Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal

Revenge of the Fallen
I think we really need at least one helper here to deal with things about Revenge of the Fallen, since there are too many unconfirmed infomations and rumors, besides, many new related articles are written in poor quality (including layout). -- TX55   TALK  05:14, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

About Wikia - RecentChange
Okay, first is MediaWiki:Recentchangestext become very... "simple" (several things was cut and made the template become very weird like this.

And then, "Show new changes starting from TIME, DATE" disappeared. Any one know why? -- TX55   TALK  14:01, 5 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, we've been doing some maintenance on the interface... removing some of the excess that's built up over the years. Mediawiki does tend towards over-technical wordyness at times :)  Of course, each wiki can over-ride the global defaults with local changes if they prefer.  Local admins just need to edit the mediawiki pages here, and the local versions will be shown instead of the Wikia global ones.  So if you feel something is too simple now, you can change it back (but think of the newbies! ;) -- sannse (talk) 17:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, I understand now. ;-D (But I think those aren't really excess, though. It's very convenient.^^) By the way, I know about local overriding but I'm still not familiar with the MediaWiki, which entry from MediaWiki should I edit in order to restore "Show new changes starting from TIME, DATE"? And what is it source code (like using which template or tags) to create "Show new changes starting from (TIME, DATE)"? Thanks again. ^^ -- TX55   TALK  02:39, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


 * You can usually find the right page by searching though the text of Special:AllMessages.. For this one, you need to edit MediaWiki:Rclistfrom to say "Show changes since $1" (no quotes). -- sannse (talk) 10:39, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


 * OH, that's very convenient. And I just restore the setting. Thanks a lot!! ;-D -- TX55   TALK  15:22, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

The ads which ruin the layout
Well, I know it is an old issue ^^, but it is really a "bit" of incovenience. Is there any chance to:


 * make the landscape ads (the upper one) more on-center than on-right?


 * remove the square ads (the left one) since it is much harder to handle and often ruin the layout.

-- TX55   TALK  02:50, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry, but the ads can't be changed. Remember the main page ads are the only external ads you see if you are logged in. -- sannse (talk) 10:41, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


 * That's okay :D but I remember I saw some sites only have the landscape ads (That is one of the reasons I post the section).

Rampant vandalism, w/ no banning?:
See Arcee (G1) and Ravage (Movie).


 * I'm sorry, but I don't get your point. -- TX55   TALK  15:25, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Switching to the new parser
Hi,

We are currently making preparations for the next wiki software upgrade. While we expect this to have little or no effect on most wikis, it may cause some pages on this wiki to render poorly. To help reduce or eliminate these issues, please see the Central Forums for more details.

Thanks - sannse (talk) 13:36, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

We got a problem
Template:Episodenav seem to be broken and I can't figure out the key point. Plus...(please don't laugh at me) I don't know how to use "report the problem". OMG. -- TX55   TALK  14:08, 18 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I've asked Uberfuzzy, our resident template guru, to come over and help. This is probably a side-effect of the switch to the new parser (see above) -- sannse (talk) 15:21, 20 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Got it, Thank you! ;-D -- TX55   TALK  16:40, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, I... stopped the parser from complaining about the loop, but I would only lightly call it "fixed". Its still some pretty heavily linked code, all i did was safely (i think, only did some basic testing) split it into separate templates so that the parser wouldnt see it as a loop anymore. I'll put this wiki on my list of wikis to comeback to once we're doing flipping to everyone to the new parser to see if theres better cleanup that needs to be done. --Uberfuzzy 18:09, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * *chortles unprofessionally* I beat my head against a wall for 10 days on that thing before I figured out the right solution.
 * I look forward to the depths of your existential horror when you realize that there are actually two separate implementations of the undocumented lovecraftian episode-nav guts template living side-by-side on the wiki (and possibly partially intertwined like incestuous hillbillies, I forget) to either be sorted out or percussively updated in perpetuity. We were in the middle of iteratively moving from one to the other when we decided to leave Wikia-- and so we left them, conjoined and suffering, for you to deal with.
 * Weep at their liminality, for your tears are delicious to me, and nurture my blackened hate-filled heart! love and kisses,    -Derik, tfwiki.net
 * Thank you very much!! It is back in function now! ^^ -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 15:32, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Our "new user"
Well, no offenSe, but it's about our "new user". I really don't like others who post message in my name, it is "a little bit" troublesome. Because IT IS NOT me. Can we change User:Wikia's welcome note into:


 * ''Hi, welcome to Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the (page name).
 * ''If you have any problem, you can leave a message on the most active user's talk page(which use "&action=edit&section=new" within the link).
 * -- User:WikiaTalk 05:38, 2009 March 19

