Wikimon:Community Portal

Chatroom
Please read this, and let me know if you guys would be interested. --Koroku 14:57, 26 February 2011 (CST)
 * Are they basically offering to have one of their three staff on watching your channel at all times? Seems...unlikely. I guess you can always delete the channel if they aren't able to hold up their end of the bargain.
 * If you guys for some reason ever want to get a freenode IRC, we can advertise it on the Digimon Wiki.KrytenKoro06 19:32, 26 February 2011 (CST)
 * Yeah, basically give us a chatroom. I suppose we could share it with you guys at Digimon Wiki? :) --Koroku 19:39, 26 February 2011 (CST)
 * As long as it doesn't slow down the loading times any, I'm neutral about it. Then again, how many people are actually active here anyway? Like... maybe five or six people? I don't really see how much traffic a chatroom would realistically get here. --devkyu 04:08, 27 February 2011 (CST)

Sprites from V-Pets and Games
Right now, in most Digimon articles there is one piece of Bandai artwork and, if the Digimon appeared in the anime, often Toei artwork and at least one anime screenshot. But only a few of the articles show the Digimon's appearance in virtual pets and video games (not to mention manga). The handful of articles that use the "other images" section of the infobox usually only include the Digimon Story (Sunburst & Moonlight) sprite (the infobox doesn't state the sprite's origin, though).

In the article Aero V-dramon, a user added three images to the "Other" part, one v-pet sprite and two DS sprites. If more sprites were added in this fashion, it would start to look messy, also because the images are just there without mentioning their origin. I wonder, could image galleries for v-pet/game sprites and maybe game screenshots be added to articles, perhaps even outside of the infobox? It's not that I could rip any of them myself, but there are quite a few at certain spriting websites. --Grandy02 08:44, 24 February 2011 (CST)

V-Pet & Game templates
Currently doing a slight revamp of the templates for the V-pet and Game pages. For now I'm going to adjust the release date and language fields to show which territories they were released in (Japan, US, Europe, Asia, etc). For the game section I was thinking of making it a tabber to show information and box art from different territories and adjust it to now have a giant blank space if a game was only released in Japan.

I'm also wondering if the actual template colors should be made dark with white text to match the current layout. Suggestions or requests?--devkyu 03:36, 17 February 2011 (CST)

Spam Problem
I'm pretty sure everyone has noticed our recent uninvited guests. I'm not sure what defenses we already have in effect, but GreenReaper suggested quite a few extensions we can add in, including SimpleAntiSpam, ForcePreview, SpamBlackList, AntiBot and AbuseFilter.

I've copy/pasted their reply here. Hopefully some of these are usable for Wikimon... I know it sometimes tends to explode when things are installed. --devkyu 03:11, 30 January 2011 (CST)

Hyper Colosseum Rules
I just got the Ultimate Battle Deck and now have access to the rulebook. I'll be scanning and uploading them soon. Maybe then we can actually figure out how the game is played...--devkyu 18:54, 20 January 2011 (CST)
 * UPDATE: Uploading full size scans to the usual folder, 43 pages total for the rulebook (though a good chunk are checklists for previous sets), they're they "dmcg" images.--devkyu 00:55, 21 January 2011 (CST)

Affiliation Request
I was wondering if it was at all possible for Wikimon to affiliate with a Digimon RPG. Digital Dreams is an RP that's been around near half a decade and is still fairly active. Its used Wikimon pretty regularly and already the staff refers Wikimon has the best place to go for first time Digimon RPers to find their Digimon lines at. Just a simple question. Hopefully I've done this right; I'm used to Forums. ^^;; Our site link is http://z10.invisionfree.com/DigitalDreams/index.php?showuser=304 and here is our affiliates button: http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/4528/ddtagei4.gif

If you need the HTML for it: 

And one of our admins will put your button up if you say yes.


 * It would be up to Koroku to decide on that. --devkyu 18:54, 20 January 2011 (CST)

A Year in Review
http://www.mediafire.com/?rxricx3tktc7i0x If anyone is interested. --Koroku 21:41, 1 January 2011 (CST)
 * Wow, didn't expect nearly that much traffic... and certainly not that much from Japan. Brazil was also a bit surprising.--devkyu 00:13, 2 January 2011 (CST)

Did You Know....
http://wikirby.info/index.php?title=Template:DYK&action=edit Automation :) --Koroku 10:34, 20 December 2010 (CST)

