User talk:Trivi-AM/Archive 1

Welcome
Hi, welcome to Ranma Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the File:Shampoo.jpg page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- KyleH (Talk) 20:02, October 16, 2009

Hello
I was going through the list of anime wikis on wikia, and noticed the admin here was not active. Considering the amount of work you have done here, you should ADOPT it.


 * --Sxerks 06:02, December 2, 2009 (UTC)

Follow up-

Hi, I'm Sxerks, from the Anime & Manga Hub

Now that this wiki has an active admin, would you add this link   to the bottom of your SIDEBAR. Its a link to the Anime & Manga Hub on Wikia.

We are currently working on adding basic pages as well as a list of anime wikis on wikia.

The Hub also serves as a place to link to common actors, artists, and anime terms like Rie Kugimiya which you can link to in your articles.

We Also have a monthly Anime/Manga spotlight on our Main Page. Read about it here.

Good luck with the new adminship!
 * --Sxerks 21:33, December 3, 2009 (UTC)

Another follow up- You need a wiki logo, just upload a (216x155) png as "wiki.png" and it will replace the orange wikia logo in the sidebar.--Sxerks 17:58, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

Re: Can I have some help from you please
All the templates I've setup depend on various css, as well as other templates. Clean organization. I don't feel like copying and fixing individual templates, thats what I created the sync que for. The templates you are talking about on various wiki are likely all the ones inside of w:c:anime:Category:TagSynced which are synced by bot from anime to all the other wiki. Those other wiki also use the shared repo of css and js. You're welcome to have your wiki added to the sync que if you want. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)

Request a bot flag on AnimeBot from staff, I'll add it to the list, and you need to make these changes to the wiki:
 * MediaWiki:Siteid
 * Create this with "ranma"


 * MediaWiki:Sitename
 * Create this with "Ranma Wiki"


 * MediaWiki:Common.js
 * Add this to the top:

/* Include Global Anime-Common.js Information */ importScriptURI('http://anime.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Anime-Common.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s&templates=expand'); MediaWiki:Common.css
 * Add this to the top:

@import "http://anime.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Anime-Common.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css&templates=expand";
 * MediaWiki:Sync groups
 * This should be a space separated list of tags from the list "anime manga games cards semantic" which are relevant to the wiki.

Once the bot flag is setup I can sync. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)


 * Yeah, I haven't done much related to Wikia at all lately... don't forget that all the templates are editable. You can edit w:c:anime:Template:ACGNetwork yourself. I was actually trying to erase the use of that template with the new animanga queue but I don't know if that'll ever be finished so go ahead and edit that template. I'll try to look back at adding wiki to the sync que later. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk) 05:45, September 19, 2010 (UTC)

^^
Thanks! I will...or I would anyway if I was an amateur.

What is the purpose of this wiki?
Before I spend much time on this, what exactly is the point of this wiki?

I have scanned a few pages and the ones that I have scanned seemed to be riddled with fanon or personal conjecture. There are virtually no references to canon or interviews on any of the pages.

If the purpose of this wiki is to present the facts then there is a lot of work that needs to be done. If the purpose of this wiki is to provide a place for fans to submit their own interpretations of what is not present in the canon (fanon) then I am not going to waste my time here.

Thanks.

Mknopp 12:41, May 11, 2010 (UTC)

Really Need a Layout Guide
I decided to spend a little time on the wiki today and realized that the layout of the character pages is all over the place. I did a little looking at other wikis and really liked the layout of the Bleach wikia articles. I also noticed that they have a published Layout Guide. I believe that it would benefit this wiki if we were to develop and post something very similar.

I laid out the Hikaru Gosunkugi page this way. Please take a look at it and some of the pages on the Bleach site and let me know.

As it stands right now our character pages are all over the place with no real standardization on wording or ordering of categories.

Also, I LOVE the scroll box that they have for their references and have a prototype made for this site. I am not real happy with the look right now, but will try to fix it later.

Hi. Sonic & Scrab Master. First time on this wikia. Huge fan of Ramna 1/2. Wanna be friends? Sonic & Scrab  Master

Re: Need help fixing a Template
I found a problem with an if statement, which was simply that it was missing its closing double-brace, so it was getting jumbled into the next part of the template. As it's written right now, it would look for the parameter "manga" to be set to anything; if it is, it prints the "Chapter Navigation" header; if not, it doesn't print anything. That would probably work better if it used the if statement against both the "next" and "previous" values, which is a bit more complex because it requires some boolean computations (something like ). As an FYI: those if statements and the ones like them are covered at ; the  is used to insert a "|" (i.e. when you're including a table chunk in an if statement, since using an actual "|" isn't possible because it would show up as a piece of the if statement); and the words in triple braces simply refer to parameters passed to the template when it's included on a page. Let me know if you need anything else done with it. Cheers, JeremyGU (t &middot; c) 05:45, July 30, 2010 (UTC)

Measurements in the profiles
I've tried to stay silent on this, but I felt I should ask. A number of the character profiles have been updated to include measurements of speculated weight, lifting capacity, height, speed, etcetera... however, while the displays these measurements have been made from are based on actual scenes from the manga and anime, the measurements themselves and the calculations that they were derived from are all the results of fan-speculation. Thusly, do they have a place here, seeing as how they are very open to interpretation and not canonical facts? It is an undeniable fact that, say, female Ranma was capable of lifting a boulder large enough that she could use it to wedge open the jaws of the Orochi's main head and swam underwater while carrying it quickly enough that she was able to use it to prevent the Orochi from eating Akane, but precisely how much it weighed or how strong this makes Ranma has never been precisely stated by the original author. This series is not like the Marvel Universe, where there are official comments from the author noting that "this character can lift up to 617 tons" and the like.

