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[edit] Welcome

Hi, TulipVorlax. Welcome to the Central Wikia! --CocoaZen 02:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for your welcoming. §: TůζipVõrζąx Talk 02:17, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] talk

TulipVorlax this is mays i need you to find out if any one on central wikia is a Thomas the tank engine fan.Mays 18:26, September 16, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Test

Testing sig. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 09:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

OK. Found the way to have differents sig on different wikia.

See : — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 09:16, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Test. — TulipVorlax 01:32, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cloak

Hi. I will get a cloak for you as soon as someone from freenode is online, but I've been having problems finding any of them for the past week. Angela (talk) 14:17, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks. ;-) TulipVorlax 18:54, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm just clearing out some old messages on my talk page. Did you ever get this cloak? Let me know if not. Angela

(talk) 03:51, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Not the last time i was on the IRC but, i'll go check this right away. — TulipVorlax 04:08, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Checked. It seems i have not. I mean, doing a WHOIS on myself show my IP and ISP... I'll report this on your talk too... — TulipVorlax 04:15, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. You now have a cloak. Sorry for the delay. Angela

(talk) 05:21, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adoption tagging

Hey Tulip, just a word of advice, when you are tagging wiki's for adoption, please keep in mind to add the adoption tag to the Mainpage of the wiki (unless its protected) and to also notify the founder or another active bureaucrat of the wiki about why the wiki they founded or ran, was tagged for adoption, and if the wiki doesn't have a logo, please add the category (Category:No Logo) to its main page on Central so that our team of logo makers can create one for their wiki, Thanks..--Comet styles 05:12, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Did a founder complained ?

I made a misstake off tagging a recently created once but i've put it back to "normal"... There's too much to check at times...

No template for the category? No big deal anyway, just a third thing to copy paste. At first i did not used subst on the wikis main page...

Don't fear, i'll redo the entire french category when my first "tour" will be over.

If a founder complain, send them to me, and i'll explain and apologize...

But, most of them dont even have a single contribution of anybody since they have been created like 6 months ago. In fact, when putting {{subst:Wikia:WikiaAdoption}} i actually created a lot of main pages...

Ok, i'll see what i can do... I mean, contact the founder ? Saying "Hey! I'm putting your negligated wiki for on adoption." or "Hey? Are you still around?" and waiting a response in that last case ???

hehe, No, No one complained, its just the proper format to follow when tagging wiki's for adoption since most of the time most Bureaucrats/Founders dont even know that their wiki's is up for adoption and if a message was left on their talk page regarding their founded wiki, they will be able to fix the problem or try to find a method of reviving the wiki.--Comet styles 05:28, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Can we say that a wiki created in the first months of 2007 (or even before) that as less than 6 pages is an abadonned wiki ?

There is many french wikis that have very little good content. There's even one where there's a link on the main page that say "the site has move elsewhere".

To me, it's just people asking for wiki, editing a bit (or not) and then, dont even caring about them.

But, yes, while writing those few lines, i've come to understand that they might not been watching their main page, so if i want them to receive a notification email, i'm better off on their individual talk. Unless their prefs say to the wiki to not send any but in that case, we couldn't do much. TulipVorlax 05:41, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Good ! Found a better way to see if the wiki is really abadonned or not. Using the contribs page of the founder on "his" wiki.

And i've composed a message :

Salut,

Je suis présentement à faire le tour des wikis français afin de mettre les inactifs en adoption. Votre wiki recevra donc une boîte sur la page d'Accueil à cet égard.

Si vous souhaitez réanimer votre wiki, cela est toujours possible. Si vous souhaitez me dire deux mots à ce sujet ou non, c'est possible via ma propre page de discussion ici ou sur le Wikia central.

Bien à vous.

TulipVorlax 06:05, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Excellent, e-mailing is a great idea too and the message to be left on talk pages, sound good..--Comet styles 06:13, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

I just made this list to retreive founders to be warned... TulipVorlax 06:16, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Lol, i had to revise the DPL manual 'cause didn't remember how to do an "AND". TulipVorlax 07:04, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contribution à mon Wiki

Coucou TulipVorlax,

J'ai vu que tu avais contribuer à mon WIKI d'informatique que j'ai laissé à l'abandon involontairement, je suis parti en vacances et lorsque je suis revenu je n'y est plus pensé, mais j'enviseage d'y contribuer et je te remercie aussi pour l'aide et la contribution que tu y apportes, je vois que tu es en français cela va m'aider, pour le wiki sur GTA que j'avais créé il faudra que tu le supprimes (http://fr.gta.wikia.com/wiki/), je t'en remercie, as-tu msn ou une adresse email enfin que l'on s'échange des messages plus facilement ? Je te laisse mon adresse qui fait aussi adresse MSN : xxx@xxx.xxx (pourras-tu après avoir pris connaissance de mon adresse éditer mon message et l'enlève).

