User talk:Sarah Manley/Archive 5

Logo
Hi i uploaded the logo and it didnt appear. Also If its to big does that mean it dosent appear.HazeShot 04:00, August 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Where is this happening? Sarah (help forum | blog) 18:15, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

Hello!
This again myself. Could you rename D0% 97% D0% B0% D0% B3% D0% BB% D0% B0% D0% B2% D0% BD% D0 % B0% D1% 8F_% D1% 81% D1% 82% D1% 80% D0% B0% D0% BD% D0% B8% D1% 86% D0% B0 Ледникоый Период Wiki in Ледопедия?Оби Ван Кеноби 10:11, August 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Please send in an email to Special:Contact, thanks, Sarah (help forum | blog) 18:14, August 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * What's the difference?I can not. Please!Оби Ван Кеноби 12:49, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * I can't tell what wiki you are interested in, if you contact at special contact, and just give the link to the wiki and new name, that would be very helpful. Thanks, Sarah (help forum | blog) 18:25, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * I do not understand. I gave the link.Оби Ван Кеноби 08:13, August 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * ru.iceage.wikia.com -- ◄mendel► 10:35, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * Alert! Why can not I upload images?Оби Ван Кеноби 16:42, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * What are you doing? Customize DOWNLOAD FILE !!!!!Оби Ван Кеноби 05:08, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey! I'm can't download images!Оби Ван Кеноби 11:13, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * To be clear, you want the wiki to be called Ледопедия or Ледникоый Период Wiki? Please let me know. Thanks, Sarah (help forum | blog) 20:19, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

You need to check in on your "Design your own Photo Galleries" on your blog
People are waiting for answers. ;) Glittersword 17:56, August 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * You are so cruel. You keep telling people to move talk page discussions over to the blogs, but hundreds of real people are waiting for requests on several of your blogs, and you have either given no answers or added empty, buttery comments like "We're working on it" and/or "it is so nice to see how many comments users have contributed to this blog!". Give us real, straight answers and honest input, and take each comment seriously, as each was posted by a real person with real emotions. -Volatile Dweevil :(
 * If you check back on that blog, you will see that Kirkburn, the product manager for that tool, did leave a comment about some of the issues brought up. We are working hard to keep up with all comments, on all blog posts. Since there are so many, we are not able to answer all, but have been posting updates that address the main issues. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 16:17, August 26, 2010 (UTC)

Achievement awards
I wouldn't have a problem with the achievement awards if they didn't include awards for adding categories. We have a problem on the iCarly Wiki with users spamming categories to win awards, and it messes up the organization of the wiki. Could you suggest this to someone? Thanks -- SeddieBerserker  ( talk ) 21:02, August 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, yes I will share your feedback. I would also recommend deciding as a community some guidelines around achievements, and letting people who spam know about them. Sometimes just leaving an encouraing message about why you don't want folks spamming (said in a nice way), can go a long way. Cheers, Sarah (help forum | blog) 18:31, August 27, 2010 (UTC)

Heading
There is a MediaWiki page for editing the message that can be placed at the top of each page above the page name. What is the page's adress? Swampert rox 00:20, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * See Help:Sitenotice. -- ◄mendel► 08:01, August 27, 2010 (UTC)

Blog trouble
Hi, uh... how can you find other people's blogs? Can you add others?


 * Many wikis have set up blogs, which show you recent posts, such as the staff blog. That is a good place to start. Cheers, Sarah (help forum | blog) 18:33, August 27, 2010 (UTC)

Achievements
Hi, on Lego Harry Potter Wiki I want to add achievements, and some Wikia users said I have to contact Wikia, so I did. GuitarMasta099

Ok, Thank You! From GuitarMasta099
 * Please get a community consensus on this, and if everyone agrees, then please send us an email request at Special:Contact. Thanks, Sarah (help forum | blog) 18:40, August 27, 2010 (UTC)

It already has 2 people in the first day! From GuitarMasta099

5 people. From GuitarMasta099


 * Wonderful! Cheers, Sarah (help forum | blog) 20:21, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

Please can you help me I've forgotten my password and my PC thinks I have logged off. Do you know what I can do? I promise that I am GuitarMasta099. Thank You!

Creating A Wiki
Hi i just had a few questions about creating a wiki thank you in advance for the help!-- (Have something to say?) 02:30, August 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) How do people find out about the new wiki?
 * 2) What kind of things would make me ineligible to create a new wiki?
 * 3) What kind of help would i get when setting up the the Wiki?


 * Hi, anyone can create a wiki, so jump right in. Help can be found on our help pages, as well as in our community forum. People can find your wiki in many ways. We have tips on how to best attract new users here. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:37, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

Torchwood Wikia
Hello. You may remember the other week I contacted you about Torchwood Wikia. Since you contacted the user, an anonymous user removed all content from my talk page on that wikia, then five minutes later, the user Trikster 87 left a message on my talk page. These being so close together makes me think it is the same person. I'm not sure of policies across all wikias are that you should not wipe another user's page or talk page, but if it is, I believe that the user did so. The message read "You didnt need to tell the wikia staff would you stop posting messages about dang copyrights.". The user then proceeded to block my username for a year under the reason of "annoyance". I believe this user has abused his powers as an admin. I would strongly advise a wikia staff to warn this user that what he has done is not acceptable, and I feel somewhat concerned that a user as such, who believes that this is a good reason to block another user, is an administrator on so many wikias. Thanks for your time. The Thirteenth Doctor 20:48, August 29, 2010 (UTC)

Hey. In the original email I received (I believe it was from you) you asked to provide a list of pages which copied information from the TARDIS wikia pages. The user was warned and was given over a week, and has seen the messages, yet has only edited one page.

I have compiled a list of pages which have copied information. The first link at each bulletpoint is the page which is in violation, the second is the closest version of the page from TARDIS from which the information was copied. I have hidden the list in a show box to save space.

Could you please delete these pages. Thank-you. --The Thirteenth Doctor 20:27, August 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * The problem is not so much that these pages are lifted, but that the attribution that the copyright license CC BY-SA requires is missing. Somebody should educate Trikster87 that he should use Special:Export (on Tardis) and Special:Import (on TorchwoodBBC) when copying pages; that would satisfy the license. If he does that for all of the pages listed (he doesn't even need to delete them), he'll be fine. -- ◄mendel► 05:13, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, as mendel said, they can follow those steps. Let me know if you need me to contact them again. Thanks, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:21, September 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * I would tell them that, but as I said above, the user blocked me, so I cannot contact them. If you could unblock me, or if it's easier to talk to them, that would be appreciated. Thanks. --The Thirteenth Doctor 20:03, September 2, 2010 (UTC)

There is no admin for SOCOM Wiki
Hi Sarah, you said that there's no admin for SOCOM Wiki which someone created it and yet the creator didn't want to be the admin.

TheAC29 (talk) 13:43, August 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * Did you want to adopt the wiki? If so, you can apply here. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:43, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe I should I find someone who is a fan of SOCOM.
 * TheAC29 (talk) 09:46, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Hi
Hi i have a question are you a member of all wikia's because im really only active on Tdi wikia Bill0327 22:06, August 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, I am a community manager at Wikia, and help support all Wikians. Have fun on TDI! Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:43, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

Need help with getting more users on my wiki
Hi, I created a wiki called World's Scariest Police Chases Wiki and I want some advice on helping make it grow. (inserted link for easier job on helping)


 * Hi, you should check out our advice pages. There are lots of helpful tips there. Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:21, September 1, 2010 (UTC)

5th city deed
Hello,

i am on aurthers33 and yesterday got my 5th city deed, but i messed up and did it twice, so now i have 2 5th city deeds...lol.. would it possible to pls take one off and get my gems back so i can use them for other things.. sorry to have screwed that up. Thank you very much

i am Tiggertwo on that domian.

ty vm for your help in this..

Michelle Hanson .....Tiggertwo


 * Hi, Are you talking about a video game? We are not a support site for the game, but may have wiki on that topic, and you can ask the local community for advice. Best of luck, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:21, September 1, 2010 (UTC)

Help Needed
Hi, Sarah. A friend of mine has a wiki for a comic he created: Total Drama College Wiki, his username is TheZobe. The wiki was created by one of his friends named TT66. TheZobe is a beauro, but he would prefer that TT66 was not either a beauro or an admin, as TheZobe is in charge of the comic, and TT66 is not a very experienced user. I don't believe the wiki is set up where beauros can change beauro rights. If you can help us out without making it a big ordeal, that would be greatly appreciated. Sprinklemist Cyan is the new green. 17:10, August 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * Is the TT66 currently a bureaucrat or admin? Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:21, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * A bureaucrat. Sprinklemist Cyan is the new green. 02:01, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Poll System
Hello. I am having issues on Wiki of Creations with the poll table. When I put up a poll, it says that there is a "Database Error" and that "yourcreations.poll_info doesn't exist." I do not know what this means, and I do not know if I screwed something up. May I please have a little help? -- Rainbowroad6w (-: 23:27, August 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, there is currently a bug in the poll system on some new wikis. The technical team is aware and working to fix it. Sorry for the inconvenience. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:21, September 1, 2010 (UTC)

Shoutbox
I've noticed that the Wikia's New Look FAQ has a section saying that the widgets are largely unused and will not be included. While I can agree that most widgets are worthy of deletion, the shoutbox is widely used and is beneficial to the community aspect of wikia. I feel that the shoutbox attracts many users to wikia and that removing it would be harmful to wikia's wellbeing. I have no objections to the removal of the other widgets, and I doubt that there are many users that disagree, but I would like the shoutbox to stay. As such, I was wondering if it would be possible to keep the shoutbox in the new layout but remove all other widgets. If it doesn't take undue effort, I feel that including the shoutbox would be in your best interests, because it would allow wikia to retain many of its current users, attract new users, and placate users that are angry with wikia about the other changes taking place. - Is drak  thül  20:53, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Petition you may have already known existed &mdash;C Teng(talk) 12:42, September 2, 2010 (UTC)

Madame...
The Masses are angry, and you have refused to respond to any negative blog comments on your posts. Do you even care of us?


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Listen to us.

-- † TurtleShroom™! Jesus Loves You and Died for You!! † :) :) HEAR OUR VOICE, WE WANT CHOICE!! 21:47, September 1, 2010 (UTC)

Adimistrator
On my wiki, how could I make another user an admin? I am the founder, so I am one. Mace170 23:49, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * See Help:Bureaucrats' how-to guide. This page is available on every wiki. -- ◄mendel► 05:44, September 2, 2010 (UTC)

Keep the ShoutBox!
please keep the shout box its an awesome feature!

SEE THIS! --   Mcharshy  My Talk   Edits In this Wiki   16:00, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Admin
How do you make someone a Admin on a wiki you own and please leave the answer on my wiki. (www.ben10fan.wikia.com) Can you please tell me how to ban users Tdifan24


 * I would recommend reading your our how to pages here: Help:Bureaucrats'_how-to_guide Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 20:47, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

How do I create a background image?
How do I create a background image? I'm the creater on the De fem utvalgte wiki (the power of fives wiki). theSIMofNorwegian ( diskusjon ) 14:34, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

PS. it's a norwegians wiki!


 * Hello, you can read all about customizing your wiki on our help wiki and you can get a lot of help on our forum. Best,Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:42, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

Extension Request
Hi;

My group is currently working on projects and needed to know about additional Wikipedia extensions being added onto the groups' wiki. The names of the extension(s) are-


 * 1) Collection
 * 2) PDF Handler

These extensions are currently active on the Wikipedia site and should be compatible with Wikia. We only need them for our projects, but may also work Wikia-Wide.

Please contact if more information is needed...

Habatchii-

Habatchii 16:34, September 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Available extensions are listed here. Please send an email to Special:Contact if you would like one enabled. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:45, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

Leaderboard
Im an admin on the soccer wiki, i want a page so i can make badges and a leaderboard , www.soccer4ever.wikia.com. Happy65
 * You have to send an email to Wikia via Special:Contact on your wiki and request them like that. ☆ The   Solar   Dragon  ☆ 19:28, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

Androids.wikia
your gonna improve Androids.wikiaPoky7774 19:07, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

Androids.wikia.com
Can you please make me an administrator on androids.wikiaPoky7774 19:26, September 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * See Community Central:Adoption requests. ☆ The   Solar   Dragon  ☆ 19:27, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

I did when will they answerPoky7774 19:29, September 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * When they come round to it. There is no time limit. ☆ The   Solar   Dragon  ☆ 19:42, September 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * As Solar said, we will get to it soon. Thanks for your patience. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:46, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

I need help with banning a user please help me

Tdifan24


 * Please contact your local admins, they can block users. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:46, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

OK
It is fine about comments,I wasn't planning to do any anyways today.Dionnefamily 22:41, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

Hey Sarah
Hey Sarah I am Omnicube1 and I am an admin over at deadliestfiction.wikia.com and I was wondering if I could be promoted to beuro because our "leader" hasn't been on and hasn't been checking his talk page the last month or two. We really need to revamp our wiki and since I am only an admin I can't make the necessary changes. You can respond on my talk page over at deadliestfiction.wikia.com. Thank you Omnicube1 23:06, September 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * You know have bureaucrat rights there. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:48, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

Hey!
Hey Sarah, I'm TheBlindApprentice! I was just wondering, ya'know those References and Citations on most pages on wikis, where you click one of the numbers and it states where this information was revealed by taking you to another part of the page? I was wondering if you could teach me the code (or whatever it is) to make it link from one part of a page to another. Thanks, later :) TheBlindApprentice 23:15, September 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi there! You can learn all about it on the citation help page. Cheers, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:50, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

Excuse me,
But do you have blocking abilities? Because this IP keeps blanking my userpage. http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/76.222.65.136 Cheers, Abce2 | Free lemonade only 25 cents! 23:16, September 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hiya, I took care of this for you. Thanks for reporting it! -- 23:27, September 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, thanks Charitwo!Abce2 | Free lemonade only 25 cents! 23:28, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

Hi
Just a suggestion but on the notice you posted all across Wikia that blog commenting would be down you said quote; " Thank you for your patience as we work to improve Wikia."

I think if you want to really improve Wikia you should make the new skin optianal and keep the shoutbox, have you seen this petition?? http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User:Killr833/Petition Anyway I am trying to keep Wikia communities best interests at heart but since you force the new skin on everyone eventhose who don't want it I guess you don't really care. Drago99 Barodius  is coming for   YOUR ALLEGIANCE!!!!!!  01:36, September 8, 2010 (UTC)

Delete Page
How can i delete my wiki page?


 * Only admins can delete pages. You can learn more here. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:53, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

Sarah, I need you help to get my right for streetfighterxtekken wikia.
Sarah, I Ericard would like to get my right as an admin in streetfighterxtekken.wikia.com. But the name and address was already taken by the user without any workship. I would like to take a request to own my right in order to create "streetfighterxtekken.wikia.com" and start my first articles in the right information. I would consider to do right if I was the first admin in streetfighterxtekken.wikia.com, but I would not do if "user:tekken fan 70" hold his right to be an admin without doing anything.

User_talk:Ericard 04:33, September 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * You can apply to adopt a wiki here. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:55, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

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Hi there. I'm Steelearth14. I have a question. Can a Wiki be deleted? This sounds wrong, but I have made 3 that are never used, and I don't care for them anymore. Can it be done? Thanks in advance, Steel earth 4teen 18:16, September 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, we will sometimes close wikis. Please send an email with more details to Special:contact. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 23:56, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

User Right: Bureaucrat
Hello Sarah Manley. I am an active admin on the Charmed Wiki. All Active Bureaucrats are no longer Active. I didn't know who else to turn to but someone from the wiki staff, I was wondering whether you would be able to change my user rights from Rollback and Admin to Rollback, Admin and Bureaucrat. Thankyou. --Khan1998stevewhite 15:45, September 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello Sarah Manley, sorry to sound pushy but could you please answer the above message. :).Thank you. --Khan1998stevewhite 14:51, September 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * See Community Central:Adoption requests. -- Xd1358(Talk) 19:26, September 10, 2010 (UTC)

Hi There.
Please respond to my above message. <font face="Verdana" color="Gray">Steel <font face="Verdana" color="Green">earth <font face="Verdana" color="Brown">4teen 21:45, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

I need some help please please please please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I need help on my wikia, the Super Wikia! Please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! InkiolinBot 23:46, September 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Have you check out our help wiki? That is a good place to start. Best, Sarah (help forum | blog) 21:19, September 10, 2010 (UTC)

Could you please delete this page? or please someone flame or attack the "user:tekken fan 70" http://streetfighterxtekken.wikia.com/wiki/Special:MyHomeUser_talk:Ericard 05:51, September 10, 2010 (UTC)

Torchwood Wikia again
Hi again. I left a message in the above section over a week ago, so you obviously haven't seen it. You said to let you know if I needed you to contact the user again. Well, I do. Since the user blocked me from using the wiki and posting on his page, I asked an admin from the TARDIS wiki to talk to him. The admin posted on the 8th of September, but nothing has been done yet and no reply given. I would ask you to once more contact the user in a final bid to get his attention and get him to use the Export Import functions. It has been nearly three weeks since I first asked him to at least cite the pages, which he has simply ignored me, blocked me in an attempt to push it off, and even ignored you. I believe this warning should be their last. --The Thirteenth Doctor 18:36, September 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Since the above message, the user has actually blocked the admin from TARDIS wiki, Tangerineduel, though this time gave no reason. That is two users he has blocked simply to try and eradicate a problem. It really annoys me that someone such as that can have these powers on several wikis. I don't know how many other people he has blocked for similar or other unreasonable reasons, but it's the fact that it actually reflects badly against the user, especially during things such as adoption requests, where the user must not have been blocked from using a wiki before. I strongly suggest something be done. The Thirteenth Doctor 19:25, September 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, I have left the admin and you a message here. Thanks, Sarah (help forum | blog) 21:00, September 13, 2010 (UTC)

New Skin
When will this be incorperated? I thought it was supposed to be this week Avatar Courage 07:19, September 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * We are still in private beta. Public beta will start soon. Follow the the staff blog list to keep up with the latest news. Best, --Sarah (help forum | blog) 20:51, September 13, 2010 (UTC)

Hub
I created a new wiki yesterday (Paper Models Wiki) and organized it under the hub Creative. I as later looking through the hubs and thought it might be better under Hobbies. I then realized that Creative was full of RPG/world creation and Hobbies was actually lifestyle. Since my wiki fit into neither, I propose a new hub called "Arts & Crafts," where I an currently asking you to move my wiki. Help:Smelly Users (talk) was last edited at 07:47, September 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestions. We are not updating hubs at this time, but will pass along the information in case we do in the future. Best, --Sarah (help forum | blog) 20:51, September 13, 2010 (UTC)

Please
Hello, I am Steelearth14. I was wondering if you could help me with the creation of Userboxes on my Wiki. Please respond. <font face="Verdana" color="Gray">Steel <font face="Verdana" color="Green">earth <font face="Verdana" color="Brown">4teen 13:57, September 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * I can help you. Help:Smelly Users (talk) was last edited at 21:20, September 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * HI Steelearth14. Have you read through the help page on userboxes? Is there a specific question you have? The community forum is a great place to find help with these. Cheers, --Sarah (help forum | blog) 20:51, September 13, 2010 (UTC)

Templates
Hi, i know absolutely nothing about creating templates or userboxes or infoboxes, but i am hoping to adopt |this wiki and i need alot of help, mostly with setting up infoboxes, and basic templates, and i need it quickly, =} thanx in advance for your help!!-- <font color="Orange">(Have something to say?) 01:58, September 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * Welcome to Wikia and good luck with your wiki adoption. The best place to start is to read through the help page on templates? The community forum is a great place to find help with these. Cheers, --Sarah (help forum | blog) 20:51, September 13, 2010 (UTC)

Admin for Farmandia
Hey thanks for the welcome email. I was wondering since the person who made the wikia page for Farmandia (RageGames) hasn't logged or made any changes to the site he created it in mid-June, can you make me an admin? There are a few things I don't have rights to that I want, and I'd hate to just make a new page and have 2 out there. Thanks in advance,

Jeff Loehr


 * Hi. Feel free to put in an adoption request if you'd like to become an admin. =) - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 04:29, September 13, 2010 (UTC)

Delete
Could u delete my last comment on your blog got emotional, and forgot the NDA. Be nice if u read it though....AlienGamer (Userpage ⁝ Talk) 20:58, September 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * Small suggestion, It wouldn;t be a bad idea to let users delete their own comments on blogs...AlienGamer (Userpage ⁝ Talk) 20:59, September 13, 2010 (UTC)

Alternate history
I have been blocked by Mitro I did not vandalize anything I created an article and forgot to ad a template I feel like he is victimizing me on my wikia this isn't a blockable offense--Owen1983 03:54, September 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * It appears you are no longer blocked there. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 20:34, September 16, 2010 (UTC)

