User talk:Angela

World of Darkness Updates
Hi Angela! Rav and I are the ones trying to establish wod.wikicities.com to merge our respective site (worldofdarkness.wikicites for him, nwod.wikicities for me). I sent in a request on Sep 12 and still haven't heard anything. Could you help us out?--Atlastawake 13:36, 21 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Wikicities logo license
Hi Angela,

could you tell me whether the Wikicities logo can be used in the Hungarian Wikipedia? There is no license information; it is used under fair use in the en: Wikipedia, but that doesnt apply in Hungary. Could you possibly place it under a free license?

(I tried to contact Jasonr about this, but got no answer.)

thx, --hu:Tgr (152.66.212.151 22:14, 8 Aug 2005 (UTC))


 * replied at wikipedia:hu:user talk:Tgr. Angela (talk) 14:01, 9 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer. To my knowledge, there is no way in Hungary to use an image without explicit permisssion from the copyright holder, regardless of type and trademark status. Maybe you could give permission to use the image in Wikipedia, or in WikiMedia projects? Or permit using it in connection with WikiCities?

As for the Sablon:Más wikik logos, they are linked from Commons. We assumed, that placing an image in Commons automatically means at least that the sister projects are permitted to use it. If that is not the case, could you please clarify their legal status and give a permission similar to the above one? We use those images quite often, eg. in interproject link templates.

(OTOH if being in Commons does mean permission, then uploading the WikiCities logo there with a license similar to those of the WikiMedia trademarks would solve the problem.)

As a side note, the and  logos are under GFDL in Commons. Is this incorrect then?

--Tgr (152.66.212.151 12:40, 10 Aug 2005 (UTC))

Sorry to bother you again, but could you please find a suitable license for the lgogos (eg. permission to use them on *.wikipedia.org)? The current legal uncertainity often causes problems. (For example, one of the hungarian wikipedians created a welcome mug based on the official Wikipedia logo; after looking through the relevant articles on Meta, the english Wikipedia and Commons, we found no information at all about the legal status of this image. (Except fo wikipedia:m:talk:logo, which requests that such images be put under GFDL - which is probably incorrect.))

thanks, --Tgr (talk) (--152.66.212.151 00:32, 25 Aug 2005 (UTC))

Control, Independence, or Death
Why do you keep bugging me? I did not mean to attract unwanted attention, but i don't want anymore interference with my user pages! Stop being my enemy, i'm trying to get away from all my problems on the wiki. I'm looking for a freely editable website where my user pages can be left alone in peace and privacy. No one (except me) controls my user page because his/her changes to my user pages will disappoint me and no one controls what i do to my user pages (i don't vandalize them though). Stop destroying my user page, the content i put on there is very important to me. I don't like to use my user pages for project purposes only - it's too boring! I have many user pages on the internet, but i combine them as links to my user pages. I keep my user page as half-fact and half-fiction. What i am doing to my user pages is not spamming - i hate spam! Stop giving comments against me - they make me angry and stop chasing me across the wiki - i don't want to die!

On the other hand, my user content includes my work on the wiki, again, you misunderstood my "revolutionary reformation" ideas and you wrongly interpret me as a threat. I don't want anyone to become my enemies who are intent on destroying me and banishing me from the entire wiki, so please leave me alone in peace! -- Eddyward Telerionus 10:08, 11 Aug 2005 (UTC)

New York Wikicity
Hi, it's Pharos of the English Wikipedia here (I can confirm this on en.wikipedia if you want). I would like to revive the rather moribund New York Wikicity (if it's not yet been put on the adoption list, it's pretty darn close; see changes over the last 30 days). So I am requesting admin status on newyork.wikicities. Maybe I should be given bureaucrat status as well. Thanks.--Pharos 00:03, 11 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Wikiversity
It looks like Wikiversity might finally be kicked out of wikibooks. Is there any way that Wikiversity could exist as a wikicity until it gets designated as a stand-alone project? Maybe wikiversity could just move to the university node wiki --JWSchmidt 20:56, 13 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * Universitywikinodewiki was actually meant to have been locked ages ago. It's superceded by education: and students:, the former of which could provide a place for the Wikiversity pages on Wikibooks. However, the vision I have of Wikiversity requires software changes, so I don't see much benefit to simply moving the pages off Wikibooks to any site here. If it was to be here, it ought to be hosted without ads, since we're currently trying to find grants to support its development, which aren't so likely to come if it appears to be hosted on a commercial site. Angela (talk) 21:40, 13 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * Hello Angela, I indicated support for leaving Wikiversity as it is on its talk page. I have put work on a New Testament translation on both Wikibooks (Christianity) and Religion-Wiki (User:Athrash). Wikibooks admins may have a problem with Christianity as a title which is evangelizing in itself. They called parts of it: raw Bible. So what, it all qualifies as annotated texts and is non-denominational. I only go to Religion occasionly to keep a back-up possibility, Gareth has helped me with the classic languages. I just found the Main Page redirected to WP:nonsense and have no admin credentials. That was a puzzle, but I was able to revert using URL address for Religion Main Page History. All of the entries of 67.181.63.245 may have similar results and I did not have time to check them all. Athrash 03:36, 14 Aug 2005 (UTC)

dear angela..bout my wikicites...
1. I have no email 2. I need would prefer my proposed amtgard wiki over the animal crossing wiki as the amtgard wiki was requested on other boards I know about. 3. I would take care of all wikicitys!

