User talk:Jake

QuickLink

Hi Jake, could you install the QuickLink extension please? Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 12:00, 25 February 2012 (EST)

Ok, it's installed but it does not support our editing toolbar. If you want to use it, go into preferences, click the 'Editing' tab, and uncheck all 'Beta' and 'Labs' features. The extension should then function as intended. --Jake 09:03, 26 February 2012 (EST)

Okay, thanks again. I never really used those features anyway so I don't mind not having them :P The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 09:27, 26 February 2012 (EST)

I have never actually been able to use QuickLink, even with the beta and lab features turned off. I have Firefox 11 on Windows 7, if that helps at all. Should I take screenshots? | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 04:12, 12 April 2012 (EDT)

Bugs

MediaWiki:Recentchangestext ‎and Extension:WikiEditor does not work for me. AleWi 12:11, 28 February 2012 (EST)

Could you be more specific? What exactly about those pages isn't working? -Jake 12:14, 28 February 2012 (EST)

When I push a button or a link is nothing happening. I've testing Google Chorme and Internet Explorer on two diffrent computers but it dosen't work. It works at the "Svenska Wikisimpsons". AleWi 12:18, 28 February 2012 (EST)

The same seems to be happening for me. I'll look into this as soon as I can! What's wrong with MediaWiki:Recentchangestext? -Jake 12:20, 28 February 2012 (EST)

Sorry MediaWiki:Recentchangestext should be, MediaWiki:Edittools /AleWi 12:27, 28 February 2012 (EST)

So it turns out that this was a bug with the new QuickLinks extension. I've inserted some checks into the code to make sure it doesn't conflict with the default editor. It should be working properly now. --Jake 01:29, 3 March 2012 (EST)

List of redirects

No matter what the combination (500, 2x250, 3x100, 6x50, 15x20) I can't get to the 300th redirect on Special:ListRedirects. Any idea why?--Cook879 16:54, 28 February 2012 (EST)

That's odd. I can't think of why that would be happening. I'll take a look at the database later and see if there's anything wrong in there. -Jake 12:10, 29 February 2012 (EST)

Ok, this should be fixed now. Turns out MediaWiki wasn't happy about there being some redirects to merchandise wiki left over. I manually went through and removed them from the database. -Jake 01:06, 3 March 2012 (EST)

Thanks Jake :)--Cook879 05:57, 3 March 2012 (EST)

Piwik

Hi, Merchandise and Chinese need to be removed from Piwik. Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 11:32, 29 February 2012 (EST)

I thought I did that already, but I guess I didn't. Thanks for the reminder! :P -Jake 12:11, 29 February 2012 (EST)

External links in templates

Hi, a few times now, we've put external links into templates and they haven't shown up or even counted as an element of the template. This happened before the upgrade so it isn't that. At first i thought it was specific to the table template but it's also happened for {{QuoteEx}} I have no idea what is causing this problem so could you look into it please? Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 12:49, 29 February 2012 (EST)

There's also a problem with {{Desc}}! It doesn't display the link! Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 13:16, 29 February 2012 (EST)

Bullet point error

Hi, when indenting bullet points with our appearance templates (see my sandbox for an example), we have two bullet points instead of an indent. Is there any way to fix this through normal means? Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 16:32, 29 February 2012 (EST)

Some things...

Hi!
The 404 page needs to be edited. The german site should be linked to Hauptseite instead of Main_Page, the swedish to Huvudsida and the chinese link should be removed. Also in Recent Changes in the languages section on the side, "Svenska" links to "Special:Senaste_ändringarna" but it should be "Special:Senaste_ändringar". Also in the section "På andra språk" on the sidebar in the swedish wiki, the chinese is still there, and I don't know how to delete it. Thanks! FatHomer^Talk 04:37, 2 March 2012 (EST)

Fixed. :) -Jake 07:32, 2 March 2012 (EST)

Thank you :D FatHomer^Talk 09:20, 2 March 2012 (EST)

Connecting and disconnecting

I keep connecting and disconnecting from Wikisimpsons. So does Solar, possibly Will. Do you know what's happened? | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 04:41, 4 March 2012 (EST)

I'm connecting, disconnecting and connecting as well. Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 04:43, 4 March 2012 (EST)

I noticed the first problems around 1 am, and concluded that the downtime was caused by a power outage near our server's data center. I was able to confirm this by going to the power company's web site. The problem was resolved just after 2 am, at which time I went to sleep. Since then, there seem to have been several intermittent power outages. These power outages seem to be causing only network problems, as the server itself has remained online through all of them according to its network graphs. (The four gaps are the power outages.) Hopefully we won't experience any more outages, but if we do, at least we'll know why. --Jake 08:46, 4 March 2012 (EST)

Explode StringFunctions

Hi Jake, could you add the explode StringFunctions to Wikisimpsons please? Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 17:52, 4 March 2012 (EST)

Sure thing. --Jake 20:50, 4 March 2012 (EST)

Common.js

Hi, is there any way to clean up the MediaWiki:Common.js as the page is stretched out. Also, could we have the syntax highlighted as well? Thanks, Solar Dragon ^{(Talk • Contribs.)} 11:35, 6 March 2012 (EST)