Je te remercie !!

Ça ne sert pas à grand chose d'enlever ton adresse car cela est toujours présent dans l'historique. En ce qui conerne la suppression d'un wikia, cela ne se fait pas. La licence GFDL dit que le contenu doit demeurer librement accèssible et modifiable par tous. Mes contributions sur le wikia français d'informatique sont pour le moment sommaires. Mon but principal était de m'en servir pour mes autres projets avec des liens interwikis. Par exemple, mon projet de wikia de modélisation 3D (fr.3d.wikia) est supposé lier tout terme d'informatique à « ton wiki ». Note, que même lorsqu'on est le fondateur d'un wikia, le wiki ne nous appartient pas. Cela fait partie des raisons pourquoi on ne supprime pas les wikis, ils appartiennent à la communauté. — TulipVorlax 01:42, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply: Userpage

That's caused by using a low resolution and by using Internet Explorer. ^_^ --Charitwo^Talk 11:50, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

My screen is 1440x900, mind you. I have the right to not liking reading too long lines of text. And i wont use Firefox because i dont like it at all. That's all.

Oops ! I'm on my bot account. Well, you see, when i use my bot, it's the only reason for me to use Firefox so i can also edit under my normal account.

Beside, when doing a website, you should do the necessairy for it to be at least useable on both Firefox and IE. See one of my littles sites here : http://gw-freak.synaptique.ca/ It look's the same with both browsers.

-- TulipVorlax on his bot account, sorry. Vorlax1 12:30, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

When doing a website, yes. When formatting non-userspace wiki articles, of course. But it's my userpage design and I only use Internet Explorer at work and for use for my bot account elsewhere. I really don't have time to find out why it does that in IE, I ate up enough time converting from html/php to wiki code that would look right on my primary browser. I have my hands full with FFXI wiki, wikia in general, and I'm also in the process of moving to another base so that's eating a lot of time up too. Glad you got AWB working. Cheers. :) --Charitwo^Talk 14:07, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

And the fact that 90% of the screens in the world are at 1024x800 or even less is totally irrelevent because your page is only for your own use.

You see, just a single click to see the source and i already know what the problem is. It's not IE. It's you. You specify a width for your main table that dont fit in the content space of the quartz skin (but i think it wouldn't fit on monobook neither). That's all.

But, there's no problem because your user page is only for your own eyes.

You think i wanted to show you a screen capture only to... do what ? My intention here was only to help. But now i know i was only loosing my time and should had just closed that tab like every other people with normal size browser window (or screen) would do when seen something like that.

So sorry for the disturbance. — TulipVorlax 22:23, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked or not ?

When i try to edit in the forums (and only there); i get this weird message :

It's not even my IP. — TulipVorlax 13:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, it happen mostly when trying to reply to this : Forum:WoWWiki ordered list bullets disappeared. — TulipVorlax 14:05, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Patarsort

Either he doesn't fully understand google translates or is ignoring me, can you please explain to him about uploading images at central? Thanks Tulip --Charitwo^Talk 16:59, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

As i understand this, he has created his account here just so he could make himself some nice and easy publicity for what he do (website, etc). I say that but i dont know if he have been contributing elsewhere on Wikia. — TulipVorlax 21:34, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] réponse

Je suis venu sur Wikia à la proposition de Monsieur Martin Verne,

je ne comprends pas vos propos

Si je mets mes dessins sur plusieurs sites ( 20 env ) c'est bien sûr pour me faire connaître, y voyez-vous un inconvénient, sinon quel est le but de votre site ?

puisque apparemment ça ne plait pas, je n'en mettrai plus !

salutations Patrick

Ceci est le Wikia central; ce n'est pas mon site. D'ailleurs, les wikia n'appartiennent à personne. Ils appartiennent à la communauté. Néanmoins, comme dans toute communauté, il y a des règles à connaître et à suivre.

