User talk:Pikachurin

Re: Names
Fair enough. I've done a brief revert for now, leaving the formatting but removing unused language headers. What would your thoughts be, assuming I can make a collapsible template work, of putting all the names in a collapsed list in the infobox? &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * Alright. I'll try to work on that tonight, perhaps, or tomorrow. Been a rough day :p &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * Thanks! ^.^ &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * I've implemented a very rough version on Tomoya Okazaki. It seems to work well (aside from my inability to get the Arabic diacritics to work, though after conferring with Locke, I'm pretty sure that's only affecting me), but it's difficult to use. I'll probably try to implement a more abstract method using fields like, and include an array of common languages to start with. I'd also like your input on possible ways to include both pinyin and jyutping for Chinese, since my way is a bit... unwieldy. Cheers,  &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * Created names (and ISO 639) in an attempt to clean up the code. In a tangentially-related note, it seems that MediaWiki:Common.js is now being applied to guests as well. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * Yeah, it works via a cookie, so logging in or out won't affect that. One thing I would like to do at some time would be have the ability for users to set a page, like Special:MyPage/units, which will override or replace a cookie when logged in. That way, if users switch computers, or are using public computers, their preferences will then be saved to their account, rather than to a cookie. Not sure if it can be done, but it'd be neat, at some time in the future :p &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Main Page Tweaks
Hello, my name is Nic and I'm a member of the Wikia Content Team. In order to guarantee that your main page continued to function with Wikia's ad policy, I had to make a few tweaks to your main page. I tried to keep it as close to the original as possible. Thanks for your hopeful understanding. - Wagnike2 22:48, November 27, 2011 (UTC)
 * Just a note, Pika, I think it worked better before this edit, since the ad pushes the sidebar down, anyway. Just my thoughts, though, you may have something else in mind :P &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * Yeah, unfortunately, it's never going to be balanced for all users, since those with adblock will get the menu right from the top, and those without it will get it pushed down by the ad. It would be nice to be able to detect adblock and put some other content in, but I think if that was possible it would already be being done to load ads :v &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

new
hey im new here can you show me around? im Tyler

Re: Sidebar problem on IE8
Hey Pika,

Can you get me a screenshot of what you mean? Unfortunately, I have no access whatsoever to either of those browsers at the present time, so I'm having trouble visualizing the errors you're describing.

cheers, &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * Well, that's no good at all. I'll get a hold of a computer sometime soon and see what I can do. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * Also, I should point out, the reason I asked for a screenshot is because using NetRenderer, I get relatively accurate outputs for 7 and 8, only 9 seems to mess up. Go figure. But yeah, I'll see what I can do. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * My recent edit seems to have fixed its rendering in IE9 on NetRenderer; how's it look for you? &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * No problem, hope it works on those! I've also edited the poll display a bit on MediaWiki:Wikia.css, since on the narrow width (either on the main page or on the two-column layout on the Clannad Wiki:Polls, the indenting pushed the poll bar way too much to the left for comfortable reading. Hope you don't mind. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * I'll do some tests until I find something that works, I definitely agree with you, the contrast is terrible. On an unrelated note, when I've been trying to save pages, it almost seems as though the server times out: I get my browser's "Connection closed by remote server" page, with an  URL. The changes save, but it's getting a bit irritating, and I was wondering if you were having the same issue or not.  &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * Also, got what seems to work as a solution in for the polls. Still can't get Opera to use my gradient, but it's not that bad without it. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * Hmm, Wikia must be having some issues. As for the colors, I'd hazard a guess at a cache issue, yeah. Probably clear up soon, but for reference, a screenshot (on browsers where the buttons have gradients, the poll fill will, too). I wanted to keep the unfilled part transparent; unfortunately, when the white text overflowed into it, it didn't work that well. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * No problem ^.^ &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Re: Happy New Year!
Thanks, and the same to you! :D &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Wikia's being more evil than usual
Hey Pika,

Form message below :v

I just thought I'd share something I noticed today across Wikia sites. It seems Wikia's set a cookie (named Geo) tracking location of its users. I'm not sure how they're deriving the information, which is a lot more accurate for myself than the information provided by a simple WHOIS request on my IP address, but it doesn't seem dependent on standard geolocation, which I have disabled.

Unfortunately, there's a separate cookie set on each wiki you visit, and deleting them has no effect, as they're just reset. However, editing them does seem to work, at least short-term. I have no idea what they're used for, but I'm hoping my edits to a few wikis I use send a message to someone:



Anyway, just thought I'd pass the information along to you and the admins at the CN Wiki in case anyone's interested or concerned. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * This was not something I anticipated. Opera makes it rather easy to edit cookies, so I wouldn't have ever thought other browsers would've not included such a feature by default. As it turns out, they don't, but I found a Chrome extension (you use Chrome right?) that looks to enable it. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Re: Ushio
I'm doing alright; same wishes to you.

I see where you mean, now. Since it is in fact easily viewable, I suppose it's not something that necessitates a citation (though we should probably establish some sort of guidelines on references). I've removed the template.

