User talk:Angela

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Contents 1 19 revisions? 2 One of the "standard" skins not showing all essential buttons 3 Biggest wikis list 4 Thanks 5 Script

[edit] 19 revisions?

I should be able to see some diffs at http://wikis.wikia.com/index.php?title=Wiki_sales_pitch&diff=2524&oldid=2523 even if not quite 19. Bug?

(Where's Recent Changes?)

Kind regards, Robin Patterson 02:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, your note on my talk page answers the first point. I suspected it might be that sort of thing after finding the Recent Changes the hard way. Robin Patterson 05:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] One of the "standard" skins not showing all essential buttons

With my Cologne Blue skin there is NO "participate" section on the left sidebar. (And, incidentally, there's no "plus" sign indicating a new subject for editing a page. Probably other things missing too, in addition to the top-secret ones!) I've had the same trouble on the NZ Wikia very recently, where I complained to the founder that there was no "Help" on the sidebar; he was absent for a while, so I popped into the MediaWiki and moved Help up to the top group; later I looked at the site un-logged-in and saw that everything I could want was there.

Other users may have similar problems without the least idea what's wrong and may give up in disgust, which would be a pity. Our most active Genealogy contributor was grumbling about skins the other day. Maybe this is not the best place to discuss the "skins" matter, and you're welcome to move this dialogue; but I think more attention should be paid by Wikia management to the display produced by the standard range of offered skins. I was using Cologne Blue with Wikipedia (partly because it's such a contrast that one realises immediately if trying to edit while not logged in) before I had heard of Wikia. I don't remember whether this sort of problem was evident there. And I don't think it's on all Wikia. Maybe it's a wider issue than Wikia?

In case you experts can deduce anything from it, here's my current sidebar on Wiki Wiki's main page (pasted with "br" added):

Browse
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Content (A-Z)
Current events

Edit
Edit this page
Editing help
Move this page

This page
Discuss this page
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Watch this page

Context
Page history
What links here
Related changes

My pages
My page
My talk
My watchlist
My contributions
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Very best wishes! Robin Patterson 05:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

The old skins aren't really for general use. They were created years ago before monobook was invented and therefore lack all of the features added in the last few years, such as the editable sidebar, talk page comments, etc. Angela ^talk 14:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biggest wikis list

Hi Angela - I saw the list of Wikia wikis page, and I thought you might be interested to know that the Kingdom Hearts wiki has upwards of 300 legit pages (see w:c:Special:Statistics), so would it qualify for inclusion? I'm not sure if there are other factors, or if the page comes from some list on Central, or if there was a template for adding wikis to that list, so I didn't want to add it in myself.

Also, maybe this isn't your expertise, but why does Special:Statistics show over 1000 created pages? I just saw this come up in recent changes on Central yesterday, there's no way there's that many redirects and such. Does it count MediaWiki namespace pages or something? Scottch 22:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• Never mind, it's already on there :( Sorry! Scottch 22:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

The stats page includes the MediaWiki namespace, which is all the interface text. {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} (currently 35) just counts articles (pages in the mainspace with one working internal link). Angela ^talk 01:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you! If the staff got my previous contact, just ignore it. I didn't realize everything when I sent that. I sent another contact saying to ignore it. Thanks again. DragonBallZ 22:00, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Also, since this wiki is about wikis, would it be ok to create articles about wiki software? DragonBallZ 22:09, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't want to bother you, but would you mind doing me a couple favors that require sysop rights in order to do whenever you get the time? DragonBallZ 23:16, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

If you don't mind these changes, I would like the Main Page title hidden and the article tab on the Main Page changed from article to say Main Page, and edit on every page changed to edit this page. Are those ok with you? DragonBallZ 00:25, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks for your help! DragonBallZ 00:32, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Another favor :) Is there a way to create a license drop down when uploading images so the appropriate license can be selected? I think that requires creating MediaWiki:Licenses, is that correct? Then would the appropriate templates need to be created? DragonBallZ 01:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Some templates are already created. I will try to get the rest created later today or tomorrow. DragonBallZ 16:01, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Could you also bold "edit this page"? DragonBallZ 00:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Script

I found the Edit this page boldness script here. It goes in MediaWiki:Monobook.css. DragonBallZ 02:53, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok. I've put it here. You may need to Bypass your cache on that page before you see it. Angela (talk) 09:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks. DragonBallZ 17:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)