User talk:InquisitorNik

template tweaks
Heya, I did some tweaks to your templates, hope you don't mind (-: -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 04:44, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Not all all. You can edit all you want! -Inquisitor

Downloading
hey,

im following your guide to download AA.

but it will not let me change the first location at all

I have three options to choose from:

M:

P:

or

R:

none of these choices offer a space to change the download location....

The Love Girl miniwiki
Hi InquisitorNik!! I am one of Scrathpad’s two new Administrators. (The other one is User:PlasmaTime.) I have been trying to figure out who the editor most reponsible for the Love Girl miniwiki is. When I look at revision histories, most of the edits are made by IP-only editors. However, your username shows up more than any other, which is why I am here on your talkpage. Wikia Staff would like us to move the Love Girl miniwiki to its own wiki at, say, lovegirl.wikia.com. This is because its adult nature does not quite mesh with Wikia’s intentions for Scratchpad. I would like to help in that migration as soon as you’re ready to get started. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  16:09, May 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * Please respond to this message. Or, we will have to unlaterally move and/or delete all the IllusionGames material. Thank you. — Spike  Toronto  04:45, June 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi SpikeToronto


 * I'm sorry if this is not the right way to respond, but I'm not used to communicate via a talk on a wiki. That's also the reason for my late reply, because I didn't realize that it was important the first time you wrote on my talk page. I now realize the seriousness of the matter and you have my full attention.


 * I am probably the one that you want to talk to, because I have the most ownership of the wiki's in question.


 * I am fine with moving one or more of the IllusionGames wiki's to a different address if we can just leave a link on the moved pages to the new location. These wiki's are linked from many places, so it would be sad if all those links were broken.


 * --Inquisitor 05:49, June 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * I’ll get right back to you. I want to check out a few available wiki names. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  07:01, June 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * Right now, the address illusiongames.wikia.com is available. That means that, since they’re all related, you could move them to one place and keep everything together. What are your thoughts? Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  10:27, June 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * That would be awesome! I guess we would in reality just change the subdomain and keep all the subpages? For example: http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Love_Girl would become http://illusiongames.wikia.com/wiki/Love_Girl


 * Is that assumption correct?


 * What about the old pages - is it possible to put a link to the new location?


 * --Inquisitor 10:38, June 8, 2012 (UTC)

I will have to speak to Staff. I know that there is a way to have the pages here at Scratchpad redirect to the new wiki. There are some old examples of it. But, I think it can only be done by Staff. I’ll get back to you. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  10:45, June 8, 2012 (UTC) P.S. Please respond here. It is customary in the wikiverse to keep all threads together. Thus, since it was started here, all of it is here. Were it started on my talkpage, all of it would be there. Thanks! :-) — Spike  Toronto  10:45, June 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry about replying on your talk page! I have never really used wiki Talk pages before, so I hope this edit works and you get a notification of my reply. If it works it's definitely not a particularly conventional way of discussing. ;) Anyway, please just let me know when/if you'd like me to do something. Thanks! --Inquisitor 11:00, June 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * Got your message! (I receive notifications by email because this talkpage is on my watchlist (i.e., is “followed”).) Sure it’s conventional. It’s the wiki way! It’s impossible to follow a thread if it’s spread across two pages. Plus, my page is busier than yours. So, when I archive it, the other half of the convo will be even more difficult to find. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  11:11, June 8, 2012 (UTC)

Inquisitor, I need you to go ahead and create the Illusion Games Wiki. Until you create it, we cannot move pages to it. And you need to create it so that you are its Founder. To create it, do the following: Let me know when you’ve done it. If you have any questions, as usual, do not hesitate to ask. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  01:18, June 10, 2012 (UTC)
 * Press this button:
 * Where it says, Name your wiki,
 * Enter the name you want
 * For example: Illusion Games
 * Where it says, Give your wiki an address
 * enter illusiongames
 * which produces illusiongames.wikia.com


 * Thank you. I have discussed this with fellow modders on our IRC channel and it was suggested to make one subdomain for the h-games (IllusionGames, TeatimeGames, InterheartGames and maybe more in the future). Someone suggested hgames.wikia.com, but then we checked and it's already taken. It seems to be only a stub more or less and has not been worked on since February, but it basically has all the same major categories that we had in mind. I have therefore used the Talk page of the author, TF, and asked him what the purpose of the wiki is and if we should merge it. What is your thoughts about this? What does it mean to be the Founder? I would be reluctant to move all the wiki's if I one day found that I/we couldn't edit them because the founder decided so. Then we'd probably rather prefer a new subdomain, for instance hentaigames.wikia.com with me as Founder, because I would never do such a thing because I believe in collaboration. Thanks in advance for your advice. --Inquisitor 09:42, June 10, 2012 (UTC)

