Talk:SporeWiki/Archive 3

Colors of welcome message
Yeah, I'm not a webpage designer, it took me a whiel to make it look that decent. Thanks :) -- M a s o n 1 1 9 8 7 (Talk - Contributions) 08:24, 18 May 2006 (PDT)
 * I think there is parhaps a bit to much yellow other then that I like it. Drin 10:34, 31 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Well, we always welcome comments and changes, just make a Main Page/test if you want to mix things up a little and give us another design. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 21:02, 1 June 2006 (PDT)
 * I did that now :) no big change, but I changed the colors of top and bottom, gives a bit more focus to the "creature of the day" I think. Main Page/test Drin 02:33, 2 June 2006 (PDT)

On release of an early creature editor (From Will Wright)
I recently sent Will Wright and email about SporeWiki and about the creature editor, I said:

I sent you an email previously from the address ______ and you responded quickly answering all my questions. I just want you to know how much respect I have for someone who can be so dedicated to their fanbase. But I had a question to ask you if you have a chance and if this ends up going into a pile of emails that you can't answer due to a flooded inbox (which I suppose was partially my fault) then I completly understand if you can't respond. But I was wondering if you or anyone at maxis has stumbled across www.sporewiki.com? I am one of the bueracrats there (basically one of two in charge) and we thought that Spore of all games diserved a wiki dedicated to it. We believed that the community development of information and collaboration is exactly what Spore is based off of and having a wiki to do the same thing is perfect. I set up a creature database where fans can submit creatures they have created to a central location where anyone can find them. We have collected 131 seperate creatures which dozens of spore fans have submitted (although quite a few were from Hydro whom you met). Fans have created very intricate and elaborate designs of creatures they want to make and I think it would be a terrible thing if fans like these weren't given a chance to help populate the Spore servers before the game officially came out. I heard talk about releasing the creature editor before launch and if it is true I was wondering if you could give us an estimate of when that might happen. I realize that it is more then likely one of the most complicated pieces of the game so working on it until close to release is perfectly understandable, but I think to not have a vibrant and varied galaxy at release would be a dissapointment.

Also, I was wondering when we might expect some more information on spore developments so that we could let others know about it.

Of course, if you'd like to leave me a message on my talk page on the wiki instead of by email, I'm always there to respond. Thanks if you can respond, or even if you just read this. :)

Thanks, Chris Mason (Mason11987 from sporewiki)

Will just responded to me, saying:

Chris, Yes, I came across Sporewiki quite a while ago and check on it from time to time. We're still working out our launch schedule and such, don't have any good estimates to give out yet. -Will

Just wanted to let you guys know about this, just pretty cool that they know about this. Can't help but be happy about him knowing about sporewiki. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 14:35, 30 May 2006 (PDT)


 * It's certainly cool that Will Wright comes to SporeWiki now and then! When it comes to the release of a creature editor, I doubt he'd be allowed to tell us even if he knew the roughest of dates (since the publishers usually take care of releasing any information). It would be cool if the developers agreed to choosing a random Spore fansite and answering a question of theirs every week or so (I've seen other companies do it), but it's not likely.
 * -- Andreas Blixt ☺ 15:11, 30 May 2006 (PDT)


 * Cool! Its nice that WW takes time out to some and visit SporeWiki, maybe looking through our creatures and posts. Cool... Garfunkle20 10:58, 31 May 2006 (PDT)Garfunkle20

whats his email?


 * I wouldn't give out his email because it'll just flood his inbox. He isn't going to answer most questions in general, especially when he gets a lot of them.  If there are questions that you want to ask then ask here, and if it can't be found then it's likely he (or EA, or Maxis itself) never intended it to be known as of yet.  Sorry.  Also, when you post on talk pages, use four tildes ( ~ ) -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 20:14, 20 August 2006 (PDT)

Moving the welcome message
Could we move the welcome message down a bit, do you think? I don't think it needs to be at the top any more. --Daxx (T C) 09:56, 7 June 2006 (PDT)
 * I put in Drin's ideas for a different color welcome message and I think it's a good improvement and doesn't stress it too much. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 00:16, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
 * Yeah, that works. --Daxx (T C) 07:05, 11 June 2006 (PDT)

