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Contents 1 Gunpedia 2 Bots 3 Another Question... 4 Kuk Sool Won 5 Another Nintendo question 6 FR Wiki sysop rights 7 Anarchy Online Knowledge Base 8 Vandalism 9 Novelas Wiki Admin Rights 10 I hope we didn't cause too much trouble :) 11 Spotlight 12 Public Diplomacy 13 Lego wikia 14 Help 15 Community Team: Szoferka 16 Community Team: Mvp14 17 Videojuego 18 Combining Wikis 19 About Uncyclopedia 20 When you start a new conversation, please don't do so by editing the previous conversation 21 Where is the + tab in talk pages for this wiki? 22 Thanks so much! 23 user babel templates 24 Harry Potter Wiki 25 Adminship 26 Adminship for Golden Sun Wiki 27 Whats going on? 28 Prison Break Adminship 29 About Videojuego 30 Please rename a category 31 Upload Problems 32 Proposed Wiki 33 Quick question 34 Knitting Wiki 35 Logo 36 Wikia Highlights on the main page 37 Diablo problem 38 New Logos for Search Wikia 39 Sandbox resetting 40 whats the diference 41 Notice 42 Talk page 43 Template fetching 44 Could you please give me directions? 45 Logo changing 46 Stargate Wars Wikia 47 Logo on Ottawa 48 Changing the name and namespace for the Non-Canon Star Trek Wiki 49 ? 50 Wiki moving 51 Draft policy 52 Zelda wiki admins 53 Vandalism 54 Wiki requests 55 Christianity Wiki Request 56 Bad Title? 57 Wikia Search 58 Redirect in wiki's URL 59 Template question 60 URGENT 61 Thank You 62 What would you... 63 Harry Potter Wiki Adminship 64 Bureaucrat Status 65 Anything? 66 Forum:Rewarding active users 67 Pokemon wiki 68 IRC Cloak 69 Changing wiki logo 70 Copyright 71 Award () 72 Admin promotion 73 Templates 74 Those button thingys 75 Open Wiki Proposals Page 76 From Gravity 77 Appology 78 problem on polish wikipedia 79 Adopting A Wikia 80 ATHF Wiki New Admin 81 WikiLilo Con Posting 82 To Kill a Mockingbird wiki 83 New namespace for c:pl.videogames 84 Mariokart 85 Please help 86 Club Penguin Wiki 87 Serial Killer Wiki 88 The Elder Scrolls Wiki 89 Wiki request (KOTOR) 90 Thank you... 91 Help 92 I can't upload image up on requests wikia! 93 politics.wikia 94 c:pt.nintendo 95 The Film Guide 96 West Indies Wiki 97 Gears Of War Irc? 98 Bot Issue Test 99 Question 100 IRC cloak

[edit] Gunpedia

Angela, I've recently become a SysOp on the Guns wiki, and I was wondering, it isn't very active yet, and I just wanted to ask if you knew anything about firearms, because if you did, I wanted to ask if you have any known sources online, or if you know anything about firearms enough to help out with some articles. I figured since you are Wikia staff, you'd know a lot more about things. Brain40 14:08, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, it's not a topic I know about. You might want to ask Jimbo Wales though. I don't know if he'll have time to help, but he does know more on that topic than I do. Angela ^talk 04:51, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

• • Okay, thanks. Brain40 00:31, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bots

I have just created a new wiki-site.com,and since I am the creator of the site, I am bureaucrat and able to make myself bot. What is a bot? This doesn't do anything. --Bender Bending Rodriguez 19:36, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

That isn't a Wikia site. Perhaps they don't have bots there. Angela ^talk 04:51, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, then, what are bots supposed to do then? --Bender Bending Rodriguez 19:02, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

See this. Szoferka 19:10, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another Question...