There's really no way to clean it up other than cutting out unused code. I don't really see that as much of a problem though, as those pages are really only used by people who know what they're doing with Javascript. As for syntax highlighting, I don't really think it's possible. If you want the benefits of syntax highlighting, I'd recommend editing the JS in a proper editor on your computer and then transferring it back over to the wiki. --Jake 15:27, 6 March 2012 (EST)

I've seen other wikis highlight syntax here for instance. Plus, they have a scrollbar in the page to stop it stretching out too. Not sure what they've used to do that but it would look better. The Solar Dragon 15:33, 6 March 2012 (EST)

Wow, I somehow missed that extension entirely. :P It's been installed. :) I'm not sure how they're fixing the page stretching, but I'd be happy to apply the fix if you can find it. --Jake 15:43, 6 March 2012 (EST)

I was given the code "pre { overflow: auto; }". I put it into the Common.js but it didn't seem to do anything so thought I'd ask you in case you knew what to do with it. ;) Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 09:23, 7 March 2012 (EST)

That's because that's CSS, not Javascript. I'll set it up for you. :) --Jake 11:46, 7 March 2012 (EST)

Rollbacking on German

Hey Jake, just an FYI but when you rollback something on German it displays a database error upon completion.--Cook879 15:41, 6 March 2012 (EST)

Should be fixed now. :) --Jake 15:47, 6 March 2012 (EST)

MWSearch

Hi, could you install MWSearch, and by extension, Lucene-search please? Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 16:03, 8 March 2012 (EST)

I have been looking into search alternatives, but at the moment, I haven't reached a decision on which one to use. Replacing the search engine is not as simple as installing any other extension, and it's something that I will have to plan out carefully before deploying new software to the server. -Jake 12:14, 13 March 2012 (EDT)

Thumbnail images

Hi Jake, around the thumbnail images is a slightly darker shade of the main colour, of "fff9cf" while the main content's colour is "ffffe0". Could you change the colour around the thumbs to "ffffe0" please? Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 10:55, 9 March 2012 (EST)

I believe I was able to fix it. It's hard to tell. Please let me know if it's fixed, otherwise I'll try editing a different CSS rule. :) --Jake 12:24, 13 March 2012 (EDT)

Weird userwiki stuff

Hi, when I go to UserWiki:Randomno it has a no-page content, but I can edit it and actually see the text of the no page thing (O_o). Also, when I go to User:Randomno it's in user profile style, but I use prfile not wiki. I'll have a go messing around, but this is weird and I don't want to lose my actual user page... | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 16:32, 12 March 2012 (EDT)

Oh, fixed, but I never remember switching round UserWiki with User profile... | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 16:33, 12 March 2012 (EDT)

Polish Wiki

Hi Jake, a user has expressed interest in a Polish wiki so he could translate articles there. Could you set this up please? Thanks, ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 18:55, 12 March 2012 (EDT)

Absolutely! I'll get to that as soon as possible. --Jake 12:16, 13 March 2012 (EDT)

There's been a placeholder since yesterday afternoon on http://pl.simpsonswiki.net/. When is the Polish wiki going to be up? Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 14:14, 14 March 2012 (EDT)

Special:Patrol

Hi, Special:Patrol appears to be broken and nothing loads. Thanks, The Solar Dragon 02:21, 13 March 2012 (EDT)

Are you sure? It's loading for me at the time of this edit. --Jake 12:15, 13 March 2012 (EDT)

Huh. Earlier, it wasn't loading. I tried it three times. :S Solar Dragon ^{(Talk • Contribs.)} 12:16, 13 March 2012 (EDT)

Weird. Well let me know if it happens again and I'll see if I can figure out what's going on. --Jake 12:25, 13 March 2012 (EDT)

German wiki

For some reason whenever I try to edit the de:Simpsons Comics article on the German wiki, I click the "Save" button in German, and an error comes up on [1]:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /w/index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Can you fix this please? Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 13:09, 15 March 2012 (EDT)

Strange. Just edited on the page and went normal. When I input the data I want, it comes up with the error. Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 13:11, 15 March 2012 (EDT)

For some strange reason, the error is to do with the links. I don't think that should happen. The links are only to a German comic site! Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 13:18, 15 March 2012 (EDT)

Simpsons skin width

Hi, I'm not sure if you can do this because of your knowledge with CSS, but could you try making the "simpsons" skin a little bit wider or something? If you look here, you'll notice Orville Simpson's name stays on one line, but on the simpsons skin his † goes on to the next line. A few other things are slightly squashed up too.

Also, for my tree, I need to add all of this, so it will be too large. Do you think you could make a special page or something with a very wide width so I can fit the tree on the page?

