User talk:Dream Focus

Importing
I only noticed this since I watched the RSS feeds here for spam. But you've been importing pages incorrectly. Especially if you're importing pages to be deleted, you should be importing the full page history of each page. The resulting pages have no to attribute the original page, and they don't attribute the people that actually worked to create the article in the page history itself. That's quite important for a page to be deleted because the contribution history won't even exist on Wikipedia anymore. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jul 12, 2010 @ 02:42 (UTC) 02:42, July 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm going to add the link to the Wikipedia article to every article I imported, as soon as I figure out how that's done. There should be a bot for it.  I posted on the proper help forum asking.  There is no way to import all the histories that I know of, other than getting every single file, one at a time, and hoping the total isn't above a certain file size.   D r e a m Focus  02:46, July 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * Someone gave me an answer to one of my questions. Look at the top part saying where to find the original source of articles at.  That should do it.    D r e a m Focus  02:51, July 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * As per the full histories, you should be using Wikipedia's Special:Export. There is an option on the bottom to include the full histories, I'm not sure how you were doing to otherwise.--Sxerks 23:55, July 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * That doesn't work. Wikia will not import any file above a certain size.  Some files have histories on their own too large to manage.  Others are only too large if I export them in batches.   D r e a m Focus  01:32, July 24, 2010 (UTC)

Pedia-mess
I am wikipedia:User:I-20.

Anyway, are you importing deleted Wikipedia articles? (I'm not a sysop on Wikipedia) If so, how? Ω penBSDWiki 02:58, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * I go to the list of all manga and anime articles currently nominated for deletion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Anime_and_manga I then save them, with their entire history, and the images that are found in them. If you want to import something that has already been deleted, you have to talk to an administrator and ask them on their talk page to usify it.  They'll restore it long enough to copy it to your user page, and you can export it from there.  The closing administrator was contacted on his talk page and then restored it, first by accident to the wrong user page, he then copied it over to the proper one.    D r e a m Focus  03:08, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * Awesome. May I help? Ω penBSDWiki 04:39, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * I already mass imported everything in the manga or manga related categories, bringing over thousands of articles that way. I discussed it on the Anime and Manga Wikiproject, and they stated there was no way for administrators to resurrect all deleted manga articles at one time for my to transwiki over, and weren't likely to do it with any large numbers anyway.  Asking for one once in awhile would work, but for the hundreds already lost, there is no salvation.  If you fill like helping, you can go to the manga articles over at Wikipedia, and save the images in them.  Then come here and find the same article, and click the red link where the image should go, and then load it up.  I think everything else that can be done, already has been. Everything I can think of.   D r e a m Focus  09:13, July 17, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Welcome
Actually, I would suggest that if *you* need any help, you should feel free to ask *me* on my talk page. ;) (yeah, I realize that was an automated welcome message, but still figured I'd put it out there... =) ) 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 21:22, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, its automatic. I'm not sure if there is even a way to turn it off.  It happens on all wikias.  Anyway, I see you have done some work on the troublesome template.  I did ask for help  and someone figured out what was wrong, but no one able to actually fix it.  Right now quite a number of articles are not loading up properly because of it.   D r e a m Focus  01:28, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * I saw that discussion; that's what spurred me to have a look. Truth is, I have no idea why the template isn't working properly; other templates doing the exact same stuff in their code work on Wikia. This may be a case where a complete rewrite is necessary. However, I would disagree with the person who said Wikipedia templates are moving away from HTML; to the contrary, I like to stalk keep track of what a number of the really prolific template editors on Wikipedia are up to, and can say that in just about any case where tables + ParserFunctions are involved, HTML is generally preferred over wikimarkup. 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 01:37, August 31, 2010 (UTC)