User talk:QueenBuffy/Archive 4

Our Wikias

Hey Buffy! I was wondering if you wanted to be affiliated w each other? I'm admin of the Reign wikia now also :) --~ Lorisa! (talk) 08:02, March 12, 2014 (UTC)

"Must Watch" Videos

Who has filled the bottom of articles with that? its visually cumbersome.--Gonzalo84 (talk) 04:26, March 13, 2014 (UTC)

Ugh, no clue! Did you check out History?? QueenBuffy 18:06, March 13, 2014 (UTC)

History has no record. The videos are embedded over at Wiki so it must be one of them. And while we are it, any news on the new background?--Gonzalo84 (talk) 19:01, March 13, 2014 (UTC)

Send me a link to a page that has the video you are talking about. I will ask about it. Also, I did contact Wikia Design about the background...that was last week so shouldn't be much longer :) QueenBuffy 07:45, March 14, 2014 (UTC)

For example: [1] And these aren't even official videos but IGN reviews--Gonzalo84 (talk) 14:00, March 14, 2014 (UTC)

Wait, what page or part of the main page are these videos displayed on?--The Dragon Demands (talk) 14:07, March 14, 2014 (UTC)

Go to any article and go to the bottom. Sometimes they even show up above categories--Gonzalo84 (talk) 14:29, March 14, 2014 (UTC)

I see now. They're not "must watch" because they linked to random IGN reviews. If anything, I wish we could replace them with the Westeros.org video reviews...actually the videos don't seem to be embedded adds, but videos loaded up onto Game of Thrones Wiki. Let's just delete them all.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 14:34, March 14, 2014 (UTC)

Shit. Some of them were loaded directly onto this wiki, others are indeed ported over from Wikia itself. Well, convention panels, cast & crew Q&A, official trailers, and episode clips aren't bad in and of themselves...so long as they display properly, below actual content. I'd rather we didn't have them. But linking particular reviews like that is silly.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 14:44, March 14, 2014 (UTC)

Oh yeah, it looks like it is just part of the "Around Wikia" boxed links at the bottom of each page too. Definitely takes up a lot of space. QueenBuffy 16:22, March 14, 2014 (UTC)

Should we complain to have them removed? Again, at least the independent reviews which are not HBO-released material?--The Dragon Demands (talk) 16:28, March 14, 2014 (UTC)

Would you like me to inquire more about them? Then we can go from there. QueenBuffy 16:31, March 14, 2014 (UTC)

Yes. The frelling "must watch" videos have now expanded into TWO FULL ROWS of videos.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 15:53, March 19, 2014 (UTC)

Done! :) QueenBuffy 17:36, March 19, 2014 (UTC)

I think it would be a good idea to remind them of the promise they made to us last year about not making changes to the wiki without asking for our permission first...-- 11:28, March 20, 2014 (UTC)

Hey guys. Wikia contacted me and told me this is just a test they are running on certain Wiki's. Here is a link that explains more Must Watch Vids. You can also leave feedback there, so make sure you let them know how you are feeling about this new feature. QueenBuffy 17:03, March 20, 2014 (UTC)

At the moment the "must watch" videos appear on the right hand sidebar, pushing the "new photos" box and stuff several pagelengths down.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 04:57, April 3, 2014 (UTC)

Season 3 Recap Video

Hey, Buffy! We just finished up a Season 3 recap video that I put up in a blog here, and I was wondering if I could put it on the main page? It could maybe replace the S4 teaser or just go in that section with the other two videos. Let me know, thanks! Grace (profile)•(talk) 17:29, March 27, 2014 (UTC)

As long as 1-2 latest trailers stay, I don't mind. I think up to 4 vids on the main page is fine. QueenBuffy 00:05, March 28, 2014 (UTC)

Logout

Am I the only one who keeps getting logged off every few seconds? I'm using Chrome.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 18:44, April 2, 2014 (UTC)

Everything fine with me (other than some damn family trees), I'm also using Chrome.

Fan V Critic Videos

Hey, Buffy! Hope you're doing well :) I just wanted to give you an update about the video series I contacted you about a while back. We're still hoping to do these fun fan vs. critic videos with help from Game of Thrones Wikia users. Brian (who you've talked to) has already reached out to some people as you know, but we think it would be nice to keep the community involved and thus maybe have them select fans to represent them in the series.