Le wikia central n'est pas là pour que vous y faites ce que bon vous semble. La raison d'être du Wikia central est de recenser les wikia existant, la coordination des efforts de travail des employés de Wikia, des « janitors », des « helpers », etc.

Il existe des centaines de wikia. Mais je ne crois pas qu'il en existe un où vos images seraient bienvenues. Aucun wikia ne peut servir à se faire de la publicité. Si vous n'avez pas l'intention de contribuer à un wiki, même sur Wikipédia vous serez vu comme une nuisance.

De plus, vos images vous appartiennent. Elle sont donc sous copyright. À moins d'explicitement donner la permission à un wiki de les utiliser, ils n'auraient pas le droit de le faire. Mais quel usage pourraient-ils en faire de toute façon ?

Êtes-vous un grand bédéiste connu mondialement ? N'êtes-vous pas plutôt un simple père de famille qui produit ces choses pour amuser ses enfants ?

Il existe un wikia où vous pourriez mettre des images pour que des enfants puissent les colorier. Mais je ne crois pas que celles que vous aviez chargées ici soient de cette sorte.

Désolé. — TulipVorlax 14:57, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unprotection request on Game Dev Wikia

I request that the main page of Game Dev Wikia or Game Programming Wikia, whatever is the name, be unprotected by an admin. I have told Swirl but he does not answer. So I am telling you because I really need to change it for people to read my articles (I have made 5 and will make more). If you cannot do it but only Swirl can do, then I will abandon my efforts here. The point is I wanted to create this Wiki, but it was already created. And I found, to my surprise, that Swirl has protected it for unknown reasons. I saw the history of the page and I saw no vandalisms. It is so unfair, it goes against the spirit of Wikia.com. Don't you think? Freud2008 19:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] French Adoptions page

Hi -- I'm working on a test to see if we can raise a wiki's Google ranking by taking all of the links to the Central page and redirecting them to the actual wiki itself. Your User:TulipVorlax/French Adoption page is making that tricky -- it's DPL, and I can't do anything with those links. Are you still using that page? -- Danny (talk) 23:21, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

No, i kind of have abandonned that "project". Have to much other thing to do. But before deleting, maybe we could just put the whole thing between comment tag. If it dont work, then delete. — TulipVorlax 00:25, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Sure, that worked. Thanks! -- Danny

(talk) 00:41, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mis Concept

I maybe misintroduce my subject... Since I was link to wikia creation or more to wikia non-creation... Why supporting the creation of multi wikia when you could refers people to wikia already existing... or similar projects... Do you make money on each wikia started? Is it your motivation for these creations?

Anyway...

Me, i dont make money from anything Wikia related. I'm not a staff. Just a regular user that have a lot of free time and thus can be present on Wikia more than an ordinairy user.

And by the way, dont think all wikis can be called wikia. Thoses wikis you put links to doesn't seemed to be hosted by Wikia. — TulipVorlax 19:09, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

I think your are right they are not hosted by... But Jimbo Wales create the concept of wiki and eventough these wiki are not hosted by Wikia his new company... I really believe that he would love to contribute to more efficient wiki... more complete and with passionnate users like you seem to be. Anyway... I maybe mis post on the forumbut I get some contact I was looking for and could be that Green Wikia and Ekopedia become close partner soon... So So I apologize if I disturb your work... I try to do what I believe is good for our humanity... Doesn't mean that I never do mistakes. Wish you the best and hope to collaborate in the future with more people motivated like you.

Olivier_C

But, you know, maybe it was me who made a mistake in proposing it for deletion. But, it might not get deleted, now sysops will see if it really need to go and take care of it.

There are some rules and policies on Wikia. The more important are "dont compete with Wikipedia" and "existance of other wikis on a topic is no reason to not do a Wikia".

As motivated has i might seems, i mostly never contribute to others english wikia and i only do some minors edit on Wikipedia and others wikis. My first language is french and that's why the wikia i started here are in french.

On fr.guildwars.wikia, i would never put a link to gwiki.fr (the non Wikia conterpart). Most of the time, i dont see theres a good reason to link wikia to their non wikia conterpart as that would only make people leave wikia for thoses wikis that show no publicity and use the old Monobook skin.

Yes, people are still free to choose. They just have to do a Google search. But they must choose. You can't expect people to contribute to many wiki on the same topic. Some are able to because they have more free time than normal people (like me) but most people have work, need to eat and sleep, they go out with friends and dont spent hours in front of a computer.

