Wikimon:Community Portal

Server speed problems?
I wasn't sure if I should bring this up since I don't know if I'm the only one experiencing this, but very often for me wikimon will take very long to load while editing/saving edits, and often gives me a 500 internal server error afterwards (though the edits seem to be saved most of the time). Anyone know what might be the problem causing this? I do have a somewhat crap internet but other pages don't take as long to load as wikimon does. --Garmmon (talk) 04:37, 22 November 2015 (CST)
 * Yeah, for the past few days it's been agonizingly slow. I assumed it might be because of increased traffic due to Tri, since it's been super, super slow since it aired. --devkyu (talk) 01:05, 23 November 2015 (CST)
 * A server admin took a peek at it when I pointed out that I was trying to figure it out and he found that a caching service was dying on the server. He restarted it so things should start to behave a bit better now. I'm still investigating, but overall I think it will be on the right track again. Dkpat (talk) 09:52, 23 November 2015 (CST)
 * ah that sounds bad...but thank you for taking the trouble to look into/fix it! it should help a lot :> --Garmmon (talk) 06:39, 24 November 2015 (CST)
 * Yeah, thanks for taking care of that. I'd pretty much given up trying to do any edits because it kept timing out on me.--devkyu (talk) 00:14, 25 November 2015 (CST)

Starting to get really bad lag again. Not sure if it's just due to increased traffic because of Digimon Universe or a back-end problem. Anyone else experiencing speed issues?--devkyu (talk) 21:27, 9 June 2016 (CDT)

Mediawiki 1.25 Upgrade problems
Ainz mentioned below that they have been running into a few issues since the upgrade happened, so I'm starting this section to give a place for these to be documented. So far there's a problem editing protected pages and editing user preferences. Also Special Pages has problems. Please report anything else here and I'll see who I can grab to fix these up. (Even if it might be myself) Dkpat (talk) 00:19, 15 July 2015 (CDT)
 * I have updated a few things on the wiki, but I haven't completely gone through it all yet. I'm off to bed for tonight though. I'll take a look again soon! Dkpat (talk) 01:50, 15 July 2015 (CDT)
 * Fixed Sidebar link and fixed protected pages problem. If you know of any other problems, let me know!Dkpat (talk) 12:00, 26 July 2015 (CDT)
 * The new messages notice is still displayed even after reading the new messages for some reason. --Ainz ( talk 17:29, 3 August 2015 (CDT)
 * Same here. I even tried editing the page, thinking a "reply" would make it go away. No such luck. It haunts me wherever I go. --devkyu (talk) 10:33, 23 August 2015 (CDT)
 * I tested out some JavaScript countdown timers a while ago but now they don't appear to work, not sure if it's due to the upgrade. --Ainz ( talk 16:21, 14 October 2015 (CDT)
 * Not sure if another update has occurred but most of the sections of the sidebar have disappeared. --Ainz ( talk 11:58, 12 November 2015 (CST)

Hi guys. I just saw all of these when I got the email about the sharing features(thought I was subscribed for updates, guess not) I'll try to look at all of these oddities too. Dkpat (talk) 08:51, 16 November 2015 (CST)

Content from e-mails
Every now and then I get stuff sent to me via e-mail and so I'll copy/paste it here for you guys. Do with it as you will. --Koroku (talk) 15:39, 4 March 2015 (CST)

Visual Dictionary 2002
I just managed to get a copy of the Digimon Zukan - Digital World Research White Paper book. From what I can tell it is essentially the holy grail of digimon profiles. Apparently it also has a lengthy terminology section in the back too. I'll be uploading scans of it as soon as possible, but does anyone have a preference for what gets prioritized? Most of the book is sorted by "Level" but there are separate sections for essentially "recolor" digimon and also special ones that appeared in V-Tamer. It is over 200 pages so I will get it all eventually, but I'd like to know what everyone would find more useful for the wiki first. --devkyu (talk) 12:20, 17 January 2015 (CST)

Image Uploads
As of late there has been quite a few users uploading images who obviously have not read the Rules page. As well as two users consistantly uploading the same image in excess of ten times in a row. THIS IS DUMB. STOP DOING THIS. Thank you. --devkyu (talk) 03:41, 16 June 2014 (CDT)

Main Page redesign needed
Hi guys, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the main page design needs to change. It's too wide to work in the new skin in a 1280px wide laptop display. (fairly common) It needs to be made thinner. Changing the skin isn't really a solution either.Dkpat (talk) 19:07, 20 February 2014 (CST)
 * The Main Page needs a complete reboot period; it's been more the less the same for like 6+ years and all the more to fit in with this new skin. --Ainz ( talk 02:02, 21 February 2014 (CST)
 * So.. does anyone have any suggestions or ideas for this? Dkpat (talk) 18:42, 27 February 2014 (CST)