We were imagining maybe some kind of audition competition where people can try to prove that they are big enough fans to battle critics and it could include video auditions or something. We'd love to get your help on this, so, if you could let me know what you think (if the community would like the idea, if there would be good participation, etc.), maybe we can discuss a bit more. Let me know as soon as you can, thanks! Grace (profile)•(talk) 23:08, April 3, 2014 (UTC)

Fan Brain Video

Hey Buffy! Sorry to bug you, but, in addition to the Fan vs. Critic video I mentioned above, something we really want to do with the community is a Fan Brain video for the Season 4 premiere. I put up a blog here talking about it, but it's basically asking users to share whatever trivia or Easter eggs they find while watching the premiere so we can compile the facts into a fun premiere celebration video! Once that's all done and the video is complete, is it alright with you if we add it to the Season 4 page and to the main page of the wikia? Grace (profile)•(talk) 17:55, April 4, 2014 (UTC)

Affiliates

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Food Fiction

Hi QueenBuffy!

We've been running Food Fiction programs with various communities. You can take a look at all the various ones we've done so far here .

Since you all on Game of Thrones Wiki are deep into chronicling the new season, we'd like do a Food Fiction with you all! (We reached out to The Dragon Demands here with the same request, FYI.)

For each program, we start off with a blog post on the community, inviting users to nominate their favorite dishes in various categories. We'd need admin help promoting that post as well as help deciding what those categories should be. We were thinking some fun category ideas could be: Dishes by Region (Dorne, King's Landing, The Wall, etc), Dishes by House (Lannister, Martell, etc), or simply by course (appetizer, main dish, dessert). Here's an example of that from our Adventure Time Food Fiction.

Finally, we'll take the most popular nominees in each category and put them into polls by category on a post on Recipes Wikia. Here's an example from the same Adventure Time FF.

Does this sounds fun and interesting to you? And what categories do you think would be best?

​Thanks!

Annette (profile)•(talk) 17:32, April 29, 2014 (UTC)Acardwell415

Hey! Would it be possible for you or any other admin to unlock the Shae page? I want to do an edit. :) Lionheartedcat (talk) 17:09, April 30, 2014 (UTC)

Updated

Shae's page needs to be updated. --DevynC2 (talk) 18:02, May 2, 2014 (UTC)

Update

Hey... been trying to get someone to do this for about a week now. Maybe you will see it. Shae's page needs to be updated... it is currently blocked.

Thanks. --DevynC2 (talk) 18:04, May 2, 2014 (UTC)

Fan Vs Critic Videos Section

Hey, QueenBuffy! I was just checking in to see if you'd be interested in adding a Fan Vs. Critic section to the Season 4 page for the videos we've been doing? It would be a nice archive for all the videos and a source that we could link to for users who see the blogs and who want to check out the rest of the videos produced so far. We could update it each week and then it would also be great if the community could link from the main page slider to this compilation page. Let me know what you think! Grace (profile)•(talk) 00:03, May 8, 2014 (UTC)

Affiliates

• OldOneX
• http://dusktilldawn.wikia.com/wiki/From_Dusk_Till_Dawn_Wiki
• http://dusktilldawn.wikia.com/wiki/Message_Wall:OldOneX
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I hope to hear back from you
Kind Regards
- Drew OldOneX (talk) 22:33, May 8, 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for getting back to me, I will add GOT Wiki into our affiliates now :-)

OldOneX (talk) 20:54, June 21, 2014 (UTC)

Back

Yay! I was seriously getting worried you might be gone forever because we really need your help on here. You know more about Wikia stuff than I do, plus we've been badly short-handed.

I explained this to other Admins but to catch you up to speed: I was "around" in the first half of Season 4 and worked on what I could, but my time was limited because I finally finished my thesis and passed my Latin and French tests. It was hard, but I will be graduating this month with a Master's degree in medieval History. So that ate up a lot of my time. But I've got more time now.

Let's see...the Wikia people started doing a "Fan vs Critic" video thing; I'm camera-shy so Greater Good volunteered.

Other news is that I have completely redesigned the front page; we now have collapsible menus. I've started taking library sciences classes and a major point is about "access points" -- basically we, the regular editors, know where everything is, but articles like "Heraldry" or "Currency", they wouldn't even know if those exist or not. Well I discuss this more on the Talk page of the front page.

But I'm excited you were able to catch up, and I'm very curious: what did you think of Season 4 so far, both as a female viewer (you're the only female Admin here) and as a Lannister fan? This was very much the Lannister season; really the first time Tywin and all three of his children have been in the same location and playing off against each other, as well as two out of three of Cersei's children (and they're even mentioning Myrcella in dialogue a lot; Myrcella's one of my favorites but for things she does in later books as she grows up).