Hoping you're well, &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Reply to lingual page question
Well, I can't place a lingual gallery for every character. I'd rather have them displayed on every page as you saw. I will be updating the page regualarly, but I will be sometimes busy.Nkqdotaku96 (talk) 07:38, August 27, 2012 (UTC)Nkqdotaku96

Welcome Message
Hello,

Thank u for the welcome message, i will do my best for the Wikia

SharinganGirl, ~kawaii~, August 30, 2012. (UTC)

Interwiki God Pika Appears!
Hai!

So, I was looking over the Vietnamese articles you were linking, and noticed their list of Clannad episodes included thumbnails from the episodes alongside the description. I think this is an excellent idea, but wanted your input before I went ahead and altered our own.

I have some free time coming up soon and wouldn't mind doing some work on the wiki, so if there's anything in particular you'd like done, drop me a note. I'll definitely be doing a renovation and freshening up of the main page.

Cheers, &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 


 * Due to my recent changes to MediaWiki:Common.js, actually. Just noticed that (though weird I didn't get email notification of your message). Anyway, trying to fix now. Fixed it, though weird caching errors are causing the unit selector to not show up at all on some pages right now. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 


 * though weird I didn't get email notification of your message
 * Two days later, I get the notification message. Damn you, Wikia Gmail! :v &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Thumbnails incorporated (through changes to ep; see documentation) into List of Clannad episodes and List of Clannad ~After Story~ episodes. Your feedback would be much appreciated! :3 &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 


 * Thanks! The hover effect is done with JavaScript, Ctrl+F "langdiv" on MediaWiki:Common.js to see the relevant code (or hit the last diff :P).


 * I'll add the Spanish one today. Do you recall how to add support for links? I'm completely dumbfounded when it comes to this stuff. :v  &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 


 * I forgot to mention a couple things. First, if you have access to a Webkit-based browser like Google Chrome, could you do a quick check to see that the main page is working properly? I have Google Chrome, but for some reason it insists my desktop computer is a tablet, and is loading tablet-specific stylesheets that break everything arbitrarily, so I can't tell if it's working properly or not.


 * Also, do you have any suggestions for a flag for the Spanish Wiki Dango? Considering the vast majority of hispanophones live outside Spain, I'd hesitate to use the Spanish flag, but it seems there's a lack of relevant international organizations I might choose to use, such as I did with la Francophonie for the French one. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * Decided on the for the time being, but I'm not entirely sure it has a wide enough recognition, so the question still stands. Mind you, one might say the same about the flag of la Francophonie as well. Guess that's the pitfall of using flags for languages.  &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * I was a bit more confident on the French one because it's used by the wiki itself, but yeah, you're probably right. I'll redo those soon. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * Now France and Spain. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 


 * Ah, I see. Nah, I tried clearing cache and cookies; I think it can tell I have a touch screen, and because of that is applying tablet-like settings. I~dun~geddit~. But at least it's working. IE's had some issues with the positioning of the  containing the logo, dango, and statistics in welcome css, but at least there's no other major problems. Alright, time to port Template:Outdent, I don't know how we've lived without it. :v  &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Awwh yeah, that's the outdenting stuff. :3 Anyway, sometimes it works fine, other times it doesn't, other times it jump around as I scroll, or if I change zoom levels. It's really weird, but it doesn't seem to want to float right&mdash;or perhaps it doesn't want to not be at 100% width. Either way, I've tried a few things, and it keeps happening, but I don't think it's a really big deal, especially if it seems to work for you. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Re: Featured articles
Project:Featured articles provides information for voters, on how to add their own rubric-based evaluations under 'Editor reviews'. What was never finalized is the method for administrators to decide if consensus was reached and close and approve/disapprove nominations, as can be seen from the very empty 'Information for administrators' section on the project page. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Re: Dutch Wiki
Done. Hopefully it'll be successful. :3 &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Scans
Would you mind if I created pages for two Clannad artbooks that I have scans of and uploaded the scans onto them? One is of the anime and the other of the visual novel. Aassdddai  talk  12:24, November 25, 2012 (UTC)

Re: languages
Yup, lemme see what's the issue. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 


 * Well, change might've happened at the same time, but they just basically changed the default syntax around a bit (in a manner which makes every Wikia site that uses image links inaccessible to the blind, I might add, but that's another issue). Basically, they used to put the link URL of image links as the title text of the  element, and the image description as the alt text of the   element, but now they have the file name as the alt text and the image description as the link title, and the URL's taken out altogether.