At least don't sign a name who doesn't post the message. I believe there must be someone else who is being troubled by this bot user. I apologize if I'm being not polite. :) -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 06:59, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

And it even welcomes the vandalizer. May I ban the bot for few days before we have any further method to work it out?
 * User talk:205.235.57.1 - Beta
 * User talk:194.80.135.122 - U-Haul Robot

-- TX55   TALK </SUP> 15:11, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello, anyone here? -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 07:52, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, just to make sure you know how to disable this or change the welcome message, there are full instructions on the user page. -- sannse (talk) 13:15, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Oooh, how silly I am. I must be too flustered(?) to miss the instruction. Thanks for noticing! ^^ -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 14:57, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Um, is there any way to idetify User:Wikia as a bot account on RecentChanges? -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 16:36, 7 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Sure, I've set it as a bot -- sannse (talk) 17:00, 7 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks! ;-D -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 05:59, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

New admin recruiting
I think we need another one or two admins, because only one is quite not enough. -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 13:05, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * What an admin should do?
 * Patrolling RecentChanges and Upload log


 * Removing/Deleting vandalizing (normal users have the responsibility, too)
 * Banning vandalizer for 1 year


 * Giving certain users, , , , , and other User notice templates. (normal users have the responsibility, too)


 * Revising out-verse into in-universe, especially the contents under certain section such as Fiction section. (normal users have the responsibility, too)
 * (No) "In the episode B.O.T., we saw A kicked B's butt."
 * (Okay) "A kicked B's butt.


 * Filling information to new files without any description/information, especially copyright informations. If you don't know the source/artist, place / or both. (normal users have the responsibility, too)
 * Tagging low-res images with
 * Deleting bad-named file. Such as MEG-1.jpg or 12839r475tr5bv.jpg. (normal users have the responsibility, too)


 * Deleting/Removing leak information (including review from stolen toys), fan stuff, any nonofficial products ...etc (normal users have the responsibility, too)

By the way, I found I cannot access to Special:UserRights. IIRC, isn't all the sysop can access the page? -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 04:02, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I think only Bureaucrats or higher can do that, which would be Nova81426, who hasn't edited since 2005. Can someone at Wikia turn TX55 into a Bureaucrat? --Tetrap 03:19, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Admin identifying
Um, how to identifying the admin in recent changes or page history? Such as highlighting the user name or placing a icon besides the user name. Thanks! ;-D -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 13:48, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Category editing
Is there any way to make it stay in code view? Thanks. ;-D -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 03:47, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

ATENTION ANIMATED FANS

 * Moved from Talk:Transformers Animated -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 13:37, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

I have been using the "Animated screen captures" on almost every Transformers Animated cartoon screencap but there are still some that I have missed. I have already done the characters and the episodes' screens and now I need you to check the other TV animated Screencaps and put down "Animated screen captures" on their Categorys. Thank you. Mr. Serious 11:48, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

TFA episodes that is not broadcast yet
Okay, someone gave me a noticeh. Some episodes hasn't be broadcast on it broadcasting date (ex: Human Error pt1 on 4/18 but the page content came up on 4/17), why it show up on this site? Is it legal-and-not-leak? Just ask for sure. Because I just hear some of the 3rd season episode has been leaked to YouTube. -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 14:16, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

A kid's game
Does it seem to you that this wikia seems a bit too...casual? Jokes are littered all over the text and most notably, in picture captions. It's not bad or anything, just seems informal and uncomfortable. And it seems like my username carries over to other wikias, yet not this one. Would that mean this is not an "official side wiki?" Then again, my username only carries on two wikias...but I've only checked five wikias in terms of my username, not counting wikipedia itself...but the other one that doesn't have my username is definitely a strange branch of the .wikia.coms...though it is probably the best wikia I've ever seen.


 * That... has been questioned over and over. The site is written in various required factor with relax style in captions and several articles. informal and uncomfortable? It depend on users' feeling. As for the username, this happens to me in another wikia few months before. That might be related to the system bug. -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 03:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

I kinda enjoy the humor on this site, I say yes to humor, no to spoilers, false information, and using another user's ID, as long as It's not bad I don't have a problem with it.--Razorstrike 03:11, 2 May 2009 (UTC)Razorstrike

We got a serious problem.
Probably some of you have noticed... every time when there is a new material (recently, those are about ROTF and TFA s3) such as new toy photos, new trailers, even unconfirmed/non official or stolen leak info come out, there will be "several" users (registered or anon) who get too excited and add those info in badly written way. Most of them are written out universe (break the fourth wall), speculation, capitalization-less, bad grammar and so on.

If any of you see these, you need to help the site to fix it, clean it, remove it. Because if no one do it, the site will became a ... mess some day. Thank you every much. -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 13:12, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

NO MORE COPY FROM TFWIKI
OKAY, I'm very pissed off now.

