Facebook Connect

Shahid June 30, 2010

Greetings Wikians!

Here at Wikia we're always working hard to bring you amazing new features to enhance your wiki. Today we're excited to announce integration for Wikia wikis with Facebook Connect!

You can now join Wikia with just your Facebook account.Edit

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If you already have a Facebook account you're on the fast track to joining Wikia. With a click of the Facebook Connect button on the top of any wiki you"ll be able to create a new Wikia account within seconds, without confirming your email or creating a new password! We'll guide you through a few short steps and then you can begin enjoying the benefits of your very own Wikia account.

You can connect your existing Wikia account to Facebook.Edit

Connecting your existing Wikia account to Facebook gives you some great advantages:

Log in to Wikia with a single click using the "Connect" button at the top of any wiki.
Automatically share contributions to your favorite wikis on your Facebook profile. You have full control of what gets published and what doesn't.
A seamless way to promote, share, and enjoy your wiki with friends and family!

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Ready to connect? Click the "Log In" link at the top of any wiki as you usually would to access to your existing Wikia account. Choose the "Get Started" link at the bottom right of the log in screen and we'll guide you through a quick, one time set-up. Voila!

If you want to disconnect your accounts, you can do so at any time in your preferences - so there's nothing to stop you giving it a try!

You can include a Facebook Fan Page widget on your wiki.Edit

If you've created a Facebook Fan page for your wiki you now have the ability to include a widget promoting your fan page on your wiki - you can see the Wikia page widget on the right of this post. Check the help page for more details on how to use these.

We hope you enjoy using these great new features. As always, we love to hear from you - please feel free to pop your comments in below! If you want more details about Facebook Connect on Wikia, visit our help page.

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Is it a way to make the Facebook Connect automatically publish ANY feed on wiki in to fan-page? We think about integrating the wikia with portals about it content fan page, if t is possible.

September 19, 2010 by WyrdHamster
It works perfectly for me (I'm currently connected). I'm using Firefox and I 100% recommend it!

July 15, 2010 by Rodrigo X
Sean, So signed talked pages are never published on facebook?

July 8, 2010 by Roguebfl
Howdy @Roguefbl,
Only edits by Facebook Connected users will be pushed to that user's feed. Even if you edit a page that was also edited by a Facebook Connected user, that edit will not be pushed to your feed unless you are Facebook Connected and have your preferences set to push that event. Anonymous (ie: logged out) users edits are not pushed to Facebook.
If you don't connect your account (or if you connect your account and click the "Never publish to my news feed" preference) then your contributions will not be pushed to Facebook.

July 7, 2010 by Sean Colombo
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- Automatically share contributions to your favorite wikis on your Facebook profile. You have full control of what gets published and what doesn't.
and how much control do people who DON'T want the contributions details on Fasebook even though they edit a page with some who does get over it? epically anonymous contributors?
July 6, 2010 by Roguebfl
@Fandyllic we've tested a couple of times from this end, and we can't seem to replicate the error you mentioned. Here's what we did:
Start: user is logged out of Facebook and Wikia.
- Log into Wikia with a non-facebook connected account
- Head to Special:Connect
- The page contains an invitation to connect
- Click the Connect button
- Popup for Facebook login
- Click accept on all permission dialogs
... and this connects the account to Facebook OK.
You will see the verification error if you click "don't allow" on any of the Facebook permission dialogs. Can you verify whether you did this during your test?
July 6, 2010 by Shahid
go to led zeppelin wiki and the darkness wiki and make some edits

July 3, 2010 by Stairway51
This might already be known, but if I'm already logged into Wikia and try Special:Connect I get this:

If I log out and try FB Connect, it asked me to either creat a new Wikia account or login to Wikia (I logged in) and everything went fine.
I guess the F Connect button is hidden in most cases when you're logged in as a WIkia account, but I wanted to see if I could hook my account to FB when already logged in.

July 2, 2010 by Fandyllic
I will try it today. Looks amazing.

July 2, 2010 by Station7
I was already a fan of Wikia before all this. ASnd I'd rather have a Wikia account.

July 2, 2010 by Iamred1
Thanks Vega. If there's something better, I'm open to that too.
Check out my implementation here

July 2, 2010 by LordTBT
[[Special:Connect]] will work.

July 2, 2010 by VegaDark
Ok, thought of a question. If I wanted to create a link, either [[link this]] or [http://wikia.com like this], how would I do that if I wanted to create a link for 'Sign in with Facebook Connect' ?

July 2, 2010 by LordTBT
@LordTBT - thanks for the report. We'd spotted that error, and it should be rectified soon.
Thanks for your note, we're really glad you like using the product! I'll pass your comments back to the team :)

July 1, 2010 by Shahid
Ok, back with a report.
Not sure if this is 'Messages' customizable, but on the initial dialog to check feed preferences, the text says 'Earn a badget". 'Badget' can't be the right word.
Other than that, I'm happy to report everything seems to be working, even the avatar-photo migration, which is very cool.
Thanks for adding this feature, I've been wanting it for a while.

July 1, 2010 by LordTBT
Update: We just wanted to let you all know that we ran into some issues with FBConnect on wikis with unique domains (specifically Wowwiki, Memory-Alpha, FFXI, Websitewiki, and Yoyo Wiki). We have removed FBConnect from them for the time being, while we work on this issue. We will let you know here once they are back. Thanks!

July 1, 2010 by Sarah Manley
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@Sahid - Seeing the Connect button now. I'll run some more tests later today.

July 1, 2010 by LordTBT
@LordTBT Thanks for the notes. (You are indeed a trailblazer!)
We're seeing the connect button OK on Redwall from here - it should appear in the top right next to "log in", and you can only see it when you log out. Could you pop in what browser / OS you're using, and possibly a screenshot? Also, try a hard refresh to refresh your local browser cache.
Regarding avatars - your FB profile photo will become your Wikia avatar if you haven't already customised it.

July 1, 2010 by Shahid
This is funny, Redwall brought the Like box to Wikia first :P And I'm not seeing how it's possible to make Wikia's integration of the Like box look like the Redwall Wiki's homemade integration, seen on our main page.
I'm not seeing a 'Connect' button right now either.
In the Spring 2010 Update blog post, I offered 2 comments/questions:
1. Advertise FBConnect on Blog Commenting...e.g. convince anons to log in with FBConnect vs commenting anonymously.
2. Is one's FB profile photo ported over as an avatar on Wikia, like FBConnect works on other sites? (E.g. the commenting on allfacebook.com)
If item #2 has not been resolved, I would recommend high priority.
Edit: I found in the fbconnect messages references to "achievements". Could you explain this?

July 1, 2010 by LordTBT
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@Sarah, That was done using IE7

June 30, 2010 by Charitwo