Title Blacklist is better and easier for local wikia sysop to maintain.

May I request to install it for EVCHK?

Other questions: Should the Local Spam Blacklist add in MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist or MediaWiki:Blacklist title list ( such as c:evchk:MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist or c:evchk:MediaWiki:Blacklist title list)?

Also, I don't know whether the regular expressions of Spam Blacklist is in UTF-8 mode...

Oh, I forget saying that I'm one of sysop of evchk.:P --疾風綾希 18:42, 18 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Heya. Can you request this via Special:Contact? It's somewhat out of my area of expertise - using that should make it easier to organise. Most of what I can offer is on w:c:help:Help:Spam 18:45, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Reply to "Help with user right setting"
aruarose.wikia.com we want to allow only registered user to lower chance of abuse the data, and also allows us to find who is doing the abuse if any. And so everyone knows who contributed because no one will know who people are through an ip address. If that is possible, then it will be great :) Zarela 09:11, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Calendar Function
Heyas Kirk! Can we get the calendar function on the Earthen Ring wiki turned on please? Thanks a ton in advance! --Eupheria 16:20, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Page Types on Wikia Gaming?
Greetings! Are you the wonderful individual I need to thank you implementing the "new page types" in the create a page screen? These are phenomenally helpful!

Is there a way to edit the input portions / infobox to customize them for our specific use?

One way or the other, if you're the responsible party, thanks! --Avery W. Krouse 20:14, 29 September 2008 (UTC)


 * See w:c:help:Help:CreatePage for more info on them :) 20:32, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Blocked???
Well, i'll be darned. My crosswiki block ended on the 27th. But I am still blocked on Warrior Cats Wiki and Spongebob Wiki. How did that happen? Sincerely, 68.112.191.89 17:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey it's Exlonox from the Burnout Paradise Wiki. Just thanking you for all of your help. Later, Exlonox] 19:12, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed, thanks for the help. I hate how people do that like they have nothing else better to do. Did you just happen to stumble across our wikia and notice? or do you watch parksters talk page? =p Rappy talk 20:19, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Exlonox pinged me - though I know of the Wikia anyway :) 20:22, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I know you know of it, I have seen your page there. Was just curious how you knew is all. =) Also, do you know why I can't seem to fetch my template from there to here? should work right? or am I doing something wrong? Rappy talk 20:50, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Scary transclusion, as it is called, only works from Wikia Central out to other wikis - you can read more about it on w:c:help:Help:Shared templates. Generally, avoid it, it's more intended as a maintenance and Wikia admin thing. 21:00, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Gotcha. Rappy talk 21:05, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

While I'm here
I understand your logic and I will unprotect the page, but I must say that it's quite unfair how he hid insults in summaries while deleting my warnings. As the title of this section states, can you tell me where I can find a good logo maker? Kirby Wiki is in great need of a new logo.  Blue Ninjakoopa Talk to me 00:19, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * w:c:logocreation. It's not a good idea to accuse another of hiding insults in summaries when doing it yourself. 00:21, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikia IRC
Oh my, i guess i am blocked there. Today, i came just seeking help on the beavis and butt-head wiki. I accidentally said yes twice, and JSharp blocked me.--Šŏčҝ pũppëťš411 consider yourself...terminated! 22:33, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * And I already banned you once yesterday. So no. 22:41, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Classicopedia
Hi! I have to upload the "logo" for the new encyclopedia I've just made. But... what can I do? I tried to updoald it, and it says I can not. May I ask your help? --Joller 21:36, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

New Parser for GuildWiki
Could you please put w:c:guildwars on the new parser? We want to do interlanguage links to half a dozen wikis in at least 3 different languages, and we want the categories for those to be hidden (obviously). Our template gurus are on standby to attend to any problems. If you have questions, you can often catch me on irc. Cheers, ◄mendel► 23:26, 23 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorted. 14:07, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Debugging File Uploads
Accordingly, the upload file on |superwikia SuperWikia has not been in operation for at least three days due to an undetermined bug. Please help in locating and correcting the bug that the wikia may continue with its uploading. Habatchii 03:55, 24 October 2008 (UTC)


 * This looks to be okay now. 14:30, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Custom namespaces
Hi. I'm from RuneScape Wiki. Firstly, I would like to know if our "Exchange" and "Update" namespaces are listed as content namespaces. If so, I would like to request that it is revised to show up as non-content namespaces.