Thanks, | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 11:45, 18 March 2012 (EDT)

Firstly, I don't see how we could increase the width. Secondly, it depends on screen size as it fits on one line for me. Thirdly, we shouldn't go changing the skin for one thing. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 12:27, 18 March 2012 (EDT)

Okay... But still, if we don't have a widened skin, I'd still like a special page for that tree. There are LOADS of people to add, including the Bouvier family. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 12:37, 18 March 2012 (EDT)

What do you mean by special page for the tree? The Solar Dragon 12:40, 18 March 2012 (EDT)

Can't we have it scroll - both vertically and horizontally - and start it out in the right corner, where the main family are?--Cook879 13:32, 18 March 2012 (EDT)

I suppose it can scroll horizontally, but a special page would mean the sidebar or something is removed, so there's a lot more width on the page. By the way, the tree template accepts up to 80 paremeters, so I hope the tree will fit. :| | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 12:52, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

You gonna say anything on this? | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 10:11, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

I don't really think we can justify modifying the entire skin at the moment. I'd recommend using a thumbnail to display that image in an article, and noting that the user can click on it to view the full version. Something like this should work: [[File:family-tree.png|thumb|700px|Click on this image to view it in full size.]] --Jake 10:17, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

An image would be a bad idea, as with the familytree template you can move stuff around all the time. Anyway, I just hope 80 parameters will be enough. :| | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 10:35, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

Broken sidebar

Although it's not a really big issue, on long pages, such as List of couch gags, the sidebar stops at some point and you just see the background. Then, there is another part of the sidebar, it breaks again, and then the bottom of it is at the bottom of the page. Not sure if this is on any other pages but I'd guess other long pages like that. Thanks, ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 06:08, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

Erm, I've just been on the page, and no sidebar breaks. Also, why is Jake inactive at the moment? Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 12:39, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

File:Sidebar error example.png

An example

Just uploaded an example of the kind of error I get. ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 13:20, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

I think I get the same error. I'll check the page again. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 13:21, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

Which browsers are you guys using? It looks like a browser rendering issue to me. --Jake 12:18, 20 March 2012 (EDT)

Also, I have to apologize for my inactivity recently. I've been really busy with school recently, and haven't had the time to do anything non-critical around here. Rest assured that I'll be back full-time as soon as possible. --Jake 12:18, 20 March 2012 (EDT)

I use Firefox, I think Randomno does too. Phinbart uses Chrome though. Solar Dragon ^{(Talk • Contribs.)} 12:21, 20 March 2012 (EDT)

Jake, have you read the messages above that were written when you were inactive? Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 12:54, 20 March 2012 (EDT)

Yes, I have. I will be responding to them as soon as I have the time. --Jake 23:55, 20 March 2012 (EDT)

Polish wiki

Is the Polish wiki set up? There's been a placeholder on http://pl.simpsonswiki.net/ for about a week! Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 15:13, 20 March 2012 (EDT)

This is one of the higher things in priority on my to-do list. I will get to it as soon as I know that I have the time to make sure I can set it up correctly. Wiki setups are not something I like to rush. (And that page is not a placeholder. It's the page that's displayed when the server can't find a valid directory for the request. Any subdomain will default there unless it is explicitly defined in the DNS settings.) --Jake 23:59, 20 March 2012 (EDT)

Do you think you could set up the Polish Wiki properly? Thanks, Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 13:40, 28 March 2012 (EDT).

It's on my to-do list for today. Sorry for the delay. Who's going to be in charge of this wiki? --Jake 10:17, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

I have no idea who's gonna be the head of the wiki. Probably Solar. Probably not me. Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 10:21, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

We had a user ask if there was anywhere he could make Polish articles (Krzak) although I'm not sure if he'll be interested any more. Hold up on it until we says that he's still interested otherwise we'll have another dead wiki on our hands. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 10:22, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

I mean who's going to be the primary editor? Who speaks Polish? I just want to prevent creating a dead wiki if no one is interested. --Jake 10:22, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

I'll help with the wiki but I don't speak Polski. Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 10:26, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

Like I said, Krzak would be if he's still interested. He asked me a while ago now if we could make a Polish wiki. I've just asked him again if he's interested but I'd put the wiki on hold for now until he responds as, like you said, we don't want a dead wiki. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 10:28, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

I was planning to create some articles (stubs that could be improved), eg. an article on Tapped Out, the show itself, etc. Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 10:34, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

Have the user responded yet? FatHomer^Talk 15:55, 8 April 2012 (EDT)

Skins

Hi, some things about the skins:

1. On the all skin but the simpsons one, they don't cover the class "roundy". This is the code used on the Golden Homer Award text.
2. Vector skin does not cover plainlinks in the sitenotice.
3. The monaco skin's bullet point is File:Donut.png. It should really be File:Full donut.png.

That's all for now. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 12:51, 24 March 2012 (EDT)

Thanks! These should all be simple corrections that I can make as soon as I get home. --Jake 17:32, 24 March 2012 (EDT)

All of these changes should now be implemented. (You may need to refresh your browser to see them.) --Jake 09:30, 27 March 2012 (EDT)

Who's Online

Do you think you could remove the unregistered users from [2]. Thanks, Phinbart - just one of the huge Bart fans! 12:27, 28 March 2012 (EDT)

Personally, I like seeing how many guests are online at any given time. However, I have modified the page to always show registered users in bold at the top to make them easier to find. --Jake 21:54, 28 March 2012 (EDT)

Can you do this on the other wikis as well? Thanks, ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 06:29, 8 April 2012 (EDT)

Simpsons Fanon login error

Hi Jake, I've tried to log into Simpsons Fanon but it keeps coming up with:

Login error Simpsons Fanon uses cookies to log in users. You have cookies disabled. Please enable them and try again.

