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Copyrighting

In order to try and help sort out copyright on images, could we perhaps link to Lostpedia:Use of Images when someone clicks "upload file"? It could just be a little disclaimer to ask that people look over the templates before uploading, that way the percentage of Lostpedia images tagged would be increased. Just an idea --Nickb123 (Talk) 02:51, 1 November 2006 (PST)

Good Article Critreia

Hi All,

A prolonged discussion and a brainstorming is taking place on the new Article Attack talk page, where I have suggested to create a new Template / Criteria for Manual Style Conforming Articles, to be used in marking an article for meeting the minimum Lostpedia standards, regarding Theory Policy, Copyrights, Credibility of sources, and all the other quality standards grouped in the Lostpedia:Manual of Style (proposed). I also suggested to encourage all the community to vote on the articles conforms with our Manual of Style, beside the Admins and Sysops, through maybe a new voting / nomination page to be marked with this template.

We currently have a page to vote for the lowest quality articles, Article Attack and the outstanding articles Featured Articles, yet there are so many articles, and will be more, on Lostpedia that may not be outstanding yet with a better quality than to be considered very poor. However, many of these articles are so far from applying the Manual for Style, that they might end up doing more bad to our portal than good, and debates can go for long since currently quality it is a subjective matter. Through creating a public voting page, and a template to mark the conforming articles, I am expecting the following advantages:

  • Encouraging as many Lostpedia writers as possible, to read more into our Manual of Style and bucket of policies, in order to vote for what conforms with them. I think this will help a lot in raising the level of awareness, and help them later in their own writing.
  • Raise the awareness of more regular readers with our standards, and encouraging them to help report any article previously marked as "good", using maybe Rewrite template, when it is newly modified in way that makes it no more conforming.
  • Having a large stock of well-known good articles, that we can choose from to present in many new applications, in addition to AOTW, knowing that in case their nomination was rejected, only small modifications, and not full rewrites, will be required before re-nominating them.

Of course, this idea may not be applicable before the official implementation of the Lostpedia:Manual of Style (proposed). At the appropriate time, I offer to help create and maintain both the template and the voting page, if accepted.

These are the ideas I have for now, please pitch in and add your comments. I am of course looking to keep this as a constructive brainstorming, and not an argument like one of what Kaini is describing above.

Thanks to you all-- 17:02, 1 November 2006 (PST)

A Question

Hi, I was just wondering how you managed to get Lostpedia. I mean, is there a site you can go to to get a Wiki like this? Thanks for your time. -- Lost_Soul 09:18, 2 November 2006 (PST)

Lostpedia was built using the Media Wiki software. Which is linked from the bottom of every page.. [1]. How did Lostpedia become Lostpedia? Well, through the contributions of thousands of dedicated fans. --Admin 14:05, 2 November 2006 (PST)

Lostpedia:Spoiler Policy

FYI, I put up a first attempt at a spoiler policy for the site. --Minderbinder 11:01, 2 November 2006 (PST)

Does mediawiki allow additonal tabs?

On the page Lostpedia talk:Theory policy there's some discussion going on about potential ways of handling theories on this site. So we know what options are available from a technical standpoint, does mediawiki have any way of adding additional tabs to the site? So for example, could there be a "theories" tab for pages along with the discussion tab? --Minderbinder 05:56, 3 November 2006 (PST)

Manual of Style ?

Hi Admin, Regarding our proposed Manual of Style, I think almost all of its discussion threads are finalized...so do you know or have you agreed on when will it be changed to official ?

-- 22:54, 3 November 2006 (PST)

Revolutionary stuff going on about how to handle theories...

Admin, I think someone already left you a note on this, but I wanted to make sure you had some feedback and gave your opinion on this topic, since if we were to do anything related to this, it would be a major change to lostpedia's format. Lostpedia talk:Theory policy In summary, the basic idea is to take out theories into a separate page, since they are getting out of control on this site, and at times overwhelming the canon section. Please give us your thoughts, since we wouldn't move on it if you weren't in agreement. --PandoraX 12:14, 6 November 2006 (PST)

