Pikipedia talk:Community Portal
"You" or "player"?
Hey guys, I was wondering, should we use "you" or "player" in the articles? Player sounds more uh intelligent I guess, and I'd prefer "player" substituted with "you". What do you guys think?--Richard 01:38, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- Please put universion things on the main Page. But I also think that we should use Olimar isntead of 'you' or 'player'. Unlike Knights of the Old Republic, you have a name, and its 'Olimar'.
[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wookieepedia:Community_Portal "This is what a community portal is for. Have on of the synsop do it. --Revan 02:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
i think we should have a voting page. we will never be able to be a success like wookiepedia. we need to vote for the improvement drive, the featured article, the pikipedian of the month. and we need it linked to the main page. And we need a group of people that are able to contribute and update it weekly --Goolix 00:03, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
I agree we should be able to vote we should be treated like all the other wikis WE HAVE RIGHTS let us build a community out of this community portal let pikipedia be known though out the internet and make it the fantastic wiki we all want it to be NOW WHOSE WITH ME (insert cricket noise) oh well at least I tried
New Admins for Pikipedia
It appears that yes all the Sysops/Bureaucrats of this wiki are inactive and as such the community can have new admins promoted. Before I get into the requesting and notes on who can I should note a few things about what becoming an admin means before someone choses to become an admin just cause they think it makes them special:
- In becoming an administrator you have no special power or authority to impose your own opinions on another user. Just because you are a sysop has no weight on your votes on a subject. In fact being a sysop does not mean you are here to apply your ideas... It means you are here to take in the general consensus of the community and to stop the lone users trying to force something on the wiki that the general community has decided against together.
- Being an administrator means it's your job to help keep the wiki clean, if someone needs something deleted or some spam removed then being a sysop means it's your job to apply those things that are needed when they are valid requests. But it also means it's your job to pick out what is someone making a mistake from someone trying to ruin the wiki, and treat the person making the mistake kindly.
- Protection is not something to be abused... Protection is only used when something is vandalized to much. It can also be used temporarily when some users are engaging in an edit-war, just until things have been discussed.
But I should also note some things that make a someone a good candidate for being an admin:
- An admin should be an active user; Someone being Sysop is completely useless if they aren't around enough to clean up anything. In the case of a low-activity wiki like this one, generally someone is not active enough if they miss any edits in the RC because they were not here during that time. (The RC has a basic 7 day and 100 edit limit, so someone active should generally at least come around every 3 or so days)
- An admin should be motivated to apply requests needing Sysop powers; If an admin is not willing to take and apply requests such as deletions, and keep up with them then they do not make a good admin.
- An admin should have a history of keeping cool in debates and not using their powers
- An admin should also be good with using MediaWiki; Mostly and admin should know how to protect/unprotect, delete/undelete, use the Recentchanges, and have a general knowledge of WikiText and various other parts of the Admin and User end of MediaWiki.
- And an admin should be an active member of the community or someone who has has experience elsewhere on Wikia.
Just taking a look over the recent changes... The active users I see are Greenpickle, Prezintenden, and Me just in.
The community is welcome to pick out a user or two who they feel is active, fits the above description and understands the information above about what it means to be an admin, and whom the community feels they can trust. If there is no user who completely fits that, the community is also free to see if there are any general Wikia users such as me who have admin experience elsewhere who could come and watch over the wiki. We could even be given Bureaucrat to promote any user who appears to have grown enough to fit in as an admin. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Talk)
- Just to note... Sannse just gave me Sysop so I could change the Sitenotice and one or two other things to draw attention to the wiki needing admins. This does not make me an admin on the wiki unless the community feels that they want me to be admin to help them out (In that case I could also get Bureaucrat and promote anyone who looked good enough to be admin to). ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Talk)
Hm... I'm surprised someone organized all that without being asked; I really appreciate that.
Okay; I'll start with myself. I check the recent changes everytime I turn on my PC, so pretty much every day. I can't remember treating anyone unpolitely, actually, I find non of the Users here do, so that shouldn't be a problem. And considering that there aren't so many Users here, apart from the fact that there is hardly anything that would give a hard debate, those points shouldn't be too much trouble. What I'm concerned about are these Mediawiki and Wikitext. I don't have an idea of what that is. However, this site has worked fine, so it can't be that vital. If it's needed in the future, then I have enough time to learn how to use it. Well, in the end, I think Greenpickle has more 'Wiki know-how', and it shouldn't be neccesary to get admins from another Wiki to help here. But if Pikmin 3 comes to existance, then this site will expand, so some new admin would surely be helpful. -Prezintenden(babble) 17:00, 21 October 2007 (UTC)