The Sims Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive 14: Difference between revisions

I have noticed as of late that some users have been creating fanon articles using [[Special:LayoutBuilder|the Layout Builder]], which makes it very hard for both users and admins to cleanup those articles in addition to it being hard for a user to write a high quality piece of fanon with the Layout Builder. Personally, I think that we should uninstall the Layout Builder (as it is rarely used anyway) to make it easier to patrol fanon amongst any other articles created on the wiki. What does everyone think? {{GGsigLabSig}} 18:42, July 11, 2011 (UTC)

::Since posting this, I have tried to think of a possible way of making the Layout Builder more user-friendly without causing collateral damage to those articles that already use it. Given that I haven't used the tool, I'm kind of unsure how it works but if anyone here has used it, here or another wiki, and they have an idea, feel free to post it. {{GGsigLabSig}} 20:46, July 11, 2011 (UTC)

:::::Sadly, I'm not sure if there is a way we can resolve this without causing quite a bit of collateral damage. Saying that, there doesn't seem to be a way that we can stop a fanon article from being made on the Layout Builder. I guess we'll just have to put up with it... {{GGsigLabSig}} 19:02, August 4, 2011 (UTC)

:::It doesn't sound like a bad idea. I was thinking that we could just publish the raw CSS code and if a user wants to make usage of RR's background, they could copy it to their own personal CSS, that way we have a deafult background and an optional background. {{GGsigLabSig}} 23:23, July 20, 2011 (UTC)

:::Per RR. Sorry. {{GGsigLabSig}} 09:50, July 16, 2011 (UTC)

#I feel that The Sims Players Wiki is redundant, given that we have our own Fanon namespace. {{GGsigLabSig}} 10:07, July 22, 2011 (UTC)

Based on community consenseus, {{SITENAME}} will not form a partnership with The Sims Players Wiki. {{GGsigLabSig}} 03:26, July 29, 2011 (UTC)

I have created two draft templates in my userspace which can help us control bans from [[Special:Chat|The Sims Wiki Chat]]. One of the templates is for a [[User:GEORGIEGIBBONS/banned from chat template|short ban]] from Chat while the second template is for a [[User:GEORGIEGIBBONS/perma banned from chat template|permanent ban]] from Chat. As you can see, I have based it on the blocked template (we can always change the image) and what you're currently seeing may not be final and the pages are unprotected, so anyone can go and constructively tweak as they wish. I would like to know what the community thinks of this idea, so we can decide whether to implement this system or not. {{GGsigLabSig}} 22:40, July 22, 2011 (UTC)

::In addition to what I've mentioned above, I have sent in a suggestion to Wikia to add a system where we can set a time limit for someone to be banned and it would automatically unban the user once the time is up, in the same fashion as a temporary block. {{GGsigLabSig}} 22:47, July 22, 2011 (UTC)

:::::Seeing as there has been no opposition, I have created the templates for official use. [[Template:Tempchatban|This template]] is for a temporary ban while [[Template:Indefchatban|this one]] is for a permanent ban. The drafts are still in my userspace if anyone wants to play around, make improvements etc. {{GGsigLabSig}} 19:52, July 24, 2011 (UTC)

:I have the same code in [[User:GEORGIEGIBBONS/wikia.css|my personal CSS]] too and it doesn't seem to conflict with anything, so if you set your signature to be a different colour from your rank, the signature would be unaffected. [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110723205015/nothingherethatsspecial/images/thumb/4/46/Css.PNG/640px-Css.PNG This image] shows what it looks like with the admins and bureaucrats highlighted. {{GGsigLabSig}} 01:55, July 25, 2011 (UTC)

:::::The only users who would have had their usernames highlighted would have been the admins and bureaucrats. I've had it enabled in my personal CSS for quite a few days now and it seems to work fine for me but hey, everyone has their own opinion. :P {{GGsigLabSig}} 20:21, July 28, 2011 (UTC)

Seeing as this has been sitting here for a while now, I feel that we should start to gain community consenseus over whether to highlight the usernames of admins/bureaucrats for the whole wiki (by adding the code to [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]). {{GGsigLabSig}} 20:11, August 10, 2011 (UTC)

{{VoteFor}}'''Support''' - I feel that it is easier for new users to find help from admins/bureaucrats if we implement this system. Plus the CSS code doesn't interfere with customised signatures. {{GGsigLabSig}} 20:11, August 10, 2011 (UTC)

:I'm not too sure to be honest as we get all different kinds of blogs written here. Also, an announcement/release blog usually appears on the main page anyway per the [[:Category:Blog posts/Sims News|News category]] for [[The Sims series]]. {{GGsigLabSig}} 20:29, July 28, 2011 (UTC)

