Talk: Directors

Some new initiatives coming

Once we have completed the migration of MCW to Gamepedia, Curse is starting some new initiatives for all of our wiki communities. Some things that you can look forward to are contests and giveaways for editors, as well as more rewards for our committed admin teams!

Along with these rewards we are also setting up better lines of communications between Curse and the admin teams, which will include periodic newsletters to let you know what is happening, not only on MCW, but across the Gamepedia network.

To be included in these reward programs, and our communications, we need to make sure we have current contact information, email addresses, as well as snail mail addresses (so we can send you the cool swag). So... Any of you wishing to participate, please email me at wynthyst"at"gmail.com with your info, and I will get our list updated. I PROMISE we will never share or sell this information, and you can opt out at any time. For those of you who provided contact information for our last thank you gift, I still have it, I just need to know if anything has changed.

You guys rock! I know we don't say it enough, but we think it every day. I can't imagine what MCW would be like without ALL of you and your hard work and dedication to making this THE place to get information on all things Minecraft! -- Wynthyst talk 12:07, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi guys, I'm a new admin on the Dutch MCWiki and I'd like to participate, I've sent my details. -- TheWombatGuru ^{t | c} NL Admin 12:23, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks :) I've sent you an e-mail. ILeon ᐸ Talk
Contribs - de.Wiki Admin 23:13, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Language Links

Hi there,

There are a lot of protected pages on the english wiki, and that's good, but it's kind of annoying that we can't add language links to the other wikis, will there be a solution for this in the future that we can edit the language links without editing the entire page?

-- TheWombatGuru ^{t | c} NL Admin 11:53, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Make a list here of the pages that need language links, and one of the admins of the English wiki will get them added (or I will do it myself). -- Wynthyst talk 12:43, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

That's nice of you/admins but not very efficient, can't you/someone else add a feature to the wiki like it is on wikipedia? -- TheWombatGuru ^{t | c} NL Admin 13:01, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia uses several specialized usergroups for some functions purely based on the immense size of the project. As a small gaming wiki, we don't have those same needs. -- Wynthyst talk 15:34, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

He might be referring to wikidata. Their language links are kept in a centralised location instead of on each wikipage. I don't know if there's the ability to have your own local data storage though. Wikipedia's is a separate site that other sites can pull data from, like wikimedia commons. We could of course use that, but it would be more convenient if it was a separate storage just for MCW. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Contribs – 01:07, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Migration

The date has now been set for the migration to Gamepedia. Please copy the site notice and User merge page to your language as soon as possible to give your users the most amount of preparation time. Thanks! -- Wynthyst talk 14:31, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done nl:MediaWiki:Sitenotice -- TheWombatGuru ^{t | c} NL Admin 15:40, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done de:MediaWiki:Sitenotice ILeon ᐸ Talk
Contribs - de.Wiki Admin 14:58, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done fr:MediaWiki:Sitenotice. Itouchmasterpro 15:29, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done ru:MediaWiki:Sitenotice, ru:Minecraft Wiki:Объединение учётных записей (since we were actually translating that page instead of linking to its English version, we took more time than other wikis). HEKP0H - ru.Wiki Admin 20:08, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done ko:MediaWiki:Sitenotice --Alswo9628 - KOR Admin (talk) 16:39, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done es:MediaWiki:Sitenotice | Kingpowl~ es.Wiki Admin (talk) 20:15, 17 September 2013 (UTC)