If you haven't seen it already, check out User:Minderbinder/sandbox/Pickett and the subpages it links to. I have a test version similar to what you suggested. --Minderbinder 05:31, 7 November 2006 (PST)
I viewed both pages and find them very organized. The new template you propose is very indicative as well. I think the sub-page idea is a great alternative to the seemingly complicated theories-tab idea. I definitely give it my vote.-- 06:51, 7 November 2006 (PST)
Thanks to all who helped with this project; it worked very well. --PandoraX 19:10, 19 November 2006 (PST)

Admin, I'd like to ask you if you could update the file related to the theory-tab in FR.lostpedia, in order to display its text in French. I asked ««Jabberwock»» about this, who told me it was only a file to edit. So, if it could display "théories" and "article principal", that would be great. Plus, I saw you don't have this tab on the "Main Page", is it possible to remove the tab from our "Accueil"? Thanks. -- SGC.Alex 04:18, 25 November 2006 (PST)

Equations on MediaWiki

Hi Admin... there's a problem with Blast door map equations; seems it is a MediaWiki coding issue. That page used to work well, don't know if you can fix it or know of someone else who can (already asked Jabbr). --PandoraX 19:10, 19 November 2006 (PST)

Thanks for reminding me about this. This is something that broke during the last upgrade.. I finally tracked down the problem and corrected it. It turns out some of the error messages actually made it into the source of the pages... so I reverted to an earlier version and the equations now work. If you notice any other pages with broken Latex, please double check the history. Please let me know if you have any other questions. --Admin 00:56, 21 November 2006 (PST)

Lostpedia Font and Inconsistencies defect over Internet Explorer

Hi Admin, Since you were working lately on versions of MediaWiki, can you check the new huge font of Lostpedia, as well as inconsistencies with infoboxes' details and thumbnail images' borders, when viewed through the Internet Explorer ? A general complaint and a list of comments is posted about it at the Main Page's talk, where everyone seems to agree that this bug needs your experience to investigate. Based on its global existence over Lostpedia, I believe its negative effect is very significant, particularly on new users. I hope it can be solved soon. Thanks -- 05:41, 21 November 2006 (PST)

Fixed, as well as all inconsistency issues mentioned above, as per a testing round I just finished over the website. Thank you Admin for your prompt response -- 10:35, 21 November 2006 (PST)
Thanks for your help! --Admin 00:50, 22 November 2006 (PST)

Upload file text

When you get a chance could you drop a link to Lostpedia:Use of Images on the file upload page (Special:Upload)? This change will make it easier for users to add the appropriate licenses to their uploaded images. Thanks a million! -- C¯ _Santa_ ¯T00:57, 22 November 2006 (PST)

  • (Bump); now that you'll be back online after the new year, I'm just renewing the request. =) -- C¯ _Santa_ ¯T 22:19, 31 December 2006 (PST)

RSS Feed broken

Hey Kevin, The RSS feed for Recent Changes seems to be broken. [2] Paul. -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  08:27, 22 November 2006 (PST)

Hey Paul, That's strange.. I'm not sure what happened to that. Any idea when it stopped working? I think it might be worth upgrading to the latest release of MediaWiki before we spend too much time troubleshooting this. --Admin 11:44, 22 November 2006 (PST)
I have no clue. Noticed it about 3 days ago. Seems to be working again now though, as its picking up fine on our article on the official ABC wiki. Strange!! -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  04:24, 25 November 2006 (PST)

Lostpedia:Media Coverage

I updated the Lostpedia:Media Coverage page with additional coverage. -- Mediaguy3 11:49, 22 November 2006 (PST)

QUICK - VANDAL!!!

User:Hobnobob!!! BAN HIM!!!

Yep, he's conducting a relentless attack on the whole site. I take it there are not automated protections to prevent vandalism? Robert K S 16:59, 3 December 2006 (PST)


So is User:Compulsive liar seems to be totally wiping every page :(

HELP

User:The Right Honourable Bob is attacking Lostpedia!!--LOCI!

Question,

Hay, Kelvin. What's up? I have a question for you. Your e-mail address is 'admin@lostpedia.com'. How do you make your e-mail address at lostpedia? --James W. 17:48, 5 December 2006 (PST)

lostpedia.com email addresses are for sysops and above only. Sorry! -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  16:17, 9 December 2006 (PST)

Cite.php

Hi Admin, any chance we can get Cite.php installed on Lostpedia? I've been trying to cite sources in articles I am editing, and I think this will be much easier if <ref> and <references/> are available for use. Some example usage on wikipedia: Wikipedia:Lostpedia#References.

