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Archived Talk Page - 2006-05-22 to 2006-08-19

Archived Talk Page - 2006-09-19 to 2006-10-31

Archived Talk Page - 2006-11-1 to 2007-05-10


Wanted pages

Hi Kevin, is it possible to change the parameters on the wanted pages list so 1 link pages don't show up anymore? I know it used to be a minimum of two links. Also, is it possible to make it only count main articles rather than talk pages? Thanks, --Nickb123 (Talk) 16:53, 12 May 2007 (PDT)

adult language in high-traffic articles

Hi,

There is an issue with adult language on the site. The term "mindfuck" which used to reside in its own adult-marked article is now being applied as a "literary term" to some of the most heavly trafficed articles on this wiki. Those articles include most of the articles for recent episodes. When I started to notice it tonight, it had spread to 15 articles.

I dont think this issue can be dealt with by the sysops because a number of them are vocal advocates for the use and application of the term in Lostpedia. Those who are not advocates are unlikely to challenge those who are.

I think there needs to be a decision about the direction this site is going to take in terms of adult language on the high-traffic articles. I would suggest at a minimum that adult language warnings have to go on the articles. I'm no prude about language, but going down the path that seems to be starting is likely to really hurt this site.

Thank you for reading Dharmatel4 01:07, 17 May 2007 (PDT)

I think we need a new name instead for mindfuck. Perhaps "mindwarp"? This is the only bad language that appears around here though. --Blueeagleislander 01:29, 17 May 2007 (PDT)

I haven't completely formed an opinion on the term. I do like Jabberwork's suggestion about linking to the article as Mindf*ck. --Admin 17:16, 23 May 2007 (PDT)

Image

High there, I recently uploaded a new high-res version of Image:Normal 77-cap17.jpg and the thumbnails it is linked to are nor all stretched, can anything be done about that? --Jazza|talk|Contributions 15:23, 17 May 2007 (PDT)


unethical behavior by sysop

There was a proposal to delete a controversial article mindfuck. The proposal to delete was made around May 5th. At least two sysops including    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   were strongly against the proposal.

As of yesterday, 21 users expressed opinions in favor of deletion agianst 8 opposed. In spite of the overwhelming vote in favor of getting rid of the article, none of the sysops would make a decision to get rid of it.

Today    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   moved the discussion without comment into an archive. When pressed on what he had done, he admitted that he personally determined that 21-8 was not a consensus and terminated the proposal. His behiavior is unethical for the following reasons:

1) He had a strong personal stake in the proposal (opposing it). For him to decide to end it is a conflict of interest.

2) He ignored the consensus of the Lostpedia community.

3) Rather than come out and terminate the discussion openly, he attempted to hide the dicussion in an archive and put nothing in that archive to indicate that he had personally decided to reject the proposal.

4) He tells the user community that "it's not a vote and there are no ballots". But if thats true, I would like like to know by what authority a single sysop gets to make a decision against the wishes of the user community. If the sysops as a group have decided something, they should stand up and say what they did.

The bottom line is that a sysop with a very strong view about a proposal should not be making final decisions on their own about that proposal. And if decisions are made, that should be made in the open. Dharmatel4 16:35, 23 May 2007 (PDT)

SysOps are appointed to make decisions on behalf of the community as a whole. The discussion was closed because after a good period for discussion, a consensus on what to do, delete/rename and a suitable name if we were to rename it, wasn't reached. The contents of the article itself is sound, there are no grounds for deletion based upon contents, and no deletion will occur when the content is sound but people disagree with the title. If people find the article's title offensive then that is each person pregogative, however if the content of the article is sound, and the majority of the sysops believe that the removal of an article would be against the best interests of Lostpedia, then deleting an article based on title alone is nothing short of foolhardy. An acceptable replacement title, which summises the genre point being made hasn't been found, and until that point the article does not warrant any major aleration.  Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  17:03, 23 May 2007 (PDT)

1) If sysops didn't take an opinion in such matters then no maintenance would ever get done. 2) Not true, I did take into account the opinions of of the community when I closed the discussion as "no consensus". The discussion had been open for some time and it was going nowhere. At least six other sysops agreed that it should be kept, but considering there there was a substantial number of editors that favored deletion the outcome was "no consensus". 3) The deletion banner was removed on 5/10 and I only archived the old discussion today since the page was very long and there was another current discussion regarding the renaming of the page. Nothing was hidden. The banner on the top of the page clearly states the results of previous deletion nominations and refers users to previous discussions on the matter. 4) Deletion/Merge/etc has always been done in this manner and the Job List stating it as a "vote" was incorrect. It has been updated. The reason it's not a vote per se is because we carefully examine the opinions of other editors and they are also weighed against the person making the contribution and whether or not they actually give reasons for their recommendation. A user that has recently registered and makes a comment of only "delete" with their signature does not have much bearing into the final decision.    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 17:16, 23 May 2007 (PDT)

Dharmatel4, I don't believe it was unethical of Jabberwock to come to the conclusion "No Consensus", just because he endorsed it. I have absolutely no doubt that he would have deleted it even if he personally disagreed with it, had there been a clear consensus in his opinion. If you believe that sysops should *never* make a final decision in articles that they comment on, then let's discuss as a potential policy for Lostpedia. Do you believe this has been a problem with other articles? --Admin 17:37, 23 May 2007 (PDT)

Broken Images

Please post any pages that have broken images here and I'll get them fixed up ASAP. Thanks, --Admin 23:22, 25 May 2007 (PDT)

