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Should we add a third category, for brackish species?

That would be fine, but most brackish water fish are usually sold as freshwater fish. Please include a signature when adding comments to this page (Second button from the right). --PsiPro 16:21, 2 April 2006 (CDT)

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[edit] Update 4/10

I added the wanted page, in order to change the top 5 wanted pages, edit this file, Template:Wanted Articles

I also edited he format of the wiki code so the edit links now work, this makes it alot easier to add a category. Please do not change the table structure or code unless you understand it well. --PsiPro 22:16, 10 April 2006 (CDT)

[edit] Suggestion

It would be nice if the Navigation box had a link to the 'New' page (Special:Newpages) included in the box?


Also. Does this site have an identity problem? When I type in a browser www.theaquariumwiki.com I get sent to www.thefishwiki.com. The logo and front page seem to indicate it is theaquariumwiki.

Ok I know it was orginally thefishwiki but can we make the site one name or another?

Personally I feel theaquariumwiki is a better name.

Comments?

--Quatermass 05:32, 19 May 2006 (CDT)

Sounds like a good idea.

As for the identiy problem, ya I know about it but never worried much about it. to tell you the truth I dont know where thefishwiki.com issue is comming from but I will look into it more.

BTW, like the new site speed? Put it on a dedicated server so it should be alot faster now. --PsiPro 16:14, 22 May 2006 (CDT)

[edit] Sources!

Everyone please put your references to sites in.--Hadesplague 15:03, 4 June 2006 (CDT)

[edit] Compatibility?

I'm confused ... is tank compatibility where the fish lives in the tank, or what the fish lives with? I think that we need a standard sort of template thing for that ... or something.--Hadesplague 15:03, 4 June 2006 (CDT)

Fish Profile That is the profile for the fish template. Category:Standard Templates these are all of the profiles I have set up so far. --PsiPro 16:46, 4 June 2006 (CDT)

No, I mean that I see on most pages things like "the tank lives in the middle" on tank compatibility, and I thought that we might need a set rule on where that information goes.--Hadesplague 14:57, 5 June 2006 (CDT)

I think that should proably go under tank level, deffinatly not under tank compatibility. --PsiPro 22:58, 5 June 2006 (CDT)


Tank compatibility is the feeding position in the tank. It says so in the profile.--Quatermass 15:32, 6 June 2006 (CDT)

[edit] Main Image Issues

I was using IE one black day.... and noticed the logo was not rendering right. I need to get the PNG hack into the tmplate so it will work. --PsiPro 19:37, 25 September 2006 (CDT)


In what way, not right? I'm using IE7 beta 3 and it looks ok. Looks ok in FireFox V2 as well. --Quatermass 16:19, 26 September 2006 (CDT)

Prior to IE7 PNG images do not render transparency, needs a hack installed. Its not hard just a CSS mod. --146.201.27.111 12:44, 27 September 2006 (CDT) Me --PsiPro 12:44, 27 September 2006 (CDT)

[edit] Google Map query

Is it possible to add a User width and height tags when creating a map?

Quite often the maps created are very Portrait in shape when the map needs to be more Landscape?

--Quatermass 04:44, 19 October 2006 (CDT)

Google map can be resized.

See Syntax.

--Quatermass 04:26, 25 October 2006 (CDT)

I think all the animal profiles should be under their species name and not their common name. Common names vary across the world and will be in different languages. Species names are always the same.

Comments? --Quatermass 06:53, 2 March 2007 (CST)

Anti-spam

Well the antispam filter I activated seems, for the moment, to be keeping the spammers at bay...
Long may it continue. :-)

--Quatermass 16:00, 31 May 2007 (CDT)

Any idea Brian how to get the RSS link working on the front page?

--Quatermass 10:11, 21 June 2007 (CDT)

What RSS link? :) --Brian 13:02, 21 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Finding out where anonymous users come from

Did you know you can type in the ip address of anonymous editors in to this web address and find out where they come from?

See ip2location, seemingly Wikiscanner uses this too. It even gives you a town and a overall map showing you where that generous editor or 'Spammer' lives. --Quatermass 10:35, 6 September 2007 (CDT)

[edit] YouTube

I've added the extension YouTube for the site.

You can now add any YouTube video to an article at any size.