Order I want my cities:

1. amtgard 2. dead kennedys 3. animal crossing

--Aeryka 01:43, 14 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Investments & Cities
Amazingly enough, the vandals do not seem to have found either, the relative lack of activity notwithstanding. I just finished creating a new logo for Investments, it only took three programs to create the darn thing. Now I would like to upload and need admin privs. Also since only CocoaZen and Myself will admit to mucking about on the cities wiki, maybe we could be made admins there as well.

One other thing that concerns me is that the statistics don't seem to be functioning properly for Investments. I know Investments isn't doing all that much as yet, but I would appreciate if someone would take a look at it eventually. Among other things, it doesn't seem interested in showing up in the comparison table at www.wikicities.com/wikistats/EN/TablesDatabaseSize.htm.--Kirk 03:20, 14 Aug 2005 (UTC)

.doc support for toastmasters wikicity?
Flushed with my success at http://toastmasters.wikicities.com I've started not one, but two conference wikicities. One for a conference in October and another in May 2006. I started them today, monday 15 august and am promoting them aggressively.

I think the http://toastmasters.wikicities.com site would really benefit from having .doc upload support. Many of the resources we currently use are in .doc support. .doc is also much smaller than .pdf so is bandwidth friendly.

Academia wikicity interwiki code
Is there a functioning interwiki link code for Academia or should we just use w:c:wikiname:pagename ; w:c:Academia:Main Page? --JWSchmidt 19:43, 18 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * Just w:c:Academia:Main Page. New wikis aren't being added to the interwiki map since it was unscalable to maintain the list manually and somewhat pointless when w:c: works from here and wikicities:c: works from other wikis. Angela (talk) 02:09, 19 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Change Wikiadmins
Hi! we Have A problem with our Wikicity Site Abitur Wissen: The admin is away and never come back. Hopefully you want to make me and FProg as admins. That would be great, beacause we need Admins to lead the whole thing...


 * Could you help us, please? We really need an admin there. I tried to contact Juli, who created the Abi Wiki, some time ago (see the discussions), but there was no response. However, we need an admin to translate and change the MediaWiki messages, to delete pages etc. It would be great if you could set me and/or Jonnyisback as admins there. -- FProg (   ) 22:09, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Title Change?
Hey is there a way to get my wiki's title changed to WikiBestiary? It seems "teratology" is used most often for the study of birth defects and I think that might be a little confusing. Thanks. Tengu 07:18, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * Sure. I'll do that now. Angela (talk) 10:19, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Statistics not working
Neither Wikistats nor Webalizer seem to be funtioning. Wikistats seems to be stuck at 8/15 and Webalizer at 8/16.--Kirk 23:48, 25 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Block user Linuxbeak
I want help to block Linuxbeak in the swedish Memory Alpha wikicity. He is apparentely not at fault, but someone is using his account to create trouble. Can you block him? Peter R 08:27, 26 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Harry Potter Wiki Title
Hi Angela, can you please change the Harry Potter Wiki site name from "Harry Potter" to "Harry Potter Wiki"? I think we've made the decision here. Vostok also agrees with the renaming, as long as the URL doesn't change. P.S., I've posted the German translation for the message box. 02:32, 27 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Need Help Blocking a Spammer
Angela, I'm contacting you because the Alaska wiki is having a problem with the same spammer who pasted a link at the top of THIS page. He's vandalizing our main talk page. Maybe since the problem with this person is more widespread than just us, he could be blocked completely. When I look at the page histories, I see that the ip address changes each time, so I don't know exactly what to do here. BTW, I "defused" the link he left at the top of this page because this message got filtered out the first time I left it. (It was convenient for me that he left an example right here, so you could see who I'm talking about.) This is our first problem with a persistant vandal. I need a little direction here.--Doug 18:20, 27 Aug 2005 (UTC)

