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Talk:Wikicities relaunches as Wikia

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Please note any problems associated with the move to Wikia here. This page also serves as a to-do list for anything that needs changing.

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[edit] Page distortions

Some people are seeing page distortions caused by caching issues. These usually clear with a forced refresh (ctrl and F5 on most systems). Jason is woking on making this happen automatically for all users -- sannse (talk) 01:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Memory-Alpha is still having problems. Angela (talk) 05:14, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Done

[edit] MediaWiki namespace

There's a few mediawiki namespace pages that need changing by default. Special:Contact, the Wikicities news box, search, "wikicities" in the sidebar (report a problem etc) (please add others so these can be changed automatically). Angela (talk) 02:02, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

MediaWiki messages that need to be changed (I've already changed some of them on this wiki): aboutpage contact contactintro copyrightpage createwikimailsub createwikinamevstitle createwikisubmitcomplete createwikitext irc-url lastmodified newarticletext nogomatch passwordremindertext recentchangestext shared-problemreport-url sitesupport sitesupport-url sorbs_create_account_reason tog-previewonfirst uploadtext wikiasearchresultsnumlocal wikicities-nav wikicitieshome wikicitieshome-url

Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:07, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Done

[edit] Replacing the words "Wikicities" and "Wikicity" with "Wikia"

  • Special:Allmessages - Done
  • Fixing links like Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikia - Done
  • Check for double redirects - Done
  • Angela will run a script on the server to find remaining occurences of "Wikicities" in a few days once most pages have been changed - still in progress (being run by sannse)
  • Use Special:Search to find "Wikicities"
  • Scripts such as "create new wiki" need to be fixed
  • Wikipedia:Wikicities and related templates will need updating (wait until their interwiki map updates before fixing the templates)
  • Wikicities on Meta
  • Category:Wikicity descriptions - will be fixed with the next run of the conversion script (Wikicity -> Wikia)
  • Interwiki map (wikicities->wikia)
  • MediaWiki:Recentchangestext MediaWiki:Recentchangestext - Done
  • Search logo under the sidebar - Done
  • The heading of #p-wikicities-nav (sidebar; under the toolbox) is still "Wikicities" on some Wikia(s) - Done

[edit] Non-wiki things that need to change

  • Email: community@wikia.com etc.
  • Bugzilla: divide into wikia, otrs, search, and other. Fix the interwiki link bug: which nolonger goes to the right place; see #Bugzilla_(404).
  • Stats: still stuck in December. Still calls people "wikicitizens".
  • Other?

[edit] wikia-inc.com

wikia-inc.com gives a 403 forbidden error. Probably needs a lot of edits to reflect the new name. - Done

[edit] Logos and the interface

Image:Wiki.png needs properly compressing. Is it appearing in all the right places? The search logo needs to be fixed or (preferably) disappeared. Wikicities doesn't need to appear in the footer.

I redid the logo because the blockiness due to multiple recompressions made it look bad and the text seemed to be in the wrong place, cluttering the image. The Paint Shop Pro file used to create the compressed version is here. If you don't like the compressed text (want a different font, etc.), a lossless compressed version of the background is here. --GreenReaper(talk) 07:23, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

http://education.wikia.com/ still has the sunflower logo. Angela (talk) 15:52, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Some others still have the non-shiny Wikicities logo -- sannse (talk) 10:06, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bugs with GFDL image and Wikia: namespace

The GNU Free Documentation License button isn't working. I get http://furry.wikia.com/skins2/common/images/gnu-fdl.png in our site interface, which is 403 Forbidden. [[Wikia: is also broken, generating URLs like http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Index.php/Wikicities_relaunches_as_Wikia. --GreenReaper(talk) 06:04, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Also a problem with Wikia:wikia: links. Compare [1] and [2].
The links now work, the GFDL button is still missing (now a plain link) -- sannse (talk) 10:15, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interwiki links from other wikis to Wikia

The obsolete prefix "c:" has to be removed within the MediaWiki configuration.