Hi!
I am Bonecracker, an active editor of Runes of Magic in the wiki. There is not anyone I know, right, so I ask you to give me administrator rights there. I have the largest number of edits, and I'm active. Bonecracker 12:50, September 15, 2010 (UTC)bonecracker


 * Hello, you can apply to adopt a wiki here. Best of luck, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 20:35, September 16, 2010 (UTC)

Excuse me
I can not upload pictures in wiki --Jasonzhuocn 22:15, September 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * Are you receiving an error message? Can you upload images on other wiki? Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 20:37, September 16, 2010 (UTC)

Hello, my name is Mach9 and I am here on behalf of spam wiki.
I would like to request help for spam wiki. There are few active users on the wiki and it is in a dire situation. I am an admin, just became one, but I can not help the wiki recover by itself. Please, I request your help, tell other users about us, come and help us yourself, but please help out our wiki. Whatever you decide (even if it is nothing) it will be greatly appreciated by the spam wiki ( a wiki about spam, not actual spam) thank you. Mach9 22:47, September 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * What types of problems are you having? Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 20:38, September 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * There was a huge spam and vandalism outbreak. When I found it the place was a mess. It needs nursing and fixing up back to health. Mach9 21:42, September 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Just wondering if my request was forgotten about..... Mach9 23:03, September 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, I haven't forgotten, just have been busy. We have a team of volunteers who can help you fight spam. You can leave them a message here. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:42, September 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * That's very helpful, but vandals are not our problem currently. As I stated above, The wiki is just in a sorry shape, one man can not fix it by himself! Is there a team for this situation? That would be helpful. Your pal, Mach9 21:58, September 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * The VSTF helps with both vandals and spam. You can contact them for spam problems. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 00:24, September 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Please, your not listening to me, We have no problem with Vandals right now. The wiki is just Dying and I would like some assistance in cleaning it up. I was wondering if you could point me somewhere where I can request this. Your pal, Mach9 01:07, September 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I can see now that coming here is only a dead end, I have taken the matters into my own hands. Thank you for what little help you provided me with. Your pal, Mach9 19:49, September 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * The VSTF helps with both vandals and spam. You can contact them for spam problems. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 00:24, September 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Please, your not listening to me, We have no problem with Vandals right now. The wiki is just Dying and I would like some assistance in cleaning it up. I was wondering if you could point me somewhere where I can request this. Your pal, Mach9 01:07, September 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I can see now that coming here is only a dead end, I have taken the matters into my own hands. Thank you for what little help you provided me with. Your pal, Mach9 19:49, September 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I can see now that coming here is only a dead end, I have taken the matters into my own hands. Thank you for what little help you provided me with. Your pal, Mach9 19:49, September 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I can see now that coming here is only a dead end, I have taken the matters into my own hands. Thank you for what little help you provided me with. Your pal, Mach9 19:49, September 27, 2010 (UTC)

Need Help with User Rights Issue
Hi I am Salubri a bureaucrat and admin on the Bleach Wiki []. The issue is that we have recently started cleaning up the admin members on the site. In other words relieving inactive members of the position. Currently we have two bureaucrats on the site that no longer edit or haven't been active on the site in some time. In light of that as admin as well they are not around to assist other users or help with wiki in general. While we appreciate the contributions they have made in the past and we will make a section to detail their former positions. As you are aware we are not able to remove bureaucrat status, so the admin remaining are asking if that can be handled as required in such as situation by the central wiki staff such as yourself. The inactive members in question are TheUltimate3 [] and Mili-Cien. []Thank you.-- 16:12, September 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok done. Happy editing! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 20:43, September 16, 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Web Adress
Hi i am going to make a Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok wiki. The thing is they have one which web adress is mythicaldetectiveloki.wikia.com (mythical detective loki) but it has no information and i was wondering if i should make a new one called detectiveloki.wikia.com ( detective loki) because its shorter please help me.HazeShot 00:46, September 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, feel free to create a wiki with the new url! Or, if you want to adopt the other apply here, then make a request to special:contact for the url change. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:08, September 22, 2010 (UTC)

Editing Link Issue
Im sorry to bother you again but there is another issue. We at the Bleach Wiki have recently decided to do some page moves and the like and he amount of changes are quite extensive and time consuming. Then i read up the bots are expressly made for this type of thing. The problem being that the bots for are site are old and created way before any of use so they haven't been active in some time and we dont possess the passwords for them. We were wondering how to make them so that we arent spending hours upon hours doing this change around. Can you possibly help in this regard. Thank you. -- 03:18, September 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, have you read through out bot help page? You can also ask fro advice on our community forum. Once you have the bot, please send an email to special:contact to get it marked as a bot. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:10, September 22, 2010 (UTC)

Near's Page
Hi, I noticed that on Near's page that someone changed he title of the page to "Ar". I tried to fix it but I wasn't able to. Do you think you could help? Thanks [[User:Potterwatcher1997|Potterwatcher1997 18:21, September 17, 2010 (UTC)]]
 * Are you talking about a page on this wiki? Please clarify what you mean by "Near's page." You could give a link, but at the moment I have no idea what you're talking about. AR is short for Arabic (see List of Wikipedias.) Have you tried clicking the Move link at the top of the page? I believe those aren't protected by default (for most namespaces.) Please note, I am not Sarah Manley. Help:Smelly Users (talk) was last edited at 19:22, September 19, 2010 (UTC)

Image Removal
Hello!! Listen, there is an image I put up and I now want to take it down. I also want it off my Women Wiki Contributions page. How do i take it down? Here it is: -User:BlitzGundam 21:23 September 21, 2010


 * Hello, I have deleted that image for you. In the future, you can contact the local admins to help you do this. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:13, September 22, 2010 (UTC)

The Luigi's Mansion Wiki
I need you to change the name of a wikia I created called "The Luigi's Mansion Wiki" to "Luigi's Mansion Wiki". Could you do that for me? - WolfLink33 02:54, September 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * What wiki is this for? Let me know and I can make the change. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:55, September 23, 2010 (UTC)

He changed his mind. He meant the wiki should be named "Luigi's Mansion", not "Luigi's Mansion Wiki". - Billy 02:10, September 28, 2010 (UTC)

No Bureaucrat at Simmenes Wiki!
Hi! On Simmenes Wiki we got a problem. It's no Bureaucrat at the Wiki, and the old hasn't beon Wikia on years. And the Administrators don't help the Wiki longer. Thats why I ask you for to do me to a Administrator on Simmenes Wiki. The Wiki needs som Administrator-help now! theSIMofNorwegian diskusjon 12:46, September 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Go here to request it. ZamorakO_o ( talk ) 13:52, September 23, 2010 (UTC)

Admin needed on Survivor Wiki
Hi i`m Tdifan24. There is no admin on Survivor Wiki. He/she is not active or even there. May I please be an admin on there. I love wikia and I am fair honest and calm. Please respond on my talk page here

Tdifan24


 * Please apply to adopt the wiki here. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:59, September 23, 2010 (UTC)

Maybe problem with UserList
Can you look at or have someone check the Special:SpecialPages function. It seem to be broken some time in Sep. New user on my Zero no Tsukaima Wiki are not showing up in last edit and login. One person she doing alot of work on it lately which is good but don't show up in users. The only way I can get to her to take is through Hist of a edit.

Rocketmanwikia 16:48, September 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for the message. Our technical is actively working on fixing this issue. Thanks for the report and we hope to have it up and working soon. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 17:11, September 27, 2010 (UTC)

I need some help.
Hello, I am User:CleanWater28 I need some help on my wiki. All I wanted is to change a page's title because I write it wrong so, please help me I don't know how to change a page's title.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100926181946/charitwo/images/d/dd/Page-tools.png
 * You'll need to be logged-in in order to change a page's title (e.g. move). Once you're logged in, just goto the page and at the top you'll see a button called Move at the top, see this image:


 * -- 18:20, September 26, 2010 (UTC)

A few things
Well, I originally posted this on the talk page of The new look 3, but no one seems to have noticed, so I'll say it here. The reasons for the new look were:

"Because it’s the right thing to do for the future of Wikia. We understand the caution of many of those who have commented on the blogs, but we also kept in mind that this is just one of the many groups or types of users on Wikia. We looked at feedback from the beta testers, from focus groups and direct measurements of activity on wikis, and listened to our in-house experts in web design and user interaction. We did our best to gather *all* the information we needed to make this the best look possible for Wikia, and we feel confident in our choices."

I'd like to point out that this never really answers why the new look is being implemented; it merely says that "it's the right thing for the future of Wikia" and never provides any reasons as to why this is. Also, I really doubt that beta testers and focus groups had different opinions than the majority of users that commented on blogs if they were chosen without bias (id est, Wikia staff didn't try to choose people that would like the new look). How exactly did you look at "direct measurements of activity on wikis" in such a way that you could tell how much people liked the new look? Furthermore, wouldn't "experts in web design and user interaction" be able to tell that the new design looks horrible and is almost universally hated by users? If someone is an expert in user interaction, they should, theoretically speaking, be able to tell that making a change despite such widespread opposition is a good way to alienate the community. Another part of the page also seemed a bit odd to me:

"There are always some similarities among websites that have modern, frequently updated design. In other words, when companies use best practices for the web and adapt to what users demand, their websites tend to contain similar design elements and functionality."

I'd like to point out that Wikia is not "adapting to what users demand". In fact, they're doing the opposite, so that reason for the similarities is invalidated. Also, I'm thinking that saying "some similarities" is a bit of an understatement. Lastly, I'd like to ask that you answer this and address each of the points individually. Thank you. - Is drak  thül  13:30, September 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, I have left you a response on the talk page where you first posted. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 23:00, September 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I've responded to your response. It doesn't seem to have been noticed, though. - Is drak  thül  02:27, September 29, 2010 (UTC)

Changing wikia name
Ms Sarah Manley.

A pleasant to say hello.

I have a wikia http://es.doblaje-castellano.wikia.com/ and i would like to know or if it were possible to change the title of that site. From "doblaje-castellano" to "doblajelyrics".

I hope you answer at early convenients for you.

Regards

Suikyou


 * Hi, I have changed your wiki's sitename, Doblajelyrics Wiki. Please let me know if you would like me to take out Wiki. For future requests like this, please send us a message to Special:Contact. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 16:19, September 28, 2010 (UTC)

Mobile support?
Hello.

I've been a regular Memory-Alpha user for quite some time. Because of health problems, I'm forced to use a mobile device (viz., an iPod touch with Safari). Until recently, whenever I accessed MA, it automatically changed to the great Wikiaphone (mobile) skin. Now thar feature is gone. Without it, I'm essentially locked out from MA and Wikia.

I understand there are changes occurring to the skins etc. I don't care about that controversy: I only want to know if/when mobile support will return. I've spent quite a bit of time asking around to no avail. Do you know if Wikia (and thus MA) will ever support mobile devices again? Is it something Wikia is working on, or have they simply decided to stop supporting it?

I would very much appreciate a definitive answer, if you are able to give one.

Thank you.

Regards,

--Cepstrum 19:19, September 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Cepstrum, We ran into some technical problems with the old Wikia mobile skin and so had to deactivate it. We are working on a new create a new mobile skin at the moment. Sorry for the inconvenience and feel better. Best, --Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 16:22, September 28, 2010 (UTC)

Hello Sarah:

Thanks for letting back in VegaDark is a wonderful person. He did the right thing by me suspended me from using the Wikia.

Just watch me on this one

John Project Pages

Hi, this is Midnitesky. I was wondering if you know how to create "Project Pages", which the wikis I've been to all have. I need some help on that for my own wiki. So I hope you can help me! Thanks, 20:26, September 27, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Midnitesky, I am not quite sure what you are referring to. Can you link an example here? Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 20:44, October 1, 2010 (UTC)

Your request of feedback

Sorry to bring this to your page, but I did not receive any reply regarding it on the blog. On the Experience the new Wikia blog, you wrote:

"The right sidebar, containing content modules such as recently added images or Wikia activity, will appear on all wiki pages. We would love to hear what other modules the community is interested in having there, so please feel free to let us know using the feedback tool or special contact. We’re currently thinking about future modules which might for example allow to include infoboxes or other article specific information here. As for the Go link issue, please see Tim’s comment below. Thanks!"

Being able to place the infoboxes in there is a very nice (partial) solution to one of the major problems (and sources of complaints against you). Infoboxes and other large things like that (or long tables of content/toc with long headings) are just not practical with this new look. I am all for this if it is technically feasible. Please have your tech guys give serious consideration to this.

However, I fear that your post on that blog is going to be lost under the torrent of posts about the skin. This is already on page 3 of the blog's comments and not that many people are going to go back that far when reading over the blog. So if you are serious about asking for user feedback on this, please create a new blog post dedicated to this or have it edited into the blog post itself (rather than have it as a comment), so that people will actually see it. Thanks 22:19, September 27, 2010 (UTC)

HI Yyp, thanks for reposting your feedback here. There has been a ton of activity there, but we are reading and noting feedback we are getting. We will continue to post there, and will definitely ask for more feedback on future changes and products. Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 20:48, October 1, 2010 (UTC)

Need help.

Hello, I am User:CleanWater28 and I need help on my wiki. Do you know my wiki? It's "Shows Wiki".

Weclome to Wikia! What kind of help do you need? happy editing, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 20:49, October 1, 2010 (UTC)

Beta Questions

Sarah, I saw the Recent Changes and I saw you adding users to the Beta program. The one question I have is that I recieved an email on August 25 asking if I wanted to participiate in the Beta Program, and if I wanted to all I had to do was reply. I replied stating "Yes I will be more than happy to participate in the Beta Testing program and follow the agreements listed." However I never got a response to my message and I assumed that you had reached your limits on the beta program. So I hope you can clear up any confusion that I'm having. Thanks in advance. Lancer1289 21:25, September 30, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Lancer1289. It appears that they never received the agreement back from you. If you resend it, I can help to get you the rights. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:03, October 1, 2010 (UTC)

I just resent the email, so hopefully this time you'll get it. Fingers crossed. Lancer1289 02:29, October 2, 2010 (UTC) Sorry but if you haven't gotten it by tomorrow, can you just post something here just so I know that you didn't get it. Thanks in advance Sarah. Lancer1289 02:43, October 2, 2010 (UTC) Hi Lancer1289, sorry to get back you just now. Anyone can access the new look now, just go into your preferences and switch to the new look on your skin tab. Enjoy! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:24, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

Stop please

Stop please. Everyone gets an Email that his or her rights have changed --Church of emacs 21:44, September 30, 2010 (UTC)

I don't mind changing user rights for people, but I do consider emailing *everyone* with a confirmed email address spam. Please disable the email system for user rights changes and enable it again, after you're done. Thanks, --Church of emacs 21:49, September 30, 2010 (UTC) Church of emacs, only users who were switched into the beta group should have gotten an email about the rights change. If you want to change your email preferences, please visit your preferences and make that adjustment. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 20:55, October 1, 2010 (UTC)

Beta

Sarah: Why have I been placed in a Beta group? And without being asked? And what's with the forced makeover?

I am on a dialup connection on an older computer. I have no business being asked to beta-test anything except, perhaps, backwards compatibility. If this change to our Wikiae involves flashy shiny eye candy, my system will not support it--I will not support it. Do you know anyone on the Yahoo Groups team? --Because about 700,000 Yahoo Groups members and moderators just taught them an expensive lesson about forced conversions. (See Yahoo Groups Team blog for details, if you're interested.)

Please leave the option for a low-bandwidth skin, and please remove my Wikia from the Beta group. Thank you. Aldus Marius Peregrinus 01:22, October 1, 2010 (UTC)

Hello Aldus, We added all admins on English wikis in the Lifestyle hub, since that will be the first group switched onto the new skin. We wanted to give you time to test out the new skin and use the theme designer. If you want me to remove your beta right, I can do so. Just let me know here. Best, --Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 20:55, October 1, 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the beta right

Thanks for the beta right wikia staff.--(-My user page / my talk page-)Monster2821 21:46, September 30, 2010 (UTC)

Enjoy the new look! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 20:55, October 1, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Sarah

Hi Sarah I Just Created A New Wiki Called The Combat Arms Fan Fiction Wiki When I Go onto google and type the combat arms fan fiction wiki in i see no link why?--Charukboy3000 23:05, September 30, 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikia Charukboy3000! It can take a while for a wiki to show up in google searches. We have a bunch of advice on how to improve your search results here. Enjoy! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 20:58, October 1, 2010 (UTC)

Cheers serah

thanks for inviting me to be a beta tester I am honored --Owen1983 23:39, October 1, 2010 (UTC) in depth feedback

new wiki look what do i think

the old style has been with us for quire a while now its good but the new look is smarter and more functional with the old style wider images had to be scaled down the bonuses with this it is wider I hope this is adopted--Owen1983 00:24, October 2, 2010 (UTC) Emergency.

Sarah,

Please, can you delete this site http://lavalit.wikia.com/wiki/Lavalit_Wiki ? Can you make it as soon as possible?User_talk:Ericard 09:30, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

Hi, it appears it has been closed already. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:26, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

Zombie Fanon Wikia

Hey Sarah,

It's Bobzombie. I'm from the Zombie Fanon Wikia ( here ). And I was wondering if I could become the admin there. Thanks, Bob.

Hi Bob, we have a page where you can apply to adopt the wiki. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:32, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

Where are my Discussion Pages

Hi Sarah, I am the founder of Pocket Frogs Wiki and I was wondering where the discussion tabs are for my pages? I would prefer these to the comments section down the bottom. Sexy Farmer 12:32, October 6, 2010 (UTC)

Hi, is this a new wiki? If so, then you need to send a message to Special:contact with your request. Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:32, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

Database error

Since this is Wikia (a.k.a. Community Central), a user from another wiki told me that the thing doesn't work on my wiki because the database on this wiki is low and updating. What should I do? - Drilly Dilly 14:22, October 6, 2010 (UTC) new pictures link

hi, is it possible to get the new pictures link back on the home page of a wikia?

Which link are you referring to and on what wiki? Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:32, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

on the old skin there was a button in the sidebar named new pictures that linked to the gallery. now the only way i can find it is going into a page and then its in a box on the right hand side where i have to click see more in order to get to it.

I Hope You're Happy

You have officially turned Wikia sites into a piece of crap. I don't care how many "people" like this new skin, it's horrible. And the "small" group of people that want Monaco to stay is not small, it's most of the Wikia community. If you keep up these so-called improvements, so many people will leave Wikia it's not even funny. If you actually listened to us, you'd know that. So what if not everyone knows CSS or whatever? It doesn't matter, they could have used the RichText editor, or live preview, or whatever it's called. This is the worst thing you could have done. The Winx Club Wiki'sskin doesn't even work anymore! The banner style apparently can't make the transition to the new skin (If you want to see it look good, switch over to Monaco). Roxy13~Dad, I'm a fairy! 19:13, October 6, 2010 (UTC)

There's an old Saying, if it's not Broken, don't fix it. Wikia, Ya'll have just broken it--Spam 19:27, October 6, 2010 (UTC)

Yeah. And if y'all don't fix it, WIKIA USERS WILL LEAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did I say it loud enough for it to get through your thick skulls yet? Roxy13~Dad, I'm a fairy! 19:36, October 6, 2010 (UTC)

The new look causes headaches for users due to the fact the text is too cramped, it is placed on one side (The left) and as such is uses the weaker eye, thus causing headaches, unless you plan to give free pain killers to users i sugest you change this. The Width desolates articles and degrades the overall look of a wiki. The loss of the side bar makes it difficult to navigate the wiki. The In-your-face ads are an eye sore and also contrubute to the headaches, i can note several people including myself who canont use the wiki because of this.

The overall opinion on IRC is MOVE or burn Oasis, lots of wiki are now voting to move due to the damage you have caused by the creation of this inneficient and Obsolte skin. Halo fanon along with many wiki that just want to wrtie down their ideas find the look to be repulsive and moves them off from wanting to write.

And a now favourite phrase has become very relevant "If it ain't broke don't fix it" Also i apoligise for putting this on your talk page. Echo 1125 19:41, October 6, 2010 (UTC)

Don't bother apologizing. She's just as much responsible for the crappy new skin as the rest of'em are. Roxy13~Dad, I'm a fairy! 19:44, October 6, 2010 (UTC)

The problems you are cause with eyesight can be counted as a health risk, unless you add a Health risk warning i think you can be sued if i am not mistaken.

I think that wikia will lose a lot of respect for this, seeing as they are mainly doing this for what? Bigger advertisements... I'm glad to see that you depend so much on irrelevant advertising. --RichardRHunt 20:07, October 6, 2010 (UTC)

In fact I know that Wikia will lose a lot of respect for this.--RichardRHunt 20:10, October 6, 2010 (UTC) Thanks for your feedback. We are taking and answering questions on the new look on the staff blog list. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:32, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

Headline Edit Function

Sarah, something that we at the Mass Effect Wiki noticed with the new skin is that level four headlines (====) and below no longer have an edit function. Since we use Level four and even level five headlines on our wiki, we are curious if this is a bug or a feature. For an example of what I mean, please see here. Thanks in advance for a response. Lancer1289 20:29, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

I already filled out a report on Ghostbusters Wiki/ever wiki I see. seems the headlines are all looking the same now.

