User talk:Matt Hadick
Thanks for your recent edits! I'm Jimbo, your robot wiki representative! We hope you'll keep on editing with us. This is actually a great time to have joined, because we're now fully independent, and working on a host of new features!
We've got a couple of important quirks for a fan written wiki, so let's get them out of the way first.
British English, please
We generally use British English 'round these parts, so if you use another form of English, please be sure you set your spell checker to BrEng, and take a gander at our spelling cheat card.
Spoilers aren't cool
We have a strict definition of "spoiler" that you may find a bit unusual. Basically, a spoiler, to us, is anything that comes from a story which has not been released yet. So, even if you've got some info from a BBC press release or official trailer, it basically can't be referenced here. In other words, you gotta wait until the episode has finished its premiere broadcast to start editing about its contents. Please check the spoiler policy for more details.
Other useful stuff
Aside from those two things, we also have some pages that you should probably read when you get a chance, like:
- the listing of all our help, policy and guideline pages
- our Manual of Style
- our image use policy
- our user page policy
If you're brand new to wiki editing — and we all were, once! — you probably want to check out these tutorials at Wikipedia, the world's largest wiki:
Remember that you should always sign your comments on talk and vote pages using four tildes like this:Thanks for becoming a member of the TARDIS crew! If you have any questions, see the Help pages, add a question to one of the Forums or ask an admin.
Apologies[[edit source]]
I am here almost every day of the year, but unfortunately your request about adding comments to the Space Opera blog came at a time when I needed to take some personal time away from the wiki. That said, yours was about the last mail I read on my talk page before dealing with my RL mini-crisis — now happily resolved — and I thought I had hit "publish". Evidently I didn't, although I still have the draft response in a local file.
Basically, the gist was that I don't particularly consider Doctor Who space opera, although there are a few individual stories — mostly non-televised — that fit the sub-genre.
If anything, Doctor Who is actually anti-space opera since it is built on the central premise of an individual running away from his society. Far from being a part of his society, the Doctor is an iconoclast who has no interest in building any kind of societal structures. Indeed, he's a hero because he destroyed his entire society. Most space operas are, by contrast, about people who are members of a collective whole — Starfleet, the Rebel Alliance, etc. — battling some other grand force like the Klingons or the Empire. Space opera heroes tend to be those that protect an existing regime or restore an old one — which is not usually the Doctor's gig at all.
Doctor Who is about a single thief who opts for largely aimless travel, random scientific investigation and acts of benevolent anarchy on the way to adventures in fishing, cricket, football, and good drink.
In any event, I really am sorry for not responding in a more timely fashion. It was not my intent, desire, or usual practice. Please feel free to call on us again, because we are very interested in being a part of the larger Wikia community. If you need to make announcements here to generate activity elsewhere on Wikia, please do not hesitate to use Board:Tales from the Tardis.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 01:32: Tue 03 Sep 2013
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!
