From robinp at paradise.net.nz  Mon Dec 10 05:01:39 2007
From: robinp at paradise.net.nz (Robin Forlonge Patterson)
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:01:39 +1300
Subject: [Genealogy-l] Fw: [Wikia-l] One million people reading Wikia - each
	day!
Message-ID: <003a01c83ae9$c004f340$c714f6d2@633>




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at wikia.com>
To: "Central Wikia Mailing List"
<wikia-l at wikia.com>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikia-l] One million people reading
Wikia - each day!


>
> Wow.
>
> So, I want to make an offer to everyone in every
wikia community...
> please post this message far and wide throughout
wikia.
>
> The most useful thing that I can personally do
for you in helping to
> build your community is to get you some press
coverage.  I am
> particularly interested in helping you to get
press coverage in your
> "vertical" press markets... whatever that might
be.
>
> Is there a magazine, newsletter, fanzine, tv
show, radio show, or
> whatever that you wish would tell the rest of
your global community
> about your wikia?
>
> Put me to work!
>
> There are great people at Wikia who want to hear
from you about
> operations, about software improvements, about
community issues, etc.
> And I love hearing from you about that stuff
too.  But in those cases,
> what I can normally do for you is pass it along
and support changes that
> help you.
>
> As for me personally, I am mostly useless to you
except for one thing:
> helping you get noticed.  Helping your wiki to
become famous in the
> places you want it to be famous.
>
> I try to do as much of this for you as I can,
but the real issue is one
> of scale.  We just don't have the resources to
understand your space in
> the world as well as you do.
>
> You can tell me what publications you want to be
featured in.  We can
> work together on the idea for a story you want
to pitch them.  Then with
> those two things in hand, I can contact them and
set up an interview.
> You will have me prepped ahead of time with your
message, and we will
> get it into the publication.
>
> --Jimbo
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From robinp at paradise.net.nz  Wed Dec 12 00:18:34 2007
From: robinp at paradise.net.nz (Robin Forlonge Patterson)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:18:34 +1300
Subject: [Genealogy-l] Fw: [Wikia-l] LoopFunctions/Control Structure
 Functions/CharacterEscapes Extensions
Message-ID: <00cd01c83c54$89117040$c714f6d2@633>

Be warned!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angela" <beesley at gmail.com>
To: "Central Wikia Mailing List"
<wikia-l at wikia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikia-l] LoopFunctions/Control
Structure Functions/CharacterEscapes Extensions


> On Dec 12, 2007 1:04 AM, DanTMan
<dan_the_man at telus.net> wrote:
> >  We have various extensions like
ParserFunctions, StringFunctions, and DPL
> > already on Wikia for use.
>
> Please note that complexity for users is not the
only problem with
> these. They are really harsh on the servers. The
next version of
> MediaWiki introduces limits on things like the
number of ifexist calls
> because even Wikimedia's servers can't cope with
it. Additionally, we
> have unfortunately had to temporarily disable
DPL on some Wikia sites
> due to overuse and interference with caching. We
should be looking to
> decrease, not increase, use of these complicated
templates and instead
> move towards replicating the functionality in an
easy to use way that
> works well for both users and servers.
>
> Angela
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