User talk:Smiley12-fduser

Welcome
Welcome to Central Wikia, Smiley12!

We wish to repress free will at wikia!

Enjoy slavery! -- Sarah Manley (Talk) 21:53, January 28, 2010

I never liked welcomes.Mrepic 04:22, October 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Especially now when they welcome you for viewing and not even editing at a wiki, you browse 10 around wikis, you get 10 messages that won't go away until you visit them. --Smiley12 was here at 04:45, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

Spotlights
Hi there - generally, it's preferable to leave the Spotlight request responses to Wikia staff/helpers. Certainly, you can fix format errors, or add to the request, but Wikia does prefer that the actual responses are left to them. :) Thanks, The 888th Avatar   (talk)  12:42, April 21, 2010 (UTC)

Anti Wikia Alliance
They took down the page. I suggest making a wikia for it!--God (Pray)  03:44, September 30, 2010 (UTC)

AWA Wikis
Hey, on the list of wikis in the movement, wikis are listed in categories of 1000+ pages 100-1000 and 50-100,. What do you mean by "pages"? If you mean articles, then some wikis (eg the the Darker than Black Wiki) do not belong in the 1000+ section, but if you do, then the TLBBeu one does. It might be interesting to have a table of the total number of articles and pages of the wikis that are considering moving. Regards, BeardedBee 20:08, September 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * Pages usually means articles so it would be articles. ☆ The   Solar   Dragon  ☆ 20:10, September 30, 2010 (UTC)

Dump and transfer
Hello Smiley.

I am one of the head admins for the Bleach Fan Fiction wiki and sadly, we're on our way out of Wikia to Shout Wiki to start over due to Wikia's refusal to listen. I was wondering if you could walk me through the whole dump and transfer process. If you could respond asap, I'd greatly appreciate it. ---Ten Tailed Fox talk page 03:57, October 1, 2010 (UTC)

Wikia Controversy Wikipedia
See the controversy section Domain and skin assimilation on Wikia's Wikipedia article. ☆ The   Solar   Dragon  ☆ 05:01, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * What am I supposed to be looking for... Wikia profiting from Wikipedia? --Smiley12 was here at 05:14, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see--Smiley12 was here at 05:16, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ha ha --Smiley12 was here at 05:17, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * I did that though. I also linked to the Anti-Wikia Alliance in the article. :D ☆ The   Solar   Dragon  ☆ 05:17, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Lol  :D  --Smiley12 was here at 05:19, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sadly, that link was taken out. I'll plop it back in. Mrepic 04:42, October 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Re-added it again. Help:Smelly Users (talk) was last edited at 21:32, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

I was just thinking...
If we're really asking for the people behind Wikia to refrain from introducing the new mandatory skin, we should write some sort of appeal or a list of demand to them, something like a Declaration of Independence. Ldude893 03:17, October 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, the staff have sort of crossed the point of no return... Maybe worth a try though (Btw welcome Back)--Smiley12 was here at 03:20, October 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Done! --Smiley12 was here at 03:57, October 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey, why don't we step our game up? start a guerrila attack campaign. They can attack our pages, why don't we attack theirs? Mrepic 04:18, October 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Gentlemen, I give you my own draft:
 * There comes a time where the individuals contributing to the development of an :online encyclopedia may forget what it means for a domain to hold the title of a :Wiki. And when such a moment comes, it becomes necessary for the definition to be :rediscovered and the principals of such a site restated so that people will once :again remember the purpose of a Wiki and what it means for a domain to be a Wiki.
 * There comes a time where the individuals contributing to the development of an :online encyclopedia may forget what it means for a domain to hold the title of a :Wiki. And when such a moment comes, it becomes necessary for the definition to be :rediscovered and the principals of such a site restated so that people will once :again remember the purpose of a Wiki and what it means for a domain to be a Wiki.
 * There comes a time where the individuals contributing to the development of an :online encyclopedia may forget what it means for a domain to hold the title of a :Wiki. And when such a moment comes, it becomes necessary for the definition to be :rediscovered and the principals of such a site restated so that people will once :again remember the purpose of a Wiki and what it means for a domain to be a Wiki.