In fact, the chances are that thoses people would not even find you forum article on Wikia. The only people who would see it are people who envolve themselves in the Wikia community. Trues Wikians. So, in the end, doing publicity on Wikia forum is not a so good idea except that Google will find thoses links more faster than it would have on any other site. And that would artificially increase your pagerank if the mediawiki software wouldn't had been modified to put a "nofollow" tag in externals link.

What i'm trying to demonstrate, if i may say, is that doing publicity for our websites on any wiki that use MediaWiki is now obsolete; it wont do any good. Wikians are not interested to see links to non Wikia wikis when they explore Wikia. If a Wikian would want to find non Wikia wikis, it would use a search engine.

The fact that Jimbo worked to promote Mediawiki software and wikis usage is completly irrelevant to thoses matters. It's not like McDonald's fondator would send his customers to Burger King, isn't it ? — TulipVorlax 19:30, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template you made

I saw your answer to someone who had asked about creating pages in a common format at Forum:Setting the same format for all articles including those I don't write and it looks like you did something pretty good there, but I can't figure out exactly how you set the thing up. I'd like to do something similar on Broadcasting, but I can't follow you because I'm not really sure what you did. Can you give me some help? -- BruceG 23:04, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

The most simple example of usage would be :

<createbox>

type=create

break=no

preload= Name of the page to preload (can be any page)

prefix= name of the namespace wich in wich the future page should be

buttonlabel= Text on the button

</createbox>

This code create a single text area. We have put them in templates just so it could be used on users pages...

But i'm not sure if this mediawiki extension is still installed by defaut on every new wikis. I mean, it might not work on your project and you might have to ask someone from the Community Team for help. — TulipVorlax 00:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I've used it, and it works, though I needed to make some changes to do exactly what I wanted to do. I wish I knew some way of controling the size of the window that was put there (it's much bigger than I'd want, because I want people to simply enter a station call, which is 3 or 4 letters), but it's nice to have. -- BruceG 16:27, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh i forgot about that. Look in this page : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Inputbox

It say you can use width= something. I think there's some others paremeters too... — TulipVorlax 17:42, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again. You've been a great help. -- BruceG 20:08, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] a question from the attic

hello,

i am the attic door and i had a forum thread asking people to respond if they wanted to help out with the EC comics wiki i founded. it appears to say that you responded to this forum but i see no response on my computer(it's a bit glitchy). i was wondering if you could contact me and tell me if you wanted to help out or if that was just a glitch. thank you.

The attic door 03:12, 27 July 2008 (UTC)the attic door

Oh, sorry about that. If you had looked in the history you might had understood that i simply corrected the way your signature was showing up. I like clean wikis pages. ;-) I moslty know nothing about comics except that i have a friend who collected thing about Spiderman and the X-Mens when he was younger. I liked the recently made films though. But i moslty never contribute to english wikis because my language is french and i dont have enough time to contribute to french wikis. — TulipVorlax 04:57, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 3 Mo screenshot

Tip: Try saving screenshots of pages in .png format, that might actually be shorter. The JPG format was made to compress photographs well; if you have pictures with big areas of absolutely the same color (such as text background) PNG may work better. --◄mendel► 05:19, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Actually, when there's only a few differents colors, gif is another option. — TulipVorlax 10:35, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

As you might be able to see on the following screen capture even though it's in french, i've converted the 3 Mo JPG file to PNG and it is a 15 Mo PNG file (near 16 Mo) :

Screeny hosted on ImageShack

So, your tip is, maybe, irrelevant. As far as i was knowing about the PNG it's that this format is almost as "big" than BMP because it is a lossless moslty not compress format. — TulipVorlax 11:08, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I seem to have missed this a month ago. Gif and PNG use similar compression, but PNG can work with 24-bit color. Compressing the jpg will not work as well as compressing the screenshot in the first place because the jpg compression has already introduced artifacts that degrade png performance. PNG is a lot smaller than BMP for screenshots because it uses compression similar to "zip". I urge you for your next interface or browser screenshot to try both (from the original screenshot). --◄mendel► 07:08, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Testing the "Post a comment" link (+)

Moved from Forum:Removing pages from RC.

My friend TulipVorlax and I have been discussing the "+" button ("Post a comment") as applied in forums. The last time I tried one of those on a forum page (ns=110), my edit was on a Forum Talk page (ns=111), which was not good.

