Forum:Merger with the Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project

I've started to talk to Bassium! about it, and I feel that it would be beneficial for the MegaMan Knowledge Base to become part of the Wikia Anime Project.

Just to note that there are 2 other topics Discussion on using Wikipedia Content, and Namespace and SITENAME Discussion which also apply to the merger, these should also be sorted out before this is finalized.

To explain what this would involve, I'll list out and explain the positives to this, and what standard things you would half to contend with due to technical reasons.


 * As detailed at Anime:Project:Administrators the Wikia Anime Project works on a 4 scale level of administrators instead of the 2 scale level here. Essentially this means that above the 2 levels of admins here there will also be 2 more levels which mainly deal with keeping certain things here in sync with the other wiki in the project.
 * The Wikia Anime Project has a number of Templates which are shared using the AutoTemplateBot on joining the project all the shared templates in the project will be mirrored over here. I'd like to note that you should not edit these here, but edit them at the Animepedia instead because any changes made here will be overridden but any changes made there will be mirrored in all wiki in the project. You can see what templates will be copied in the category over there Anime:Category:Templates/shared. I'll also note what significance this is to the templates here: (If you're going to ask; No, because they are shared by bot you can't have any of these templates not override ones here.)
 * Your Spoiler template will be replaced with the project one Anime:Template:Spoiler.
 * Your Disambig template will be replaced with the project one Anime:Template:Disambig.
 * You guys have a Template:Tobedeleted. It won't be overridden, but the project has a better Anime:Template:Delete which gives better details, and has options for quick deletes, changing the discussion location, and giving a reason. So I would recommend that Anime:Template:Delete become the new standard one to use. I would like to note that 3 of those images are added because my userpage (Which I have a special bot for mirroring to) uses them. But a number of the other images have general purpose.
 * You don't have a Template:Stub yet, but there is one at Anime:Template:Stub which will show up here. Note that we'll half to come up with a [[Image:Stub.png]] or [[Image:Stub.svg]] for it.
 * Anime:Template:AnimeNetwork is a special type of template. It outputs information about different wikia in the project, it gets an ID (This one's would be megaman) and it outputs information such as Interwiki links, home links, Wiki names, and logo names.
 * Other than Templates there is also a ImageMirrorBot which may copy and override images here. Though I doubt many images will be overridden. You can get an idea of what images will be copied by looking at w:c:Naruto:Images/noedit. Note that the Category structure there will also show up here.
 * The last notable bot which will be copying things over here is the UserBoxBot. This bot is more fun than serious. Essentially every Userbox and Category in the Anime:Category:Userboxes structure will be copied over here. Which means that you will have a number of new userboxes to fool around with, as well as a structure for creating new ones. There aren't to many at the moment, but I may create a few interesting megaman ones for you in the future.
 * You guys may have a Project:Copyrights page. Though there are ones with more explanation which are project wide such as Anime:Project:Copyrights.
 * You have a Help:Contents which is a little minimalistic. There's another one at Anime:Help:Contents it's linked to by the other wiki in the project, so you can link to there for helpful information on editing, and it will have better information because it can be improved cooperatively by multiple communities.
 * You have an About Page which has a little information and a disclaimer which doesn't have much. Though there's a bit more customized one at Anime:Project:About which could serve as a base for addition to the ones here.
 * JavaScript and CSS: The WAP has a good deal of JavaScript and CSS it shares across all of the Wikia in the project. Essentially the code here will reference what is back at the Animepedia which is where the global stuff is stored. There are a number of new features which will be enabled during this:
 * includeJS, includeCSS, includeJSCode, and includeCSSCode allow users to include JS and CSS from other places into their local stuff. This makes it easier to share things.
 * queryString also makes it easy to test things from the url query.
 * A number of sitenotice functions will be added, namely the ability to undismiss the notice if you add a button to do so.