Well, first off we can cut the Watch Along and Digimon Websites. Tasks might be better suited to its own page, or even being integrated into the Community Portal here. I like the Featured Article, but the Featured Image is always so buried, do we really need it? The Digimon Dictionary updates (and the feed) could be condensed - why not just have the pictures for the most recent 3/5? So really, we could just condense it down and reformat it. Maybe something like except pretty --Koroku (talk) 02:29, 6 March 2014 (CST)
 * Has anyone started on a sample page? If not, I'll try to start one out for you all. (Since I'm not really part of the community, I don't really want to make it myself) Dkpat (talk) 11:51, 1 May 2014 (CDT)

Hi everyone. I'm going to push for the default skin to be changed to neowikimon now. Dkpat (talk) 12:48, 12 July 2015 (CDT)
 * I've designed a Main Page to go along with the neowikimon skin, just aiming to fully complete it before Wikimon's 10th birthday. There are additional features that I'll explain about in more detail once it gets nearer its completion. --Ainz ( talk 14:42, 12 July 2015 (CDT)
 * Just noticed the MediaWiki update and the Neowikimon skin currently isn't displaying. --Ainz ( talk 19:41, 13 July 2015 (CDT)
 * Yeah. I requested an update to the server so that I could update my wiki, GSU to MW 1.25.1. It just so happens that the server PHP update can not run MW 1.23, which Wikimon was running on. So the server tech updated Wikimon to the new version... which coincidentally broke skins in a few ways. I'm working on fixing them as we speak. (I wish MediaWiki would stop messing with how skins work) Dkpat (talk) 23:52, 13 July 2015 (CDT)
 * Although the skin's fixed, several other problems have presented themselves. For example, the Main Page, as well as other protected pages currently cannot be edited by admins/bureaucrats, Special:SpecialPages is borked and User Preferences can't be customized; I'm not sure what other issues have arisen. --Ainz ( talk 23:40, 14 July 2015 (CDT)

Wikimon 10th Anniversary
Even though it's early mentioning it now, oddly (and scarily) enough, Wikimon's 10th anniversary is next year, so it's literally months away from now rather than years. What sort of ideas should we come up with in the very early stages of the long run-up to this major milestone? --Ainz ( talk 01:56, 7 February 2014 (CST)
 * ...Oh my god I feel so old. Wow, I don't even know. We're already getting a new layout/theme. I will try and think of something that could realistically be done and not be resource-intensive. I think maybe cleaning up or improving certain categories might be useful.--devkyu (talk) 02:15, 7 February 2014 (CST)
 * Maybe do a 10-month project or something. Like, starting in February 2015 we devote each month to a "big" project. One month could be cutting the number of stubs in half, or getting at least 10 pictures in each episode page or something. (It is almost 20 months tho, so we got time...) --Koroku (talk) 02:34, 6 March 2014 (CST)
 * Or even try to get to 10,000 pages or something; seems fitting for the 10th anniversary. --Ainz ( talk 07:32, 27 December 2014 (CST)
 * Well, we're just short of 8000, at the moment. If we manage to finish up all the missing card pages that will add a chunk to the total.--devkyu (talk) 16:06, 28 December 2014 (CST)

New Wikimon Theme
Hi guys, I'm dkpat or Dillion, and I'll be helping out with this process. :) I've created the theme for a few other wikis, so I do have experience with it. I'm hoping I can get some ideas of what everyone would like to see from a new design. Any particular things you don't like about the current skin, or features you'd like to see return? Dkpat (talk) 16:31, 9 June 2013 (CDT)
 * The background!! It's sooo annoying. (No offence, Ainz!) --Koroku (talk) 16:40, 9 June 2013 (CDT)

Also, could one of the other admins fix him so he's purple too? I dunno how you guys do it (: --Koroku (talk) 16:40, 9 June 2013 (CDT)
 * Personally a mid color or darker theme is generally nice. Easier on the eyes than HOLY CRAP WHITE EVERYWHERE. And I think Grandy knows how to make usernames into fabulous purple.--devkyu (talk) 16:55, 9 June 2013 (CDT)
 * I also think the background is annoying. Mostly due to the fact that it's animated, which may or may not be a distraction while "navigating" around the wiki. ~KinHikari 17:55, 9 June 2013 (CDT)
 * I generally agree with everyone; I'm not too fond of the animated background (mostly because of loading times for me though), and I'd like to keep a darker colour scheme as it's easier on the eyes. Something dark and not too saturated seems good to me I guess :) --Garmmon (talk) 19:59, 9 June 2013 (CDT)