Digimon RPG & Masters Evos
Should we really list the Evos exclusive to those Games? They are llikely not supported by Bandai Japan...--MugenSeiRyuu 18:51, 19 November 2010 (CST)
 * That's what I'm wondering.--Ainz ( talk 17:17, 4 December 2010 (CST)
 * Doesn't matter to me either way. For the most part we still don't have most of the Wonderswan game evos up at this point, and they'd take priority over the MMOs.--devkyu 22:25, 4 December 2010 (CST)
 * That is for sure true. As far as the MMOs go, I wouldn't count them.--MugenSeiRyuu 04:21, 5 December 2010 (CST)

Profile Links
Since Digimon.net has long since taken down all of their virtual pet subsites, all of the reference links original directing to them are dead. Since it's doubtful that they will ever be brought back online, what does everyone think of the idea of "rebuilding" the V-pet profile sites by ripping them off of the Wayback Machine? I'm not really sure if this is feasible or not. --devkyu 00:26, 19 November 2010 (CST)
 * Whatever you can find, we can host. archive.wikimon.net can be set up, or you can host them through the wiki... doesn't much matter to me. :) --Koroku 03:21, 19 November 2010 (CST)
 * Awesome. I just found a few pages, right now I'm playing with the coding and seeing what needs to be done to trim them down... taking out all the WBM and Channel codes and rearranging all the files into one spot. Seems that each page has its own folder of images >_<. This... could take a while. --devkyu 05:08, 19 November 2010 (CST)
 * NP. Let me know what you need, and I'll get it set up. --Koroku 09:00, 19 November 2010 (CST)
 * Me and Lanate did a dump of what we could find a while back. You should ask him if he can megaupload his stuff, and I'll do mine as soon as I get back to my home computer. (I have Pendulums and Burst, I think, he has most of the others)KrytenKoro06 09:34, 19 November 2010 (CST)
 * Okay, after fooling around a while with this, I managed to get a page working! Digital Monster Ver. 1. It was stupidly complicated to cut everything out and redirect links to the images, but I managed to trim out all of the digimon channel frames and the wayback machine coding. I'm going to see if I can get the full Digital Monster subsite up.--devkyu 21:14, 21 November 2010 (CST)
 * Nice. --Koroku 23:31, 21 November 2010 (CST)

Update issues
Is anyone else experiencing problems after the apparent update?--Ainz ( talk 19:41, 12 November 2010 (CST)
 * I had a weird error pop up, where it just showed the top of the page with the logo (and mostly white) with a string of data. It went away after I refreshed the page though. Haven't had anything else show up yet.--devkyu 19:50, 12 November 2010 (CST)
 * I'm not sure if everyone else can see this, but it seems all of the reference links are broken now. I'm seeing errors where the little numbers used to be. >_> Tsum 19:58, 12 November 2010 (CST)
 * Yeah, I just noticed that like... 5 seconds ago. IT'S NANOMON AGAIN!!--devkyu 20:18, 12 November 2010 (CST)
 * "Fixed. (Downgraded Cite to a more stable version)" - pawitp --Koroku 23:06, 12 November 2010 (CST)
 * Hurray! We're saved! Thanks pawitp!--devkyu 03:56, 13 November 2010 (CST)

