From robinp at xtra.co.nz Sun Sep 9 22:22:35 2007 From: robinp at xtra.co.nz (Robin Patterson) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:22:35 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Fw: [Wikia-l] How does a Wikia bureaucrat flag a bot? Message-ID: <08ec01c7f357$25da0d20$912a58db@633> ----- Original Message ----- From: Robin Forlonge Patterson To: Central Wikia Mailing List Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 3:12 AM Subject: Re: [Wikia-l] How does a Wikia bureaucrat flag a bot? Thank you, Jack. [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Phoenix To: Central Wikia Mailing List Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 1:10 AM Subject: Re: [Wikia-l] How does a Wikia bureaucrat flag a bot? Hi Robin, MakeBot extension is not yet available to bureaucrats; from what I've heard, it will be added sometimes in the near future and it's already in beta testing on WoWWiki . In the meanwhile, if you need a bot account flagged as such, please contact a member of Wikia's Community Team. Thanks, -Jack Phoenix ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list Wikia-l at wikia.com http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/genealogy-l/attachments/20070910/e30239a9/attachment.html From robinp at xtra.co.nz Fri Sep 14 06:09:04 2007 From: robinp at xtra.co.nz (Robin Patterson) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:09:04 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Fw: [Wikia-l] YouTube videos in templates Message-ID: <0a7101c7f6c3$e31665e0$912a58db@633> [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site ----- Original Message ----- From: Catherine Munro To: Central Wikia Mailing List Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:42 AM Subject: [Wikia-l] YouTube videos in templates Hey all, Wanted you to know we'd found a way to allow YouTube videos to be used within templates, without the need for template substitution. Please see http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Template_talk:YouTube for documentation -- feel free to copy the template into your local wiki and adapt it to your own purposes. Have fun! Catherine [[User:CatherineMunro]] Wikia Community Team -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list Wikia-l at wikia.com http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/genealogy-l/attachments/20070914/fe224a4e/attachment.html From robinp at xtra.co.nz Thu Sep 20 15:56:58 2007 From: robinp at xtra.co.nz (Robin Patterson) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:56:58 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] County pages - please see and discuss new draft model Message-ID: <001001c7fb9f$23f9e520$926636d2@633> http://genealogy.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:County_Pages_Idea&t=20070919121908#.22Model_County.2C_Statename.22_articles Only one respondent in about 8 days since I posted it. I guess the rest of you are too busy granny-hunting and granny-documenting to look at the Forum very often. If you can't get the above link to work, just go to http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:County_Pages_Idea and read the first three paragraphs of the section headed ""Model County, Statename" articles" (which you will probably find fastest by clicking that item at or near the bottom of the Table of Contents). Read the rest if you like but please concentrate on my initial paragraphs. I've done a few pages using the model. I've also done a few dozen corresponding county categories, which are much easier. I can do one every two minutes, including the time taken to look up Wikipedia's county page to find the incorporation year. Maybe a bot could do all except the lookup part and thereby save us dozens of hours? [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/genealogy-l/attachments/20070921/59bda1de/attachment.html From wmwillis at earthlink.net Wed Sep 26 20:02:42 2007 From: wmwillis at earthlink.net (Bill) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:02:42 -0400 Subject: [Genealogy-l] new "skins" Message-ID: <1C4B61F3-6087-46E0-829E-57F7329A600E@earthlink.net> For those concerned with display of wiki pages... Wikia has added two new skins, quartzsmoke, and quartzslate. They are generally similar. I'd describe them as a bit more "arresting" then the usual monobook. Quartz slate is somewhat more "in your face", but both add some attractive display features To test them out go to your preferences (usually in top right area of screen), and click preferences. Then on the screen that appears click "skins", and choose preview for whichever skin you are interested in. Most folks use monobook, but there are some who like "Cologne Blue" For me, one of the drawbacks of the new skins (as attractive as they may be), is that you end up loosing display area for the actual page. Possibly a bit easier to navigate though, and they definitely look sharper. I'll personally probably stick with Monobook, but you may like the new choices. Or even find that you have choices you didn't know you had. Bill