User talk:Sxerks

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Spotlight
Hey Sxerks, is it alright if I could put up the new spotlights?--White Flash (Contact) 00:03, January 1, 2013 (UTC)

Voice Actors
Excuse me, but would you like me to make infoboxes for the voice actors? I know some sites where I'm able to get photos of them, and if I find additional info, I'd be happy to expand their articles. I just noticed they're rather lack-luster in many ways compared to other articles. Thank you. FallenShadow  &bull;   Talk   &bull;   Email
 * I'll see what I can do.--Sxerks (talk) 16:09, January 15, 2013 (UTC)
 * Just passing by, but I saw a couple of infoboxes that would be a nice fitting for the voice actor pages (English and Japanese). Here's what I have so far, hey Sxerks, whenever you have some free time can you check out ? It's a little complex for me, it has SMW coding.--White Flash (Contact) 18:48, January 21, 2013 (UTC)
 * Seems kinda complicated, where did you get it from. It shouldn't have SMW in it, don't know why it does.--Sxerks (talk) 22:46, January 21, 2013 (UTC)
 * I got it from Narutopedia.--White Flash (Contact) 22:52, January 21, 2013 (UTC)

Animangafooter
I was wondering if you would take a look at this. Also, I hope you don't mind me archiving 2012 talk page and starting 2013. 06:54, January 15, 2013 (UTC)
 * replied on that talk page.--Sxerks (talk) 16:09, January 15, 2013 (UTC)

Manhwa?
The Animangafooter contains 'Transfer Student Storm Bringer' which really isn't a manga. Can I or should I remove it? 04:52, January 16, 2013 (UTC)
 * we have manhwa here, so it's fine, just not cartoons and comics.--Sxerks (talk) 06:28, January 16, 2013 (UTC)

Old anime wiki
Sxerks, when wikia killed the old anime wiki they killed off a bunch of reference, licensing info, source data for the mascot being used, etc... without it being copied anywhere else.

I talked with a staff member awhile ago and he decided that restoring that needs a community discussion (https://docs.google.com/document/d/13kqQFc18Tsa96NMEtmCoSk1lFrOLH3aqDRoQ9Uy5m74/pub).

Though it looks like Wikia went and broke the forums here too. I'm not sure where to start a community discussion. ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk) 07:14, March 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * Ya, that was a while ago. Don't they usually make a database dump or archive of a wiki before they close it?


 * I didn't notice the Forums were messed up, since I never use them, but looks like "?action=purge" fixes them.--Sxerks (talk) 15:11, March 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * Else try adding.
 * Anyways not the reason why I am here.
 * Could anyone please remove this from Anime-Common.css:
 * ~ Ultimate  Supreme  17:10, March 12, 2013 (UTC)

Voice Actors
Would it be alright if I copied some iBox related templates here and made a Voice Actor template that put information into Semantic Properties? I'd think it be nicer than linking to wikipedia for voice actors on many anime wikis. And if wanted, spiff up some of the other templates. — S im A nt 21:17, March 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * It looks like some of the ibox templates are here, there was some work on VA templates if you look a couple header up on my talk page. Maybe contact those people and see what is in common. And yes, it would be better if things link here instaed of wikipedia.  As for Semantic properties, it would be ok as long as they didn't interfere with any of the current properties.--Sxerks (talk) 21:42, March 12, 2013 (UTC)
 * Should the Voice actor pages contain information about non-voice acting roles? — S im A nt 22:08, March 12, 2013 (UTC)
 * It's an article about the person, so any info on them appropriate.--Sxerks (talk) 22:58, March 12, 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, apparently somewhere along the line this bug fix was omitted in the transfer between the old anime wiki. Could you place

.box.infobox dl dl, .box.infobox ul ul { margin-left: 15px !important; } in Mediawiki:Anime-Common.css. Thanks — S im A nt 21:34, March 13, 2013 (UTC)
 * I changed the template to be one for a person instead of only a voice actor. Could you take a look at Special:FormEdit/Person/User:Simant/Sandbox and tell me your thoughts about it. What is missing, etc. The css for the form is here — S im A nt 19:57, March 14, 2013 (UTC)


