User talk:Sxerks

Auto Message
Hi, welcome to Animanga Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Gakuen Alice page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Dantman (Talk) 20:28, July 15, 2009


 * Your welcome, automated message.--Sxerks 20:37, 15 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Heh, hilarious. Just so you know the delete template has a mode for mistakes and obvious deletions like the one you marked. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)


 * Sxerks, after you've copied an article for a base, could you try cleaning up the article. Sections like the character list can be removed, you can use the template to help link wiki relevant pages to the wiki, and trim the page to what's relevant to just the series. Like the intro and plot summary. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)


 * Animanga Wiki serves as a hub, with common articles as you mentioned, as well I plan to emphasize the social community a bit more. Draw users here to find other wiki by setting up general forums and user profiles later.
 * Series that don't currently have a wiki get the same treatment as other pages, the box suggests the creation of a wiki for any series without one. (Of course people can create wiki that combine relevant series together).
 * As for anime.wikia and manga.wikia I dunno, ideally those would just die off later. I've added a sitenotice to anime, added animanga to Anime, and in the future I'll probably tweak Wikia's hub and suggest a sitenotice on manga.wikia. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)
 * Btw you can ignore missing templates like the book cite. I don't have the main sync que here, I'm slowly creating a new one. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)

Template:Animangafooter
can we add this animanga hub to the footer, as part of the reverse promotion requirement? see w:Template:Animangafooter Gin-san (Talk) 13:32, September 9, 2009 (UTC)

delete blog post?
can I request for help to delete the 'testing blog post' I made? didn't expect it to turn up on the animanga main page, sorry! Gin-san (Talk) 11:54, September 15, 2009 (UTC)

Logos
Just a small note but, adding logos to articles isn't really necessary. If you want that I can get the series template to do that automatically later, you can pull those manual logos out. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)

RE: logos and series template and xml
Aye, they are not categories, they are semantic annotations. Categories are limited, they only group pages at a flat level and you have to create a new page for each category (they aren't flexible). Semantic annotations associate a page (subject), by a property (what is the data about), and a value (the data for that property). This is a much more flexible methodology where we can do things like associate a series (page), by genre (property), with the "Action" genre (value). I can add a search icon up top like I did in the infoboxes on souleater.

Rather than XML semantics we annotate the page with can actually be extracted, used to browse the wiki, and used to generate lists on-wiki. As for the xml itself, I don't think that kind of data is particularly helpful. ANN and various other sources already have that kind of info, and that kind of info itself doesn't make for good starting info for wiki. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)


 * My preference is "Slice of Life" and "Science Fiction" (all lower is good for page text, but in lists up there title case is nicer). In any case Semantic MediaWiki normalizes by redirect, So if you create Slice of Life and redirect Slice of life, Slice-of-life, and Slice-of-Life to it then whatever people uses they will all properly normalize to Slice of Life.
 * Edit with Form, is part of Semantic Forms which is an extension to Semantic MediaWiki. To do those kind of things we'd need to create pages here which sorta voids the purpose. Also I really don't like the idea of mandating that kind of format. Wikis can do a lot better job than that, just take a look at w:c:souleater:Soul Resonance: Soul Eater, Becoming a Death Scythe?. External tools are never a nice way to create interleaving links, if you aren't going to do that manually the system should be built into the wiki. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)