Yeah Massive effect is suffering from it too. Devilmanozzy (Talk Page) 20:58, October 7, 2010 (UTC) Hi, sorry for the delay in my response. In the new look those headers no longer have the edit function. I have shared your feedback with our product team. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:09, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Navigation bar

Hello Sarah! Help me please. Why in Jackass wiki abyss navigation bar? --Black Label___Болтовня 15:56, October 8, 2010 (UTC)

Hi, we have a help page hereabout the new navigation bar. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:22, October 11, 2010 (UTC)

Hi, Sarah. Can I ask if I can become an admin on Winx Club Fanon Wikia?BloomPurple11-Fire Arrow 07:53, October 9, 2010 (UTC)

You can apply to adopt a wiki here. Best of luck, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:22, October 11, 2010 (UTC)

Color Code

Hi Sarah What happen to the color code list? There was a color code list with all color code & color list. I need the color code & list for coloring my wikia page.

I know there: Blue, Pink, Black, Yellow, Green, Lime, Orange, Purple, & Gold. I need the other color that is listed on this Wikia Site. I found the color code page a few week ago & now i lost the page link. Can you please give me a link to the Color Code page? Thank ICarlyFan2009 (Edmund) 22:07, October 9, 2010 (UTC)

Hi, you can now use the Theme designer to add colors to your wiki. You can find a list of hex codes here if you want to choose a color that you don't see there. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:22, October 11, 2010 (UTC)

AH wiki

Smoggy80 has Blocked me becuse she doesn't like my edits and she has removed my edits can u help --Owen1983 22:49, October 9, 2010 (UTC)

What wikis is this on? Have you contacted the other admins there, or left a message for her on your talk page? Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:22, October 11, 2010 (UTC)

Locking all pages

Hello there,

I am director of QuakeWiki, a wikia based on the Quake game series. Is there a way to lock all pages at once so that they can only be edited by people who have made an account? I believe this is a healthy thing for editing and managing a wikia.

Thanks.

Raadec 20:10, October 10, 2010 (UTC)

Hi, we normally don't recommend this unless your wiki is having a lot of vandalism. Are you having this problem? Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:22, October 11, 2010 (UTC)

This is ridiculous.

Honestly why are you forcing this on us? It looks terrible! I like how you can customize the wikia now. I could barely navigate the pages with the new skin. I will be the pacifist. But I am serious if Wikia continues I will get other users to move. Fable and many others are in the process of doing so. The new look is TERRIBLE! It barely works too. When it ain't broken don't fix it! Kajalamorth 02:00, October 12, 2010 (UTC) LIKE

i love all ur blogs and u posted all the good things..

Lots of love,

fyfy..

I am happy to hear that! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 15:07, October 12, 2010 (UTC)

A sticky situation… if you could help?

Hi Sarah,

I am currently the active (admin) on the Company of Heroes (CoH) Wiki. There is a slight problem that will soon be arising at the CoH wiki. I am due to go overseas on the 15/16 of this month, and I will am expected to be away until at least after Christmas holidays and maybe even after the New Year too. I might be slightly active on the wiki until the start of December, but not to any helpful degree. After that, I expect that I will be just about completely out of contact as an admin on the wiki. As I have already said that I am the only active admin on the wiki, the general management and administration of it will be be able to be done, and therefore I think you can image what might, and possibly even will happen. There have been two other very active users, who have also been very helpful editors too. Unfortunately, one of them have become completely inactive since September 15th. The bureaucrat has also fallen completely silent too; they have not responded to my messages. Therefore I am currently thinking that the only way the wiki will be kept in proper order is if the other user (Nukedz) was given some sort of administration rights. If this is not possible, then I would hope some sort of other arrangement would be possible, where I preferably would not need to be relied upon. If you could reply as soon as possible, as time is of the essence.

Many thanks,

Regards,

Attack Rhino (Talk - Contributions) 12:11, October 12, 2010 (UTC)

Hi there. I have made you a bureaucrat so you can make others admins there now. Sorry to not have gotten back to your email (I did have it starred in my inbox to respond to today). Happy travels! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 15:06, October 12, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Sarah,

Thank you very much for responding so quickly on your talk page. That is absolutely fine about no response with your email, as the talk page has done the trick, I was just becoming a little anxious about everything is all. Although it is really good news that I can help this wiki even more now, I do feel a bit like it is kind of like mutiny on my part; or maybe that I am disempowering the other crat on the wiki (although he is inactive). Does this type of thing happen often?

Kind Regards,

Attack Rhino (Talk - Contributions) 15:55, October 12, 2010 (UTC)

Voice actress?

Since Susan Taylor doesn't know who the voice actress is in the video commercial, maybe you can answer my question. I would like to know it and Sansse is busy.--Station7 15:56, October 12, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Station7, unfortunately I don't know who the voice actress is. We used an outside company. Sorry I can't help further! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:12, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Regarding the Oasis Skin

Will anyone be able to make a personal skin in Oasis.

Thanks,

Iamred1 (Talk•Contribs•Blog) 16:48, October 12, 2010 (UTC)

Hello, you can modify your personal css and jas however you like. Enjoy, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:13, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

FFXIclopedia

Hi I'm Tahngarthor, a sysop on FFXIclopedia; I don't know what you guys are doing right now but it's rendering our wiki unusable. As I'm sure you're aware, We, like others think the new look is absolutely bad and I want to know who we can talk to to have an exception made. Many of our articles are designed with a wider width than is set for the new skin.

Are you forcing these changes on us knowing that if we move elsewhere, you still have all our work and can just get some sucker to "adopt" it? Please respond, preferably on my talk page (Especially since you invited us to post here), and explain to me why Wikia is seemingly so happily ruining our hard work. Whatever it takes, I want to see an exception made for us.Tahngarthortalk-contribs 01:41, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Tahngarthor,

I am sorry to hear you are not a fan of the new look and understand you are concerned. As we have mentioned in the blogs and on our talk pages, we are moving ahead with the new look, taking feedback and making adjustments. We are assessing all of our decisions, and will contiue to do so. I noticed that none of the admins on FFXI have adjusted the wiki's theme. Have you started discussions yet about what you want the wiki to look like in the new look? To get the full experience, we recommend you modify the theme to fit your wiki topic and community. Let me know if you need any help in doing this. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

> As we have mentioned in the blogs and on our talk pages, we are moving ahead with the new look, taking feedback and making adjustments. We are assessing all of our decisions, and will contiue to do so.

Please document which changes have been made in whole or in part as a result of the feedback you've received. Thus far the impression you've given is: none.

Only thing I think I've noticed so far is that the base text color seems to have been darkened (now #3a3a3a). Unfortunately I didn't note down what it was before, so I can't be entirely certain; it's still somewhat annoying to read, though.

> I noticed that none of the admins on FFXI have adjusted the wiki's theme.

How is that relevant? Playing with colors is a mostly meaningless exercise when the issue is basic usability.

> Have you started discussions yet about what you want the wiki to look like in the new look?

I'm not an admin on the FFXI wiki, but I can tell you quite plainly what's needed: sufficient width to display the data in a readable fashion. FFXI wiki has over 35 thousand pages, and contains a huge amount of tabular data, charts, etc, which tend to break down at 680px widths. For the samples I've checked, 1000px is sufficient to be comfortable for most things, slightly breaking for a few.

For those on small screens (1024x768 notebooks, etc) that have something approximating the 1000px width of your fixed layout, you've removed about 140px of usable horizontal content area that was already fairly tightly packed. On my own screen you've removed about 800px of horizontal content area.

Since I'm using a widescreen monitor, I can afford to give up the 320px sidebar space as long as the format as a whole remains flexible and fills the full screen. For those with smaller monitors (and for the changes you've made, *everyone* effectively has a smaller monitor now), giving up that extra space makes the layout painfully cramped to near unusable. If you got rid of the "Create a Page" and "Recent Photos" modules and added those buttons to the toolbar at the bottom, and made the "Community Spotlights" module user-collapsible, making the siderail a float element that the main content can wrap around would serve just as well, perhaps better in some setups (pages can always use a clear: both command for elements that they need to be sure have the full width).

Changing it to a flexible layout with a 1000px min-width is trivial (takes less than 20 lines of CSS) and does not interfere with the functioning of the site in any way. There is actually nothing in your revised policy that should prevent this, yet your admin blogs claim it does (which serves as a chilling effect on letting the admins actually do so). Get rid of the false claims regarding your published policy, allow sites to make the small tweaks needed for basic functionality, and things would be much better.

Motenten 23:33, October 14, 2010 (UTC) Hello, Susan posted a couple of weeks ago on the blog what was changed as a result of the beta we ran. We are also continuing to make tweaks. For example, soon we will release an updated format for spotlights, which is based directly off of user feedback. We have also make other changes in regard to the font size, color and spacing. We will continue with assessing and tweaking the new look as we learn more in the full sitewide release.

One aspect we have not changed is the fixed width. We know that some wikis are not happy about this, and we have detailed our decision to go with this here. We are also aware that the change will require wikis to reassess their table and template sizes. If a wikis needs help, they can feel free to contact a staff member, send a message to Special:contact, or post on the community corner. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:21, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

I cannot seem to switch our wiki back to new look again

Hi again,

I was trying out what the New Look was like on our wiki. Either by a fault of my own, or the newly appointed admin, the layout was reverted to Monaco. Now neither of us can switch the layout back again. I have tried everything I know to fix this.

Regards,

Attack Rhino (Talk - Contributions) 14:12, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

P.S. The community wiki is showing the New Look but ours is not…

Hi, so currently the new look is a personal option, which means you can only control what you see in your preferences. I just checked your preferences and you are set to the new look, so you should see it there. If you do not, please let me know what browser you are on (and post a screenshot). Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 16:26, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

Okay, well that is weird. I do not know what you did there, but it is now showing the new look again.

Thanks, Attack Rhino (Talk - Contributions) 00:59, October 14, 2010 (UTC) Oh good, I am happy to hear its working. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:00, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

Sitenotice

Dear Sarah Manley:

Really wanted to know which is the reason why sitenotice not be implemented, does not really matter the loss of widgets, but sitenocite serves to notify the community and goes beyond the corner of the community and chat, if you have time please tell me what are the reasons for not implento, and if there is a solution.

my best wishes, please if you can answer me in my discussion

PS: by the way my English is not perfect, sorry if some parts do not understand or does not make sense Marcos moreno

Hello Marcos moreno, thanks for the message. Part of the redesign was to look at all features on Wikia and see what works best in what layout. We found that a lot of sitenotices were super long or not updated very frequently, so we decided move that functionality to the community corner. We know that for many wiki admins, being able to make announcements and instantly share a message with the entire community is really important, so we have enabled notifications for the community corner. When an admin updates this, any user who visits the wiki in the next 24 hours will see a notification bubble about the change and be able to click through to read the message. I hope this is clear and let me know if you have further questions. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:00, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

An Honest Question

I sent this message to Sannse as well; I figured I might as well get the input of two staff members on an issue like this.

Why are you refusing to let the communities of moving wikis know that the wiki is moving? The staff has been demoting admins simply for wanting to let the community know where the wiki is moving to. You and Sannse seem to be fairly reasonable people, so why are you taking away our right to move the wikis that we created off of Wikia? It's the fault of the staff that people want to move- people are extremely frustrated that you've ignored the hundreds and hundreds of fervently negative comments regarding the new skin. Please don't try to deny that these comments exist; I read through twenty pages of blog comments on the new skin, and I think only one of them was positive. We have the right to leave Wikia any time we like... what next? A program that prevents us from leaving Wikia.com? What I'm trying to tell you is that you wouldn't have to resort to these measures if you would actually listen to feedback, and make the new skin optional. That's all you'd have to do. If you would make the new skin optional, do you know how much your approval rating would increase? You'd be universally beloved. That's all anyone wants- a choice in the matter. You'd still get money from ads. Sure, maybe you'd get a little less. But you'd still get quite a bit. So which would you prefer: To try and plug a dam that is inevitably going to break, no matter how harsh the punishments for trying to move get? Or would you rather compromise on this one thing, make the new skin optional, and ultimately gain far more than you lose? Maybe in the short term, Wikia would make less money. But in the long term, they would gain the love and respect of the people whose wikis they are hosting... and make money in the bargain. I do hope you won't ban me for saying this. All I ask is that you address all of my points and explain your reasoning... not tell me meaningless things like "we're taking all factors into consideration" or "we're trying to make the transition as smooth as possible"... treat me like an equal, and explain your reasoning. Thank you for taking the time to read this. -Cobweb

Hi, thanks for the message. As Sannse mentioned in her response to you, we are working hard to address all of the community's questions, and have answered 100s of them so far. Our decision making, as has been mentioned, is based off of data and feedback from a variety of users, not just those who post on community central. We feel the direction we are taking is the best one for the community as a whole. We also know that users have the right at any time to stay or leave Wikia, but we hope you will opt for the former, and give the new look a try. Thanks for expressing your concern, and let me know if you have any further questions. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:00, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

My Page is not the same

Hi Sarah After i was block by Agent-347 from his wikia "Nickipedia" at http://nickelodeon.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page on October 6 2010, I took over the wikia you let me be an Admins for.

I re-add all the page that i made on "Nickipedia" to my Wikia but thing look differant between "Nickipedia" (Agent-347 Wikia) & "NickStars" (My Wikia).

Can you please tell me what went wrong by looking at the page?

Here the page i am asking about: My "List of iCarly Episodes" here: "NickStars" iCarly Episodes Agent-347 "List of iCarly Episodes" here: "Nickipedia" iCarly Episodes.

The List on "Nickipedia" flap open & close but my list don't.

How do i make my list open & close?

I try to ask Agent-347 but he never answer me.

Please tell me how to make my list open & close???

Thank: ICarlyFan2009 (Edmund) 22:48, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

Hello, you need to use collapsible tables, which you can learn more about here. I would also recommend posting on the community help forum. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

Thank Sarah, It work... ICarlyFan2009 (Edmund) 03:37, October 15, 2010 (UTC) Help Plz!

I recently made a wiki and I have no idea how to make my templates inside of individual boxes. The Help Wikia didn't seem to help. What should I do?

Ludicrine 03:03, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

Can you give me an example of what you would like to do? Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

Volunteers & Helpers

Hello Sarah,

I'm coming to you today with a question which is suggested upon in the title of this section. How does one volunteer to become a Wikia volunteer or helper? What does that all entail? Do they have to be employed by Wikia itself, or can they be users that volunteer? The reason I ask is because I have been an editor of Wikia for two years with over 20,000 edits Wikia wide and am interested in joining the Spam Task Force. Could you possibly give me some more information on this? ---Ten Tailed Fox talk page 04:07, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

"Helper" is a formal role on wikia - they are people who are contracted to work for Wikia or are doing an internship with us. Generally, positions for that are on the hiring page (http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia:Hiring ), or are something we approach people directly about. The VSTF is a volunteer group, and we just recently added new members to the group. At this time, we will not be adding anymore, but will likely in the futre. Please let me know if you would like to be considered in the future.

One area we could really use help in is updating the help wiki. Does that interest you? It is something I am personally working on, and I would love more help from experienced users. Please let me know! Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

Sure thing, I'd love to help out anyway I can. What exactly does the update entail? I'm not a veteran at things like HTML and such but I know a little bit and can help out as much as possible. Also, yes, I would like to be considered as one of the volunteer group members in the future. ---Ten Tailed Fox talk page 01:42, October 15, 2010 (UTC) Hi, a lot of the basic pages still need to be updated, so feel free to start there. I have also added pages into the "Out of date" category, so you can browse there and start on what you like. Thanks for the help, and let me know if you have further questions. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:24, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Sensible Wiki Request

Hello Sarah, my name is John (a.k.a. Jempcorp) and I am posting for a request on my wiki (Sensible Wiki). I have asked this is my Special:Contact, but everytime I use that, I don't seem to get a reply.

I would like 2 extra user groups added to the wiki user rights list. One called Site Protectors (or System Protectors, whatever one sounds better) and one called Forum Administrators (for forum maintainence). The reasons are as follows:

* Site Protectors: Same bureaucrat rights, but removable by me and other bureaucrats (but not site protectors, they cant even add them, they will only be able to add admins and rollbacks.). This is to help with the site, as I would not be able to help everyone who enters. * Forum Administrators: To help maintain the forum. (simple enough)

I hope your let me have these two groups. If you need me to explain futher, please just ask, as I did this message in a rush. Thanks, Jempcorp {User:Jempcorp | talk} 06:44, October 14, 2010 (UTC).

HI Jempcorp, if you sent an email to special contact, we will get to it soon. We are quite busy right now, so please be patient. Thanks! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

OK, thanks a lot. Patience is a virtue. Jempcorp {user page | talk} 05:04, October 15, 2010 (UTC) That it is! Thanks for understanding. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:25, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

New Look

Hello, I am the administrator of the Saint Seiya Wiki in Portuguese.

I saw that you were the one who made more editions to the transition guide page and I thought that I could ask you a question that's been messing up with my mind since I tried the new look: It's that the sidebar of the wiki I'm administrating is quite large (I mean there are lots of links and information in it), but with the new look, all of that desappears, and I feel like the Wiki's good appearance kinda decreases. I just couldn't figure out a way to change that and I'm afraid I'm gonna have to deal with the fact that, with the new look, it's not gonna be looking like it used to anymore.

This is the address of the wiki, in case you wanna take a look at it: Saint Seiya Wiki in Portuguese Cdeitz 11:59, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

HI, yes the wiki navigation allows for a maxium of 32 links now, so you will need to think about what is the most important links on your wiki. You can find out more tips on our wiki navigation help page. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

Ok. Thank you for the help. I think I'm gonna have to spend a lot of time trying to solve this :( Cdeitz 13:45, October 15, 2010 (UTC) Voice actress

Who was the voice actress in the commercial video?--Station7 19:34, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Station7, we used an outside company to help make the video, so unfortunately I dont know who it is. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:41, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Torchwood and SJA

Hey, it's been over a month with no changes or reply, so can you remove the pages from Torchwood Wiki or close down the wiki. Thanks. Also, This wiki has copied several pages directly from the TARDIS wiki. Another SJA wiki has copied part of one article from the TARDIS wiki as well. I've not contacted any of the users, so could you please contact them and ask them to either cite sources or delete the pages. Thanks. If you need any more info or more details on which exact pages have been copied, just let me know. --The Thirteenth Doctor 23:46, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

* Oh, and could you please block this user on another SJA wiki. The wiki itself is fine, but they've been having some trouble with this guy, and needs to be blocked asap. --The Thirteenth Doctor 23:51, October 14, 2010 (UTC) o Hello, I have closed the torchwood wiki, but can you please contact the local admins/users on those other wikis, then send a follow up to Special:contact as to what their responses are. Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:44, October 18, 2010 (UTC) + Ok. Thanks. --The Thirteenth Doctor 13:44, October 19, 2010 (UTC)

Font size/spacing

Hi Sarah,

Could you tell me how much you exactly adjusted the font size and spacing? I would like to know those specific details so I can fix certain problems it produces at the Godfather wiki.

It's mostly the outline of the main page that's a little bit out of proportions and some templates which now have a bigger font size which doesn't look as good as before.

--Sonny Black 19:38, October 15, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Sarah, I see someone helped me with the problem on the main page. However, I would still like an answer, because I need to know how to adjust some of the templates to their previous status.

--Sonny Black 15:59, October 16, 2010 (UTC) Hi Sonny Black, I found out the exacts for you: 13px size/ 24px line-height. I hope this helps. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:51, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

How can admins change wiki names

How can admins change wiki names? I need to do that on my wiki. - Drilly Dilly 22:45, October 15, 2010 (UTC) VG Cats Wiki

So anyway, I'm the administrator of VG Cats Wiki. Unfortunately, when I was making the theme something went wrong. The wikia's New Wikia Look mode seems to have mucked up. Is there anyway you can revert it to the default NWL so I can edit it into something reasonable? Manga Maniac 23:15, October 15, 2010 (UTC)

It happened again here! Manga Maniac 10:54, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

I appear to have found out how to fix it. I went to Special:WikiBuilder and used it to revert the skin back to Oasis before I editted it. Manga Maniac 13:56, October 16, 2010 (UTC) Hi, glad to hear it got fixed. I have told our technical team about the issue and they are working on it. Happy editing, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 23:00, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Offensive Image

Hello, Sarah Manley! I recently saw an offensive image, if you see it you will defenetly be offended plus it does not just offend you but also christianity despite the picture has You and Jesus Christ. Please delete it imediantly and block the uploader. Here it is

--Nobody Cares 07:06, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

I don't really believe I need to, but I must second this. Though it was meant as humor, it is an offense towards an administrator and blasphemous towards Christianity. Though I don't believe in banning everything that isn't protocol, there are lines which one can cross. --Neildown - De oppresso Liber Semper fi 13:32, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

Though my opinion counts for nothing, while I think the picture is a bit offensive, I fail to see how its blasphemous. I don't see any offense being made to Jesus, he's just... in the picture. They have pictures of Jesus in church.