redirect to porno spam

 * Angela ... someone used your id at 3:48 to redirect my user page
 * http://peace.wikicities.com/wiki/User:-ts-
 * to:
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Autofellatio_2.jpg
 * i changed it back.
 * if anyone else has this problem ...
 * use http://YOUR WIKI/index.php?title=User:YOUR ID&action=edit
 * to get in to edit it. -ts-talk 04:01, 28 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * update ... in fact, all admin pages were altered along with a few other pages.
 * so someone got access to your ID Angela ... and signed in as you.
 * unless of course it WAS you. ;)
 * from Recent Changes, one can do a rollback.
 * -ts-talk 04:23, 28 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * It wasn't my ID. It was User:%CE%91ngela, not User:Angela. I've blocked it on the peace wiki and Jason has changed its password to prevent it editing anywhere else. Angela (talk) 05:34, 28 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * thanks. i didn't really think it was you. ;)
 * i did wonder at how someone was able to hijack your ID. interesting fakeout.
 * it's hard to keep up with all of this junk ... and impossible to head it off.
 * seems all we can do is clean up the mess after the fact.
 * thanks again. -ts-talk 15:41, 28 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Desencyclopedie URL
Hello Angela... Did you by any chance receive my email about the domain name www.desencyclopedie.com, which I can redirect to the Désencyclopédie? Do you think it's ok? Thanks! --Philo 10:26, 30 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Finding IPs to block spammers?
Hi Angela. I'm an admin on the Doom Wiki. We had some spammer vandalise our homepage but I am unable to IP-ban them because they actually registered an account ("1231232"). As far as I can tell there isn't any way in MediaWiki to find someone's IP address, even if you're an admin.

Obviously, if you could block them it would be great, but it would be nice to have a way to do this so that it is not neccessary to bother you again in future. Fraggle 12:13, 30 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Your unprotedtion of Avatar Main Page
I thought about the harm, but it was only protected form moves. I am unsure how to fix move vandalism, so it added a little peaceo f mind to me. I don't really mind if it stays unprotected, though. Howabout1 22:09, 30 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Guardian Angel - protecting pages
Hi Angela, Sorry - we were protecting pages so that all the countrys citizens wouldn't go in and edit the 'reports' in our virtual newspaper written by our citizen correspondents. We panicked a bit just before CitTV came out last week as we thought that the newspaper might be mentioned on TV, and so people might go in and look at the work etc. However, I shall refrain from protecting the pages, and shall instruct the other correspondents to do the same. Hope this resolves the issue. Thanks, Suzkin.

H*R Wiki
It has been almost a week since I sent an..."application" for the H*Rpedia. Did you get it? I haven't heard back. --Color Printer 23:28, 2 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Hello? --Color Printer 19:40, 5 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Okay, that's it. You haven't even rejected my application. You've been ignoring my messages. You're all a bunch of jerks. --Color Printer 21:43, 7 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Hello? It's been over two weeks!!!! You jerks!!! --Color Printer 21:30, 12 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Translation
Hi Anglea, I've finished the translation of the current message box in case you haven't noticed yet. 06:43, 3 Sep 2005 (UTC)

conferences wikicity has been hacked
The conferences wikicity has been completely hacked. sigh. --Erichv 08:42, 7 Sep 2005 (UTC)

World of Darkness Wiki
Hi Angela,

There are two wiki's in wikicities aimed at fan-made content for the RPG World of Darkness. I have been in discussion with the editors at nwod.wikicities.com and I believe that we want to combine our wiki's at the new url wod.wikicities.com and have the wiki name of "World of Darkness Wiki." Please put the founders as myself and Atlastawake (I think there is actually one more founder but I haven't met him/her yet). Hopefully we can smooth this out quickly and continue to create the first/best wiki for WoD.

Thanks, Ravious
 * Angela: Should we just send in a request to make a new wiki as if the other two didn't exist? --Atlastawake 20:19, 12 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, well I just did that; the site should exist soon; we'll have to start diverting our respected information onto wod.wikicities.com once it is up and running. The question is, how do we get rid of our old wikis once we are ready to kill them off?--Atlastawake 20:35, 12 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * Angela? It's been over a week and wod.wikicities.com doesn't exist yet. Could you help us out? --Atlastawake 09:24, 21 Sep 2005 (EDT)

Wikifun
Hello Angela,

can you change the title of the wiki fun.wikicities.com from "Sammlung von Witzen" into: "Wikifun", please? On Wikibooks there is also another Jokebook in English available - perhaps it's possible to start a English version of Wikifun for collecting english jokes here, too. Thank u -- Achim 06:49, 10 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * I've checked the use of language again and I think the best thing is to use the domain fun.wikicities.com for a multilanguage start page where the language can be selected (like here: cpp.wikicities.com). For the german and english version we need two different subdomains: de.fun.wikicities.com (german) and en.fun.wikicities.com (english). Both wikis should have the title "Wikifun". I hope you can help me -- Achim 13:58, 11 Sep 2005 (UTC)

mmm cake
Thanks for the cake! --Phroziac (talk) 03:58, 13 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Wikicities:Wikicities tour/Create a new tour stop
Dear Angela, I've been tinkering with your precious Wikicities tour/Create a new tour stop. I'm fairly sure it still works. I believe the headings and line-spacings, etc, will make it easier to use. Now to do one for LOTR! Robin Patterson 12:02, 13 Sep 2005 (UTC) (Your clock is 15 minutes slow??)