With some time, I think this will become a very popular feature with the regular editors, and will strengthen the site.--Dagg 09:03, 6 December 2006 (PST)

Thanks for the suggestion. We will get it installed. --Admin 13:30, 6 December 2006 (PST)
Thanks Admin, I'm looking forward to using it. This template should start working once Cite.php is installed.--Dagg 20:44, 7 December 2006 (PST)

Lostpedia in Spanish

In Lostpedia in Spanish, you put an advice, Can I delete this?

::Gonzabar77::

I don't understand what you're asking. Can you be more specific? --Admin 12:28, 10 December 2006 (PST)

Policy on clones

Is it zero tolerance? I banned someone for vandalism (minor, but definitely unneeded stuff like starting noncanon pages despite warnings not to do so, writing "I LIKE CHEESE", etc... seemed to be testing the waters). We noticed another user is using the same IP, and they appear to be the same person from the fact that the clone was editing improvement edits to the other user page (rather than vandalizing that)... 99.99% sure they are the same person. The original account has some decent edits, with attrocious grammar. Should I ban the IP? --PandoraX 19:09, 31 December 2006 (PST)

Bob

Hoo boy, that was a biggie. Definitely gave my 1st-grade math skills a run for their money. :) Anyway, glad that we got it all cleaned up. --Marik7772003 18:23, 9 January 2007 (PST)

Past/Present Policy

I have received many conflicts views from numerous people on the argument of past or present tense. I have tried since about mid-December to find an answer to whether episode synopses(plural of synopsis?), character pages, and jsut about every page should be in past or present tense. people even consulted wikipedia, but we decided to not use wikipedia' past/present policy because it did not apply (Their policy is that ficttiious content, such as dealing with a television show has to be written in present tense to avoid confusion with an event that ACTUALLY happened in real life. However, there would be no such confuson on Lostpedia since it is all fictitious). I have posted comments asking this very question to many users, and received many conflicting views. Today, since I did not have classes today, I decided I would continue to make headway on changing episode synopses to past tense. However, basically all of my changes were reverted. Now, that I have prefaced my question with background infromation, here is my question. Past or present tense? Do you decide, or do we get a group concensus/vote to decide? How do we do that? Can we please resolve this issue so this "conflict" (for lack of a better word) can be solved? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks. David 11:43, 19 January 2007 (PST)

What even is the curent policy? I've received many conflicting reports on that too. Thanks, David 12:04, 19 January 2007 (PST)
Honestly, I don't know which way it should be. I think a discussion about the topic would be helpful. --Admin 11:05, 27 January 2007 (PST)

Update

Wow nice that we can see how many characters are changed in edits - very slick. Any other big chances? Also, have you seen the numerous emails I've sent you about the edit cap lol? --Nickb123 (Talk) 14:37, 26 January 2007 (PST)

Possible issue #1: The side navbar seems to be dropping right down to the bottom left of the page instead of underneath the logo on certain pages. This might just be for me though, I'm on IE7 --Nickb123 (Talk) 14:47, 26 January 2007 (PST)

I did see those and as soon as this update is finished I will take a look at implementing that request. FYI - I'm still making a few tweaks to the skin to get it working again. --Admin 14:49, 26 January 2007 (PST)

  • Thanks for the update, good job! Looks like it was a lot of work. -- C¯ _Santa_ ¯T 14:51, 26 January 2007 (PST)
    • Yeah sorry I didn't wanna rush in with a comment after you've spent ages doing the update. I had a look on MediaWiki about it - as usual it looks extremely complicated. Why can't they ever just put a concise list of what will change and stuff! --Nickb123 (Talk) 14:53, 26 January 2007 (PST)
Possible issue #2: It's not displaying your google ads under the navbar anymore, it probably just reset the monobook skin back to the default, but I thought you might want to know. Thanks for updating! -BearDog 14:54, 26 January 2007 (PST)
  • Another couple issues, I noticed a few things aren't working on Desmond's page. The Nav bars at the bottom are just appearing as links, not the actual nav bars. And also the last crossref under Desmond#Unanswered_questions displays just "ep" (a red link) even though a crossref is set up. Thanks for the update though.Mr.Leaf 15:05, 26 January 2007 (PST)
  • On my user page, the images which create the line "Listen, learn and don't get involved" used to be in one straight line, and now they are one under the other. Obi-Dan Kenobi 15:14, 26 January 2007 (PST)
  • The only bug I'm noticing is that it is taking an awful long time to load up the site. But I suppose you can't do anything about that.--LOCI!
Actually, as I'm making updates, I keep resetting the cache. So as the cache gets a chance to work load times should improve. In addition, I will be adding more servers to our cluster to improve performance. I'm expecting the flood of traffic after the next episode to be pretty intense! Thanks for the feedback. --Admin 18:23, 26 January 2007 (PST)
Possible issue #3 & 4: Giant [Edit] signs on headers and lack of options like sig and bold in edit mode. --   Dee4leeds  talk  contribs  all  04:00, 27 January 2007 (PST)

