Difference between revisions of "User talk:Jake"

Revision as of 17:29, June 14, 2011

Thankyou

On behalf of the Wikisimpsons admin team I would like to officially thank you for moving us to our independent domain. :) --Smiley12 09:42, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks guys! I'm really honored to be able to work with such a wonderful team. As a fellow Simpsons fan, I hope we're able to create the greatest resource for Simpsons information on the internet! :) --Jake 20:17, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a heap!

Hey Jake! I really love how you're dedicated to this wiki, even though you don't edit at all! I'm sure we'd all love for you to stick around and help edit, but of course, it's your choice! So, thanks for all that you've done, and thanks for any future help! --Will k ^(Talk) 06:52, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

You're very welcome! I'm a huge fan of The Simpsons, which is why I offered independent hosting to you guys. I hope to edit whenever I can. :) --Jake 20:11, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

A couple of things

Firstly, do you know what URL we need to input to use on AutoWikiBrowser? You can't have /wiki/ as AWB breaks and /w/ doesn't work either.

Secondly, how do we get a favicon up?

Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 20:26, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

The setup here should be the same as on ShoutWiki, so try substituting 'http://simpsons.shoutwiki.com' for 'http://nookipedia.com' and let me know what happens. I've never used AWB, so I can't test it for myself.

Just let me know what favicon you'd like and I'll set it up right away. :) --Jake 21:09, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Huh. Just started working

We should have a favicon at File:Favicon.ico. ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 21:14, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

OK, the file doesn't exist... I'll need to ask Smiley12. ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 21:15, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

It's been uploaded again. ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 10:55, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

BUMP. ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 06:59, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Broken redirects

For some reason, we have a lot of broken redirects, however, they all still ink to the pages, they all still exist. Couls you fix this please? Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 10:55, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

I'll run a maintenance script that should fix this. --Jake 23:11, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Broken redirects are sorted now. Thanks. ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 06:40, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Suppress redirect

Hi, could this be enabled for admins please? Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 11:00, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Done. --Jake 23:11, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Wanted Pages

Wanted Pages has the following pages on it which should't be there:
Wikisimpsons:Policies and Guidelines ‎(2,451 links) exists, despite being a red link on the list
Wikisimpsons:Achievement badges ‎(696 links) existed, though only had one link to it, and now has none.
Wikisimpsons:Sandbox ‎(246 links) exists and is also a redlink.
--Cook879 14:23, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

The same maintenance script for Solar Dragon's problem should fix this as well. --Jake 23:11, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Broken images (again)

Another one here. It only happened when I changed the size of the image... ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 08:00, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

It seems to be a server limitation, so I'll look into it when I get home. --Jake 14:57, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. It seems that the new thumbnail directories weren't writable by the server. If you see any more pages that still have this error, just purge it and it should fix itself. :) --Jake 19:05, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

OK, thanks again. ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 19:36, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Another one here: Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?. Tried purging it, null editing it but nothing worked. ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 15:16, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

In that case, it was the question mark in the file name that caused the issue. So I moved the page to fix it. I'll see if there's a maintenance script that will move files like that. --Jake 20:18, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Found another one that needs sorted out. Season 5, the image for the "Marge on the Lam" episode summary. Tried a null edit and changing the file name, but no joy. -- Mythigator 21:28, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

I think the problem was that the article had different capitalization than the actual file page. It should be fixed now. :) --Jake 22:33, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikisimpsons:Achievement badges

Hi, this is currently a wanted page with quite a few links. I deleted the page as it was a Wikia thing. i know I can remove the links with AWB but it won't allow me to make a list of the pages through the what links here option. Do you have any other ideas on how to quickly remove the links without manually doing so? Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 20:05, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

I installed and used Special:ReplaceText to remove all instances of the string. It seemed to be located in a bunch of welcome messages. Text replacements are added as jobs, so it may take a few hours to finish the removal.

The replace text function is now available to all bureaucrats, all though I would use great caution when using it as some changes are not reversible. --Jake 20:55, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Wow, never knew about that. I'll stick to my bot when I can and will only use that in places where the bot can't do what I want. Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 21:00, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

No problem. :) --Jake 21:01, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Should have made yourself a bot first :P Not to worry though, looks like it's sorted then. :) ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 21:15, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

I was actually planning to do that, but I had to run to my sister's graduation while the jobs processed. Sorry for all the recent changes spam. :P --Jake 01:36, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Special:ViewRelationshipRequests

This appears to be broken for some reason. Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 14:43, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

I've looked into this quite a bit and couldn't find anything that could be causing the problem. We'll have to wait for an update to SocialProfile to see if the problem has been fixed. --Jake 15:40, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Simpsons Fanon and Email addresses

Hi, I was wondering whether you could make a subdomain for Simpsons Fanon. This was by far our second most popular wiki so it would be great to restore it (although it was one of two ShoutWiki wikis that broke beyond repair). Could it be fanon.simpsonswiki.net?

Also, these email addresses we get, how would I access it? Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 17:44, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

I just set up this page with some information about email accounts. Since you are Solar Dragon, just ignore the section about approval and send me an email right away.

Adding Simpsons fanon won't be a problem, but do they plan on starting from scratch? --Jake 21:21, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Simpsons Fanon was run by me so we'll have to start from scratch again. We could import the Wikia wiki though. ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 21:26, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

I thought of that, but I wasn't sure if the break in content would be too substantial after the wiki was run on ShoutWiki for a few months. Also, Wikia is sort of a pain to import from because they don't provide any sort of database backup at all. --Jake 21:28, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

We'll start from scratch again then. I know Phinbart has at least 40 fanon episodes to add so tha'll give us a headstart :) ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 21:29, 14 June 2011 (UTC)