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Public Relations

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

What I need from the community is taking a look at the banners and maybe jazz them up with mad paint skills. Duskey(talk)(blog) 23:08, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

I'm gonna try and formulate an email which we can send to potential affiliates.

Hello <NAME>

<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.

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.

Click here to visit the article about your site on The Sims Wiki:
<LINK TO THEIR SITE>

We're looking forward to seeing you.

Sincerely, the users at <a href="http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_Wiki">The Sims Wiki</a>.



HTML:

<a href="http://sims.wikia.com/"><img src="http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100625062640/sims/images/8/8d/Duskey_wiki_logo_microbar_88x31b.png" border="0"></a>

How do you like it? Duskey(talk)(blog) 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 article page. Second, 'aswell' should be 'as well'. Otherwise, it looks awesome to me. --Patrick (LostInRiverview) (talk)(blog) 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. Duskey(talk)(blog) 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! --a_morris (talk) 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. Duskey(talk)(blog) 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. Dharden 07:40, July 12, 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? --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). LostInRiverview (talk)(blog) 02:26, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

Looks correct to me. Duskey(talk)(blog) 03:57, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

'Did you know...' section

How about a 'Did you know...' section on the frontpage similar to on the Harry Potter wikia, it should contain information such as on Snooty Sims' 'Did you know...' page

Examples

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?

and so on and so forth. Duskey(talk)(blog) 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. --a_morris (talk) 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? -- Patrick (LostInRiverview) (talk)(blog) 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. 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 {{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? Duskey(talk)(blog) 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. Duskey(talk)(blog) 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?' Duskey(talk)(blog) 07:19, July 12, 2010 (UTC)

I poked around on the HP wikia and found that their template is quite manual, it just links to 5 lines. On the 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. Duskey(talk)(blog) 12:27, July 15, 2010 (UTC)

I must say, this gets very complicated very fast. After digging around a little bit, I found this extension on MediaWiki... but that's as far as I can really go on my current level of technical knowledge. -- Patrick (LostInRiverview) (talk)(blog) 15:22, July 15, 2010 (UTC)