So in general, stay dark colored and get rid of the animated background. I'm going to suggest staying with a purple/blue/black theme because it would be easiest for the rest of the wiki's content to not need to change colors. I'm also going to suggest keeping a fluid width skin (one that doesn't stop expanding at a certain point) Because (well A, I haven't done a fluid skin in a while) and I think Fluid widths are much nicer in a wiki because everyone is used to them and they fill the screen so much better. With those two factors in mind, It will probably be a fairly similar layout to the current skin, just updated to use rounded edges, and to be a bit larger. If anyone disagrees with any of that, please do tell me, I don't mind changing my ideas. :) Dkpat (talk) 12:07, 10 June 2013 (CDT) I suppose I can toss this out here, just to show some examples, but please, I really don't want to make another Fire Emblem Skin. and excuse Icaruspedia's terrible colors... They were thrust onto me. http://dkpat.net/skinwiki/ Dkpat (talk) 12:33, 10 June 2013 (CDT)
 * Hey everyone, I know it's been awhile, but I'm starting to finally begin my design, and I've got my inspiration set, but I'm probably going to need the help of a talented artist/photoshopper (one who is familiar with the Digimon series) Do we have any volunteers? Dkpat (talk) 15:25, 2 August 2013 (CDT)
 * I suggest Devkyu! --Koroku (talk) 13:48, 9 August 2013 (CDT)
 * The new theme's coming along nicely! But yeah, it's something different for change since the 3+ years after the fifth anniversary (sorry for the late reply, I've been "dead" for ages hehehe)--Ainz ( talk 02:54, 13 January 2014 (CST)

Hey guys! It's getting much closer to being finished now! :D Dkpat (talk) 14:58, 16 January 2014 (CST)
 * Like I said on FB, I looooooooove the header. Amazing job Dev! --Koroku (talk) 16:46, 17 January 2014 (CST)

Video
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HTML5video Want? We could put up the openings/endings and stuff. :) I have this server we might as well use it. --Koroku (talk) 16:25, 9 June 2013 (CDT)

Name Consistency
Okay so long story short Bandai is being retarded (like this is anything new) and now there we have multiple romanizations for names piling up. We're just going to move some pages around for consistency and familiarity (Talk:Khaosmon). Main template might get adjusted a bit to properly reference where each official romanization comes from just to keep track of them of course, but can anyone think of titles that should get switched around? Currently it's likely Khaosmon -> Chaosmon (for Chaosmon Valdur Arm), RegVagimon -> RedVegimon (to match with Vegimon). I'm also in favor of moving GrandDracumon back to GranDracmon, since the latter predates the former, is more in line with the katakana, and was used in more media officially. There is also "Tunomon" which I can only find a single use of, versus like 13+ years of Tsunomon.--devkyu 00:54, 12 April 2013 (CDT)

HC Card Template
Is it possible to change the HC card template so that instead of making all the Japanese text inputtable via a separate template, you can input the Japanese text directly into the HC template itself? Because I think that would save a lot of trouble in the Special Abilities section, not having to make separate template pages for each different text that appears? --Garmmon 09:25, 6 April 2013 (CDT)
 * I think that would be a good idea. Since I doubt there will ever be any more changes to the main template at this point, maybe someone should make a duplicate(HC2) with a few tweaks that allows direct input? Someone that isn't me, because any template I touch that Ainz made explodes violently >.>;; --devkyu 00:54, 12 April 2013 (CDT)
 * I mostly work on the cards (if I even work on anything anymore lol), so I just wanted to know if this is still possible to implement? I think there's too many unique card texts that make creating templates for each one too cumbersome. I've tried fiddling with the template but coding is really not my strong suit :v --Garmmon (talk) 00:05, 14 July 2015 (CDT)
 * As in similar to how the Japanese for the card blurbs are inputted? --Ainz ( talk 02:01, 14 July 2015 (CDT)
 * Yup! something like that would be great :) --Garmmon (talk) 09:32, 14 July 2015 (CDT)
 * I've managed to alter the template with some slight modifications, mainly for the requirements section. For examples, here are the possible variables for the requirements (still need to write a documentation for it) and Re-41. I just need to modify HCO in a similar way, in addition to the categories and stuff. --Ainz ( talk 21:51, 14 July 2015 (CDT)
 * I've finally modified HCO to allow for the Japanese raw text, tested it out on Sp-27. --Ainz ( talk 20:19, 15 July 2015 (CDT)
 * Ahh thank you for the help!! I've tried it out and it seems to be fine; I'll slowly go through and edit the cards eventually :) But I also noticed the Japanese evolution requirements seems to have broken (like in St-61), I'm not sure if having a colon in the template title will screw up anything but if not I can go ahead and make the template pages again --Garmmon (talk) 21:49, 16 July 2015 (CDT)
 * I've just added a documentation for the HC modification. I'll help you out too! --Ainz ( talk 22:16, 16 July 2015 (CDT)
 * Nice, that helps a lot! Thanks so much!! :D --Garmmon (talk) 11:03, 17 July 2015 (CDT)
 * No probs! ^^ --Ainz ( talk 12:46, 17 July 2015 (CDT)
 * Sorry for the trouble again :s do you think it's possible to add in a small section in the template to write the illustrator's name? Since some cards illustrated by different people have the artists' names on them. Though I was thinking about this more for the Jintrix/Digica Taisen templates since those cards do state the illustrator for each card (even if I can't find the different illustrators for digica taisen for heck...)--Garmmon (talk) 21:44, 20 July 2015 (CDT)
 * I've added a section for the ilustrator's name to HC, I just need to add it to the Jintrix & Digica Taisen templates. --Ainz ( talk 01:58, 21 July 2015 (CDT)
 * Thank you for all the help!! >< --Garmmon (talk) 20:34, 21 July 2015 (CDT)