AdminBot doing silly things?
Why did it just add a link on "eve" in developmen on this page?
 * It's still there... July 18th... Torvik 20:22, 18 July 2006 (PDT)

And why did it at add a "random"  in creature of the day section? (and isn't it unneded to user html for line breaks anyway? At least use true xhtml then with:

What happened? - Drin 15:42, 12 June 2006 (PDT)
 * Ööh... oh :D -- Drin 15:56, 12 June 2006 (PDT)

Mason in a fanfic story
I found that Chris Mason, the super mod was in one of the fanfic stories. Do you know about this? It is in this story: Earth Alliance, written by garfunkle20. His name is in the economics bit. Did anyone else know this? Or am I just a bit slow in the news bit...?
 * haha, wow, that's interesting, I didn't notice that :). -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 11:55, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

Number spam hit
We were recently spammed by these several IPs with the number spam, it took me about a half hour of work to clean it up even though I was doing it as fast as I think I could have. I think it might be best to turn off IP edits for the near future, til we can figure out what's going on with this at least. Here is info on the IPs

-- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 09:51, 9 July 2006 (PDT)

Also
Might as well list all the IP bans here:

-- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 10:05, 9 July 2006 (PDT)

Fan Club!!!
i wasnt sure where to put this but i started a spore fan club on yahoo, click the link to join!

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/yg/img/i/us/ui/join.gif

--Trex1117 17:54, 24 July 2006 (PDT)

mason i made you a moderator in the fan club!!! thx for joining! by the way the offical group email is sporefans@yahoogroups.com
 * Sounds good, thanks :). I won't be able to check it that often, but I'll still be there. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 09:17, 25 July 2006 (PDT)

News Spelling
I've edited the news pieces on the Main Page on their respective articles for a few spelling mistakes, but it isn't updating on the main page itself. Would it be possible to tie the stories dynamically into the main page body? --Daxx (T C) 08:03, 7 August 2006 (PDT)
 * If all stories were small enough to fit on the main page, then yes. But the fact is that there needs to be a seperate summary for it to all work out.  You edited the main page, but the summary itself has not been changed.  I'm going to tweak the news system a little so the summary will be easy to find from the main story.  That's the best that I think I can do with a wiki system, since it can't automatically take a certain amount of characters or anything like that to make a summary. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 15:00, 7 August 2006 (PDT)
 * Now each news stories date links directly to date where it can be found (so it is displayed in the "news tables" format on the main page. Both the story itself, and the summary in the news tables need to be edited if you want to fix something, I COULD put a link on the news tables (on the main page) themselves that would allow you to edit them directly, but I don't want to protect them and I don't like having something so easy to vandalize on the main page.  See, SporeWiki_fansite_review_system_created for an example of the change I made. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 15:06, 7 August 2006 (PDT)

Another video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQImoVDx5UQ This is a dl, haven't watched it yet. http://www.4gamer.net/jump.php?http://download.bbgames.jp/4gamer/movie2/gc_2006/gc2006_spore_charmake.zip

-- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 19:42, 25 August 2006 (PDT)

Minor news - PC first, consoles/handhelds later
http://www.playfuls.com/news_7072_Spore_Refuses_To_Invade_Nintendo_Wii_At_Least_For_Now.html

Also, the news about the Wii-DS connection:

Denied by EA: http://www.nintendorevolution.ca/09082006/00/nintendo_wii_ds_spore_denied_by_ea Jonah 09:56, 8 September 2006 (PDT)

Will Wright on the Stephen Colbert Report
Part 1 talks about The Sims, Part 2 talks about Spore. He also says that the game will be released in the second part of 2007.