Now I see that the button leads (very sensibly) to the forum page itself, not a talk page. Before replying to my friend, I would like to know whether this now works on every Wikia.

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 11:39, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

As far as I know, the __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word always worked like now, adding the "+", that creates the section in the current page... If there was a bug about it, it probably was fixed --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) ^-WikiDex 12:02, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

That discussion had nothing to do where you posted it.

If it really happen like you say so, you have a bug or the wiki where this is taking place has one. — TulipVorlax 00:04, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

By the way, if you want to test that, go to here and there.

The forums i've made on those wikis work great because i dont just copy/paste the code from other wikis. I adapt it. I even translate names of templates and all.

Yes, it lose compatibility with other english wikis but why would we want to keep it when french wikis have other needs because the language is a lot different than english. It has accents and all. — TulipVorlax 00:11, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

It did work the way I said it did. A long time ago (maybe before you found Wikia), when the Forum namespace was fairly new and the "Post a comment" link was fairly new. I did not use the "Post a comment" link much. One day I used it as a quick way to reply on a long forum page. I was annoyed to find that my work was on the forum talk page. So I had to move it to the forum page. Obviously, some time after that, the experts realised that that was not good, and they changed it to create a new section on the forum page itself. And now I see that "Post a comment" (or "Leave message") is on fewer pages than it used to be. All good if one keeps up with what is happening. See you back on fr.wikia and its offshoots! — Robin Patterson (Talk) 03:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

I think only staff could confirm things like that. But what i know for certain is that the magic word that is used to add new section link to any page is not a Wikia feature. It was part of the Mediawiki software allready (since version 1.7). See the magic words page on mediawiki.org. — TulipVorlax 03:45, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

What i'm trying to tell is that as far as i can remember, there wasn't any problem with that magic word when i started fr.guildwars on march 8 in 2007. — TulipVorlax 03:54, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New edit window

Hi, Tulip.

What do you want me to fix? If you just want to disable it for your wiki, request it using Special:Contact. What I did was [1]. You can try it putting it in your monaco.js and previewing. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) ^-WikiDex 20:19, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

On some wiki they put js code to have a combox wich contain predefined sumaries. I set it up on fr.guildwars too and the new edit bar layout conflict with it :

I'm not good enough with js to think of a way to fix it. — TulipVorlax 20:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, sorry. I can't help you on that. On firefox it looks fine (the combo box is where it should be, not behind the buttons), but I don't have IE8 to debug it. On IE6 it looks well, also. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) ^-WikiDex 20:52, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

It was doing that on IE 7 too... — TulipVorlax 21:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

The js code is :

function fillEditSummaries()
{
    var label = document.getElementById("wpSummaryLabel");

    if(label == null)
        return;

    var comboString = "Résumés prédéfinis : <select id='stdSummaries' onchange='onStdSummaryChange()'>";
    comboString += "</select> <br />";
    label.innerHTML = comboString + label.innerHTML;

    requestComboFill('stdSummaries', 'Modèle:Résumés prédéfinis');
}

I think i'll try something... — TulipVorlax 21:09, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

After many tests, changing it for this corrected the problem :

function fillEditSummaries()
{
    var label = document.getElementById("edit_enhancements_toolbar");

    if(label == null)
        return;

    var comboString = "<p>Résumés prédéfinis : <select id='stdSummaries' onchange='onStdSummaryChange()'></select></p>";
    label.innerHTML = comboString + label.innerHTML;

    requestComboFill('stdSummaries', 'Modèle:Résumés prédéfinis');
}

But i think it broke it on Monobook... — TulipVorlax 21:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I fixed it on both skin. I removed the js function from the common.js and put a Monobook version in monobook.js and a Monaco version in monaco.js :

All is good now. — TulipVorlax 21:45, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Since me as many other wikis use wookiepedias code made by sikon i should/will have the same issues and if im correct the only difference is that monaco is edit_enhancements_toolbar and in monobook is wpSummaryLabel? --Cizagna ^(Talk) 22:57, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Mostly exact. In fact, if you do it like that, it will work. Might need to be tested. But i also enclosed the HTML added in a <p> </p> so the layout looks better. — TulipVorlax 00:14, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I'm glad that you could find a way to fix the problem. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) ^-WikiDex 19:18, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] RE: New layout is bad