I've made sure my cookies are enabled (which they are) and it still won't let me log in. Thanks, Solar Dragon ^{(Talk • Contribs.)} 10:20, 29 March 2012 (EDT)

It's the same problem on the Swedish wiki. /AleWi 11:27, 29 March 2012 (EDT)

Turns out it wasn't being at college. Can't get on fanon here either, and have the same error with Swedish and German.--Cook879 15:56, 29 March 2012 (EDT)

This seems to be an issue with the server that the smaller wikis reside on. It looks like the temporary directory where PHP normally stores session data is missing, which is causing MediaWiki to think that it's a cookie issue. I've contacted my host about it, so they should be able to fix this very soon. --Jake 16:17, 29 March 2012 (EDT)

The issue should be fixed now. :) --Jake 07:24, 30 March 2012 (EDT)

It still not working on the Swedish Wiki. /AleWi 11:49, 30 March 2012 (EDT)

It's working for me. Try refreshing your browser and clearing your cookies. If it still doesn't work, you may have a legitimate cookie issue. --Jake 23:26, 30 March 2012 (EDT)

Advertisments

Why don't you wait until we've decided who's going to get the next Golden Homer Award before removing the ads? | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 12:33, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

What do you mean? I always wait until after the winner is officially decided (on the first day of the following month) before removing the ads. --Jake 12:39, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

Nevermind, I see what you mean. The ad free credits run for exactly 30 days; not until the next Golden Homer is decided. Your ad free credits must have just run out today. --Jake 12:41, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

Okay, thanks. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 12:51, 31 March 2012 (EDT)

fanon:File:Wiki.png

Can you add that as the fanon logo, please. I should be able to add pink eyes, vampire teeth soon, so you might need to update it again. :P Thanks, | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 06:41, 1 April 2012 (EDT)

Strange IP

This IP address: C0A9:81A2:B37F:0:0:0:0:0 appeared on the WhosOnline page. Is it an IP or just an error? ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 15:58, 3 April 2012 (EDT)

It is obviously not an IP address. It was most likely an error. I don't see anything like that there though. ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 16:29, 3 April 2012 (EDT)

Actually, it's just one of the new IP addresses. (Under the IPv6 protocol.) In the coming years, all IP addresses will look like that. ;) --Jake 17:03, 3 April 2012 (EDT)

What, they've released a new IP protocol... Oh god, this means more to learn in Computing >.< The Solar Dragon 17:41, 3 April 2012 (EDT)

IP addresses now are better to understand than IP addresses with loads of colons and zeros in them. ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 04:19, 4 April 2012 (EDT)

Problem is, Phin, that the supply of IPv4 addresses is nearly exhausted. In theory IPv4 has about 4 billion (4.3 * 10^9) addresses, but only about half of them are actually available for public use due to range restrictions for special-use addresses. And in recent years, IP address usage has skyrocketed, due in part to so many mobile devices being Internet-aware and therefore needing to use the IP protocol to communicate. IPv6 has about 3.4 * 10^38 addresses, which should hold us for quite a while. :-) -- Mythigator 04:35, 4 April 2012 (EDT)

Swedish Main Page

Hi, do you know whats wrong with this: Swedish Main Page? It works good on this wiki. FatHomer^Talk 15:55, 8 April 2012 (EDT)

I would double check all of the included templates, because the issue is most likely within one of them. I'm on vacation and I don't have a computer to investigate this for myself. --Jake 15:59, 8 April 2012 (EDT)

Looking at the center tags, the issue might be with the parser. I'll take a look at it when I get back home. --Jake 16:00, 8 April 2012 (EDT)

Ok :) FatHomer^Talk 16:13, 8 April 2012 (EDT)

Backups

Jake, I was wondering, should we have a backup thing for the wiki? Because we're independent, it doesn't mean that the wiki can't go down. In the worst case, we COULD lose all content. ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 08:58, 9 April 2012 (EDT)

I'm sure Jake keeps backups.--Cook879 11:51, 9 April 2012 (EDT)

Yeah, I'd be a pretty irresponsible webmaster if I didn't keep any backups. I always have a spare copy of the wiki ready to go on the server in the event the live site is somehow corrupted. I also download the whole site to my computer every once in a while in case something happens to the server itself. --Jake 18:14, 9 April 2012 (EDT)

Mobile main page

Do you think there's a way to make this appear as the front page on all mobile devices, with a few tweaks. Thanks, ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 11:29, 9 April 2012 (EDT)

I don't know of any way to do this off the top of my head, but I'm sure it can be done when I get back home. Randomno did a fantastic job with the mobile version! --Jake 18:11, 9 April 2012 (EDT)

File error

Hi, Jake, I asked Solar this, but he said he had no idea what the problem is: "For some strange reason, I downloaded this image File:Do the Bartman promo art.gif as a .jpg file, but would not upload as a .jpg. There was a notice saying "This does not match the mime type (image/gif)" So, after trying twice, I uploaded it as a .gif. Do you know what the problem could be?" Here is an image of the error: :File:File error.png What could the problem be? ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 10:28, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

You can't upload JPGs, or any other file type except GIFs, over GIF files, if that's what you mean. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 12:04, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

No, I just downloaded the image as a .jpg, put HAD to upload it as a .gif. ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 12:17, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

I dunno, then. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 12:26, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

