MediaWiki Upgrade "Nothing works right"
Well lets see. The Upload multiple photos tool is down and its being replaced by the tool called "Special:UploadWizard" (It doesn't work yet). The new uploader does work at wikia's test wiki: "mediawiki 1.19 wiki. They threw a curve ball with licences too. It turns out fairuse is no more a official answer. Tho til I can figure this out, it still has to be used. To make matters worse, this thing is so new that they havn't even updated they own help page on image licenses.
As for the general, MediaWiki Upgrades are done usually ever year or two. I feel this was very badly planned and the fact they changed it over the day before the 4th of July is mind numbing. Yes, the tables are different too, and the google maps feature is out as well. Thes…
Image Copyright Tags (Licenses)
This Blog is about licenses involving images. All images that are uploaded to a wiki "should" have a license attributed to them. Recent events with wikia suggest we may want to deal with this. Wikia helper bots were introduced two month ago that auto delete images for copyright violations. The contributors are expected to be selecting the license for each image.
So the next issue is, what that means to you. What that means is everyone will be expected to use the Licensing pull down on the Multiple Image Uploader and when adding one image, click "More options" and then click Licensing. There are 8 different license tags, tho only one really should be used all that much. Fair use is the one to use. Pick it and you should be good to go.
Commonl…
Front Page Reworking time Again...
Oh yes, I try to rework the front once every year. Anyways I am looking for thoughts on what we should change/move.
I want to make the site index the first panel for one. I also think officially removing the Ghostbusters Wiki News section would be in our best interests. (Facebook might as well be the news section now anyways)
This will not effect image designs on the sides and whatnot.
PNG for thumbnails are NOT working properly
4 days ago Wardialer7218 (ThunderCats Wiki) wrote about this issue on my talk page there. I wasn't sure what the issue was then, but after seeing it get much worse last night, I took a little surf over to Community Central Wikia to see if anyone was talking about this.
In the Technical Update Blog for April 10, 2012; Dopp speaks of this briefly in the "Select Known Issues" section of the blog.
Dopp: Thumbnailing of SVG images (using .PNG for thumbnails) does not seem to be working properly at the moment.
and to annoy me more:
And one additional note: Due to our Annual Engineering All-Hands, there will be no release or technical update next week.
That means the 24th is the next Technical Update, and who knows if this will be addressed then.
But be…
The Cursors of Heck House (Three Day Trial)
I'm sure it was noticeable that the cursors have been modified. This is a test to see what everyone thinks of them. Cancelled. I guess its too confusing. Still had fun with them. I went ahead and left the images down below.
- Arrow=Proton Gun
- Text=PKE Meter
- Hand=Slimer hand
The question on my mind however, is are they easy to work with while editing and so forth. I'm aware they look rad, but functionality is my top worry right now. So what do you all think?