Sorry about that. I reverted my edits. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk) (Deeds)} 20:12, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you're telling me; I can't edit anything in the MediaWiki namespace. You're better off asking a staff member. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk) (Deeds)} 23:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Alright. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk) (Deeds)} 01:07, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Looks like you just suceeded where I failed. Thanks. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk) (Deeds)} 18:40, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Click here, they updated the inputboxes. --Michaeldsuarez ^{(Talk) (Deeds)} 20:53, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Some help please

Hi Tulip! I'm working on a method for displaying documents from docstoc.com

What I have so far is here (scroll down), but it's not working properly. You can see the embed code by going to docstoc.com, clicking a document, then clicking embed. Any thoughts of yours would be great. --LordTBT ^Talk! 10:52, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

You know, i'm not like a JS programming god or sommething. I read your code i understand what it does, but i didn't know we could do a few things i saw in it. I'm able to use JS code of others and even modify it, but i wouldn't be able to do something from zero in JS.

The only things i'm able to report here is that :

Comparing with another one...

The bolden part is never the same as in your code. But maybe you got an accound for the wiki ?

I hope you also asked to the more JS goddly users here (lince Cienca and others). — TulipVorlax 15:11, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] fixing bad wiki code

I would like to suggest that if you wish for someone's comment on talk page to conform to the local standards, you ask them to make the necessary updates.

I'm new to Central Wikia, so I don't know you or your contributions. I assume that you are staff, volunteer staff, a gifted wikian, or just a generally helpful person; I also assume that your update had the best intentions. I appreciate you taking the time to update my comment.

I confess that I am ignorant of the standards prefered in Central Wikia (using :* to indent rather than ** or :: as used elsewhere). When I next fail to conform (as I am sure that I will), I would prefer to learn the correct style so that I can do better in the future. (Being corrected slows my learning and also leaves me feeling that I am an unwelcomed outsider rather than an embraced newcomer.)

Some specific thoughts:

The use of the terms fixing & bad were at best impolitic and arguably inaccurate. (Fixing implies something was broken; bad imparts a value judgment. Although my code didn't follow the Wikia Central style, it worked; non-standard doesn't make it bad or wrong.)
It has been my experience (on a variety of wikis, both professional and personal) that changing someone else's discussion text is considered inappropriate. (Perhaps it's different here; however, the only time I've seen people allow it is when the original code actually broke the page.)

Thank you again for your interest in helping me write better.

— Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 02:01, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

This comment is only showing that you're stupid or ignorant (i would vote for last option). In the world of wiki as well as in the world of HTML (and web page desing), there's good code and bad code. That all.

Fixing bad wiki or HTML code is was i do all over Wikia for more than two years now.

No i'm not a staff or anything. I'm just the sysop of the second biggest french wiki on Wikia. And i sometimes fix bad wiki code done by Wikia staff.

For your information, you cant put two * without having a line with one (and not separated by empty line).

That all. If you can't take that comment. I suggest we never talk to each others anymore. I hope we're not in that kind of situation because i like that on wikis we're supposed to assume good faith from everyone.

Lastly, every others wikian on central are fixing bad wiki code when they're able too and you know what they put as sumary ? « fix » or « fixing » or « fixing bad code ». It's a standard thing. So, get over it. It really no big deal.

— TulipVorlax 06:55, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh and i forgot; i never touched the text you posted. I touched the code around it. That's different.

And fixing typos is something that can also be done on talk pages. — TulipVorlax 06:58, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Plus, i generally hate the use of the * instead of using the proper indentation method (i.e. with an :).

The rules on wikipedia say to use : (see here and there). But i know Wikia is not Wikipedia. But any comments using * on wikis where i'm sysop, i convert them to the proper code. — TulipVorlax 07:37, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

We seem to have gotten off on the wrong foot. I'm guessing neither of us are quite sure why. Would you like to start over? — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 10:22, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm already over. I gess it's because i do so much differents things.... — TulipVorlax 02:20, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Help with translation?

Hi Tulip,

I'm wondering if you can help me with a bit of French translation. Could you update Wikia:Règlement_de_création_de_Wikia so that it matches Wikia:Creation policy? Thanks!

There also seems to be a lot of outdated information and links on Accueil -- I think most of the information at the bottom of the page can probably be deleted now that fr.wikia is stronger.

I appreciate your help! — Catherine (talk) 00:09, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Sure.

I'll be working on a copy in my userspace at first. — TulipVorlax 02:24, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

ERF ! I was forgetting to finish this !