It sounds like your computer is doing something strange if it's downloading that image as a JPG. The image is in GIF format, and the site will not allow you to change it to any other format when re-uploading it. --Jake 14:07, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

I think I know what's happened. Phinbart, you may have thought you were downloading an image as JPG, when actually you were downloading it as a GIF. Afterwards, you typed in http://simpsonswiki.net/wiki/File:Do_the_Bartman_promo_art.jpg, and tried uploading a GIF. Also, GIFs are better than JPGs, but PNGs are best overall. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 14:50, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

I prefer PNG any day. Unfortunately, my computer doesn't allow PNG, only JPEG. :( --Fred (Talk • Contribs. • Editcount) 23:29, 11 April 2012 (EDT)

How can your computer only allow JPEG? FatHomer^Talk 02:58, 12 April 2012 (EDT)

What type of computer do you have? | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 03:55, 12 April 2012 (EDT)

Talk pages without actual pages

Hi Jake, do you know if there's any way to view a list of talk pages that don't have pages? We probably have quite a few of these which could do with deleting. Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 10:35, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

No, but I'll take a shot at writing a SQL query that could find and delete them. --Jake 14:08, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

Okay, thanks. However, you'll have to factor in talk archives as well but guess you'd know that anyway. :P The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 14:53, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

I wasn't able to delete the pages automatically due to time constraints, but I pulled out the query into this page, which should help you out. -Jake 16:01, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

Thanks, could you also add file talk pages into that too? Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 17:35, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

Done. -Jake 18:50, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

Strange "Page does not exist"

For some reason, when you hover over a red link the page name appears and then "(sidan existerar inte)". It seems to be in a different language. ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 11:42, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

It is Swedish :) FatHomer^Talk 11:42, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

On "History" pages, it's still "Page does not exist". ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 11:43, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

It's in English for me. Check your language in your preferences Phinbart. Try resetting it to English if it is already. ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 11:49, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

Just re-saved my preferences and its fine now. ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 11:55, 10 April 2012 (EDT)

This is happening to me... --Fred (Talk • Contribs. • Editcount) 23:29, 11 April 2012 (EDT)

But only on the pages AleWi has created... Has something gone through the language system, or something? --Fred (Talk • Contribs. • Editcount) 23:33, 11 April 2012 (EDT)

Swedish wiki files

Hi, isn't there any extension or something that can look if images are used on several wikis or something, because it's really annoying that images on the swedish wiki turn into red-links when someone here either deletes, or renames the image. The Swedish wiki is also very slow, and why can you see all images used on the wiki here: http://sv.simpsonswiki.net/w/index.php?title=Special:%C3%96nskade_filer&limit=500&offset=0 ? FatHomer^Talk 15:26, 11 April 2012 (EDT)

^ FatHomer^Talk 13:23, 21 April 2012 (EDT)

Thanks for the reminder. I did find an extension for this, but it appears to be somewhat complicated to set up. (It requires the use of a load balancer, something we don't use/need.) I'll look into it further and see if there's any way to make this happen. :) --Jake 16:37, 21 April 2012 (EDT)

Ok :) Don't forget to look on the Swedish main page and see what's wrong. FatHomer^Talk 05:43, 22 April 2012 (EDT)

Dictionary wiki

Hi, please can you set up a Simpsons dictionary at http://dictionary.simpsonswiki.net, with lowercase page names like Wiktionary. I would start it off on something like Wikkii if I could, but that won't have lowercase page names, etc. Thanks, | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 08:57, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

We had it before but we toke it away, it's now under the namespace "dictionary". /AleWi 09:23, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

Yeah, we decided to merge it here. Randomno, in future, please open wiki discussions about this beforehand. ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 09:55, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

I know we should have a discussion, but I want to start it off, anyway. If it becomes a good wiki, there would be no reason to vote against it. The dictionary namespace hasn't been updated in over 30 days, and another wiki might make people realise we have a dictionary. I only want to open a discussion if essential, but I see no reason why we shouldn't at least try. It's not like I want to remove the Golden Homer Award, is it. The Chinese Wikisimpsons was opened without a discussion, and that was a failure, but this should get enough articles. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 10:59, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

http://simpsonswiki.net/w/index.php?namespace=706&title=Special%3ARecentChanges | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 11:02, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

It's harder to find the information if we move it. I don't think we should./AleWi 11:06, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

How will it be any harder? | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 11:07, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

And there was no discussion for the pl.simpsonswiki.net, it was just some user wanted to translate articles, and it's going to be created. Well, some user wants to create dictionary enteries where they'll be noticed, so it shoul be created. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 11:13, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

Does anybody have anything else to say? | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 11:20, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

I have nothing against this, but if you want it, you must be active, otherwise you'll make Jake create a wiki for nothing. FatHomer^Talk 13:14, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

Yes, I'll be as active as I can, but I'd need a few other Wikisimpsons editors to do a bit of editing as well. Otherwise it will end up like the dictionary namespace. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 13:17, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

The Polish wiki is not happening any more. Also, it was to be made as this was an English wiki last time I checked so we can therefore not have Polish articles here. Dictionary articles would be in English, I would guess, so can fit into an English wiki for that reason. The Solar Dragon 13:36, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

Unless we try and get more editors in the dictionary namespace, I think we should have a separate wiki. This way it will get noticed easilier. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 13:55, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