And Angela, I have one more question: What exactly are the restrictions for what users can do on Wikia Central? Brain40 01:37, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

The Central Wikia is for briefly describing the wikis that we host and the forums are for people to ask questions to the whole Wikia community. There are also some cross-wiki policies here. This wiki isn't for creating actual content though. That should go on the relevant wiki (see the List of Wikia to find the right one). Angela ^talk 11:47, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

• Okay, thanks. Brain40 10:11, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kuk Sool Won

Thank you so much for approving the Kuk Sool Won wikia. It has always been my dream to be an administrator. Thank you so much. Jimwitz 17:55, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh yah, when I tried to download my Wikia image it said my file was corrupted? What should I do for that?

Do you mean the logo or something else? Perhaps you were saving it under the wrong file type. You could use iaza to convert it to a png. Angela ^talk 06:05, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Yah it's the logo and it still after Iaza says my file is corrupted???

Replied at User talk:Jimwitz. Angela ^talk

[edit] Another Nintendo question

Could you upload nintendozh.png at zh.nintendo.wikia.com, as Wiki.png? Thanks, Wikada - ^{Talk Contributions} 01:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

done :-) --rieke 08:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FR Wiki sysop rights

Hi, I'm the admin of the Forgotten Realms wiki (http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com). I want to give a couple of my contributors Admin access but I can't get to the Special:Makesysop page, despite the fact that I'm on the list of people who are supposed to be able to. Could you get in contact with me about this or fix it for me? I adopted the wiki from someone else who went inactive in case it matters. This is what was recorded originally: 18:54, 14 December 2005 Angela changed group membership for User:Hashimashadoo from (none) to (none) (=sysop)

Thanks! --hash

You need bureaucrat rights for that, not just sysop rights. I'll give you that now. See Help:User access levels for more information. Angela ^talk 15:29, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anarchy Online Knowledge Base

I am going to start to try to spend a lot of time building Anarchy Online Knowledge Base. I would like to have sysop and buricratic tools. Thanks a lot. --Sir James Paul 00:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

• I would also like at Atheist wikia and Jesus wikia. Can you please get back to me soon. Happy new year and god bless. --Sir James Paul 19:40, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

It's best to start by editing these wikis and trying to grow the user base there. Once there's a community, the community can choose the admins. Angela ^talk 23:06, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Angela, there has been a lot of vandalism going on the past few days, as well as the past amount of hours, on the Cell phone wiki, could you please ban the user who is doing it? Brain40 ^{[talk] [my domain]} 14:07, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll look at it now. Thanks for pointing it out. Angela ^talk 19:03, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. (That was close...) Brain40 ^{[talk] [my domain]} 14:28, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Novelas Wiki Admin Rights

Not long after you gave admin rights back to me on the Novelas wiki, the request for adminship page was busy again. Now it's been seven days since User:Serprex has nominated himself as the third (and second active) admin for the site, and his track record looks good to me. User:JWSchmidt requested that I notify you about this so that you can take a look over his request.

I would also like to point out that since getting my admin rights back, I've continued to make plenty of constructive contributions to the Novelas wiki, so that now I have over 3000 edits (and I've at the same time tried to cut down on the number of deletions I made). I suppose that I may be eligible for bureaucratship, as the only other bureaucrat of the wiki, User:Jmoysae, has long been gone, so that the position is apparently empty; and as the second admin on the site I'm runner-up. I also suppose that sooner or later more people on the site will want admin rights, so that you would save yourself quite a bit of time by handing the responsibility to someone else, especially since I am by far the most active user on that site.

Sincerely, Yunzhong Hou 01:34, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I've made Serprex an admin. If you think there's a need for the wiki to have a bureaucrat, please nominate yourself on w:c:fiction:Novelas:Requests for adminship. Angela ^talk 17:03, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I hope we didn't cause too much trouble :)

Hi, In the Spanish speaking countries today is "The day of the Holy Innocents", which is like your "April's Fool". That's the reason for the notice saying Wikia has closed down Inciclopedia in Inciclopedia's main page. Any link on the page, including the fake Jimbo signature links to a page were it says it's all a joke. My apologizes if you got any complaints or something.--Rataube 14:21, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry. I didn't see any complaints. I just had the page on my watchlist and was confused. I often get confused with Uncyclopedia sites though. There's a fine line between vandalism and jokes sometimes. :) Angela ^talk 17:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spotlight