Xros Wars Ep 1 Fandub
So FET (Floppy Eared Terriermon of DigiFandub.net if anyone remembers him from back in the day) has started up auditions for a Xros Wars fandub:VAA thread. I figured it might get some interest here. If there's no objections, does anyone think we should frontpage the link? --devkyu 00:51, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Go ahead and hijack the admin announcements. --Koroku 05:53, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Consider the announcements hijacked! >:3 --devkyu 02:11, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Wikimon 5th Anniversary (December 16)
With it being in exactly 4 months time (from today), should we do anything special for it?--Ainz ( talk 02:18, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * We definitely should, although what exactly is the question. If it requires art, I can probably help come up with something given enough notice. At this point we still have a decent amount of time to plan --devkyu 07:48, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * ...5 years? Wow. --Koroku 21:59, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, the deadline is closing in on us, so we should probably start making plans about now for what we're going to do. I can always do profile pics, front page images, or a short comic with the admins and random stuff going on. Any ideas yet? --devkyu 20:51, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Contests or give-aways would be kinda fun. --Koroku 15:36, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Some random thoughts: A special color scheme for the Main Page, a banner commemorating the anniversary, tying in with the contest/give-away idea, I was thinking maybe a Digimon Xros Loader.--Ainz ( talk 17:09, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Those sound good. I can definitely handle the banner. In addition to that, maybe a few small one-panel comics to be thrown up on the main page regarding the wiki. Did a quick set of doodles as an example: File:Wikicom_example.jpg. Suggestions welcome... also, sorry Kryten, but until you inform me otherwise, you are a Koromon.--devkyu 02:29, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Is that supposed to me as Ikuto swinging on a vine? --Koroku 03:43, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Sweet! I'm on this thing!...but uh, what am I doing to that computer screen there?KrytenKoro06 03:36, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * @Koroku: Yes, yes it is. @KrytenKoro06: Trying to erase grid lines with a tiny eraser. And since I doubt anyone can tell, Garmmon is buried under thousands of cards... :3--devkyu 05:59, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I feel so..honoured to be included. :O I don't think I've done all that much lol --Garmmon 13:18, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks good so far!--Ainz ( talk 13:05, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll try and get some less-sketchy ones up soon then! --devkyu 00:51, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I could sort out the color scheme. Any ideas as to what colors we could use, or even a possible picture we could use for the background instead of dark gray (e.g. something similar to or )? Also, I'm planning on ordering a Digimon Xros Loader for a contest/give-away and possibly Digimon Minis (Xros Wars Version) for the runner(s) up, but what should the contest be about and what format should it be?--Ainz ( talk 20:56, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I like the darker color scheme of the second image, the first one is pretty bright and might be a bit busy depending. Really depends on how it goes with the rest of the layout. As for the contest... so far I haven't got a clue on what could actually work for a wiki. It's not like this is DeviantArt where we have a large influx of artists to have a drawing contest. Just having a "pull a number out of a hat" contest seems really cheap. Maybe a story-writing contest somehow relating to Wikimon? Like "write a story, but it has to include A B and C", that way everyone could have access to it. That and it is NaNoWriMo, so there's a chance a lot of writers are already hyped. --devkyu 21:27, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The Japanese Digimon Wiki at wikia already uses the digimon.net background, although that wiki is pretty empty.
 * I would personally prefer a comic contest, instead of writing full-on stories.KrytenKoro06 22:37, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I figured having stories as an option might make it more accessible, because... well... most people can't draw. Maybe having submissions be able to use multiple formats would work (art, stories, comics, etc). Of course, it doesn't have to be limited to one medium. Sadly I don't think the contest will get many entries no matter what we do. Do we get enough traffic for something like this? --devkyu 06:16, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know how much it would help, but the Digimon Wiki would be glad to post a notice directing people towards any contest/celebration/cocaine-fueled raver you guys set up.KrytenKoro06 06:58, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it would definitely help and possibly some form of advertisement in signatures on forums depending on whether it's permissible or not. Another option would be to construct some really difficult quiz or something. As for the background, I've managed to come up with this.--Ainz ( talk 18:28, 20 November 2010 (CST)
 * OnlineDigimon is sending me one of the Xros Wars CDs that we can give away. :) And someone want to make like a 300x100 banner or something for signatures? BG looks cool, Ainz. --Koroku 11:34, 21 November 2010 (CST)
 * I can take a crack at some signature banners, does anyone know what font is used for the Wikimon logo?--devkyu 21:14, 21 November 2010 (CST)
 * No clue, but User:Kimatg made it. --Koroku 23:31, 21 November 2010 (CST)
 * The font used is Beatbox: http://www.dafont.com/beatbox.font --Garmmon 09:31, 23 November 2010 (CST)
 * Yay, font get! Also, should the banners advertise the 5th anniversary?--devkyu 15:13, 23 November 2010 (CST)
 * Indeed, at least some of 'em. Would be nice for some general advertising ones too. --Koroku 01:52, 24 November 2010 (CST)