 * Semantic forms only modifies templates. Basically it works by creating a template via form, and using form fields to populate the template. SF wouldn't be able to extract that data back out to let you modify it if it weren't a template. You might want to consider preloads instead. MediaWiki has a way of preloading text into the edit area when creating a new page. You can add a "Create a Page" input box somewhere like the main page (you can also add links to preloads in the area above the edit area in new page creation) and use the preload= parameter to tell MW to preload a page into the edit area when opening the edit page to create the page.
 * The real issue is that simply adding pages like that doesn't help. Remember the saying "Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime", that's the same issue here. Add a new page to a wiki, the wiki has a new page... that was an edit made to the wiki, that's it. The wiki still doesn't have someone dedicated to adding content to the wiki. Unless you are dedicating yourself to editing the wiki, just dropping a page or two into a empty wiki isn't going to help the wiki because it still doesn't have a community trying to improve it. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk) 06:57, September 20, 2009 (UTC)
 * Here's a good thing to think about. Naruto, Soul Eater, and this wiki. Narutopedia has over 2k articles and is the 8th most heavy traffic on all of Wikia. Soul Eater is growing, is passed the 200 article mark, and was only adopted by me last December. This wiki was only created back in May, now it's passed the 50 article mark. All three of these wiki, I barely write anything on, but at the same time when I first got here they had basically no content at all, and no community editing them.
 * How did these wiki get to this point? A cascade effect. I dedicated a period of time when I first adopted the wiki to creating content (not much in this wiki's case, it's a little unique), and at the same time browsed the internet on forums and whatever and promoted the wiki and drove people to the wiki (joined forums, got involved in discussions, kept a wiki link in my sig, and whenever making a discussion point linked things like character names to wiki articles or pointed to facts on-wiki as a source for a comment). This is how wiki start, an atom bomb. In fact an atomic bomb is actually a fairly good analogy for a wiki. The striking of one atom hits others breaking them, which in turn hit others and break them, which in turn hit more, and so on and combined together a single strike induces an exponentially growing number of mini-explosions which turn into a gigantic explosion of immense proportions. Just like that I act as a trigger, I create a bunch of pages, introduce contributors which continue in a chain reaction that brings more people to the wiki that create content which brings in readers contributors and continues to expand. The lifetime of a wiki is like an explosion or a fire. Started by a simple trigger a chain reaction is started, bits get absorbed into the explosion, bits die off while others are created, it grows, and quickly becomes unrelated to the originating trigger, in essence it continues to grow as long as there is fuel/potential content, oxygen/a community, and heat/articles. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)

Editing format
The style of markup use on the wiki is looking fairly unpleasant. A few notes to clean up:
 * is a needless template Wikia decided to copy from Wikipedia. Just use.
 * Never used them, unless I missed deleting them from a Wikipedia copy--Sxerks
 * is another pointless one which has the same purpose at which has been around Wikia for quite some time before they added that to the default list. In any case 99% of the time there is no reason for either template to show up in an article.
 * Never used them, unless I missed deleting them from a Wikipedia copy--Sxerks
 * and are actually intended to be used at the top of articles. In fact the css is directly written for that purpose, it's styling it for the opposite location it's being placed right now.
 * I know the css puts it there. It, of course, looks horrible at the top and is better situated at the bottom along with refs and notes. I assume you agree they look bad up there, or you would have moved them in the last few edits you did.--Sxerks
 * I left them be cause I left them be. I just didn't touch them for now. What was ugly about them at the top? They actually seem to look better up top here than they do on other wiki with that curved edge around the logo jutting in. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)
 * It's mainly a distraction, especially with 2 of them. I see "Wikipedia" + "FromWikia" as references to where the content came from just like normal refs and they should be down in that section.  The boxes themselves look fine, but the page looks better when it gets right to the text.--Sxerks
 * I've seen some articles with   being used to separate paragraphs instead of an empty line.
 * Never used them. Is the Rich Text Editor turned off on this wiki? might be coming from there.--Sxerks
 * Not disabled... depending on the case I might have to request it. Considering templates like translation it might be a good idea (RTE is bad with inline templates like that) ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)
 * I wrote a template awhile ago. It's fairly preferable rather than using interwiki links as you get to omit needles portions of the link.
 * Yep, forgot about it, though the only real difference is "c:", as the pagename and what is displayed may be different.--Sxerks
 * w:c:naruto:Naruto Uzumaki -> actually. Big point is you can omit the additional repetition of the article name in the display text. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)
 * Yep, I know, I was pointing out if you didn't want the full name displayed you end up using about the same amount of text.--Sxerks
 * has a |lit meaning= parameter for lit. text.
 * OK--Sxerks
 * ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)

re:Animanga link
LOL, we already have the Wikia Central Template:Animangafooter, the admin on one of my sites is already complaining that the sidebar navigation menu is too long :) and what's up with damn Wikia with those BIG edit counts on the top right of our user page?!?! Gin-san (Talk) 16:15, September 23, 2009 (UTC)

Re: Series Template
Type should already be editable. Something is wrong with the form, it should be displaying those as checkboxes. I suppose I could have a category or property for series with fanon wiki, though I don't know about that one. The point of that field is for series with fanon wiki separate from the main wiki, there are some primary series wiki that allow fanon on the wiki itself. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)

Re: Create article
Done. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)

RE: Personal images
Hey, thanks heaps for that, dude; you're an absolute champion. I've added a few more images to the gallery on my userpage; they're all covered by CC, so be my guest if you want to use them anywhere on this wiki. If you need a template or an image done for categories or whatever, just leave a message on my talkpage and I'll see what I can do. Ciao, TGcomix 11:13, October 20, 2009 (UTC)

PS: That adult anime wiki? Great site, thanx for the tip.