Image issue - I've just tried to upload a new version of an image and it said "Internal error - Jump to: navigation, search

Could not copy file "/tmp/phpyPLjLQ" to "/home/kcroy/sites/www.lostpedia.com/images/temp/4/40/20070526150735!LYCGY.jpg". Retrieved from "http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Special:Upload"
So I tried to do a different, new filename and the same thing happened --Nickb123 (Talk) 08:08, 26 May 2007 (PDT)

Fixed. Thanks for pointing that out. --Admin 11:00, 26 May 2007 (PDT)

Black Rock (ship): Error -Some Person 15:59, 26 May 2007 (PDT)

I cleared the cache which fixed this one. Also its no big as I removed the image in question anyway as it was a replacement of a much better promotional shot on archive --Nickb123 (Talk) 16:03, 26 May 2007 (PDT)
Yeah, clearing the cache fixed it for me too. -Some Person 16:04, 26 May 2007 (PDT)

Forum

Hey is it just me or does forums redirect to the wiki main page? What's up with that? --Nickb123 (Talk) 23:25, 25 May 2007 (PDT)

Hey Nick. It wasn't just you. I broke it a few minutes ago. :( Now working again. --Admin 23:29, 25 May 2007 (PDT)

New Theory - Please add to template

I have just created a "Black Hole" theory. I'm not sure under which heading it might go, but it is duly supported by numerous allusions to A Brief History of Time, and it actually fits fairly well. Please add it to the template that includes all fan theories thus far. - NINguy711

Firefox Plugin

  • Just letting you know, the Firefox search plugin doesn't seem to install when you select it from the search dropdown on the site. Gives the error message: 
    Firefox could not install the search plugin from: http://lostpedia.com/opensearch_desc.php
    -- Paladine<c.t> 21:45, 27 May 2007 (PDT)

I get that too. --Blueeagleislander 01:43, 28 May 2007 (PDT)


The Flame(printable page) problem

Hello, The printable page of "The flame" just prints a blank page with the flame written on it i printed out several other pages and they worked but "the flame" page did not work. Just wanted to let you know. Sorry if this is the wrong place. Lostfan815 22:14, 30 May 2007 (PDT)lostfan815

My Image

My image won't show on this page. What's wrong? -Some Person 14:02, 31 May 2007 (PDT)

Pictures

I see that most, if not all, pictures here are screenshots from TV broadcasts. I was wondering if that's because you have some predilection for those, for whatever reason. However, if there's no established rule concerning images, I could easily, though slowly, replace them with high quality DVD screenshots. --AlexAx 17:41, 6 July 2007 (PDT)

Many of our screenshots are from high-quality DVDs, especially S1 and S2. --Blueeagleislander 21:10, 6 July 2007 (PDT)

Extension

Can you put this extension [1] in the server ? I need it for the french version of LOSTPEDIA. Thank you. --Vivere.memento 18:09, 9 July 2007 (PDT)

SysOps on the Spanish Lostpedia

Hi, man!

I'm Calick, from the Spanish Lostpedia, and one of its more important editors.

These last months our wiki has experienced a rebirth and a high increase of its numbers of articles thanks to me and other members who have taken the new control of our wiki. However, we have not complete control, because we are not SysOps (the original administrators probably were gone, leaving the page abandoned, or maybe they never existed...).

What I'm asking to you, is there any way to become and Admin based on the qualities a SysOp must have, no matter that I am from another Lostpedia? We have no idea how to become an Admin or a SysOp, and we need to take control of some activities, specially against some recent vandalism actions. I know I haven't done as much as you and sure here I wouldn't deserve the right of what I'm asking for, but the Spanish Lostpedia is smaller by the time, and I've done a huge work as an editor and controller.

Please, if you can help me and my partners, we'll be very grateful to you.

Bye!

Calick

Vandalism English Lostpedia

Hey,

Someone is posting stupid pictures and text all over the English Lostpedia! Somebody block this IP.

Mr.Klugh

I also saw this happen from a user I think is called Postroom Bob He vandalised the Mikhail Bakunin page on 2nd of september. -H4eafy

Spanish Sysops

Hi, man!

My name (well, my geek name, lol) is Calick, and I am a high-rank editor in the Spanish Lostpedia.

These last months the wiki has experienced a rebirth and a high increase of its numbers of articles thanks to me and other members who have taken the new control of our wiki. However, we have not complete control, because we are not SysOps (the original administrators probably were gone, leaving the page abandoned, or maybe they never existed...).

What I'm asking to you, is there any way to become and Admin based on the qualities a SysOp must have, no matter that I am from another Lostpedia? We have no idea how to become an Admin or a SysOp, and we need to take control of some activities, specially against some recent vandalism actions. I know I haven't done as much as you and sure here I wouldn't deserve the right of what I'm asking for, but the Spanish Lostpedia is smaller by the time, and I've done a huge work as an editor and controller.

Please, if you can help me and my partners, we'll be very grateful to you.

See you...in another life, brotha!


---Thanks! Calick

This has been copied this from User talk:GodEmperorOfHell for admin to see. -Mr.Leaf 10:43, 17 September 2007 (PDT)

Today in Lost History

On the main page, Today in Lost History, is behind a day. Not sure if this falls under your "jurisdiction", but it seems logical to tell you. As I type this, it's 11:23 PM in US Central time zone, meaning nowhere in the world is on the day Sept. 29 (either Sept. 30 or Oct. 1), but today in Lost History is displaying events from Sept. 29. Thought you should know so you can fix it. David 21:29, 30 September 2007 (PDT)

you are my hero!

thanks for creating this awsome site! DOWN WITH BOB!(even though he is already down lol) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gollum lover (talk • contribs) .