Angela, I need help, how can the guns wiki be more advertised? Such as, when it comes to letting more people know about it. Brain40 ^{[talk] [my domain]} 12:31, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

List it on either Forum:Wikia Spotlight (and maybe email gil at wikia.com to point out your suggestion since he adds those and might not notice it there) or suggest it on Wikia news box suggestions since these suggestions will be added to the Wikia messages section when Wikimedia's fundraising drive ends. Angela ^talk 18:24, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks! Brain40 ^{[talk] [my domain]} 17:38, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Public Diplomacy

Thanks for setting us up, Angela! I exported and imported the pages from the original public diplomacy wiki and it's now live at http://publicdiplomacy.wikia.com

My only concern is that there may be remnants of spam-bot linkage embedded within, as we had a problem with that (mostly casino related) for a while. Please let me know via e-mail if there's anything i should be watching out for. Thanks Uscpublicdiplomacy 04:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll run the spam cleanup script on it to check. Angela ^talk 15:09, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lego wikia

If no-one has adopted it yet, I was wondering if I can adopt it.

Replied at User talk:Darth mavoc. Angela ^talk

[edit] Help

Angela, could you check out this user? He's been vandalising a couple of pages. Brain40 ^{[talk] [my domain]} 12:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Community Team: Szoferka

Maybe I can join the team? I know Wikia, my English isn't fluent and I'm not using contact forms other than IRC, wiki, e-mail and mailing lists, but I'm here all day long. Szoferka 10:52, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:Szoferka. Angela ^talk

[edit] Community Team: Mvp14

Hello Angela, I wan't to know what are the skills you look for in a new member of your team. I'm spanish, and I've joined my first wiki (inciclopedia) in September 2006. I'm admin there and I contribute to other spanish wikis. I've got good level in english and I can use e-mail as a contact form.

I think I could help spanish community with their doubts and questions, helping Zuirdj. I can be here almost all day. Do you think is soon for me or can I be useful? -- Mvp14 23:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I think is soon for me to have a job in wikia, I will ask Zuirdj about how can I help Spanish community, because I also think there isn't much work yet. However, I woludn't matter if you ask me later while looking for staff. Thank you for the answer and happy new year. -- Mvp14 23:25, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Videojuego

On the other hand, I will apply for your help in Wikijuegos. Another user (Bob007) besides me, need the sysop status to change some FAQs and protect several pages. We have talked to the burocraut (Onipsis) but he is inactive since november 20th. I hope you can help us. Another admin has supported this decision. Thank you again. -- Mvp14 23:43, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:Mvp14. Angela ^talk

[edit] Combining Wikis

I've discovered that three wikis--Fiction/Novelas, Conworld, and Basilica--have about the same aims/types of content. I was wondering if they could all be united into a single wiki, that way we'll have more users on the one wiki and we'll have improved content sharing. This is because all three wikis are rather small--Fiction/novelas with around 5 significant contributors, Conworld with about 3, and Basilica with about 2--and being together would be more of an encouragement to all of us, as well as for newcomers, knowing that we're part of a bigger project.

I don't know if there's any easier way to do this aside from copying individual articles from one wiki to another... If this is what it takes, well, I'm willing to do that work. That is, if you think it'll be a good idea to combine these wikis... --Yunzhong Hou 17:42, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh and by the way, I've just found two other wikis--fanfiction and fantasy--which are both abandoned, and copied their content onto the Fiction wiki, as the content is similar and can be useful to our team. Do you think adding a note to their pages on Wikia Central, directing them to a more active wiki, to be a good idea? -- Yunzhong Hou 21:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I think fantasy should be separate since that's more for documenting fantasy than for creating your own. We don't have a good way of merging wikis, but if those others are inactive, then I'll see what I can do about that. Angela ^talk 01:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About Uncyclopedia

I've edited there and it gets a huge amount of pointless pages created every day that waste admin time by having to be deleted. Do you think it would be best to only allow accounts to create new pages as on Wikipedia? Also, you should consider updating the editing toolbar (the buttons that appear at the top of a page when editing it) to coorespond with Wikipedia's (it could use a redirect text-insert button, for one). Thanks.--68.92.150.46 05:18, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure if that's needed yet. Have you tried to discuss it with the community there? Perhaps on their village dump? Angela ^talk 01:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] When you start a new conversation, please don't do so by editing the previous conversation

