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| '''Please look at the section about copyright tags at the bottom.''' --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 04:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC) | | The '''Community Portal''' page is meant to serve as a central location for all editors and readers of '''Transformers Wiki''' to keep track of what is going on throughout the wiki. Here on the portal itself, announcements and policy changes and the like will be posted. |
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| I got Ben Yee's permision to use some of his texts via E-mail
| | The portal's talk page ([[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal]]) is the place to go if you have a question to discuss that potentially affects large sections of the wiki. For example, if you want to propose a new template for articles about cartoon episodes, a lot of other editors may be interested in that topic. If you post your ideas on the talk page for a particular episode's article, it may not be noticed by everybody. But, put it on the Community Portal's talk page, and hopefully you will get more input. |
| Ben Yee said... "Please use only certain text (not say, entire episode reviews or anything like that) and credit my site accordingly. Thanks!"
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| Do we know who has administrative powers on this Wiki? --[[User:ItsWalky]]
| | ==Community history== |
| | TFWiki began on [http://wikicities.com Wikicities.com] on [[May 26]], 2005. Our URL has changed a few times since then, but on September 2008 the community moved to our current (and permanent) home at [http://tfwiki.net TFWiki.net]. For branding purposes, the site can also be reached via [http://tfwiki.info TFWiki.info]. |
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| There's been a vandal who's screwed around with a few pages, and this is probably going to come up fairly often. The wikipedia page on reverting[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Revert] is something that most people should read, so you know how to put things back to how they were, when something like that happens aggain. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 03:04, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
| | ==Copyright info== |
| | In early April 2006, an image being used in an article devoted to a fan club comic was removed at the request of its copyright holder. (See [[Talk:Vector Prime: In the Beginning]] for details.) Since then, some templates have been created for tagging images that are uploaded. Please take a look at these templates, and use them as appropriate when uploading a new image: |
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| Yeah I reverted the Main Page after someone replaced it with a message insulting the intelligence of this Wiki.-Shadow Mask Prime
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| ==Contact in case of problems== | | ==Promotion== |
| | Want to promote the TF Wiki? You can embed a 'Random Transformers link' widget in your site or messageboard .sig - [[Transformers Wiki:A GoBox of your own!]] |
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| As you haven't an active admin at the moment, I've left contact information on [[User:Sannse|my user page]] and will call in regularly to see if you need any help. If anyone knows ''why'' someone is blanking pages, that would be useful. Are there copyright issues? Has stuff been copied without full (and GFDL compatible) permission? If so, we may have to remove and rewrite the pages. I'll pop back tomorrow to see if there has been more blanking. -- [[User:Sannse|sannse]] [[User talk:Sannse|(talk)]] 16:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
| | We also have a presence on [https://bsky.app/profile/tfwiki.net Bluesky], [http://tfwiki.tumblr.com/ Tumblr], and [https://disboard.org/server/656241088826441729 Discord]. |
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| ==That awful picture and the name== | | ==Admins== |
| | The active [[Special:Listusers/sysop|admins]] for this Wiki are: |
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| Although secondary to the vandalism, we have an admin-type who can deal with the problems left by the creator. There's a couple locked things that we can't change:
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| * The title is misspelled. The computer's name is "Teletraan-1", and we should really have the title reflect a name that 'isn't' the wrong spelling. We fixed it on the main page, but it still shows up in the titles of every page. | | *[[User:Broadside]] |
| * The wiki symbol in the top left is horrendously ugly and kinda embarassing. And not only is it hideous, but it also reflects the same problem as the title: Teletraan-1 is spelled incorrectly. I made [[Media:Potential-wiki.png|a new image]] for it, but it's not too great either, and I'd like to invite any artist to do something better. | | *[[User:Chris McFeely]] |
| We should get some other people's thoughts on both these matters. If we can get some sort of consensus going, we can probably get both of these matters fixed. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 18:36, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
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| | *[[User:ItsWalky]] |
| | *[[User:Jalaguy]] |
| | *[[User:Locoman]] |
| | *[[User:Lonegamer78]] |
| | *[[User:M Sipher]] |
| | *[[User:The Wadapan]] |
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| Besides the spelling, I don't see anything wrong with the logo. Heck, I'd be downright surprised to see anything else. Well, with the possible exception of the Decepticon logo.--[[User:OctopusPrime|Octopus Prime- King of the Road!]] 22:52, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
| | If you have questions or issues that only an admin can address, they are your people. Just leave them a message on their User talk pages. |
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| What about that spinning logo that goes from bot to con to max to pred to blendtron etc. etc. etc. X-BoB58
| | ==Bot account== |
| | There is a bot account on this wiki, [[User:Teletraan-X]], which is available to perform tedious or repetitive edits to large numbers of pages. For example, if a page is moved and a large number of links need to be rewritten, the bot can do that quickly and easily. Teletraan-X is owned by [[User:Tigerpaw28]]. If you want the bot to perform a job for you, leave a message about it on [[User talk:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28's talk page]]. '''NOTE:''' Because bots often perform a large number of consecutive but uninteresting edits, the actions of bot accounts (that is, accounts which have been given a "bot" flag by the [[Special:Listusers/bureaucrat|bureaucrats]]) do not, by default, appear on the [[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]] list. To view bot edits you will have to click the "show bots" link. |
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| :For the title issue - I'll contact our one of our technical support staff. It's not something that can be changed on-wiki (he should be on-line soon). For the logo - I've unprotected the logo for a while, so you can chose what should go there and upload. All you need to do is upload to [[:Image:wiki.png]]. It does have to be a .png image, so the animated logo idea is out I'm afraid. If you want to try changing your favicon ([[:Image:favicon.ico]]: [[Image:favicon.ico]]) then I can unprotect that too for a while.