The image is offensive, and it's centred on a single person. It's blasphemous because it compares Jesus to the skin that is being replaced, something which Christians find to be on completely different levels. It shows disrespect for Jesus and therefore makes it blasphemous. --The Thirteenth Doctor 15:54, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

Oh, yeah, religion this, religion that, blah blah blah. I'm atheist. eho cares? Noobs taste good And I'll eat you for dinner 17:53, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

Way to beat a dead horse.--Starman125 18:04, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

I would think being compared to Monaco would a compliment, especially considering the context, but... well. I can't vouch for other people's feelings. It probably helps I'm an atheist. Manga Maniac 11:06, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

I really like the image. It is funny. 92.24.128.175 11:10, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

You find it funny because it does not blaspheme what you believe in... A lot of Christians have to deal with all this "political correctness" crap all the time, so all you "politically correct" people should stuff your pipes and deal with your own crap once in awhile. --Neildown - De oppresso Liber Semper fi 11:40, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

How does political correctness come into this discussion before you just mentioned it? That said, if it is offending people, which it appears to be doing so, please remove it. Manga Maniac 19:38, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

I don't quite understand what you mean by that, but all I'm saying is that Christians have been rebuked for saying things like "merry Christmas" because it "offends" atheists, yet other people can say or post things which are entirely offensive to Christians and get off with it. Perhaps it doesn't apply to this particular issue, but it's still a thought. --Neildown - De oppresso Liber Semper fi 19:54, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

Hello, per requests here, I have deleted that image. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 23:06, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

A few Questions

Hi, im not going to yell or complain about the new skin like many other users, i just have a few simple (polite) questions, and comments about it;

1. If the purpose of this new skin was to help disabled users than why couldn't the new skin be an option for those users? 2. I think that wikia loses the essence of wikis with the new skin. I may be wrong but the whole beginning of wiki-style-sites was to make information sites like Wikipedia. with the oasis skin the wikis on wikia are no longer anything like Wikipedia. 3. If so many users are leaving or complaining then why are you pushing this look through (is it because you believe it will come out better in the end? well probably but many of these users wont be able to see that, so there has to be some greater reason)?

i think that's it for now, if i have any more questions i won't hesitate to ask.-- (Have something to say?) 23:32, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the polite questions. Some answers:

1. The purpose of the new look was not to design it just for diabled users, but we did development work on tools for those with certain disabilities in the new skin. This is unrelated to making the skin mandatory. 2. I am sorry to hear you think we are losing our wiki essence. We are working to expand and open up wikis to new users who may not have years of wiki editing experience. You are right that we don't look like Wikipedia, and part of that is, because we aren't them. We have similar beliefs, but are different sites, with different goals and different communities. 3. We have heard negative feedback, but we have also heard a lot of positive feedback. We hope that those who have not tired the new look will give it an honest chance.

Feel free to ask away. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 23:56, October 19, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Wikia's new look

Greetings. In reply to your questions here are a couple forum threads that discuss some of the main issues:

* Forum:Main Page looks great in Oasis due to lack of sidebars * Forum:Can sidebar site navigation be returned in a show/hide box?

The short version is here:

* Talk:Transition map

The theme designer does not address these issues. --Timeshifter 11:04, October 19, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the links and feedback. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 23:58, October 19, 2010 (UTC)

Hi!

How can I change appearance to a Wiki in the New Wikia look? theSIMofNorwegian diskusjon 12:58, October 19, 2010 (UTC)

Heya, To change the appearence, go to Preferences in the More Tab, in top-right hand corner. Select Skins, then the New Wikia Layout. Remember to save your preferences aswell :) Hope I helped! Will!Talk 16:37, October 19, 2010 (UTC)

Tank U! theSIMofNorwegian diskusjon 06:44, October 20, 2010 (UTC)

Registering E-Mail Problems

Heya,

I am struggling to register my E-Mail address to my Account; I selected Confirm Your E-Mail Address', and then Mail Me A Confirmation Code. It has been several days since I first tried, and I have tried numerous times since - I have checked my spam folder, blocked Addresses etc, I can find no reason for me not to recieve the code.... Is the any way you can manually confirm it for me etc? Will!Talk 16:42, October 19, 2010 (UTC)

Hi, can you send an email with these details to Special:contact? Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:02, October 20, 2010 (UTC)

New look transition problem

Hi Sarah,

The wikia is rendering things strangly as sysops try to adapt new look.

I am Rej_Maddog, a sysop on Girl Genius wiki. I spent some time today making some changes to the new look on the wiki. Then went out to walk the non mad dog.

When I came back and restarted the browser, I was of course not logged in. So the wiki was trying to render in the old look mode. Maybe it was lost somewhere between the two modes. In any event the mixed information was making the wikia very hard to use. Even to log in again.

After trying several obscure ways I found one that worked. I went to my preferences and switched back to old mode from new mode. This did not immediately fix the rendering. There is a time lag. Now the rendering in old mode seems back in place for the moment.

Basicly I am concerned that experimenting with the look of the wikia will adversely affect the new users. Particularly anyone who is looking at the site but not logged in. That includes all of us.

It would be very useful to have a time when sysops can experiment with the look of the wikia before the transition. Clobbering the rendering in the process so that the wikia becomes harder to use is not a comfortable experimenting environment. Can someone look into what bits are getting confused?

Can a way to guarantee safe viewing for the anonymous user be assured?

What determines the default way our wikia is rendered? Obviously user preferences when logged in but on what date will the default for anonymous viewers be switched from old look to new look. Oct 20th? Nov 3rd? Or is this a sysop set default?

--Rej 23:18, October 19, 2010 (UTC)

Hello Rej,

It may have been there was a temporary bug causing the Monaco skin not to render correctly - I saw that happen temporarily earlier today. Starting tomorrow and over the next couple of days, the all wikis on Wikia will be switched to the new look (you can read more in our recent blog post). This means all visitors to your wiki will just see the new look. If you are logged in, you can still switch back to Monaco until November 3rd. After that, Monaco will no longer be available. Hope that helps, and let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:09, October 20, 2010 (UTC)

Leave the skin

Please,just do it and stop making excuses,fake accounts which say that the new look is great.Keep the Monaco option on these 2 wiki's: dragonball.wikia.com and dragonballfanon.wikia.com If you don't want,then we're finished talking..... Hi

Hi, on the Hot Wheels battle force 5 wiki. I tried to add an image to a page but when I clicked upload nothing happend!! I am wondering how I can fix this problem or if you have any advice. Also I want to change the name of the wiki to Hot Wheels battle force 5 wiki to Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 wiki. Do you know how I can do that??? The aura of my awesomeness shall vaporize you!!! 22:00, October 20, 2010 (UTC)

Hi I just checked your contributions there and it appears you were able to upload images. It may have been a temporary problem. I have changed the sitename. It may take a little time to show, but please let me know if it still isnt updated after a couple of days. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 14:46, October 21, 2010 (UTC) Thanks a lot!!!I accidentally sent you an email with the changing the site name thing as I didn't notice it was changed. Thanks again. The aura of my awesomeness shall vaporize you!!! 21:29, October 21, 2010

Bar
I was trying to create a customized version of the navigation bar next to the wordmark, but something went wrong. Since the sitewide page is called MediaWiki:Wiki-navigation, I made a page called User:Isdrakthül/Wiki-navigation. However, I cleared by browser's cache and it hasn't taken effect. Are users not allowed to create customized navigation bars, or did I do something incorrectly? - Is drak  thül  22:27, October 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, this is in the pipeline, but not live yet. I will let you know once it is. Sorry for the delay! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:06, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

Remained quiet for too long
Hi (as pleasant a greeting that i can force out atm), I'm the *only* active admin over on the FFXIV Wikia and I've been pretty quiet about the abomination that is oasis thus far but, at this point, I felt it's time to speak up. I honestly did not think things would get this far, or I would have sooner.

I have to ask, do you even care in the least about all of the people you are angering and ignoring? Sure, theres a few non-constructive, down-right inflammatory commenters out there regarding the new skin (not that I personally blame them at times) but you just seem to be ignoring everyone that isn't praising everything you do.

Anyway, perhaps I should actually get to part where I criticize the skin rather than the staff that is shoving it down our throats. Where do I start? Should I start with the limited and unexplained sidebar that has been moved to the top and forced into a horizontal bar with only 4 options. Example: FFXIV Wikia Navigation instead of all of the sections, only 4 appear, up to Disciplines, this leaves a vast majority of my site orphaned. On top of this, the 4 menus that I do have, have no extended options like I would in Monaco such as Disciplines > Disciplines of the Hand > Alchemist. This is completely unacceptable and I will be leaving if it's not changed or removed (this is not a threat, it's a declaration).

Let's move on to my next massive problem with this. You've moved My Home to Wikia Activity and made the button extremely obscure and removed it from the usermasthead tabs. I shouldn't really saved moved, since really all you did was redirect My Home to wiki activity and created an extremely useless sidebar to replace the previously perfect sidebar (see previous paragraph). Wikia Activity is just a recycled button, that I barely used before since it was so much easier, as admin to simply use my home from my user page to watch for vandalism.

Next we have the forced width for pages that completely screws over a lot of pages, on a lot of wikias, and is one of the reasons so many are leaving or planning to. Here's my example. Why should I have to completely redesign my site to fit your ridiculous forced width for article space? Just so we're clear this is what I have to look at on my computer, that I use for web browsing, which doesn't have a very large monitor.





I ask again, why....why do I have to completely redesign my site that i've put in over 10k edits into? Sure, it's not even nearly complete and I don't have a ton of contributors yet but I doubt that really has any bearing on being ignored since you appear to be ignoring everyone.

Next question, why is there so much unused open space on the sides. Why did you force this monstrosity into those dimensions? Everything you've done is completely illogical and backwards.

My next problem has to do with the increased size of your Wiki, as a whole, navigation bar.





Disregarding my general problem with the non-hovered version being so large and misleadingly looking like the primary navigation for the site (bringing up more problems with the horrific sidebar alteration), it clearly is annoying when you accidently hover over it (which i do frequently, my hand just seems to drift there, not surprising since u made it so large and made it have a different darker color so it stands out more than the real navigation for the site...yes i'm repeating myself on purpose) causing it to cover up the aforementioned (repeatedly) real navigation bar and other important links (however obscure they may be to begin with).

Let's go back to the forced width ridiculousness.



Again and again, why should i have to completely alter my site just for some unnecessary new look that almost no one wants except the staff (clearly for completely unknown or otherwise ridiculous non-majority approved reasons such as making it more accessible for the disabled)
 * Note* I find the making the site easier to use for the disabled perfectly fine, in concept. What you are doing it sacrificing actual ease of use (user friendly for a minority of people of whom, would not be visiting my site in the first place, since it's about a MMO, which a blind person, would not be able to play. As this is the only partially legitimate reason you or any of the other staff members have commented on, it appears to be your only reason to me, which is absurd. Dressing something up with pretty words, doesn't make it better.

I've got plenty more to say but this is already a massive wall of text, and I already expect a tl;dr from you.

Thanks for ignoring us. As for this being a complete waste of my time and effort, just like my work on my Wiki is probably soon going to count as if you don't start listening to the people who actually made Wikia into Wikia (the contributors, not you), who knows, maybe you'll surprise me.--Zyeriis 23:03, October 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * Zyeriis, thanks for providing your thoughts and feedback here. As we have mentioned on the blogs, the change was made after assessment of the site, user testing, click tracking and user feedback. Over the next couple of months we will be closely tracking the product decisions we have made, and making changes where needed. We hope all current users on Wikia will give the new look a chance. Feel free to reach out to me here with more questions. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:13, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

User testing? You mean the "beta" test? Last I checked you didn't actually listen to any of the beta testers and only looked at bug reports. I can't possibly fathom that you had such bad beta testers as to come out of it with what you did.

Other than that, you seem to say that you are going to re-evaluate (though you did not use this word, which I find odd) what've you done and change the skin over the next few months. However, you plan on November 3rd to remove Monaco despite this. So, why are you getting rid of the popular skin before this new skin (that I remind you, nearly no one likes) is actually finished? You've given us more than adequate time to test things out and we have, thus why I am here now. The new design is flawed almost entirely, it is much like a downgrade that puts emphasis on things that most people don't really care about, such as navigating to other Wikia sites. Which again, would be fine, were it not for it overshadowing the actual navigation for the site you are actually on, even if that navigation itself is an atrocius mess that only allows for 4 possible options. I have read just about everything you have regarding the new skin and no where do you respond to this concern. The questions you do answer, aren't the actual questions being asked. FAQ is supposed to be Frequently Asked Questions, not questions that you think people will have (and really aren't).

Again, I must know, before I have no choice but to leave, why are you forcing this upon us? You are not asking us to try it, you are forcing us to use it. You need to keep Monaco around until you make some changes or people are going to start leaving in droves. I know I am already making my plans to either stop editting altogether or move to another wikifarm based on what my community (however small) wants, as has been my policy as a sysop since I took over the FFXIV Wikia (went through several re-structurings based on community feedback and now that everyone is content, you are destroying everything we've built with Oasis) --Zyeriis 22:43, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

Also, could you tell us how you're using click tracking to draw your conclusions? I believe I've asked this before, but I've never gotten an answer. - Is drak  thül  23:17, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

I am apparently either unanswerable or....nevermind there is no other option. I seem to have been excluded from this round of question-dodge-responses.--Zyeriis 02:10, October 27, 2010 (UTC)

Still being ignored am I? There's no denying it, since you've replied to people lower down the page than me.--Zyeriis 00:46, November 5, 2010 (UTC)

What on earth?
My friend TurtleShroom recently received a permanent global block for no reason. He wasn't comenting on blogs, as he cannot on wikia. So why on earth was he banned? -- 18:51, October 21, 2010 (UTC)

stolen info
this was taken out of context from her personal blog. Circumcision was NOT baby Joshua's cause of death. This was STOLEN WITHOUT PERMISSION from Jill. This is NOT ok to post on a website and taken completely out of context. This woman is mourning the death of her son. This is just sick!!

http://intact.wikia.com/wiki/Death_From_CircumcisionMrArceus 22:56, October 21, 2010 (UTC)

new skin
Hello Ma am I am a reader and fan of the wiki's and I want to say the new skin sucks and that many people hate it. Can you please keep the option to continue to use the old skin? I don't get why you force change that a lot of us don t want onto us. did you guys not think that some people would hate the new skin and be unhappy with it? so please keep the option to use the old skin.

+1. Nothing more to add. I like wiki very much and thinki it's... i mean was... usefull ut now I'm out. Will be back when i will have old look back. Tazi 02:05, November 5, 2010 (UTC)

I've covered edit's ya know..
Name's Mettaur, damn glad to be here. I'm an admin from Dead Rising, and I'm not going to make a long rant worth three pages printed out, or just type cussing while giving no reason. Simple, this is what I have for you, the old design was simple, and people have grown familiar with it. Plus, I just feel the Oasis wouldn't go well with horror, and I've tested and it does not go well with backgrounds made of pictures. Sorry if you've answered this over before, and if I waste your time, but that's what I have to say. So, cheers on all your other projects to improve. Mafia Mettaur 22:36, October 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, I am sorry to hear you do not like the new look. We hope that you give it an honest try, and see if there are aspects that you enjoy (for example, I really like my tools and find it much easier than search for special pages). If you have further feedback or bug reports, please let me know. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:19, October 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Butting in here. I find my tools to be very inconvenient to use. Even after I put in some tools of my choosing. It does not have submenus, and it can only hold a few tools. Tools are covered by the top or bottom of the page. So one has to carefully place the page by scrolling before clicking my tools; in order to see the tool one wants. I can't put in all the tools I want due to this limitation. Site navigation is now scattered all over the page. Before I could put everything I wanted in the left sidebar navigation. In multi-level nested menus of my choosing. I never had to go the bottom of the page. I could click the home key to get to the top of the page to find site navigation and the table of contents. --Timeshifter 00:32, October 24, 2010 (UTC)

Wait, almost forgot. There seems to be an error that there is no spellcheck when this new design is applied. Mafia Mettaur 22:36, October 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * That is from the rich text editor, not the new look. We are hoping to integrate that in the future. The wikitext editor still has a spell check. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:19, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

Adding badges to Pokemon Hacks Wiki
Hello. Sorry to disturb you,

I have just recently joined the Pokemon hacks wiki, and I plan to do some major editing. But, I think the wiki would look great with badges. Could you please add them? Thank you for reading this and have a nice day. MrArceus 22:56, October 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Welcome to Wikia. Please send an email to Special:contact with your request. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:23, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Sarah. Now that whenever I'm creating a wiki,I change my mind about not making it. It's not that I don't want to make it. Now,you can't have a wiki logo. Can you please undo that? Thx. Jet50 23:06, October 21, 2010 (UTC)

Sarah please GIVE US THE ABILITY TO HAVE WIKI LOGOS WHEN CREATING WIKI'S. (i'm not mad at you.) Jet50 23:29, October 21, 2010 (UTC)

SARAH!!!!!!! (i'm not mad at you) Jet50 23:40, October 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, you can still add a wordmark to your wiki, which is very similar to a logo. You can learn more here. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:23, October 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sarah thx alot! I'll use the wordmark for some of my wiki's,but for the others I NEED A LOGO. (i'm not mad at you you) Jet50 04:20, October 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sarah,I'm confused. I'm the admin/bu-whatever on the NFS Carbon PREMIUM wiki(since I'm the founder). When you wrote "You can learn more here." I clicked on the "here" word and it took me to a page that said "Admins on wikis can see the "My Tools" option on wikis. So I went to the NFS wiki and didn't find any My Tools. Please demonstrate what you have to do. Thx Jet50 04:43, October 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, are you seeing the new look? If so, it is on the bottom toolbar, on the right, on every page. Let me know if you are still having an issue. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:50, October 25, 2010 (UTC)

User under 13
Hello, it has come to my attention that a user by the name of AnimalCrossingFan12 seems to be under the age limit set be the Terms of Use. In addition to that, on this user blog, you can see that he's done practically nothing but swear excessively and curse at other members of Wikia. I hope you look into this. Thesaurus Rex 07:46, October 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, can you send in more details about this to Special:contact? Thank you, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:25, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

DPL Wiki
Hello, I'm replying to the help request you replyed back to me, \ -DarkPuppet13
 * the link to my wiki is here.
 * the link to the wiki wordmark I want for my wiki is here


 * Hi, I uploaded the wordmark for you. Let me know if you need more help with the Theme Designer. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:33, October 22, 2010 (UTC) (PS I love that you started a wiki about your public library!)

New Skins
Why is it that the team at Wikia seem to be steam rolling people into accepting a poorly designed website skin. Nearly every user is complaining about it, and you seem to be not listening to your client base saying we dont want this. One sure way to loose your customers. Maybe this is what you want. To say this is an improvement to accessibilty for people who dont use mice is just wrong. Nearly every page that I could see in full screen before now has to be scrolled. Adverts appear over the critical pieces of information I need. Who exactly thought this is the way forward. Lets make the size of the text areas so small everyone will need glasses to see them. Lets put obnoxious trees down the side so that gives them headaches. What ever happend to consumer choice. I want to read a peaceful calm page. Not one full of useless eye distractions. If I was reading a book, the pages wouldnt be covered in illustrations distracting from the story, why do web designers think its good to do this I just dont understand why your trying to make people ill with clutter.

How to change the "W" to an "N"?
Hi Sarah

I want to know how to change the "W" to an "N" or a picture for the web address side.

Right now it a blue "W" & i need to know how to change it.

Can you please tell me?

ICarlyFan2009 (Edmund) 20:22, October 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Do you mean the favicon? You can learn how to switch it here. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:37, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Sarah

I made & upload the favicon to my wikia & it work.