 * There is code enabled which allows users to use a simple bit of code to add new buttons and options to the tab bar at the top and the different locations in the sidebar.
 * I have more information on how to add things such as the BasicTabs System to your personal view at w:User:Dantman/Tricks.
 * There are a large number of CSS Additions to:
 * Simple text classes such as center, top, left, right, etc... Allow you to use positioning for elements much easier than doing the styling yourself. Classes such as fill-horiz, cell-icon-25, and text-medium make block sizing, icon cell sizing, and text sizing easier to.
 * There is an advanced box styling system which allows for you to style things such as messages, tables, block elements, etc... In easy and standardized ways. (e.g. class="box table colored bordered innerbordered type-basic" in a table will give it a nice basic style which would take piles of normal styling information to make the table look remotely similar.)
 * TOC altering classes such as ones which hide the collapse, make the toc horizontal, hide it's colors so you can make another element outside it the TOC and add things to it, and ones which remove the numbering from it can also be added to do interesting things to it will be added here to. (Examples; Clearing the TOC so that you can add something to it like a archive list Anime:User talk:Dantman, Creating a horizontal TOC without numbering inside of a formatted table list w:c:Naruto:List of Ninjutsu.)
 * The Styles for the Forum setup which are lacking here are actually part of the global setup. Which means changing the forums is a little easier if something needs to be fixed.
 * On Special:Recentchanges the namespace selector will show up on the right, and the bite differences (Numbers showing how much has been changed in an edit), and the New and Minor symbols will be colored. An example at Anime:Special:Recentchanges.
 * On Spceial:Prefixindex the redirects will show up as grayed out small italics with a symbol next to them such as you can see at Anime:Special:Prefixindex.
 * If you look on the Animepedia on the sidebar (If your browser supports the code) there is an additional Switchbox element. Using it you can alter the switchbox to do a number of things such as lookup edit counts, the prefixindex lists pages, you can lookup user information and jump directly to articles and their edit pages to. This will start working with only a little reference to the code.
 * A number of system message stuff (Things in the MediaWiki: Namespace) will be changed or added:
 * A new message MediaWiki:Siteid will have the text megaman in it. It will basically be the id for here and used in conjunction with Template:AnimeNetwork it will help output information about the wiki for shared templates to use.
 * The Sidebar (Edited at MediaWiki:Sidebar) will be changed. A new Wikia Anime Project section will be added linking back to all the main wikia in the project. Example at the Animepedia. Other than this, you'll notice a nice setup I have of links which separates links which readers use, and what editors use. That may also be what will be used here. In return, any anime listed in the Animepedia will have a link here for more information. Which should in the future increase the number of editors and readers flooding over here from other wikia.
 * MediaWiki:Activeusersline defines what shows up at Special:Activeusers. The WAP Has a change in it (Defined at Anime:MediaWiki:Activeusersline and seen at Anime:Special:Activeusers) which adds some things such as talk links, and an editcount link to that page.
 * MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext defines what shows up on the bottom of talkpages. There a little different one at Anime:MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext which gives a little more flavor to the page.
 * This will only affect admins but Anime:MediaWiki:Deletedtext has an upgrade over MediaWiki:Deletedtext which helps you from orphaning talkpages by deleting articles but missing the talkpages.
 * A number of Edittools help make article edits simpler. A number of templates such as the spoiler tags are also added.
 * There's also a special Licencebuilder system being developed which will make adding licenses to images easier.

Just another note but, I have a habit of making a nice comfortable new layout style for any wikia I become involved as an administrator in. So if the project is joined I'll probably make a nice new colored layout here. I'm thinking a heavy blue theme. Little dark, but it helps emphasize the content and makes things comfortable. Examples of styling work which I have done for different Wikia can be seen at The Gaiapedia, the Animepedia, the Narutopedia, and the InuYasha Wiki.

I'd like any comments you have about incorporation into the project. ~Dantman(talk) Mar 26, 2007 @ 23:17 (UTC)