SmashWiki:Pool Room

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Discussion

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Hey

I've got a few questions:

• Why don't you guys upgrade Smashwiki? I noticed the MediaWiki version it is on is version 1.6.8, why not upgrade to 1.9?
• Why not have release SmashWiki's content under a free license? It makes uploading and adding image soo much easier. Just use a creative commons license that requires attribution.
• There are a lot of terms on the wiki that I have never heard of. Could we, instead of using shortforms, use the full terms? I mean things like SD, ADA, etc.

That's pretty much it.--Richard 23:40, October 25, 2007 (EDT)

The first two questions are out of my scope to answer. On the third one, I agree. Any instance of terms like "ADA" should be replaced by down aerial, or whatever long name is appropriate in the community. I'll be on the lookout. – MaskedMarth ^{(t c)} 21:33, November 2, 2007 (EDT)

Skill

How do you determine your skill? I see lots of Pros, but are there any other ranks? If so, how are they decided? - hydrokyogre

We don't have a formal ranking system (the closest thing you have is Power Rankings, which are usually amongst only the best players in a region). So it's kind of murky, deciding who's a pro and who's not. It's mostly based on a general idea, because we don't have as far-reaching a tournament circuit that would allow us to base a player's skill on tournament results alone.

I recently protected the Professionals page so that people can't wrongly put themselves as pros, and I'll let the talk page decide what changes to make. Based on videos and on hearsay from already-established players, we can make an educated guess as to whether player X is truly pro-level. – MaskedMarth ^{(t c)} 21:54, November 2, 2007 (EDT)

Current events

I removed the outdated tournaments on the Current events page and made a suggestion on its Talk page about linking it on the main page . I realized that it was allready linked but underused, but i think we should probably link it between tournaments and tiers (wait i forgot my signature lolz) --Shyne - (Talk • Contributions ) 17:48, November 12, 2007 (EST)

Mass Vandalism

We've just been hit by a member from another Smash Bros based Wiki, User:Zoomer555. He has edited about 200 articles and replaced them with "THIS SITE SUCKS" and a link to the competing Wiki. I'd say this guy needs to be banned IMMEDIATELY, and then we all need to work together to restore the assload of articles he's damaged. This part is of course a piece of cake, but given the amount of articles it is very time consuming, and on top of that I don't have very much time to do the restoring myself at present, so I'll definitely need some help. Back to banning Zoomer, is there someone who can quickly contact an admin? -Thores 23:14, November 13, 2007 (EST)

i think i got them all. my hands hurt. :C we need to change coding so bots can't edit like that. can someone please notice me and make me a sysop already?? FyreNWater - (Talk • Contributions ) 00:02, November 14, 2007 (EST)

I know from observing Requests for Adminship at Wikipedia that users trying to be admins tend to receive more support votes if they say they just think they'll be trustworthy admins who have been around the site long enough that they believe they'll use the tools well, as opposed to users that state out loud "I really want to be an admin". While I don't doubt you would use the admin tools well, that's just a little something to keep in mind. ^_^ But thanks for reverting all those edits. =D

Anyway, I'm assuming no one here knows how to create and run a bot, and neither do I. Which is kinda a shame, because bots would be excellent in reverting obvious vandalism for us, like replacing pages with short allcaps messages, and replacing all instances of "Pokemon" with "Pokémon" and correcting misspellings, as the best examples I can think of. Erik, Lord of Universes 02:23, November 14, 2007 (EST)

Looking into this matter: I don't see any user at the competing Wiki named "zoomer" or "Zoomer555" or anything like that. In fact, if I were the one reverting all those edits, I would've assumed this vandal was yelling it's the competing Wiki that sucks and was trying to rub that fact in our faces. Anyway, in either case it's an issue on our end that we should blast away. Erik, Lord of Universes 02:40, November 14, 2007 (EST)

Thanks for reverting all his edits, guys. I protected the Main Page, so hopefully any future vandalism won't be as dangerous. Do you think I should send a message to the competing Wiki about this? None of the users there resembles Zoomer555, and most of them seem to be contributing to their Wiki more or less innocently. – MaskedMarth ^{(t c)} 13:27, November 15, 2007 (EST)

Also, I blocked him permanently, in case you were wondering. – MaskedMarth ^{(t c)} 14:58, November 15, 2007 (EST)