User talk:KidProdigy

Adoption

Hello, I am interested in adopting the wiki. I got interested in the series a while back, and I saw there was a wiki on Miraheze, but it was inactive. I only saw one bureaucrat, so if you are still interested in the wiki, please comment anything here. ZeusDeeGoose (talk) 16:56, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

still interested. but forgotten to open it. if you can help out, that'll be great! KidProdigy (talk) 22:35, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Alright, thanks for letting me know. ZeusDeeGoose (talk) 23:19, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

However, I can give you rights if you are still interested in contributing to the wiki? KidProdigy (talk) 14:12, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Name looks familiar

Were you from Pokemon Wiki on Fandom? I've seen it while browsing around (as I been reusing some of the older templates & whatnot for a wiki I'm doing here). I won't advertise it out of courtesy (I felt bad I did to soon on ZeusGoose's talk) but I just wanted to let know how the username came across as familiar. Bawitdaba (talk) 13:50, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Well, yes. I was a contributor at Pokémon Wiki, but quit due to something. I didn't like wasting my time and efforts there. KidProdigy (talk) 13:58, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Prob because Bulbapedia is extremely ahead, even to this day, I'm guessing Bawitdaba (talk) 14:02, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Nah, not because of Bulbapedia. My efforts and all was acknowledged, but it was halted when I wanted to become an admin to help out even more. But, mostly for Pokémon info in detail, I rather go to Bulbapedia. KidProdigy (talk) 14:07, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

I'm mostly a Mario guy, although I have played earlier Pokémon titles (ty for using accent e, even in talk pages :P). I have told people I like the Fandom one more, as it appear to allow for more flexibility in style. It seems to be transforming into a Bulbapedia Lite at this point. There have been several attempts at making alt Pokemon wiki, but all of them ride off the coattails of Bulbapedia so I decided I do one that goes outside the box. It's a mountain of work for me ahead, but ultimately fun of wiki editing is what matters to me :P Bawitdaba (talk) 14:24, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Bulbapedia is probably more used widely. Maybe they also compete with one another, which may be another thing. I liked the coding part on wiki, but i forgot about it somewhat, which is a good thing to learn some things that make a template functional and such. KidProdigy (talk) 16:49, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Older revisions of Pokemon Wiki articles -- I've seen them use messy code from some of the Pokemon infoboxes and sprite templates -- like a toccolours. Forgot to ask, may I show you how I handle an article on a Pokemon? It's done in a unique way. I'm also very glad Miraheze maintains a Monaco skin, as I've been using that for wikis that I'm involved with, though I guess not many aside from 2008-2010 Wikia editors would have an appreciation for it, I'm guessing Bawitdaba (talk) 17:30, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

I never understood why, but you could implement that easily and you got the color. I used toccolours before, but that took a large amount of wasted time that I did something else that the entire color was there. Yeah! I remember the Monaco skin, I actually don't use it because I do like Vector too. That they changed from Monaco to Oasis was really the reason a lot of wiki's went independent if I could remember. I believed 2008-2010 was Monobook, I think. But, yeah, I am always interested in seeing other's templates. You can show me, would be happy to see it. KidProdigy (talk) 17:36, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Okay, so here's a Pikachu article and a Zapdos article. As for game article, I did Pokemon Red and Blue and Pocket Monsters Red and Green Versions. I use Monobook as default on all wikis that I run. Here's what the Monaco skin looks like on the wiki. Also, there's a type template that I did as well as a game color. There's probably some more to note, but these are some of the key things, I'd say. Bawitdaba (talk) 18:02, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

(Darned 50x Miraheze errors) Should be able to view them now. Miraheze allows for custom domains, so do you think of like a yokaiwatchwiki.com or something for this site? Miraheze is interesting in that it doubles as both a wiki farm (I came from a wiki scene where folks don't like wiki farms, which is understandable as it could be a power grab in one swoop, like Gamepedia to Fandom) and a wiki host -- like they go beyond being seen as just a wiki host. Bawitdaba (talk) 18:22, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

All in all, it looks cool. The templates does remind a bit of another wiki, but I could be mistaken. The design too is fitting if you want to keep things informative, which is nice Miraheze is not overly ad-abusive. But the designs looks really cool. I know about the custom domains, but I actually don't understand how to make that work... :D... so, I actually didn't do it. Miraheze is indeed a wiki farm, but cool that you can use a custom design to use their servers essentially instead of paying a good chunk yourself if I understand that very well. But, I do know that there are communities out there that doesn't like wiki farms such as NIWA, which is one that I know. Unfortunately Zelda Wiki is a victim of it as well: KidProdigy (talk) 20:23, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Yeah honestly I do not trust NIWA -- they have never owed up to having a Fandom-owned wiki (being the founding member) in their alliance, contradicting their core philosophies, so I broke away and decided to create and develop wikis here. When I do wikis here, I embrace the Miraheze identity, so at face value people can see "these are wikis on Miraheze." Also, I could possibly buy a custom domain for this wiki if you'd like that (and possibly file a phabricator task on your behalf). Bawitdaba (talk) 20:44, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Which communities do you know that do not like NIWA? I know Zelda Dungeon is one of them (or at least one of the admins there). Bawitdaba (talk) 20:45, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Well, if it is not too much too ask and not too expensive or whatever, you can create a custom domain for this wiki, thank you very much for that. But about that of NIWA, that was something I think was strange too as well that they didn't do anything about it. I believed that the Mario Wiki, Bulbapedia and Zelda Wiki were the ones that founded NIWA, with the idea about it coming from Zelda Wiki. I do agree with you about it that they are contradicting their philosophies because that was really strange. But I understand as well that you broke away from it. Miraheze is the same for me too, at some point actually at Wikia/Fandom, the ads were so too much all over the place that it became bothersome. KidProdigy (talk) 21:18, 2 August 2022 (UTC)