Forum:Digimon Wikia

 Is the sysop of the wikia, TinPhams, dead or something? It has been six days since I contacted him and no response. Ned Scott also contacted him, but well, I just felt like asking here rathr then waiting indefinetly.

An active sysop would be nice. Knight of Soul 12:47, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


 * A lot of wiki sometimes are abandoned by the founders for various reasons. From the looks of it TinPhams is inactive. The wiki can be adopted. Normally that's done by consensus of the current community or just letting someone adopt it if there is no one else actively contributing. But since the Digimon Wiki is a Anime/Manga wiki there is another option. Wikia ACG was made for cases much like this where there are people wanting to start a wiki, but none of them has much knowledge of how to do complicated things on a wiki. Myself, since I manage a lot of wiki I don't normally just adopt a inactive wiki and work on it, what I do is adopt inactive ones which have users who want to edit them. If a Animanga wiki is void of sysops and advanced editors I am always willing to adopt it and put it into Wikia ACG.
 * I'll just note one or two things that I'd change; Many of those templates being copied from Wikipedia are unneeded and quite badly done. I'll be deleting unneeded ones, and most of the ones that are useful already have better versions within Wikia ACG which are synced to any wiki in the project (So the good ones we have will be overriding the bad Wikipedia copies). Also Wikia ACG has a Jump start from Wikipedia policy, is restarting the articles which are mostly stubs by copying from Wikipedia and then merging in what people have done on the wiki into those fine with you? If you're confused at what I mean, take a look at the rc on the Marpedia. What I've been doing is moving current articles to a /original subpage, copying in Wikipedia articles, formatting the Wikipedia articles to nicely fit into the wiki, and then as we are doing also on the Narutopedia merging the stuff from the /original subpage into the one which was copied from Wikipedia. Basically I'd move something like Agumon to Agumon/original and then where at Agumon do a WP copy from Agumon with a Wikipedia attribution and save it. Then id format it to fit in with our templates. Do note 2 things, if you're copying and you're editing the WP version before you save the copy I won't take it, that makes a lot of important information that future editors of the article need, disappear. You open up the edit, copy from Wikipedia adding the Wikipedia template to the top, then save. Then after that you can format and then edit. Otherwise if you remove things like broken infoboxes other people can't find the information to later add in a infobox with our good infobox system. The other thing is that we don't use the Nihongo template, we've got a special template that we use instead. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic)  Oct 11, 2007 @ 23:31 (UTC)
 * Well, I never added templates, most of that stuff was just added by Ned Scott. Not like I really use templates myself. -_- I also never copy the pages from another source so it wouldn't matter. The ACG is probably not totally needed since there are or will be more editors, I believe. Besides, I am really the only one who edits it now so you adopting it probably won't help too much, in my eyes. Though I can adopt it if it that is an option. Either way, something has to be done. The last part of your pargraph made my head spin a little, could you try clarifieing? Knight of Soul 00:36, 12 October 2007 (UTC)