User talk:Thisismyrofl
ThisismyroflThanks for your edits! We hope you'll keep on editing with us. This is a great time to have joined us, because now you can play the Game of Rassilon with us and win cool stuff! Well, okay, badges. That have no monetary value. And that largely only you can see. But still: they're cool!
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Links[[edit source]]
Not sure what you're talking about with respect to our inter-language linking being in "disarray". We have all the combinations you speak of. I've been very careful to request every possible linkage. None of the things you suggest in your post are true. We do have formal inter-language linkage in all the combinations you suggest, which can be verified by looking through the archives at community:Community Central:Interwiki requests.
You may be suggesting, though, that there are no formal inter-language links for it, ko, pl, and tr. That's true enough. We don't put in a request until a wiki hits 30 articles, as is stated at Forum:Interwiki Requests.
We won't be linking to he.doctorpedia.wikia because it doesn't follow the url naming convention that we've established as the main Doctor Who Wikia wiki. Your url must be in the form he.doctorwho.wikia for us to adopt you as the "official" Hebrew Wikia. That URL is available, so it would be a simple matter of transferring over. This transfer would allow you to keep he.doctorpedia.wikia as an alternate link, but at the same time standardise your url. For instance, the current German wiki started as w:c:de.doctorwhotorchwood but is now w:c:de.doctorwho. Both things still link to the same place, but the use of languagecode.doctorwho makes it much easier for everyone to find your wiki. Even this wiki is actually w:c:doctorwho.
I hope you will change your URL, as we absolutely do want easy links to your wiki.
Finally, just to answer your request, thanks for the offer, but you do not have permission from the admin staff of this wiki to request interlanguage linkages on our behalf.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:19: Sun 28 Oct 2012
- I do thank you for your enthusiasm on this front. However, what you may be unaware of are the numbers of different Doctor Who wikis in other languages, and how we, as the main wiki, have to act responsibly towards each of them. At various points, there have been multiple German, multiple Hebrew and multiple Russian Doctor Who communities. Since interlanguage links can only work with one complementary wiki, we have to establish criteria by which we will decide which of competing wikis will become the "main" one for that language.
- Please do not interfere with these processes by appearing to represent this wiki with other wikis. To cut down on confusion and mislinking, any offers to link with another wiki must be made by either myself or Tangerineduel, exclusively.
- It's fine for you to bring to our attention any wikis we may have missed, but I'd ask you to consider the fact that because you've made no substantive contributions to this wiki, you may not actually understand the rhythms of our community. Please trust that we are absolutely committed to the goal of expanding linkages to the international community — but we must proceed in an orderly fashion.
- If you find any other Doctor Who wikis to which we've not linked, please do let me or Tangerineduel know about them, so that we can approach the staff of that wiki and see what can be done. It is simply easier to build a bridge between two wikis if there is one person from this wiki interacting with one person from the complementary wiki.
- Finally, I feel compelled to say that it is really not for someone who doesn't even watch Doctor Who to represent the main Doctor Who wiki in any way, shape or form. Your representation of yourself as being "from the English website" at w:c:he.doctorpedia:user talk:Puchplimmirdeyslithin is a flat-out lie. Please do not ever post anything like this on any Wikia wiki, because you're not a part of our local community in any substantive way.
- Worse, you're inciting this user to adopt the wiki, when he wouldn't even be eligible, because a bureaucrat logged in today. The wiki is therefore not adoptable, under Wikia's rules.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:28: Sun 28 Oct 2012
- I think Wikia has an odd thing with how it measures the most recent log in for a user. On my Wolfenstein Wiki, I've had it report that all seven administrators logged in on the same day, when some hadn't edited in 3 years, so I take that "Most recent log in" with a grain of salt. In any case, neither of the active administrators have edited since June (or the other, May) so one could argue that "Admins have been inactive for 60 days or more", which is the requirement quoted from the forum page. Still, I will revise my message asking for them to ask an administrator for admin rights.
- As for representing the wiki, I apologize. I was trying to compose a message in simple English so it would be easier for him to read it, if he can read at all. Still I will revise that as well. Elecbullet ☎ 19:42, October 28, 2012 (UTC)
- Please just .... stop. I've already crossed out your remarks and added my own. And I've contacted the relevant bureaucrat. Wikia do indeed count the "logged in" stat as activity. This wiki is not adoptable.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:06: Sun 28 Oct 2012
- Evidently this isn't working and I feel terrible. Never mind. I tried to help and I didn't do much of anything right. Elecbullet ☎ 20:09, October 28, 2012 (UTC)
- I think you may be used to working with wikis where inter-language links either don't exist or aren't well understood. We, on the other hand, do care about them and have sufficient policies in place to take care of them. (Indeed, I doubt there are too many other wikis that actually have an interlanguage link policy. Thus your "take charge" approach — which undoubtedly serves well elsewhere — is a bit counterproductive here Don't worry, though. If your goal was to get us to link to the reinvigorated Hebrew site, then you will eventually succeed. And please, if you see other international DW wikis, tell us about them. We will take action on your recommendations, provided your suggestions fall within our policies.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:41: Sun 28 Oct 2012
- I think you may be used to working with wikis where inter-language links either don't exist or aren't well understood. We, on the other hand, do care about them and have sufficient policies in place to take care of them. (Indeed, I doubt there are too many other wikis that actually have an interlanguage link policy. Thus your "take charge" approach — which undoubtedly serves well elsewhere — is a bit counterproductive here Don't worry, though. If your goal was to get us to link to the reinvigorated Hebrew site, then you will eventually succeed. And please, if you see other international DW wikis, tell us about them. We will take action on your recommendations, provided your suggestions fall within our policies.
- Evidently this isn't working and I feel terrible. Never mind. I tried to help and I didn't do much of anything right. Elecbullet ☎ 20:09, October 28, 2012 (UTC)
Portuguese[[edit source]]
Hiya :) Just noticed you tried to add a pt interlanguage link to the front page. Please note that we have intentionally de-linked from w:c:pt.doctorwho as it does not meet the standards set forth in Forum:Interwiki Requests. While you are certainly welcome to make ILLs with any of the other wikis mentioned at Forum:Interwiki Requests, please do not attempt to make further links to pt.doctorwho until and unless they are added to the list at that page. Thanks :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 04:55: Thu 01 Nov 2012
- That was before I was aware of policy and I had completely forgotten I'd done it. I apologize. Elecbullet ☎ 19:03, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
Hebrew wiki[[edit source]]
You do indeed get to say "mission accomplished". Thanks for spotting a community that needed recognition and encouragement. Although you may not have been aware of our larger ambitions with non-English wikis, thanks for spotting a community — or at least an enthusiastic user — in need of encouragement.
If you find any more such wikis out there, or you just want to offer encouragement or advice to the international wikis that are already a part of our network, please do drop by the newly-created Board:United Nations Intelligence Taskforce.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 04:28: Sun 09 Dec 2012
Christmas cheer[[edit source]]
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!