Ideally, you should using the + tab. If it is unavailable (as it appears to be here, see next topic), please edit the page as a whole. As is, I thought you were replying to a conversation that I was interested in. However, I couldn't find your post until I checked the history for that page. Will (Talk - contribs) 05:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. I guess I forgot to change the edit summary. I prefer to edit the page normally in case people have special formatting on their talk page that I want to be consistent with. Angela ^talk 01:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Where is the + tab in talk pages for this wiki?

I don't see it. It is present in other Wikia wikis. Just not this one. Will (Talk - contribs) 05:48, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

See "Post a comment" :-) --rieke 05:50, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not seeing on any talk page for this wiki. Not just this page. I am used to clicking the + tab as its location is more predictable than a link in your box. Each talk page may have a different location and link text for that link. Will (Talk - contribs) 09:30, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Don't you see the "post a comment" link? Is English set as the default in your preferences? Angela ^talk 01:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks so much!

Thank you so much for your outstanding work! 75.22.77.84 11:22, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] user babel templates

Hi Angela!

Do you know why the babel-templates on my userpage do not look like they should? Only the german one is in color with frames, the others are only text.

see http://klingon.wikia.com/wiki/User:Lieven

Reply to this in any way you like, thanks, Lieven 16:30, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Now I reply to my own question, maybe it's still interesting for other people, but I might be wrong too. Please tell me if so.

I noticed that the different templates are programmed in a different way, the german uses table commands including colors, and the english and the others work with "TD Class". I guess that's the reason why it doesn't work.

How can we solve this problem? Any suggestions? Lieven 12:24, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

It may be because TD Class is not defined in MediaWiki:Monobook.css. Splarka would know more about this than me. Angela ^talk 01:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Harry Potter Wiki

The Harry Potter Wiki doesn't have a redirect button in the edit bar. Any idea why? John Reaves 07:44, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

The redirect button isn't a standard MediaWiki button, but something the Wikipedians have added on their own via Javascript (along with about a dozen others). They are added via Wikipedia:MediaWiki:Common.js in the section "Extra toolbar options" and are considered experimental. The method they use to insert them requires a newer version of MediaWiki than we currently have (using mwCustomEditButtons[] in wikibits.js). --Splarka (talk) 07:51, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

So does that mean it can't be added? John Reaves 07:54, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

There was a very sloppy method to do it before mwCustomEditButtons[] but I do not believe it was ever used site-wide due to cross-browser problems (it would take a while to dig it up, too). It isn't hard to create a redirect, just use the format:

#REDIRECT [[Target Page]]

How badly do you need such a button? When we get mw:Extension:CharInsert (hopefully this month) it should be possible to add something very similar to MediaWiki:Edittools. --Splarka (talk) 08:12, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

That's what I've been using, I just don't see why there isn't a button considering the English Wikipedia has one. John Reaves 09:43, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

The English Wikipedia uses a slightly different version of MediaWiki to Wikia. Angela ^talk 01:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship

Do you know who can make me an Admin? I'd like to do some serious updating to the main page (which is protected) and delete some inappropriate articles along with doing basic vandalism tasks. I can't seem to find any active Admins (or any at all) and would very much like to contribute to this Wiki at an administrative level. If possible, I'd like Bureaucrat status too so I may add other Admins when/if the project picks-up, as I hope to promote it. John Reaves 21:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