So I'm really interested in your reactions to each episode so far.

--The Dragon Demands (talk) 00:08, May 13, 2014 (UTC)

Wikia's Video Swap Tool

Hi there!

Though you might already know about, I thought I’d remind you about Wikia’s Video Swap tool, which allows you to very easily swap out YouTube videos embedded across your community for the Wikia equivalent. It only effects YouTube videos with a matching Wikia video. Swapping out your videos for matching officially licensed Wikia videos means that the videos on your community are less likely to be taken down and rendered unwatchable.

With your approval, I can go through and make these swaps for you — if you’d rather undertake this task yourself — or if you’re uninterested entirely — just let me know! I'll likely start making some of the swaps for you in a week, so be sure to let me know as soon as you can if you'd rather not make the switch."

Thanks!
Mhadick (talk) 00:01, May 15, 2014 (UTC)

Timeline policy discussion

Please give your views on this: http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:GoTWiki_Small_Council_meeting_1:_Timeline_and_Current_Date

--The Dragon Demands (talk) 00:55, June 6, 2014 (UTC)

Season 4 finale

The Season 4 finale is upon us. The internet is going to explode after this one, on par with or surpassing the Red Wedding or Ned Stark's death. Enough traffic that the site itself might slow to a crawl, much less all of the vandals or random anonymous editors who need to tinker with it.

The hordes are closing in.

This is where we hold them.

Remember this day.

--The Dragon Demands (talk) 00:52, June 16, 2014 (UTC)

And sadly I JUST got to download it and watch it a few hours ago! I am a horrible Watcher of the Wall and shall hang my head in shame!! lol

QueenBuffy 18:55, June 16, 2014 (UTC)

The Snow Prince for Admin

I have started a vote on the matter right here. Your opinion would be welcome.--Gonzalo84 (talk) 20:17, June 16, 2014 (UTC)

True Blood Season 7

Are we going to bother? I must admit, I'm tempted as it's the final season and I'm curious to see how it all will end (apparently, a major character dies in the first episode.) On the other hand, I was so drained by last year's awfullness... I'm not sure I've got the passion for it anymore. What about you? Good to have you back, by the way. :-) -- 13:59, June 21, 2014 (UTC)

Freys vs Baelish

Please weigh in on this: http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:GoTWiki_Small_Council_meeting_2:_Freys_or_Baelish_rule_the_Riverlands%3F?t=20140718104215

--The Dragon Demands (talk) 18:26, July 19, 2014 (UTC)

Wiki map feature just got activated?

What the heck is this?

http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Maps/147

http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Log/Andrzej_%C5%81ukaszewski

The logs say that a "maps" wiki extension was activated.

Who wrote this thing? It has no "History" tab. Nor does it have any user protection levels so we have no means of policing if it gets abused. Is it even displaying anywhere?--The Dragon Demands (talk) 04:10, August 6, 2014 (UTC)

Read immediately:

http://maps.wikia.com/wiki/Maps_Wiki

Their launch video even used "Westeros" and "where was Daenerys Targaryen born?" as examples, and there's already a Westeros map setup, but they didn't think to contact the Admins here first - so there isn't really much to look at just yet. I've actually wanted interactive maps, this is just a bit sudden and I wish there had been better communication.

We need to figure this out.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 04:43, August 6, 2014 (UTC)

I apologize. I actually knew about this weeks ago but could not tell anyone, as it was still in its infancy. It is a new feature, and you will now be able to add to it. They are done Wikia wide, and ours was obviously picked because of the high-traffic and well-known map Westeros has. Sorry it was sprung on you. I did ask for your help actually, but was informed I couldn't speak a word of it. Hope you understand. QueenBuffy 15:47, August 6, 2014 (UTC)

Oh crud, sorry, I'll help how I can.

Sorry I've been a bit gruff the past 2-3 days, I was away at a wedding for over a week so I was something like 3,000 edits behind and had to proofread going back that far. Thankfully I'm up to speed again, and I can get back to the Season 4 updates I've been meaning to do for weeks. Yay.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 03:38, August 7, 2014 (UTC)

Re:Wiki skin

Ahh, ok! I'll double check on that but our team might just be busy with requests right now :D I'm sure they'll get to it! Grace (profile)•(talk) 17:08, August 8, 2014 (UTC)