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Sarracenia ([info]sarracenia) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2010-11-03 17:45:00


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Wikia changes layout; becomes the next LJ in userbase trust
Wikia, for those of you who don't know, is a wiki site that lets you start a wiki on any subject. It's used a lot for things like Wookieepedia, the biggest Star Wars wiki or WoWWiki, which'll play a starring role in the wank, down to wikis for individual RPs.

Recently, they've been working on a new skin, that will be used by all the wikis on their site. Since before, Wikia let people modify the format extensively, they weren't real happy about this. Especially since it apparently looked terrible for the most complicated pages, used, of course, mostly by the most popular wikis with boatloads of information to organize. People really don't like it.

In fact, they don't like it enough that some of them, especially the big ones who'll have their formatting jerked to hell, start moving their content to a new site. After all, it's their content to do with as they please, right? Wikia views this as vandalism, and stops people from deleting their content, and a whole bunch of people suddenly realize that Creative Commons licenses mean that the hosting site can continue to use your material even after you hate them. Whoops! Note: WoWWiki hates the new layout so much that they abandoned their old domain name as well as everything Wikia-specific. Now that's hating a layout. Wikia also stops wikis from sending messages to people about where all the editors went.

Today was the day they ceased to support the old layout. Unsurprisingly, people continue to wank.


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[info]sarracenia
2010-11-04 03:03 am UTC (link)
What happened with that, anyway? I saw a few things about that but I don't really know Wikia well enough to dig up the dirt if it's not recent.

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[info]galateus
2010-11-04 03:19 am UTC (link)
I'll see if I can dig up the relevant links/history revisions -- I made a quick check, and there's *still* wank about how a wiki about Transformers should be Serious Business raging on, now that most of the opposition fled to greener pastures. (There's also been a bunch of Godwank and "Think of the children!" swearing-wank edit wars-- look for (new-admin) TX55 and 'Yzz, Master of DOOM'.)

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[info]sarracenia
2010-11-04 04:15 am UTC (link)
I adore that wank. Humor in a wiki about a show about robots is serious business, clearly.

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[info]agent_hyatt
2010-11-04 05:10 am UTC (link)
...dude. Did the complainers have their sense of humor surgically removed?

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[info]kookaburra
2010-11-05 09:49 pm UTC (link)
Anyone who doesn't like Wheelie's page has no soul.

NO SOUL.

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Links!
[info]galateus
2010-11-06 04:01 am UTC (link)
http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Transformers_Wiki:Ads
http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Transformers_Wiki_talk:Ads

http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Transformers_Wiki:Community_Portal/Leaving
http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Leaving/Archive1
http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Leaving

And of course Talk:Main Page remains a wretched hive of people too stupid to click on "Community Portal":
http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page/Archive3 (pre-move)
http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page (post-move)

If that layout is too eye-shattering, the tfwiki mirrors:

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Wiki:Ads
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Wiki_talk:Ads

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Wiki:Community_Portal/Leaving
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Leaving/Archive1
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Leaving

Although those might be missing things due to their empty page history, wiped out by the Bookworm Virus.

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