Wow! How to you manage to stay awake when you stay up so late all the time? Do you get to sleep a lot in the mornings? Because I can't always do that so I'm really tired all the time.
Hi there! I've decided that it is time to start to get this wiki into shape so that it matches up to the requirements that a wiki needs to have in order to get a spotlight! This wiki still has unnecessary and missing pages etc so it still needs a lot of work and I would be really grateful if you had the time to help me out. :)
I'm glad you like it!:) I'm so glad I finally figured out how to do rounded corners on different types of infoboxes! I guess staying up late does really pay off sometimes!
Hi there! I've decided that it is time to start to get this wiki into shape so that it matches up to the requirements that a wiki needs to have in order to get a spotlight! This wiki still has unnecessary and missing pages etc so it still needs a lot of work and I would be really grateful if you had the time to help me out. :)
Hi there! I just blocked two vandals from this wiki! For some reason, people think this is a place they can use as their personal sandbox! However, I have a few really busy days coming up and I don't have that much time for this wiki in the few coming days! Would you be able to keep an eye on this place, just to make sure it doesn't get ruined or anything?
Sorry but I don't agree, for one, Gwaine cropped in will look unnatural. He is not a part of the style of promotional picture those characters are in there, with the red background. So the lighting won't match. He'll look paler than the rest. Secondly, I don't see how he's more important than Elyan (who is related to Gwen), or Leon. Just because he's a fan favourite and the girls think he's hot and what not.. so I think we should just wait for Mordred. I feel your pain, though, I am beginning to get very annoyed with Uther's face there! Just try not to focus on it... give it a bit more time. If we get some stills of the characters from Series 5 in their costumes, we'll fill the space with them in there as soon as possible.
Or.. the other plan. http://twitter.com/#!/merlinofficial Use the background used here. Some of us may only end up seeing red and orange clouds, though.
You don't have to be sorry for not agreeing. :) I myself am fine with both options. And by the way, with Photoshop it's pretty easy to make as dark as you want. And since you mentioned Leon, he is definitely a more important character than Gwaine. But there's really no hurry, the background looks great and we can wait until Series 5!
Ok then, come to think of it, they'll probably release more promos. More of the main cast, Gwaine, Elyan, Percival and Leon, and I'm assuming we'll also see Mordred and maybe Alvarr on the promo pictures. So we'll have a lot to choose from!
Hi there! I've made some changes to the character and actor infoboxes. To be more exact, I've replaced the section names with the Alice in Wonderland font. What do you think about it? Is it too much?
Hey, the main page is being stupid! I don't know what's with the right column showing on the left instead of where it is meant to be.. the right! Can you fix it?
Well, I was just about to ask help from you! I have tried several things but it's not working! I do have the same system on my own wiki, but it uses a different code. Maybe I'll try that one...
I found a way to fix most of the page so it looks much better now. I'll just have to figure out the way to get the poll column to the right side again, but it can stay on the left side as well.
Ok, that's good to hear. I've been trying out Template:Slider, but the Cast template won't work with it! Try it and you'll see what I mean! :( Wikia blows!
HOORAY! You got the home page fixed! Did you do it or did it fix itself? Hmm.
I thought I'd also tell you, the new updated Welcome Sign on Merlin Wiki, now using a 'tooltips', has a link to this Wiki, so expect a few more visitors streaming in! I don't expect this to be noticeable, though.
Well, I've used some of those thoughts in this wiki already, like replacing some text on the infoboxes with the Alice in Wonderland text. I do want to change the background sometime, but I don't know what picture to use! I don't want it to just have a simple background (like the one with the keys this wiki had before). Other than that, I'm pretty much out of ideas right now.
Before I was experimenting with backgrounds on here (page ones), but it's hard to find something good! I know the parchment on Merlin Wiki definitely won't suffice!
It's also a matter of having the page background blend with the wallpaper (or background,background). I was thinking of some sort of 'notebook' theme, where it looks like we're typing on a giant notebook (if you get what I mean), or just some keyholes in the background, or a bit of texture. Decisions! I can show you how to change the page background if you want, want me to?
Yes, that's true. Especially since this wiki uses the blue color palette. Well, I'm sure we'll figure something out! Notebook would work for me, but then it should definitely look like an old notebook and not have any lines (you know, the blue lines notebooks often have these days). And I would like it if you could show me how to change the background!
First you'll need to go to MediaWiki:Wikia.css. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet- you basically add code into it to "define" an element, which the Wiki will identify. You're pretty much telling the Wiki "This is what I'm going to edit, and this is how I'm going to edit it".
So the code for the page background is:
.WikiaPageBackground {
background-image:url("image url here") !important;
} /* Custom image background for the page */]
You need to copy and paste that into the CSS (just at the bottom would be fine, as long as it doesn't obstruct anything else). Upload an image to your Wiki that fits the size of the page, then get the web link for it and insert it where I wrote "insert image url here".