Request

Hello. I'm a contributor of the French version of Lostpedia and I just found an extension that would ne nice for every version of Lostpedia : [2]. It would allow to make images clickable and going to an other page than image description. Images maps could also be used for World locations. If you could install this extension it would be very great. As a last word, it seems that it dosn't work in a template so there is some possible patches : [3] (it should also correct <gallery> in templates I think). Best regards. Wyz 14:47, 7 January 2008 (PST)

I would really appreciate if you could install this extension. Links from pictures would be then be no more headaches... Thanks a lot. Wyz 08:20, 9 October 2008 (PDT)

Problem with FORMATNUM

There's a problem with the FORMATNUM magic word on Wanted Pages at the Dutch Lostpedia, see nl.lostpedia.com/wiki/Speciaal:Wantedpages. I guess it has to be used as FORMATNUM: instead of FORMATNUM| but I don't know how or where to change it. Riki 13:51, 8 January 2008 (PST) (admin on the Dutch Lostpedia).

unable to upload images

When trying to upload a file, the page says: The upload directory (/var/www/html/images) is not writable by the webserver. --DJVok 01:26, 15 January 2008 (PST)

Russian Part of Lostpedia

Hi! I am from Russia! Many people in my country love "Lost". But there is no Russian Part in Lostpedia. Please make the Russian Part of Lostpedia. ;) Plazik 11:14, 12 February 2008 (PST)

I agree with Plazik. I thk we should translate the original Lostpedia into Russian Language because many Russians want to know more about Lost but they do not know English. Langly 22:29, 12 February 2008 (PST)

UPLOAD FILE

Hi, I made a LOST Countdown program (view the link) and i was wondering if it is at all possible to upload the file for download off the server. Obviously you would be able to trial the software to see if it was ok. Please contact me back. {{User:David Gee/autosig}} 08:57, 25 February 2008 (PST)

Contact

Hi I've been trying to e-mail you for a few days but my e-mails to the address you have listed here keep getting bounced back to me. I wanted to ask you a Lostpedia question without broadcasting it on a talk page.

What's the best way to get in touch with you?--Jeff 13:43, 29 February 2008 (PST)

Problems with templates on the german lostpedia

Hello,

I'm one of the Admins of the german lostpedia. We have some problems with templates, if there are to many of them, they're shown as links (for example: template:ep instead of "Left Behind"). You can see it here or here. Can you help us? -- Clark Taylor 04:45, 5 March 2008 (PST)

  • I'm sorry, but the problem we have, is still there and I have no idea, were it came from. Could it be, that some settings in DefaultSetting.php (or some non-settings in the LocalSettings.php file) averting more than 40 templates per page? (Somewhere in this file I found this: $wgMaxTemplateDepth=40, could it be the reason) -- Clark Taylor 13:18, 30 March 2008 (PDT)
    • I found the problem, our {{ep|...}} template was to big. So ... forget it.

Next time on lost

I saw the "Next time on lost" box on the main page. I belive it needs to be updated (On 3/13/08 it says that LOST airs tomorrow, instead of today.) Just letting you know :) --Rhcm123|talk|contributions 11:22, 13 March 2008 (PDT) Post Scriptum: This only occours if one is logged out. If one is logged in, it is correct. --Rhcm123|talk|contributions 11:32, 13 March 2008 (PDT)

Thumbnail/pics problem

Hey, there's a huge problem going on around with the images. Each new image uploaded can't have it's thumbnail, there's some kind of error message like the site can't create a thumbnail from the picture or something.

The error message looks something like this:

Error creating thumbnail: convert: unable to open image `/var/www/sites/www.lostpedia.com/images/7/73/SunYeoh.jpg': Permission denied. convert: missing an image filename `/var/www/sites/www.lostpedia.com/images/thumb/7/73/SunYeoh.jpg/250px-SunYeoh.jpg'.

- TheAma1 07:57, 14 March 2008 (PDT)

Admin is aware of the problem and working on it.    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 08:38, 14 March 2008 (PDT)

Email

DPL?

I know some wikis use this for automating pages and it can create pages with data in a snap. Is it enabled here at LP?--  SacValleyDweller    talk    contribs   23:18, 3 May 2008 (PDT)

Nope. What kind of editing did you have in mind? --Admin 02:08, 31 July 2008 (PDT)

Spoiler spammers

We've now had spammers putting major spoilers on multiple pages and flooding the recent changes list. It seems that no sooner is one caught, then another comes along with a new account. Is it possible to stop all new registrations until after the finale has aired? Otherwise the SysOps are just going to be chasing their tails. Thanks--TechNic|talk|conts 15:38, 19 May 2008 (PDT)

I hate to say it, but blocking new registrations or something similar may be necessary. The spoiler spammer from this morning looks like he just came back and did it all over again with a new account. Is there something that can be done? I'd hate to have to avoid the site completely until after the finale, but it's looking like it might be inevitable. --Minderbinder 15:48, 19 May 2008 (PDT)
Have to agree with this, im usually a regular contributor but I have avoided lostpedia throughout season 4 due to the flash forward twist being revealed in the recent changes list here last year, cant wait to come back after the finale though!.. --Lewis-Talk-Contribs 15:51, 19 May 2008 (PDT)
I seem to agree as well. I've seen three spoiler spammers within a very short amount of time. The recent changes list is not a good place to be come finale time. --CTS 17:50, 19 May 2008 (PDT)
I recommend locking user creation for the next few days, or perhaps even editing. --Blueeagleislander 01:20, 20 May 2008 (PDT)
We're discussing this right now. Once again, we know who to thank for this.... *sighs*  Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  02:37, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

Panel audio?