According to the Special:Statistics page, there are three Administrators. I have identified two, and neither have shown any activity for at least six months. John Reaves 23:36, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Since it's your first day on that wiki, I'd suggest you spend a bit longer building some content first. If there are pages to be deleted, you can just add a {{delete}} tag to them for now. Angela ^talk 01:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I have a few thousand edits worth of experience at the English Wikipedia. And if you look at my user contributions at the Wiki, you'll see I have been adding a lot of content and organizing the site. There is no one there to delete the content since there are no active Admins. Please reconsider. John Reaves 01:55, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Even so, it's still your first day on the Harry Potter wiki and there's no urgent need for an admin. Please try editing for a while to see if you want to be a long term contributor and admin there first. Angela ^talk 15:58, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay. I see your point. I plan to keep editing and cleaning up as much as I can. Would you agree to upgrade me if no Admins show any activity soon, say three weeks or so? John Reaves 20:40, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, if you're still active on the wiki then. Angela ^talk 21:26, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay, sounds good. John Reaves 22:36, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I know it's been less than three weeks, but there's a lot to do and the Wiki has recently been linked in several articles on Wikipedia. John Reaves 09:58, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I think you need to gain some more understand of the wiki first and build up a community there. Angela ^talk 18:52, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay. Thanks for all the help. John Reaves 00:49, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship for Golden Sun Wiki

There are currently no administrators nor berucrats in the Golden Sun Wiki at [1]. I feel that I would do a good job at being an admin there because I have edited the main Wikipedia since August 2006 and I have an extensive knowledge of Golden Sun and its corresponding topics. I have made this request to you because, once again, there are no administrators for the Golden Sun wiki. If I cannot become an admin, please allow another user to become one so our community has more control over the Golden Sun wiki and improving it. You can contact me at User:Eiyuu Kou at [2] or at User:Eiyuu Kou at [3]. Thank you. --Eiyuu Kou 22:58, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Dracobolt is an admin and has been active in the last week. Since it's your first day on that wiki, I'd suggest you spend a bit longer building some content first. If there are pages to be deleted, you can just add a {{delete}} tag to them for now. Angela ^talk

[edit] Whats going on?

Who is the admin for the prison break wiki? ive recently been on that syte and it is complete rubbish. I did more improvements for that syte in a day then the admin looks like he did...ever. Loads of main charcters and main topics that should of been filled in havent been which i did. and i also sorted that horrible userpage. I was wondering if i could be admin of that page if no-one is sorting it out... thanks --Aron Skywalker 12:30, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

It might help if you ask for adminship formally. --Eiyuu Kou 00:26, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

The admins haven't been active for a few months, but it's up to any reader of the site to improve it. The wiki is open to editing, so please get involved and fix it if you know about this topic. Angela ^talk 01:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prison Break Adminship

Is it possible for me to become the Prison Break Wiki. I know i am responible enough to handle it and i have extensive knowledge on the subject. Im certain i could really help to improve that site. As you said the admins havent ben active for several months, and i get alot of free time to sort this wiki out. Thanks --Aron Skywalker 12:30, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

As I said above, you are welcome now to improve the site. You don't need to be an admin to do that. Angela ^talk 15:58, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

but i wont be able to sort out things like featured articles and categorys as the pages are locked... --Aron Skywalker 19:49, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

They are not locked. The spoiler template was the only protected page on that wiki and I've just changed that so that any registered user can edit it. Angela ^talk 20:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

kl, thanks, i appreciate it --Aron Skywalker 23:57, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About Videojuego

I knew there where three burocrauts, but they have been inactive for more than a month in the Wikia. I know two of them personally, and we said them in his discussion what I said to Zuirdj. I don't know if I had to wait to their opinion if they are so much time inactive, sorry if I've made a mistake. Bye. --Mvp14 01:26, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I didn't realise the bureaucrats were inactive. However the admins Chixpy and Gudproyect are active, so I think this community is large enough to choose its own admins via a "requests for adminship" type page. Feel free to create one if Videojuego doesn't have this already. Angela ^talk 01:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please rename a category

Will you change the category at the Harry Potter Wiki here, named Charicter stubs, to Character stubs? John Reaves 04:03, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I've already changed the category in the template. Now all that's left is for the job queue process the change and the incorrect category can be deleted. (Or someone can perform the null edits on the articles, but the job queue will do it when initiated.) G.He_(Talk!) 04:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Upload Problems

