User talk:Toughpigs

Hello, Danny. I know you've never edited here, but Angela told me to talk to you about a problem we're having: We seem to be getting a lot of vandalism from IPs lately. In order to "advertise" on a Bionicle fansite (BZPower.com) we need to comply with their spoiler policy. A new Bionicle book was recently released over a month early, so a bunch of IPs have been adding the new info on this wiki, which isn't allowed for another month. I know this is a lot to ask, but could you please disable editing for IPs at the very least untill January 09? We haven't had a non-vandal IP edit in months, and this will get out of hand soon if it continues and if more people get the book and ignore our own rules. -- Panaka lego  00:24, 30 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Sure, no problem! I just switched IP editing off. I'll also change a couple things so that anons who try to edit get a friendly message about logging in. I hope this helps... I've had good experiences switching to login-only editing. Let me know if you've got any questions about it... -- Danny (talk ) 00:33, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick response, if I have a question, I'll let you know first. ;) -- Panaka lego  00:38, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Default Sort
Dare I ask what strange, mysterious thing Default Sort does? - Daiku { Whine Here } { Look what I did! } 00:46, 30 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, now you're asking for forbidden knowledge the likes of which mortal man was not meant to know. I will reveal this knowledge only if you promise to turn away and not read it. Ready? Here goes.


 * Defaultsort tells the wiki how to alphabetize articles on category pages. In the Books category, "The Journey of Takanuva" should be alphabetized under J for Journey, rather than T. You can set the correct sorting in a category tag -- . Defaultsort does the same thing, but it'll do it for every category on the page. So for an article like The Official Guide to BIONICLE, which is in two categories, you just put in , and then it'll automatically sort it under O for both categories.


 * Defaultsort is useful if you think that someone else might come along later and add another category tag -- that way they don't have to worry about adding the sorting thing too. So there you go -- the true story of Defaultsort. -- Danny (talk ) 00:58, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Very cool. I'll have to remember that.


 * ...not that I read it, of course. - Daiku { Whine Here } { Look what I did! } 00:59, 30 September 2008 (UTC)


 * This message will now self-destruct. -- Danny (talk ) 01:00, 30 September 2008 (UTC)


 * P.S. boom.

Admin demotion
Hey Danny, sorry to bother you twice in less then 24 hours, but we have a few administrators who have been inactive for a long time, and I was wondering if they could be demoted? I know Wookieepedia has their admins demoted after some time, so we thought we'd adopt there policy. -- Panaka lego  22:48, 30 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Don't worry about bothering me; I love being bothered. People who have bureaucrat rights on the wiki (like you and Daiku) can set the admin rights for other users... Check out Special:Userrights. I'm pretty sure that should work for you... let me know if it doesn't, okay? -- Danny (talk ) 22:58, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, I wish it were so... It takes a wikia staff member to demote anyone other then Rollbacker... Oh woe is me, will Danny not hear my plea? -- Panaka lego  23:03, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Gah, what a pain. Sure, I can do it. Which admins do you want to demote? -- Danny (talk ) 23:05, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * We're sending messages to one or two now, but User:KFan II and User:Vladius Magnum haven't made any edits in over a year or three. And sorry if I hit you a little hard in the above comment, I was going for the heartfelt, poetic sound, I didn't think I could pull it off. =P -- Panaka lego  23:09, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, done. Don't worry about sounding heartfelt... it worked. -- Danny (talk ) 23:13, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks a ton, I really appreciate it. ;) -- Panaka lego  23:15, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