If the Administrator at a given wiki has not edited in a certain number of months, you can go to Forum:Adoption requests at the Community Central Wiki and request to adopt the existing wiki. Some details you will need are: The only thing that might hinder an adoption request is that you have not yourself edited there. But, given the circumstances and the context, Staff might make allowances, especially since it is a merger with a wiki on which you edit very frequently. That, however, is not guaranteed, nor can I speak for them. Otherwise, I think the idea your team has come up with of taking over an existing wiki is a very good one. Great idea! So, I suggest filling out an adoption request, and seeing where that goes. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  11:17, June 10, 2012 (UTC)
 * The Founder (creator of the wiki) is User:Hodnett
 * He created the wiki on October 10, 2012.
 * He has never made an edit, not a single one that I can see.
 * The only other contributor: User:TF
 * Total edits: 5
 * Last edit: February 2, 2011
 * He is neither Bureaucrat nor Administrator at the wiki


 * Done. Here it is. Thank you for your kind assistance. It will be interesting to see how it goes. :) --Inquisitor 14:22, June 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * It seems like I got it! :) What is the next step? --Inquisitor 10:30, June 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hooray! I’ll get back to you. Thanks for the update! Congrats! — Spike  Toronto  17:30, June 21, 2012 (UTC)

When would you like to begin the migration from Scratchpad to w:c:hgames? I’m ready when you are! — Spike  Toronto  05:31, July 2, 2012 (UTC)


 * We can begin anytime. Did you clear that we can leave a stub page with a link to the new location? We hope so, because otherwise the move would break hundreds of links. We would like to start on the IllusionGames category and then move on to the InterheartGames and then finally the TeatimeGames. Let me know what you'd like me to do and when. Thanks! --Inquisitor 16:13, July 2, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. Sorry for the delays. I’d like to do this with you this week. I think the best way is for us to use the WikiaChat (Special:Chat) here at Scratchpad, so I can walk you through the first few transfers step-by-step. When would you be available? Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  06:30, July 23, 2012 (UTC)
 * I can't make it until maybe on Friday after 16:00. I'm at GMT+1, so I don't know how that would be in your timezone. Inquisitor (talk) 16:15, July 24, 2012 (UTC)
 * I am online now (it's 16:02 GMT+1). Just let me know what you'd like me to do. Inquisitor (talk) 14:03, July 27, 2012 (UTC)

Migration from mini-wiki to full wiki
Hi Nik. The process is a fairly basic, yet multi-step one. where    is the name of the page on the target wiki. Give this a try, at first with one page, and let me know how you make out. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  00:46, July 30, 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) Use Special:Export to gather up the pages to me moved to the new wiki
 * 2) At the new wiki, use Special:Import to load the pages
 * 3) Back at Scratchpad, on each page moved to the new wiki, replace the contents with a redirect to the new page at the new wiki

P.S. I cannot test this for you because only Administrators on a given wiki can use  . Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  00:48, July 30, 2012 (UTC)


 * It's not working. Exporting seems to go fine, but when importing "there are no pages to import". I've tried a whole category including history and templates and just a single pages including history and templates. I have also tried to add you to the administrators on hgames, but I cannot add new users. I have previously added WarriorOfJustice to the administrators so there must be something broken or what? Inquisitor (talk) 14:53, July 30, 2012 (UTC)


 * I should've checked this beforehand. The two wikis are running incompatible versions of the MediaWikia software. Scratchpad is running 1.19, while HGAMES is running 1.16.5. Special:Import is not backwards compatible. Like you, I discovered this the hard way when attempting to bring over pages from Wikipedia (1.19) to an at-that-time 1.16.5 version wiki here at Wikia. Because HGAMES only has three pages on it, and almost zero traffic, it will be towards the bottom of the priority list for conversion from 1.16.5 to 1.19. When I am next on Skype (cannot run on my iPad, which I am using at this moment), I will ask Wikia Staff if they can bump HGAMES up the list. In the meantime, sadly, we wait. Sorry. —  Spike  Toronto  07:06, July 31, 2012 (UTC)