This is fixed. -- sannse (talk) 20:44, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Sammy 03:17, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
You have to use [[wikia:c:grassroots:Chapel Hill, North Carolina]]; see Help:Interwiki link. --84.156.123.181 20:50, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bugzilla (404)

http://wikia.com/bugzilla/ is not reachable (404) any more! Furthermore the interwiki link prefix "bugzilla:1" does not work. (only bug:1 is blue; enough?) ---Melancholie 09:07, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Bugzilla (formerly at http://wikia.com/bugzilla/) is located at http://bugs.wikia.com/ now! ---Melancholie 11:18, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Additionally, sometimes it is not possible to stay logged in there! --Melancholie 12:16, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
bug:1 points to the old address, which is 404. Some other interwiki links (such as desencyclopedie: ) also have the old wikicities.com addressing, but bug:291 as an interwiki link is more severely broken as it doesn't work at all. --carlb 22:58, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Bugzilla is not at all reachable, at the moment! --84.156.94.54 20:54, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Out of curiosity

What's the reason for the change? Fraggle 09:19, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

As stated, I believe that it was the confusion related to the wikiCities name - people thought that it was a wiki about world cities. Wikia is more ambiguous and probably more appropiate. Noticed a couple of broken stylesheets, but force refresh is a nogo. - 193.63.170.20 13:30, 27 March 2006 (UTC) (wikipedia:User:Estel)
One major reason was the people thought Wikicities were wikis about cities, so the name was very good at conveying what we really are - which is wiki communities on any topic. Another issue was that people kept using the word "Wikicity" when we don't the Wikicity domain names. Wikia also sounds better and is a shorter domain name, and every other site is called "wiki...something", so the name Wikia hopefully shows we're not just another wiki host, but something different. Angela (talk) 14:13, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Is the singular of Wikia "Wikium"? :) Shii 14:40, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Nope :) the singular is the same as the plural, like bonsai and sheep -- sannse (talk) 16:06, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikia with problems

http://cancer.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page - should be a portal to en.cancer and he.cancer, currently a notreal.wikia

Done - also similar portals

[edit] Screenshots that need replacing

  • Image:Advertscreenshotpage.png
  • some in the tutorial
    • I think it's just the tutorial ones to do now - which I'll try to get to tomorow -- sann
All done now.

[edit] From Jeremy

  • On the main Wikia page, the logo in the upperleft has changed from "Wikicities" to "Wikia" but the default logo on individual Wikia (such as ff.wikia.com or automation.wikia.com) still says "Wikicities"
  • Similarly the logo above the search box on individual Wikia such as ff.wikia.com still says Wikicities
  • And at the very bottom left of the page there is the "Hosted by Wikicities" logo which we should replace with a Hosted by Wikia logo. (Done)
  • On the new Wikia that I started to create (automation.wikia.com), most of the work I did on it yesterday around 6pm NY time has been obliterated. Is this related to the precise timing of the changeover (in which case is it possible that others' work on various Wikia was lost as well)?

[edit] Uncyc interlanguage and interwiki links

Most all of the interlanguage links (such as uncyclopedia:fr:) and interwiki links (w:c:whatever...) still point to the old wikicities.com URL's (and zh: is not in the uncyc interlanguage map at all). Hover over the "in other languages" box or the language template on uncyclopedia:Main Page and plenty of wikicities.com links are visible. --carlb 04:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User deletion?

I've just had a user on the L5R Wiki tell me that he can't log in anymore. Sure enough, User:Glacialis doesn't appear to be an account at all. It's the only user that's said anything about it to me, but I thought I'd mention it. ~WestonWyse ! 01:27, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Glacialis exists [3], maybe a password problem? Is he getting any error messages? -- sannse (talk) 20:48, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Multilingual portals

Various multilingual portals are missing.

http://linux.wikia.com/ and http://phpbb.wikia.com are pointing to notreal

Seems this has been fixed now -- are there any still not working? Mindspillage (spill yours?) 21:19, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shared messages

MediaWiki:Shared-problemreport-url is a shared MediaWiki message for all Wikia. "Wikia Home" links to wikicities too.

[edit] Searching

Is it the move or the search function that's at fault giving me messages like this on fisherymanagement:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /home/wikia/wikia-search/wikia_engine.php on line 882

The address bar says:

http://fisherymanagement.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=lobster&fulltext=Search

Robin Patterson 00:19, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki footer

WikiaSM and WikicitiesSM are the intellectual property of Wikia, Inc. All rights reserved.

Remove "and WikicitiesSM". --84.156.123.181 01:12, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Search.wikia

The links "add a site", "Search the index", etc. are broken on the Wikia search engine (formerly known as Wikia)! --84.40.25.240 01:13, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

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