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Hello, fellow movie lovers! I'm Eric Moro, the Entertainment
Category Manager here at Wikia. This is one of my favorite times of
year - the Oscars! From the performances to the camerawork to the
visual effects (and everything in-between), the yearly Oscars
telecast is a time for Tinseltown to honor its own. And considering that Wikia has one of the most ravenous
communities online when it comes to all things entertainment, we
thought we’d do something special. So join us, will you, as we walk
th… It's that time again; time for candy and flowers and hearts, but
more importantly it's time to tell the people you care about that
you're thinking of them and that you appreciate them. In honor of tomorrow's lovely holiday we wanted to give
you a chance to share your love with the rest of Wikia. Which wikis
do you love and why, which wikians have been amazing and deserve to
be showered with love and adoration, and which wikis are decking
themselves out in hearts and flowers to celebrate? Please … Last December all Wikia employees participated in our first-ever
"Wikia Day" -- no meetings, no emails, no work -- just editing
wikis all day long. It's a chance for us to get more familiar with
the nooks and crannies of our website, root out pesky bugs, and to
fall in love with wikis all over again. December's Wikia Day was such a rip-roaring success that we
decided to make it a recurring tradition. Last Friday we celebrated
Wikia Day #2! Here are some highlights: Hey there, I'm the social media guy here at @Wikia (or Nathan
Blonkenfeld out in the real world)! I head up our Social Media Strategy: I help
plan marketing events, and assist our Category Managers with
giveaways. I also post to Wikia's Official Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram and Google+ accounts. You'll see me tweeting on @Wikia, @WikiaGames
and @WikiaEnt — Yep,
they're all the same person but with lots of different
info! I also work closely with the
Community Team here at Wikia to assist with custome…
We're all quite excited with w…
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As many of you know, we’ve been working on Message Wall — a new
alternative to User Talk Pages that lets you have a public
conversation in a fast, powerful, and organized way. During the
early testing phase, you gave us boatloads of feedback that
influenced our development process. Today, we’re excited to
announce that thanks to you, we’ve made many improvements to
Message Wall, and it’s now available in Labs. Your admins can
enable it on your wiki whenever they wish! Admins can enable or disabl… Hi there! As promised in our last blog post, the Mobile Team has
a holiday present for you. Close your eyes and...open! It's a new
version of our mobile skin! Now go ahead and act surprised like the
blog title didn't give it away. Our mobile skin was long overdue for an update, and this version
lays the foundation for more improvements in the future. It's
optimized for both iPhone and Android (which covers 95% of our
users), and we think you'll like the changes we've made. The size of phone scree… Many of
you have asked if Message Wall can be optional. My quick and short
answer is that we don’t know yet. But, we are taking an important
interim step. The next
stop for Message Wall is Wikia Labs. Putting Message Wall in Labs
will give you the chance to try the feature out for a while and see
how it works for your community. It also gives you a place to share
insights about testing the product with other users and Wikia
staff. During the
Labs phase, we’ll be tracking usage and your feedback; …
What a week it’s been over here on Community Central! I wanted
to reach out, first and foremost, to thank you for your passionate
feedback regarding Message Wall. We’ve read, shared, and quantified
every single one of your comments and have replied to a good number
of them as well. I know we’ve taken a bit of heat for not replying
to every comment, but we have to make judgment calls or else we
would have to work around the clock and other important tasks
wouldn’t get completed. Here are a few th…
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Everyday we have new users joining Wikia who are excited to
share their knowledge and get involved in the many communities we
have here — which is awesome! But let's face it, if you aren't
already familiar with wiki editing — building a wiki can be a
little daunting for your everyday newbie. We'd like to make
building and creating wikis less difficult for new users. As the Community Manager of Founder Experience, I spend a lot of
time thinking about how we can help newbie founders and make
their… I have some great news for you: Today we’ve removed the fixed
light or dark theme on both the Admin Dashboard and the Editor. It's important and necessary for you as communities to have your
own look and feel. You have all worked really hard to define and
make your wikis unique. And one good way to do this is through your
own local color theming. So as of this morning, you'll see your
Admin Dashboard and Editor pull in your wiki's customized
colors. For those of you who are new on the scene, here… Last month we kicked off a series called Wiki Wisdom. It's a
series where we share and highlight great user blog posts we read
on Wikia. As a community, Wikia collects so much knowledge — our
goal is to give shout-outs to well written, informative, and
thoughtful blog posts. In today's post, we're highlighting RRabbit42's help page
Dealing with Vandalism and Spam. It was written on the Phineas and
Ferb Wiki, but has a boatload of helpful and valuable tips for
dealing with trolls or vandals. At on… We see users offering help and support in a variety of ways all
over Wikia — through editing, comments, forums, etc. Blogs are an
especially great way to offer guidance to the community. It's
always inspiring to stumble upon blogs where users have taken a
moment to share their experience or knowledge so that other users
can learn from them. What better way to acknowledge these blog
posts than to highlight them in a guest blog series called "Wiki
Wisdom" on Founder & Admin Central? To kick off ou…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Come check out Founder & Admin Central! You'll find blog posts, forums and getting started guides — all geared specifically for admins and founders. Come on over for help or to help out!