 * Meh, no biggie, my stuff gets deleted all the time; goes with the territory. I was thinking that the remaining pics could be used in terminology/definition articles (eg, Fanservice, Lolicon, Flash Game etc) if that's acceptable to everyone here. BTW: I was wondering - is it possible to upload flash files here? If so, I could try to make an interactive banner for the site. If not, I could take a shot at making a simple animated gif banner, let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions.

wikia: Template:Animangafooter
What is the critiea for a wikia to be added to the Template:Animangafooter? Simant 02:28, November 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * Dan created it 2 years ago when there were a lot less wikis. So, at this point, there really isn't any criteria(maybe something with more than 200 pages?).  I don't know who uses it or why, if your wiki links back to this one in the sidebar you can easily find other wikis. Maybe it should be changed to mimic our spotlight instead of just a list, hmmmmm.--Sxerks 04:28, November 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * Interwiki transclusion has absolutely horrible caching. In addition to the page caches on individual wiki (which don't get purged when the template is modified), the interwiki transclusion has an additional horrid cache in between which results in old template data sticking around for a fair amount of time after the template is modified, even purging the cache doesn't change that. So don't do anything time sensitive with the template, you'll end up with old spotlights sticking around for days on wiki all over the place. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)
 * Ya, I was kinda concerned about that too, I've noticed it on my user-page template. Well, if it gets better/fixed in the future it might be an option.--Sxerks 14:41, November 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * ^_^ Don't hold your breath, you'll die. This bug is over 2 years old and doesn't look to be going anywhere. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)

KanzakaDex Animanga sidebar
Greetings, I read the message you left, and I would not be entirely against doing what you ask, but this sidebar page does not exist currently at our wiki (I tried creating it, but it adds a lot of default data I'm not sure I understand). If you could help out with that it would be welcome, although I should add that we already link to the Anime-Manga hub on our main page, so I'm not even sure if this is actually necessary. --Pip25 21:05, December 2, 2009 (UTC)

About The Grave Of The Fireflies
Hello, thank you for the nice welcome.

I would like to help you with as much as I can, but I can't seem to be able to upload a picture for it. Is there anyway I can be helped with this.

Love Hina Wiki now linked
Love Hina Wiki is now linked to animanga, thanks for telling me about this hub, i hadn't seen it ;D Uppfinnarn ( U / T ) 21:46, December 8, 2009 (UTC) Until recently when i picked it up, it was largely inactive... Uppfinnarn ( U / T ) 14:13, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

Zelda
Look Here, apparently zelda has several side mangas. Simant 02:55, December 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * interesting--Sxerks 16:59, December 27, 2009 (UTC)

I'm new
I'm new to the wiki I'm thinking about making my own anime show with InuYasha and Resident Evil characters the title is called JL the superhuman --

Sxerks, you don't need to tag pages with, you already have the ability to delete junk pages yourself. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)


 * I do know that, just giving them time to copy their stuff elsewhere before it was deleted.--Sxerks 15:07, December 29, 2009 (UTC)

Re: Hello Admin
I'll consider adding the tag to my sidebar; first i need to figure out how to play around with that sidebar, but for now articles come first. Just a warning about the SW Wiki: its intended use is not to inform new users/viewers about the show. its intended use is to show existing fans of the show all the period minutia they did not catch because they aren't the sort of people that slip on .303 brass when they get up to go to the toilet. (where they then begin reading "The Blonde Knight of Germany" or similar titles) Basically it is a place that exists so all of the cool things people point out do not disappear when the thread dies. If you add a link to it, please be sure to give adequate warning that the wiki is, broadly speaking, one giant spoiler.

