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Hi there, I made a forum post about getting some banners to other sims sites. Say we create a page for their site on the wiki and we kindly ask them to link to us in return. [[Forum:Site banners]]
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What I need from the community is taking a look at the banners and maybe jazz them up with mad paint skills. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 23:08, June 20, 2010 (UTC)


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:I'm gonna try and formulate an email which we can send to potential affiliates.
*[[The Sims Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive 5|Fanon wiki merge (archive 5)]]
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Hello <span style="background: #cccccc;"><NAME></span>

<a href="http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_Wiki">The Sims Wiki</a> is a collaborative encyclopedia for everything related to The Sims series. We host over 4500 articles and keep on growing since our founding in February 2005. The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit any article, so we can all work together to create a comprehensive database for The Sims series.
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We have created a page detailing your Sims site and would like for us to become affiliates. If you are interested, please add our link and banner to your site. Note that you're most welcome to register at Wikia and contribute to your site's page as well.
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Click here to visit the article about your site on The Sims Wiki:<br />
<span style="background: #cccccc;"><LINK TO THEIR SITE></span>
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We're looking forward to seeing you.
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Sincerely, the users at <a href="http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_Wiki">The Sims Wiki</a>.
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How do you like it? '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 02:17, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

::Two suggestions. One, add a link to the page for that particular site - for example, if this message were sent to Carl's Sims 3 Guide, somewhere in the message give a link to the [[Carl's Sims 3 Guide|article page]]. Second, 'aswell' should be 'as well'. Otherwise, it looks awesome to me. --[[User:LostInRiverview|Patrick (LostInRiverview)]]<small> ([[User_talk:LostInRiverview|talk]])([[User_blog:LostInRiverview|blog]])</small> 22:45, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

:::It's already there, I added color for emphasis and fixed the spelling. Maybe this should be signed and sent out by an admin? I'd wait for a handful of thumbs ups before sending anything. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 01:20, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

::::It needs a link to our main page where The Sims Wiki is first mentioned and then the url under the salutation. Great job! --[[User:A_morris|a_morris]] <small>([[User_talk:A_morris|talk]])</small> 14:35, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

:::::Added urls and gave the link to their site a lineskip for emphasis. I assume people accept HTML emails these days. The microbanner should probably get a new name, something like [[:File:The Sims Wiki Microbanner.png]]. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 20:12, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

::::::I think most email programs and web-mail interfaces will parse a URL into a clickable link even if it's not HTML-ified. [[User:Dharden|Dharden]] 07:40, July 12, 2010 (UTC)

:::::::I'm gonna go ahead and assume we all like the microbanner and will use it as an offical micro-banner for The Sims Wiki. Also, should an admin send this out or is it ok if it's just a user? And does everyone think it's ready? '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 14:53, July 16, 2010 (UTC)

Alright an update. My email (hotmail, I know I know) apparently has had some brute force hacking attempts on it and now it's lost in the support hell of Microsoft. Not sure when/if I get it back, I wanna see if it can be salvaged before I make a gmail account. But in the meantime I need someone else to send out some affiliation emails. I reconfubulated the standard email abit:

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Hello <span style="background: #cccccc;"><NAME></span>

<a href="http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_Wiki">The Sims Wiki</a> is a collaborative encyclopedia for everything related to The Sims series. We host over 4500 articles and keep on growing since our founding in February 2005. The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit any article, so we can all work together to create a comprehensive database for The Sims series.
<br /><br />
We have created a page detailing your Sims site and would like for us to become affiliates. If you are interested, please add our link and banner to your site. Note that you're most welcome to register at Wikia and contribute to your site's page as well.
<br /><br />
Click here to visit the article about your site on The Sims Wiki:<br />
<span style="background: #cccccc;"><LINK TO THEIR SITE></span>
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We're looking forward to seeing you.
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Sincerely, the users at The Sims Wiki, http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_Wiki
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'''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 17:02, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

:I created [[The Sims Wiki talk:Affiliates]]. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 17:18, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

::I've begun to send out email. Hang on. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 20:25, July 22, 2010 (UTC)

:::Future discussion should be taken to the [[The Sims Wiki talk:Affiliates|affiliates talk page]]. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 14:53, July 24, 2010 (UTC)

== Wikia ==

I'm confused with the whole wikia login thing... So, my wikia account can be accessed from any wikia but are my discussion page and userpage the same on every wikia? --[[User:Nman649|Nman649]] 02:20, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

:Your login works for wikis in Wikia, but your user page and talk page is exclusive to each wiki. So your pages on this wiki will be different than pages on any other wiki. (Someone correct me if I have this wrong). [[User:LostInRiverview|LostInRiverview]]<small> ([[User_talk:LostInRiverview|talk]])([[User_blog:LostInRiverview|blog]])</small> 02:26, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

::Looks correct to me. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 03:57, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