 * P.S. In the meantime, perhaps you could keep an eye on HGAMES and let me know when its MediaWiki software is upgraded from 1.16.5 to 1.19? To determine the version number, type   into the search box. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  07:11, July 31, 2012 (UTC)


 * I see. Thanks for letting me know. I will keep an eye out for it! Inquisitor (talk) 13:44, July 31, 2012 (UTC)

w:c:hgames:Special:Version Just checked. Still version 1.16.5 — Spike  Toronto  09:08, August 8, 2012 (UTC)

Just checked using the link above. Still not upgraded. I will enquire with Staff today. Thanks for your patience. — Spike  Toronto  16:40, August 22, 2012 (UTC)

As of yesterday afternoon, the wiki at w:c:hgames was upgraded from 1.16.5 to 1.19.1 So, go for it! Let me know how you make out. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  05:50, August 23, 2012 (UTC)


 * I have tried editing this page several times the last week, but something has broken. Editing no longer works for me in Firefox (it just shows "Loading editor" forever) and I had to resort to Chrome to make this edit. I prefer using Firefox, so I'll wait a while and see if it get's fixed before making any edits. Inquisitor (talk) 14:11, August 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * Nik, when something like that is happening, you need to report it to Staff asap so they can ticket it for the engineers. To do this, go to Special:Contact. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  19:21, August 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * It seems to work now! I'll look into it some more and let you know. Inquisitor (talk) 14:15, August 31, 2012 (UTC)


 * Although I got an error during importing (iirr something about the data not being sent) it seems to have gone well! But we're missing the images. How can I import those? Take a look at w:c:hgames:Love Girl to see what I mean... Inquisitor (talk) 16:50, August 31, 2012 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately,   does not bring the images along with the pages. This is most likely an intentional failsafe related to licencing. As far as I know, the only way to do it is to save each image to your hard drive, then use w:c:hgames:Special:MultipleUpload to upload several at a time. Hope this helps! — Spike  Toronto  12:31, September 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * omg, that's many, many hours of work on the dozens of wiki's! Sorry, but I don't have the time or the patience to do that. We have to find another way. We also lost all the history in the export, which is not great. I know for a fact that MediaWiki can be copied on a deeper level. Can we please ask the system admins to move the wiki's for us, so we can at least get the images moved as well? Thanks in advance! Inquisitor (talk) 05:40, September 2, 2012 (UTC)

You lost the page history because you forgot to untick the box at Special:Export labelled Include only the current revision, not the full history. You have to leave that box un checked to get all revisions. You can always repeat the process. As for the images, I have been checking with more experienced users and Staff to find a way to get them over more easily. Are they all in specific categories? If they are categorized, it might make a batch transfer easier. — Spike  Toronto  08:57, September 5, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, they are all within categories, so that gives me some hope at least. I should have known about the history! Is it possible to delete a whole category, so that I can redo the export and import? I started with the IllusionGames category, so it's a lot of pages. btw, I have discussed the move with other contributors and we're all hoping for a solution to the missing images and we look forward to start working on the new wiki! Thank you for your assistance. Inquisitor (talk) 15:14, September 5, 2012 (UTC)


 * You do not need to delete. You can just do the import over the one you already did. All that will happen is that the earlier revisions will be added to each page. Do note that your export/import file will be larger, so the process will be slower than it was when you only brought over the latest revision for each page. I’ll get back to you on the images. — Spike  Toronto  15:24, September 5, 2012 (UTC)

Migrating images to new wiki
Hi Nik! Staff have a bot that can migrate all your images from this wiki to the new one. But, all of your images must have a unique category. The bot will then use that category to pluck them from the wiki. So, all your images have to have it, and images that are not yours must not have it. Get back to me on this. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  16:59, October 5, 2012 (UTC)


 * Spike, that's really great news. We've been wondering what was going on with this. We'll look into it and get back to you asap. Inquisitor (talk) 19:27, October 5, 2012 (UTC)


 * How’s this coming along Nik? Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  07:56, October 17, 2012 (UTC)


 * I have posted about it in our modding discussion and I had hoped that we could make it a team effort to check the image categories before porting, but nobody has replied yet. I will have some time this weekend and I'll do it myself if I have to. Thank you for your patience. btw, I suppose that you want to move the IllusionGames category as the first one, right? Inquisitor (talk) 09:59, October 17, 2012 (UTC)