The fact we don't have many editors in the dictionary namespace is precisely the reason why we shouldn't have a separate wiki. The Solar Dragon 14:22, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

All right, well maybe we should try getting more editors in the namespace. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 15:49, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

Removing messages

Are you allowed to remove messages without archiving? We do have a policy. http://simpsonswiki.net/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jake&diff=308497&oldid=308131 | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 14:16, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

You're right. I'll archive those when I have access to a computer again. -Jake 21:15, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

Recent Changes

Hi, would it be possible to add this {{Special:RecentChanges/5}} on the sidebar? Personally, I think it should replace the Affliates section, because when you go into some of our affliates, you can't see them linking to us, through the sidebar. FatHomer^Talk 15:57, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

I'm not really sure that would look very good in the sidebar. It's useful for editors, but not really for our visitors. I agree about the affiliates though. If they aren't going to advertise us equally, they shouldn't really be in the sidebar. -Jake 21:14, 13 April 2012 (EDT)

Affiliates who link to us on main pages or sidebars can stay. Other affiliates have been removed from the sidebar. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 04:53, 14 April 2012 (EDT)

New message

Hi, you know about the "New message" message (with the blue background with clouds). Would it be possible to add from who the message came from? FatHomer^Talk 15:34, 16 April 2012 (EDT)

Sorry, I'm afraid that's not possible. :( --Jake 02:19, 17 April 2012 (EDT)

You can't on the new message thing, but you can type {{REVISIONUSER}} at the top of your user page, and that will tell you. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 02:31, 17 April 2012 (EDT)

Image licensing

Firstly, can you replace {{Image fairuse interior art}} with {{Image Bongo}} and {{Image Book}}, please. Also, for {{Image Fox}} {{Image Bongo}} and {{Image Book}}, is it possible to add a box to put the source they came from? (This means we won't have to do so much cleaning up after people.) Thirdly, if you want to be really helpful, is their a feature to automatically create a talk page for the file? I know the first is possible, but I have no idea about the other two. But thanks anyway. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 14:14, 25 April 2012 (EDT)

Added the templates.--Cook879 17:18, 25 April 2012 (EDT)

Thanks, Cook. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 10:42, 26 April 2012 (EDT)

Simpsons Fanon

Hi, you know like Wikisimpsons is "Wikisimpsons, the Simpsons Wiki"? Well, can you make Simpsons Fanon "Simpsons Fanon, the Simpsons Wiki for Fanon", please. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 08:43, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

Why should he, and we have not discuss this on the Wiki. /AleWi 09:17, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

We don't need to open a discussion for THAT. ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 09:31, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

What is wrong with http://fanon.simpsonswiki.net/?? Why should we have two Wiki's for fanon? /AleWi 10:03, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

He doesn't mean create a new wiki - he wants the tagline changed.--Cook879 10:09, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

All page titles now have that at the end. :) --Jake 11:58, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

Okay, thanks. The only reason I asked for that is because the tagline just said "From Simpsons Fanon", which was boring and stuff. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 12:00, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

User page

I think you're user page messed up so I had to move some stuff. Your user page with custom text is at UserWiki:Jake. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 08:49, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

That's actually intentional. I don't use the social user page, and I want only the text to show up there. --Jake 11:54, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

:| | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 11:58, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

SolarBot login problems

Hi, I seem to be having some problems with logging in as SolarBot. On AWB, Pywikipediabot and even on wiki, but it keeps saying I've tried to log in too many times or just not work at all. Thanks, The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 11:17, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

Send me an email and I'll reset the password. I think there could be some kind of issue with the token. I've seen this happen to bot accounts on other wikis, and I could never figure out why. --Jake 12:01, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

Spam thing

I thought about this for a while. I'm thinking that maybe we could have a spam template or something that users can add to the page. Then, any users who are trusted or upwards can delete it. What do you think? 03:25, 29 April 2012 (EDT)

Isn't that what Template:Delete is for? --Jake 11:37, 29 April 2012 (EDT)

No. It's like speedy delete, but then you can delete as well, as long as you have trusted rights upwards. It could be a bad idea. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 12:47, 29 April 2012 (EDT)

I would suggest bringing this up with Solar and seeing what he thinks. He's probably in a better position to decide if we need something like this. --Jake 13:29, 29 April 2012 (EDT)

Ohkay. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 13:30, 29 April 2012 (EDT)

Google +1 button

Is there any way to get rid of the Google +1 button, or at least move it? It's really annoying when I'm about to click the edit box and suddenly the page jumps down an inch, and often click something different. Another annoying thing is when you're looking at the difference between two revisions, if you have bad timing, you're about to click on the next revision but the page moves down a bit so you end up clicking on the user's user page. Is there anything we can do about it? | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 01:38, 3 May 2012 (EDT)

The +1 button is supposed to help us out in search rankings if users click on it, but I haven't checked on how much of an impact it's been making recently. I'll take a look at the stats for it, and either move it or remove it completely. --Jake 12:15, 3 May 2012 (EDT)

Okay, thanks. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 12:32, 3 May 2012 (EDT)

Well they have made a small impact, but not a significant one. I'll just remove them altogether. It may take a few hours for this change to be reflected on your end. :) --Jake 22:45, 3 May 2012 (EDT)

403 Forbidden

When i written the word Poker in the Swedish wiki and save I receive a message that said:

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403 Forbidden Access to this resource on the server is denied! Powered By LiteSpeed Web Server LiteSpeed Technologies is not responsible for administration and contents of this web site!