I live in NYC but was unable to attend last night. I really wished I could have. Is there going to be audio/video available from the panel? Are you doing any other Lostpedia stuff in New York this week? Congested 20:12, 20 May 2008 (PDT)

Appearances template

I have major suggestion for you, Admin! This is something i picked up when i visited 24 Wikia. Please go to this link | http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Mike_Novick | and then go to the bottom of the page. There you can find a cool template which i suggest that we use here at Lostpedia. We can put it at the bottom of every character. -- User:Benlinus 19:32, 22 May 2008 (PDT)

bring back the casualties petition

After the events that happend with deleting the 5 casualty articles, me and some other users started a petition for bringing those articles back on Lostpedia. If you share our opinion on this matter, please sign the "Save The Redshirts" section on my user page. If you want you could contact other users about this or create a "Save the redshirts" section on your user page, because the goal is to get as many users to sign the petition as possible along with 6 SysOps (Admins). I would appriciate a quick respond and a sign on either my user page or User:LostCloverfield42's page.
Actually, because you created Lostpedia your sign on the petition would mean a lot so I would like to ask for a support from you because I think bringing those articles back on Lostpedia is for this site's best interest. -- Orhan94  Talk  Contribs 

I Need Your Help

Please, I desperately need your help! When ever I log onto Lostpedia.com using Internet Explorer it says that I have sucessfully logged in. However when I click on the link to go back to the page I was just at (or anypage for that matter) it logges me out! I try to log in multiple times but no matter what I cannot do anything besides browse. And it only happens on Lostpedia. I can log onto AOL and other websites and they work fine. Please, I need your help, I just got high-speed and I really want to edit! If you can help me or know anyone who can please send them to my talk page so that I can get this problem fixed. Thank you for your time. --LostCloverfield42 20:46, 27 June 2008 (PDT)

Please make sure cookies are enabled for lostpedia.com. That's the only thing that I can think of that would cause this behavior. Thanks, --Admin 02:02, 31 July 2008 (PDT)

Functionality

Greetings -

I'm sure you have a lot on your plate, but an idea occurred to me about character information,

I was looking at the Richard Alpert page and noticed a line that he had been in ten (?) episodes. I'm virtually certain that when we get to the first episode of the next season, that will change to eleven. Some poor slob <grin> is maintaining all those counts.

I wrote database code for over ten years, but I don't know anything about the internal structure of wiki. I'm new and still trying to remember when to use squiggles and when to use brackets!

Assuming there's the functionality in wiki, something like:

select COUNT(*) into {{episode_count|Richard Alpert}} from episode_pages where 'Richard Alpert' in CAST or 'Richard Alpert' in GUEST;

Like every thing else, there's development time, but....

Regards,

--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 18:31, 28 June 2008 (PDT)

Hi Jim,
Unfortunately, wiki structure is very flat. That fact that it's flat gives the userbase the ability to create any data structure they want without having to have a DBA design tables, and relations, etc.... That being said, there's no structured data like the data necessary to do this in our database. However, I agree that it would be handy. :) --Admin 02:05, 31 July 2008 (PDT)

Additional SysOps for the German Lostpedia

Hi there,
in the German Lostpedia we had a vote to choose some new SysOps, because the old ones aren't online that often any more. But at the moment it is necessary for us to have some admins who can change article names after the broadcast of the German language version of Lost. So we had a vote for additional SysOps you can see right here. The winners of this vote are Anis Ben Amor and me (DerAndre). So it would be great, if you make us SysOps of the German Lostpedia. Thanks and Namste! --       09:59, 7 July 2008 (PDT)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention and I'm sorry it took so long to get it taken care of. Congratulations you have been promoted. --Admin 02:06, 31 July 2008 (PDT)
Never mind. Thank you very much. --       08:23, 31 July 2008 (PDT)
Thank you man!
I have a second question about the German Lostpedia. Last time we were often talking about Wikiversions and Wikisoftwareupdates and i just wanted to ask you if the German Lostpedia is allready using the latest updates or not. Sorry for my english and if it's allready done or someone else disturbed you before with that question. If not, we hope you could update it to the newest Version. Grettings from the German Lostpedia
Namaste! --Anis Ben Amor 10:39, 31 July 2008 (PDT)
The German Lostpedia version is the same as the English. They all get updated together. It's not the latest version, however I plan to upgrade to the latest version within a few weeks. --Admin 12:28, 31 July 2008 (PDT)
O.k. Thank you for your fast reply. Namaste! --Ben Amor 13:44, 31 July 2008 (PDT)

Hebrew Lostpedia

Dear Admin!!! I am a hebrew speaker. I and many others in Israel really like Lost so I am asking from you to create a Hebrew Lostpedia. Thank you, Yair 07:02, 31 July 2008 (PDT)

Thank you, I have had other requests for this as well. We will set it up with the next software update, within a few weeks. --Admin 12:30, 31 July 2008 (PDT)

Error creating thumbnail

Hey Admin. Recently there have been some images that do not appear unless you put it at a certain px size. Click here for an example of two images that have this problem (but there are still others that do as well). Is this a problem with the file or the site? Any help would be great! Thanks. -- CTS  Talk   Contribs 12:18, 8 August 2008 (PDT)