== 'Did you know...' section ==

How about a 'Did you know...' section on the frontpage similar to on the [http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Harry Potter wikia], it should contain information such as on [http://snootysims.com/extrasindex.php?id=didyouknow Snooty Sims' 'Did you know...' page]
;Examples
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Did you know...
*that you can free a burglar after he has been caught by the police?
*that drilling with the [[Miner]] near the police station will trigger a prisoner escape?
*Astronauts only work 1 day a week? {{vgversion|TS3}}
and so on and so forth. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 13:20, July 8, 2010 (UTC)
:Good idea. It can go up when there isn't a poll. I like the idea of having the community suggest dyks but do you think it is necessary to vote on them? Also, I was thinking they should be change randomly instead of manually. --[[User:A_morris|a_morris]] <small>([[User_talk:A_morris|talk]])</small> 16:08, July 11, 2010 (UTC)
::I like the idea... how often would it change? Would it change every so often (once a month, week, etc.) or would it change every time someone visited the page? -- [[User:LostInRiverview|Patrick (LostInRiverview)]]<small> ([[User_talk:LostInRiverview|talk]])([[User_blog:LostInRiverview|blog]])</small> 16:15, July 11, 2010 (UTC)
:::I like it. They should mention which game(s) they're for. For example, "Astronauts only work 1 day a week?" is only true for TS3, even though the job title also exists in TS2. [[User:Dharden|Dharden]] 17:03, July 11, 2010 (UTC)
::::Yes, they should obviously mentioned which game they're from. Either 'Astronauts in ''[[The Sims 3]]'' etc...' or use {{t|vgversion}}. Ideally the wiki should select 3, 4 or 5 lines from a long list, but I have no idea how to set this up. They should be rigged to change automatically once every week or month. I vote for every week. CAN you even set that up on wikia? As for when to display it: Shouldn't is be always? The new bi-monthly contest thing either presents a vote or a featured article doesn't it? '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 19:47, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

::::I've set up [[The Sims Wiki:Sandbox/Did you know]] to add facts to a list before we implement it. There's still abit of discussion and development to do, but now we can add facts if you've already got some ideas or some across something interesting you don't wanna forget. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 20:03, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

Should we sneak in some stuff about the wiki? Like 'Did you know can create and participate in competitions?' '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 07:19, July 12, 2010 (UTC)

:I poked around on the [[wikia:c:harrypotter|HP wikia]] and found that their [[wikia:c:harrypotter:Template:DYK|template]] is quite manual, it just links to 5 lines. On the [[wikia:c:harrypotter:Template talk:DYK|talk page]] they nominate, vote and discuss new DYK's. They also have subpage called archive to store the old ones.

:Personally I'd love ours to be randomly selected though. Doing it all manually seems like an administrative waste of time and I don't think we can stretch our admins much more. I also don't like their archive, it means some people won't see most of the DYK's without looking for them, but I DO like their idea of people being able to see the full list if they wish to do so.

:Now, how to set up a template which fetches 5 random lines is another matter. I have no idea how, but I'm sure it can be set up using the parser functions. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 12:27, July 15, 2010 (UTC)
::I must say, this gets very complicated very fast. After digging around a little bit, I found [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomText this extension on MediaWiki]... but that's as far as I can really go on my current level of technical knowledge. -- [[User:LostInRiverview|Patrick (LostInRiverview)]]<small> ([[User_talk:LostInRiverview|talk]])([[User_blog:LostInRiverview|blog]])</small> 15:22, July 15, 2010 (UTC)
::After poking around a bit more, I've found something else which is already installed into this wiki. Let me display an example....
::All choices are from [[The Sims Wiki:Sandbox/Did you know]]. I've numbered all options as well (1-7 currently). Hopefully, this function will select one of the seven options at random. I don't know how often it will re-randomize, or if it will do so automatically.
::'''Below is a random 'Did you know':'''
::<choose>
<option>* Astronauts in The Sims 3 only work one day a week. (1)</option>
<option>* The Ecological Guru in the Natural Science career in The Sims 2: University has a 21-hour workday, though they only work once a week. (2)</option>
<option>* Ghosts in The Sims can't climb stairs. (3)</option>
<option>* Any user can create and participate in a contest. (4)</option>
<option>* You can talk to any user, even unregistered ones, using a user's talk page (5)</option>
<option>* You can discuss changes to any article using that article's discussion (talk) page (6)</option>
<option>* We're always on the lookout for new articles. If you have an idea for a page that should be on the Wiki (and isn't yet), you should create a page for it! (7)</option>
</choose>

That looks awesome, almost what I was going for. Once it's ready to launch I say we slap a template on the front page (eg. {{t|DYK}}). This template then has all the DYK's on The Sims series. We then add another template named {{t|DYK-wiki}}. New additions once the initial list is complete can be discussed on the template talk pages. If the <nowiki><choose></nowiki> can be set to display a number of lines, then we're pretty much there from a technical standpoint. I suggest 4 sims series DYK's followed by a single sims wiki DYK. At the moment the <nowiki><choose></nowiki> chooses a new once every time you load the page, but not on an update (F5), at least that my test experience. Once all the technical mumbo-jumbo is set up, we can create a news article asking the community for help on adding sims DYK's and have them add them in the blog comments or a talk page. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 14:24, July 16, 2010 (UTC)

