User:Kacj321/Archive 2

Request for help
Hi Kacj. I approved your request, and I'm here to follow up with you. Did you have anything specific in mind for the main page? If so, please share any details with me. The first idea I had is to use the font (or as close as I can find) in the wiki's logo (for 'The Elder Scrolls') and make custom section headers, such as the Welcome section, About, Featured Video, etc. I could also make some image "buttons" to link to the most important and/or popular pages. See DarksporeWiki for example, where I just redesigned their main page. Feedback welcome and encouraged. JoePlay http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb33036/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (talk)  17:26, August 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * For the main page me and someother guys on the wiki chat (Zluhcs Commander Faol ) have been talking about having the Dragon Age Wiki content page with the whole scroll features, but insted of the quotes next to it have the News section and we also need to keep the count down. We have been debaiting on colours for the wiki it self some people think we should have more bright winter colours (for skyrim) and other thinks its ok as it is. Also we need a new logo for the wiki the one we have now is not that great. Kacj321||Project Zomboid Wikia||The Elder Scrolls Wikia 17:52, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * Hello, good sir!


 * One of our administrators; Kacj321, has assigned me to give you ideas on how I and some of our users would like to see our Elder Scrolls wiki look like.


 * I shall start with the “small things”:


 * We would like a new logo on your website. Something more “Skyrim”-ish, such as maybe a text that says “The Elder Scrolls wiki” used with the same sort of steel (grey) colored letter type that is on this Skyrim cover, and maybe have the the same dragon insignia you can see on the same cover-image next to the new wiki logo text.


 * Next, if you could change the small icon that shows up when you for example open up a tab (Which is at the moment just a grey “S”-letter) to that same dragon insignia; that would make this wiki easier to find for the users, if they have many tabs open at the same time. I was thinking of a background with an off-white color such as #FFFDD0 and the dragon insignia on top of that.


 * Next, as Kacj, already mentioned; we would like our homepage to have a similar system to the dragon-agewiki, or theVault, for that matter. A homepage where the user easily can click on a preferred game, and have it only display content relevant to that game. Sub-categories, or portals would also be nice (like the Vaulthas got it), where you display a list of weapons, armors, spells, etc, that is in a spesific game.


 * For the background of all the text, and homepage, we were thinking of having something more brighter, more snow-ish and winter-ish visual as the release of Skyrim is around the corner. I found this background on google http://tinyurl.com/4x55z9q which is a pretty good-looking Skyrim-background. I am not sure if it is copyright, or who the creator is, but something of that very sort would be nice to have as a background. –As long as it gives the feeling of winter, and not of darkness and unhappiness.


 * Also, instead of the dark-grey text-background we’ve got at the moment, we were thinking of something more white, silver/white-ish, because “The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim” takes place in a relative cold-area. Not anything too bright, as that again would make it irritating to read. But a bit dark color is fine, as long as it is not too dark (once again; We want happiness)
 * Hope you understand the ideas, If not, please leave a message on my talk page, so that I can explain better. :)
 * Good luck, and thank you!
 * Zluhcs (talk) 18:55, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * Here is where me and Zluh come to a stand still I believe the colour and backgrounds of the wiki are great. Also we are The Elder Scroll wiki not the Skyrim I believe we stop making things more Skyrimish. Kacj321||Project Zomboid Wikia||The Elder Scrolls Wikia 19:09, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * I fully understand your point of view, but I was just thinking since Skyrim is about to be released, we will receive many new Skyrim-users, and therefore I think it would be nice to make the wiki more "Skyrim"-friendly and then of course, if it bothers someone change it to something else. It is all just ideas.
 * I fully understand your point of view, but I was just thinking since Skyrim is about to be released, we will receive many new Skyrim-users, and therefore I think it would be nice to make the wiki more "Skyrim"-friendly and then of course, if it bothers someone change it to something else. It is all just ideas.

--Zluhcs (talk) 19:18, August 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * Since there's some indecision about the wiki's theme (colors and background image), I started helping out by making a possible new logo and favicon. The logo can be seen here. For the favicon, I made two versions to look at. They both use the off-white background color provided by Zluchs. Favicon #1 uses the whole dragon from the Skyrim cover, and Favicon #2 uses the top half of the dragon, to make it a bit more recognizable. If you want to use that logo or one of those favicons, let me know.