  • Hey, we had the same problem in the German Lostpedia. But it's gone. Nobody knows why, but it's fine ; ) --       03:16, 11 August 2008 (PDT)
Yep, I found the problem and fixed it for all the LPs. Thanks! --Admin 11:46, 11 August 2008 (PDT)

Thanks! -- CTS  Talk   Contribs 12:50, 11 August 2008 (PDT)

email

Hey admin I sent you an email regarding the Help:COntents page. (I have a better version of it). Please check it and tell me what you think of it. Thanks. --JPB. T. C. E. 12:32, 12 August 2008 (PDT)

It looks good to me! --Admin 16:02, 23 August 2008 (PDT)
Thanks. I just wanted to say that I have moved the Latin page from my user page to an external site until you decide to set it up. I have done this so everyone can get a better description of how it would look. I have also left the main page along with the other pages unprotected. Cheers, --JPB. T. C. E. 13:40, 26 August 2008 (PDT)

delete

Hi Admin. Is there a way you can delete Image:Portal-Frank.jpg? Please write back. Thanks.--DF3 t c 15:45, 23 August 2008 (PDT)

I can, but can you give me some more information about why it needs to be deleted? --Admin 16:03, 23 August 2008 (PDT)

OK. Here are my reasons:

Nothing links to it

It is not his main pic

Image:Frank-portal.png is his main pic and better quality.--DF3 t c 16:47, 23 August 2008 (PDT)

Deleted. Thanks, --Admin 16:52, 23 August 2008 (PDT}

CharInsert

Hey Admin, I got a question: can you pls install the CharInsert extension if possible? Then we could use MediaWiki:Edittools like here in WikiMedia Commons. Would be really cool. Thanks --       18:09, 23 August 2008 (PDT)


tr.wikipedia

Hi Admin. How can I create a turkish language lostpedia. I believe that Turkish version will be an integrated part of the Lostpedia family. Thanks--Millikan 10:00, 28 August 2008 (PDT)

New user

Hi. I am a new user. Is there anything I can do for the site?--Frank (talk) 18:27, 28 August 2008 (PDT)

PayPal

How come we don't have a PayPal button? I think you deserve the dollars.--Mc peko 05:13, 31 August 2008 (PDT)

Theory Extension

Hey Admin,\ Just wondering if I can have the latest code for the theory extension. The one one Jabberwocky's page has a major bug in it. Thanks, --JPB. T. C. E. 06:32, 11 September 2008 (PDT)

Hebrew Lostpedia again!!!

hey admin!!! when will he.lostpedia be updated? You said it would take few weeks ,but it has been over a month!!! Thank you, --Yair 23:27, 13 September 2008 (PDT)

Localsettings

Hello.

I need to have $wgUseTidy=true added in localsettings.php. If Admin or someone could do it it would be great.
Why I want it added is that I just added a template on the french lostpedia which return table html tags but they are melted by the wiki and tidy could fix it.

Thanks in advance.Wyz 10:37, 27 September 2008 (PDT)

It seems you activated it. Thank you very much. Wyz 04:28, 28 September 2008 (PDT)

Page display

Hi Admin. Currently there are several pages on Lostpedia that are displaying weird fonts and/or colors. Talk:Main Page, Lostpedia:Ideas, and Talk:Jin Has a Temper-Tantrum on the Golf Course are some examples. Could you please look into this? Thanks. -- CTS  Talk   Contribs 21:06, 27 September 2008 (PDT)

Admin activated Tidy on all Lostpedia. This function check (and corrects) html structure. If html is written incorrectly you might see some weird things... On the french lostpedia we forgot to close a div on the Sitenotice. All the site was considered to be in the Sitenotice, everything was centered ! Wyz 04:30, 28 September 2008 (PDT)
Great. Now we have to check every single page, just because you forgot one command? --       08:05, 28 September 2008 (PDT)
The disruption shouldn't be too much, just mostly fonts going out of whack (from user sigs mainly). If you see an error, then just fix it! --Nickb123 (Talk) 08:50, 28 September 2008 (PDT)
My userpage has completely gone whack on both monobook and lostbook sinse tidy. See here--TRUETECH 11:43, 28 September 2008 (PDT
The airdates are also messed up.--Baker1000 11:51, 28 September 2008 (PDT)
Wikipedia is using Tidy feature and there is not strange display. It doesn't cost to do correct html... Activating Tidy allows to have template like this working : [4]. I corrected the reported page. Wyz 12:15, 28 September 2008 (PDT)
Thanks--TRUETECH 12:18, 28 September 2008 (PDT)
But you solved your problems in French Lostpedia now, right? So actually we don't need this extension any more. It is just causing problems - world wide. --       12:31, 28 September 2008 (PDT)
We DO need this feature. We made a template based on the template which I provided link above. Parserfunctions (eg if) return bad html tags, which are corrected by Tidy. For examples {{#if:{{{test|}}}<td>}} gives (without Tidy) &lttd&gt. If you don't want to correct the 10 articles/templates which are affected I read somewhere that you can activate it only for a localized function. Wyz 13:32, 28 September 2008 (PDT)

The Season 4 DVD article has all the text centered. Can someone please fix it? Thanks.--Baker1000 12:48, 7 October 2008 (PDT)

Coming from Template:DVDreleases, a </div> is missing at the end. The template is protected so I can't edit it myself. Wyz 08:13, 9 October 2008 (PDT)

Lostpedia not accessible

Hey Admin,

at the moment there are five Lostpedia versions not accessible: DE, ES, FR, JA, PL. I hope you can bring them back online.

