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[edit] DB Dumps

Are blog articles and comments backed up in DB Dumps? If so, how do they interact with vanilla MediaWiki installations when imported? If not, is there a separate backup system for them? -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 17:56, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

They're just extra namespaces, so they shouldn't disappear anywhere. Kirkburn (talk) @Wikia 19:14, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting comments

I tweaked the section because if you try to:

  1. Hit Delete
  2. Don't use index.php?title=

you will get redirected.

Delete will redirect you because it doesn't use index.php. And you must use index.php because mediawiki will not allow you to do ?action=delete?redirect=no under a /wiki/ url. --Charitwo (talk) 17:02, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

And that's why I wrote ?action=delete&redirect=no :P Anyway, thanks! Kirkburn (talk) @Wikia 17:38, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Actually, you originally had only ?redirect=no. Which implies they have to click Delete which doesn't work. You didn't add &action=delete until after I started playing around with the functionality at gaming :) --Charitwo (talk) 19:16, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CSS

In Blogs.css, the "div.wk_blogs_post .wk_blogs_summary" selector unnecessarily sets the font color to black when the background is left unspecified.

This does nothing for wikis that don't customize their colors, and adds extra work for admins of every single wiki that uses a dark background theme. I'd advocate either remove the font color rule or force a light-colored background under the same selector, instead of having admins of each dark-background wiki override it themselves. -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 22:42, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

I will pass it on, thanks! Kirkburn (talk) @Wikia 17:12, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] When and How

Can those with a wikia.com wiki use the blog features yet? Is there a sandbox for testing the blog page namespace at wikia now? When might this feature be enabled on all the wikia wikis? How is a request made to get this working on a wiki? Rauterkus 17:03, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

It is currently active on several Wikia wikis, including swfanon, gaming and entertainment. You can take a look there, or you can try a bit of testing on http://communitytest.wikia.com/ :) We're still working on getting the feature into a situation where we're comfortable rolling it out more widely - however, we do take requests. If you have one, give me a ping on my talk page. Kirkburn (talk) @Wikia 14:08, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Is there already a date or something for when it's gonna be avaiable in all wikis? Days, weeks, months, years? I really liked and I can't wait for it =P --A.new.way 22:41, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
It is basically currently available on request, but expect a wider rollout over the next month or so. Kirkburn (talk) @Wikia 17:52, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
uh, thanks --A.new.way 20:23, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
On request meaning: admins can use Special:Contact to request it :) Kirkburn (talk) @Wikia 15:35, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Blog Bugs

Hi, I've noticed a couple of bugs with blogging.

  • 1) Usernames with apostrophes create SQL errors. See this example.
  • 2) I noticed a problem report for this same user blog. Instead of linking to the post in question, it went to User_blog:user_blog. See this example. It's linking to this instead of this.

Thanks! --jabrwocky7 21:49, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

The first bug should be fixed. I'll pass on the second. Kirkburn (talk) @Wikia 00:08, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, just discovered another one that might be related to the apostrophe issue. The Jacob's Mama blog has a link to "older posts" even though there aren't any. See this example. --jabrwocky7 17:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Blog feature requests

Hi, the users at Lostpedia have requested some features for blogging that I agree would be helpful.

1) Enable an option to Hide blog posts and comments in the recent changes list
2) Enable functionality to have an e-mail message sent to the blogger when someone posts a comment to their blog.

Please advise or let me know if there is a better place to post these requests.. Thanks, --jabrwocky7 (talk) 19:30, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

These are both great ideas, and have been added to the list. We will look enabling "Watchlist" to detect new comments. I will let you know when we have a better time estimate angies@Wikia (talk) 17:39, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Any movement on this? Users at Lostpedia are still asking about it. --jabrwocky7 18:43, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
We haven't had a chance to work on them yet, but they're still on our list. Kirkburn (talk) @Wikia 12:22, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Is there a way to don't have the option of add categories to a blog post? I think it would cause organization problems. --A.new.way 20:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I've made a test and the blog posts got separated from the articles. It won't cause problems. --A.new.way 20:58, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Can I disable the option that allows the users to add categories to a post? I want them only with the default category (Category:Posts). --A.new.way 16:12, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Category is broken for blog. What you specified is ignored and made as "blog post". You can't change it after posting, either. Anyway, thanks a lot - 221.189.164.143 09:32, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Translations