Hello Angela,

I'm new to Wikia and decided to upload an image to decorate my user page. However, when i've tried to upload the image I receive an error saying "'.' is not a recommended image extension." I don't understand this warning considering the file i'm uploading is titled borgchildren.jpg and i've tried changing the file extension to .gif, .jpeg & other image extensions and receive the exact same message. Thanks in advance for a reply. Poetic 06:14, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I've replied on the sims wiki. Angela ^talk 22:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply Angela. I don't think i'll have to email you the image because I just realized I found the image (a long time ago) on a pre-existing wiki. The image is located here: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Borg-children.jpg I was wondering - is it possible to use an image on another wiki without uploading? Speaking of using things from other Wikis - i'm having a problem using the speady delete template from wikia on the Christian wiki. Is there a way to use templates from other wikis too? The page i'm trying to speedy delete is here: http://christianity.wikia.com/wiki/You_suck Poetic 05:48, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I've created the procedures needed for deletion at this Wiki. John Reaves 07:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

See w:c:sims:User talk:Poetic for my reply. Angela ^talk

[edit] Proposed Wiki

On the page for proposing wikis it says that in general that wiki proposals should be responded to in 2 to 10 days. I haven't received any feedback on my proposal for wikiMaoist. I've already created a demo, and a similar Spanish-language wikiproject was approved already. I understand that its the holiday season and that there might be more important issues at wikia, I'm only leaving this message because I haven't receive any responce whatsoever so I just want to ensure that my application was considred. I hope that I'm not perceived as impatient I just wan't to know if I applied correctly. Whatever the result of my request is I'm grateful that wikia gave me the chance at fowarding the Maoist Community. --Mao1949 06:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I'll check that now. Angela ^talk 22:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quick question

I'd like to ask how you make an inter-wiki link. --Wikada - ^{Talk Contributions} 20:28, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

For links to other wikis, see Interwiki map for the prefix. Basically, it would the [[Prefix:Page]]. For interwiki links within Wikia, the syntax is [[w:c:name_of_wiki:Page]]. The name_of_wiki is basically the subdomain, as in http://name_of_wiki.wikia.com. G.He_(Talk!) 20:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

You can also use a single parameter (|), created by pressing shift+backwards slash (\), to hide the interlinking. For example, [[:Wikipedia:Wikia|Wikia]] yields Wikia. John Reaves 22:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

True, but you don't need the initial colon there. Angela ^talk 22:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Knitting Wiki

Hi Angela, I saw the knitting wiki by chance some days ago and I noted that there are no other wikis that deal with wool, yarn, fabric etc. Even if there are many people who knit I believe that this wiki will need loads of time to grow, simply because who knits cannot write all too much. What maybe would make sense to pass from a knitting wiki to a general wiki that deals with knitting, crochetry, quilting etc. I am missing a collective name right now. I also talked with sannse about this and the reaction was positive. So was the reaction by Lisa Dusseault in a private mail. Lisa seems to be the only active contributor right now. Well as you probably already noted: I am not a person that is in favour to split up wikis, but to get them together if it makes sense. And for community building normally it makes sense to get them together since they will feel less "alone" and therefore people will start to talk etc. I already wrote a note on the community portal. If you should take the decision to change this wiki to a more general scope I will help to change the mainpage accordingly and use it if people have questions in some of discussion groups I am in to post the answers there and lead them to the wiki. Well I am curious about your thougts. Ciao! --SabineCretella 09:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I'll reply on the community portal. Angela ^talk 13:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Logo

Hey Angela, I need help, is it okay if I change the logo on the Fanon wiki? Brain40 ^{[talk] [my domain]} 11:06, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you can change the logo. Just make sure the image is called Image:Wiki.png (not PNG) and it should work. Let me know if it doesn't. Angela ^talk 16:52, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikia Highlights on the main page

When I checked to see if the Fiction wiki was on the list of Wikia Highlights on the main page, I couldn't find it. Instead dug up a list of tiny, not-very-active wikis listed there. The following are smaller than the Fiction Wiki (1240+ pages) and were obtained from that list (I went to their wikis and looked at their statistics page on January 06):

