User talk:Yaron Koren/Archive 2008

Hey, just an observation: Templates can't seem to be created with no fields.


 * Yeah, that's true; I'd known about that bug for a while, but hadn't bothered to fix it; but now that I think about it, it really could be an issue. Yaron Koren 00:05, September 11, 2008 (EDT)

External Images and etc.
1. I'm wondering how come I can't show external images on my basic site? Or is this with all levels? Is this so we have to use our MB? If that's case, dang. 2. How do you make Random Article appear on navigation? 3. How do you change the add data boxes?

-- Mangekyou Itachi


 * Hi, external images are, by default, not allowed in MediaWiki; see here for all the reasons why. I could remove that restriction; let me think about it - no one asked about it before you did just now. You can add the Random article link by editing the sidebar; you can get to that from the "Helpful links" page. And I don't understand the last question. Yaron Koren 23:37, November 13, 2008 (UTC)

Ok, there's a box under Navigation that says "add data" and in the box it says "add... (change this)" --Mangekyou Itachi


 * Oh, I see. You can change that too, in the same sidebar page ("MediaWiki:Sidebar"). Yaron Koren 23:54, November 13, 2008 (UTC)

Regarding External Images again, if you were to activate it, would that affect all sites? I have a review site and I want the images from an external hosting site, not just direct linking from some random site. --Mangekyou Itachi


 * Okay, I came up with what I think is a good solution. If you go to "Site settings", there's now a checkbox for "Allow external images", so each admin can configure it for their own site. Yaron Koren 00:05, November 14, 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! That is so helpful. --Mangekyou Itachi


 * Cool. Thanks for the idea. The site usually only gets improved when people complain. :) Yaron Koren 00:23, November 14, 2008 (UTC)

It seems convenient that there's no need to embed it, but can it work in just external inks or will it automatically embed no matter what? --Mangekyou Itachi


 * I don't really understand the question, but I think however it works now can't be configured further. Yaron Koren 14:47, November 14, 2008 (UTC)

Allowed files
Hello,

I would like to be able to upload '.mxl' files. These are packed MusicXML files which are for sheet music. '.xml' files would also be acceptable for this purpose, but are much larger.

Thank you, --Fox 21:55, November 14, 2008 (UTC)


 * Alright, done. Yaron Koren 22:04, November 14, 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you!

Tarballs
Yaron, can you please allow uploading of .zips, .rars, .tars, and .7zs? Dagoth Ur, Mad God 06:05, December 8, 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, I just added these. Yaron Koren 17:45, December 8, 2008 (UTC)

Questions
I'm new here, so I have a few questions? --Michaeldsuarez 17:09, December 20, 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Is there a list of wikis that I can view so that I won't accidentally create a wiki someone else already created?
 * 2) Are the accounts universal for all Referata wikis like Wikia accounts, or do you have to create a new account on every wiki?
 * 3) Are the wikis here community-owned or are they owned by their creators?

Hi, Yaron Koren 22:10, December 20, 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) If you try to create a wiki with a URL that's already taken, you'll get an error message, so you don't have to worry about it.
 * 2) You have to create a new account on every wiki - I did that on purpose, so people can preserve their anonymity if they want to.
 * 3) Each wiki is owned by its creator; though the creator can make additional people administrators.


 * Hello Yaron Koren, I have a wiki here called the Classic Nintendo Wiki, and I was wondering if it was possible to remove referata from the hp address like it was on scribblewiki. Thanks for your time. Glitchman 22:25, December 20, 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi - yes, it's possible with two of the paid service levels, "Ad-Supported" and "Enterprise". See here for more details. Yaron Koren 23:56, December 20, 2008 (UTC)

Two things
Yaron, can you please add the interwiki prefix "hrwiki" pointing to http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/$1? Also, can you please add a checkbox that allows you to make page names case sensitive, including the first letter? Dagoth Ur, Mad God 01:06, December 21, 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, both are done. Good idea about the allowing-lowercase-first-letter option. Yaron Koren 17:32, December 22, 2008 (UTC)

Copyright license
I created a Referata site, but I don't known which free copyright license it used. Are wiki content here licensed under Creative Commons or another free license? --Michaeldsuarez 12:51, December 28, 2008 (UTC)


 * It can be any license you want. You should just specify the license within the wiki, preferably in the "about" page, linked at the bottom of every page. Yaron Koren 16:46, December 28, 2008 (UTC)


 * Actually, having just looked it up, you should specify it instead in the page "MediaWiki:Copyright" - see Wikipedia's version for an example. Yaron Koren 19:03, December 28, 2008 (UTC)

Site deletion
Sorry, but if I decide I want a wiki deleted since it was misnamed, can I create another site using the same URL address as the wiki I want deleted, or will the URL adress still be marked as taken after that wiki is deleted? --Michaeldsuarez 15:53, December 28, 2008 (UTC)


 * No, once a wiki is deleted, the URL is free to be used again. Yaron Koren 16:46, December 28, 2008 (UTC)
 * But I keep getting an error message every time I try to recreate http://jobasha.referata.com although it's now delete. Is there anything you can do free this address or even http://maiq.referata.com? I can't recreate these wikis for some reason. --Michaeldsuarez 12:07, December 29, 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, okay, those two were never properly deleted, or maybe they weren't deleted at all; if you try it now, it should work. Yaron Koren 06:36, January 2, 2009 (UTC)