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Iggyvolz·7/15/2014 in Support Requests - Community Management

Chat bots banned by Wikia?

I'm on a wiki where we need to archive the chat, as we are using it to launch a fan-work and we don't want to lose discussion. I started learning the API (it's complicated and buried but I will get it eventually) today. I asked one of that chat moderators on the wiki, they were curious but gave me the go-ahead pending administrative approval. The administrator later came on and said he was fine with it but he was fairly certain Wiki had banned all chat bots, something I could not reference.

Could I just have confirmation that chat bots are not banned by Wikia?

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Iggyvolz·7/12/2014

Prohibited commercial uses do not include... showing YouTube videos through the Embeddable Player on an ad-enabled blog or website, subject to the advertising restrictions set forth above in Section 4.D

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Iggyvolz·7/12/2014 in Support Requests - Community Management

Legality of embedding/linking a public youtube video?

Are posters of YouTube videos allowed to tell wikis that they cannot link to the videos from the associated pages? An episode of a TV show (not a fan-recorded video, this was actually put up by the creators of the show) was uploaded to YouTube. I embedded this on the page, but it was reverted for copyright reasons. I contacted the company if we could upload or link and I got a broad "No they would not." (I doubt the person even read my query).

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Iggyvolz·7/2/2014

I have noticed this too. Google Chrome for me too: The HTML code (notice the quotes denoting the second a href as text):

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Iggyvolz·7/2/2014

Sorry, I didn't see Thread:698510 before I posted this, never mind!

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Iggyvolz·7/2/2014 in Support Requests - Getting Technical

Bug on followed threads on Special:RecentChanges

I followed a thread on the Magi Nation wiki, and when a new post was posted this happened: The HTML code (notice the quotes denoting the second a href as text):

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Iggyvolz·6/27/2014 in Support Requests - Getting Technical

RSS feed for notifications?

Is there any way to get something like an RSS feed for my notifications? I'd like to set up desktop notifications with IFTTT when I get a Wikia notification, and I'm not always on Wikia as much as I would like.

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Iggyvolz·5/21/2014

SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: I think he meant DPL, which Wikia is unfortunately no longer providing to new wikis, mostly due to server strain, and to make sure that wikis already with it can function smoothly and quickly. I only know this because I once asked for it to be enabled at one of my wikis, not too long ago. So DynamicPageList is off the list.

Ah, gotcha!

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Iggyvolz·5/21/2014

UltimateSupreme wrote:

Acer4666 wrote: I believe that a bot has the ability to search through an entire wiki for a specific string and get all the pages containing it, right? And perhaps replace it or do other funky things.

This feature is disabled on wikia last I checked.

No it hasn't... I've been doing it all the time. You just have to get your account tagged as a bot and use a program such as AutoWikiBrowser or Pywikipediabot.

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Iggyvolz·5/20/2014

Okay, I get what you mean! You can always get a list of pages from AutoWikiBrowser without actually changing anything, or there's an integrated editor in AutoWikiBrowser.

You might be able to do Special:WhatLinksHere for templates, but you couldn't get the Lx01.

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Iggyvolz·5/20/2014

Can you give us the link to the page and sandbox?

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Iggyvolz·5/20/2014

Yes! A bot does nothing special at all (the only difference is that they can get the Bot permission to hide their changes from Special:RecentChanges by default). Bots use the API instead of the GUI.

If you're looking to set up a bot, you can use AutoWikiBrowser, if you need help with that let me know! It's a simple program (windows-only unfortunately) that can easily do search-and-replace. I have a bot if you want me to do tasks.

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Iggyvolz·5/3/2014 in Support Requests - Community Management

Best way to say "don't analyze this"?

I'm working on writing a few articles for the Town of Salem Wiki, but their policy is that you cannot analyze or discuss a part of the game (specifically called Forum Mafia) while it is being played. The game is theoretically supposed to be self-contained. The normal version of the game is corrupted by skype cheaters so they have a very strict policy against discussion of the game. I'm trying to make a template that will reflect this, and here's what I have:

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Shh!!!

This section or article is about a current episode of Forum Mafia. Episodes are not to be discussed outside of the forum until the episode is completely over. Please refrain from adding subjective or analytical information at this time.

I'm worried that the words "subjective or analytical" are too vague to cover what information shouldn't be added. The game is about lying and deception so speech by players should not be posted or summarized. The only thing that is allowed until the game is complete is information from game moderators (such as who died, their role, what day it is, etc). I want to explain this in a few words instead of a whole paragraph.

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Iggyvolz·4/26/2014

Just note: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. [1]

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Iggyvolz·4/21/2014

Azikiwe17 wrote: are you allowed to make another account after a chat bann so as to communicate directly with the mod?

Absolutely not. Creating alternate accounts to go around bans, even if it's for something like talking with the banner, will only make the situation worse. Send them a message on their wall.

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Iggyvolz·4/14/2014

For future reference, you might want to put a more descriptive title than "How?". Something like "How can I change the admin type?"

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Iggyvolz·4/5/2014

Check Wikia's twitter; they are usually pretty good about posting when there are site problems. It may be more sluggish as the day goes on because of more users on the site (depending on what time zone you live in).

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Iggyvolz·4/5/2014

I can confirm that I have also seen that bug. It's a problem on Wikia's end most likely, so you should send it in to Special:Contact along with the pictures. More than likely, they are already aware of it, but it won't hurt to give them the pictures to help them narrow down the problem.

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Iggyvolz·4/5/2014

Oh duh, I'm sorry. I really shouldn't be posting on the forums at 10:00 at night!

The \ is required because it marks the () as literal parentheses instead of using regular expressions. The alternative solution is actually better, but you'll still want to save what is returned, it doesn't actually replace the text of the variable health.

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Iggyvolz·4/5/2014

I've had the same issue that all Wikia emails get blocked... are you using AOL Mail?

If so, try making a Gmail account and set that up to forward into your AOL account.

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