• LOST, 1203 pages
• High School Online Collaborative Writing, 790 pages
• WikiMac, 730 pages
• Buffyberse, 695 pages
• Family Guy, 569 pages
• Future, 516 pages
• The Film Guide, 359 pages
• Gameinfo, 347 pages
• Space, 312 pages
• Calgary, 287 pages
• Pet Diabetes, 249 pages
• Mozilla community, 202 pages
• RC Wiki, 195 pages
• Scrubs, 110 pages
• Silicon Valley Commons, 104 pages
• Cheatbase, 98 pages
• WikiChess, 86 pages
• Prison Break, 69 pages
• Cycling, 45 pages
• Quitting-smoking, 32 pages
• Consumer Information, 22 pages

Some of these, like LOST and School, are okay, since they're sizeable. But others like Consumer Information probably aren't significant projects. There are non-staff members contributing to Template:Home, probably taking advantage of the lack of protection on that site to flood it with their own wikis. I believe that it's time that the place be cleaned up. Thank you.

[edit] Diablo problem

The admin hasn't been there forever and even though I made a smaller version of the logo, he hasn't updated it. My smaller version is at Logo.png. Could you upload it please? Wikada - ^{Talk Contributions} 20:19, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Logos for Search Wikia

Please see some proposals at Forum:Logo ideas ([[]]?) and [here]. Cheers. TownCrier 09:18, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikia is not a Wikimedia project. I don't think its appropriate to use their site for potential Wikia logos. There are also potential legal problems with Wikia trying to trademark something that was first available on a Wikimedia site. Angela ^talk 16:46, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I meant to suggest a new logo for wikia search and didn't realise. I guess WC is only for the benefit of the encyclopedic cause then. So what's your critique on the logos, I'll upload them all to the forum here. TownCrier 22:53, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, if you're refering to the font of the W being a problem since WP uses that font, please can you elaberate. TownCrier 22:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I wasn't referring to the font, but the use of Wikimedia's resources for content that will never be used in Wikimedia projects. Angela ^talk 18:54, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sandbox resetting

I am making a bot that will reset sandboxes on different Wikia every so often. The way it works is that it goes to an older version of the sandbox and reverts it. This version should be what it looks like when it is reset. However, it works on the following that aren't on Wikia: autoclick, autorv and autosummary. I think that there is a way to enable it as it is at the English Language Wikipedia. Could you enable these please or at least at Neverwinter for testing purposes. Also, could Leonbot be bot flagged please. I'll post new comments at Forum:Sandbox resetting. --Leon (talk) 21:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I've actually already got a bot that does this (see User:EssjayBot on en.wikipedia) and was just talking to sannse about setting it up here. I'll poke over to that forum now. Essjay (Talk) 21:44, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] whats the diference

Hi, i was wondering if you could help me to distinguish whats the difference between the wikia project namespace Dofus: and the namespace Help: in the dofus wikia as i want to start putting more complete articles and put them where it corresponds.--Cizagna ^(Talk) 21:54, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

The Dofus namespace is for running the wiki and the projects and things like policies and developments. The Help namespace is like How do you edit a page or How do you upload an image. --Leon (talk) 21:57, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you--Cizagna ^(Talk) 04:33, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notice

Thought I'd let you know that the links on your userpage at the Harry Potter Wiki don't work. I assume you meant to link to Wikia, but I'll let you fix it just to be sure. John Reaves 01:55, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I've updated it. Angela ^talk 02:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk page

I just had a technical question: Is it possible to remove stuff from my talk page? Brain40 ^{[talk] [my domain]} 00:04, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks for the help. On Wookieepedia when I removed stuff from my talk page they said I couldn't, though on swfanon I want to, but I don't know if they'll let me. Brain40 ^{[talk] [my domain]} 12:50, 13 Janury 2007 (UTC)
• When I use the archive special page thing, does the info on my talk page automatically go to that special page? Or do I have to cut and paste it? Brain40 ^{[talk] [my domain]} 13:06, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
• Oh, okay, one last question: How do I "cut and paste"? Brain40 ^{[talk] [my domain]} 13:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Wow! Thanks for all your help with dealing with vandalism, telling me about things, and this, so, I give you this as a thanks. Brain40 ^{[talk] [my domain]} 14:43, 13 January 2007 (UTC)