::::I did some further thinking on this and I think that it could work. Plus it may encourage other users to write a blog that could potentially be featured, like a help blog or something. {{GGsigLabSig}} 20:48, July 28, 2011 (UTC)

:::::We may as well take it to a vote to see if the community ultimately wants to implement this feature. {{GGsigLabSig}} 23:58, August 1, 2011 (UTC)

#I can see that there are some pros of this system but there are also several cons. While they can possibly be worked around, we may still be lacking in content in order for this to work. {{GGsigLabSig}} 12:02, August 2, 2011 (UTC)

::::::I'm in support of this as we need a new bot and WH seems to know how to work it. (I tried running a couple on a test wiki through AWB and I failed miserably :P) I am however willing to test [[User:E123-Omega|E123-Omega]] on my test wiki as a "backup" to WH's bot. {{GGsigLabSig}} 17:22, July 30, 2011 (UTC)

::::::::::Fine by me (and yeah, bureaucrats can revoke bot flags). {{GGsigLabSig}} 23:06, August 24, 2011 (UTC)

::Yeah, I think we could include more information about how to fix technical problems. I could translate [[User blog:GEORGIEGIBBONS/The guide on buying a computer for gaming|this blog]] into an article as it would advise someone who was buying a new computer in order to play the game, which would be helpful. Also, I think our Tutorial namespace would be a good place to write some tutorials regarding technical issues and how to fix them. {{GGsigLabSig}} 18:53, August 2, 2011 (UTC)

::::::::::::Good point actually. I reckon the Tutorial namespace could be used for something that's common while we could create a new forum for someone to post an issue that we haven't covered so we can try and solve it. {{GGsigLabSig}} 11:15, August 3, 2011 (UTC)

:We could. However, we do currently list the system requirements on the pages for each base game, as well as some hints [[User blog:GEORGIEGIBBONS/The guide on buying a computer for gaming|this blog]] from [[User:GEORGIEGIBBONS|those lovely people]] in the UK. ;) {{GGsigLabSig}} 23:53, August 3, 2011 (UTC)

::::I'm not too sure about this as like WH said, there are a lot of articles that only have basic information on Sims. I think they should just stay under the general Featured Article system. {{GGsigLabSig}} 22:20, August 6, 2011 (UTC)

Hey guys, [[User:Woganhemlock|WH]] and myself were discussing on IRC about bringing in a couple of non-admins to become moderators on [[Special:Chat|Chat]] (it was all WH's idea). I thought this would be a good idea as there doesn't seem to be much administrator presense on Chat. I think that a user who nominates themself or is nominated to become a Chat moderator should have rollback as a minimum requirement (I have a couple of users in mind for this already). Plus I think we should decide whether to go by the traditional method of having a bureaucrat approve the requests or allowing any administrator to do it (as admins/chatmods can promote others to chatmod status). What do you guys think? {{GGsigLabSig}} 07:35, August 4, 2011 (UTC)

:::Yeah, I agree. As long as the user is trustworthy and on the chat semi-frequently, I don't see an issue. I was thinking of nominating/promoting new moderators in the same way that we currently deal with [[The Sims Wiki:Requests for rollback|Requests for rollback rights]] but I'm sure someone has a better idea than me and they're welcome to suggest it. :P {{GGsigLabSig}} 09:54, August 4, 2011 (UTC)

:::::Not yet but we're working on the implementation. :) {{GGsigLabSig}} 19:02, August 5, 2011 (UTC)

::::::::I don't see a problem with that. Of course, we'd still need to have some guidelines about this. Also, when it comes to an application, we should decide (once we have a couple or so) if we really need any more chat moderators. Personally, I think 2 will be a good starting point and if we decide we could benefit from another chatmod then we can consider promoting a new applicant. {{GGsigLabSig}} 22:23, August 6, 2011 (UTC)

::::Considering that our Tutorial namespace is pretty small compared to others, I'm not entirely sure we need a dedicated AP. However, I can think of some tasks that can be assigned to a possible Tutorial AP (in a similar fashion to the Fanon Administration AP) so it may have some benefit. {{GGsigLabSig}} 15:27, August 8, 2011 (UTC)

::I have to agree, this isn't something that needs to be voted on in this manner. To be honest, I think we need to discuss this in more detail before deciding anything, hence why I have declared the vote as null. {{GGsigLabSig}} 15:13, August 8, 2011 (UTC)

:I wouldn't mind seeing a new Featured Media file bi-weekly as we do have many good images. As for the slideshow part, I think it could work in the form of a Featured Gallery, where we can vote on the best image gallery for an article and use that as a slideshow. {{GGsigLabSig}} 19:40, August 10, 2011 (UTC)