 * Although Zluch mentioned the Fallout Wiki main page, you both mentioned using a main page layout like Dragon Age Wiki, so I'll take that as an agreement and start working on that next. JoePlay http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb33036/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (talk)  20:06, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * We have agreed on Favicon 1 but it needs to be centerd. We also very much like the logo :). Kacj321||Project Zomboid Wikia||The Elder Scrolls Wikia 20:21, August 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * I've uploaded the new favicon and logo. It's normal for favicons to take up to 24 hours (sometimes longer) to update on your browser bar. New logos are supposed to display immediately, but we've been having cache issues with the image servers, so it may also take a day or two for the new logo to show on the logo area. JoePlay http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb33036/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (talk)  21:05, August 25, 2011 (UTC)

Main page redesign
I spent some time today laying the groundwork (CSS, JS and templates) for the custom slider and main page layout. I think I got all needed code copied over. I've successfully setup the first/main "slide" at Template:Portal/Main. The progress on the slider as a whole can be seen at Template:Portal/Component/Slider. The broken links are just because those slides haven't been created yet.

It's the end of the day and end of the work week, so I'll be back Monday to continue this large project. Once the slider is finished, the rest of the page should be much easier to set up (I hope). Enjoy your weekend! JoePlay http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb33036/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (talk)  23:59, August 26, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for all the good work you've done here. We are very satisfied with the new wiki logo, and while we are quite eager of the look of the new favicon, we are just not sure if we want to keep favicon 1. Instead we are wondering if you could change it to favicon 2 (perhaps make the dragon insignia bigger somehow) and instead of the off-white color- have no background color: 100% transparency (and if that is not possible: white)


 * Once again, thanks alot!


 * Zluhcs (talk) 01:45, August 28, 2011 (UTC)


 * I've successfully got a basic form of a new main page up and running correctly at Portal:Sandbox. (If you don't currently see the countdown timer in the Countdown section, don't worry. The page just hasn't "updated". You can see that the countdown is working at Template:Portal/Component/Countdown.) I recommend that you read Help:Portal (like I did when I started this project) to understand how this new main page design works. The only thing left for you guys to do is (1) fill in the Headers and links on each slider component, i.e. the 'slides' for each game on the slider, and (2) create any additional components that you want to use and add them to the Sandbox. The format for each component is as follows:


 * Once you've added and updated all the sections/components you want to use, simply move Portal:Sandbox to the actual main page. If you need any more help, message me on my talk page. Hopefully I'll actually be able to help. ;) This was probably the most complex project I've worked on, at least regarding all the involved code (CSS, javascript, templates), but it's definitely worth it. All credit goes to Tierrie. He's the guy who designed and coded this awesome main page design from scratch. JoePlay http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb33036/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (talk)  20:59, August 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * The id is used in the the css. For example, id=countdown sets the portal section to be given an id of "portal_countdown". This allows section specific css to be applied to just that component without accidentally messing up any other components. There are examples of section specific styles at "portal: subsections" in w:c:dragonage:MediaWiki:Wikia.css -- 03:08, September 4, 2011 (UTC)

Attribution
Hi. I received a message from Sannse about a complaint "about this wiki not attributing content from another site".

I know that a question has been raised recently[1], whether screenshots taken from the UESP should only be attributed to Bethesda and not the UESP. Well, Bethesda is the sole owner of all the screenshots taken from their games, so the UESP doesn't own any of those screenshots (and neither do we). They do however deserve credit for the work their users put into creating and uploading those screenshots. That work is the reason why we always need to give them attribution for those screenshots (as described here).

As for Reph. Well, you can't blame him for getting a bit agitated after all this time he has spent protecting UESP's rights, and the fact that he has to constantly monitor this wiki is more detrimental to us than to him. Also, if you read his conversations with Michaeldsuarez and Timeoin, you will see that he can be a very pleasant person to work with :)

Cheers --Anon(Talk) 20:00, August 29, 2011 (UTC)

Mainspace Edit
Please add a period [.] to the end of the "Overhaul warning" on the Main page. Thank you.

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hi kacj i checked my fallout wiki and ghost avatar banned me forever

do you know any thing about this?

Quick Question
Hey Kacj, great work on the main page boss, its awesome. Quick question though, what's with the Lycanthropy (Skyrim) page? I was editing the page yesterday to say that it wasn't confirmed but was told to stop and not change anything else because the page was created by you and it was confirmed. I quickly apologized and stopped, I am certainly not trying to mess pages up while someone busy with them. Unfortunately though, as much as I have searched, I cannot seem to find a confirmation of being able to become Werewolves anywhere on the net yet and in fact, all I can find is quote after quote of Bethseda refusing to comment on that. Whats up boss? Liberal Ideas (talk) 07:54, September 10, 2011 (UTC)

Hi kacj i would like to know wat happened with my bann like wat i did please i was gone for a while and then i came back and i saw these messages on my page.

thanksEnclaveoverlord (talk) 02:00, September 14, 2011 (UTC)

--Blood Reaper--
Hey Kacj. When you get back can you check if the Skyrim countdown works correctly? For some reason Google chrome cannot read the coding but other browsers like Mozzilla firefox works for the countdown. Please reply if you have any insight on this....thanks.

