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For the past few months we've been working hard on a new way to
present image galleries, and we're now ready to give everyone a
first look! Today, the new image galleries are available to enable
in the Labs section of WikiFeatures. Our goals for this updated design are to: Greetings Wikia! It has been a few months since the last VisualEditor update, and
a lot has been happening in that time. Today, I am bringing you an
update on all our recent improvements, news of an important change
coming this month, and our future plans for the VisualEditor. Recent improvements In the last four months, we have overhauled the template tool,
making sure it shows all parameters in a more intuitive order,
adding filtering, allowing the dialog to be moved and greatly
improving the ex… Today's topic was suggested by 452, and it's a good one. We've
talked about the attributes of the ideal admin, and about the best
ways to react to trolling. But between that is the best way to
react to users you dislike or are causing problems on the wikia in
ways other than simple trolling. This is related to "Don't Feed the Trolls," but there are some
differences. Not feeding trolls is generally about not giving
feedback to those that are editing specifically to get a reaction
to their disrupt… Greetings Wikians. My name is Chris, aka Rupert Giles, and I’m a
Product Manager at Wikia. Over the past several months the team I’m
working on has been experimenting with a lot of new and updated
features. One of those features, global navigation, is nearly ready
for a site-wide rollout, and I wanted to give you a sneak
preview. There were a few goals we tried to accomplish with the new
navigation - get more users to search, expose users to our new
content hubs, and lastly to provide a consiste…
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For the past few months we've been working hard on a new way to
present image galleries, and we're now ready to give everyone a
first look! Today, the new image galleries are available to enable
in the Labs section of WikiFeatures. Our goals for this updated design are to: Greetings Wikia! It has been a few months since the last VisualEditor update, and
a lot has been happening in that time. Today, I am bringing you an
update on all our recent improvements, news of an important change
coming this month, and our future plans for the VisualEditor. Recent improvements In the last four months, we have overhauled the template tool,
making sure it shows all parameters in a more intuitive order,
adding filtering, allowing the dialog to be moved and greatly
improving the ex… Greetings Wikians. My name is Chris, aka Rupert Giles, and I’m a
Product Manager at Wikia. Over the past several months the team I’m
working on has been experimenting with a lot of new and updated
features. One of those features, global navigation, is nearly ready
for a site-wide rollout, and I wanted to give you a sneak
preview. There were a few goals we tried to accomplish with the new
navigation - get more users to search, expose users to our new
content hubs, and lastly to provide a consiste… Now it’s time to take Game Guides to the next level. Armed with
the largest body of gaming knowledge and a passionate community of
experts like you, we’re all on track to become the top destination
for gamers to not only find gaming help or information about lore,
but to also discover the next games they want to play and,
eventually, co…
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It's been over a year since the release of Game Guides 2.0. In that
timespan, we’ve reached over 1.2 million downloads thanks to your
edits and content curation.
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First of all, I've written this countdown for my wiki at the
very beginning because the "official" one suggested by Wikia isn't
cool to fit in the Chinese language. (We don't have commas in the
date/time!) You may use this timer to do a vivid countdown on an upcoming
event, the release date of a new game or episode or movie or the
remaining time of the ongoing activities. As those who frequent any chat know, sometimes the chat goes
quiet, or it "dies." When the chat is "dead" many people like to
state something along the lines of "Dead chat." When people
say that the chat is dead, more often than not, the chat remains
dead. When there is no discussion going on, a good idea for getting
a discussion started is to play a game. Not a long game or an in
depth game, but a game that allows all the users in chat to
participate if they choose too. This game can also be p… As a member of the Community Support Team and long time wiki
editor, one of the areas I most often get questions about are
Templates. Templates allow for you to create a consistent look
across your wikia, but can be tricky to set up. Here I would like
to offer steps of how to customize a basic template called an
infobox. This guide is meant for those with at least a basic
knowledge of templates and will cover some of the more advanced
techniques. It may be helpful to read about Wikia's default … Many of you have probably consulted a help page on Wikia at some
point. You might have done that here on Community Central, on your
home wiki, or on a wiki you just founded. Did you ever wonder how
the same help pages exist in all of those different places? When
you're done reading this, you'll know all that and more! Until recently, there was a separate wiki called the Help Wiki
where all of the Wikia Help articles resided. A few months ago, we
migrated all of that content onto Community Centra…
As the name suggests, it's a countdown timer. It's simple and it
works. It got a dynamic flipping effect!
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Founder & Admin Central Guides
Once you have founded a wiki or are appointed to being an admin or bureaucrat on a wiki, there are a few key places on your wiki that you should familiarize yourself with. These places help admins and founders manage, monitor and edit. They are by far the most used areas for admins:
- Rich Text Editor
- Wiki Activity and Recent Changes
- Special:SpecialPages
- Admin Dashboard
Within this Guide, we'll walk through the Admin Dashboard and how to use it.
Founder & Admin Central Guides
When I first started editing the My Little Pony Wiki, I was thrilled to earn my first achievement badge! Day after day I would edit on MLP a little here and a little there. Each day, I'd scan the list of top contributors on the leaderboard (Special:Leaderboard) to see my name slowly start to rise. It was thrilling and exciting. I felt like I was helping the community to a better place by adding categories and editing articles. Some people pride themselves on edit counts which is great, but I try to focus on specific goals -- that's why I love achievements.
Achievements are a great way to customize your wiki while also encouraging editors to contribute more. Each achievement is awarded based on of a variety of things. And each achievement can be customized to fit the need of your wiki.
Founder & Admin Central Guides
Recent Changes — or as it's sometimes referred to as 'RC' — is much like Wiki Activity. They both track contributions on a wiki. But Recent Changes records all of the activity. It's more of a technical feed of everything that's taking place on a wiki. With Recent Changes, you can actually see everything that is happening. Don't have a lot of activity on your wiki yet? That's ok too. Recent Changes is also really helpful to look back and find something you did, uploaded or added. It's a quick short cut to seeing what's happening on your wiki and all of the wikis you are stopping by to check out.
Let's go over what all these numbers, characters and information mean. As you can see there is a lot of info and if you have no idea what you are reading -- it can be a little confusing and daunting.
Founder & Admin Central Guides
Wikis by nature have a lot of activity on them. Once a wiki starts to attract a community, whether that's two or three people or hundreds of people, a lot of action can happen over any period of time. Editing, uploading an image, writing a blog post, leaving a comment, adding a new page, asking a question in a forum—so much can happen! Because anyone can come and edit (and add any of the above contributions and more) it’s useful to be able to find all of that activity in one place.
As a good admin, it's important to monitor the activity on your wiki for a number of reasons. The main reason is to see what is being added and edited. This is your space, your community—it's important to see what exactly is being edited and by whom. Two tools used to keep track of wiki changes are Wiki Activity and Recent Changes. Both of these features are useful tools for this task.
Founder & Admin Central Guides
When editing, leaving comments or posting on wikis you'll need to know the basics of wikitext. It's true we have our awesome editor that helps with editing, but there are times where you'll need to edit using wiki text. Such situations can occur when leaving comments on blogs or article pages or when a page is only editable in source mode.
Wikipedia defines wiki text or wiki markup as a lightweight markup language used to write pages in wiki websites. It is a simplified alternative/intermediate to HTML. Its ultimate purpose is to be converted by wiki software into HTML, which in turn is served to web browsers.