 * The accepted definition of a Wiki states that a Wiki is a digital repository of :information that can be accessed and edited by the masses of the internet. A wiki :acts as a source for information, and the information each Wiki can contain can :vary without any limitations. But for a Wiki to present information easily to the :people of the Internet, a Wiki must have various requirements.


 * One of the most vital requirements is that a Wiki's true goal is to act as a :repository for knowledge. While a Wiki may contain various features unrelated to :the storage and organizing of knowledge, a Wiki's ultimate purpose is to act as :an online encyclopedia. A Wiki must also appear appealing to the individuals that :absorb and change the information, and the layout of the Wiki must not drive away :anyone due to difficulty of navigation and/or an unattractive outlook. :Furthermore, a Wiki must be properly moderated so that any vandalism of sites :would be dealt with swiftly, and any problems on the Wiki are quickly reported.


 * These are the principals that define a Wiki, and while many of us find these :definitions true, the managers of the site Wikia have shown forgetfulness of :these principals and thus drive Wikia away from the true goals that an online :editable encyclopedia aims for. Change becomes necessary when a time comes, but :change must be beneficial to the development of a domain and not detrimental to :the well-being of a community of Wikis that has thrived for years, and Wikia's :latest decision to apply a new ultramodernistic skin that is so bland and :flavorless does absolutely no benefit the Wikia community other than drive away :editors and contributors that have made Wikis of this site rich and informative.


 * They have claimed that these so-called upgrades are being applied in order to :enhance the Wiki experience and exclaimed that the color schemes and styles of :the skin are completely customizable, something that the current Monaco outlook :already allows. The new layout shrinks the space for content to such a level that :the definition of a Wiki is completely violated. The managers of Wikia have also :chosen to remove an option that would allow technical problems in Wikis to be :properly reported in an easy manner, a move that would hinder the ability for :Wiki contributors and readers to report problems as well as the ability for the :site managers to fix the problems.


 * The managers of Wikia have also claimed (in response to questions about the :similarity of the new skin to those of various social networking sites) that the :Wiki is simply updating in accordance to "the times", and its similarity with :various social networking sites is because Wikia and those sites utilizes designs :based on what its members and users demand. Common sense would point out that if :they actually did base the new skin on the demands of its users, there wouldn't :be such an uproar of opposition at the time they introduced the designs. It's :clear enough that managers of Wikia are only doing harm to the wikis of Wikia :without any consent of the community other than a few beta testers, and despite :all the objections by the community, the Wikia chooses to go ahead with the :changes regardless of the feelings of the majority of the Wikia community.


 * Therefore, we have reached an ultimatum. We represent several large Wikis :currently being hosted by Wikia and we are organizing and preparing for a mass :migration to various other Wiki hosting sites. We will do so in protest of :Wikia's upcoming layout that would ruin the appeal of various Wikis and we will :leave in order to protect the principals that our Wikis are built for: to act as :libraries of knowledge and not as blog-sites riddled with advertisements. We will :leave unless Wikia cancels its planned changes to the layout of the Wikis and :refrain from making any other negative changes that would ruin the Wikia :Community and the goals that Wikis strive for.
 * Ldude893 06:04, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

Help:Smelly Users (talk) was last edited at 07:33, October 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * That's very well-written. I added chunks of it to the DoI. Do you have any idea why there are colons every few words? They were kind of annoying to get rid of. Anyway, you made a lot of great points and it really helped to improve the AWA DoI.
 * The semicolons were an attempt to get the paragraphs right, every time I tried posting the text it kept going wrong. Sorry about that.
 * Thanks for the compliments about the writing. I'm currently studying the American Revolution at High School so I got fresh knowledge about the Declaration of Independence. 219.76.173.172 14:25, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

RE:AWA
You're probably right. Or, I could create a User:AWA (like how companies have Facebook accounts.) Help:Smelly Users (talk) was last edited at 21:15, October 3, 2010 (UTC)