PLEASE DO NOT copy the whole article from TFWIKI again! I don't care what the GFDL thing, JUST DON'T COPY ANY ARTICLES!

The recent case is Jennifer Witwicky. Some newpage bastard start a crap, then some users replicated the whole page from TFwiki. Even "*Her character brings up some interesting philosophical/ethical/religious questions that TFWiki is now forced to tackle." showed up.

So, I delete the page and tried to rewrite it, but it turn out "not-so-well", since I don't have much source.

That's fine. BUT I become the scapegoat since I've delete the page once, making I'm the only contributor. So, I get blamed, with bad word, making me a completely plagiarizer.

What am I saying is, PLEASE DO NOT copy the whole article from TFWIKI again! Next time banned.

I'm sorry if I've being very rude in the section. -- TX55   TALK </SUP> 05:49, 20 April 2009 (UTC)


 * TX is right, there's a reason there's two different wikis. Damned if I know what it is, but we need to actually use original material here, not shameless plagiarism. What are we, Denis Leary or something? Jeep! 06:17, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

email updates

 * Moved from User talk:TX55

Lately, when I check my webmail for updates to pages on my watchlist, some of the links are cut off immediately after the character name; has anyone else had this problem? Xeno the Hedgehog 23:51, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't have the problem since I don't use the feature often so far. @@ -- TX55  <SUP> TALK </SUP> 03:06, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

I am confused. I came to this wiki because I thought it was a serious collection of Transformers data. After reading the first article I found that all of the photo inserts have nothing but jokes in the captions. Lame jokes at that. Leave the comidy to the pro's. Another good wiki idea, ruined by immature wannabe's.

SABOTAGE

 * ''Originally post on Talk:Unicron

That's why we need new admins, and I've sent a e-mail to the staff for requesting adding Jeep! as a new admin and four more users with rollback button. But I haven't received any reply yet. -- TX55  <SUP> TALK </SUP> 12:37, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Proposed Change For Maurice LaMarche page

 * Moved to Talk:Maurice LaMarche

Bullet points
Actually, it's been a while. When using IE and Fire Fox (from 3.0, not for older version such as 2.0), the bullet point lay over the picture, not to mention the picture lays over the message box such as Template:Stub. Can the problem be fixed? Thanks. -- TX55  <SUP> TALK </SUP> 02:53, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

How to edit Special:Upload
As title, I think Special:Upload page need some changes, but I don't know its MediaWiki page name, does anyone know how to edit it? Thanks. :D -- TX55  <SUP> TALK </SUP> 01:41, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Image captions

 * ''Moved from Talk:Main Page

I don't find them funny and I bet not many people do. I have been on many wikis and I have never seen one like this. It has good content but what is with the captions?  Chester  Talk  15:14, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Welcome to the minority group. The rules say that "the funny stays", so there's no changing that. Be sure to check out pages like the Blasty Zone and the Liar Starscream to see just how 'funny' we can be. --Sabrblade 21:46, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I love the funny. And on a different note I have only ever been on TFWiki.net once in my life, as opposed to being here EVERY DAY. And Transformers IS serious business yo. This reply to several topics brought to you by The Kaotikons, led by KaotikusNemesis 01:34, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I laughed more at the end of Titanic.  Chester  Talk  17:24, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


 * So did I, but I'm a sadistic evil entity bent on the persecution and destruction of all sentient beings. Anyway, to quote 'The Management': "THE FUNNY STAYS.", and besides, if it hurts you so bad, just remember, "We only gain wisdom through suffering, and tonight Teletraan-1, The Transformers Wiki, intends to make you very wise.--KaotikusNemesis 00:49, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, that sounds very comforting[/sarcasm] --Sabrblade 01:21, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * You do realise that "The Management" has all left and gone to TFWiki.net, don't you? That pretty much means that "THE FUNNY STAYS" is up to the community. --Tetrap 09:58, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Heehee.--KaotikusNemesis 21:46, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Whatever.  Chester  Talk  16:23, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * ....Why'd you have to go and bring up a good point?....And put it above the previous statements? --KaotikusNemesis 10:24, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * If I'd put it at the bottom, it might have looked like I was replying to ChesterB or something. Wiki talk page threading can be so unclear at times. --Tetrap 12:19, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * By the way who is the managment, If you want to put stupid captions in you do that. Chester  Talk  12:23, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Well....I can't think of a good reason to keep it, but I still like the funny....Oh my god, Starscream, and Prowl just died. Downer. Sorry to change the subject, anyway, do whatever, it's all good. What?! What kind of lame ending was that?!--KaotikusNemesis 12:32, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * It's up to you how you want your wiki to look, even though you buthered a great topic.  Chester  Talk  13:18, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