After the upgrade to 1.13, our article count jumped significantly, and I think these two namespaces are contributing to the count. These namespace are not used for articles, and should not add to the article count.

I know it has something to with "$wgContentNamespaces", but I'm not familiar with "LocalSettings.php". Az 17:03, 24 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorted, by uberfuzzy. 14:44, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Dead or Alive Wikia Upload Page
You know the upload image page where you upload images? In other wikias like Final Fantasy wikia, they were able to customize that page to give out their own rules about uploading images and stuff. How do you customize that page?? Squallinoa_08


 * Replied on user's talk page. 14:49, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Burnopedia
Not sure what's up, or if there is anything you can do to determine the problem, but for some reason, I can't load many/any pages on our wikia. I keep getting the same error over and over: Connection Interrupted The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading. The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again. I can load other web sites just fine, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with my internet connection. If I am barking up the wrong tree enlisting you for help on this, please direct me to the proper person so I can find out what's going on. Thanks. Rappy talk 21:47, 31 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll get it looked into. 14:55, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated. I noticed a few days ago that the monobook theme was no longer showing up for me, and now I can't even get into my preferences/user page/talk page or anything, but for some reason I can load up the 'history' pages from the 'page edited' emails I keep getting.  Someone is able to edit pages, but I am not sure if anyone else is having the same problems I am with the site as I cannot edit a page to find out to save my life. Rappy talk 20:33, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Halogalacticwars Wikia
Hi, I'm Matt-256, one of the two admins on the Halogalacticwars wikia. The wiki has been abandoned as of lately, but I'm planning to resurrect it, so, I hope you could spare a little time to help me with HGW wiki's template problems. I'm also considering to change the wiki's name to something more appropriate, so could you help me with that too? I'm not that good at wikia coding and stuff, and it's said that you're good in these areas, so I hope you have some time over. If you don't have time, then could you tell me of someone else that could help? Cheers,

Matt-256 23:40, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I fixed the template issue you were having, except for one transclusion I can't get at because me is not staff. That was the only problem voiced to me over IRC: If you've got others, best let Kirkburn help. :) --Sky (talk) 00:53, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Forum:Shared Help - new feature!
You probably haven't had time to go over there but could you please enable Shared Help for GuildWiki2? Thanks! --Balistic Pve (T/C/E) 00:14, 4 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Done! :) 07:34, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Dead or Alive Wiki - A Wikia Wiki
Thank you, now I have another request. You know the blue bar above the URL box, everytime you enter DOA wiki, it will say, "Dead or Alive Wiki - A Wikia Wiki". I've noticed in other wikis that they've changed greeting. How do you change it and how can you changed the internet explorer picture (inside the URL) into your own personal picuture? Please reply in my discussion page, thanks! Squallinoa_08


 * Replied on user talk page. 07:35, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Last Question
What about the image in the URL box? You know the W image next to the http://www.deadoralive.wikia.com? How do you change it? Squallinoa_08


 * Replied on user talk page. 10:02, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Favicon Code
I'm so sorry, but I'm confused! I've uploaded the favicon, but now I need to place this code:  Can you help me? Or better yet, can you place the code for me? Squallinoa_08


 * Replied on user talk page. 10:02, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey
Can you help me put images on the articles.I don't know how. —This unsigned comment is by Trifton (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !


 * See w:c:help:Help:Images. --◄mendel► 12:20, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

A few problems
Hi there, it's the parkster. I'm just dropping by to ask whether you can help me with my signature. Obviously the users here don't like me having a template for my sig and so i have to put it as a user page extra but i can't seem to get my preferences nickname slot to show the contents of this page. Could you please help. Also my wiki (Burnout Paraidse Wiki) wants its name changing to burnopedia (officially) but to the burnout wiki on the URL. Could you please sort this otu for me as i've already tried but wikia gaming and central have failed to fix it. Thanks for you time, &#123;&#123;SUBST:User:The parkster/signature code}} 12:28, 9 November 2008 (UTC)


 * WW:SIG on WoWWiki may be able to help you. At a glance though, you may not have "Raw signature" ticked? For the wiki name - you want the name of the site as "Burnopedia", but the address to be the same? 11:19, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Monaco Sidebar not changing
I've saved and re-saved various times, refreshed and even purged with ?action=purge the mainpage, but still the changes i make to Mediawiki:Monaco_sidebar doesn't appear on the sidebar it self, even though the page now reorts the correct list. What should I do? OriginalBBB


 * Wait a few minutes - perhaps up to an hour. It could be cached. If it's not changing after that, I recommend contacting us. Kirkburn (talk) 11:29, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

It's over 40 hours now


 * Aha, it's because the default language of the wiki is Italian. If you view the wiki on Italian, the sidebar is correct. I am not sure if that is how it is supposed to work. I will ask. 13:22, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Maybe.....but What do you mean by saying, viewing the sidebar in italian? How do I chang the sidebar language?


 * From sannse: "you will only see the edited version if you are logged out, or logged in with your preferences set for the same language as the wiki. If you are viewing in English, you will see the English default (or the local English version if there is on)".
 * This means, on it.opensource, you edit Monaco-sidebar for the Italian interface, and Monaco-sidebar/en for the English interface (I have done this on your wiki). The help pages are not very good at explaining this at the moment - we'll try and improve them. 15:21, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, thanks a lot!!! Where can I find information on this language problem? Where can i change on my profile the default language of view of my wiki? Is there antwhere a list of mediawiki pages? To know better what to try in other cases, if not it will always be a odissey


 * Wouldn't it make sense for an Italian wiki to use an Italian interface by default? You can change your own interface from Special:Preferences, but if you want to change the default, I recommend asking via Special:Contact. For help with the Monaco MediaWiki messages, I recommend w:c:help:Help:Customizing Monaco. The help wiki has lots of other help too. 19:06, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It would be nice if that help listed all options and what they changed that is allowed here at Wikia. That help only lists a very limited amount of information... If you can pass this on to whoever deals with that, I'd be appreciated.  Rappy talk 17:33, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I was asking for that Special:preferences. Tnks on more time

Sidebar editing
I'd like to make some corrections to the Star Fleet Universe wikia Sidebar links, but I can't access the edit functions for it. Any help would be very much appreciated. Aldis90 02:20, 16 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Replied at Star Fleet Universe. -- 04:38, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Mass Effect Wiki default caption colours
Hey, Tullis here from MEWiki. I've been asked if it's possible to change the default image caption colour from black to white, to save us putting in additional code to see captions against the dark background. No idea how to do that, any suggestions? --Tullis 13:58, 18 November 2008 (UTC)


 * This is a known bug, I'm hoping it gets fixed soon Wikia-wide - but until then, I'll see if I can concoct a fix for you. 14:37, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Noinclude Tags
Hello Kirkburn,

We have an issue on TibiaWiki. On e.g. the Runes page (a list of all seperate rune pages) the images are showing up, despite being noincluded. See the discussion here. The discussion also contains a link to the image with the bug shown, if it doesn't show up for you. Since it might be a software bug I'm asking you to take a look at it. Kind Regards, Bennie - 10:16, 22 November 2008 (UTC) (TibiaWiki Admin)

Dutch Memory Alpha
Hey babe -- User:Patricia left a message on my talk page about missing pages on the Dutch Memory Alpha. This looks like it might be a shared help thing, which I don't know much about... Can you check it out? I'm also leaving a message for Sannse. Thanks! -- Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 18:38, 22 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorted elsewhere. 20:19, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