Regards --       11:48, 4 October 2008 (PDT)

  • Okay, online again. Thanks! --       11:59, 4 October 2008 (PDT)

Userpage history deletion?

Hi Admin, I realize this may seem like a silly request, but would it be possible to have my userpage history deleted? I realized that I don't, at the moment, feel any need to have a profile, so I don't think I'm going to prod at it in any near future, and I thought having history of three random edits lying around was kind of pointless - that, and I'm not very comfortable with them in the first place. If you could delete the history (or the user page itself? I'm not sure, but I don't think that'll affect me as a user?), I'd be thankful.

Thank you very much in advance. Alpert 14:02, 21 October 2008 (PDT)

Hi there, It is possible to delete the history. However, I've decided it's better not to make a deletion so I don't end up with 10,000 other users asking me to do the same thing! I hope you can understand. Thanks, --Admin 14:24, 21 October 2008 (PDT)

Interwiki

It would be nice if you could add interwiki links and wikipedia links ([[w:en:article]] for a link to an English wikipedia article) [5]. Best regards. Wyz 13:42, 7 November 2008 (PST)

Bureaucrat

Hey Admin, how are you doing.

I just wanted to ask you, if you may make me ([6]) a Bureaucrat of the German Lostpedia. There are some users with great skills in writing articles. And before we have to annoy you again to promote them, we could do this on our owns Image:Smiley emoticons wink.gif

Best regards --       15:11, 10 November 2008 (PST)

New Languages Page

Hi, Kevin. I've drawn up a new page for Lostpedia languages, which you can see here. I've added the list of administrators to each wiki, however, as unadept as I am at some foreign languages, I feel that I'm inevitably leaving some out. Is there a list of administrators that you could send me in order for me to complete my list? Thanks. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  18:31, 13 November 2008 (PST)

Hi Sam, The administrators of the wikis change from time to time.. It looks like you already found this, but the best way to get a current idea of who the administrators are is to check the MediaWiki Listuser function. Here is the example from the English Wiki http://en.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Special:Listusers&username=&group=sysop&limit=30 The page looks really good. Thanks, --Admin 15:43, 16 November 2008 (PST)
No problem. Thanks for your help. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  18:36, 16 November 2008 (PST)
You can do the same using wiki markup rather than hard coding the URL. Just tack on the group name similar to a sub-page. Special:Listusers/Sysop    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 19:18, 16 November 2008 (PST)
Hey, thanks. I believe I have a complete list of the admins now.-- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  20:16, 16 November 2008 (PST)

Two things

  • Hey, two things, the first one quick, the second one who knows.
    1. One, we have a new wiki sysop, and he needs proper supermoderator group status in the forums (user:CTS, also his forum name).
    2. Second, I got a message from a User:Wyz (who I notice has messaged you on other issues) from the Fr.lostpedia who noted: "I'm using a bot on the French Lostpedia and I recently found a bug I though was coming from the bot. But in fact it comes from lostpedia, look at this link. The mediawiki software is adding two extra lines on top, making bot inefficient. Can you have a look or transmit this message to the relevant person ?".
- Contrib¯ _Santa_ ¯  Talk  20:38, 16 November 2008 (PST)

Requests summary

As Santa said I have several request still waiting an answer from you :

  • #Request : an extension allowing click on images
  • #Interwiki : enabling interwiki links for all lostpedia (not only English one)
  • #Two things : find out why two extra lines are added on the exported text, it might reveal that there is something wrong in the mediawiki configuration (I solved the bot trouble with that by triming the loaded text)

Thanks in advance and best regards Wyz 02:05, 17 November 2008 (PST)

Important thing

Hey Kevin,

can you please try to delete the gif image under /de_images/1/13/Lostpedia.gif ? It's causing some problems, so I can't delete it myself, but I will keep on trying.

Thanks a lot!
--       04:10, 21 November 2008 (PST)

editcount/ec extension

Kevin,

I wasn't sure which of your sysops might handle this.

I my work as a sysop on Fringepedia.net, I've designed a box that dynamically displays the user's status in terms of number of edits. If implemented, it could replace all the "NNNN Edits" boxes currently in use on Lostpedia. The process uses three templates; User Status displays results using information from User Edits and User Count. You can examine the code by going to my user page on Fringepedia.net, here: [7]. Obviously, the graphic would have to be changed.

The only annoying aspect is that, although the display changes as expected when a boundary is crossed, the user page must be edited and saved to update the category.

Dennis, the owner of Fringepedia.net, has agreed to this.

The process requires the extension editcount or ec. That extension doesn't seem to be installed. Is it possible to get it installed?