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and the pages is not saved. /AleWi 11:10, 5 May 2012 (EDT)

Haha, I guess that word is blocked by the web hosting company. I'll shoot them an email and see if they can do anything about it. :) --Jake 15:20, 5 May 2012 (EDT)

Big file

Hi, I have an image from The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album which is 7.4MB, so can you uplod it using that other thing, please? I'll try uploading the file on http://wstest.wikkii.com. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 06:32, 7 May 2012 (EDT)

Don't worry, actually, I'll do it in separate files. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 07:36, 7 May 2012 (EDT)

Custom skins

I don't know if you have or not, but can install custom skins (or whatever you have to do), please. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 11:53, 8 May 2012 (EDT)

I don't really know what you're asking me to do. :/ --Jake 15:45, 8 May 2012 (EDT)

Sorry, I don't mean custom skins, I mean css and js for skins. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 15:54, 8 May 2012 (EDT)

Oh, ok. I'll enable that later today when I get home. --Jake 15:59, 8 May 2012 (EDT)

Thank you. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 16:05, 8 May 2012 (EDT)

Search box error

File:Search Box Error.png

Hi, in Google Chrome, when clicking on the search box and dragging to the right, the search box, buttons and the "Search" header slide off the screen to the left. This only seems to happen in Chrome as it didn't happen on Firefox when I was told about this. Thanks, ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 07:18, 13 May 2012 (EDT)

I'm not really sure why this is happening. Has it always been this way, or did it just start with the new search system? Could you take a screenshot? --Jake 07:10, 18 May 2012 (EDT)

Screenshot uploaded. Not sure when it started happening and was only told about it on the 13th. Since I don't normally use Chrome, I would have no idea. Solar Dragon ^{(Talk • Contribs.)} 07:19, 18 May 2012 (EDT)

I mentioned this error when we add the new skin. Blog:Official Wikisimpsons skin/AleWi 07:28, 18 May 2012 (EDT)

Ok, thanks guys. Not really sure what's going on there. I'm planning on making a whole new skin sometime soon, so it shouldn't be a problem for much longer. --Jake 22:27, 18 May 2012 (EDT)

CheckUser

Hi Jake, when trying to do a CheckUser, it doesn't seem to work and just goes to a blank page. Can you fix this please as I need to get the IP address of a user to block him from viewing the wiki as he has been stealing our content and giving it to Simpsons Wikia. Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 13:00, 18 May 2012 (EDT)

Get edits worked as Cook managed to pull that up and get his IP from there. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 13:05, 18 May 2012 (EDT)

Not this again. :P I've been fighting with CheckUser over the last few months, and it just doesn't want to cooperate. I've just installed the latest version, which seems to have fixed it for me. --Jake 22:43, 18 May 2012 (EDT)

Works for me :)--Cook879 05:48, 19 May 2012 (EDT)

Still happening for me... The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 17:34, 9 June 2012 (EDT)

But, only if you do "duration: all". The other durations seem fine... The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 17:36, 9 June 2012 (EDT)

Swedish Main Page

Don't forget to take a look at the Swedish main page. FatHomer^Talk 16:36, 27 May 2012 (EDT)

SVGs

50th section! Do I win a prize? Moving on, could you please enable SVGs so they can be uploaded? Thanks, | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 16:05, 12 June 2012 (EDT)

Oh, not the dreaded SVGs... I've tried for hours to get them working in the past, but to no avail. SVGs technically aren't images, so they need to be rendered out as a PNG by the server. However, I've never been able to get this working because ImageMagick doesn't seem to cooperate. For now, I'm afraid you're just going to have to render out the SVG as a PNG before uploading it. :( --Jake 12:35, 14 June 2012 (EDT)

Well Wikipedia has them working so why not Wikisimpsons? Also, the image is File:Randomno.png but I recently downloaded Inkscape and saved it as an SVG? | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 14:40, 14 June 2012 (EDT)

Golden Homer

Hi Jake! I won the Golden Homer for June but I still have ads, have we not this prize anymore? /AleWi 11:58, 6 July 2012 (EDT)

Sorry about that AleWi. They should be gone now. :) --Jake 12:06, 6 July 2012 (EDT)

Why do I see ads again? I won again the Golden Homer. /AleWi 14:31, 5 August 2012 (EDT)

It's not automatic. I've added the ad credits to your account. Congrats! :) --Jake 16:18, 5 August 2012 (EDT)

I've won now for September again, can you remove the ads? /AleWi 07:24, 4 October 2012 (EDT)

Footer error

File:Wikisimpsons footer error.png

Hi Jake. I have found an error with the updated design. The Disclaimers part of the footer (see image) floats over the sidebar when I am viewing normal pages. However, when I am editing pages, it seems to go back to its normal position. Solar Dragon ^{(Talk • Contribs.)} 04:07, 7 July 2012 (EDT)

I spotted that error too, but I thought it was something to do with me not clearing my cache. ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 04:09, 7 July 2012 (EDT)