Lots of broken pages

I've noticed a lot of broken pages:

and lots of other long theme pages. I suspect there must be some new limit on the number of templates a page is allowed.-- Dagg talk contribs4 8 15:35, 26 January 2007 (PST)

In the source of those numerous broken pages, I see this message: 
 WARNING: template omitted, pre-expand include size too large
The error looks directly related to this: Template limits.-- Dagg talk contribs4 8 15:43, 26 January 2007 (PST)
I was able to fix some of these by shortening Template:crossref, but some pages are still broke.-- Dagg talk contribs4 8 16:07, 26 January 2007 (PST)
I think I got the rest of these fixed by removing a feature from Template:ep.-- Dagg talk contribs4 8 16:29, 26 January 2007 (PST)
Nice work! I was researching the template limits. It makes sense to have those limits in place, but let me know if you see any others that are broken. --Admin 16:36, 26 January 2007 (PST)

LaTex problem

The LaTex has failed again on the blast door map equations, etc. Is it possible this is due to with wiki 1.9.1 upgrade. A heads up fyi, btw great job and thanks.--Divbis0 13:52, 28 January 2007 (PST)

Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, it's directly related to the upgrade. It always breaks and I always forget to go back and check it! I'll post another update once I get it working again. --Admin 20:48, 28 January 2007 (PST)
LaTeX working again! thanks again! --Admin 20:57, 28 January 2007 (PST)


Squid Problems

Any problems or concerns with Squid should be posted in here or emailed to me. Thanks --Admin 00:18, 29 January 2007 (PST)

Squid Proxies

It seems quite fast compared to normal. The real test will be 11pm Eastern on the 7th!! :-) -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  02:07, 29 January 2007 (PST)

IP issue

  • For some reason (possibly the Squid proxies), Special:Checkuser is showing 64.255.163.70 and/or 64.255.163.71, no matter which user is checked... and of course this is the web server IP. These IPs are basically being logged for all recent edits for all users. . . also wondering what happens the next time a sysop bans some vandal IP, but block one of these IPs instead? -- C¯ _Santa_ ¯T 01:48, 30 January 2007 (PST)
Special:Espionage Shows the correct IPs. I tweaked the config a little with one of Jabber's suggestions. I'll do some more testing to see if that corrects the problem. --Admin 09:38, 30 January 2007 (PST)
Looks fine now. Checkuser reports the right IPs now too. --   Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 09:54, 30 January 2007 (PST)
Thanks for catching that! --Admin 09:55, 30 January 2007 (PST)

A Couple Issues

  • Hey, just thought I would let you know, every once in a while I am still having the side bar drop all the way down to the bottom. Its really random when it happens but I thought I should let you know. And a couple pages such as User:Blue eagle islander have really small text, and small sidebar which isn't connected to the main page and everything is shrunken. Just thought I would let you know. -Mr.Leaf 20:11, 3 February 2007 (PST)
That happens to me too on my own page, is it my fault? also while I'm on the subject, how come my bacground colour doesn't go all the way to the bottom? (and sometimes the top?) --Blueeagleislander 20:13, 3 February 2007 (PST)
Yes, the text in the page is what is causing the problem. The easiest way to trouble shoot this problem is to make a copy of the page... and remove sections one at a time until the problem is fixed. A common cause of this is unclosed </div>. I would examine the page very carefully to figure out what is causing it. --Admin 20:41, 3 February 2007 (PST)
Fixed the problem on User:Blue eagle islander by closing a table tag (</table>) --Admin 20:56, 3 February 2007 (PST)
Thanks for that. --Blueeagleislander 23:05, 3 February 2007 (PST)


