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The page [[List of BBC DVD releases]] is repeatedly being mucked about by vandals who mess with the information on the page. Is there anyway to hamper their ability to do this?[[User:Gallicus|Gallicus]] [[User talk:Gallicus|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 03:36, July 25, 2012 (UTC) | The page [[List of BBC DVD releases]] is repeatedly being mucked about by vandals who mess with the information on the page. Is there anyway to hamper their ability to do this?[[User:Gallicus|Gallicus]] [[User talk:Gallicus|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 03:36, July 25, 2012 (UTC) | ||
== Non-English versions of this wiki == | |||
Hey Josiah :) I've had to openly contradict your advice to a user in a forum, and I wanted to tell you why. I don't generally like to interfere when another admin is advising users, but in this case, I felt that you were advising without having all the facts to hand. | |||
I've been working with the admin staff of the various international versions to establish a consistent nomenclature, so that, no matter where you edit ''Doctor Who'' articles, you know how to make a link to pages in another language. This will greatly simplify the creation of templates globally, and it makes all the Doctor Who sites much easier to find. | |||
The nomenclature for all sites is: | |||
<pre> | |||
w:c:languagecode.doctorwho | |||
</pre> | |||
This is because we, behind the scenes, are actually [[w:c:doctorwho]]. The whole [[w:c:tardis]] schtick is just a fancy redirect done to save keystrokes. | |||
Because Wikia (well, MediaWiki) allow us to link to only one site per language, this also settles disputes in languages where there's more than one site. If there were w:c:fi.tardis and w:c:fi.doctorwho, we'd ''only'' recognize w:c:fi.doctorwho. Currently, for instance, there's a dispute between two German sites over which one we should link. The active community is actually at [[w:c:de.doctorwhotorchwood]], but we won't recognize them until they take over the dead site at [[w:c:de.doctorwho]]. This will helpfully force a cleanup of the deadwood in the de.wikia fold. | |||
Also, given the high percentage of non-English sites that go belly-up after a week or two, we're no longer linking to sites with fewer than 30 pages. Just because a person creates a site in another language doesn't mean we march off to Wikia and request linkage. They've got to prove that they've got some kind of momentum. Clearly the French site is fully viable, and the Spanish site has really taken off the last couple of months, but the Italian, Hebrew and Polish sites got as far as one page and then stopped. | |||
So, again, I'm sorry for stepping on your tutorial, but in this one instance, mainly for what are very technical reasons, I hope you can understand why I felt it necessary to breach the inter-admin trust. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">02:00: Tue 07 Aug 2012 </span> | |||