The funny is staying, of course, in any way at any measure. It's always one of the unique style of the site. I know some people will say this is immature, stupid, juvenile, making the site informal, self-disrespecting (to the site) ...blah blah blah. BUT, the site is already formal since the Dinosaurs lived. Remove the funny? When the pig flies... and I'd consider, ya, only consider. -- TX55  <SUP> TALK </SUP> 14:04, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, the style would be unique if TFWiki.net wasn't also doing it. Thus meaning you have two wikis doing the exact same thing, which is completely pointless and useless.
 * It would be in the better interest of this wiki here to do things differently in order to, well, differentiate itself from TFWiki.net. It would also help attract more editors, as those folks who like the funny have almost all left to TFWiki.net. Meanwhile, there are a number of knowledgeable folks who didn't contribute to the original wiki because they disliked the funny, who would be willing to come back here and contribute if this wiki now took a more serious bent.
 * Keeping the funny does you no favors whatsoever. --96.240.213.187 15:01, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * As it is, a lot of the time "the Funny" just seems to encourage random site vistors to try to add their own attempts at "humor" to the captions, earning themselves a "caption bastard" template. --Tetrap 01:59, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Caption bastard isn't quite a problem. The real problems which the site is facing are those who don't know how to edit on Wiki system, those who were gave, new page bastard, upload bastard/  , or layout bastard. And last but not least, who don't know the rules/standards, such as scoop bastard, out-universe writting in the fiction section, non-official products, and those who post comments in the articles. These are the real problem what the site is facing. In short: Editors' quality. And I can't imagine what disasters will happen after the movie's premiere. -- TX55  <SUP> TALK </SUP> 03:21, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * But some is just so good....Like the Lebowski reference on G1 Beachcomber's page. Made me laugh to beat the band. Parts, anyway. I also just realized that I have never edited a caption.--KaotikusNemesis 02:19, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I have started a farely large conversation here, go me!  Chester  Talk  17:50, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Problem reporting function
Why can't I find it like in other wikia site? -- TX55  <SUP> TALK </SUP> 17:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The former admins did not like it at all, so they hid all the links with css. So eventually it was turned off here, since it was being hidden. --Uberfuzzy 18:54, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I got it. So, can the report function be turned on again for those such as the template pages? -- TX55  <SUP> TALK </SUP> 01:30, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It should be on now. But, it only works on namespaces marked as content, which means article pages (namespace 0) --Uberfuzzy 18:28, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Site theme
Uh, hey! Did I miss a discussion somewhere about changing the site theme? I looked in the usual places, but no mention of it at all. --Tetrap 12:04, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, Scott have sent me some messages to me about this two months ago. I didn't know the solid way to "improving the search" til yesterday. -- TX55  <SUP> TALK </SUP> 18:47, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I was kinda surprised when I saw that the whole site scheme had changed without any apparent discussion. At least someone knew about it, but I would have expected there to be some sort of consultation with the user base about it. I mean the new theme looks great and all...  but no one thought to say "Hey, we're thinking of changing the site to look like this screenshot. What does everyone think?" --Tetrap 21:36, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I personally liked the old version more, 'cuz the purple was vaguely Decepticon-y, whereas the red makes me think "OMFG AUTOBOTS", but it's still good....I'll most assuredly get used to it though.--KaotikusNemesis 11:05, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I figured it was always changed to reflect the newest continuity thing, and the movie faction symbol shows it to be current with the new film coming out, just as the old theme was very Animated-centric. Makes sense to me. Jeep! 01:02, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but at least last time it was changed there was some discussion beforehand. And the new page title "Transformers 2, Animated, Toys" isn't even accurate - Revenge of the Fallen doesn't have "2" in the title! --Tetrap 04:06, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't know why the staff mentions the theme modification only to me and I'm sorry I forgot to tell everybody here if this caused troublesome issue. As for the "Transformers 2", it is because for the search engine such as Google, Yahoo, Metacrawler much more easily to find the site by just typing "Transformers 2" in the search box. Just like what happen to Terminator Wiki recently. -- TX55  <SUP> TALK </SUP> 14:30, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

New admins and rollback users requesting
I've sent few request for weeks (at least a month?), when can the site have new admins and rollback users? (And I haven't mentioned the bureaucrat yet) Thanks. -- TX55  <SUP> TALK </SUP> 18:47, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

The new color of the Monaco skin
Um, I think we should change the color of the back ground and the red 'cause I really feel much uncomfortable for my eyes. (By the way, I didn't know the new skin has so much red until yesterday.) Any one have same or similar thought?

Plus, there are many colors waiting for us. I personally think colors such as gold may be good. -- TX55  <SUP> TALK </SUP> 14:42, 29 May 2009 (UTC)