Polish lostpedia needs a new admin

  • Hi, polish lostpedia is the only lostpedia that don't have their own admin. Since we had few problems with vandalism last couple days, we really need one. Could we know when we would be able to have our own admin? --Elfik 11:41, 10 February 2007 (PST)
    • This is important.--Z Poland 10:47, 14 February 2007 (PST)
      • Please make a recommendation, as to who would be a good Admin. --Admin 13:35, 14 February 2007 (PST)
        • My offer for a new admin would be either me or lukasew. We are both experienced in taking care of different types of sites, and we work since the beggining of the polish lostpedia. --Elfik 13:33, 15 February 2007 (PST)
          • Good Choice --Z Poland 09:07, 17 February 2007 (PST)
        • Congratulations! I've created 2 new polish Sysops. Thanks and please let me know how I can help. --Admin 19:25, 17 February 2007 (PST)
          • Thanks a lot - lukasew --Lukas 03:22, 18 February 2007 (PST)

Forum failure

Hi, the Lostpedia forum has taken to disagreeing with my internet connection, and it won't load. When I reboot our wireless router, it works for a while, and then becomes unavailable again. Have there been any recent changes to any settings related to it (specifically at round 20:00 GMT yesterday), or any solution at either end you may know of? Or someone else I should ask. Thanks, --The Smiley-Faced Balloon 02:31, 15 February 2007 (PST)

  • I'm not aware of any changes at all. Are you still having this problem? Thanks, --Admin 19:26, 17 February 2007 (PST)

You were right....kinda

On your user page you predict we'll be the first to connect the dots. Well, as you know, we've just connected the puzzle pieces, and been the first to crack the Jigsaw puzzles mystery. Just pointing out that you were right, good prediction. --Blueeagleislander 00:10, 28 February 2007 (PST)

Thanks, I think we're going to have more of these breakthroughs. I don't think the Lost writers have given us enough details to actually solve any of the major mysteries yet. :) --Admin 10:25, 28 February 2007 (PST)

Just wondering

Just wondering how it feels to have created such a big hit on the wiki scene. This is one of the most visited wiki's in the U.S, and, because of the International Web Pages, perhaps the world :) . How does it feel? -- Iron Man  Send a message  View contributions  18:38, 13 March 2007 (PDT)

It feels great! However, all I did was create a place for people who are very passionate about LOST to come together and Lostpedia is the result. Thanks for the question. --Admin 12:40, 5 April 2007 (PDT)

DST-does the wiki know it changed?

This is just a question. But is the wiki programmed with the new change of DST, which is three weeks before the previous DST date. I don't believe it is, as the times on the Recent Changes list are all off by an hour for me, even though I have set my preferences to the correct time zone. Just thought I would let you know, in case you weren't aware of it. Thanks -Mr.Leaf 09:49, 15 March 2007 (PDT)

The server is showing the correct time in UTC, however the mediawiki software doesn't keep track of your timezone, just the offset from UTC. Right now the offset is different due to differences in DST dates for UTC and US time zones. Eastern time is currently UTC -4 and, Central is UTC -5, etc. If you click the button to fill in from browser, it should give the correct value if your PC is updated with DST patches and shows the correct time. You may have to go back into your preferences again sometime in April after DST begins in the UK.    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 10:05, 15 March 2007 (PDT)
Okay, thanks Jabr.-Mr.Leaf 10:08, 15 March 2007 (PDT)

Privacy policy

Just suggesting that maybe you could write this? We're a pretty big site, and all big and great sites have the standard privacy policy? --Blueeagleislander 00:58, 19 March 2007 (PDT)

Crazy Vandal

Hey, there's a vandal causing a wee bit of stress, User:Compulsive liar, could you get a ban goin' on? CastorTroy 06:27, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

Admins,, quick get your hands on this vandal, I have reverted two edits but apparently it made hundreds of edits http://www.lostpedia.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=Compulsive_liar --mo-- (Talk | Image:Saa.gif ) 06:34, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

Another vandalism!