 * VA's like Rie Kugimiya have a lot of roles, and those make up most the the article, that info is too much for an infobox. Other than that, it looks good.--Sxerks (talk) 20:08, March 14, 2013 (UTC)
 * I can set the box to be collapsed so the voice actors, etc. only show if the user clicks it. Would that work? Edit: Also we can change the css so that the linespacing is less between items. — S im A nt  20:25, March 14, 2013 (UTC)
 * The infoboxes are just going to be too long, and the info really shouldn't be hidden. I think a default loaded template like Template:SeriesDefault would work in the article page with different sections like "intro text" then headers for each job type with a default comment of "remove this section if not applicable" under each header.--Sxerks (talk) 20:57, March 14, 2013 (UTC)
 * So should I either make the template that is like SeriesDefault part of the form, along with the text before it as part of the template, or not part of the form like http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto:_Clash_of_Ninja#Playable_Characters? — S im A nt 17:49, March 15, 2013 (UTC)
 * Can it even be part of a form and display in a separate section of the page?--Sxerks (talk) 18:49, March 15, 2013 (UTC)
 * The problem is that the form puts the template before the main text of the page. So either the text content before the voice actors has to be in the form. Although I had a thought, if Variables extension was installed, I could try storing the values in that and using a simple template later in the page to reference the variable. Although the array extension may be better for this purpose, i'll play around a bit on a wiki that has them installed. — S im A nt 18:58, March 15, 2013 (UTC)
 * Probably just load it like the SeriesDefault is then, and not have it part of the form.--Sxerks (talk) 19:04, March 15, 2013 (UTC)
 * okay, did like you suggested, could you ask wikia to enable the Extension:Variables? — S im A nt 02:12, March 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * Ok, I got an email back that it has been enabled.--Sxerks (talk) 23:58, March 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * Check out User:Simant/Sandbox, Special:FormEdit/Person/User:Simant/Sandbox, if you want I can enabled it so edit with form shows up on category:Person. Also about the changes to Mediawiki:Anime-Common.css I asked for earlier, I made a mistake, while that works for stuff in infoboxes it doesn't work on the css class causing the problem itself (which is why my sandbox entries aren't indented). So remove the previous css and put in under where "/* Lists -Dantman */" is.

.list-noicon ul ul { margin-left: 15px !important;} , thanks. — S im A nt 04:30, March 18, 2013 (UTC)

We have a Category:People already in use (instead of person). Each of the Occupation check boxes should also add a corresponding category to the article.--Sxerks (talk) 05:32, March 18, 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd prefer to redirect a category to a semantic concept instead of a category. — S im A nt 04:45, March 19, 2013 (UTC)
 * Is there a manual of style type thing, I should use as the default text upon creation of a company page? Also I was wondering if you wanted me to make a page like http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Special:RunQuery/Weapon_query for the series to run since the drilldown is broken. — S im A nt 23:18, March 22, 2013 (UTC)
 * There wasn't really one for the people pages either, I think they are generally Wikipedia copies for the style. Maybe like Gianax with the infobox (minus the products), and then "basic info" at the top, with the following headers below: History,Series(with what roll they did, production/animation...),References. Wikipedia isn't consistent at them either.
 * And since Drilldown isn't working we can try the RunQuery, I'm not sure what the individual drop-downs should be though.--Sxerks (talk) 00:42, March 23, 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay check out http://animanga.wikia.com/wiki/Special:RunQuery/Series_query, although since it uses properties that users have typed out and there isn't a list of allowed values there are some "duplicates" (such as different letter cases, extra words). Also, I am unsure about what the Tag field is for, or how it differs from genre. — S im A nt 01:43, March 23, 2013 (UTC)
 * looks like a good start. What any/all means really isn't clear to me.  Yes, we need to clean up the dups.  The Tags field is for non-genre descriptions of items or things that happen, it may have been misused.--Sxerks (talk) 02:26, March 23, 2013 (UTC)
 * Should the genres be like http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/search/genre and the tags be like themes? I can use those as allowed values. and we can go through http://animanga.wikia.com/wiki/Property:Has_improper_value_for to find problems. — S im A nt 16:56, March 23, 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure.--Sxerks (talk) 19:08, March 23, 2013 (UTC)
 * Could you please add the content from User:Simant/wikia.css to Mediawiki:Common.css. Thanks. — S im A nt 03:41, March 26, 2013 (UTC)

Template:Series
http://animanga.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Series?curid=2026&diff=18752&oldid=18745 The template Template:SemanticInputParser/Array has an arraymap in it. Also the Drilldown template that was there before references semantic drilldown which is not working at the moment. The template I put in uses searchbyproperty. Is there a problem of it not working as expected on series pages? — S im A nt 04:45, March 22, 2013 (UTC)
 * It doesn't work, it changed the "media" check boxes to an open field.--Sxerks (talk) 14:28, March 22, 2013 (UTC)
 * That was a separate issue with the form not defining where it got its values from. I have since fixed it. — S im A nt 17:47, March 22, 2013 (UTC)
 * If it functions properly now you can re-add it.--Sxerks (talk) 19:04, March 22, 2013 (UTC)

Kakumeiki Valvrave
Hello! I went to add a page for Kakumeiki Valvrave since a wiki was just created for it and noticed that you deleted the page. I wasn't sure why but wanted to give you the wiki link just in case you want to recreate the page, thanks!