Part 1: http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=79040

Part 2: http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=79039

--TheFriendlyOtter 22:08, 6 December 2006 (PST)

SporeWiki moved to a .net address?
Can someone enlighten us about the move? There's a whole bunch of people wondering what's happened. Cheers, --Daxx (T C) 06:40, 10 January 2007 (PST)
 * Always had the .net as a mirror. For some reason Zorlac said the domain expired and he wasn't informed.  He just repurchased it and the .com "should be up in an hour or two, i think".  Sorry for the problems. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) 00:03, 11 January 2007 (PST)

Any info on molecular phase?
I saw that there's apparently a new phase from the wikipedia link, is there any information about it yet?--Tehwalrus 08:37, 1 March 2007 (PST)
 * I saw that too, but if it is a phase it won't be a very big one. Will update the wiki as more information becomes available. Zorlac
 * I agree, the sources say (Will Wright....) that its going to be a lot like tetris. I'd think its going to be a simple bactiriums (sp) joining and multiplying or something., anyway it may be a joint of the Tidal Pool Phase, it wasn't shown at the GDC (or similar) 2007 so it might not happen. Plank of Wood 08:03, 30 March 2007 (PDT)
 * I created a article about the phase. isn't big, just small information and one speculation that i saw in one site.JackPinheiro 14:02, 12 May 2007

Spore News
At the moment I find all the news pages quite confusing.You can't really tell where to find out about what's happening about spore (eg estimations on when they are going to release it). .When you click on the hyperlink saying spore news it just comes up with lots of articles without dates so you can't tell which news is recent and which news is about stuff that happened ages ago. I think we need a better system for the spore news. Timfee 08:47, 28 March 2007 (PDT)

I feel like a complete blank. That's how it is. I can't be bothered with anything recently.

Finally! They fixed the website glitch where the options at the top of the page (article,discussion,etc.) overlapped part of the article.Brandonrc 15:21, 2 May 2007 (PDT)
 * == Yes! They finally fixed it! ==
 * Haha, yeah sorry about that. It was an internet-explorer only thing... Now if i could only fix the icon being on top in opera! -Zorlac

A rather sad (and important) piece of news for us;
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSWEN784620070509 Spore has been delayed. Again. To April-June 2008. So really, we have at LEAST 320 days to go. Patrick 20:28, 9 May 2007 (PDT)

Old main page
The old main page that was at spore.wikia.com before sporewiki.com joined us can be found at SporeWiki:Old Main Page. Angela talk 14:58, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Site name and more
Moved to SporeWiki:Community issues Kirkburn (talk) 05:52, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Gaming wiki chat this Sunday!
Hi all,

On Sunday October 14th there is going to be an IRC chat for gaming wikis at the #wikia-gaming channel. Contributors, admins, and foudners of all/all gaming-related wiki on Wikia are invited to discuss common issues that we might have, sharing our experiences, and helping each other out. The time of the chat will be:

Please help to spread the word, and hope to see you there!

-User:PanSola 16:41, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Release date
Ugh the US-centricity of this main page is retarded. Please change it to "will first be released in Europe on the 5th of September, and North America on the 7th."

Wikia Gaming footer
Hullo! I'm Kirkburn, a Wikia Gaming Helper, and I just added the Wikia Gaming footer to your Main Page. We are adding these to encourage cross linking and a better sense of community between wikis. Feel free to mess around with the links and tweak the design to better fit your wiki (unless you make it pink with polka dots, in which case I reserve the right to cry). Thanks! Kirkburn (talk) 18:11, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Main page protection
Hullo! May I suggest that the Main Page (and other such pages) are unlocked so they can be edited by registered users, as per the Protection policy. Pages should only really be completely protected if they are the focus of active vandalism, otherwise you can do more damage by only allowing one or two users to keep it up to date, which may not be enough. Kirkburn (talk) 18:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikia Gaming IRC channel
Hullo! I am Kirkburn, your friendly local Wikia Gaming Helper!

You may be interested to know there is a Wikia gaming IRC channel, #wikia-gaming on chat.freenode.net, where you can hop on, ask for help from users of other gaming wikis, or offer your own experiences. If you are not familiar with IRC clients, you can access it from http://irc.wikia.com/gaming.

Different people may be on sporadically, but we organize weekly chats at a fixed time so we can get the most number of people online at the same time to ask and answer questions, or just to hang out. The admins of some of Wikia's biggest gaming wikis (e.g. WoW, Halo) often attend them. You can find the time for the next chat by following this link.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me! Kirkburn (talk) 11:08, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

delete
I think a few of these comments should be deleted, they're talking about stuff to do with LAST YEAR. Black87