I cleared my cache just to be sure too. That's two browsers this effects now then as I am using Firefox 13.0.1 and I know Phinbart uses Chrome. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 04:11, 7 July 2012 (EDT)

Actually, I use Safari now. ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 04:21, 7 July 2012 (EDT)

I get it in Chrome.--Cook879 06:31, 7 July 2012 (EDT)

It looks to me like this is an issue with the footer being too long. I'll move the copyright down and display the Wikisimpsons time there instead. --Jake 13:36, 7 July 2012 (EDT)

Done. You may need to clear your cache again to see the changes. --Jake 13:45, 7 July 2012 (EDT)

Wiki unloadable

This afternoon the wiki was unloadable. What happened? ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 13:34, 17 July 2012 (EDT)

It looks like Apache ate up all of the server's RAM, leaving none for the other programs. When this happens, everything starts to freeze up until the whole server stops functioning. I sent in a reboot request to the server center as soon as I got the warning emails. That cleared things right up. --Jake 09:37, 18 July 2012 (EDT)

Something happened again this afternoon. What this time? ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 14:20, 18 July 2012 (EDT)

This time, the database server was complaining about too many connections. I'm looking into what's causing the issue. :) --Jake 14:21, 18 July 2012 (EDT)

Hey Jake, the three sub-wikis are down.--Cook879 15:25, 18 July 2012 (EDT)

How it is going with the sub-wikis? /AleWi 12:07, 20 July 2012 (EDT)

Sorry about the delay. I'll have a look at them as soon as I get home from work. :) --Jake 08:08, 22 July 2012 (EDT)

Ok, it looks like our host moved those wikis over to newer (and supposedly faster) servers. They did this without telling me that they changed the IP address of the server. I've updated the DNS records to point to the new server, and you should be able to access the wikis again as soon as the change propagates to your ISP. (Usually within a few hours.) --Jake 09:45, 23 July 2012 (EDT)

The wiki works again but a few days of edit is missing. /AleWi 09:55, 23 July 2012 (EDT)

Seriously? Man, I'm really starting to hate that hosting company. I know you've been working really hard over at Svenska Wikisimpsons, and I'm sorry this happened. My plan is to move all of the subwikis over to a more reliable server soon, which should prevent these problems from occurring again. --Jake 11:04, 23 July 2012 (EDT)

All edits from July 13 is gone, we had a new user, the first in months that had creating three good articles but the article was after July 13, so they are gone. /AleWi 11:17, 23 July 2012 (EDT)

Found a few now on Google Cach. /AleWi 11:22, 23 July 2012 (EDT)

List of season boxsets

On List of season boxsets, I cannot display an image that was originally uploaded on the German Wiki. Is there a fix for this? ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 11:07, 1 August 2012 (EDT)

Just upload the image over here as well. --Jake 11:23, 1 August 2012 (EDT)

Error message

When I check http://sv.simpsonswiki.net/wiki/Special:RecentChanges I receive an error message. /AleWi 07:31, 9 September 2012 (EDT)

And now is the whole site slow and sometimes give me att Error 404../AleWi 11:46, 9 September 2012 (EDT)

The site seems to be running faster now. :) --Jake 22:57, 9 September 2012 (EDT)

The site is down again right now./AleWi 09:25, 10 September 2012 (EDT)

The server the site is on seems to be having some issues. The site is back up now, but please let me know if it goes down again. --Jake 23:57, 10 September 2012 (EDT)

Down again right now./AleWi 11:18, 11 September 2012 (EDT)

It's works again now but it's very slow./AleWi 11:42, 11 September 2012 (EDT)

Svenska Wikisimpsons has a problem

Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Can't contact the database server: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) (localhost)) /AleWi 12:49, 17 September 2012 (EDT)

simpsons.sv captcha

Hey Jake, the captcha question on sv is in English. AleWi has given me the translation, "Vad är Homers efternamn?". Could you change the captcha on sv to that please? Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 10:45, 19 September 2012 (EDT)

It should be updated now. :) --Jake 00:19, 20 September 2012 (EDT)

Spam on sv

Hi Jake, there has been a lot of spam on sv and I was wondering if there was anything you can do to decrease the spam? Any extra precautions would be great. Thanks, The Solar Dragon 05:16, 20 September 2012 (EDT)

Also, could you enable CheckUser on sv and de too please? Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 05:16, 20 September 2012 (EDT)

It was not first time we had spam there. /AleWi 05:33, 20 September 2012 (EDT)

In fact, could you disable account creation for a short period of time to see if that stops it? ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 14:13, 21 September 2012 (EDT)

The wiki is slow now since a few days, and someone has in two days creating over 100 accounts, can we have an email validation or anything like that for an account to be active there. /AleWi 11:13, 22 September 2012 (EDT)

Ok, so I've made email verification required before editing and blocked a phrase Solar Dragon sent me. I've done this for both de and sv. Hope this helps. :) --Jake 19:31, 26 September 2012 (EDT)

It did not help. /AleWi 13:50, 28 September 2012 (EDT)

Why is the wiki is slow, it has been so in a few weeks now. /AleWi 10:28, 30 September 2012 (EDT)

Can you answer why the wiki is so slow? /AleWi 07:24, 4 October 2012 (EDT)