Thank

ICarlyFan2009 (Edmund) 22:09, October 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Wonderful! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:53, October 25, 2010 (UTC)

keep the old skin
Dear Sarah

Hello I am a reader and member of several wikis and I want to know why can't we keep the old skin while being allowed the option to use the new skin? You see how many people are not happy about being forced to use the new skin? I don't get why you want to force change that a'lot of us don't want onto us and how a lot of people/wikis are leaving? If you really care for your fanbase you will keep the option to use the old skin. I hope that you read this and give me a response. if you don't, its obvious that you care more about money and yourselfs, than the community. Sincerly, Gin7


 * Hi, we have responded to feedback throughout the entire transition process, and will continue to do so. We know that not everyone loves the new skin yet, but we also know that many users have not yet tried it out. Please give the new skin a try and then let us know what you think works and doesn't work. We will be continuing to assess the decisions we made, and make changes where needed. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:56, October 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * You say "not everyone loves the new skin yet", and you assume that's because we haven't used it. Sounds like in Wikia world, everything you do is revered once everyone tries it. Well guess what? Most of us who have tried it, HATED IT!!! And we don't plan on loving it any time soon. Roxy13 ~ Dad, I'm a fairy!  16:05, October 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * I did try it and I think its terrible it looks ugly, I keep getting scrolled up when I am reading something, and it is way to complex to use in my opinion. Please keep the old skin. Why don't you let the community decide what skin they want? If you don't it is still obvious that you don't care about the community. Gin7
 * so you didn't respond just as i thought well I guess you are not getting rid of oasis. you proved to me that you hate your comminty well as a result I am leaving the wiki s. I hope you are happy you Fascist.Gin7
 * I did try it and I think its terrible it looks ugly, I keep getting scrolled up when I am reading something, and it is way to complex to use in my opinion. Please keep the old skin. Why don't you let the community decide what skin they want? If you don't it is still obvious that you don't care about the community. Gin7
 * so you didn't respond just as i thought well I guess you are not getting rid of oasis. you proved to me that you hate your comminty well as a result I am leaving the wiki s. I hope you are happy you Fascist.Gin7
 * so you didn't respond just as i thought well I guess you are not getting rid of oasis. you proved to me that you hate your comminty well as a result I am leaving the wiki s. I hope you are happy you Fascist.Gin7

hello
I'm the admin for http://jjba.wikia.com and the user The_World_Platinum is still seen as a Bureaucrat and had not done a thing sense a year if you could please remove him along with the user Bad Seafood. I'm also looking to expand the site and hope to obtained new active admins should I send them your way?


 * Hello, I have removed their rights there. Since you are a bureaucrat, you can make other users admins, so go right ahead. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:02, October 25, 2010 (UTC)

Regarding previous postings
In regards to your response to my message: "I am sorry to hear you are not a fan of the new look and understand you are concerned. As we have mentioned in the blogs and on our talk pages, we are moving ahead with the new look, taking feedback and making adjustments. We are assessing all of our decisions, and will contiue to do so. I noticed that none of the admins on FFXI have adjusted the wiki's theme. Have you started discussions yet about what you want the wiki to look like in the new look? To get the full experience, we recommend you modify the theme to fit your wiki topic and community. Let me know if you need any help in doing this."


 * I thank you for responding- The other admins are somewhat preoccupied with a second project (Which they have chosen to host on their own due to Wikia's previous misgivings, which I'm willing to overlook if you listen here). We have done what we can with the theme designer at this point (which really isn't helping much to be honest), and there are three main problems.


 * First, the fixed width. As I've discussed with other Wikia admins and the users of our wiki, it is just too narrow for our users. It has come to the point where a regular user has had to develop and post a custom style to share with our userbase to work around Oasis' problems. In an apparently futile attempt to appease WoWwiki, you guys did adjust their width to better accomodate the content of their pages. I am asking you to do the same here. Gaming users tend to have higher end hardware and use monitors with higher resolutions than the typical viewers of other wikis. To an extent I appriciate the spirit of trying to "unify" the whole of Wikia, but things like the Glee wiki, cooking wiki, star trek wiki all have different needs, and putting them all under the same umbrella just isn't proving very effective. We need a wider width - we have complex charts that are being squished
 * The second problem is the sidebar menu. It's now at the top, which I feel is a problem in of itself, but now there is only room for three or four menus- We had many more before, but now there isn't room (if it's even allowed by the skin), and sub menus are not possible. This is making navigating our wiki much more difficult. While I expect you are not willing to change back to a sidebar menu, the ability to have sub-menus and at least one more top level menu would at least partially alliviate this problem. Right now, we've had to resort to sharing a custom style for MonoBook which recreates the old sidebar. We shouldn't have to do things like this.
 * (Edited): It seems the UserWiki: namespace pages still exist, so this issue turned out to be a nonissue.

I am being civil here, so please, work with us on this. Show us you want to do something to make things right. Tahngarthor talk-contribs 03:42, October 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, Thanks for the further thoughts. Many of this issues what addressed on the staff blog and in the FAQ. We are in the process now of assessing the decisions we made, and making tweaks from there. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:06, October 26, 2010 (UTC)

Other

 * Ahhhh, the scent of raging IP's... Anyways, if they information is incorrect, a rollback will remove it, ASAP. Hurray for Wikia Rollbacks! <font face="verdana" color="red">Iamred1 <font face="verdana" color="magenta">Discussion  (Contributions) 10:23, October 25, 2010 (UTC)

Would you kindly
Could you please reply to your talk messages on the Dead Rising wiki? I uploaded some pics for you there. Thanks. http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png <font color="Blue">Frank - <font color= "Blue">West  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 19:09, October 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Done :) Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:06, October 26, 2010 (UTC)

Skin switching; our hard work gone to waste
So, your umpteenth comment about the new skin:

I talked to the community members on ACMSES Wiki, and we have unanimously decided we do not like the skin. Tracking down recent changes is inconvenient and difficult, and all of the hard work we have put into the logo and the CSS template have gone to waste.

Currently, I am having all of the members turn it back themselves, but I would like a way to enact a change back to the old skin for the entire wiki.

I have also received complaints from the Digimon Wiki members who want it restored (they also have a painstakingly-made CSS template), and the Vocaloid Wiki community has voiced dissatisfaction after their work on the logo and template (although I am not an admin and was not able to conduct a full questioning).

Please allow us to universally change it back, or at least retain our CSS templates and logo. Aster Selene 05:24, October 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * Also: Site Notice. New layout killed it. We need it and want it back. Aster Selene 17:35, October 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the message. As we have mentioned, we are moving ahead with the new look. We know that it will take time to adjust to, and that it requires som work by the community, but we feel that the new look is one that will attract more visitors and encourage editing. You can find reasoning behind each decision on the staff blog and FAQ. As for sitenotice, it has been replaced by the Community Messages system. Let me know if you have further specific questions. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:06, October 26, 2010 (UTC)

We've tried it, we've tried getting used to it. Editing is difficult and not encouraged. Also, what about our CSS templates? Aster Selene 21:21, October 26, 2010 (UTC)

Okay, I’ve gathered my thoughts together, and I want to explain exactly why I cannot be satisfied with being forced to comply with your new system.


 * You claim that the new layout is more conducive to editing. However, editing is more difficult and harder to understand, and the system is more prone to crashing or slowing down than with the old skin. How is this more conducive?
 * You claim that the layout is much better. Things like recent edits and picture uploads take up ‘’half of the screen’’. Yes, a wiki is for editing, but not all of us are administrators and there are people who would like to read the content on the page, not see everything that’s just happened with articles we won’t even read
 * Even for the admins, maintenance is difficult as it’s difficult to track recent changes
 * CSS templates – you have failed to tell us why we should throw away all of the hard work we’ve put into making our wikis look unique and interesting. Instead, you throw at us a layout that makes wikis look like each other and throw away all of the work they did. (For instance look at the Vocaloid or Digimon Wikis. They look plain and uninteresting without CSS formatting, but reverting to Monaco brings back their old glory.) The same goes for logos
 * You have forced this new system on us, without giving us a choice to turn back. With all of your past decisions (visual mode, My Home, etc.), you gave us an option to use the old system (source mode, Recent Changes, etc.). We cannot do a universal revert for the wikis, meaning that we will be unable to cohesively remain a community without personally tracking down every user and requesting that they change the skin back. Do you hate Monaco so much that you refuse to let us use it and plan to demolish it soon? How is your new system any better
 * With every negative comment you have received, you have only stood by your new system stubbornly, claiming that we only need to “adjust” to the new system rather than even trying to change the new system to fit our needs. We’ve adjusted, and we hate it. There are times when we don’t like new features, but when the entire community of a wiki ‘’unanimously’’ decides to not go with it, something is wrong. Aren’t you supposed to consider your users rather than force a dictatorship on us? Do you honestly think that just letting it sit without even changing the new system a little bit will suddenly make us like it? Isn’t it easier to just add one function, the option to change it back, rather than responding to negative comment after negative comment?

Instead of retaliating and claiming that there’s nothing wrong with your new system, can you please do something about it? I’m sorry if I sound angry, but this is getting ridiculous. Wikia exists for the community, and you cannot just keep shrugging off our feedback like this. As an admin, I try to fix things when my users complain. Why don't you do that for us? Aster Selene 00:07, October 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * I couldn't have said it better myself. There are very real problems with the new layout, and users, myself included, are understandably frustrated at the continual deflecting and refusing to directly address the problems. We feel as if we aren't being listened to at all. All the FAQs and blog posts, and even responses, boil down to the "you're just not used to it" argument. We've had time to adjust, and these changes just aren't ones we can adjust to. They take emphasis off the articles (squishing them into being 300px wide out of the available 600px thanks to the needlessly-large Recent Changes and Uploaded Photos widgets), make it harder for someone to contribute rather than make it easier (even to me, as a wiki Admin with 2500 edits to that wiki), and pretty much everything else Aster Selene covered. As one of the Admins of a smaller wiki that's still being slowly built, I honestly feel really discouraged because my hard work, and the hard work of my fellow Admin and other contributors, has been undone in favor of a layout that adds far more problems than fixes.


 * Please, I'm begging you, take what your users say to heart and please rethink how you're excecuting this new layout. Sui Kune 21:45, October 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Aster Selene! You took all my points and made them sound smart. Unfortunately, Wikia staff doesn't respond to smart, well thought out comments and complaints. They just tell us, "get used to it, and you'll love the crap as much as we do!" Roxy13 ~ Dad, I'm a fairy! 16:09, October 28, 2010 (UTC)

Pirates Online Wikia Concurs
Our STAFF and Users at the Pirates Online Wikia - HATE the new look, universally. Many of our members are complaining and we have to message EACH one of them on how to go back to Monaco.

THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED.

We as individual wikia admins should have been given a choice - OR the old look should have been the default. I keep seeing the complaints piling up and wonder how long is it going to be before folks acknowledge - THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED.

Eliza T. Creststeel 13:59, October 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * Please see my message to Aster Selene above. Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:06, October 26, 2010 (UTC)

Valid Deletion Requests Denied
Sarah,

Out of curiosity, what are the grounds for a deletion request to be granted? The vast majority (in fact, all of us) at PvX want our site to be deleted after our move, but we have been denied that by Sannse. We took time and laid out why having 2 of our sites would be harmful to our community, but she didn't seem to understand.

Just curious as to the actual qualifications for a deletion. I thought it was simply the betterment of the community, but I'm sure there are other factors. <font color="Black" face="cambria">Karate <font color="Black" face="cambria">Jesus  <font face="Arial" color="gray" size="1">21:19, 26 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Because the content is covered by CC-BY-SA, and is now in the public domain...you cannot alter, remove, or otherwise deface it in a manner in which you describe. You can fork the site to a new location, however the content here at Wikia is still available for anyone who so chooses to visit and edit the wiki. This goes for Wikia or anywhere else that uses wiki software and CC-BY-SA or a similar free content license. -- 22:06, October 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * Creative Commons content is not in the public domain. Creative Commons allows the work to be freely copied, but requires that the original authors be attributed. If content was in the public domain it would not require that the authors be attributed.
 * Either way, both Wikia and the new wiki host are allowed to use the content because the authors are being attributed through the page history. -- Deltaneos (talk) 22:50, October 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * The Creative Commons license allows both facing and de-facing content, and the ToU doesn't forbid it, though of course Wikia can terminate accounts for any reason, so the point is sort of moot. -- ◄mendel► 08:20, October 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Who said anything about defacing anything? We'd just like our wiki deleted after we move for the betterment of our community. Also, we have had to use a different license as a fansite for Guild Wars. Our license is actually invalid if used for a for-profit company (read: Wikia). Anet has already been alerted to the steps Wikia has taken, and is planning on pulling PvX@Wikia's fansite status soon and removing our right to use their images.
 * Just a head's up. That would cripple our old site and make it more harmful than anything else. <font color="Black" face="cambria">Karate <font color="Black" face="cambria">Jesus  <font face="Arial" color="gray" size="1">03:21, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * You're striving for the "betterment of your community", but Wikia isn't interested in that. Wikia's definition of "the community that it's [their] job to support and try to make happy" is limited to those on Wikia. If you want to have the site deleted, try paying them. -- ◄mendel► 08:29, October 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Wikia only cares about money through advertising. Therefore, it is in their best interest to keep a wiki open. They don't care about the community or the editors, only about money. ☆ The   Solar   Dragon  ☆ 08:38, October 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * I wonder how much money it would take for us to "buy" our site's closing. Or, for that matter, how much it would cost to get to use Monobook like Uncyclopedia does. I have some decent investments from which I could pull some cash :D. <font color="Black" face="cambria">Karate <font color="Black" face="cambria">Jesus  <font face="Arial" color="gray" size="1">21:22, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Can't you tell?
Do you not even SEE what is going on here? Wikis are leaving because of YOU. We don't want any part of your bullcrap skin, because it's HORRIBLE. MOST OF THE WIKIS ARE LEAVING, AND NO MATTER HOW MANY POSTS YOU MAKE ABOUT HOW A LOT OF PEOPLE SUPPOSEDLY LOVE THE NEW SKIN, WE AREN'T BUYING IT. WE KNOW, WE HATE IT. But it's not too late to change your minds, you have till November 2nd. That's when the last few wikis are leaving. I hope you make the right decision, instead of losing us all. Thank you for your time. Roxy13 ~ Dad, I'm a fairy! 16:16, October 27, 2010 (UTC)

Help please.
Help on www.Ultimatedragonball.wikia.com we need help somethings wrong we cant add pics anymore or upload them theres a big problem so please come help. 17:12, October 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * I can see that you uploaded an image there yesterday. Are you still having a problem? Please send an email with more details to Special:contact. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:37, October 28, 2010 (UTC)

hi
hizeb rules 21:53, October 27, 2010 (UTC)

Regarding the blog comments you just closed
Regarding this blog post whose comments you just closed:

I'd love to see if my comment was replied to in another post, but it's near impossible to browse through the 42 pages of comments there. Is there some way to get these all on one page? ("Show all" doesn't appear to work.)

Better yet, is there a page which summarizes responses to recurring questions/complaints? Maybe you guys could work up a FAQ. --GrantB 16:19, October 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, what was your comment specifically? Maybe I can help to answer it here. We will adjust the FAQ as needed also. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:37, October 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * It's the most recent one before yours, regarding the new image attribution feature. Thanks --GrantB 19:02, October 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, I wrote you on your talk page. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:04, November 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for replying. I'll be really surprised if the photo-attribution feature has the intended effect; I think it will just encourage novices to upload all kinds of sub-par or improperly-attributed images instead of focusing their efforts on things that really need it. There are probably better ways to achieve the stated goal, but I feel Wikia chose a superficial easy-to-implement one that misses the mark by quite a margin. I hope that, should the data show that the intended effect is not happening, they will enable us to disable this "feature". --GrantB 19:37, November 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * We are collecting data now (its only been just over a week since Monaco was removed from English users) and we will be updating the blog in the coming months with stats on what we find. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:04, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

Length
Hi, is there ANY way you could possible expand the length of the articles in the new skin. Thats mainly the problem I have with it, I can adapt to everything else but this as it bothers me. Fahuem 23:28, October 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, we will not be adjusting the width across Wikia at this time. Let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:19, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

Shrinkage
Hello, I'm Spike's Girl of the Channel Awesome Wiki. We've been having a few issues with the new skin, mainly due to the article width as others have mentioned. To us, it makes everything look a little too cluttered and squished. Is there a possibility of having a manual tool so we can make adjustments to fix this?

Spike's Girl

To back up Spike's Girl, I have also been having an issue with the grids as seen here:

http://thatguywiththeglasses.wikia.com/wiki/Contributors

For some reason the table lines are not showing at all there and in other pages on the wiki. Also, I've found myself having to refresh an edit window as sometimes they aren't loading. As I update pages every day, it gets annoying. I hope there's a solution to that and the narrowing of grids and templates as seen here:

http://thatguywiththeglasses.wikia.com/wiki/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses

Thanks in advance,

Cferra 00:27, October 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * Looks all fixed now! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:20, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

Wiki News Clarification
Hello, I'm hoping you can help me out. Last night you deleted the entire section on our news feed indicating the Wiki had been forked. We did not use a site notice that appears on every content page as some wikis have done. We did not deface, delete, or remove any page content as still other wikis have done that decided to move hosts. We felt that keeping the notice to the news box was being as respectful as possible while still informing wiki readers and contributors of important news that affects all of them.

Could you help us understand what was objectionable about the news item that required its complete censoring? That is, is it verboten to anywhere mention the fact that the wiki has forked? Was it because it was a template that displays on the main page? Was our wording offensive?

We understand that Wikia has made the decision to retain all existing content and recognize your right to do so. Indeed we would like to share our information from time to time to prevent Wikia's fork from becoming too out of date. We're just asking for some direction, thank you very much for any insight you can give us.

--Tlosk 12:15, October 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * I see, taking that into consideration that seems a reasonable compromise and we'll go ahead and do that. --Tlosk 14:28, October 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks Thlosk! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:23, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

Oasis, Why Exactly?
I know that you and the wikia staff are recieving a lot of complaints regarding the new skin and I do realise it may be too late to save Monaco, but It's worth a try. I am always open minded about new ideas and will always try and see the good aspects but Oasis, the dreaded new skin is an awful idea. Confusing, ugly, unlikeable are just a few words to describe it. Apparently it is supposed to be more user friendly than monaco, not true, monaco was by far more user friendly and well every single aspect of Monaco beats Oasis hands down easily. If so many people are complaining to wikia about the change and ditching monaco, why not keep monaco as an option?. I've heard that you don't have enough resources to keep it going without glitches, Well 1) There are no glitches with Monaco at the moment... 2)If you desperately have to delete a skin, choose Monobook as it is the least popular and hardly any wikia use it and 3)You could just choose to call off the change! As you probably already know, Most wikis use Monaco as their default skin which shows that it is popular between the regular wikia users. I know many people via wikis and no one likes Oasis and they all are dreading the 3rd of November.

So, for once take into consideration the regular wiki user's opinions and actually do whats best for wikia. Please don't reply back to me saying something like "I'm sorry you don't like the new skin, why not give it a go?" because I have given it a go and I'm finding it almost impossible to use! My point of view is Oasis has NO good aspects and I'm sure thousands of others will agree with that.

Yours Sincerely,

Googleybear


 * Hi, as we have mentioned (and described in detail) on the staff blog, a lot of feedback, from new/experienced wiki editors has been incorporated into the new look. This was used, along with learnings from user testing and click tracking data. We will be moving forward with the new look, and assessing our design decisions over the next couple of months. This will likely result in some tweaks, but the new look will remain. I am sorry to hear you are not happy with this change, but we feel that it is the best choice for Wikia. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:30, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

How?
 Ruin Cireela   Spam me. Drop me a message! 
 * 1) Check out the Cartoon Network Wiki and customize the Monaco so we still have the Cartoon Network lines in the B-round.
 * 2) Where is the Wiki picture?


 * Hello, I am bit confused as to what your question/comment is. Can you elaborate more? Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:33, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

You really need to set a better example
First, I am trying to keep my cool here, so please bear with me and at least read this whole post. Ever heard the expression, squeaky wheel gets the grease? Despite the lack of satisfaction, people spending time using it and still not liking it, you're driving your user base away with a a site style that really seems to be having the opposite effect of what you're aiming for.

Activision Blizzard, a much larger company than Wikia, mind you, was planning to force its new "Real ID" concept on people, such that their real life names would be shown on their posts on the forums and ingame. Naturally, due to privacy concerns, virtually the entire blizzard community raged against this, and under pressure, made the Real ID system optional. Those comofrtable with sharing personal information withe veryone were free to do so, and those who hated the idea got what they wanted- Everyone was happy in the end. This situation is the same as Wikia's: Major, unpopular change is announced, community rages, but unlike blizzard, you do not react to the problem.

Shouldn't you be seeing a problem when so many users are threatening to leave? I'm sure a few people like the new skin, given the lone unattributed testimonial on your site. But for most of us, at best, after "giving it a chance," the new look has gone from completely horrible to "Not very good but also still dysfunctional." And it's not really because of the "look" of it, but how the functionality compared to Monaco and even MonoBook has been totally butchered.