I also used this extra code for my Wiki due to the style of background: (I put it above WikiaPageBackground)
.WikiaPage, .WikiaAdvertPage {
border: none !important;
padding-left: 5px !important;
padding-right: 5px !important;
} /* Removes page borders, stretches the content area to play well with the background */
What this did was remove the edges of the page, so the parchment looked more natural at the edges. You may not want this, unless you're going for some rough edges.
The hardest bit is, getting the page looking good! The size you need is 1010 x 685. The image has to repeat as you scroll down the page, so make sure it isn't noticeable. Patterns and so on blend well together.
I hope this made sense! Just check out some other Wikis with custom backgrounds, and go to their MediaWiki:Wikia.css (we all have our own) and you'll be able to copy the link of their background image from it and see what it looks like separated from the page.
Also, have you done work on the first part of the story yet? I'm looking forward to it...
Hi there! I am out of ideas and I need your help! You might have noticed that I have added new colums to the main page. But what bothers me is that now that I have added the blog column, the whole right side of the page is much longer than the left side of the page. I would like to add some new columns to fix that problem, but I'm out of ideas what to add. If you have any good ideas for that, I would love to hear them!
Hi, I can see that you have done some promoting of this wiki! Thanks a lot! I've been trying to do some promoting myself, mainly by Facebook and adding a link to Wikipedia etc. Well, let's hope we have a bigger group of new users soon!
Yeah, Dryuuu says he'll do some editing soon. I'm also trying to get User:GWAINE on board too! It would be good to have an R.A.T team on AIW Wiki eventually (maybe with a different name).
It would be good to have a team that is as good as the R.A.T team in this wiki. I want to see this site be something that functions well and has good quality. But it has become better in a very short time, so there's definitely hope!
Happy Easter! =D I'm on a slow connection so I can't do much... :( On Merlin Wiki I tried making the Uthervs Arthur page but my internat crashed twice in a rown, so I lost my work! :( So eventually I'll get back on a fast connection and be able to edit badges on this wiki, and make duel pages on Merlin Wiki. And again, Happy easter! :)
Thanks! No worries, there is no hurry. :) I just finished the Uther vs Tristan de Bois page and I will create the page for the duel between Arthur and Valiant.
Yes, me too! I knew that it would be the first thing I would change when I would become an admin! I might change it later, maybe use a blue background... I'm surprised that it the colors work though, since the picture is so colorful. :)
And for the badges, you can use"paint program" on your computer to abjust the sizes. And a question, did they just simply make you an admin, or did they question you?
No, they just simply made me an admin. I just came in here a couple of hours ago and suddenly noticed that I had already been named as an admin! I guess that since this wiki so desperatedly needed an active admin there were no questions to be asked.
That's strange... I think it might be because there was a much larger number of admins in Merlin wiki before the R.A.T team. Althogether, there are 25 admins in that wiki. Alice in Wonderland wiki only had 2 before me.
Yes... But on Merlin Wiki, there wasn't an active admin on Merlin wiki for 9 months! MrThermomanPreacher adopted it, then later he made Dryuuu and admin. But he and myself argued for him to become a bureaucrat, which resulted in success! Then he made me an admin, before promoting you and several others... Maybe this wiki will take a similar path...
By the way, is it very hard to get a wiki featured in the Wikia spotlight? I hope that we can make this wiki into something really proper in the few coming months.
Yes a spotlight seems good, and if you don't mind me asking... could you promote me to adminship, I mean, I can help with the badges and maybe build upon a spotlight... Trust me, it'll save you a lot of time. What d'ya say?
I was actually going to ask from you if you wanted to be an admin here, since I have some other wikis and school as well so I can't be here all the time. I'd be glad to make you an admin! :)
Thank you! I'll start now by doing some editing on the badges.... And something we need done for Merlin Wiki. I am working on pages called "Duel between Arthur and Uther" and "Duel between Uther and the Gleeman," of course you don't have to, but I'd like you to make a few events pages similar to this, because I'm preparing for tomorrow (EASTER =D), when I enable them, and I need the wiki to be at it's best for the category.
You are welcome! Well, just so you know, I'm preparing for easter as well! Since I'm the artist of my family I, of course, have to paint all the eggs. :D But I should be able to create those pages sometime today.
Well, that's the thing with voice actors: they can do different voices, both male and female. "The Simpsons" is a very good example of how talented the voice actors can be. And by the way, according to Wikipedia Tweety Bird is male too!
By the way, I have decided to use a picture in the title of the infobox, just like Merlin wiki, POTC wiki and some other wikis have. But I'm not going to use a plate for the text, but just plain white text that is edged with black color. I'm going to upload the character ones today. Let me know what you think of them.