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| I definitely fall in the "don't like the logo" camp, so here's one proposal for a change: [[:Image:Newlogo-wiki.png|new logo proposal]]. [[User:Aurax|Aurax]] 16:59, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
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| I propose an Art Contest or something similar. -X-boB58
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| * Well, anyone is welcome to and definitely encouraged to make a new logo to replace the old one; just upload it and post it here if you do. If we get any more people proposing replacements, we can just put it to a vote. Although I do personally like Aurax's a lot. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 00:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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| I also like the logo Aurax made, although probably we should pick between "Teletraan-1" and "Teletraan One". The logo spells out the number, whereas it's written elsewhere with the digit.
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| --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 03:10, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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| *Since it's likely easier to change the text in the logo than it is to change the name of the wiki (again), I made a new version of the graphic file. It fixes the spelling and addresses some text readability issues that I had with the original, stuff that I was gonna fix anyway. [[:Image:Newlogo-digit-wiki.png|For your renewed consideration.]] [[User:Aurax|Aurax]] 03:59, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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| ** I've replaced the old logo with yours, as there weren't objections; but if anyone opposes it now, please feel free to post to that effect. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 03:06, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
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| While were on the topic of apearances what about a new skin, Idunno something more "transformery"
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| To be utterly and stupednously anal, the computer's name is actually spelled "Teletraan I," with a roman numeral and no hyphen. - Chris McFeely, 17th March 2006
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| Nobody has further commented on this, but Chris appears to be right. I would personally prefer that the site name match the canonical spelling. Is there support for changing the name again? --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 00:52, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
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| The other thing to consider is who should be your new admin(s). You all know your wiki better than I, so any suggestions? Who has experience of admin buttons (not vital, they are pretty easy to follow), is active on this wiki, and knows the subject well enough to know what is valid and what is vandalism? The main criteria as far as I'm concerned are some good sense and a lot of enthusiasm :) -- [[User:Sannse|sannse]] [[User talk:Sannse|(talk)]] 13:35, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
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| I fit most of the requirements, but don't know wiki's particular admin setup. If you say they're easy to follow, then I suppose they can't be much different from admin-ing elsewhere. If anything, I just want to keep that one guy from deleting whole pages. I also think [[User:Suki Brits]] would make a good Admin, if she would want to be. --[[User:ItsWalky]]
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| I had just typed up that I'd also nominate Walky as an admin when he edited his post-- oops, I guess that seems sorta hollow now. Regardless, he's probably the best choice for an admin here, as he certainly knows what he's doing, and has put lot of time into this already; definitely fits the requirements.
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| And I wouldn't mind myself, either. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 18:13, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
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| Having seen Walky's posts and conversations thus far, I'd trust him to be a fair and enthusiastic admin --[[User:G.B. Blackrock]] [[User talk:G.B. Blackrock|(talk)]]
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| I think that Suki seems to know the system better --[[User:X-BoB58|X-BoB58]]
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| "NO The Constructicons Form DEVESTATOR! The Most Powerful Robot! They Should Rule!"
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| I honestly can't believe I'm the first one to use that quote here. I mean, come on, really. Get your heads in the game.
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| In all honesty, I agree with the mutual respect goin to'ard Walky or Suki being Admin. Since Walky's added more to the Wiki then everyone else put together, and Suki seems to have done much of the admin-lite duties round here.
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| Heck, I vote for Suki.--[[User:OctopusPrime|Octopus Prime- King of the Road!]] 22:54, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
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| :I would gladly put my support behind Walky and/or Suki Brits as admins. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 06:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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| :Walky and "Suki Brits" would be fine mods. FOR ME TO OVERTHROW. [[User:Hooper X|Hooper X]] 20:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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| A nice bit of agreement here :) Walky and Suki Brits are now your admins. Let me know if you need any help at all -- [[User:Sannse|sannse]] [[User talk:Sannse|(talk)]] 12:46, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
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| Well, thanks, everyone. Hopefully I won't actually need to do many admin type functions, but I'll be glad to whenever I can. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 17:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
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| ==Deletion policy==
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| One thing that I'd really rather not happen to this is we get [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_official_policy bogged down by too many policies and rules], since that's distracting from the real purpose of the whole thing. We're all big kids, if someone's not doing things right, we don't need to redirect them to endless piles of policy pages. But with that said, there are a couple things we do need to deal with: like deleting crap. There's a lot of [[My Huge Cock|garbage]] that needs to go, but I don't want to delete something accidentally that others think should be kept.