HGW Wiki
Hey, I'm the creator of the Halo Galactic Wars Wiki, and though I've been absent for a while, my priorities are back in order. I was told by Angela you could help me. I want to change the name of the Wiki from FTF Halo wiki to Halo Archive. The link name will also need to be changed. Also, I would like if possible to have an Halo Archive IRC which was suggested by Angela as well. I await your reply.--Kebath &#39;Holoree

Extension
what would it take to get this installed on tibia? -- Sixorish 19:24, 28 November 2008 (UTC)


 * As far as I know, it's just a case of enabling it for certain user groups - try requesting it via Special:Contact. 20:23, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh right, wasn't thinking when I said 'extension'. One more question, not that I'm considering this, but would it be possible to limit people to the namespace they edit until they contribute a number of times elsewhere? I'm asking this because people tend to sign up and use the wiki as a blog and don't really do anything outside of their userpage, and it's really irritating because we don't have any policy against it.. -- Sixorish 05:55, 2 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I think it's technically feasible, but something we'd want to avoid doing due to the limitations it can place on users ... might making that policy (or guideline) be a good idea? Along the lines of "this wiki is not a personal blog, please do not edit solely in your user area". 11:51, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Wiki Stats
Hey, do you know anything about the wikia statistics? Our wikis name was changed from BurnoutParadise to Burnout, but the stats page hasn't changed since the change it seems, and there is no link to here as I would have expected. Rappy talk  17:24, 29 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The wikistats.wikia website should have disappeared a while ago ... you want Special:WikiaStats, on Central, or on your wiki. 20:25, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Blog help
Hey Kirkburn. I've posted two blogs now on the Star Wars Fanon wiki but my page, User blog:Squishy Vic, isn't updating at all (even after creating the page, clearing cache, etc.), and it's kind of a downer. I am currently keeping track of my blogs at my user page because of this, but I want to know why my blog page doesn't update like yours, as seen at User blog:Kirkburn. Any help would be appreciated, very very much. Also, you were right, editing my blog did kill the comments on section on both my blogs. Anyways, as I said, help needed! Thanks again. --Victor talk 08:23, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Strange, I'll see what I can find out. 12:32, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Your user blog page should now be fixed :) 14:12, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

It is, thank you. --Victor talk 22:25, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Hate to bug you again, but can you please fix SVS updates, December 2008? The comments on those had also been messed up. Thank you, and I'm confident that'll be the last time I have to bug you. Sorry :P --Victor talk 22:48, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorted :) You just need to edit the page and retick the "Voting" and "Comments" boxes (just above the edit summary box). 00:53, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Custom Skins?
Hey, it's Exlonox from the Burnout Wiki. I was wondering if there is a way to create multiple custom skins for users to choose from? If so, how? Thanks, Exlonox 21:47, 6 December 2008 (UTC)


 * That's not easily possible, although you could create different CSS for users to copy to their personal CSS. For example, code on [red skin] for users to copy to [User:Kirkburn/monaco.css]. 12:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh. It would be a cool future feature for wikia, though. Thanks, Exlonox 00:22, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Help At Burnopedia
Hi, its me the parkster! I'm here to ask for your help, as a staff, because there are three things, which we as a site need help with. Thanks if you can help: We would greatly appreciate all of this. So thank you so much if you could help with these issues. We're very greatful. Regards, &#123;&#123;SUBST:User:The parkster/signature code}} 18:37, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Unlike most Wikis we've created a user group, which is a step or bridge from normal users to sysops. They're called Assistants. At the moment thay have the Rollback right, but we've decided that we want the Assistants to have the ability to edit semi-protected pages and to delete and undelete. This would give them the potential to assist more. We would therefore like you to come and configure the assitants' user group rights. I'm not too good with advanced editing of the site and so i would appreciate it if you could carry out the changes. The forum topic on this is here.
 * 2) I also want to make a user a Bot. However it doesn't let me as it says that i can't change that certain user group. So could i please know how to make him a Bot. His account is Rappybot.
 * 3) Finally we would like to have our site on the spotlight but with two different spotlight pictures. The first is advertising the launch of our new online clan for Burnout Paradise and the other is promoting the site itself in the theme of Paradises' new part pack theme, which ironically also emphasises the site's first birthday on January 2nd. We would really like both pictures to be put on the spotlight from the 2nd for a few weeks, if that's ok.