:Also where did we get the <nowiki><choose></nowiki> from? It doesn't look like regular HTML, I can't see it in [[Special:Version]] nor is it available on Wikia's Extensions or Wikipedia's. I don't see anything in Common.js either. Where did it come from? It'd be nice to have it display a number of options instead of just being locked on one. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 04:54, July 18, 2010 (UTC)
::To be honest, I don't quite remember. I found it named on [[Special:Version]]; this is a link to the extension (RandomSelection from MediaWiki): [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomSelection] -- [[User:LostInRiverview|Patrick (LostInRiverview)]]<small> ([[User_talk:LostInRiverview|talk]])([[User_blog:LostInRiverview|blog]])([[Special:Random|random page]])</small> 05:03, July 18, 2010 (UTC)

:::That one still can't output more than one line. It'd be code nightmare if we include more <nowiki><choose>'s</nowiki> and then we could end up with the same one being chosen. I say we test [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomArea RandomArea] it looks like it's up for the job, it's even easier to keep a list then with the already mentioned alternative and can produce more than one output AND has support for alternate namespaces. (btw no inter-wiki link to mediawiki.org?) '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 06:15, July 18, 2010 (UTC)

::::I sent wikia an email, asking if they were up for adding RandomArea as an extension, let's see what they say. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 14:51, July 24, 2010 (UTC)

:::::Bang bang, they show me down, bang bang, that awful sound (Bleeh won't get the reference). Request for the other extension denied. I see two possible solutions to this if we want the discussed format of DYK's:
#Make 4x <nowiki><choose></nowiki> with different DYK's on all of them to prevent the same ones being chosen and add one choose with the wiki DYK's.
#Do it manually, sort of like monthly featured stuff. Maybe put it to votes similar to how they do it on the HP wikia which I linked to earlier, but someone will have take responsability for it I think since it needs to be updated at least once a month or it'll die. Not it. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 16:00, July 25, 2010 (UTC)

== Changes to galleries ==
{{main|w:user blog:Sarah Manley/Design your own photo galleries}}
I thought the galleries looked abit different. Seems the standard max width or height of gallery thumbnails were increased abit, standard grey background color was removed and a blue border has been added to gallery thumbnails. This means we might have to customize our galleries. Can we fiddle with our site CSS to make it look abit more like the standard galleries? I do not like the larger thumbnails nor the blue border. Makes it look like a page from 1992 before people learned the <nowiki>border=0</nowiki> HTML command. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 14:13, July 16, 2010 (UTC)

''Additional:'' This is what one of the staff had to say about changing the standard gallery:
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We are listening to your feedback, but we are unlikely to reduce the default width down again. It's not as if 120px was ever a magical "correct" number. Images are cool, there's little need to restrict them to be so small (and within giant grey boxes).
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That being said, we recognise the issues with mixed orientation sometimes producing very tall galleries (due to there being no height restriction). We're looking at reintroducing some kind of limit at the moment. Apologies if your wiki was particularly badly affected (it works pretty well if you have a images in a generally similar orientation, which most wikis have).
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'''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])([[User_blog:Duskey|<span style="color:blue;">blog</span>]])</small> 14:16, July 16, 2010 (UTC)

:Created [[:w:User:Duskey/Gallery tweaks|Gallery tweaks]]. Thoughts on implementing this as standard? '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 14:09, July 20, 2010 (UTC)

== Changes to the logo ==

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== Proposed change to Featured Articles ==

I think that having the Featured Article change monthly is too long. I think we should consider bumping it up in frequency; something like once a week or once every other week. I've done some very rudimentary number-crunching:

:According to [[Special:WikiaStats]], this wiki has about 3,000 articles as of June. Even if we assume that only 10% of articles on this wiki are of "Featured Article" standards, 300 articles (and growing) is enough to last for over 5 years if the article is changed weekly; if the featured article is changed every other week, there will be enough "good" articles to last for over 11 years!

My hope is that increasing the rate that the article changes will keep interest in the Featured Article, will attract more attention to more pages (which is the point of the feature, isn't it?), and will focus the feature more on selecting quality articles over articles related to their favorite Sims, or articles that aren't worthy of receiving a Featured Article title.

Thoughts? -- [[User:LostInRiverview|Patrick (LostInRiverview)]]<small> ([[User_talk:LostInRiverview|talk]])([[User_blog:LostInRiverview|blog]])([[Special:Random|random page]])</small> 00:47, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

:Well featured stuff is a manual task, so the admin team will have to be up for it. It's true larger wikis even have articles/files of the day, 'of the year' and 'of the month' in portals. I have to be honest, I'm not quite sure our wiki is large enough for that. And I also thinkg that people will always nominate and vote for sims/stuff they like instead of voting based on the usefulness of the article. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 10:03, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

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