User talk:CzechOut/Archive 18

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Please just check for me...

Hi CzechOut. Ok before I start to continue filling in the gaps and adding DWA comic strip images would you please just check out The Greedy Gulper and let me know if I've done the image category bit right. I think I've done as instructed but the box on the comic story images page doesn't look right (ie too many brackets).Thanks The Librarian ☎ 10:11, August 8, 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, there seems to be something off with {{ImageLinkComics}}, but not the other ImageLink templates. This problem can be seen on every subcat of category:DWA comic story images. But I can't figure out just what the issue is, because the first link works fine and the markup for both links appears to be identical in the template in edit/source mode. For some reason, it's requiring a first varible for the second link. I fixed category:The Greedy Gulper comic story images by writing {{ImageLinkComics|}}, thereby introducing a blank variable. That's my theory anyways. Not my territory, so I'm just passing along what I found to you.
--SOTO ☎ 10:33, August 8, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks and no worries. :) --SOTO ☎ 13:41, August 10, 2013 (UTC)

I get that there has been a DWA comic link problem thats fixed but tried again this evening and found I couldn't add the category <story title> comic story images to a couple of images I uploaded ie CS DWA 293 METERORITE MEETING.jpg (and yes I realise the spelling mistake!) and CS DWA 294 TOWER OF POWER.jpg.

I've checked and the category page for the comic story has indeed been created but shows no images.

Also I notice at the bottom of the page; about > Apppears on these pages> the word 'left' appears immediately after comic story - and doesn't look quite right.

I know you are busy on other things but this was partly the reason that I took a break from editing pages with pictures because I couldn't seem to get it right and have now returned keen to get it right this time. Thanks The Librarian ☎ 22:41, August 13, 2013 (UTC)

two images from the lead images on The Greedy Gulper (comic story) and Meteorite Meeting (comic story) attached to illustrate the above point - hope this helps file:Greedy Gulper - word LEFT appears.jpg and file:Greedy Gulper - word LEFT appears.jpg The Librarian ☎ 03:50, August 14, 2013 (UTC)

hi ok sorry about that :(

I've been using capitals for story titles, lower case for aspects - I'll have to rename my files first before uploads. I have checked the guidelines but its difficult to locate images in a widescreen format that illustrates the article that doesnt impact on balloons. Tails I could probably paint out. As comic stories are a visual medium there are often aspects of the frame that are I think worthy of inclusion if only in order to add context . But I will review my images again in the light of the points you have raised. The Librarian ☎ 11:15, August 15, 2013 (UTC)

btw are DWA / DWM etc exempt from the caps rule? The Librarian ☎ 12:06, August 15, 2013 (UTC)

Years

Hey. Over time, I've been slowly moving year info to the new pages. That's done. The pages are still nowhere close to cleaned up and still need quite a bit of work, but I'm confident that everything is where it should be.

Give 'em all you got with bot runs. By the way, the reason I want to use WLH for this is because I'm already going to have to go through every page, clean up and check WLH. This is just my way of killing two birds with one stone. So please run the bot ASAP so I can get to work and finally (for the most part) finish with release days.
--SOTO ☎ 05:24, August 10, 2013 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, forgot to specify. I mean switching all the day and month links in year pages to the proper article. So release years link to release days, production to production, etc. While you're at it, no harm in switching years links in day pages too.
--SOTO ☎ 14:32, August 10, 2013 (UTC)

Nope. Seems fine. Thanks. :)
--SOTO ☎ 19:12, August 13, 2013 (UTC)

I've noticed a discrepancy

Hi. After editing the Dominion (audio story) page I noticed that in the title of the page, there is a colon in the page title, but for the Project: Twilight etc there isn't due to, what is written on the page, limitations of Wikia software. Is this just a strange quirk of the system? or has the software been updated? if it has, is it possible to have the project: pages renamed so that they are the released names? AdricLovesNyssa 15:52, August 11, 2013 (UTC)

The Master

Sorry for that, as I said, I interpreted your words:

Looks like JagoAndLitefoot has assembled good facts that would improve the article and should alter the article at the Master as appropriate.