Guild Wars had a big update for it's 4th anniversary and this has taken up a lot of my free time to update fr.guildwars and all. — TulipVorlax 17:03, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

I dont know why but it seems i'm very lazy toward translation work nowadays... -.-' — TulipVorlax 04:11, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Community widget

Thank you for your answer on the thread. I tried your global.css trick which is here:

http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:TulipVorlax/global.css

I have added the code of hiding Community widget.

And yes I did a hard refresh after change.

But it still doesn't work. Do you have any clue? [SOLVED]

--MyBrute Resource Center@Ronga 20:11, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Don't do this.

As soon as a staff will come to that wiki, he will remove it.

I think theres something you dont understand about this. — TulipVorlax 21:35, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Monaco search box

I have one question. I wonder if it's possible to configure the search bar to include extra functions. Sometimes it is useful to configure the search bar functions. I use Wikia Template as the example. We really want to switch search on "template" on by default, or perhaps add a checkbox to toggle searching template or not. If we can configure it what namespace should be searched by default, it would be great. See the following example. You would know what functionality I would like to add:

Do you know how we can hack or change the default search bar in some ways? --MyBrute Resource Center@Ronga 02:11, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

The search box in the sidebar to the left ? The only thing i know is how to change the yellow arrow to something else.

I think you need a pretty skilled with JavaScript guy that know how to hack Wikia's code. I'm thinking about some users wich first language is spanish (i think) but there's two of them and i'm not sure wich one could help ya. Both of them have username begining by "C" : Ciz... Cien.. something... — TulipVorlax 02:19, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes the search box in the left sidebar. I'm still learning JS. I'm not someone who can code from zero to full. My programming knowledge is really....... limited. --MyBrute Resource Center@Ronga 03:00, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I can't code from scratch in JS neither. Not yet. — TulipVorlax 03:33, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Translations

If you don't mind, would you help in translating the following French messages:

valeur reelle
force par coup
coefficient de frappe
ameliore frequence de frappe
ameliore contre-attaque
désarmé l'adversaire
Normalement les points de vie de votre brute seront diminué de la valeur des points de vie des animaux reçus. Exemple : vous recevez un chien A, vous perdrez environ 15-20 points de vie.

(Google translation: Normally the life of your brute will be reduced by the value of the life of the animals received. Example: If you get a dog, you will lose about 15-20 HP.)

Regarding the background, some of the words are taken from [2].

I have Google-translated it but some don't seem to make sense to me. I would like some confirmations. Thanks in advance. --MyBrute Resource Center@Ronga 03:00, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

true value / real value
strenght per hit
hit(ting) coefficient
boost hit rate
bosst counterstrike / boost strikeback
disarm the opponent
Normally hit points (HP) of your brute will be reduced by the value of the HP of the animals received. Example: If you get an A-grade dog, you will lose about 15-20 HP.

— TulipVorlax 03:41, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the translation. Your help is much appreciated. --MyBrute Resource Center@Ronga 06:20, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] hit counter

where in the terms of service does it ban hit counters? Decora 13:29, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Not in Wikia terms, in the counter terms it say... something...

I suppose it depend on each counter service. — TulipVorlax 15:22, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Ambox, Navbox and so on

Hello!

I was talking with Michaeldsuarez about some problems on my wiki, Teonis Wiki, and he asked me to contact you about those problems.

In the Navbox, I noticed that the Navbox of my wiki, with the same configuration of the Navbox from the portuguese Wikipédia, has some problems: the title isn't 100% in the center of the navbox, and it should be appearing in the right size the commands: "Expandir" (Expand) or "Esconder" (Hide), though both doesn't appears.

In the Ambox/core, the retangle around the template doesn't appear, while it has the same configuration of the Ambox/core template from Wikipedia (pt);

There is some kind of strange problem happening on this template, while the base, on Wikipedia (pt), is 100% right with the same configuration;

Thank you! Momergil 14:22, September 22, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] "Show All" = dérouler tous?

Does "dérouler tous" sound right for a "show all" button on a show/hide infobox? ~ Phlox 23:25, September 22, 2009 (UTC)

No. It's "Montrer tout".

P.S.: I'm not loggedin... Tulip. 12:46, September 23, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I used enrouler rather than the direct translation (montrer/masquer) in order to conform to the usage at fr wikipedia. Their more literary image of "rolling/ unrolling" the infobox is unconventional but does makes it more poetic. ~ Phlox 16:28, September 23, 2009 (UTC)

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