User talk:SOTO

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To save you the trouble, just call me SOTO.
Also, please sign your messages. Thanks.

SmallerOnTheOutside

Tomato check tracking

Well, I put this in the thread, but it's really hard to read it there. I thought you might like to see it at full width. This chart tells you which episodes you don't need to worry about anymore, as they've already been touched by two editors.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  01:05: Tue 15 Oct 2013

	CZ	SOTO	TYB	SH	SPR
SH				Self
SOTO	SOTO has no common stories with CZ	Self		See above
TYB	TYB has no common stories with CZ	see above	self	see above	TYB has no common stories with SPR
SPR	SPR has no common stories with CZ	see above	see above	see above	self

Strax

Yeah, thanks for that. I was looking into it but couldn't find the info I wanted. Can you let me know

• the forum where this was discussed. I couldn't find it or remember its name
• if the other one, "The Doctor's Greatest Secret", also needs to be deleted?

Thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 18:05, November 17, 2013 (UTC)

Well, if my brain was working properly today I would have thought of checking the inclusion board rather than the panopticon ;)

Ok I updated the Strax Field Report page. If you get a chance, can you take a look and see if I put the right things in the right place? Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 18:39, November 17, 2013 (UTC)

Christmas cheer

Happy holidays!

As this fiftieth anniversary year comes to a close, we here at Tardis just want to thank you for being a part of our community — even if you haven't edited here in a while. If you have edited with us this year, then thanks for all your hard work.

This year has seen an impressive amount of growth. We've added about 11,000 pages this year, which is frankly incredible for a wiki this big. November was predictably one of the busiest months we've ever had: over 500 unique editors pitched in. It was the highest number of editors in wiki history for a year in which only one programme in the DWU was active. And our viewing stats have been through the roof. We've averaged well over 2 million page views each week for the last two months, with some weeks seeing over 4 million views!

We've received an unprecedented level of support from Wikia Staff, resulting in all sorts of new goodies and productive new relationships. And we've recently decided to lift almost every block we've ever made so as to allow most everyone a second chance to be part of our community.

2014 promises to build on this year's foundations, especially since we've got a full, unbroken series coming up — something that hasn't happened since 2011. We hope you'll stick with us — or return to the Tardis — so that you can be a part of the fun!

Infobox Series

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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  04:26: Mon 30 Dec 2013

Another Form

When you undid my edit, you said that the dates would be included in "another form". If you don't mind me asking, how are they going to be included? Reversinator ☎ 01:52, December 31, 2013 (UTC)

That was enough of an answer for me. Thank you very much for answering my question. Reversinator ☎ 02:13, December 31, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey, thanks for responding to my concerns so quickly. I didn't get a chance to answer because I was away from the computer for several hours, and now it's too late. Anyway, happy New Year. Shambala108 ☎ 23:00, January 1, 2014 (UTC)

Welcome to the admin team!

So now you're an admin.

Look after the wiki for me... I've put a lot of work into it.

And you know exactly what that means, right? Well... There's no one "right" way to be an admin.

We all find our own paths. But it's really important to think of yourself primarily as a caretaker who cleans up the space so that other people can use it. You're not "in charge" now. You've just got more to do.

This calls for a proper tour!

The mechanics of administration

One of the first things you'll want to do is check out a list of the things you can do now. That list is an important overview, but it doesn't tell you a whole lot about how to actually use your new abilities. You'll want to quickly move on to the administrator's how-to guide. The guide explains, step-by-step, how to perform the basic actions of deletion, merging, restoration, protection, blocking and rollback — the five main tools in the administrators' toolbox. There are also several other more specific help pages to be found at the admin help hub.

But for now, you probably just want to watch some video, right?

You'll probably want to check out this video for an overview of the Admin Dashboard to which you now have access, as well as some other basic tools of the trade:

[click here]

If you're not all that familiar with special pages, you'll probably want to check out the following overview. Although it is somewhat basic in parts, it probably will teach you at least one thing you didn't know.

File:Managing your wiki - review of tools & special pages

The art of administration

One of the more difficult aspects of administration is knowing when to act. Remember, you're now a steward of the community. It's your job to foster discussions and deal with inter-personal issues as they arise. Fandom have prepared some great videos about this subject, all of which are highly recommended. Please make sure that you view these at some point within the next week or so.

First up is a video about encouraging community discussion:

File:Tips & Tools for Community Discussions

Next comes a great roundtable about how to deal with trolling and vandalism. This is a particularly important video because its participants are all people you'll probably deal with now that your an admin. When admin contact Fandom, they most often deal with someone from ComDev (or CommunityDevelopment), and this video features some of the more visible members of that team.

File:Wikia Office Hours - Trolls & Vandalism

And here is a video about attracting and retaining new users — something that should be of primary concern to all admins:

File:Wikia Wednesday - Attracting & Welcoming New Users

What now?

These are obviously only a few topics of interest to admin. If you want help with anything more specific, be sure to get in touch with any of the existing admin.

Images

You deleted a couple of my images for reasons of "4:3 image stretched to widescreen". Could you explain to me what that means? Reversinator ☎ 02:07, January 4, 2014 (UTC)

I'll be blunt; I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to images short of actually uploading them. I've uploaded the two images again and linked them here (Young man and Meme, 100% unmodified (they originate from an online source but were taken personally, which doesn't seem to be against the rules), so that you know what the deleted images started from. One question, though: you said to take the screenshot "without modifying them". From what I've read in the policies, that kinda confuses me. Could you please explain to me what the heck I'm supposed to be doing? Reversinator ☎ 02:56, January 4, 2014 (UTC)