User talk:ZivTargaryen
ZivTargaryenThanks 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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Welcome[[edit source]]
Hi there :) Congratulations on your promotion. As you probably know, I'm your sort of "backup bureaucrat" at he.doctorwho, so I'm glad to see that the admin staff is growing there. I've noticed you've been putting in some inter-language links here, so thanks :)
You'll probably want to be aware of Board:United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, a forum on this wiki which is specifically dedicated to trying to help non-English Doctor Who wikis get more editors. A he.doctorwho thread already exists there so you may want to read it, if you haven't already. But you are not bound to use that thread; you can start as many threads as you want, so long as they all have to do with building up the ties between this wiki and he.doctorwho.
Now, you asked for help with randomisation. What kind of randomisation are you trying to do?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 04:22: Sat 06 Apr 2013
Well, I'm trying to build randomisation like the one on the main page, for example, one that chooses from "The Sarah Jane Adventures" episodes or characters. ZivKarni3 ☎ 10:41, April 6, 2013 (UTC)
- Well randomisation is handled in two ways on this wiki. But since you're most interested in the television one, take a look at Doctor Who Wiki/Television. It's al right there. well, almost all right there. You'd need to create something like {{random}} and any other templates that are dependent on it, which you can fine by examining the code of {{random}}. Then you just create a #switch statement like the one you see at Doctor Who Wiki/Television. The mathematical #expression needs to be ( {{random|number of options - 1}} + 1 ) because {{random}} can return 0. So currently our list of DW episodes sits at 258. (It needs to be updated a bit, but let's go with that number.) {{random|258}} would return everything from 0 to 258. But we don't have a 0, so we need to add 1 to the result so that the minimum return is 1. But if we do that then we could get 259, which we also don't have. So we set the expression to be ( {{random|257}} + 1 ). Hope that helps!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 14:01: Sun 07 Apr 2013
Coupla points[[edit source]]
Hey, did you figure out what you wanted randomised?
Also, please note some things about our wiki that may be different from he.doctorwho. Images must have common English names. Please don't use a string of indecipherable numbers. Also, and this is hugely important, in-universe articles must be in past tense. See T:GTI, T:ICC, T:PERSPECTIVE for more.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 13:48: Sun 07 Apr 2013
- Oh, I see, you replied here. Yeah, please try to reply on your correspondent's talk page. So if you ask me a question, I answer on your page. Then you reply on my page. That way, I'll get a message alert when you reply and I'll be able to respond quickly to you.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 13:49: Sun 07 Apr 2013
Template help[[edit source]]
You failed to mention what template you need help with. Can you please provide a link?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 22:13: Wed 24 Apr 2013
Um no, sorry, its on the list of languages I wish to learn (along with German and Latin) but no I don't, why do you ask? --General MGD 109 ☎ 21:04, May 4, 2013 (UTC)
Ah, and no it was simply an accident, still thanks for letting me know. --General MGD 109 ☎ 22:48, May 4, 2013 (UTC)
Hello I'm on live chat with you would you like to chat.--hi ☎ 17:54, May 5, 2013 (UTC)i
Iamges[[edit source]]
Hi there! Please makes sure that when you upload an image, you select the appropriate licence tag from the drop down menu. This is a must. Any image that is uploaded with out a licence tag will get deleted. Thanks. MM/Want to talk? 12:26, May 13, 2013 (UTC)
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!