Today, I mean 21 March 2007 User Compulsive liar replaced many pages with: 'SHOWED!!!!!!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA' I reverted some of them to earlier versions, but who knows how many articles have been replaced with nothing... Can Lostpedia be protected against this type of vandalism? Please, do something with this situation. I thank you in advance. --Kemot from Poland 06:31, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

Wiki Host

Hey, I have my own website for my area's local musicians and bands and such. Was looking into possibly doing a wiki as well for more informative info on each band, musician, etc. I really love the Lostpedia layout. I was wondering what you had to do as far as software and host, because I'd love to use the same thing this site has going on. Thanks.   Hooper   talk    contribs    email   23:15, 24 March 2007 (PDT)

You can get the software from http://mediawiki.org/ The software is open source and the basic template that Wikipedia uses is included. Good luck! --Admin 12:40, 5 April 2007 (PDT)

MySpace

How 'bout a Lostpedia MySpace? Wikipedia doesn't even have one. Just lookin' for some views. --Blueeagleislander 06:04, 31 March 2007 (PDT)

Possibly. We'll consider it! Thanks, --Admin 12:40, 5 April 2007 (PDT)
If you want I could help out,... but I'm not a sysop. --Blueeagleislander 02:43, 13 April 2007 (PDT)

Wiki Skin

Hi Admin. I'm a sysop on the Lord of the rings wiki, I've seen the new lostbook skin and I would like to ask you how you added it under the skins tag in preferences. thanks  Dan  talk  contribs  email 

All you do is install the template inside of the /templates/ directory. Mediawiki takes care of the rest. I hope that helps. --Admin 12:40, 5 April 2007 (PDT)

LostPedia in russian language

Hi Admin!

I've sent some mails to your admins, but nobody replied me (except Paul, who forwarded one of my mails to another admin ).

Well, I want to ask Lostpedia, is it possible to create the russian part of this site? We have here in Russia thousands funs of Lost, they will help me to translate the content. I see that lostpedia has alreandy many international parts (like french, german, polish and so on), so it will be realy great if lostpedia has also russian community.

PS I have knowledge of wiki. I'm an autor of russian wikiedia.

Thank you Sincerely yours, Daniel Lavrushin

Hello, Thanks. Yes, I saw the email. There are a few additional languages we will be adding including Russian. We will make an announcement when the new languages are available. --Admin 12:40, 5 April 2007 (PDT)


Hello! I subscribe to the request of Daniel Lavrushin!!! Numerous russian fans would be happy to see (and to contribute to) Lostpedia in Russian!

Help

There is a developing situation at the barracks page. It used to talk about the sonic fence. It has become necessary to move the sonic fence to its own article. I moved it and redirected users to the new page. I also moved all related discussion to the new article. However many users are replacing the now unrelevant discussion to the barracks page. It is a constant stuggle to keep up the quality and relevance of the barracks and sonic fence articles. please help in this situation. --Connor401 15:07, 7 April 2007 (PDT)

Vector skills?

I have vector art skills. What are you looking to have done? --Wizardoest 14:09, 9 April 2007 (PDT)

Graphic design

I also have vector graphic design skills. You can see some of my work at my deviantArt page. Pkal 10:40, 10 April 2007 (PDT)

Banned users

Can the banned users' pages be deleted? If so, why they aren't removed? I think we don't need about 200 reminiscences of vandals. --Kemot from Poland 04:53, 13 April 2007 (PDT)

Nomination for Admin

For the second time (the first time I got no reaction), I would like to nominate Mr. Klugh [3] as an Admin for the Dutch Lostpedia. He has done lots of contributions, and I think he would be a great help against vandalism, etc. Thanks in advance, Riki 09:57, 13 April 2007 (PDT) (admin on Dutch Lostpedia)

Vector drawing

I can do a little vector drawing; diagrams mostly. I'd be happy to help. MRImagining 15:13, 16 April 2007 (PDT)

interwiki

  • Hi, Admin. Would you consider adding an interwiki link "heroeswiki" over to http://heroeswiki.com? There's already a "lostpedia" interwiki link over on Heroes Wiki over to Lostpedia since there are a number of apparent links between Heroes and Lost. Thanks! --Changeling 15:31, 16 April 2007 (PDT)

considering to add a theme

Was reading the show blog at TVGuide.com for this week and realized there may be a theme in "Repetitive Tasks" -- where many characters have had to do the same activity again and again, either during a short or long period. Examples: pushing the button (all characters), Desmond saving Charlie's life, Kate and Sawyer breaking up rocks, the pile of pneumatically-discarded composition notebooks (or perhaps many other Dharma experiments). I'm sure there are other examples that the community could contribute to, as these tasks run counter to the larger sweep of adventure and change. Might this be worth adding as a theme? If so, I'm not certain how to establish and would be happy to have others do so if worthwhile. Thanks. --Dianepage 03:59, 19 April 2007 (PDT)