Thanks,

--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 15:25, 17 December 2008 (PST)

Hi Jim, Thanks for the note. Let's take a look at this after the move to Wikia is completed. It looks like a good idea and something that I'm sure other users would find very useful. --Admin 21:05, 17 December 2008 (PST)

With our migration, Special:Editcount seems to do the trick. Maybe it was always there and I just didn't know about it<sigh>.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 15:36, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Jim, Wikia had it enabled. So those features should work now. It wasn't installed before. One of the benefits of the move. :) --Admin 20:18, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikia

Hey Kevin,

just read about your plans to move Lostpedia to Wikia. What will the new URLs for the other language versions be? --       17:17, 17 December 2008 (PST)

All of the usual URLs will continue to work or be forwarded to the correct place. The new language URLs will likely be: http://xx.lostpedia.wikia.com (where xx is the language code). --Admin 19:17, 17 December 2008 (PST)
Hi, it is problem in Polish version of Lostpedia. I (Lukasew - I am/was(?) sysop) and other users can not log in. And second problem, what with user name in en.lostpedia? I must use LOST-Lukas? I can not use my old name Lukas? LOST-Lukas 18:46, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
OK, Thanks a lot Lukas 22:54, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

About the Move

Will there be a way to look at Lostpedia the way it was again? Without the Wikia sidebar and clustered formatting? Because as of now, it's all rather cluttered and claustrophobic. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  04:24, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

We will be adding the lostbook skin back here as soon as possible which you will be able to choose in your preferences. Angela@Wikia (talk) 04:34, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Sam, additionally plkrtn and I will be working on development of the Monaco skin, adding in elements from Lostbook. We won't be doing any further development of the Lostbook skin since it is based on Monobook.    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 18:53, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Spanish Lostpedia

Hello:

I am Frans, one of the Sysop of Spanish Lostepdia, and my English is not fluid. With respect to the subject of Wikia, I go to es.lostpedia.wikia.com but she appears another pedia, is not our information of Spanish Lostpedia. Please, he tell me that I must do.

Thanks 190.20.191.123 18:35, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry for the delay. Spanish is being worked on now and should be available within the next hour. Angela@Wikia (talk) 01:04, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
  • Do you have a list of sysops you had assigned for the non-English Lostpedias? Just from a perusal it looks like German and Spanish have started to receive some support and furthermore now have reactivated sysops. I don't know the status of the other languages, but as I recall there were some languages which did not have sysops? If that is true I'm a bit concerned of major migration issues (e.g. project page article prefix changes, such as what happened in Spanish) remaining unresolved in those languages that lacked sysops before the migration. If you could make sure that's somewhere on the migration techs' list, that would be excellent. -- Contrib¯ _Santa_ ¯  Talk  17:56, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
    • Hello. Frans am again. Now I can not enter my mind, because they do not recognize my password. Before the merger, log on without problems. I tried to send a new password to my mail, but I have not said that registered mail. I got registered. What can I do? Thank you very much. --190.20.153.30 00:03, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Frans, Please try to login using the username LOSTFR-Frans and your old password. Please let me know if that works. --Admin 00:09, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Ok. Thank you very much. I worked, but with LOSTES-Frans. But thank you very much. --LOSTES-Frans 00:20, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
My mistake.. Sorry about that. Glad you're in now! --Admin 09:16, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Additional SysOps for the Polish Lostpedia

Hi there,
in the Polish Lostpedia we need second SysOp, because the old SysOp(Elfik) isn't active. So it would be great, if you make Nanaki_PL (see also: Nanaki - it is the same person, but he has problem with user name in wikia) SysOps of the Polish Lostpedia.
Regards, Sysop PL-Lostpedia Lukasew 00:57, 29 December 2008 (UTC) And what with my request? --Lukasew 16:36, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I'd like to remind you about request and also about that your bureaucrat account on polish Lostpedia is LOSTPL-Admin :P. And BTW: Could you also add flag to my bot account (on polish LP only): Nanaki.bot. -- Nanaki (talk+) 20:45, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Done by me. ;) --TOR@Wikia 22:51, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Oliver Mitchell

Thanks, Admin.  Orhan94  Talk  Contribs  12:45, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

RE:Editing

hi admin. whenever i change my user page, it shows up when i am loged in but when i am loged out it is the old version. do you know what the problem is? thanks.--DF3 t c 21:37, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

The most likely cause of this is that the page is cached when you're not logged in. One of the things you can do to "refresh" a cached page is to add ?action=purge to the end of the URL. You can read more about purging page caches here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Purge --Admin 22:07, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

what do you mean?--DF3 t c 17:14, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Please read the help in the link I posted. It's the way you can force the page to clear it's cache. Similar to the way one might clear their browser's cache. --Admin 00:51, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

hey. i tried it and it did not work.--DF3 t c 15:49, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Does it work now? I just went to this link http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/User:Dharmafreak3?action=purge when I was logged out and it let me clear the cache. --Admin 23:23, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

thanks, but no.--DF3 t c 02:33, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

You'll have to be more specific then. What change did you make that you can see when logged in, but not logged out? Also, have you cleared your browser's cache? Other than that, I'm not sure what it can be. Noone else seems to be having this problem, so I'm pretty sure it's confined to your computer. --Admin 23:23, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi. i think that if i save the "code" of the page and you delete User:Dharmafreak3, and i re create it it will stop. Please write back. Thank you.--DF3 t c 15:07, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

never mind! it is fixed--DF3 t c 15:24, 14 February 2009 (UTC)


Question

Hey,

I'm new to Lostpedia and I've been editing and adding information wherever I see fit. I am a bit confused, though, as to if I am following copyright laws and rules. I have been saving pictures from www.lost-media.com to my computer and then uploading them to this website to use on the pages. I was wondering if this is okay and if not, what Ishould be doing to add pictures. The only pictures I have added are on Daniel Faraday's page and Sun Hwa Kwon's page.