Okay, I made a quick mock-up for the banner, which would you guys prefer? Also, any ideas for what crap should be going on in the background would be welcome. Frontpage Banner --devkyu 11:02, 25 November 2010 (CST)
 * Major cute! Maybe have stuff like random articles or something?
 * Okay, I'm going to start inking the banner tonight starting with the "5" and the background, so if anyone wants to suggest changes, do it within the next day or so~ --devkyu 01:00, 30 November 2010 (CST)
 * I've ordered the Xros Loader which should arrive within the next two weeks or so. We just need to come to a comprimise on the format of the contest; I personally think that a quiz would appeal to a much wider audience. I'll also put up some other possible designs for the background and some color scheme suggestions later. --Ainz ( talk 09:11, 1 December 2010 (CST)
 * If you do a quiz, you're going to have to have some timer or other way to keep people from just surfing the wikis to find an answer. Possibly it could be general knowledge stuff that isn't easy to look up, like, "Why did Izzy do such and such during this event?" I'm assuming if you do a quiz, though, that wiki or almanac writers would be disqualified?KrytenKoro06 11:04, 1 December 2010 (CST)
 * At this point, a diabolically difficult quiz seems like the best option at this point, and I don't doubt wiki and almanac writers would probably be disqualified for fairness... otherwise Ainz might as well just keep the Xros Loader at this point. Any idea how many questions the quiz should be? --devkyu 11:53, 1 December 2010 (CST)
 * Hmmm.... between 30-50? Or maybe just 30 itself--Ainz ( talk 12:07, 1 December 2010 (CST)
 * At least 30 sounds good. Next we just need to think of a submission format... and what to do if there is a tie. Not to mention evilly difficult questions for it too.--devkyu 15:52, 1 December 2010 (CST)
 * Okay, got most of the Frontpage Banner inked. I can fit at least two more characters on there relatively quickly, anyone have requests/suggestions? Maybe Piccolomon... --devkyu 23:53, 1 December 2010 (CST)
 * Holding a pickle and a piccolo, yes.KrytenKoro06 01:31, 2 December 2010 (CST)
 * No, no, it has to be riding the pickle! And wearing Revolmon's hat! --devkyu 04:36, 2 December 2010 (CST)
 * Looks good so far.--Ainz ( talk 08:22, 2 December 2010 (CST)
 * I'll be posting another progress pic in the morning, since most of the coloring is done now, but does anyone have any idea what two main colors the "5" should be in the banner? There's always taking the colors from one of the series logos, or matching it up with the site colors. Maybe dark gray/blue? I could probably use the microchip background over part of it. Also, XW19. Love-Love Dance. YOU CANNOT UNSEE IT.--devkyu 05:08, 7 December 2010 (CST)
 * Standard matrix-y colors (dark grey and neon green) are pro'ly good. Or you could go for toyetic anime colors - plastic red and blue.KrytenKoro06 09:09, 7 December 2010 (CST)
 * Might go with the green/gray combo. There's a lot of red on there already... I blame Shoutmon. Now it just needs the number colored and a background and it's done. Might change Shoutmon's eye a bit. Updated Banner --devkyu 17:05, 7 December 2010 (CST)
 * Great! I'd say just use the series logo colors, would make the most sense. ^o^ Let's get this up on the main page~ --Koroku 10:07, 8 December 2010 (CST)
 * Okay, here it is. I put up the Digimon.net BG as a placeholder background until something better pops up. Almost Final Banner --devkyu 00:24, 10 December 2010 (CST)
 * BRILLIANT. I'd say just crop it so we have less of that background, and maybe opaque it out some... --Koroku 02:30, 10 December 2010 (CST)
 * You mean like, make the background darker and not as blinding? Or lighten it up? --devkyu 02:42, 10 December 2010 (CST)
 * Either or. --Koroku 03:07, 10 December 2010 (CST)
 * Or both A, B, C That or we just rip a screenshot from somewhere and use that. --devkyu 03:29, 10 December 2010 (CST)
 * I'm digging A. :) --Koroku 03:48, 10 December 2010 (CST)
 * Cleaned it up a little and saved as a nice, shiny PNG! Final!
 * I received the Xros Loader a couple of days ago. As for the background, I'll try to put up some suggestions later today.--Ainz ( talk 08:58, 14 December 2010 (CST)
 * This time round, I added arrays of vertical and horizontal text reading ("Digital Monster"). I've made three different versions:, . I've also created three variants of B, , , , although B3 may become irritating after a while/cause issues. I'm inclined to choose B2; I think that the contrast between the purple, blue & turquoise are really effective, in particular, I like how the green-blue DigiLetters give it more of a Matrix-esque effect compared to A. Also, the small patches of light give it that electric feel. What adjustments should I make if any (e.g lighting, make the DigiLetters animated instead of the flashing effect, etc)?


 * All that's left now is sorting out the color scheme for the Main Page and the quiz. --Ainz ( talk 18:47, 14 December 2010 (CST)
 * I like the variants of B, but I can understand what you mean about B3 possibly becoming irritating after a while. Although without seeing it over the whole page, it's hard to tell exactly if that will be a problem. Maybe toning down just how much of it lights up or slowing down the pulsing might be a good option. A cool effect (although likely too much of a pain in the ass) would be to have electric pulses run across the circuit board. I'll have to check the backgrounds on my other monitor later, as this one is really too hard for me to really judge colors.--devkyu 23:36, 14 December 2010 (CST)