LOTR done. My fiddles worked well. Please have a tour! (OK, I know you're busy 25/7) Robin Patterson 01:40, 15 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Consolidating Cities?
Angela - Kimbayne and I have discussed merging the Tucson Wikicity, which was up for adoption and to which Kim had been the main contributor and founder, into the Cities Wikicity. Would that be ok? Could the existing pages be ported over (preferably with a "Tucson:")? If it can't be done with a mass move, I guess we could do manual copy and paste. Then Tucson could be closed down, but the content and opportunities to grow would remain. And it would greatly enrich the content on the Cities site. Your opinions? --CocoaZen 15:19, 18 Sep 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, that sounds fine. Let me know when you want me to lock the Tucson wiki from editing. Angela (talk) 00:16, 20 Sep 2005 (EDT)

wikilink to a image @ the main wikicities?
Can you wikilink to a image @ the main wikicities from a subdomain. I have tried but only got a missing image notice. Thanks for any feed back. Reddi 16:56, 18 Sep 2005 (UTC) [crossposted]


 * No, this isn't possible. You need to re-upload the image to the wiki you want to use it on. Angela (talk) 00:16, 20 Sep 2005 (EDT)

Extension
Bonjour Angela,

I would like to know if it is possible to add an extension to create partitions, like here : http://wikisophia.org/wiki/Wikitex#Music.

it would be useful to transcribe images like this one (and much of others) :.

Thank you. Marc 05:55, 21 Sep 2005 (EDT)


 * I'm not convinced this extension is safe enough yet since it hasn't been installed on Wikipedia or any other Wikimedia sites. Do you know of any wikis that are using it? Angela (talk) 05:27, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)


 * I don't know. I only wanted some informations on this extension.

I have a problem with advertisements : I do not think that advertisements for lingerie or for meetings are compatible with a wiki on a philosopher. In Prohibited content, Pornography, adult, or mature content are prohibited. Marc 13:13, 21 Sep 2005 (EDT)


 * Sorry about this. Google should not be serving up inappropriate ads. Do you have some examples of what they were linking to? You can also contact Google directly about this using the address at . Angela (talk) 05:27, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * For example : http://www.eurochallenges.com/index.php?r=1. The text on the wiki is "meet serious with beautiful woman. Simple and fast relation" (sorry for my english). It is a little bit ambiguous... Or sale of lingerie on ebay. The problem is not that I have something against this (these advertisements are however for adults), but that's not very serious for a wiki on a philosopher : this wiki is referenced by a doctoral school in France... Marc 18:53, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * The ads are based on the content of the page, so should (in theory) be appropriate to it. I see what you mean about the products being for adults, but the content of the ads themselves will hopefully not be x-rated or anything like that. I don't think there's any way of preventing any content like this, though if there are specific URLs you want me to block, I can do that. Angela (talk) 20:35, 23 Sep 2005 (UTC)

That is not possible ! see : w:c:Nietzsche:Accueil :
 * http://www.roman-passion.com/minisiten/main/standard.php?WEBSITE=litt&step=catalogue&rec_type=Qwiser&Query=ESPARBEC%20-%20ESPARBEC%20ESPARBEC
 * http://www.alapage.com/mx/?&donnee_appel=DERE2&type=1&tp=PHP&code_rubrique=01010315&nopp=1

These links are absolutely not appropriate ! Marc 10:37, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

I have examined how ads are selected. The main page contents the word outil and there is an advertisement for technological tools !! With the word historiques > advertisement for blason, armoirie. For the article w:c:Nietzsche:Friedrich Nietzsche, there are ads to stop smoking... I don't understand in this case.

My conclusion is that the method for select advertisements is probably based on words that a page contents.

The problem is not only that there is ads for adults (livres pornographiques et érotiques on the main page), the problem is that the method is very bad in general, and the results are very inappropriate for all cases. Marc 11:52, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Adding a CGI IRC Portal
Might it be possible to get a CGI IRC portal active for polaqu:'s channel #polaqu, similar to that found here? I would imagine it would be good for fostering a better community there. Mathx314(talk)(email) 00:50, 23 Sep 2005 (UTC)


 * Done. The channel is now accessible from irc.wikicities.com. Angela (talk) 20:35, 23 Sep 2005 (UTC)