Snugglemuffins 20:03, February 4, 2010 (UTC)

page
hey! ummmm i have a question.... i was writeing a page and saved and for some reason it wasnt saved under my account.... it is listed under an unregistered users page, is there anyway i can get it back??? --Honnie kuzaki 00:59, February 5, 2010 (UTC)

Hello
I added it. If I make another one, I can just add that to the sidebar too? I also com here to talk to you instead of at the other one?--Imanie 03:32, April 6, 2010 (UTC)

Added the sidebar to the Noir anime wiki! --Imanie 22:20, April 14, 2010 (UTC)

Kyattou Ninden Teyandee Wiki
I added link to your Anime/Manga Hub. Please add the link to my Wikia at http://animanga.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:List_of_Anime_and_Manga_Wikia#K

calendar to show birthdays of all anime/manga characters
moved topic to Forum:Calendar to show birthdays of all anime-manga characters

Vandalism/Spam?
this guy and all his edits.

Add "Contains Japanese text" notice
Almost every page on this Wikia contains Japanese text so the special rendering additions may be required to view the pages correctly.

I propose to add a notice like this to the main page that most articles contains Japanese text.

I suggest not everyone expectes to see Japanese characters in the English-language wikia.

-- Teyandee 18:01, April 18, 2010 (UTC)

Anime Wiki List Concerns
Okay, I've noticed that new Wikis share the same color marker as abandoned ones. I think we should segregate new Wikis from the abandoned ones because by default, new Wikis tend to have less than 25 articles in it. Abandoned ones should be marked in gray while new Wikis go with the same color as before. Or mark the "Checked" column with a conspicuous color so that Wikis that need active mods can be distinguishable. Herald of meridian 08:10, May 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Currently abandoned wikis are distinguishable by the white "ADOPT" link.--Sxerks 02:02, May 6, 2010 (UTC)

w:c:zeronotsukaima
I have tried. I put in for it then it put hold and then it got dropped. This is after have had edited about ten pages. I'm still new at this. The hole wikia structure who on first and what on second as who is who. I'm working on web page setup. Some using the menu and some looking at other source code and put that in my web page. I expect at some point someone else will start adding things. I'm not much for the cut and paste like I see in some of other web pages. I pointed the main page to some of the stuff that was already there working on a top down. I may try to adopt again. The problem I had beginning was the top page was lock for editing. So only thing could work on was anything below that. The last edit before I start adding thing was last year. I started by going through the amine list and found one I watched and non or little edit.

Rockmanwikia

Hi
i dont need any help thanks..... :( sad

Reborn Wikia
Hey, I just noticed the Reborn Wiki wikia ain't in the anime/manga footer, cud u please add it?..AlienGamer (userpage &#8285; talk) 15:27, May 29, 2010 (UTC)

List
Then do I remove their article pages or just the wiki that links to them? Their pages are pretty small and have no real information on them like the more established wikis. That's also not the link to the noir anime wiki anymore, it's just noir. --Imanie 17:10, June 14, 2010 (UTC)

Terms
Umm, are the terms I'm making ok? And if so.. should I make my own definition, or continue to copy and cite wikipedia if I don't feel like writing for it? >.>

Also, should there be multiple pages for genres or should there only be one page with all the genre links on them (Like the Japanese honorific page I made). For instance, Comedy and like Action are pretty well known but their links are all red, so i don't think they need their own page, but.. they have no links D:

If I shouldn't be creating pages.. then.. sorry. :( --Imanie 21:52, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

MAN!
what do i have to do or the requirements on my xXxHolic wiki becoming featured Animanga Wiki or spotlight wiki!--LaughingVampire1990 11:35, July 1, 2010 (UTC)

Importing anime and manga over from Wikipedia before its destroyed
For quite some time now, a group over at Wikipedia have been sending batches of Anime and Manga articles to AFD each week. These are always listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Anime_and_manga so they are easy to find. This includes those that have been published in notable manga magazines, which more often than not, get deleted do to lack of coverage in third party media sources. If you want a fast way to add to your Wiki, and save articles that deserve to be saved, then that's a good place to grab some to export from Wikipedia, and import over here. Only administrators can use the import command of course.  D r e a m Focus  05:26, July 8, 2010 (UTC)

SPICE N WOLF Wikia!
I left a message on the Spice n wolf wiki; plz don't 4get 2 show it some love when u can :) Thnx

ArchiveList
Hey umm, I would like you to check this and find out about the problem. The aloof cloud drifting along• the saling winds

UPDATING THE animanga footer
Hey, I was wondering how to update the Animanga footer 'cause my wiki is going to be one of the spotlights this month.