You basically type in: 

<youtube>VideoID</youtube>

See the Help page Youtube

--Quatermass 04:24, 28 November 2007 (CST)

[edit] Stopped anonymous edits

I've temporary stopped anonymous edits. These one_liners were annoying me. Alternatives are to install the ConfirmEdit extension or a script to filter out one line edits.

Any way to get a list of new users? Just in case they start registering now! --Quatermass 16:30, 13 October 2007 (CDT)

Anonymous have been re-enabled however all anonymous editors will need to fill out a simple math equation... --Brian 22:08, 17 October 2007 (CDT)

Just testing it Brian. Now where's me calculator.... :-) Stuart --81.86.68.122 08:05, 18 October 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Promotions and critical mass appeal

The wikimedia foundation has continual calls for enabling a global sign-in. IOW, sign into wikimedia commons and you'll get a cookie that you can feed to en-wikipedia or wikisophia, too. And in this site I see total duplication of effort. I wonder for what. If you look for "slim fast", then you'll notice that wikipedia isn't totally against documenting commercial interests. They just don't want it all over the place. Wanna know what I think? Openly say that you're a promoter on your user page. Find appropriate places for suppliers and trade organizations. Tell them what you're doing. Ask them what it's worth. The rest of the wikipedia community will be well aware of it, but if you make a lot of by-the-book contributions, like mirroring most of your content on wikipedia, then some of it will stick and I don't think anybody will get your account deleted. I could be wrong. Depends on the license. Maybe you're even listing suppliers on your front page for free. Why the separate site? It's not a mirror. I wish it was. Your categories make more sense than on wikipedia. OH, and the featured topic. I'd like to get the wikipedia featured article (and random articles) chosen from categories that I select (when I'm logged in), but I'm not much of a programmer. (780) 472-7827.

If you read previous approaches to this sites's administrators with offers like this, you will see we do not respond well to cut-n-paste messages. 1) You say "slim fast", "Maybe you're even listing suppliers on your front page for free.", point out one place. We do not accept any kind of paid sponsorship at the moment, any company links are on pages referring to one of their product reviews. I find those comments mildly offensive. 2) wikipedia offers a very type of information then we do, look at ADF on Wikipedia vs ADF. 3) Frankly I'm not interested in editing wikipedia anymore, it can be run mafia style sometimes. Like you said, why risk getting banned for posting information from this site. 4) Why a separate site? so it can be organized for aquarium's not researchers. 

I'd like to get the wikipedia featured article (and random articles) chosen from categories that I select (when I'm logged in), but I'm not much of a programmer"

What do you mean?

This site has yet to make me money (as we have no ads and no sponsorships [and we are not looking]). And as per our license, anyone from wikipedia is more then welcome to copy all of our articles and migrate them. I really won't be offended. --Brian 02:33, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

[edit] Search position changed

I thought I'd alter the position of the search box as I've been finding myself scrolling down to find it and it seemed difficult to spot in between the various navigation panels.

I altered /skins/Monobook.php and marked the area that I've moved Brian.

So unfortunately for future updates this may require reapplying.

Comments welcome. --Quatermass 04:26, 29 November 2007 (CST)

Confused me when I logged on this morning but I did notice it.

I'll add it to my list of things to change / add when I update next. But I think it looks good. --Brian 10:21, 29 November 2007 (CST)

[edit] changes made

  • I've added the import Flicker freeimages page to the Toolbox. I did this by editing the monobook.php file.
  • I've edited the ImportFreeImages.i18n.php files within this extension to make it a bit more user friendly word wise.

Bad points about this extension:

  • if you click on 'cancel' to NOT import the image, it still imports it.
  • If you enter a word that returns no images. It doesn't say so. Though it's suppose to.

--Quatermass 12:36, 22 December 2007 (CST)

Hey you two. I'm sure you both noticed my most recent modification to the template. Since our best traffic comes from these kinda web2.0 networking sites, I've added a quick bookmark this button to the site to try to promote people to share the site. Not sure if its in the best location I figured it should be somewhere prominent, I was thinking floated right next to the main header, but when it was there I didn't notice it. Any suggestions? Don't like the idea feel free to tell me :). --Brian 23:50, 12 January 2008 (CST)

maybe put it on the right hand side rather than left? --Cat 09:28, 13 January 2008 (CST)


I agree with Catxx, right side.