{{macqueen}} can be altered once those revisions are made, without having to come out from under protection.

As "you can change the header this time and I'll alter the template afterwards". Sorry if I misinterpreted it.

As for proof that it's before TVM, I didn't say there's any definite proof, just that now that there's Mastermind, the "release order" justification for putting it after TVM no longer holds, and given that the Master and the Doctor's timelines are usually in sync, it makes more sense to put it between Master and TVM until we have more information. JagoAndLitefoot ☎ 20:27, August 12, 2013 (UTC)

Wikia Guided Tours: "Space Opera"

My name’s Matt and I’m a community development associate for Wikia. I’m in charge of a monthly feature called “Guided Tours” where I interview experts on a given topic, asking questions about how they got into their area of expertise and how they recommend others do the same. Our next feature is going to be Space Opera, which Dr. Who definitely fits into!

If you could provide answers, as short or long as you see fit, to the questions below, your responses will be featured in the article. Check out the last Guided Tours article for an example.

Thanks!

1. Tell me a bit about yourself and your involvement with the Tardis Data Core.

2. How did you get into Space Opera? Into Dr. Who?

3. How would you recommend a beginner get into Space Opera? Any particular books/movies/comics/TV shows/games/etc. that would serve as a good starting point?

4. Anything you wouldn’t recommend?

5. Any additional advice you’d give to someone new to Space Opera?

6. What resources on your wiki might be useful to an aspiring Space Opera fan?

Mhadick ☎ 20:42, August 14, 2013 (UTC)

Hi Czech Out! My name is Ariana from the Community Development team over here at Wikia. I am wondering if you wouldn't mind making an announcement on your wiki about an upcoming bracket tournament that can involve the Tardis Wiki!

Thanks for considering it! Best, Asnow89 @<staff/> (profile)•(talk) 16:44, August 15, 2013 (UTC)

Here is the text: "Wikia is hosting a Fantasy Food Fight Bracket Tournament on Recipes Wiki, and we want YOU to be a part of it! We are asking that all of the communities on Wikia submit fictional foods from their wiki. For example, the Harry Potter Wiki might submit Butter Beer.

Which Dr. Who foods come to mind? We are accepting nominations through Aug. 26, and then the battle for the one fictional food that will rule them all begins!

Submit the foods from your community here! We accept multiple nominations per wiki, so the more the better!"

Telesnaps

Hey, I've got a question about telesnaps. According to the article, the telesnaps for "The Feast of Steven" were not done by John Cura and are of poor quality. Do we allow them on in-universe articles? The ones I've come across are pretty awful. Shambala108 ☎ 19:40, August 18, 2013 (UTC)

Image template proposition

I was thinking about images and T:GTI, and I recalled the sheer amount of images that do not respect it. Some are deleted by an admin, but most are simply ignored. Majority of these, I find, are from comics and audio covers, since TV stories are generally already or at least almost there.

Then I thought: what if we had a template, in a sense like {{speedy rename}} but for images? I mean, we'd tag any images that could just do with a cropping, a colour revamp or the like, and they'd all be accessible from a category. Then anyone — I'd be glad to once in a while, even — can just visit the category and fix a few. We could even mark .pngs too; it only really takes a few seconds to download the image, open it in an image editing program, save it as a .jpg, and then reupload it to the wiki. Okay, slightly more than a few seconds, but it would be quite quick if they were to be done en masse.

I think this is a much better alternative to simply deleting images. Even if you're too lazy to fix it yourself, you can simply add the template and let someone else do the job for you. Deleting means the wiki lost an image; my idea should actually end in cleaning them up, not going down the lazy path.

So what do you think? I'm sure you'll be able to find a billion faults in the plan that make it infeasible, knowing you! :D
--SOTO ☎ 22:47, August 20, 2013 (UTC)

Doctor Closet Confidential

I'm Annette and work on Wikia Staff, programming mostly on the Lifestyle vertical. We're working on an idea that I'd love to get the help of the TARDIS community, but wanted to run it by you first.

We run a program on Fashion Wiki called Closet Confidential, where we ask users to help dress a fictional character.