 * Heya. I've passed on the spotlight requests to the gaming team - that should be possible, especially with your upcoming game release. Regarding the user group rights change, I recommend requesting it via Special:Contact. Finally, I will sort out the bot now :) 16:56, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for sorting that bot situation out. I have been holding off on manual repetitive edits because of that =).  While I am here, do you know much about monaco.css editing?  I have my own version of the file for a skin I wanted to use and recently an admin made a change to the sites monaco.css and I can't seem to override it with my custom one.  The sites monaco.css added a height value to the Wikia image in the top left making the top page border to be flush with the search bar, when normally it is directly underneath the request a new wiki space.  Any information you may have on getting my skin to override that change would be appreciated.  Rappy talk 17:31, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, this is a great help. However do the gaming team know where to find the pictures? Also my signature isn't showing up and just has a template code. Could you please fix it? Thanks, &#123;&#123;SUBST:User:The parkster/signature code}} 16:32, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I think you need to tick "Raw signature" in your preferences. For pictures, I'm sure they can find some, don't worry :) 16:34, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * No we have the pictures but i was asking whether wikia gaming knew where they are on our site. If not then i'll give a link. Thanks, &#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#91;&#91;User talk:The parkster&#124;&lt;font face=&quot;verdana&quot; color=&quot;#ff6600&quot;&gt;the&lt;/font&gt;&#93;&#93; &#91;&#91;User:The parkster&#124;&lt;font face=&quot;verdana&quot; color=&quot;#ff6600&quot;&gt;parkster&lt;/font&gt;&#93;&#93;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39; 17:18, 21 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Sure, link me :) 17:33, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

help
i noticed i am somehow not doing this right..maybe you could help me? I'm just lost when it comes to this


 * See your talk page :) 17:04, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Starter wikis
Hi! I'm helping a little with w:c:fr.starter and looking for guidance to help the native French speakers. Very little info where one might expect it.

Noticing that there were some specialised starters, I looked at the gaming one. Didn't look as if it was fully usable yet. So I created a couple of wanted categories. I saw that you've been doing a lot with it lately, but then I came across some year-old category deletions. First one gave no meaningful reason, but the second one, "Community", gave as the reason the fact that it duplicated Starter. Then I looked at the deletion log and saw more of those.

So I presume that the gaming starter gives only pages that are not in the standard Starter (so that a new wiki gets all of Starter and whichever "add-on" it wants), plus a gaming-oriented Main Page. If that is so, it should be stated somewhere obvious, e.g. in the relevant paragraph on Wikia starter pages.

Now that I see what's probably going on with the "custom" starters, you're welcome to delete my three recent creations, but I look forward to seeing more documentation so that non-staff can contribute usefully.

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 13:19, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Yup, that's the way it works :P Starter kit is created first, then the gamingstarter kit is overlaid on top of it. Agreed we could probably do better documentation for it - I'll see if I can tweak that info page for it now. 13:35, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey!
Whats the font for the WIkia logo? I'd like to create a logo for my wiki according to that font. Thanks!

Hey, need a little help here.
Do I need a full CSS stylesheet for a custom skin? Also, is there any way that I can access the Sapphire monaco CSS to edit for a custom skin? Thanks in advance. G35cpe

Questions

 * Moved from Wikia starter pages by Michaeldsuarez.

Hello. Sorry to add this to your user page, but it seems that I can not start pages on this wiki. Not even talk pages. Could you start your discussion page so that I can comment there? Please move this to there.