Grace 18:36, March 22, 2013 (UTC)

Special:Chat
I was thinking that instead of the animanga irc channel, that we could ask wikia staff if it was possible to redirect certain animanga wiki's to this site for chat, that could possible increase traffic here. — S im A nt 23:06, March 25, 2013 (UTC)
 * For the tables you could, but the data would have to be stored in semantic properties on the pages to query it. It would be something like List of Episodes. — S im A nt 04:01, March 28, 2013 (UTC)
 * Animanga_Wiki:Sandbox. Although other language information is not stored on series pages so i can't query that. And the wiki is still updating data for the new properties i created. — S im A nt 20:15, March 28, 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikia has the limit for a query set at 500, but i can create multiple queries with an offset since this is only on a single page rather than on hundreds of pages. — S im A nt 20:55, March 28, 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Info
Hey I was thinking instead of manually inputting data such as page count, we could try using the api http://naruto.wikia.com/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics&format=json along with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:External_Data (if wikia can enable a working version of it). With this the pages would get the info from the sites themselves as long as the wiki url is provided. — S im A nt 18:13, March 29, 2013 (UTC)
 * From how I understand it, this function would be on each series page through the templaet, it would only update when a person edits the page, or once a week when wikia's cron job is run, so it wouldn't add all that much load. It may be possible to get additional information from the api, but i have to research it more. — S im A nt 23:19, March 29, 2013 (UTC)
 * So may I special:Contact to attempt to enable it? — S im A nt 19:10, March 30, 2013 (UTC)
 * Basically, the answer from wikia is no. They said it would be too database heavy. — S im A nt 01:53, April 4, 2013 (UTC)

Question
Hello, I wanted to ask you if I can change the link from http://animanga.wikia.com/wiki/Kaich%C5%8D_wa_Maid-sama!. There are around 3 wikis about this anime, but our one, http://kaichouwamaidsama.wikia.com, is the most improved one. Efflorescence (talk) 11:30, March 30, 2013 (UTC)

Request from Wikia
Hi Sxerks,

We’re conducting a survey of Wikia’s most passionate Anime users. Your depth of knowledge on these topics inspires us to learn more about Anime and why it appeals to so many of our users. We’d appreciate if you took a few minutes to complete this short survey.

If you have any other Wikia friends that you think would be interested in taking this survey, please let me know!

Thanks, Abarlas (talk) 17:41, April 4, 2013 (UTC)

Take survey here: https://wikia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_dgRoStluxU61UeV

Series Template
I was wondering about changing the current setup of series pages. At the moment it contains related series in one page. I was thinking that instead they should be separated. I have been working on Form:Series2, and was wondering if I should finish it. — S im A nt 17:09, April 12, 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, if you get "Extension:Regex Fun" enabled I can implement a version of Template:SemanticInputParser which can take in piped links for things such as voice acting roles, where the wiki page name is not what is the desired page name. — S im A nt 18:04, April 12, 2013 (UTC)
 * I was thinking series like tenchi muyo which had alternate retellings should have different genre/tags/plot, so it wouldn't do a proper search. there are some pages already that have separate series that direct to the same wiki To Heart/To Heart 2, Shaman King/Shaman King: Flowers, and probably a few more. — S im A nt 02:50, April 15, 2013 (UTC)
 * Bump. — S im A nt 02:11, April 24, 2013 (UTC)

What is the standard format for Profile Pages?
I was looking at Sket Dance's page and others and basing its format for other pages. I come across Shingeki no Kyojin, and it has a list of chapters and a media section or Hungry Joker that actually links their chapter lists to their wiki pages. I don't think that's fair for the other Wikia communities here.

I'm new here. I don't know the format for the anime series profile pages. 20:20, April 18, 2013 (UTC)

On second thought, the sense of competition in getting editors is probably the reason for the variation in profile pages. I take the back the "fairness" part. It's up to the individual to promote the Wikia in any way. 20:27, April 18, 2013 (UTC)

Okay, I'll remove them. 18:44, April 20, 2013 (UTC)

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TopNav linkback
I noticed that in addition to a checkbox for if the footer is on the homepage there is also a box for topnav. Could we include in the template guidelines on how to incorporate these features?

I added a link to animanga at w:c:GuP but I am not sure if it is in the right spot, it is on the upper right, is that how I should do it on all wikis I admin for?

Also wondering if the series template could do something like add 2 subcategories to Category:Series with Wikis like Category:Wikis with footers when the box is checked or Category:Wikis without footers when it isn't, so that we could easily check on which are properly linking back to Animanga as is expected when we advertise that wikia project on a page here.

Something similar could also work for TopNav although I can't think of what to call those subcategories. +Yc 23:46, May 1, 2013 (UTC)

Form Reverted
I don't understand what you mean by "not yet", why was this reverted? It didn't add any additional fields that were not there already. — S im A nt 00:36, May 5, 2013 (UTC)