Hugs and Kisses,

Blood Reaper (talk) 16:16, September 17, 2011 (UTC)

Edit: I talked to other users about it and said they all can't see the Countdown either. They also said that the browser they all use is Google chrome. Im guessing the problem is the Chrome browser. But I think it works fine with Other browsers like Mozzilla

Sincerly,

Blood Reaper (talk) 16:20, September 17, 2011 (UTC)

RE: Countdown
Hi Kacj. This is ongoing issue due to a conflict with displaying both the countdown timer and a Twitter feed on the same page. It was believed to be fixed, but apparently there's still a problem with Chrome. I've reported it to our technical team, who had worked on it already. Hopefully they can take care of the Chrome problem soon. JoePlay http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb33036/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (talk)  16:45, September 19, 2011 (UTC)

Hi

You can use this nice picture for the 5th Oblivion anniversary page: http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/09/19/oblivion-5th-anniversary-arrives-in-europe-this-week/

About images' descriptions...
Sometimes it happens, when I add a description under an image, it gets bolded, even if I didn't apply such effect.

How to fix this?

Thanks

Two things
ONE: Please link me to your game...if it is finished I would love to try it out and give you feedback

Two: I always wanted to ask this but keep forgetting. Is Timeon the "boss" of this wiki? Because I always thought he was founder......until I looked that hes only Admin. So my question is.......whos the founder?

I only did this since your probabily busy with something and you cant talk in the chat

Blood Reaper (talk) 01:08, September 22, 2011 (UTC)

I didnt found it. It was actually started by someone back in 2009, but it went very inactive until I helped start it up again in March this year. As for the "Boss" thing - well, the wiki is a community, not a dictatorship :) Timeoin•Say G'Day•View my work•See current projects 02:00, September 22, 2011 (UTC)

Chat
Hey where did chat go?Husky2413 (talk) 06:30, September 22, 2011 (UTC)Husky

Hello, G'day. I'm new sorta, i've been roaming here as an anon ever since skyrim was revealed but never created an account. So here I am. Nice to meet ya. Lolzzzman (talk) 19:14, September 22, 2011 (UTC)Lolzzzman


 * Chat has been temporarily removed Husky. Its to give users a taste of IRC. If people dont like it, we will go back to Chat instead, but IRC has its advantages too. For instance, we were able to continue chatting during the Wikia downtime, and it means that anonymous users (like Lolzzzman was previously) could chat to us. He wouldnt have been able to until he signed up with an account, otherwise. Timeoin•Say G'Day•View my work•See current projects 19:19, September 22, 2011 (UTC)

Why are UESP dude's such assholes....

What kind of jobs can you get in skyrim?

Morrowind Creatures...
Kacj if you need simple layouts for the seperate pages for the Kwama Creatures...use this Link

I dont know if you knew about this page or not but it has most of the information for Kwamas.

Sincerly,

Blood Reaper (talk) 20:58, September 26, 2011 (UTC)

Oh I didn't see that, silly me :) Just add the templates to each sub heading. Kacj321||Project Zomboid Wikia||The Elder Scrolls Wikia 21:03, September 26, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah I kinda did like most of the creatures on Oblivion and Morrowind on the creature Page so I know most of the stuff.

Blood Reaper (talk) 21:06, September 26, 2011 (UTC)

Ayeo! Just got a post deleted. I posted in the news section... with no message in what I did wrong...

Homepage
Hey Kacj....Do you ever change the "Featured Article" or the "Did you know?" part on the front page. I was wondering that because I was wondering if you could change it at least once a week. It kinda gets tiring seeing the same thing over and over again. I would do it myself.......but Im not admin.

Sincerly,

Blood Reaper (talk) 23:47, September 28, 2011 (UTC)

Yer I'll start changing it when I do the "Member of the Week" :) Kacj321||Project Zomboid Wikia||The Elder Scrolls Wikia 00:16, September 29, 2011 (UTC)

Norwegian TES wiki
Hi there

I'm not sure which admin to contact about this, so I'll just post it here and hope you can help.

I created the Norwegian TES wiki quite some time back, way before Skyrim was announced, and before wikia changed it's layout. Not being a fan of the new layout, I stopped editing my TES wiki, and it's been degrading slowly lately, with bad edits and without a proper theme. It looks like a mess.

So I'd like to know if there was some way I could get help with getting a good theme set up on the Norwegian wiki. Considering they're both on Wikia, I guess it'd be good to have the same theme on both wikis, but like I said, I'm no huge fan of the new Wikia layout, and I have little to no idea how to set up the theme myself. Can you help, or get me in touch with someone that can?

Cheers -=KAG=-My Pride 23:31, October 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks tons for your help, really appreciate it!
 * -=KAG=-My Pride 12:33, October 4, 2011 (UTC)

Wow dude, thanks bro!

Lolzzzman (talk) 05:45, October 6, 2011 (UTC)Lolzzzman