Also, I can not start the talk page for w:c:starter:Template:Documentation/doc

There is a problem with nested templates and categorization. I had to add w:c:starter:Category:Image wiki templates directly to w:c:starter:Template:Other free and w:c:starter:Template:From Wikimedia in order for them to show up at w:c:starter:Category:Image wiki templates

It is bizarre. The category name was showing up at the bottom of those templates when the category was placed via the transcluded doc page. But the templates were not listed when looking at the category page itself.

They are listed there now because I added the category directly to the template pages. Via tags.

For more info please see my edits of w:c:starter:Template:Documentation/doc, and my edit summaries there.

I looked at some of the various doc pages for the various image tag templates. I could not tell any difference in the wikicode used to place the category. So I assume it is some kind of inconsistent nested transclusion problem. I have read of these types of problems elsewhere.

I came here to the starter wiki because I happened to be working on image license templates on the wiki I administer (Weed Wiki). I was looking for ideas by examining various image tags elsewhere.

Also, can you start my user page and user talk page here? --Timeshifter 15:52, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


 * See user's talk page. 15:56, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for telling me about templates.wikia. Maybe it would still be better to have less transclusion in this case anyway. Otherwise some people are going to be very confused by the ins and outs of nested transclusion and cache purging. It is already a brain teaser to figure out and . :) --Timeshifter 16:02, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, that's why I have a description on the documentation/doc page - but yes, they certainly aren't easy to remember :P I'll see if I can improve it at all later. Edit: for the cache purging bit, I think that's a one-time issue; the updates came from imports. 16:03, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * As someone who only now created most of the image license templates at the Weed Wiki, I think I can say that most people will not create doc pages. So the categorization of the image license templates may not occur on many wikis unless the categorization is included directly on the image license template page.


 * I have been the admin at the Weed Wiki since June 2007, and it took me this long to figure out what I needed concerning image licenses, and how to create what I needed. Everything is so byzantine and complex. And I also have around 25,000 edits combined between Wikipedia and the Commons.


 * I don't think many MediaWiki developers really understand ease of use, and intuitive graphical user interface principles. I think there should be a set of default image license templates already setup for all wikis. Admins can fine tune it all later, add more templates, and remove unneeded templates, etc..


 * In the meantime though, all wikis would start having more images sooner. Images and embedded videos are what really make wikis interesting, and they are what get new users involved in editing, I am finding out. If they can't just select an image tag from a license selector, then they are not interested in my opinion.


 * Thanks again for pointing me to templates.wikia. It points to the mediawiki Template repository. It talks about the need for "starter" or "default" templates. My suggestion is that they come already installed on new Wikia wikis. Old Wikia wikis need them installed too. It also suggests that for licenses there not be any variables. I agree. It is hard enough just to get new users to use the license selector. --Timeshifter 17:25, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * All new wikis on Wikia have these templates, that's the basis of our starter kit :) Unfortunately, it's not very easy to port that back to other wikis, which was part of the reason why templates.wikia was created: to collate such useful wikis, and put them in a form that they can be understood and copied.
 * Definately understand what you mean about making stuff easy and more intuitive: we have a new editor coming up which should help newbies avoid having to learn wikicode (see Help:New editor for info on that). 17:27, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. The table editor at Help:New editor looks very interesting. On which wikis is this being beta tested? I created this page on the Commons: commons:Commons:Chart and graph resources, and have long been looking for easier chart and table editing.
 * I saw this at the Help Wiki: "Please note: The Help namespace is locked due to Shared Help. If you would like to suggest changes to an article, please use the relevant talk page." Maybe something like that note and system could be added to the Starter Wiki. I hate looking for the right forums and talk pages outside of the wiki I am currently reading. --Timeshifter 18:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Not sure if that is possible, I was told to be careful with what I added to the wiki because all pages (including user pages and mediawiki messages), are copied to the new wikis, this would mean that particular sitenotice (or an alternative method) would be in effect on any new wikis that were made. Most default MediaWiki messages belong on the messaging wiki. Though I do see your point there. :) -- 18:20, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing me to the messaging wiki.
 * We'll fix the starter kit editing issue :) For places where the new editor is in action, one you could try is w:c:terminator. 18:25, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. Could parts of the New editor be implemented on Wikipedia? For example; could a table sandbox be set up using the new table editor? So people could create tables there in the sandbox area, and then copy them to Wikipedia or Wikia pages? The table sandbox could be linked from the table help pages, and elsewhere. --Timeshifter 13:19, 16 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I copied Template:Ambox from http://templates.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Ambox to the Weed Wiki. But its documentation says "This templates requires sitewide CSS!" Is that sitewide CSS installed on the Weed Wiki? I tried creating a template using w:c:cannabis:Template:Ambox but it did not work. --Timeshifter 13:19, 16 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Wikia is entirely separate to Wikipedia, so I cannot really talk for them. For the ambox CSS, it is not included by default, so what you likely need is listed at http://templates.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Ambox#CSS_required 13:37, 16 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Where do I put it? I searched the Weed Wiki (via http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search) for MediaWiki:Common.css and variations of it. I could not find anything. On the template wiki there is http://templates.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css and it includes the Template:Ambox CSS.