I apologize for being rude here, but my patience, and the patience of many of our longtime visitors is wearing thin. I hope you have, at a bear minimum, some major major improvements coming. How can the Wikia staff invest so much time and effort on this and proceed with forcing a clearly unpopular site design that is obviously going to have a negative impact on the community that has gotten Wikia to where it is now? It just doesn't make sense from a business, logical, or any other perspective. Your "new look" really doesn't seem to be having the effect you genuinely want it to have. You guys clearly have goals, and I understand them, but you're missing the mark here. Oasis needs a LOT of work before it becomes the norm, if you're going to insist on keeping it. Thank you for your time. Tahngarthor talk-contribs 08:20, October 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * Tahngarthor, thanks for your message, and as both I, and other community team members have stated on the blog, talk page messages and emails - we understand this is a big change. But that said, we feel it is the right change for Wikia. We also believe that once users spend more time on the new look, they will adjust and even start to enjoy it. It took me time to adjust, since I, like you, spend a lot of time on Wikia, but once I did, I found it a better user experience overall. I hope that you will be the new look a full chance, and provide us with constructive feedback. We will be making tweaks to the interface as we learn more from it being live sitewide. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:16, November 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Did you ever once think that just because you think it is, that we don't? That statement reeks of "We know better than you", when it blatantly obvious that you don't. You didn't design our wikis, we did. We know what they need, and why. You (clearly) do not. It's not a change, it's a downgrade by any and all means.


 * As for your "beliefs" that people will grow to like it, how long do you really expect that to take? You've been playing that same tune for well over 2 months now. How much longer can that record play? It's broken. (Just like Oasis). You say that you've spent some time with Oasis, and found it a better user experience. How long was that? Certainly not much longer than us, and we still hate it with a passion. We've given tons of constructive and reasonable feedback and suggestions. You have not listened to any of them under the aforementioned attitude that you know what we need better than we do (which is asinine at best). Worst, --Zyeriis 00:58, November 5, 2010 (UTC) (For the record, I am far past civility or politeness at this point when you completely disregard any and all negative feedback, cheap and shallow responses such as the above are just gasoline on the fire.)

cool web site i have got a some thing one wikia

Bull.
If you ignore me, you ignore Halo Fanon, because I am speaking for all of Halo Fanon. First off, I'll give my opinions:

"We believe we have one of the best communities on the web, and do take to heart what is said by all of our users."

That is the biggest amount of bullcrap I have ever heard, and that inculdes Ajax 013. If you'd have ment that, you'd have shut off The New Look a day after it came out. You lying piece of filth.

"Dammnit, we look like utter #### now!"

LordOfMonsterIsland almost never swears, you have made him. And if you make LOMI mad enough to swear, that basically spells doom for you.

"This is gonna be a pain in my ###...."

LOMI swore twice. TWICE I tell you. You are well and truly doomed.

Right, let me sum up what HF said:

CommanderTony:

''Many times in the past month, myself and a few other Administrators from various wikis have butted heads with the Wikia Staff, only to have them interfere with our community issues, much to the disregard of their own personal beliefs in the matter. And just now with the transition to the Oasis skin, Wikia completely disregarded ANY input and criticisms from their community and charged head on with a pre-determined schedule. To my knowledge, not a single change was made to Oasis after the Beta ended that saw any major change to the skin. However, it seems as if popularity and stature will sway their opinion. As you know, the Warcraft Wiki was able to continue to use Monaco indefinitely after threatening to be hosted by an independent domain. Thankfully, like our sister site Halopedia, they went independent yet again. As it's becoming an increasing trend with these changes, staff members remain ignorant to more independent stances. ''

''In the future, who knows what kind of ######## the Wikia Staff will try to pull. While leaving Wikia for a simple skin change is childish and downright stupid, going independent for the sake of not listening to ######## anymore is one hell of a reason.''

Read that 7 times and tell me what you think.

Sona 'Demal:

The issue isn't the efficiency of the matter itself; it would be easy enough to change the .css, or just live with Oasis. But the whole point is why we should do it, when it's out of the arrogance and lack or reasoning of you. Sure, people will call us stubborn for sometimes arguing about something you can just go along with, but they won't listen unless we show them that there should be nothing to be done at all on our part, regardless of whether it's easy or not, when the fault lies with you.

I've modified the quote so that it fits.

Me, The Halfblood:

Wikia's giving us the middle finger, so unless they stop being children, become adults and close that pile of crap, we should give them the middle finger back.

That is a quote that I made. So let me sum this up in a nutshell. You are being children and forcing this on us and we are being intelligent. We will not accept your blatent lies and we will ignore you for ignoring us. Before you ask what we will move to if we move, we will move to Shoutwiki, which is capable of giving us Monaco. Goodbye. 13:27, October 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, I am sorry to hear you have felt like we have not provided enough detailed information, but we have posted 2 blogs a week for over 2 months about the new look, responded to hundreds of comments, created FAQ/video and other support material. I am currently working to upgrade the help wiki to reflect the new look. As we have mentioned, we have worked hard to create a look that works best for ALL users of Wikia, not just newbies or pro users. We will now be assessing the decisions we have made based off of data we collect from the new look being sitewide. You are free at any time to leave Wikia, but we hope you will stay and try out the new look. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:22, November 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * There you go again spouting the same nonsense. Empty responses do not count as information. You have never, NEVER, responded with what you intend to change. You have NEVER addressed a critical issue regarding how much we absolutely hate the skin. You only respond with that ire inducing, monotone, ######## response: "we will be/are assessing the decisions we have made over the next few months." Put away your ####### cue cards, you're just pissing people off even more. You *tried* to create a look that works "best" for ALL users of Wikia. You failed, miserably. Take responsibility. On top of all this drull and bull, you contradict yourselves. "we have posted 2 blogs a week for over 2 months about the new look" > "we hope you will stay and try out the new look". Shut the hell up (past civility and politeness, remember?), has it been 2 months or hasn't it? We still hate it. What does it take to open your eyes, a gun to the head?--Zyeriis 02:29, November 5, 2010 (UTC)

Please help me
Hiya Sarah. I`m Tdifan24. I go to a wiki (Total Drama Island Wiki) and it is all blue. All the users, or at least the ones in the IRC say they hate it. I do to. We can`t upload pictures correctly, it messes up templates, and userpages. Is there ANY way we can change it to Monaco because there a lot of users in that IRC, and they ALL hate it. Please respond soon. Thank you. It is the blue skin

Tdifan24


 * Hello, Monaco is no longer a supported skin on Wikia and is not available as a preference. The blue you see if the default color, but you can modify your new look using the Theme Designer. You can learn more on this help page. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:24, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

How to add a picture to the front page link botton?
Hi Sarah

I want to know how to add a picture or a logo to the main page link.

I want to add a picture or a logo to the wikia i am working on.

I am helping out on this wikia at:

The Fresh Beat Band Wiki

The home page link said "Wikia" on it & i want to change it to the "The Fresh Beat Band" logo.

I need to know how to do it.

Thank: ICarlyFan2009 (Edmund) 05:54, November 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, if you are an admin there, you can use the theme designer to upload a new wordmark there. You can learn more on the theme designer help page. Let me know if you need further help. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:25, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

WHY!
Wikia, you're ignoring everyones comments, Almost noone wants this skin, and those that like it, are the Minority, Why can't you just keep Monaco and stop being a disctatorship. You keep on saying it's the best for wikia, but everyone gave it a chance, and most hated it, Why Go on? It seems that you're trying to trade old users for new ones, which I expect to fail badly. PLZ keep Monaco, don't go through with Oasis. PLZ respond

Signed, Reptor17


 * Hello Repto17, Please see some of my response above. The new look is something we have worked hard to design, and is now the main skin on all of Wikia. We will be collecting data on our design choices and making tweaks where need be. As always, we will continue to make announcements on the staff blog. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:27, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

Theme Designer
Hi Sarah, when I use Theme Designer the preview mode does not work if I, say, change the theme. Only thing that ever changes in preview is the wordmark. But the Help page makes it seem the preview should work on everything in Theme Designer? ElfAnurintalk 16:27, November 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * It appears there are some more things broken in the Oasis skin on my wiki; Special:ListUsers does not load and under preferences, the option to upload a new avatar is missing. Can a staff member find the problem on w:c:waroflegends? ElfAnurintalk 20:42, November 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, it appears there was was a js issue (diff here) that was causing that. One of our engineers fixed it, so you should now be good to go! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:44, November 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Great, it's all working now. Thanks! ElfAnurintalk 22:09, November 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Good to hear. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:04, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

What Happen to the other Site Layouts?
Hi Sarah What happen to the other Site Layouts? I like the space Site Layouts & now it change to the new look. I don't like the new look. Can you please put the other "Site Layouts" back? Everyone is not happy for the Site Layouts keep changing.

Please change it back???


 * Thank: ICarlyFan2009 (Edmund) 19:20, November 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Monaco is no longer a supported skin on Wikia, therefore it is not available. The majority of Wikia is now on the new look. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 21:36, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

But the other look was great & colorful.

I like the Stars Skin.

Why thing have to change when users like the Color Skins?

It not fear...

I want the Space Skin back.

Look-If i was a Wikia Admins like you, I would make users happy by keeping thing the way they are to

make users Happy...

So please put the color skin back.

ICarlyFan2009 (Edmund) 19:00, November 4, 2010 (UTC)

"Feedback" ########
Don't say "We're testing feedback for the new skin" and then just go ahead with it.

Maybe you should learn how to read. Read one page. 90% hate the new look, meaning, either fix it up or don't ####### push it over everyone.

You people are idiots. --Tommy-Vercetti 19:42, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

Not sure why I am wasting my time - because obviously the entire Wikia staff is giving ALL of their admins, managers etc. a big fat middle finger... but for the love of Pete, at least give us the Monaco option. It actually works and our Pirates Online wikia is USABLE with it!

This is supposed to be a system built from the ground up, not defecated on from the top down. Are you really wanting the entire system to be emptied out and NOT used?

The new look is UNIVERSALLY hated by 90%+ of the user base. It's barely tolerable that some of the staff seem to have a smug, 'cuz we know better' attitude... but this 'you take your new look and like it' crap is over the top.

ALL I am asking for another option besides the truly useless Monobook. Monarco was fine and dandy. Was it made by someone you folks hate? Is there some underlying reason why you want Wikia to fail?

You are part of the staff, so you share the blame. Advocate for us or don't bother contributing.

Eliza T. Creststeel 19:50, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

Honestly
I know you say over and over that this is the best thing to do for the wiki, but aren't you contradicting yourselves by getting rid of Monaco when two years ago you defended it as much as you defend Oasis today? Please, no quotes from other blogs, no crap about it being "better" or how Monaco is "inefficient". Just give me a straight answer, why? Why defend Monaco, then just get rid of it? After the torture you've put everyone through, I think I at least deserve a straight answer. I know you are but what am I? 21:27, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

Please Read This
This is a post I made and I would appreciate it if you answer my question.

"Wikia, most of the users here want Monaco back and you know it. Many wikis and users are leaving. Even if you don't care about your users and all you care about is money, this change will just LOSE you money. So if you care about your users or your money you would not make this change."

<p style="text-align:center">Why are you making this change if almost all the users don't like it AND it is bad for your buisness?

<p style="text-align:center">Please don't say somthing like Monaco was not useful, very outdated, or we just needed a change.

<p style="text-align:center">Please make a detailed explanation of why you changed the skin and why you removed Monaco when most of the users didn't want you to, Thanks! -Sunheart- 02:30, November 4, 2010 (UTC)

I know you changed the skin because their was problems with the old one but have you noticed no one likes the new one so you should make monaco optional again.HazeShot 23:27, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

Hello. I am Supahbadmarine. I know that you have been getting messages constantly about the new layout. Now, I understand that you made this change so as to improve the wikia experience for all. However, it seems to me that you have been ignoring what the community has been telling you. That being that we dislike the new layout. It is missing several features and has numerous problems. Now I know that you have been telling people that you have been gathering data extensivly to make this new format liked by everyone. However I believe that you should except that his is a failure. Almost everyone, both old and new users that i have checked with, have agreed almost unanimously don't like it. It is not a matter of getting used to it, it is a matter of preference. I am sure you did a good job with objectivly constructing this layout, however user response is something subjective and frankly the community is the arbiter of success or failure on wikia. Please explain why you will not even consider our feelings on this. Supahbadmarine 03:15, November 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Suphdamarine, Thank you for the civil comment. I understand that users here are upset with the change, and as you stated, all of us community team members have received numerous messages. Many of these which were quite aggressive (and some would say quite offensive) were directed at us personally. It's not that we are ignoring you (we have answered almost all of these questions before), but at times there is simply no answer or the answer we give, is one that some users refuse to accept. We have made changes to the look, and have explained in detail on the blog why those were made. We are assessing all of these decisions by tracking how users are using the site, along with user feedback. As I mentioned above, we will be providing insight to these on the staff blog over the next couple of months. Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:04, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

I honestly cannot use New Wikia Look, and I'm a leading admin on TTTE fanon wiki. Please put monaco back, at least as an optional choice.

Question!
I just searched for a Dragonadopters wikia and I found one. It seems abandoned. Can I take it over?

Heres a link!

http://dragonadopters.wikia.com/wiki/DragonAdopters_Wiki

Thank you!

Lowdy345 Zaz Cahill 20:31, November 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * You can apply to adopt a wiki here. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:31, November 5, 2010 (UTC)

hmmmrrrrrr.........
((IbbyWonder6)) About your post on my talk page on MySims Wiki: I am glad you think that. But sadly as you can see, one of your fellow staff members has blocked my profile thus I am sad.

Can't find it
Hey, just wondering, does the new skin have a history button? Because I cannot find it. Thank you, <font size="+2" face="Vivaldi">Jenny ♣<font size="+2" face="Freestyle Script">Vincent ♠<font size="+2" face="French Script MT">Talk to Me! ♦ 00:05, November 5, 2010 (UTC)

An actual useful button? No. It's in "My Tools", which is the equivalent of "Recycle Bin" for Windows. They threw everything useful in it, where you would never think to look. Theres a few more reasons why I said "Recycle Bin" but I leave those to the imagination. Kind of like what Wikia is doing...(feel free to interpret this as well).--Zyeriis 00:49, November 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Jenny, yes the history link is located in Mytools, on the floating toolbar on the bottom right. You can learn more about my tools on this help page. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:33, November 5, 2010 (UTC)

Newest AWA Member
Congratulations! You have given birth to another member of the AWA. Are you proud? You shouldn't be. You pushed me out (pun intended). You don't need to name the child, his name is: --Zyeriis 02:33, November 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Zyeriis, I understand you are upset, but I am going to ask that you act a bit more civil on my talk page. Many users come here looking for help, and I do my best to answer there questions and provide assistance. I, along with other community team, have answered many questions about the new look, and many of our answers have been met with aggressive responses. Just because you do not agree with our response, does not mean that we aren't answering the question or being genuine. The new look is almost completely rolled out, and Monaco will not be coming back. Ranting here will not change that. We hope that you will give the new look a chance, but if you feel you can't, then you are free to leave Wikia. Thank you, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:51, November 5, 2010 (UTC)

Upset? You really like to pussyfoot around things don't you? I'm furious. If you wanted civility, you should have listened to the community. Your answers have been met with aggressive responses because your "answers" aren't any good. If you are being "genuine" in those responses, you are unworthy of respect or civility and will not receive such things until such a time that you are worthy of them again (when you actually listen to us). If that does not show how much I hate what you've done, you and Oasis are absolutely hopeless. Ranting? Maybe those two lines about me joining the AWA are but, if you are going to sit there and accuse me of having not respectfully asked questions, then we clearly have nothing left to discuss as you're the ones being unreasonable #########, ranting about how great you think Oasis is. I like how you pulled out your "We hope you give the new look a chance" cue card again, when I clearly posted, farther up the page no less, my response (that, yet again, you've ignored) about that cue card.
 * Disclaimer: When I say "you" i mean the Wikia Staff, not "you" in the literal sense meaning you personally.

^ This was me being nice at my current level of rage. I wonder how much longer I can continue to be "nice" when you've demolished my wiki. Yes, demolished. There is nothing that is salvageable. My templates will never fit in oasis, neither will the content. Oh and before you come back with your "if it doesn't fit into our incredibly tiny forced width, then it wasn't a good template" cue card, see your "reasoning" behind giving WoWWiki special treatment of a wider width when they threatened to leave [and did] (For the record: WoW is a MMORPG that came out SIX years ago, my wiki is about a MMORPG that came out in SEPTEMBER of THIS year). Hypocrisy at its best, or do I mean worst?--Zyeriis 21:42, November 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Sarah, TONS of people have given Oasis a chance, but still hate it. I am one of those people. So why don't you actually listen to users for once? Not that hard.--TheRogue995 20:12, November 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oasis has only been fully rolled to on Wikia today (international wikis just had the monaco skin removed). This means that we have now entered the data collection phase, which includes looking at user feedback. We will not be going back to Monaco, but we will be tweaking the new look. If you have feedback on aspects of it, please share them. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:27, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

HI
In case you haven't noticed, NOBODY LIKES THE NEW SKIN. PEOPLE WHO DO ARE LIKE, 3% OF THE WIKI. WHY DESTROY MONACO? IT WAS AWESOME! YOU DESTROYED PLENTY OF WIKIS AND THE WAY THEY FUNCTION USING THE NEW LOOK AND THE REEEEEAAAAALLLLLYY OLD LOOK! WHY NOT KEEP MONOCO!?!??!?!? HUH? TELL ME! REPLY!!!!!!! I am the camping master!

Fablehaven Wiki
Ok. There are no active admins on this wiki, and I would like to be one to help the wiki out. How do I do that?

(The address is ) 18:53, November 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * You can apply here. Best of luck, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 23:51, November 8, 2010 (UTC)

Skin
I have tried the new skin for 3 weeks and absolutely hate it. The one thing that bugs me the most is when editing a page all links are blue - even ones that don't exist, which makes it almost impossible to fix a broken link. The wikia Logos were 10,000 times better than Wordmark which makes all wikis look like carbon copies. Monobook is almost as bad as Oasis, no wiki activity, no search suggestions, no WYSIWYG editing. Hockeyben 20:12, November 5, 2010 (UTC)

Never mind, Sannse responded to me and said the links problem will be fixed. I'm fine with the skin now (still prefered Monaco)). Hockeyben 18:35, November 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * oh good, happy to hear its fixed! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:27, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

How do I become a Wikia's community support team?
I want to be one. —This unsigned comment is by I'm King of the World (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !


 * Wanting to be one is not enough I'm afraid. Be a helpful member, who helps others and makes useful edits. Maybe then you'll be invited to the support team :). PS: Please sign you edits on talk pages (type ~ ), thanks - Tjcool007 (Talk / Contribs) 22:31, November 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * You could also apply to be one. -- 03:33, November 7, 2010 (UTC)

Question about Fixed Width
When we were told that the articles were going to be set to a fixed width, I believed, and I'm sure omst others believed that we'd have the whole of this ridiculously small width for our content. Why are you taking away a third of it for unhelpful info at the top and nothing for the rest of the article?

Also, please don't jump to conlusions that I hate the new look or think it was a mistake. I've understoo and accepted your reasons. I'm just curious. What would be the magnitude of negative data collected by you after the implementation of the new look needed to make you think you may have made some mistakes?

 Helloher  (Death is not my phone number)  22:19, November 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, We have provided a detaile explanation (which provides more details than I can here) on this blog post. Hope that helps! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:27, November 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks you, but I don't see an explanation to my second question.  Helloher  (Death is not my phone number)  14:08, November 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * I still don't. are you trying to convince me or yourselves that you won't think you have made mistakes?  Helloher  (Death is not my phone number)  23:18, November 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe they have there thumbs in their ears, going "la la la, we can't hear you". Bud0011 03:05, November 20, 2010 (UTC).

Issue
Hi, on the I Am Alive wiki, I am trying to upload a new "wiki-wordmark" image to replace the default one. Problem is, whenever I try to, an "upload warning" appears but with no message or any options. How do I proceed? Thanks. --Mistertrouble189 20:49, November 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, the image must be exactly 250x65 pixels (only .png files) to work there. You can use a site like http://pixlr.com to resize it. I just did a test and was able to. Let me know if you continue to have an issue. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 23:48, November 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * I resized it and tried uploading it, but the same error persisted. Here is the image in the correct size (250 by 65px, also it will look white - it's supposed to so it shows up on the black background of the wiki). Could you upload it and see if it works? Thanks, Mistertrouble189 04:34, November 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * It turns out the image was a few pixels off (249x55), I fixed it and uploaded it. The wordmark looks great. Good job! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:40, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

Name Change
I'm gonna send a Special:Contact thing when you respond to this about having my username changed. Are there any specifications I need to meet? I really don't wanna screw this up. Also, could you reply to this on my talk page so I know when it's there? Thanks a million! http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png <font color="Blue">Frank - <font color= "Blue">West  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 02:46, November 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, I found the thing on the Help Wiki so now I know what to do. I'll send the request form later today. http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png <font color="Blue">Frank - <font color= "Blue">West  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 15:06, November 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, glad to hear you found it. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:27, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

Blog Posts
Hello Sarah. On other wikias (With The New Look) have blog posts at the bottom of every page. However, My wikia (The Charmed Wikia) does not. I was just wondering why. Do mind my signature, It is because I am Executive Manager on the Charmed Wikia! . --<font face="Corbel"> Merry Christmas: Khan  Talk  Sandbox  Email  16:44, November 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * I am not quite sure I understand what you are referring to. Can you send me a link or screenshot of what you are talking about? Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:40, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

Back gound color for MonoBook
How to change Back Ground Color for MonoBook? I had visit a wikia call "Club Penguin Fanon Wiki" at:

Club Penguin Fanon & found out it look like MonoBook with blue back ground.