Also, early on they had to repetitively bring water back and forth from the caves. I think we should add this theme. --Blueeagleislander 18:05, 19 April 2007 (PDT)

Quick question

I used to be able to add a Lostpedia search engine to the search bar in the upper right of Firefox. Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted the plugin, and I can't find a link to install it anywhere on here. Can you point me in the right direction, please? -- Ramirez Selvarn 11:54, 27 April 2007 (PDT)

German Lostpedia

Hi, I just wanted to ask why the German Lostpedia doesn't have any Admins. It would be good if there was someone who is able to delete superfluous pages (e.g. if there's a misspelling in the article's name) etc. -- EvelynPace 16:29, 19 January 2007 (PST)

  • A comment would be nice... -- EvelynPace 08:15, 27 January 2007 (PST)
I don't speak German. I'm open to suggestions for German SysOps. --Admin 11:03, 27 January 2007 (PST)
  • Hm, I'm not sure. I think in the moment Marija and me (EvelynPace) are the most active Users. I'd like to be a German SysOps because I like to take care of the pages and to help new users. And I think I'm now familiar with the Wiki software. -- EvelynPace 09:17, 28 January 2007 (PST)
  • I think that EvelynPace would be a great choice. I am also from the German Lostpedia. -- Teddybaerli 16:17, 01 February 2007
  • What do we have to do to get a SysOp? We already made suggestions, what else to do? --Teddybaerli 01:47, 18 February 2007 (PST)
  • Yeah, and the Polish Lostpedia got their Sysops 7 days after their request. -- EvelynPace 06:27, 23 February 2007 (PST)
  • Erm, If more than two users, one nominating themself had requested, then it would have been actioned sooner. Someone should post on the German Wikipedia Main Talk Page about this, and get opinions from the users, then report it back to us. Of course, you could just be nice and instead of whinging, which would also not get people's backs up. No one does this site full time, we all volunteer for free you know! -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  07:44, 23 February 2007 (PST)
  • The polish Lostpedia also made just two nominations (one nominating themself). We didn't mean to peeve you, we just had the feeling as if our request had been forgotten. However, I posted on the German Main Talk Page and hope we'll get some more suggestions. -- LG EvelynPace 11:09, 24 February 2007 (PST)
  • We asked other users of the German Lostpedia and they nominated EvelynPace and Nordlys. --Teddybaerli 06:12, 11 April 2007 (PDT)
  • On the German Lostpedia Main Talk Page 3 people voted for EvelynPace, 2 for Clark Taylor, 1 for Nordlys, 1 for Partygirl and 1 for TomCmdr. -- EvelynPace 13:47, 1 May 2007 (PDT)
  • I have made EvelynPace, Clark Taylow, and Nordlys sysops of the German Lostpedia. Thanks for your patience. --Admin 01:39, 3 May 2007 (PDT)
  • Thank you very much! --Teddybaerli 09:29, 3 May 2007 (PDT)
  • Yes, thanks a lot! -- EvelynPace 11:11, 3 May 2007 (PDT)

Search Firefox.

In the top-right corner of Firefox, you can quickly access search engines. I tried adding Lostpedia, but it wouldn't let me. Is it possible? Has something like that been setup? If not, I think this site has what you need to know. --Blueeagleislander 01:05, 2 May 2007 (PDT)

Hey Kevin

You banned my friend Ian, Ozzian2000, for editing my site (which btw I find hilarious (even though he is going to kill me)), but it was kinda my fault. I thought that because it was a private page, he was allowed. Sorry about that. I'm at his house (countdown till SHOWTIME) and he said I had to post a blog on your site, and this is it!

LOST PWNS!!!!!

Thanks for the clarification. He was already unblocked. If he still can't log in, please send me another message and I'll take a look. --Admin 18:27, 9 May 2007 (PDT)
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