 * Do I create the MediaWiki:Common.css page on the Weed Wiki? Does this override default Wikia CSS? What is the default CSS? Where do I find it? Why can't I set up the CSS on the Weed Wiki to use default Wikia CSS so that as it changes so does my copy of it on Weed Wiki? Is it already set up that way? Is Template:Ambox#CSS_required part of the default Wikia CSS. Why not? This is very confusing.


 * Also, could Wikia set up a table sandbox for the new editor? I am like a little kid who keeps asking questions... :)


 * Here are some specifics about the ambox template on the Weed Wiki:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Ambox
 * This template uses it:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Template:City_page_needing_editing
 * It is used on this page:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Mindelo%2C_Cape_Verde
 * I set it up as a top banner. It also adds this category to whatever city page it is used on:
 * Category:City pages needing links or info about local cannabis activism
 * I intend to use the banner on many empty Global Marijuana March city pages. See all the red links for the 500+ cities listed at Global Marijuana March. --Timeshifter 16:49, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

(Unindenting) You may find w:c:help:Help:Skins useful in understanding more how the skins work. For this specific example, I have added the CSS to http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css - common.css adds extra CSS tweaks and classes to all the wiki skins. It's a little hard to explain how it works, but the important bit is done for now :) The ambox stuff is not part of the sitewide CSS as people like to customize and design such stuff themselves, and we don't like to force too much stuff on wikis, especially if they have previously done it another way.

As for a sandbox wiki, w:c:communitytest may suit your purposes. 17:10, 16 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks! http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Template:City_page_needing_editing now looks great with the default borders, colors, etc..


 * When I make more time I need to examine all the possibilities for using and testing the new editor. --Timeshifter 17:38, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Need help on dispute at Bully Wiki.
Hi Kirkburn.

Can you check out this dispute and give your opinions please?

BTW, I think the comments second from bottom from McJeff were uncivil and had ownership issues. Dan the Man 1983 15:40, 17 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The incivility and ownership started with Dan. For some reason, he believes being a bureaucrat gives him the right to "veto" other people's edits..