I'm personally a big fan of The Doctor, and am really excited about the announcement of <removed per T:SPOIL> as the 12th Doctor. Fans know that each Doctor doesn't just change faces and bodies but also has specific accessories that make up a new special outfit and look.

I'd love to ask the TARDIS community to help us create a list of items that they'd like to see be part of the next Doctor's look. Usually, we ask users to come up with three items. In this case, the items could be the 12th Doctor's signature coat (leather jacket, trench, tweed are taken of course), signature accessory (no bow ties or waistcoats), and one other. Then we'd take the nominated ideas, put them into three polls, and we'd open up the voting to all of Wikia.

I'd likely ask for nominees in a forum post, similar to this one we're running on Avatar now around a food program (http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Kate.moon/Food_Fiction:_Avatar).

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this idea!

Acardwell415 ☎ 22:49, August 20, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415

My email

Hey there, Did you get my last email? I wanted to check in with you one last time. We need to move ahead with planning, so please get in touch! Thanks, --Sarah<staff /> (help forum | blog) 15:53, August 22, 2013 (UTC)

Can you do me a favour?

Hey. Can you run the bot with these two pieces of coding on List of BBC DVD releases? While I will admit this is more of a test on whether or not I've grasped regex than anything extremely practical, but the main intention is to fix the weird dating format there. I've tried in the past with basic find and replace, but to no avail. Then I thought: why don't I try using regex? So, yeah, taught myself the basics from Tardis:What SpellBot actually corrects#How to read the code and a few online resources, both to fix this annoying problem and because I love learning new things. I tried to group the two pieces into one, but I messed up and sort of gave up quickly.

I'm not entirely sure how your program works, so I'm putting "find" and "replace" separately to be sure. Here they are:

No. 1

Find:

(\[*)(199|200|201)([0-9])( \(?\D{0,8}\)?\|?[ ]?\2?\3?\]{0,2})\-(\[\[\d+ \D+ \(releases\)\|)\d{2}\-\d{2}\]\]

Replace:

\5]] \1\2\3\4')

No. 2

Find:

(199|200|201)([0-9])\-(\[\[\d+ \D+ \(releases\)\|)\d{2}\-\d{2}\]\]

Replace:

\3]] \1\2

This should work, I think. This is nothing urgent; just a little test I want you to run whenever you feel you have the time. Alternatively, can you point me to a place online where I can run this myself?
--SOTO ☎ 05:38, August 23, 2013 (UTC)

Never mind, actually. I should have just Googled it before coming to you. I'm can be such an idiot sometimes! This place should do quite nicely for my purposes. Just about to test it out now. Thanks anyway. :)
--SOTO ☎ 05:45, August 23, 2013 (UTC)

It worked!! Whoohoo!! :D --SOTO ☎ 05:57, August 23, 2013 (UTC)

Tardis Image

I noticed your replacing of the Tardis infobox image the second of july. I belive this is not the first time you have replaced that image with the one from the war games, though I am less certain as to why. The mid-flight Tardis in the image is not disguised, and should as such be a perfectly accurate representation of the article subject. It has indeed been long since agreed that an image of the Doctor's police box would not be valid, but unlike what you seem to have been enforcing, it was never said about the Tardis itself, only about it's disguised form. There has been further discussion on the subject on the page's talk section, where the general opinion seems to the one I have been presenting. May we request a statement on the matter there?

I'm not certain this is an appropriate topic for your message wall, but seeing that you replaced the image twice and had yet to comment upon it on the Tardis talk page, I deemed it the most suitable course of action. I apologize if it was not. Thomsons Gazelle ☎ 15:33, September 2, 2013 (UTC)

Speedy renames

Hi! I've been working on the speedy renames, but when I remove the tag from the page, the page is still listed on the speedy rename page.

For example, I've already changed "456 Ambassador" to 456 ambassador. The first one is still blue-linked on the speedy rename page, and the second one is still red-linked, as if it were not created yet.

