User talk:Porplemontage/Archive 1

Also, is there a NIWA IRC or something? Who would I ask questions to? Is anyone tech-savvy willing to help us set up? Emmett 18:24, 28 September 2010 (EDT)

You can ask questions here. Right now the users can help by importing pages. --Porplemontage 19:18, 28 September 2010 (EDT)

Two problems with this:

1. Only admins can use Special:Import and Special:Export.
2. I can't import pretty much anything. I think it has to do with file size, possibly maximum upload size (2MB? you may need to increase it), and browser timeouts. Toomai 19:35, 28 September 2010 (EDT)

Normal users can use import here, and I was using export on Wikia. The upload size is 100MB, but I know there's still a problem with keeping the session. I'm looking into that; maybe we can use a bot. --Porplemontage 19:46, 28 September 2010 (EDT)

Alright, large imports work now. The limit is 100MB but also consider the amount of time these things take to upload. --Porplemontage 20:13, 28 September 2010 (EDT)

What about images? Only the description is imported, not the image itself. Toomai 18:41, 28 September 2010 (EDT)

I'm looking into it, but we can focus on pages for now. --Porplemontage 19:18, 28 September 2010 (EDT)

Speaking of images, some of the svgs aren't being rendered correctly, specifically this one, which should have a large black checkmark visible. I'm assuming this is the latest version of MediaWiki, but I still suggest you look into it. Toomai Glittershine 16:11, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Also, all the svgs lack transparency. We had this problem before and it was because of some sort of rendering error. Toomai Glittershine 19:09, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Ok. --Porplemontage 18:14, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Would you happen to be...

The same one and only Porplemontage who created mariowiki.com? If so, then I find it quite hilarious that we'd cross paths once again. MC Hammer Bro. 19:58, 28 September 2010 (EDT)

Oh, you... --Porplemontage 20:13, 28 September 2010 (EDT)

File Imports

To resolve the file imports you guys seem to be having problems with, you may want to install the Multiple Upload extension, it comes in handy. Also I keep being prompted to add numbers after each edit... You should try limiting that to non-autoconfirmed Users Malake256 01:17, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

This is a great extension but unfortunately it's not compatible with the latest version of MediaWiki. I will fix the numbers. --Porplemontage 18:14, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Admin tools

Is it possible that I can get promoted to admin and bcrat as those were my positions on the old smash wiki. Btw, this is SO much better. Clarinet Hawk 10:33, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Can you first confirm that SmashWiki is officially moving through an announcement on the Wikia site? This way, since this is technically SmashWiki's new home, you have a right to your bureaucratic status. --Porplemontage 18:14, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

As of now, there's no clear consensus on that. No one is being forced to move, so even if we announce our depature from wikia, Smash Wikia is still the option for the users reluctant to switch.--MegaTron1XD 21:22, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Alright, so I think the departure should be announced and the wiki remain up for reluctant users. Mostly because this justifies us for copying the pages over. --Porplemontage 22:09, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

iPhone Skin

Can you do me a huge favor and install this extension and then follow this set of instructions for me? I promise I'll be an active user if you do that for me. ^_^ Dr. Pain 99 21:52, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Doesn't look like it will work, sorry. --Porplemontage 22:09, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

That's ok; at least you tried. I'll try to think of something. Thanks. ^_^ Dr. Pain 99 22:14, 29 September 2010 (EDT)

Just a few things

The rest of us at NIWA rarely hear from you and many would have loved to help the move and give this new wiki an edge over the one that will be left. The Steve that designed the skin for WiKirby and Metroid Wiki designed a newer logo here that matches the domain name a little better. We're all looking forward to meeting this Wiki's community and are excited on the move news. Just as courtesy, could you inform us of major events like this? There were some people working on a NIWA SmashBros Wiki, but they are accepting this wiki to take the place they were aiming for. The only real loss was their time and effort, but we'd like to prevent a similar event by informing anyone working on a wiki, as soon as move discussions take place so they can be productive where there won't be any loss of work.Axiomist 00:05, 30 September 2010 (EDT)

Hmm, I would have to say, I prefer the logo we have now, and another user I know was planning on creating an updated version of it. Omega Tyrant 00:14, 30 September 2010 (EDT)

Per above.--MegaTron1XD 00:21, 30 September 2010 (EDT)

Well, you saw that I posted in the Smash Bros. thread that I was making an offer. My intention was really just to make sure that SmashWiki was happy on Wikia before we put even more effort on building a new wiki from scratch, but there ended up being a lot of support for the move. I'm not happy about the lost work on the other wiki, either. We should have given SmashWiki this final offer before we got to work on our own wiki. Regarding the logo: I think we're keeping the SmashWiki name as long as the move is deemed official by current SmashWiki staff. Maybe they can have the original site renamed SmashWikia or something. --Porplemontage 00:45, 30 September 2010 (EDT)

I've proposed a new logo design that everyone can see and discuss here. Feedback would be great! Shark (talk) 01:58, 30 September 2010 (EDT)

Don't forget

to select all revisions (includes all of the page history) Balistic (talk) 02:56, 2 October 2010 (EDT)