IP please
Hey Danny, is it alright if you could tell me what users share the same IP that User:Andrew1219 has? I have reason to believe he's been abusing multiple accounts, but don't yet have proof that he's done it intentionally. I don't need his IP number, but if you could tell me who else uses it, that'll be great! Panaka lego  20:08, 19 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, there are a number of users on that IP -- Andrew1219, Mcp3, Tuma3224, Mr con con ****, Mr con con poop, Andr1219 and Andre1219. I hope that helps. -- Danny (talk ) 20:59, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Two More Questions
Hey Danny, I have two more favors to ask of you when you have the time. Firstly: Can you demote me from bureaucrat back to sysop? We're trying to manage our admin responsabilities, and realised that we only need one B-crat at a time to manage User promotion. Secondly: Can you enable Edit Patrolling please (or whatever it's called)? I think we asked a long while ago, but never recieved an answer. Thanks! Panaka lego  01:40, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, no problem! I think the other bureaucrat could have done it -- you actually might even have been able to un-b'crat yourself :) -- but I took care of it. I also turned on edit patrolling -- I hope -- I've never turned it on before, so I hope I did it right. Let me know if it worked the way you want it! -- Danny (talk ) 17:50, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Alas, B'crats can only remove rollback rights, not Admin or Sysop. And I tried to work the Edit Patrolling, but I can't figure out how to get the Exclamation Points to go away... - Daiku { Whine Here } { Look what I did! } 20:05, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks Danny, it does work. ;)
 * To answer you question, Daiku: When you click diff. in Recent Changes, it'll compare the revision and near the Rollback button will be a "Mark this as checked" button. Or something like that.
 * And Bureaucrat cannot demote anybody save Rollback, although I have no idea why. Panaka  lego  01:50, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Gah, what a pain about the bureaucrat thing... It's hard for me to test that myself, so thanks for letting me know. :) -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 13:49, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I hate to keep bugging you with questions, but is it possible to set it so we don't have to Patrol User and User Talk pages? - Daiku { Whine Here } { Look what I did! } 22:30, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Not that I know of... As far as I can tell, there's just one switch that turns it on and off. -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 23:42, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I now we're talking to you a lot, a whole lot, but I have another question: Is there a word filter to keep swearing and other words off the wiki? I know it's possible for wiki software to have one, but does wikia? Panaka  lego  01:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


 * It sounds like you guys are having some concerns about how people are behaving on the wiki. You might be looking for a technical software solution to a problem that really needs to be solved as a community. What's the problem that you're having? Is it with a particular user, or a group of users? -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:30, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * With the Patrol, it's just something we've been wanting to implement for a while to improve quality in general. And I don't know why PL asked about the filter - I haven't really seen any swearing. We're actually just trying to get all of our policies, Admin responsibilites, etc. in order, so that's why we've been asking about stuff. - Daiku { Whine Here } { Look what I did! } 02:33, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The reason I asked is because there are some sites all over the place here that we don't want users to be talking about anymore, and it'll be really hard to remove them manually. And if it'll stop swearing in the future, I'm all for it. Panaka  lego  02:37, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I don't understand... There's sites that you don't want people to talk about? -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * There's a site we've been losing a lot of editors to. It's another Bionicle wiki. Although I don't think we'd need to use a word filter for that - there's not much around to begin with. - Daiku { Whine Here } { Look what I did! } 02:53, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, what's the other site? Is it the Custom Bionicle site on Wikia, or a totally different site? -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Totally different. It's an independent wiki. - Daiku { Whine Here } { Look what I did! } 03:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The other site is a Bionicle fansite, I realised that I linked to it on the top of this page. We are moving to a different fansite that will not allow mention of any of it's compitition here. Panaka  lego  20:45, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Blog?
Hey Danny, I noticed during my weekly wikia surfing that a new blog feature was introduced to the Star Wars Fanon wiki a few days ago. I didn't notice it anyplace else, but can you shed some light on this new feature when you have time? Panaka lego  03:40, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes. I'd like to know about that too please.-- <font color="Green">Bioniclepediapodcaster24 ( <font color="Yellow">Talk ) <font color="Purple">I'm rereading New Moon! It rocks! 04:13, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * And is it possible that every edit is listed as a separate edit, instead of them all grouped together by page on recent changes? I've been wondering about that for a long time. Panaka  lego  05:31, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, guys! Sure, I'd be happy to tell you about the blogs. It's a brand new feature, so it hasn't been released for the whole site yet -- just on a few wikis where we wanted to try it out. If you guys are interested, we could turn it on here too; just say the word!
 * Blogs are a new kind of wiki page that can be written by a single person. It's an offshoot of your user page, so you can write opinion pieces, ideas, fan fiction, reviews, whatever you want to write about -- without worrying about whether it fits in with the factual information on the regular article pages. Once you post a blog page, you're the only one who can edit it, and there's a comments section at the bottom where other people can leave comments. (Admins can also edit or delete blog pages and comments, so if somebody uses them to vandalize the site, you can deal with it the same way as any other page.)
 * You can see some examples on the Christmas Specials Wiki -- check out 10 Worst Christmas Specials of All Time. Let me know what you think -- if you're interested, we could turn blogs on here.
 * Also -- yes, you can change that on Recent changes! Look near the top of the page for the link that says "Hide enhanced recent changes". Click on that, and you'll see the separate edits. -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 06:16, 13 December 2008 (UTC)