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| My proposal: we make a page for listing pages that should be deleted, with dates appended beside each nominee for deletion, and a <nowiki>{{tobedeleted}}</nowiki> tag put at the top of the page to be deleted itself. If nobody objects after three days, the page'll be deleted. Obviously, anyone can nominate a page to be deleted.
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| Does this sound like a good idea? --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 17:36, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
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| Sounds fair to me.--[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 18:11, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
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| ==Whats the advantage of a catagory over a list?==
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| I liked the lists
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| ==COPYRIGHT INFORMATION IS IMPORTANT==
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| As some might have noticed, we've had [[Talk:Vector Prime: In the Beginning|an image]] removed due to copyright issues; if at all possible, I'd like to avoid that sort of thing happening again. I've drafted up two additional copyright templates, [[Template:Comiccover]] and [[Template:Comicinterior]], the uses of which should be fairly obvious. I'd like for people to overview these to make sure they're acceptable, and after that, ''please'' start putting them on any applicable pages.
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| As Wikipedia demonstrates, fair use is a pretty neat blanket that we can fit under, but we need to actually start labeling these images appropriately, or we're going to get more issues coming up. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 04:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
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| :The Image Copyright template is... incomplete. Not all images are the sole domain of Hasbro. This is sufficient for, say, stills from most cartoons- but IIRC part of the reason The Ultimate guide couldn't cover riD properly was the visual was co-owned by Disney because they bought out Saban. Do we have a general 'copyrighted image, fair use' template that DOESN'T say Hasbro? (That'd be sufficient so long as the image source is attributed correctly in the text. the problem, legally speaking, arises if you cite a template saying hasbro owns somethign they do not- like a picture of Pepsiman. Plus yhere's some stuff hasbro DOESN'T own that Takara does that we'll have/do have snaps of.) -[[user:Derik|D-rok]]
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| ::I agree, which is why I didn't mention [[Template:Image Copyright]] in that post; it's not particularly good. I have, however, drafted up two additional tags which should be used for everything else, providing they're acceptable: [[Template:Hastak]] and [[Template:Fairuse]], which should cover virtually all images. The "this image belongs to Hasbro" template should definitely be depreciated. Any comments? --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 20:13, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
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| :::From an organizational standpoint this is good, but the language of the first is too passive, and the section too loose and confusing. but that's the kind of thing easy to work with later. LEGALLY speaking, they say the right things they need to. -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
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| ==What is the Community Portal?==
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| We seem to be using this Community Portal as a talk page. That... probably isn't for the best. I would think that the Community Portal should hold announcements that are relevant to all or a large portion of the editors. It would be useful to have a "central" place for editors to discuss site-wide issues, but I think that this page's Talk page would be much more appropriate for that. I propose moving all this discussion to the talk page and writing a new Community Portal which can list "current" initiatives or news about the Wiki. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 00:57, 15 April 2006 (UTC)<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>
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The Community Portal page is meant to serve as a central location for all editors and readers of Transformers Wiki to keep track of what is going on throughout the wiki. Here on the portal itself, announcements and policy changes and the like will be posted.
The portal's talk page (Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal) is the place to go if you have a question to discuss that potentially affects large sections of the wiki. For example, if you want to propose a new template for articles about cartoon episodes, a lot of other editors may be interested in that topic. If you post your ideas on the talk page for a particular episode's article, it may not be noticed by everybody. But, put it on the Community Portal's talk page, and hopefully you will get more input.
TFWiki began on Wikicities.com on May 26, 2005. Our URL has changed a few times since then, but on September 2008 the community moved to our current (and permanent) home at TFWiki.net. For branding purposes, the site can also be reached via TFWiki.info.
In early April 2006, an image being used in an article devoted to a fan club comic was removed at the request of its copyright holder. (See Talk:Vector Prime: In the Beginning for details.) Since then, some templates have been created for tagging images that are uploaded. Please take a look at these templates, and use them as appropriate when uploading a new image:
Want to promote the TF Wiki? You can embed a 'Random Transformers link' widget in your site or messageboard .sig - Transformers Wiki:A GoBox of your own!
We also have a presence on Bluesky, Tumblr, and Discord.
The active admins for this Wiki are:
If you have questions or issues that only an admin can address, they are your people. Just leave them a message on their User talk pages.
There is a bot account on this wiki, User:Teletraan-X, which is available to perform tedious or repetitive edits to large numbers of pages. For example, if a page is moved and a large number of links need to be rewritten, the bot can do that quickly and easily. Teletraan-X is owned by User:Tigerpaw28. If you want the bot to perform a job for you, leave a message about it on Tigerpaw28's talk page. NOTE: Because bots often perform a large number of consecutive but uninteresting edits, the actions of bot accounts (that is, accounts which have been given a "bot" flag by the bureaucrats) do not, by default, appear on the recent changes list. To view bot edits you will have to click the "show bots" link.