I intend to stick to writing up the Ranma anime episodes, where I belong, so I leave this matter in your hands. On an aside, the user DaveA vaguely reminds me of an editor from TVTropes.org who called himself "Antvasima"... said editor more or less got himself banned (then took up a new identity, "SensuBean", and got into trouble again) because of highly opinionated edit warring over the Ranma 1/2 articles on that website. I'm not saying that they are Antvasima, in fact I'm pretty sure they're not, but I felt you should be aware that I had my suspicions.

RE: RE: Measurements in the profiles
I wasn't sure where I was supposed to go to make this reply, so forgive me if I put it in the wrong place. Thank you for weighing in with your official answer on the subject; I have promised myself I will not provoke troubles by making any edits to the character profile pages, so I will leave it to you in regards removing the measurements and persuading DaveA not to enter them again. I also don't think that DaveA neccessarily is Antvasima, or a bad person either way, but the similarities made me suspicious, and I just thought I'd let you know in case things do start turning sour so that you would be able to head things off. Part of the reason I intend to avoid making future edits to the character profile pages is to avoid causing an edit war.

As for not signing in myself, before, I wasn't aware I needed to do so or how to do so, so please accept my apologies for that.Ranime Codexer 21:16, October 15, 2010 (UTC)Ranime Codexer

thx
Thx 4 the welcome on my talk page :) --Boris Baran 08:27, January 30, 2011 (UTC)

G.O.D.M.A.
Good Old Days Martial Arts is only shown in one episode, but that shouldn't make it hard to find pictures of it in action. I'll also need pictures of Tamari Kaminarimon if were to have her profile started here. Please and thank-you! --MysteryGirl 23:31, February 25, 2011 (UTC)

thx
thx for the new pic.--Boris Baran 23:18, February 26, 2011 (UTC)

Spotlight Request
Hi. For the most part Ranma Wiki looks great and congratulations on resuscitating it. That said, you appear to have copied over a bunch of Dantman's tagsync anime pages and templates, but not gotten it working yet. Could you please talk to him about getting it working properly on your wiki? Having so many broken pages is distracting. Once that is in place let me know on my talk page and I will check the wiki again; offhand the only other issues I saw were a few uncategorized pages and that you need to customize the skin so if you get the templates working I think it would be a great wiki to spotlight. -- Wendy (talk ) 01:36, February 27, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi. There are still a bunch of broken pages (eg. Property:Gender) -- I think they are all the tagsync ones actually.  Could you clean those up?  There are also a small handful of uncategorized pages.  It looks like you customized the skin a bit so that's great :).  Let me know when that's done and I'll do one last check (mostly to make sure you have enough non-stub content; it's hard to figure out with the property pages), but I think the wiki will be good at that point.  -- Wendy  (talk ) 06:26, March 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh good. I'm glad you got everything straightened out. Much more fun to browse now!  I have added the wiki to the approved spotlight list.  -- Wendy  (talk ) 03:12, March 16, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Tagsynced Pages
You might as well just remove the tagsynced messages from them. I'm not running that bot anymore, Wikia has made doing any techy stuff here too much of a hassle. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk) 21:20, February 27, 2011 (UTC)

Property Pages
You can delete those, those are property pages for semantic animanga wiki, I don't know why they ended up synced here. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk) 20:15, March 5, 2011 (UTC)

Wikia Anime on Twitter
Hello, I'm Kate from the Wikia Content team. We are trying to create a WikiaAnime Twitter group, where all of the amazing wikis can come together and share their most exciting information, and hopefully get a lot of new users! To join, all you need to do is post this Twitter button and tweet list on your main page.



Then you can visit the Anime Twitter Suggestions Page and post tweets you'd like to see, with links back to your wiki.

Please share this with your other members and admins and see if it's something they'd be interested in joining! Let me know if you have any questions, and we hope to see you there!

Kate.moon 05:56, March 21, 2011 (UTC)

Hello!
Hi, and thanks for your welcome! :-)

I look forward to contributing to this wiki when possible.

Have a wonderful morning/day/evening/night!