I try to used the MonoBook Theme designer but the page is blank.

I can't change the color of my wikia back ground on "Nickelodeon Wiki"

Can you please tell me how to change the back ground for MonoBook mode?

ICarlyFan2009 (Edmund) 18:54, November 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * The theme designer only works on the new look, along with many other features. No new features will be developed for Monobook. You can read through the help pages to learn how to customize it. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:40, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Sarah

To tell you that i don't like the new look because

it don't show the nickelodeon logo on the new look.

The nickelodeon logo only show on MonoBook.

I try to add the nickelodeon logo on the new look but

it don't work.

I don't like the new look for that reason.

The logo is in PNG made & i try to add it to the new look but no luck.

How to used the logo on the new look?

Can you help??

Also please look here to see the vote.

Over 34 users like the "Monoco" look.

So you & the other wikia stuff have no choice to bring back

the Monoco skin.

ICarlyFan2009 (Edmund) 03:45, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

Contributions Glitch
Hey, I got an oasis glitch to report for ya. If you set "contributions" into your little "My Tools" thing (which is useful and nice BTW) it glitches. When you click the My Tools link to the contributions the page shows no contributions. You have to reclick the user page tab marked "contributions". Just letting you know, since my computer's a bit slow and it takes a bit too long to have to load a page twice. Also, I left you a different message above about a different subject. Thank you! http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png <font color="Blue">Frank - <font color= "Blue">West  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 03:03, November 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Good point Frank. I'll check on that. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 00:40, November 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * nvm on the reuqestJake-"Is mayo an instrument". XD Patrick 01:44, November 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * nvm on the reuqestJake-"Is mayo an instrument". XD Patrick 01:44, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

Are you & the Wikia Stuff forcing users to used the new look?
Hi Sarah

Are you & the Wikia Stuff forcing users to used the new look? That is not right to force users to used the new look.

You & the stuff are taking off some of the MonoBook page like the HELP page.

Please look here at Help:Color

You & the Wikia stuff are forcing us to used the new look.

I want all "Help" page for MonoBook included the Color Code Page back.

Thank: ICarlyFan2009 (Edmund) 18:05, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

Css problem
I have attempted this many times to get answers on the forum but failed so now I am turning to you, I ahve transfered our old mediawiki: common.css to mediawiki: wikia.css but the appearence did not change in the slightest, why? The Emperor Zelos 12:26, November 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, can you can a link to where you are talking about with more details to Special:contact? This is the best place for us to de-bug and answer technical issues. Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:42, November 15, 2010 (UTC)

Not Loading
Hi, the editing page stuff isn't loading properly. Smokestar &quot;It's not the fire in your blood, it's the fire in your heart...&quot;
 * Hi, we were having some technical issues with our servers. That is now fixed. Let me know if you are continuing to have a problem. Best, --Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:43, November 15, 2010 (UTC)

Hello
I noticed that subscript is not working in the new skin. -- "Is that pie?" Random <sub style="color:green;">guy <sup style="color:blue;">3000  09:13, November 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, there is a bug report already in for that issue - thanks for the report! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:44, November 15, 2010 (UTC)

Tearing Wikia Apart
You are tearing Wikia apart! The Kingdom Hearts Wiki is planning on moving. I tried to convince them not to move and they still insisted on moving, making me look bad. The forum about them moving is Where will we go?. Also after they move, they are planning on turning the old wiki into a fan-based website, adding fanon stuff to the wiki. I don't want any fanon stuff because I want to learn more about the Kingdom Hearts series. Sure I could go to the new website after the move, but I prefer Wikia. And my only hope to stop them from moving is to bring back Monaco. It was nice that you kept Monobook but people (me included) want Monaco back and you will have to cave to the pressure eventually. What is preventing you from bringing back Monaco? SeanWheeler 22:48, November 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Interesting - what about Wikia do you prefer? [might be aspects that Wikia could emphasize in the future] <font color="Orange">Random <font color="Black">Time  22:56, November 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Sean, The wikia wiki will remain open, and hopefully new admins will be chosen there. You may want to propose that the community starts dicussing this before some folks leave, so that the wiki can remain the same. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 17:50, November 16, 2010 (UTC)

Hope your doing fine
I noticed that a lot of people hate the new wiki skin and have been leaving bad and sad messages all over. I just wanted to see how your going with that. Ignore hate mail/messages. How are you doing. :)

Tdifan24 Talks  and edits!  04:57, November 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * HI Tdifan24, thanks for the nice message. I am doing fine. Of course its hard to hear from users that they are unhappy (and the comments direct at the community team are not always the nicest), but I know that most of those words are said during a moment when the person is upset. I still think the new look is a great improvement for Wikia, and believe that once everyone adjusts they will learn to love it as well. Thanks again for the message - I really appreciate it! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 17:50, November 16, 2010 (UTC)

You know Sarah

Everyone want the other skin back.

Soon everyone will not like the new look.

You should look at the "Skin Poll" that is place in the 'Forms'. There over 60 vote in counting to bring back the old skin.

It best that you & the other wikia stuff bring back back the other skin

& take away the "MonoBook" Skin.

ICarlyFan2009 (Edmund) 22:56, November 17, 2010 (UTC)

Re:What is a wiki? .... (comment)
From this blog

"One thing I'm starting to notice is that different tools are needed for different wikis. I would like to suggest as a idea, with starting up new wikis on wikia a type of question of "type of wiki" for which the choices being: encyclopedia, writing, or original content. These selections would have different presets for tools. Like this:
 * encyclopedia-badges, talk pages, forum
 * writing-comments, blogs
 * original content-(Wikia setting for the new features)-Badges, comments, Blogs (new ideas too!)

I'm only suggesting this as many of these different types have common interests and needs." Anyways, Devilmanozzy  (Talk Page)  16:00, November 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Deilmanozzy, this is definitely something we are thinking about. Thanks for all your great ideas! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 17:50, November 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * HI, I did a wiki, but I'm new at this, I would like to know how to choose a different theme, such as when I created and gave me the options of themes to choose, I would choose a theme but not sure how, would greatly appreciate it if you could help me.
 * Bruninha Kaliber 23:22, November 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, you can switch the theme using our theme designer. You can learn more by reading the help page on it here. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, November 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Bruninha Kaliber 23:22, November 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, you can switch the theme using our theme designer. You can learn more by reading the help page on it here. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, November 22, 2010 (UTC)

Feedback on the 'New Wikia' (aka Oasis?) skin
My views are summed up as such: I hate it.

The new skin breaks pages left and right. It is ugly. It functions poorly. It less user-friendly than any other wiki skin I have any experience with. It is, in short, a doomed attempt at improvement, much like the VirtualBoy was a doomed attempt to improve upon the Game Boy.

With that said, here is are my recommendations for improving it:
 * Make it look more like Monaco or Vector.
 * Make it function more like Monaco or Vector.
 * Make optional or remove the width limits

The New Wikia skin caused me to seriously contemplate abandoning everything Wikia in favor of non-wikia wikis (for example, abandoning FFXIclopedia in favor of BG-Wiki) despite the lesser amount of information non-wikia wikis might have. For now I have found a workaround, avoiding New Wikia using a considerably customized variant of MonoBook that is also rather ugly, though still more functional and palatable than New Wikia.

It is my sincere hope that you will seriously reconsider the current course of action, as "the best course of action for Wikia" that you keep saying communicates to at least some users as "...for Wikia the company, without regard to the opinions of its users," and may drive away so many users (and contributors) that it ultimately bodes ill for Wikia.

With hope for the future, --Volkai 20:53, November 18, 2010 (UTC)

(P.S. Seriously, New Wikia is ugly as sin.)


 * Hi Volkai, Thanks for your feedback. We are currently conducting some A/B testing on the new look to test out our decisions and see where we can improved. We will not be returning to Monaco or Monobook but will be improving the new look moving forward. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, November 22, 2010 (UTC)

I Have To Ask You Something
Hi Symone here and I was wondering how do you create badges on a wiki, because I wanted some people to earn badges because of the way they have been contributing, and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind helping me out with it.


 * Hi, just send an email with your request (and link to your wiki) to Special:contact. If there are other users there, you may want to also check with them if they want achievements there. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, November 22, 2010 (UTC)

Need Help on Graphic wordmark
Hi Sarah

I am thinking trying the "New Look" but i could not upload the logo for

Graphic wordmark.

It did not work.

So i found out that it need to be 250x65 for the logo size.

How do i make the logo size to 250x65?

Can you please help???

Thank!!!

I be staying on Monobook mode until i have my "New Look" page fix up

with the Graphic wordmark logo.

ICarlyFan2009 23:37, November 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, That is the correct size, but you have to make sure that the file time is png. I use this website to make the correct type and size: http://pixlr.com . Best, --Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, November 22, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Sarah

I try it but still did not work.

I need help on doing it.

Can you please give me a step by step on how to do it?

Thank

ICarlyFan2009 00:38, November 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * You just need to adjust the image size. If you post the image here (and the link to the wiki you want it on). I can try and help. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:19, November 23, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Sarah

This is the image:

I try & try but it did not upload to the "New Look".

I try again by fixing the file name & it work.

I just forgot to change it from JPG to PNG.

Everything is ok.

Thank for helping.

Just One More Thing:

How to change the size of the page so i could see the background picture

on the new look.

iCarlyFan2009 (Edmund K Lo) 22:38, November 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, I see the wordmark up and the images in the background theme. Have fun! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:41, December 2, 2010 (UTC)

FOUNDER OF SUPER SAIYAN 09
HI SARAH I THE FOUNDER OF SUPER SAIYAN 09 WIKI I HAVE SOME TROUBLE OR YOU CAN SAY I CONFUSED ABOUT THE ADMINISTRATION / MY WIKI

QUESTION NUMBER.1 I'AM A ADMINISTRATOR BECASUE I CREATED SUPER SAIYAN 09

QUESTION NUMBER.2 HOW TO I DELATE MY PHOTOS I HAVING TROUBLE WITH THIS

THANK YOU SAMURAI WARRIOR 2010 24:00, November 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, if you founded the wiki, then you are by default an admin and bureaucrat there. You can delete can image by going to its file page. Best of luck, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, November 22, 2010 (UTC)

Badges
Hi Sarah. I was wondering if you could add badges to the Nitrome Wiki. I am the top admin (not the founder) at the wiki, and I think that Badges would increase the amount of edits at the wiki.

As I saw from other wikis, when people saw a chance to get at the top, they took that chance, and try to edit as much as they could. This could be a help for a small wiki like this. -- 14:03, November 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, we can definitely turn them on, but please send a message to Special:contact with this request. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:25, November 22, 2010 (UTC)

About The "New Wikia Look" Skin
Hi Sarah

I been on the "New Wikia Look" for an hour looking at it.

Everything i work on seen out of place.

Everything look mass up in the "New Wikia Look" mode.

It not that good at all & it give me a Head Spending Around

that make my head hurt.

I can't seen to make it look like Monobook & Monaco.

Again, The "New Wikia Look" is not good & it mass up everything.

I am sorry but i don't like the "New Wikia Look".

Can you please tell who ever made that idea for the "New Wikia Look"

to fix it better so it will look like Monobook & Monaco. Thank

iCarlyFan2009 (Edmund K Lo) 04:01, November 24, 2010 (UTC)

Color Code Needed
Hi Sarah

I need the code for the color.

Can you please give me the Color code again?

It not working again.

So please give me the Color code again.

iCarlyFan2009 (Edmund K Lo) 08:09, November 25, 2010 (UTC)

The Color Code Page is ok.

Thank.

iCarlyFan2009 (Edmund K Lo) 16:13, November 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * All of the colors are listed on this help page. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:41, December 2, 2010 (UTC)

The New Look
Hello Sarah

Have just decided to come back and finish my work. You seem to be kept busy on here. People just don't like changes and they will rebel against anything that has to change.

Eridge1 00:06, November 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * Welcome back. Let me know if you have any confusion about the new look.

A war
Hi Sarah. There is a war between TDWIKI and P+F Wiki. It started because they swore at me in the IRC and then I vandalized a page for revenge. Now people on TDWIKI (the wiki I am at), wants to ban me. There have been vandals there. I honestly don't think it's my fault. Is it right for them to blame the vandals on me.

Jake loves  to draw and takes art request :D  18:08, November 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * You should talk to your local admins about this issue, and in the future, its best to ignore someone who is saying mean things, rather than to vandalize a page. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:41, December 2, 2010 (UTC)

My wiki needs its name changed
can you change the name of my wiki my wiki is i want it to be called Mods and Hacks Wiki 02:53, November 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * Is the community in agreement about the name change? If so, I am happy to change it. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:41, December 2, 2010 (UTC)

Check This Out, Please
Hello, I think you and the other staff should see [http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Basilmemories/How_Oasis_could_have_been_good. this link]. I think Sannse has already seen it. Please please PLEASE take an honest look at this and seriously consider it. It's a compromise that the userbase AND the staff could agree on. All the good of both skins plus clever ad placement that will help the staff get more money without angering the users. http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png <font color="Blue">Jax - <font color= "Blue">Kenobi  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 14:38, November 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, more technical here, did you ever find out the problem with the MyTools contributions thing? It still doesn't work how it should. Up at the "Contributions Glitch" section of this page is where the original question is at. Thanks. http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png <font color="Blue">Jax - <font color= "Blue">Kenobi  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 14:45, November 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for sharing. I did report the issue and its on the list of items to review for our technical team. Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:41, December 2, 2010 (UTC)

Removing my rights.
Hi. Can you please remove my bureaucrat rights over at the Dead Rising Wiki? I just don't have the time I used to have to run the place properly. I've already put someone else in charge, so management isn't an issue. Thanks. - Ash Crimson 18:13, November 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * You should have the ability to remove your own rights being a bureaucrat. Please see this page. -- 18:36, November 30, 2010 (UTC)

Emergency
Hello, My name is Cayde. I am an active user on the Superpower Wiki and we need some emergency assistance. Our wiki is becoming an active target for spammers and vandals making new pages left and right with cursing and derogatory statements. They need taken down, but we are currently without an admin. We have already begun the process for adopting the wiki, but It takes time, and several of our wikians would like the problem taken care of promptly. The links that this site have for vandalisim and spam are broken.

PLEASE HELP!

--Kaidb 02:54, December 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, Do you have any specific pages you need help with? You can also report spam here. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:41, December 2, 2010 (UTC)

When I created my 5 wikia´s knew the layout of the site was not entirely my responsibility. so do not complain you have not heard users Just want to know one thing WHERE ARE THE HISTORY and RECENT CHANGES ?

189.115.132.119 18:44, December 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * History can be found in your Mytools on the bottom right. You can also add reccent changes here, or find in on the Wiki Activity page (click on see all activity). Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:41, December 2, 2010 (UTC)

Question about Fan art
Hello, I know fan art was once not allowed by wikia to be used on a wikis content pages. Is this still the case? If so I would like to request an exception be made for the Ninja Gaiden Wiki. As the series started all the way back on the NES, it is near impossible to find screenshots of the characters from that generation. We have articles for them and we have an artist on our site who does amazing work and his drawings are possibly the only way we could get images for some of these pages.--<font color="#660066" face="Verdana">God <font color="#660066" face="Verdana">(Pray)  05:39, December 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, fan art has not been disallowed on Wikia, but some wikis have decided that they do not want it in their specific communities. There are many others those that use and encourage it. So for that wiki, I would just talk to the users there and see what you want for your community. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:24, December 6, 2010 (UTC)

Summary
Hello Sarah hope you having a good day. Just a little question. Why is that whenever I type in a summary for my edit to does not show up on the latest activity. All the other users on the wikia does, except mine. Do you know why this is? --<font face="Corbel"> Merry Christmas: Khan  Talk  Sandbox  Email  12:30, December 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Also on The Charmed Wiki there are talk pages yet on other wiki's there are comment tabs at the very bottom of the page. How do I (the Main B'crat of the site) make this happen? --<font face="Corbel"> Merry Christmas: Khan  Talk  Sandbox  Email  12:42, December 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, Can you post a link of where you are seeing the summary not showing? It will not show in the latest activity box in the right rail or on the wiki activity page, but should on recent changes. As for charmed wiki, they have article comments enabled (which all new wikis have), so that is why you see that there. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:24, December 6, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your prompt response. I have deleted most of the negative information, I just need the pages with derogatory names to be removed they are listed on the C.F.D. category. and I will report the spam on the link you provided.

Thank you very much for your help. --Kaidb 13:51, December 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Anytime! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:24, December 6, 2010 (UTC)

Running a bot
Hi there! Sannse told me something about going to forum and someone will help me - but I do't find my way out. I was hoping you can tell me how to run a bot? On Charmed Wiki. I am an admin there). So do you know or I must search some other person? Thankies! OracleForever (talk) 20:26, December 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, I personally have never run a bot, so I am not the best person to help you. You can read more about bots here, and the forum she is referring to is found here. Best of luck, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:24, December 6, 2010 (UTC)

Dragon Ball Wiki
Hello Sarah! We really need new admins active and loyal to Dragon Ball Wiki. The old admins don't seem to be concerned for the wiki anymore, they don't want to maintain articles and don't care if the articles become blank.

I think they don't have to decide what DB wikia should be. They want to separate the goals of their "new" website and DB wikia. They want us to go to their new wiki and for us to be happy with what they say.

Also, why are they allowed to have an advertisement for their "new" website on the main page??

I hope you will be able to do something soon. Thanks for your time and consideration. Jeangabin666 23:08, December 3, 2010 (UTC)

yes and we have a list (small one) with users who could actually be admins that list is


 * Ultimatesupersaiyanvegito (me)


 * Jeangabin666


 * TheDarkPrinceReturns!


 * Supremegogeta


 * and maybe Bardock.

so we want to keep the wiki as it was before, i have brought the attention of some users that would like to have us keep the wiki the same :) 23:17, December 3, 2010 (UTC)

Also take a look at what they say here. Their new wiki is a mirror site of DB wikia with even recent edits made at wikia cut and past to their new website (see the edits I've made today on the "Fission" article). Jeangabin666 23:43, December 3, 2010 (UTC)

I'd also love to enter the fray for admins. -User:NomadMusik


 * Hey there everyone. I know there have been a lot of rumors going around, and I'm not sure who started them, but let me clear things up. Of the 10 administrators on Dragon Ball Wiki, 3 will be leaving in favor of the new site. All of the rest will continue their present level of activity on both sites, or only the old one on the wikia server. If there is a need for more than 7 administrators, we will work with the community to choose willing individuals to fill those roles. Thanks and spread the word! -10X Kamehameha


 * As an Administrator also, I would like to say that I also have no idea where these rumours have come from. Essentially all of us are still maintaing both wiki's. On a side note, none of those listed are suitable for adminship. 14:08, December 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Easy to say. Anybody would be more suitable for adminship than people who wish the end of DB Wikia. Jeangabin666 14:26, December 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Its not so much staying its what DBZGTKakarot said,He said we need babysitters over on wikia and that he doesn't care if the blogs wither away,and he wants Wikia Dragon ball wiki to become just social no articles. 16:21, December 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * How long is this gonna go on? The bureaucrats are not leaving. They are watching over the wiki, like a legal guardian. -NomadMusik
 * Hello, I agree that this discussion should be on the wiki. But, I also see that there is a link on the main page there pushing folks to another dragon ball wiki. I think if the admins there do intead to remain, links like this should not be there. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:24, December 6, 2010 (UTC)

URGENT!
Hello, sorry to sound pushy but could you please look at the message titled "Summary"? Thanks =) --<font face="Corbel"> Merry Christmas: Khan  Talk  Sandbox  Email  18:15, December 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * Done! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:24, December 6, 2010 (UTC)

SSJ4 Lewich
Hello Sarah! You know what's going on Dragon Ball Wikia. SSJ4 Lewish blocked me for no reason and without leaving any messages. This guy is botching the wiki, he blocked me because he knows I'm one of the main editors still at DB Wikia. Can you do something please. I look forward for a response soon. Jeangabin666 19:01, December 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * Not true, I blocked you for intimidating behaviour, as stated in the reason why. Why would I block you for being a main editor? That makes no sense. And I didn't leave a message why, as I gave you a warning earlier in the day for the exact same thing. 19:06, December 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Really, you're lying, you're the one who try to intimidate me. Take a look at this: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Shadowsage please. Jeangabin666 19:18, December 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * Jeangabin666, you have been repeatedly warned to stop making false accusations about all the admins leaving and about them wanting to destroy the wiki. We also asked that you come to us with concerns to see if we can resolve them before troubling the staff. Besides, your block has already been lifted since the reasoning for it was not made clearer. Please communicate with those you are having a problem with and stop spreading misinformation. If you do that, I guarantee you will not be blocked for it. (@Sarah: My personal apologies for the ruckus.) -- nonoitall 23:36, December 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * I've not been blocked for this, but because I've said to SSJ4 Lewich to stop making advertisement for the new website to DB wikia's users directly on their talk page. See the link above. And about the "rumors" thing, it's him that came to my talk page and provoked me about this. Jeangabin666 23:47, December 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * You were blocked for this, what do you think I gave the warning to you earlier for? And you have been spreading rumours all over the place, there's plenty of evidence. 23:50, December 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Then can you delete the pages Coldainian and Joegoogoo which are tagged for deletion, and undo the vandalism made on Frieza's article? Jeangabin666 00:02, December 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * And also delete the file:MUSCULAR PIKACHU by OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWO.png Jeangabin666 00:07, December 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * They've been dealt with. By the way, it is within your power to undo a vandalism yourself. You don't need special privileges to edit the article you complained about. In addition, all the issues you reported were just caused within the past couple hours. We can only respond so fast (particularly when we're distracted with a drama such as this). Now, can we please resume this discussion your talk page? I can only imagine the slew of e-mail notifications Sarah is going to have to sort through. -- nonoitall 00:17, December 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, Please see my message above. I know the community is working to figure out how it will be managed and run going forward, but lets try to get along and speak calmly. I also think we need to be honest as to who wants to remain and improve the wiki going forward, and not remain just to push folks away. I know that all of you want the best for the wiki, but you may need to discuss what that actually means and looks like. I will leave this discussion up to you, but as I mentioned above, please remove the main page message asking folks to join another wiki. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:24, December 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * We intend to maintain both wiki's, not just one or the other. We will continue the discussion on the Wiki, thanks for your input. 20:53, December 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * but what happens when you get tired of maintaining (um i can't Spell >>:D) the old wiki? 22:29, December 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * but what happens when you get tired of maintaining (um i can't Spell >>:D) the old wiki? 22:29, December 6, 2010 (UTC)

Coding Question
I am the admin for WWE Universe Wiki and I'm trying to code this template (Template:WWEtem) But when I try to plug in the information for this template (Template:World Wrestling Entertainment) all it shows is the title but not the rest of the information I've plug in. I'm pretty sure I've coding it correctly. But I wanted to ask so i can get this looking nice for the place.