You like to use the blog extension but it's not available in your language? Provide us with a translation:

blog-avatar-alt
Avatar
blog-avatar-cannot-remove
Cannot remove avatars for selected user!
blog-avatar-changed-log
Avatar added or changed by $1
blog-avatar-choose-avatar
Choose a new avatar
blog-avatar-contrib
contrib
blog-avatar-defaults
Avatar.jpg Avatar2.jpg Avatar3.jpg Avatar4.jpg Avatar5.jpg Avatar6.jpg
blog-avatar-delete
Delete
blog-avatar-edit
Change
blog-avatar-error-cantwrite
Something happen and cannot write the file to disc.
blog-avatar-error-nofile
Please pick up file from disc.
blog-avatar-error-size
Uploaded file is too big, allowed size is up to $1 KB.
blog-avatar-getuser
Search
blog-avatar-goto-userpage
Go to user page
blog-avatar-nouser
Cannot found this user!
blog-avatar-preferences-title
Avatar
blog-avatar-remove-confirm
Are You sure You want to remove avatar?
blog-avatar-remove-info
This page allows you to remove a user's avatar. Type the exact username in the box provided, and press "Search".
Please remember, avatars are global - removing a user's avatar removes it across all Wikia.
blog-avatar-removeavatar
Remove avatar
blog-avatar-save-info
If you want to save changes <a href="#prefcontrol">go to bottom</a> and press "Save" button
blog-avatar-talk
talk
blog-avatar-upload-avatar
Upload a new avatar
blog-comment-cannot-add
You cannot add comment to blog.
blog-comment-delete
delete
blog-comment-error
Comment could not be saved
blog-comment-hide
hide
blog-comment-post
Post comment
blog-comment-unhide
unhide
blog-comments
Comments
blog-comments-anonymous
Anonymous user
blog-comments-asc
Newest last
blog-comments-dsc
Newest first
blog-comments-info
This box uses wikitext-style input
blog-comments-label
Commenting
blog-comments-login
<a href="$1">Log in</a> to comment
blog-comments-new
New comment in blog
blog-continuereading
Continue reading »
blog-create-label
Create blog article
blog-create-listing-label
Create blog listing
blog-create-next-label
Create new blog article
blog-create-post-label
Create blog post
blog-defaulttitle
Blogs
blog-empty-user-blog
This user has not written any blog posts yet!
blog-emptyparam
Name of parameter cannot be empty
blog-fromsitename
From $1
blog-header
Blog articles in category "$1"
blog-invalidparam
Unknown parameter '$1' is ignored. Please use one of available parameters: $2.
blog-last-edited
Last edited: $1
blog-listing-zero-other
This user has not written any blog posts yet!
blog-nbrcomments
$1 comments
blog-newerposts
Newer posts
blog-nopostfound
No posts found.
blog-olderposts
Older posts
blog-page
Blog
blog-page-rate
Rate this article:
blog-readfullpost
Read full post
blog-refresh-label
Refresh
blog-subheader
The following $1 blog articles are in this category.
blog-subheader-all
The following $1 blog articles are in this category, out of $2 total.
blog-userblog
$1's blog
blog-voting-label
Voting
blog-widgets-label
Widget Dashboard
blog-writeone
Write one!
blog-zero-comments
No comments yet!
blogs-comment-hidden
Comment hidden.
blogs-reportproblem
Report problem
blogs-undeleted-comment
Undeleted comment for blog page $1

If you want to translate the extension, please leave a short notice here or contact Community Team. --Avatar@Wikia 09:29, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I've translated them to Brazilian Portuguese for the Portuguese Lostpedia. If you want to you can get them there ;D --A.new.way 16:40, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
That's cool, thanks a lot. We're just working on a new translation process to make it easier for users to provide their own translations to new features. I'll keep you posted. --Avatar@Wikia 21:26, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I can translate it into Italian. Let me know. --EXE.eseguibile 01:54, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

For now please just send your translation to community@wikia.com (preferred) or translate it somewhere on your user page and drop me a note. Thanks! --Avatar@Wikia 08:14, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

I've began to do it on fr.guildwars for french but i think "Marta" (a german helper) will take care of copying to messaging as we discussed it on it's talk of the french central. — TulipVorlax 19:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Blog:Recent posts

The message that was sent to users on the Final Fantasy Wiki included a link to the page, Blog:Recent posts, but it was a red link and the page had to be created. Is this intentional? Eric Ryan Jones 18:18, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for creating it - I'm not sure why it would have missed your wiki. Kirkburn (talk) @Wikia 14:22, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Blog Featured not appearing?

On the UnRuneScape wiki, I've noticed that the blog features are no longer active, yet I can find no edits related to disabling them in the recent changes. Is this because disabling them does not show in the changes, or due to a software bug of some sort? Thanks for your help. Pig house talk 18:25, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

It was indeed disabled on the 6th, and yeah, that type of event is not shown on recent changes. I believe it was by request, but I'll check. Kirkburn (talk) @Wikia 14:19, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] User Masterhead Suggestion

I think that User Masterhead should be have different colors to match monaco skins and colors users want. Webkinz Mania says stuff... 21:50, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

We plan to make more updates to the masthead - I'll bring up the suggestion, and see what we can do. Kirkburn (talk) @Wikia 16:54, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Correct format for <TIMESTAMP> .. refer to section titled Comments

Section Help:Blog_article#Comments describes the URL to a specific comment as including <COMMENTER>-<TIMESTAMP>&redirect=no

Since the timestamp that I see depends on my user preferences, what is the correct timestamp format to use for constructing the URL to a specific comment?

--najevi 04:20, September 25, 2009 (UTC)

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