Request for help
Hi Trivi. I approved your request for help, so I'm here to follow up with you. If you know of any good, large images that you'd like me to use to make a background, please link me to them. For the logo, how about using the Ranma logo (such as seen ) with "Wiki" after it, using similar looking letters? For the main page, have you seen a layout on another wiki's main page that you liked? If so, link me to it and I'll help get your main page setup that way. Two wikis that I recently helped improve their main page are the Toriko Wiki and the Harry Potter Fanfic Wiki. Another nice feature that a lot of wikis use on the main page is the slider, which is like a slideshow that features and links to up to 4 important pages. See the Pandora Hearts Wiki for an example. JoePlay http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb33036/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (talk)  20:34, July 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the link to the image. I used it to make this preview. You can also see the logo I made. If you like it and want to use them both (backround and logo), let me know and I'll upload it. If you want me to change anything, just say so. Tomorrow I'll start on fixing up the main page. JoePlay http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb33036/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (talk)  00:45, July 8, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm glad you liked the background and logo. As you can see, I uploaded them. :) Also, check out Portal:Test to see the possible new main page layout I made. Feel free to make any changes to it, or tell me what else to do to it before moving it to the real main page. JoePlay http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb33036/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (talk)  22:18, July 8, 2011 (UTC)


 * I removed the Featured Place and added the Twitter feed and a poll. On the poll, just replace my placeholder text with the question and options/choices you want. Once Portal:Test looks like you want it, copy/paste to the main page. Let me know if you need anymore help. JoePlay http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb33036/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (talk)  17:38, July 11, 2011 (UTC)

An idea
Can we add the Achievements feature to this Wikia

KenGamer 07:01, July 30, 2011 (UTC)

Thank you so Much for editing the page "a teenage ghost story" on ranma wiki For me and re-writing the summary i had! THANKX SO MUCH i can take it from here but if i need help i'll ask ttyl-

Katiefrog217

Suggestions for Episode & Relationship Pages
I have only recently returned to the various pages detailing individual episodes, and I can't help but notice that some of them have recently had their Plot Summary filled out with relatively short, clear "bites" about the episode's plot. This is a stark contrast to the versions that I wrote up. I was wondering if perhaps a better format would for there to be a Plot Summary (a short "bite" of what the episode's plot is) and a Detailed Summary, which basically writes out in detail what happens in the episode?

Also, I have been looking over the Shipping page (and assorted sub-pages) at Bulbapedia, comparing them to the various Relationship pages present on this profile, and wondered if perhaps an updated format might be in order? What I would recommend is something like this:

Canon Status - Defining just how the relationship is supposed to be officially seen, according to Rumiko Takahashi ("Ranma and Akane are the official couple" or "Ranma and Ryoga are rivals with a healthy respect for each other and a rather aggressive form of friendship", for example)

Reasons For - Explanations as to why some fans may support this particular romance or ship these two together ("Ranma is so willing to flirt with Ryoga, and Ryoga always falls for it" or "Ranma and Shampoo are both strong martial artists", things like that)

Reasons Against - Explanations as to why other fans may argue against this form of shipping ("Akane treats Ranma absolutely terribly" or "Shampoo scares Ranma by being willing to kill" or even "Ranma and Ryoga are disgusted by the idea of being in love with each other and both are heavily implied to be homophobic", for example)

Romantic Moments - A list of scenes and dialogue from the manga and anime canons that could be taken as supporting the romance in question. Currently, the Ranma & Shampoo Relationship page does have some crude effort at providing this.

Anyway, merely my thoughts on some things that were bothering me.Ranime Codexer 22:39, December 15, 2011 (UTC)Ranime Codexer

The category system
Pages in subcategories won't display in the parent category, but they are still in it. The way the system works is that a category will display all subcategories and pages that are in it, it's just that whatever is in the subcategories won't display in the parent in the pages section below, as this is duplicative. This doesn't change the fact that while you can get very specific (i.e. subcategories of subcategories), that all of these are still within the parent category as long as they are set up that way. Say I were to set up something like this, like a tree:


 * Images (parent)
 * Anime images (subcategory)
 * Movie images (subcategory)
 * Big Trouble in Nekonron, China images (subcategory)

The system moves from general to specific and at the same time allows you to get as specific as you want without leaving something out of where you want it to be. If I categorize something under the BTiNC category, it is now in 4 categories in one step without having to put it into each separate one above. The over-categorizing I referred to is putting something into all applicable categories, both general and specific, which sort of defeats the purpose of the category system and isn't necessary, actually creating extra work. When you understand how the mediawiki category system functions it can be a very powerful organisational tool. There is more info here.

It can take some getting used to because you don't see what you expect to see where you want to see it, because it is already displayed somewhere else (the subcategory). In this case you would then think about where the subject could have been subcategorized and check there. The CategoryTree feature can be used to display how a category hierarchy is structured, but I tend to navigate within the category itself by clicking on the categories to see how they relate to each other. Does this make sense?

I am in favor of using the category system to go as specific as possible due to the wiki's size (~600 articles and growing) and especially for the images, since there are so many (1,800+ and growing faster). Over-categorizing especially with the images would get very messy indeed. BrokenSphere (Talk) 16:50, December 21, 2011 (UTC)