 * Despite being really laborious, I've come up with as a test for the pulse across the circuit board thing. I'm currently working on the final version (possibly less bright).--Ainz ( talk 14:29, 15 December 2010 (CST)
 * I've created a ; the final version should be complete within the next few hours. --Ainz ( talk 18:41, 15 December 2010 (CST)
 * Here's the final version: . Ainz ( talk 19:33, 15 December 2010 (CST)
 * Hot DAMN Ainz, that is truly epic! --devkyu 20:14, 15 December 2010 (CST)
 * And here's the final-final version!--Ainz ( talk 21:21, 16 December 2010 (CST)
 * That's going to look so awesome when it's up. --devkyu 23:27, 16 December 2010 (CST)


 * Chrissakes, that's beautiful. I-I... oh got, that's beautiful.KrytenKoro06 15:18, 17 December 2010 (CST)
 * Thanks! I've also added the circuit board effect very faintly for each page.--Ainz ( talk 09:33, 18 December 2010 (CST)

News
The black X Loader will have a Shoutmon X4B DigiMemory, it looks like.KrytenKoro06 08:07, 19 November 2010 (CST)

Xros Wars manga
漫画デジモンクロスウォーズ休載のお知らせ Non-appearance notice for "Digimon Xros Wars" manga

今月のデジモンクロスウォーズは都合によりお休みさせていただきます This month's "Digimon Xros Wars" will be absent due to circumstances

次号を楽しみにしててくれよな! Taiki: I'm looking forward to the next issue!

早く暴れたいぜ! Shoutmon: I want to be rioting soon!

12月18日(土)発売2月特大号を楽しみにお待ちください Please await the sale of a special bumper issue two months from now on December 18 (Saturday)


 * I'm guessing that instead of being released two months from now, it's probably referring to the February 2011 special issue of V Jump.--Ainz ( talk 12:30, 23 November 2010 (CST)

Move!
Should be "Ugoku!", not "Ugoki!"KrytenKoro06 14:01, 30 November 2010 (CST)
 * Small typo fixed.--Ainz ( talk 14:21, 30 November 2010 (CST)

Questions
Hello, I'm still new to this site and have some questions: --Grandy02 10:42, 1 December 2010 (CST)
 * 1) In Digimon articles, has text on appearances in anime, manga etc. to be written in present tense or past tense? I saw both. Any guidelines?
 * 2) Do minor misspellings in romanisations of the Digimon Dictionary have to affect article titles? That there are articles titled Red Vagimon and Bantyo Liomon while there are also Vegimon and Leomon looks really odd. You also use Piccolomon in favour of Picklemon, so why not using the "proper" spellings of the other ones, too?
 * 3) Are all anime screenshots self-made by the uploaders or taken from elsewhere?
 * 4) Many articles refer to various kinds of Digimon as male, even if they lack masculine features. AreIf they actually intended to be male?


 * 1) ... Present, I guess.
 * 2) Those are the official names. I've argued over the Picklemon/Piccolomon thing before which lead to this.
 * 3) The vast majory of them are self-made by uploaders.
 * 4) It depends on the context, e.g if a Digimon uses a gender-specific pronoun in the original anime, manga, games, etc.

--Ainz ( talk 11:39, 1 December 2010 (CST)

And another question: In some articles, I saw "humourous" placeholders, e.g. XW17 and Heaven Zone. Should those really be there? --Grandy02 12:14, 1 December 2010 (CST)
 * 1) Okay, then I'll have to edit what I wrote.
 * 2) Okay.
 * 3) I see.
 * Hm, I only saw the German dubs (based on Japanese) which are inconsistent in this case (even main Digimon have been referred to by neuter pronouns). In Kuwagamon's article, I referred to it by male pronouns, but I guess that's wrong?
 * If you think there is a problem with the placeholders, you must be mistaking us for Wikipedia. We actually have a sense of humor here. They don't. And Shiny Latias is awesome.--devkyu 15:23, 1 December 2010 (CST)
 * Ah, I don't mind that much, just wondered about it. --Grandy02 08:15, 2 December 2010 (CST)

DigiXros Page?
Would it make sense to make a page listing all Digimon that result from DigiXrosing (and the Digimon that make them up), with links to their individuals pages? CloneWarrior 00:43, 29 January 2011 (CST)
 * We have one for the Armor Evolutions, so I don't see why not! --devkyu 01:01, 29 January 2011 (CST)

Main Page
Shoutmon, Proof of a King's Romaji is in the Sweets Zone! The Sweet-toothed Digimon Battle!'s romaji parameter.KrytenKoro06 08:34, 16 February 2011 (CST)