The arrow has left the bow of the godess

Oh really? we're not gonna do the work? haha. All right, would i still give you the 54px pic?

Hey
Hey, Dude, I loved your work on the skin for the Index wikia. I was wondring if you knew any sites, for tips to create a custom skin. The Reborn Wikia still has the default, as none of the admins created one. Any kind of link/tip/help will be really apprecitaed...AlienGamer (Userpage ⁝ Talk) 11:28, July 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanx dude. I'll try the obsession. Maybe try and tweak it a little..AlienGamer (Userpage ⁝ Talk) 16:09, July 30, 2010 (UTC)

About the Footer
Sxerks, Divinecross here,

I want to tell you something because I recently logged out in the Fushigi Yuugi Wiki, and the footer is still in the July Spotlights. However, before I logged out, I remembered to check the footer on the main page and it's on the august spotlights. Surely there's a problem with it.

--kakonomomone 16:56, August 1, 2010 (UTC)

New Wiki
Since there is no Mitsudomoe wiki,i think i want to make a wiki so could you add the wiki pu to list of anime and all!--RainbowQueen 09:22, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

SIDEBAR
Wait, I'll be adding it back.

Formatting
Umm, just wondering, are you good with formatting tables, making templates, and etc.?

Click here to reply

Do we need a new look?
Honestly, I'm finding this Wiki severely lacking in the layout category. I know we're soon gonna switch to Oasis (if the higher-ups from Wikia deem so), but I think we should plan on at least sprucing this up before the big switch to Oasis. The "blue-on-almost-everything" layout is getting too boring and it looks like it's done with less interest than some of the Wiki sites.

What do you think? heraldofmeridian♣ 08:17, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Formatting
okay.

Site counter isn't working
Hey Sxerks, about two weeks ago the Most Visted Pages segment of my wikia, appleseed.wikia.com stopped counting traffic, with the homepage stuck at 4090 hits. We have been getting slow but steady traffic since, (visitors are voting on a site survey I have), but it's not getting logged. Any way to kick-start or reset the counter?

I was also wondering if there's any syntax for a per-article hit counter, using the data found on the Most Visited Pages. Kind of like the syntax that people use to say how many articles they have on the site.

Thanks,

Moonraker-6 18:55, September 8, 2010 (UTC)

Gunslinger Girl Wikia
Hey Sxerks. It's me, the admin from the Appleseed Wikia. Lately I've been hanging out on the Gunslinger Girl Wikia, as I like the series, and similar to Appleseed, don't find very much about it online. It's a fairly new and underdeveloped wiki with three contributors, no Oasis interface, and a lot of unoriginal Wikipedia text. I'd like to become a co-admin, or at least get in touch with the current administrator, so I can get permission to give the site an overhaul, design an Oasis interface, and write some articles. Can you find out who runs the site so I can chat with them?

Check out Appleseed Wikia for an example of my work. I took it from a few articles to fifty, with two interface changes, in the last six months working on my own. I'd love to help develop Gunslinger Girl Wikia the same way.

PS, could you add Gunslinger Girl Wikia to the Animanga Footer directory? It's not there right now, and I'm sure the exposure would help with traffic.

Thanks!

Moonraker-6 20:41, October 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the quick response and for adding the link, Sxerks. Waiting a reply from Community Central regarding the adoption request. Moonraker-6 20:45, October 12, 2010 (UTC)

Adoption questions
Hey, my adoption request for the Gunslinger Girl wiki is currently on hold, because I haven't written enough articles yet to convince Community Central to change the adminship. When an application's on hold, do you wait for Community Central to respond with their final decision later, or do you have to submit another adoption request to find out? Don't want this domain to slip through my fingers, will do whatever it takes to get it!

Thanks again Sxerks -- Moonraker-6 02:38, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

The New Look - Anime/MangaSidebar link
The Sidebar link doesn't work on Oasis for some reason. Thought I might point that out...AlienGamer (Userpage ⁝ Talk) 02:41, October 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * How about asking the Staff to set the link for Anime under the "Entertainment" section of the Wikia header to the hub. What better place to be linked to, than the Anime/Manga Hub..AlienGamer (Userpage ⁝ Talk) 04:20, October 19, 2010 (UTC)