For some reason, removing the tag doesn't remove it from the speedy rename page for several days. It makes it a bit tedious to sort through which pages on the list still need renaming. Is this a fixable glitch? Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 17:08, September 2, 2013 (UTC)

Acknowledged

So this is official closure of the wordmark project. It's not that surprising, really. The consideration thread went silent in April. You've done a fine job with the selections anyway. I can always modify my personal designs for DeviantART instead, converted into standalone works, minus the Data Core logo to avoid ownership troubles. --Thunderush ☎ 06:48, September 3, 2013 (UTC)

Food

Hi CzechOut!

Thanks so much for getting back to me. That is so kind of you to say! Tardis is one of my (and most of the ComDev team's) favorite wikis, so we definitely look forward to doing future projects with all of you!

We did have a lot of submissions for Fishfingers and Custard from the Tardis wiki and it's still in the running!

Asnow89 @<staff/> (profile)•(talk) 16:34, September 3, 2013 (UTC)

Aw thanks so much for spreading the word! I just posted round 2 a few minutes ago, so let the voting begin!

Image licence for Doctor Who Figurine Collection ...

Any ideas? as there could be quite a few images maybe a new more specific licence? and under what heading? Magazine or Merchandise The Librarian ☎ 21:55, September 6, 2013 (UTC)

It's a magazine with figurines. See Doctor Who: Figurine Collection. So half the pictures will be magazine covers, and the other half will be the merchandise included with that issue. --SOTO ☎ 23:31, September 6, 2013 (UTC)

So can a specific licence be added to both as 'Doctor Who Figurine Collection figure images' and 'Doctor Who Figurine Collection magazine covers' ...please The Librarian ☎ 00:03, September 7, 2013 (UTC)

Its just that the merchandising licences are 'Character Options' or 'others' which seems a bit too broad. I would also suggest a 'Dapol' specific licence as well. The Librarian ☎ 08:43, September 7, 2013 (UTC)

Wikipediainfo

Ahh. I think I know what happened. I must have carelessly copied and pasted the description from another eshort writer when writing Richelle Mead's page. I've just cleared up the instances on Scott, Sedgwick and Reeve's pages, one of which I probably used as a "template" (not {{wikipediainfo}}, but the whole description). Normally I'm quite good with this sort of thing. Thanks for pointing out the error, though. -- Tybort (talk page) 01:20, September 7, 2013 (UTC)

Video uploads

Hey, there is a new user who has uploaded literally dozens of videos. I wanted to make sure what to do with them. Do they get deleted since they weren't uploaded by an admin? (I haven't checked them all yet so I don't know if any have spoilers.) Thanks, Shambala108 ☎ 04:12, September 7, 2013 (UTC)

New categories

Hello! Now that we (=you) have solved the Sporting Events, I'd love to create two more new categories, with related doubts:

• Under Category:Law and order, a sub-category named "Penalties" or "Sanctions" or "Execution methods" or whatever, including: vaporisation, embolism, death sentence, steaming, torture, molecular dispersal...
• Under Category:Supposed deities (and maybe Category:Earth myths and legends), the category "Greek gods" or another name, including: Zeus, Poseidon, Kronos... (and possibly, "Egyptian gods", etc...). Here, I am not sure about the in-universe approach.

What do you think about their creation and their possible titles? Thank you, again. --HarveyWallbanger ☎ 16:16, September 7, 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, CzechOut. I will follow your suggestions! :)--HarveyWallbanger ☎ 08:33, September 9, 2013 (UTC)

Graham Dilley

OK, the Doctor doesn't describe the Ashes in any real way to Peri and Erimem, merely mentioning that Tegan won't be enjoying the match as she's Australian. However, before the story properly begins, there is a (fictional) newspaper article, which contains the following quote:

"At the close of play on the third day of the third test of the 1981 Ashes series, English cricket was being buried. Already one test down and with the captain sacked, England were following on, still two hundred adrift and one second innings wicket already lost. Journalists were preparing eulogies for the national team.

By the close of play on the fourth day, the corpse had shown signs taht it wasn't ready to lie down and die just yet. That defiant, belligerent 145 not out by Ian Botham had given England a slender lead. By the end of the fifth day, despite the odds of 500-1 against given by bookmakers less than twenty-four hours previously, the dead body of English cricket had risen from the grave, a Phoenix rising in this Ashes series, and England had won the match in the greatest comeback the sport had ever seen."

