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[edit] Wikia Gaming IRC channel

Hullo! I am Kirkburn, your friendly local Wikia Gaming Helper!

You may be interested to know there is a Wikia gaming IRC channel, #wikia-gaming on chat.freenode.net, where you can hop on, ask for help from users of other gaming wikis, or offer your own experiences. If you are not familiar with IRC clients, you can access it from http://irc.wikia.com/gaming.

Different people may be on sporadically, but we organize weekly chats at a fixed time so we can get the most number of people online at the same time to ask and answer questions, or just to hang out. The admins of some of Wikia's biggest gaming wikis (e.g. WoW, Halo) often attend them. You can find the time for the next chat by following this link.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me! Kirkburn (talk) 11:12, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] how is about a german variant?

what are you think about a german variant of the wiki? i hade the charakters names and descriptions :3

ILHI   22:19, 8 August 2008 (UTC) Sure. As long as I have someone who can speak German regularly checking up on edits. :D

[edit] Main page layout update

Hullo! I am Kirkburn, your friendly local Wikia Gaming Helper!

Hopefully you have read about the skin and ad changes at Wikia's New Style on Central Wikia. If not, I hope you'll have a look.

One of the changes is a block of two ads on each main page. It's possible that they won't always show up, but to ensure your main page continues to work properly when they do, you need to update your main page column formatting code with new column tags.

I have drafted a main page using the new tags on User:Kirkburn/Dev which I hope you can take a look at - feel free to make a copy and edit it. As part of creating it, I have also gone through the code to clean it up and make it more readable. Though the layout may seem restrictive at first, there really is a fair amount you can do with them - for example see these customized main pages - Muppet Wiki, WoWWiki, FFXIclopedia. You may want to chat with your wiki community about what direction to take with a new main page.

If you encounter any problems with the new tags, please let us know.

My apologies for any inconvenience these changes bring.
Thank you for your time, Kirkburn (talk) 07:54, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

ILHI   13:03, 27 August 2008 (UTC) I have indeed heard of this, and I'll try and get something done to the main-page.

I hope you don't mind, but I have put the new layout live. It should be very familiar! I have also taken the opportunity to go through the code and do cleanup where possible. Kirkburn (talk) 12:45, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

ILHI   13:46, 1 September 2008 (UTC) I never was going to do it. :D I am currently using a 600x800 screensize, minus the normal side ads. And even without the ads, the navigation box overlaps the box with the logo. I can supply a screenshot if needs be.

ILHI   13:49, 1 September 2008 (UTC) I have moved the logo to the next line, which has stopped the overlapping, at least without the side ads. I'm going to see if I can get some code to make the page look nicer.

Xylaquin 17:02, 1 September 2008 (UTC) Eh wait a minute... why do we need these adverts when what we have already is perfectly fine?

ILHI   20:51, 1 September 2008 (UTC) Because Wikia's adding a giant square ad in the top left that only sometimes appears.

Xylaquin, unfortunately it is what advertisers buy - the previous situation of just banner ads did not give a good enough return to be sustainable. By having two ads on the main page, it allows us to reduce the number of ads elsewhere. Kirkburn (talk) 14:49, 3 September 2008 (UTC)