 * Anyway, changed the image description to specified alt text instead and everything seems back to normal. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 


 * Well, that was sort of the effect, even though the URL was cycled out and the image name cycled in. And most welcome! &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Furigana
While researching something today, I came across, which has an inline implementation of. The example of its use I found was. Just curious if this is something you might want to see implemented here, or whether you prefer our current system better. &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * I'm not sure what you mean by "standard practice". It's certainly the first time I've seen it used on a Wiki-style encyclopædia, so if that's your concern, it may very well not be "standard". However, it should also be pointed out that upon closer examination, this uses new HTML5 elements to achieve the effect, so we may see its use expanded in the future. Furigana's general use alongside names, however, ; an example of its use in the wild is its use in filling out names on marriage registrations in Japan (near the top, 都留つる 太郎たろう and 谷村たにむら  花子はなこ ). There's also widespread use of it for both names and other complex kanji in light novels, news websites, and (by law) newspapers.
 * Also of note is that the  tag should allow us to default to the current display for browsers that do not support the   element.  &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 
 * Been doing some experimentation, and it's not working as well as I'd've hoped, since there's no way to separate characters within a single template field. While I'd prefer something like Tomoyo's name to appear as 坂上さかがみ 智代ともよ, with the furigana centered more specifically over the relevant kanji (so the family and given names have separate furigana), right now it would have to appear as 坂上智代さかがみともよ &mdash; with a single furigana field above the whole thing. While I could certainly just redo the whole template to make it work properly, it would make the template more difficult to use than it is now, which seems like too much of a trade-off for the benefit. I'm going to keep experimenting a bit (a potential compromise I've been considering is how the Korean Wikipedia does it, just separating the kana words with a space, producing something like 坂上智代さかがみ ともよ</rt> &mdash; interestingly, this looks amazingly better on the Korean Wikipedia than it does here, so there may be some styling issues I've yet to find), but perhaps it's better to leave it be for the time being.  &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Key Wiki Community and potential main page errors
Hi there, Pika!

Just thought I'd drop you a line about a Key community project which Herald of Meridian alerted me to. I've tentatively added the template to the bottom of our main page, but if you have other ideas for its placement, it may be worth checking into.

While editing the main page, however, I discovered a potential bug, in that neither the Featured Article slideshow, the featured video, or the @WikiaAnime Twitter feed seem to load for me, though they do load properly in the preview. This may be an issue with the embarrassingly outdated browser I'm presently using, however, so if you could check if they load for you, that'd be great.

Cheers, &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 


 * No worries about the delay at all! Thanks for checking in on that; I can assume my browser is just no longer supported. As for the Twitter feed, you appear to be correct; Wikia now only supports direct embedding of Twitter widgets now, which don't look as good as I'd like, but at least I've managed to get it working again.


 * Thanks again for getting back to me. Cheers, &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 

Various Issues
Hi again, Pika! I thought I'd drop you a short line about a couple issues.

Most importantly, I've been contacted by Schiffy from the Katawa Shoujo Wiki about the possibility of affiliating our Wiki with them, in much the same way we've recently done with the Key project. Since it's less directly related to Clannad than Key is, I wanted to defer formal affiliation until I'd spoken with you, but I'm certainly in favor of it. Cross-promotion between small wiki communities like ours is pretty much unambiguously positive, and it could also promote Clannad itself.

On a secondary note, there have been a lot of edits recently to various character infoboxes, changing details about their dates of birth. As to the best of my knowledge the references provided by the infoboxes remain our most accurate information, I have been reverting them, since they've not been providing additional references of their own to back up their (often varied) changes. However, I'm wondering if you feel there needs to be more done: either in the form of page (semi-)protection, or in the form of a community discussion on the data available, to try to assess the cause of the changes and whether there's been some important development I've been missing.

Hoping you're well, &#12294; vonPreußen &#65295;  talk 


 * I just thought I'd let you know that I was contacted by JunichiroMasami about birthdates recently, and have revised them based on his research, in many cases in the same way they'd been edited before. It appears that the Japanese Wikipedia's estimated age for Nagisa, which I'll note is not itself referenced, is incorrect: labeled as 18 at the beginning of the series, rather than 19, as evidence from the series itself seems to indicate. This was likely the source of the confusion that led to our adoption of incorrect years.


 * In other news, I've integrated our affiliation with the Katawa Shoujo Wiki on our main page, have implemented a temporary fix for our broken background, and have updated the JavaScript code that inserts the units changer into the sidebar, because Wikia had broken it.


 * Cheers, ~ vonPreu ſ   3en

Discussions
Hi Pikachurin; I'm Amanda with FANDOM's community development team! I'm contacting you to see if you are interested in turning on Discussions.

In case you are unaware of the feature, Discussions was introduced last year to help communities engage with users and fans. It lives in its own space on the wiki and allows users to interact with other members of the community. It is also mobile friendly, and gives mobile users a chance to contribute and engage with the community, and possibly turn them into wiki editors as well. You can read more about Discussions here.

For more information on migrating forums to Discussions, you can check out this blog over on Community Central that explains everything in detail.

If you have some concerns, Discussions and Forums can exist side-by-side in case you do not want to migrate just yet. However, eventually all Forums will be migrated over to Discussions, so getting ahead of the curve is never a bad idea.

Let me know what you think, and if you want to proceed I can get the ball rolling.Witnessme (talk) 23:18, April 30, 2018 (UTC)

Hi again! Checking in again to see if you'd decided on whether or not to enable discussions. If you could get back to me by Monday that'd be great. Thanks!Witnessme (talk) 21:25, May 18, 2018 (UTC)