Also since we're talking about the look of a page. Do you guys feel that the Contents box is making the pages look messy and empty, even when set to hide? See random page Toxotes jaculatrix as an example. Personally it would look at lot better if it was top right.

BTW Brian did you see my note about the categorize template?

--Quatermass 11:16, 13 January 2008 (CST)

i agree about the contents box, may look better if it's further up, but do you not mean top left so it matches up along the top with the information box? --Cat 11:26, 13 January 2008 (CST)

Hey, I moved the bookmark button to the right hand side. For the contents box, you can remove it by includeing 

__NOTOC__

in the file. I will see what I can do about moving it farther up. One thing I would like to do is move the Fish Data template to the bottom of the pages, that way on a search the users doesn't see the template syntax in the results. I'll look into it after my lab report tonight. --Brian 12:05, 13 January 2008 (CST)

[edit] Bookmarks are for marks

Bookmarks. One key. Lynx. Bookmark [P]age or [L]ink? If I use just about anyone else's browser, their favourites will be empty or full of microsoft junk that I remove, because I can reach it from elsewhere in their OS. If they were suckered into version seven, then they won't even be able to change their startup page. Those were the days. Lynx over shell. I can get it for windows, but it simply can't be as peppy over PoinToPoint, nor do I hav a local newserver, anymore.

Your bookmarks script is a pop-up. I disable pop-ups by default and allow them for specific sites. I won't bother making it permanent, because I hav no idea what might make those sites popular. Give me a clue on a separate page, and I might check it out. Some people hav an empty favourites jar on their computer because I removed the Micro$oft junk from it.

If a job isn't worth doing, then it isn't worth doing well. (780) 472-7827.

The bookmark code is addthis.com, its not for adding the bookmark to your browsers its for submitting pages to social networking sites. --Brian 10:51, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

[edit] Thinking about an API

Hey guys,
I have been thinking about creating an pseudo API for the site. Essentially taking the data sent to the profile variables and storing it/updating it in a database. Then giving out read-only database access to anyone really. Two reasons for doing this:

  1. I'm all for making our information more public for the purposes of education
  2. With all the stuff in a more accessible / readable database, it would be easier to search for something specific (aka we can make an actual fish search, rather then the article search).
  3. As of late I've been hired to make a few facebook applications, I figure I can make something cool if I can figure out a name.

Any thoughts? --Brian 06:27, 2 February 2008 (CST)

I think it's called a guest shell account with tight access to structured query language: GSAWTATSQL, or maybe "Jee i SAW a TAT Serving Queries on Land in the citadel" (780) 472-7827

For the purposes of duplicating this site, its entirely possible to give a user non-write access to the database, and the same goes for mirrors. However I had something different in mind. --Brian 10:48, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

ooo i don't fully understand but the words sound good!--Cat 06:51, 2 February 2008 (CST)

Sounds like a nice idea Brian, It may have slipped your mind, but have you looked at the 'Template:Categorize' yet? The temperature section is still not working. I can't see what is wrong with it. --Quatermass 08:10, 2 February 2008 (CST)

[edit] Upgrading

FYI To all...

I will be upgrading my dedicated server soon to a faster and larger box. This site will be one of the first to be sent over for various reasons. There shouldn't really be any down time, but you never know. Just giving fair warning. --Brian 14:05, 2 May 2008 (CDT)

Nice. I've been carrying out regular weekly backups of the site every Saturday.

--Quatermass 14:14, 2 May 2008 (CDT)

I know I get e-mails every time about a suspicious process every time :)

--Brian 14:45, 2 May 2008 (CDT)

Attempt 1 last night... failed. Trying again tomorrow (night) --Brian 01:14, 3 May 2008 (CDT)

In that case I'll start backing up key articles. Jourdy288 10:33, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

The transfers has been done. Thanks for the concern. --Brian 10:39, 6 May 2008 (CDT)


[edit] BREEDING

Could we have a link to the main breeding page please :-) what does eveyone think? Adam2307 10:28, 26 May 2008 (CDT)

there is a link in the "aquarium guides" section. there's only so many links that can be in the navigation section, too many will be mind boggling. --Cat 12:35, 26 May 2008 (CDT)

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