Thanks for the help, --PapaSloth 02:23, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

I got this one. --Nickb123 (Talk) 12:27, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks Nick! --Admin 21:28, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Pages are broken

Can you or someone else fix the problems with the edit history on, for example, 316/Theories? People are unintentionally overwriting each other's edits. If you try and edit a section on the most recent revision, you get a "WARNING: You are editing an out-of-date revision of this page. If you save it, any changes made since this revision will be lost." warning, as well as the most recent revision in the edit history is not (click on the diff, then you can click forward to a more recent revision with a previous date). This is all clearly broken. ∇ϕ 07:46, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Problem with Signing

Hey. I was having some trouble with signing my name. I understand that using four tildes (~) will sign my name and put the date on there too, but lately it hasn't been linking to my user page as well. is there a problem? Please put your reply on my user talk page. Thanks. PS: the way I'm signing my post here is with the four tildes. --Crash815 16:10, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

CANON Discussion

Hey Kev. I invoked your name at Talk:Santa_Rosa_Mental_Health_Institute#location, and did not want you to get blind-sided if it comes back to you. I'd appreciate your insight - if you choose to share it. Cheers –DocH– my edits 02:08, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

-Backdoor here - Lostpedia_talk:Canon#Clarification_of_policy , –DocH– my edits

Problem editing "Theories" pages

if you are not the person that i am supposed to give this info to, then please direct me to the correct person.....

we are having a problem editing the Theories pages (specifically He's Our You/Theories). when you add a comment to the page, it automatically delete's whatever edits the user before you made. i will provide details below. this happened to me all day on saturday & then today monday when i went back to the page. it took communicating with the people who we percieved to be doing the editing to figure out what was going on. everyone's post was getting deleted & we thought it was being done intentionally. times are in EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME.

please see all posts from Revision history of "He's Our You/Theories" starting with..........

..... 08:30, March 30, 2009 TheGreatDanton (Talk | contribs) (59,807 bytes) (→Ann Arbor, MI)

inbetween, & ending with...

..... 09:21, March 30, 2009 TheGreatDanton (Talk | contribs) (59,778 bytes) (→Ann Arbor, MI)

also see User talk:NEVERGIVEUP, to see that we were not intentionally deleting each other's posts, we were just trying to add our own post but we realized were deleting each others in the process. --NEVERGIVEUP 14:29, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


Kevin,

This problem with the theory pages has occurred after every episode, starting with LaFleur/Theories, where I first reported it at User talk:Robert K S#Attempt. At the risk of seeming strident, that's every episode. While I lay this problem at the feet of Wikia, the apparent solution is to save the content of the theory page, delete the page, re-create the blank page and re-insert the content. This results in a loss of the page history, but this is a minimal situation when compared to the problem with edits, which I have dubbed as a "feeding frenzy."

I'm surprised, with the experience since LaFleur/Theories, that no one has established a protocol for intervening when the frenzy begins.

Can you help us?

Regards,
--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 21:10, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism Russian Lostpedia

Hello, User 90.189.210.27 destroyed pages. http://ru.lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:RecentChanges Can you help us? Kuzura.

Ru-Lostpedia users

Dear LostpediaAdmin,

We Ru-Lostpedia users would like to nominate our own administrator who will be able to react quickly to emerging problems. We ask to answer, who has the right to nominate new administrator that is required for appointment and who can become the administrator. With impatience we look forward to hearing. Kind regards, Kuzura, Faraday(, CarrieWhite, Leoyan.

User talk: Kuzura for Ru-Lostpedia. User talk: CarrieWhite for Ru-Lostpedia.

P. S. We request to give administrator rights to Kuzura.

Kuzura has been appointed to Sysop. Thanks --Admin 07:51, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks you very much!

Revisiting episode titles ban + Old spoilers discussion

Hello. So, a while back, there was a decision made to ban all episode titles from the wiki with the exception of the immediately upcoming title. As far as I can tell, this decision was made in the topic Lostpedia talk:Spoiler Policy/Archive 02#Titles are spoilers! (redux) and was made because there was no way to create a collapsible Nav template for the episodes. As you may have seen, users were recently able to create such a template. As such, the original justification no longer applies, so I've reoppened the discussion here. If it's not too much trouble, I would like to get all the SysOps to weigh in on this publicly, as I feel previous spoiler policy discussions have been ignored and/or avoided by SysOps from time to time (particularly [[this one where there was a user consensus to set aside a page for officially released content from the producers, similar to the old "/Spoilers" pages, but used only for official content, which was never heard about again, despite a 100% consensus in the discussion.) At any rate, it would be great to have you all weigh in since I think this is an extremely important issue for Lostpedia that we have resolved, given the original reasoning behind it. Thanks.  Jimbo the Tubby  talk  contributions  07:53, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Greetings and question from another wiki

Hello, I'm one of the admin for the Girl Genius Wiki (and a big fan of Lost, which is how I knew about this place). As Girl Genius also has long-running mysteries that invite lots of speculation, I would love it if we could modify a couple of Lostpedia's policies and informational templates for our use, particularly Template:Theorytabtop and Lostpedia:Theory policy. Who would I talk to about this to make sure it's all kosher? --m 19:35, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Go for it. We'd appreciate a link back with credit. Good luck with your wiki! --Admin 00:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Fan Fiction Contest

During the hiatus the theme has been fan appreciation. And I thought what better way than to have a fan fiction contest. And what better place to have it then on lostpedia! There would be rules and challenges each week or two. We would write 18 episodes each has to be with in the same story arc Ben can't die one episode and then come back to life the next one. I really need an admin to support me on this idea and all the feed back I have gotten is positive. Please help! --BenKilledDharma 00:36, 23 August 2009 (UTC) mrb0605@gmail.com

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