This fictional article supposedly comes from the National Clarion, William Jenkins-Wells, cricket reporter.

I've already created an article for William Jenkins-Wells, as he already features in the story.

Hopefully you can get some good stuff out of this. Shambala108 ☎ 21:04, September 7, 2013 (UTC)

Actually, that's a good point about the "fictional". For all I know, the authors of Graham Dilley Saves the World, Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett, copied an actual article from an actual newspaper. I don't know enough about cricket or English newspapers to say for sure. What I meant by fictional is that McLaughlin and Bartlett set up their story with a newspaper article about the events that will happen in the story. It's pretty common in Short Trips for authors to create documents, newspaper accounts, book excerpts, etc. to help their stories along.

I hope that clears things up. Shambala108 ☎ 21:30, September 7, 2013 (UTC)

Episode Template (viewers)

I was thinking that you may want to add the final ratings (views) in the episode template. for example for the episode Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS achieved a final raitng of 6.5 million views. So I was asking if I could put 6.5 million views in the episode template. --User:QuestionRules 19:48, September 8, 2013 (UTC)

A catch up

Long time, no see CzechOut. How you been?

So... it seems I have been absent for a bit of time here. Something that I regret, but was not able to prevent - the reason being is that I have been mainly working full time or sleeping, plus doing some university work on the side has left me with very little chance to edit here. But I will try and get my editing back on track - starting with images. Yes, that time has come again, where I do a massive image clear out... hoping every time I have to do it less and less.

On another note, I got a lovely wee email for Sarah Manley earlier this month... she seem to mention something about meeting Wikia staff, you, in an all expensive paid trip to Wikia offices? And as much as I would like to go, it pains, saddens, upsets me even to say that I can't, due to university and work commitments. I am disappointed that I shall not be able to attend this trip (although, hopefully, if we get another chance (fingers cross) I will be able to). If I might make a suggest, what about Tangerineduel or even SOTO, the latter being suggested due to his hard work, detmination and effort he has put in since his time here - which I hope he will continue far into the future.

But before I rattle on any more, I should ask: Have I missed any major policy changes?

But now, back to editing I think. I plan to do images ASAP, then tackle the unresolved issues of:

a) The continuity and references section b) The home media releases issue c) And the other thing(s) I started a discussion on, but can't remember

Anyway, until next time. MM/Want to talk? 22:54, September 8, 2013 (UTC)

Wikia Spotlights and the 50th anniversary

Hey CzechOut, I was just about to leave a spotlight request for DWA on Community Central for the weeks leading up to the 50th, but then I thought that maybe we could do some sort of joined thing between DWA and TDC to celebrate the time while attracting readers and editors to both our wikis. You interested in doing a joined spotlight or something? Imamadmad (Contact me) 03:40, September 9, 2013 (UTC)

Rabbits

No, not in modern 21st century 'Straya. Ever.

I'm not even sure of the origins of the expression. Perhaps it could be that there are a lot of rabbits in Australia and that would just be an exclamation. Are we sure this is a Janet Fielding thing and not a JNT-approximating-Australia-thing?

There is the term to "rabbit on" (also used is rabble on and rattle on) – to go on about nothing (definition from the Australian Oxford Paperback Thesaurus) or "to talk nonsense, usually at length" (from The Macquarie Australian Dictionary app, based on the complete Macquarie Dictionary Fifth Edition), that's the second definition. Under the first definition though in the Macquarie Dictionary there's also;colloquial - a bottle of beer, colloquial - a fool, phrase colloquial - "to rabbit around, to indulge in aimless and time-wasting activities", run the rabbit "to go out purchase alcoholic drink, especially after closing hours or somehow improperly".

There's also rabbit-o / rabbit-oh, a seller of rabbits for food.

So I'd say it's just a Janet Fielding-thing. Or perhaps it's just one of those words like frak and our very own cruk. --Tangerineduel / talk 10:28, September 9, 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!