 * Dan also has the problematic habit of making controversial changes and then insisting that I wait for consensus, which I believe is the opposite of the way things are supposed to work - see the edit history of this article for one of several examples. McJeff 16:28, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Posted on http://bullygame.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Karl_Branting#State_Karl_as_the_leader_of_the_prefects_or_not. 17:08, 17 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the advice you gave during this dispute, much appreciated. Dan the Man 1983 07:06, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Age of Mythology Wikia
Since there are no active bureaucrats I would like to request to be a bureaucrat, admin, or even a sysop on it, so in that way I can fix up the wiki. Halogod35 16:58, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Please visit Wiki adoption requests and add your request there :) 17:17, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah thanks man . sir. xD Halogod35 15:19, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Tabs on main page
Hey, I have had an idea for a tabbed Main Page for a while and recently decided to propose a change for it. Then I ran into a problem that in order to do it with the knowledge I have, I'd have to have a brand new page for each tab. Then I ran across WoWWiki and noticed that they do exactly what I want to do with Burnopedia. Upon further research I find that you are a beurocrat over there and must have some information on what I should do to make this work using javascript. If you get a chance, peruse this and this to see what it is I am working on and how I currently have it setup. I know it's not the best way to do it, but that's the limitation on what I can do. If nothing else, can you point me in the right direction for js help I could use to tackle this ordeal. Any help would be appreciated. Rappy talk 03:57, 24 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Responded on local user's talk page. 19:50, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Help my Wikia
Hi i'm Take-Two_World (Callum Dawson) and on Christmas Day i think it was you who created my wiki (http://take-two.wikia.com/wiki/Take-Two_Interactive_Wiki). I was wondering if you could tell me how to turn the top of the page into a logo like Grand Theft Wiki (http://gta.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) has. Please reply on Take-Two Wiki. --C.Dawson 14:41, 28 December 2008 (UTC) C.Dawson (Take-Two_World)


 * Responded on local talk page. 16:37, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Where are you kirkburn?
Hi! I'm Suricato, a wikia gaming user, and I'm very interesting to contact with you at IRC. Who is your name at IRC? Do you have a channel?

Sorry for my poor english.


 * I'm "Kirkburn" on IRC, details are on my main user page. However, I've not been on as much recently - been very busy with other matters, plus it's been Christmas :P 16:38, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Switching hubs
This messege is about when you mentiond my wiki being in technology not gaming. Can i please switch to gaming. --C.Dawson 19:47, 29 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Done. The change should show up shortly. 19:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Template documentation does not go well with forumheaders
Copied the templates and forum pages from Starter in the last 24 hours. Planning to do it for other wikis. But we have a problem. See http://fisherymanagement.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Help_test_this%3F and http://fisherymanagement.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Here_at_last.

Forums preload into the edit boxes of new items. I'm sure you remember that, but the consequences may have escaped you until now. Forums therefore copy even a "noinclude" section, such as. So you get a documentation subpage trying to be created for every forum item.

Is it me or is it you that's done something not right?

Here's the contents of Template:Forumheader/Watercooler as copied from Starter (which hasn't been changed since):

If it's you, maybe I can suggest a solution: the preload doesn't have to pull in a template, does it? So the page it pulls in doesn't need the lovely new standard template documentation. (Sad, but hey that's only two of the dozens of Starter templates!!) Call it Project:Forumheader/Watercooler, maybe, so that nobody can complain that we have templates without proper documentation.

So Forum:Watercooler can have its relevant line simply changed from: preload=Template:Forumheader/ to preload=Project:Forumheader/

I've probably forgotten something somewhere in there. Oh, yes - Template:Forumheader will have to become Project:Forumheader and therefore need an initial colon and namespace whenever it's called up, which will be mostly in the forumheader subpages such as the above-quoted Template:Forumheader/Watercooler, which will be renamed Project:Forumheader/Watercooler and will have first line with the extra stuff but no "noinclude" and therefore look like this:

And help desk correspondingly.

Now I'm surer that I've missed something. Must be lunch-time. I expect you can find a flaw at a glance if there is one.

Cordially

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 01:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Hey, sorry I missed this - I've removed the lines from and  for now. I don't think they absolutely require the explanation, but I'll try and check out your solution when I get a bit of extra time :)  12:51, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Good man! Maybe the documentation can be added to http://starter.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Forumheader/doc. Many templates on Wikipedia (as I expect you know) share documentation if they are as intimately related as those are. That would be cleaner than changing "Forum:" to "Project:" on three or six pages. Maybe I can do it; some of my work on Starter has survived expert attention. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 21:33, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Bot edits
In regards to your comment about bot edits triggering notification e-mails. -- 22:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Sounds good :) 12:53, 5 January 2009 (UTC)