Thanks! Zeypher 11:42, December 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * (Talk page stalker) These don't show due to the if functions you've got on the template having a different value to the actual things you were calling. I've fixed this, and it should now work -- <font color="Orange">Random <font color="Black">Time  23:59, December 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for helping RandomTime! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:38, December 9, 2010 (UTC)

Inactive bcrats on PvXwiki
I can't touch bcrats, but I recently promoted another and an inactive one came back. Can you prune our list a bit? User:Defiant Elements, User:Gcardinal, and User:Wizardboy777 are unlikely to return to bcrat duties at any point in the future. Thanks Sarah :D - Auron 11:57, December 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Auron, Is the community in agreement about this? Would be best to have a community discussion before we take any steps to remove rights. Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:39, December 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * The community doesn't care, but if you would like consensus on paper, I can get it. - Auron 21:10, December 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Posted on admin talk, that's probably all the response it'll get. - Auron 08:37, December 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi again. The community is in agreement on the issue. We've got enough legitimately inactive sysops listed without the ones that will never come back. Can you demote the three I listed? - Auron 01:21, December 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Just wondering what the holdup is. I guess the holidays are busy times over at Wikia! - Auron 14:03, December 24, 2010 (UTC)

New "Read More" feature
Sarah:

I am an admin on the "ITLaw Wiki". Today, a new feature was apparently launched that adds "Read More" links on each page. How do we turn that off. It is distracting and does not work well on our site.

Mdscott 20:48, December 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, you can send in a request to Special:contact for this. I would recommend though testing it out for a couple of weeks. We have found that it was worked really well on test wikis, and encouraged visitors to stay longer on a wiki. Please also start a community discussion about its removal so everyone is aware. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:40, December 9, 2010 (UTC)

Celebrating Wikis
Greetings from POTC Wiki(which I hail from lol), I just had to message you to ask about that "Celebrating the Wikis of 2010 Contest"(I assume you are the one who made the article here). Anyway, how do you leave a comment about what's great about a Wiki? Because I'm dying to participate, but the problem is that I can't seem to comment. I've tried to press "Comments", on the top right of that page, but it doesn't seem to be working for me(so I don't know if it's me, or if it's some new upgrade that I know nothing about). If possible, could you help me with this?

Hoping that you are well, CJSFanBlack Pearl, HMS Interceptor, Queen Anne's Revenge 22:25, December 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, were you able to add a comment? I haven't heard of any other issues. You simply enter text in the comment section below the post and hit "Post Comment". Let me know if you continue to have a problem. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:43, December 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, it worked a day or 2 after I left my left message, so no worries. And the wiki that I entered was POTC Wiki, just to save the trouble lol. Thank you for your assistance in this, and I hope you have a great day! :D CJSFanBlack Pearl, HMS Interceptor, Queen Anne's Revenge 21:57, December 9, 2010 (UTC)

Community Contest
Hey it's X pro. The blog comments got out of hand so I'm going to post it here to:

The life of shy guy wiki is a new wiki that has fun for everyone! We have gathered information and never stop improving! the wiki also provides attractions such as a poll, a battle arena, and combines ideas of other wikis to become a major attraction!But, it has no way to get on it. It would really be helpful to get such attention! The wiki is currently going slow, but if ti gets a population like this, we could get done in a day! It would be really helpful to get chosen on this!Please think about it, cause this wiki needs to be known!

Nickelodeon Wiki
Nickelodeon Wiki (Known as NickStars) is really great with all Nickelodeon Show.

It need to be know to Nickelodeon Fan that like Nickelodeon Show.

So my wikia at "NickStars" is better than "Nickipedia".

You should check out my wikia at Nick Stars because it the best Nickelodeon Wiki ever.

iCarlyFan2009 (Edmund K Lo) 07:26, December 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks to both of you, but I wil be going through all of the blog comments, so be sure this is there as well (and there is no need to double post). Best of luck, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:45, December 9, 2010 (UTC)

How do I add my wiki to the community contest?
Visited your blog post but cannot figure out how to add comments. Can I have a direct link?

Please reply on my talk page.

Thanks -- Tom Jenkins (Reply) 09:17, December 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hey Tom, just go the section under the post that has a comment input box, add your entry there and hit "Post coment". Let me know if you continue to have a problem. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:46, December 9, 2010 (UTC)

Ona wiki I'm just starting, I tried to edit the community corner and it flat-out disappeared from MyHome. T_T How can I fix this? 13:03, December 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * What wiki? Please give me a link so I can check into it further. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:46, December 9, 2010 (UTC)

my wikia
I think my Wikia, www.totalpokemonisland.wikia.com, is one of the best as of 2010 because he has a plethora of information, has several good articles, more people have been editing, and it is a fun wikia to follow.-Total Drama king am I 15:47, December 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Wonderful, be sure to add it to the blog post as well! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:48, December 9, 2010 (UTC)

Around Wikia's network
Okay you know how at the bottom of the page it will say Around Wikia's network with three Wiki's there. How can I add one of my Wikis.HazeShot 05:32, December 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey HazeShot. The boxes there are called Spotlights. You can read about the criteria here and once your wiki qualifies you can apply on the talk page of that page. Good luck and happy editing! Joey  06:36, December 9, 2010 (UTC)

Dragon Ball war's wiki.
Hi Sarah Could you please take off Ultimatesupersaiyanvegito's and Supremegogeta's bureaucrat rights. They were blocked and there admin rights were taken off, but i can't take off there bureaucrat rights.-- 16:23, December 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, has there been a community discussion about this decision? If so, please link me to it and so I can review it further. Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:12, December 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well there maybe not, an actual discusion about them stop being byreaucrats specificly, but those 2 bureaucrats used continuously profanity on a talk(ultimatesupersaiyanvegito's talk page) page and they attacked an admin(me), showing that they don't deserve to be bureaucrat anymore.
 * Here's the link to the talk page: http://ike.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Ultimatesupersaiyanvegito#Ello
 * 00:58, December 25, 2010 (UTC)

Name change
Is it possible to change your user name, or can you just move your userpage to a different name? Butterfly the rabbit 18:58, December 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, use Special:Contact with whatever name you want it to be. You can only change your name ONCE, and you also need to confirm your email address in your preferences. After you send the form, check your email frequently for the next couple hours, and DON'T EDIT after you send the form, because they can't change it if you do. After about two hours after getting the email that says they started, you can edit again. Hope this helps. http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png <font color="Blue">Jax - <font color= "Blue">Kenobi  http://images.wikia.com/deadrising/images/3/36/P.png 20:38, December 9, 2010 (UTC)

Demotion of b'crats and bots
I am a bureaucrat on Custom BIONICLE Wiki, and would like to request the demotion of the following users from bureaucrat and bot positions, at the request of the staff of the Wiki Metru Forums.

They have been inactive longer than the Wikia limit of 60 days and are being replaced. One has resigned from his position, and none of them intend to continue being active, and I don't think it would be a good idea to keep someone's bot if they are not going to keep editing.

The users are:
 * User:Toatapio Nuva
 * User:The Oracle23
 * User:Crazy-Lhikan38
 * User:BohrokBot

Thanks in advance. Sli cer   Out  03:58, December 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, I just wanted to double check -- you said there was a discussion on your forum? Did you leave a message for these folks about their rights about to be removed? If so, I am happy to do it. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:29, December 15, 2010 (UTC)

Reporting A Wiki
I would like to report sex.wikia.com as I feel it is too inappropriate and way above PG. Red Sox <sup style="font-family:Arial;color:Red">Go Red Sox!!!


 * Thanks for the report. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 22:24, December 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Red Sox <sup style="font-family:Arial;color:Red">Go Red Sox!!!  20:48, December 16, 2010 (UTC)

Flagging comments
Could you guys design a way for users to flag inappropriate article comments? --  SeddieBerserker   (talk)  01:36, December 15, 2010 (UTC)

I like that idea. The only thing is that it probably would only work on blogs. Red Sox <sup style="font-family:Arial;color:Red">Go Red Sox!!!
 * Thanks for the suggestion! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:01, December 16, 2010 (UTC)

Promote wikia in youtube channel
I was thinking if there is a way to promote wikia in my youtube channel by insert the banner? User_talk:Ericard 06:00, December 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hm, I am not sure. I am not too familiar with youtube. Let me know if you figure something out. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:03, December 16, 2010 (UTC)

Sarah Manley
Sarah Manley, do you speak Russian? -- 20:06, December 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * No I do not. There are folks on wikia that do though, so let me know if you need any help in russian. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:10, December 17, 2010 (UTC)

HELP
How Do i Change My Link to The Home Page on this??? Rusty here! 21:02, December 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * You can request to hange your wiki's url or site name by sending in a message to Special:contact. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:10, December 17, 2010 (UTC)

Rape Wiki

 * w:c:Rape:Rape Wiki

Hi. I guess this is a heads-up. While it might seem 'educational' at first blush, I'll point you at what drew my attention to it:


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ADream_Focus&action=historysubmit&diff=402773943&oldid=399934084

I've not edited it, and have no intention of doing so. If blocked, I don't care.

Also, your new wikia-skin seems broken; the page footers have overlapping text and images. And it all seems rather unusable, as I'm not seeing where most of the usual functions are.

Sincerely,

Jack Merridew 01:07, December 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads up Jack. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:10, December 17, 2010 (UTC)

Um............
I would just like to ask to see if you could talk to the other wiki people about letting us users chose between this skin or the last one that liked.P.S. You can reach me at Total Drama Island Camps Wiki or Total Drama Creators wiki thanks Youre2490 07:01, December 17, 2010 (UTC)Youre2490

Please.......
Do you know anyone who could help with the "Toontown wiki". Thank you. Man for the job 09:09, December 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * You might want to read ouradvice pages on how to attract more users. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:45, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

hi. wanna ask for help. whenever i go to torchpedia-survivor.wikia.com, i get redirected to the recent activity section. pls help. thanks


 * That is on purpose. We have found it helps to show users that there is a lot of activity on the wiki, and helps them to stay longer and contribute more. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:45, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

Another Question =)
I have left you messages as seen upwards (^). My summary now shows, and I meant in the full screen latest activity not on the side =). On the Simpsons Wikia they have "Rename" instead of "Move", Why? Wishing you a great christmas, --<font face="Corbel"> Merry Christmas: Khan  Talk  Sandbox  Email  14:01, December 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * They have renamed some of their mediawiki messages to change the name of those features. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:45, December 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * So how can we (Charmed Wiki) changed it to Rename? --<font face="Corbel"> Merry Christmas: Khan  Talk  Sandbox  Email  19:55, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

from benjamin6891
how do you make a poll?

please tell me!

Benjamin6891 18:40, December 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * Type POLL STUFF . Hope I could help, best - --<font face="Corbel"> Merry Christmas: Khan  Talk  Sandbox  Email  12:27, December 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * You can also learn more on the polls help page. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:45, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

Allowed
Hey am I allowed to make a blog on community central pls reply. Lion_blaze 02:07, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

Anyone can make a blog on community central as long as it pertains to wikia and is not an advertisement for some other site like the spammers do--<font color="#660066" face="Verdana">God <font color="#660066" face="Verdana">(Pray)  02:14, December 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yep! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:45, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

And
And how do I recruit Admins for a wiki curios also pls reply Lion_blaze 02:08, December 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * To recruit new users, check out our advice pages. You can make good users admins (learn more here). Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:45, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

Hiya Sarah. Please read my new blog. I think it'll make wikia more fun. Thank you :3. Tdifan24 eats  your carpet  03:31, December 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * Will do! Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:45, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

Sonic Fanon Wiki
Hi Sarah,

I saw you left a message on Schoolbus' talkpage, and I'd like to tell you that we are still moving as well as the majority of Sonic wikis. However once we do move, we'll put in a request for the old Sonic wikis to be deleted, seeing as they will no longer be needed. I hope this clears things up. :) 12.139.45.133 23:40, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

Chat
Hello!

It's no chat-page at Wikia! Before it was Shout Box, but now isn't it anything! Can it be a chat-page again?

 the SIM of Nor wegian  12:58, December 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Not right now, but we are working on making something, so will let you know once we do. Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 19:45, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

Charmed Wiki
Hi Sarah, thanks for contacting Khan1998Stevewhite about the situation about my demotion and being blocked. He replied to your comment saying users have had problems with me, I am 100% dedicated to the site and what I have expressed concern about is how users on the Charmed Wiki have multiple accounts in which they are granted admin privileges. For example, with the former head bureacrat and admin TheBook, he was 100% dedicated and did an amazing job on the wiki to maintain its accuracy but then several users started complaining about how he would lock pages and frivolous things like. TheBook was justified in locking pages because several of them were subject to spamming and vandalism. Then he decided to "leave" the wiki after which a user named SonOfHalliwell came on around the end of September, who developed a friendship with Khan, SonOfHalliwell would constantly revert my edits and change everything that I contributed, I questioned him about this, then Khan blocked me because I would question SonOfHalliwells actions, I was able to take to another manager on Charmed Wiki, HalliwellsAttic who unblocked me because he believed Khan had no right to block me for expressing concern. Then a user GlennVP came on and claimed to be TheBook, I questioned this because TheBook stated he would not return to the wiki because of how users disrespected him and treated him poorly. I stated how I believed GlennVP was SonOfHalliwell, they both denied being the same person. Then Khan said he emails GlennVP a lot and stated GlennVP is in fact TheBook and that SonOfHalliwell was an entirely different user. But recently I contacted Angela, co-founder of wikia.com and she informed me that SonOfHalliwell, TheBook and GlennVP are in fact all the same person - or at least they share the same IP address.

Khan gave SonOfHalliwell and GlennVP administrator privileges for no apparent reason. After I commented about how I felt I deserved to be admin because of my many contributions and dedications to the wiki, I was then made Admin.

I also found out from Angela that Khan has other user accounts - RusselHalliwell, UTYR & Allyxx -or at least his IP matches those of these 3 accounts as well. I confronted Khan about this, he denied knowing them and being them. But then when I looked back at blogs and elections for admins and bureaucrats, RusselHalliwell and Allyxx voted for Khan to be head admin. I then stated I believed Khan cheated and voted for himself several times, gaining an upper hand over other users being considered for the position. He disliked this so he demoted me. Once I said I think a new election should take place and that I would contact people like you about this he blocked me.

There was no reason for my block or demotion. I was merely stating a fact, Khan didn't like it so he blocked me. He also sent me emails calling me disgraceful and acting like only his contributions to the wiki matter. I can forward you these emails if you wish.

But basically I just want to be unblocked and given my admin status back because if you were to look at my contributions to the Charmed Wiki, it is clear how dedicated I am to the wiki.

Thanks for your time.--HalliwellManorAkaDsc385 20:02, December 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * No no no. I blocked you because I was getting multiple complaint emails about saying how you pick on users, that disgraceful was only subjected liked that, if you actually read it, it is an apology. Angela confirmed that our IP's did match but then she gave me reasons why they would match. ISP AOL Angela said and I use AOL. HalliwellManor I have tried to be nice to you multiple times, but you clearly don't accept it. I did not know about SonOfHalliwell till Angela confirmed the IP addresses. I gave SonOfHalliwell privilages because he won the election DaNaScat set up. Sarah can you help us out a little bit? --<font face="Corbel"> Merry Christmas: Khan  Talk  Sandbox  Email  20:16, December 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Is there anything I can do to make it up to you? --<font face="Corbel"> Merry Christmas: Khan  Talk  Sandbox  Email  20:23, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

Head Spys Wiki
Hi i would like a Facebook Like sign on all pages on Head Spys Wiki would you be able to do that for me as i dont know how Kimigirl 00:42, December 22, 2010 (UTC) i managed to get it on the homepage at the bottom


 * The like button is on the top of every page me next to the talk link. We have had a report of it not appearing correctly in Internet Explorer, so please check a couple of browsers if you are still seeing an issue. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:10, December 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * It appears on Google Chrome -- Mystery Link. 18:56, January 3, 2011 (UTC)

Special:MultipleUpload not on my Wiki anymore
At my Wiki it says that Special:MultipleUpload is not recognized even though I used the Multiple Upload yesterday.HazeShot 04:58, December 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * It appears to be working now. Are you still having a problem? If so, where? Thanks, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 16:13, December 23, 2010 (UTC)

I was wondering how to add a tab to the wiki-navigation thing but i dont know how. i have looked at a lot of help pages but can not figure it out. please help


 * Did you want to change/add one of the top 4 links, or one of the dropdown (of which you can only add 7). Let me know if you have any examples of what you would like to do. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 17:10, December 27, 2010 (UTC)

Walter Wiki
Hello. I am the creator of Walter Wiki, I've started on my wikia since November, I think...How do I get other's to join in?Urskadamus 21:03, December 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, you can read some tips here and in this recent blog post. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 17:14, December 27, 2010 (UTC)

Hello Sarah. I'd like to adopt this wiki. -- Mystery Link. 21:30, December 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, you can apply here. Best, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 17:14, December 27, 2010 (UTC)

Linking the Hubs
Hi Sarah. I was wondering if you guys would consider implementing a way to access the major Wikia hubs (like http://gaming.wikia.com) as a link from either their drop-down entries in the top navbar or their associated wikia.com pages (like http://www.wikia.com/Gaming, http://www.wikia.com/Xbox_360_Games etc). While I know they can be reached through Category:Hubs and other such pages, due to their importance and usefulness in recording, collating and collaborating between the wikis contained within their respective sections, I was thinking a more obvious link to them may be beneficial – for Gaming and Entertainment in particular due to their wide breadth of content. -- <font color="#4682B4">Enodoc (<font color="#228B22">Talk ) 00:37, December 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback. I have shared it with the team who handles that. Cheers, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 17:23, December 27, 2010 (UTC)

Help with Slider
Hi Sarah Manley! I don't know if you're the right person to go to for this, and if you're not, could you direct me to the correct person? Anyway, I was wondering if you knew anything about the slides located on big wikis like the Avatar and Harry Potter Wikis. A friend of mine, Forestpaw13, made a slide for Warriors Share Wiki's front page. It worked very well, but we decided to add words underneath the bigger letters. It worked, but now, for the "Moonlight Series" slide, when you click "Read More", it brings it to a weird page. Do you know what's wrong with it? Thanks, Nightfern New Years is coming 15:44, December 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * Looks like another user was able to help you. Happy editing, Sarah (Help Forum) (blog) 18:11, December 27, 2010 (UTC)