CrossWiki teams

[Maxite]

Be nice if this also helped out with developing wikis/non-NIWA members as well. I'm not really looking for a group of editors to come around and fix stub count (although that would be nice), but I do would like help with making sure that other things are in order, like making sure licenses and attributions are in order and correct.

[SuperAlpaca]

It took a few weeks to hunt down all those wikia links at Nookipedia.

[tacopill]

It took a few weeks to hunt down all those wikia links at Nookipedia.

do you mean links-to-other-wikis, and those wikis are on wikia?

[Nintendoguy1]

It took a few weeks to hunt down all those wikia links at Nookipedia.

do you mean links-to-other-wikis, and those wikis are on wikia?

I think he means all of the things linking to Wikia's main community page (community.wikia.com)

[tacopill]

It took a few weeks to hunt down all those wikia links at Nookipedia.

do you mean links-to-other-wikis, and those wikis are on wikia?

I think he means all of the things linking to Wikia's main community page (community.wikia.com)

Ah, that make sense. I just started exploring a wiki we got off Wikia , and there are a lot of lot of links to Wikia community central.

[Greenpickle]

...I would've thought it's fairly obvious he means links to any Wikia wiki (w:[c:*:]*).

[tacopill]

...I would've thought it's fairly obvious he means links to any Wikia wiki (w:[c:*:]*).

you'd think so......

[Adam]

Another example of something I think this team could help out with; Mario Wiki's "Rewrite Requested" category. Hundreds of articles which need rewriting to conform with the wiki's quality standards. 

[Nintendoguy1]

...I would've thought it's fairly obvious he means links to any Wikia wiki (w:[c:*:]*).

you'd think so......

I don't think links to wikias should be cut out. We're not anti-wikia.

Another example of something I think this team could help out with; Mario Wiki's "Rewrite Requested" category. Hundreds of articles which need rewriting to conform with the wiki's quality standards. 

Oh ya...I forgot about that category...

[Toomai]

I don't think links to wikias should be cut out. We're not anti-wikia.

That's not the reason to cut the links; you cut the links because once you're out of Wikia's interwiki system they don't work anymore and WantedPages becomes a mess. You could always make new interwiki links, but the links would have to be changed anyway, so in any case all of them would have to be edited.

[Nintendoguy1]

I don't think links to wikias should be cut out. We're not anti-wikia.

That's not the reason to cut the links; you cut the links because once you're out of Wikia's interwiki system they don't work anymore and WantedPages becomes a mess. You could always make new interwiki links, but the links would have to be changed anyway, so in any case all of them would have to be edited.

Of course expanding the links to html instead of interwiki.

[SnorlaxMonster]

Most of the links change from Wikia to NIWA ones. I remember doing a little of that on Pikipedia.

[Greenpickle]

No, if you set up w: as an interwiki link to Wikia, they all work fine after moving from Wikia.  It's rather ^this, the fact that most of these links are covered by other NIWA wikis, that makes it good to change them in most cases.

[SnorlaxMonster]

However, Pikipedia's WantedPages seem to have quite a few Wikia and German links (and the German Pikmin Wiki is on Wikia).

[Greenpickle]

Hmm...  Those links are all fine (green), but still appear in Wanted Pages - any ideas why?  I never noticed that, just assumed they wouldn't be there if they worked.  (BTW, all those subpage links are, I was told once, due to a bug in MW.)

[Nintendoguy1]

The server cache still needs to update, it'll be fine.

[Greenpickle]

I'm sure it's been like that since the move, which is a good few months.  Everything else dependent on cache or stuff in the job queue has long since fixed itself.

[tacopill]

you may need to do what's called a "Null Edit". This is when you save a page, but have changed nothing about it.

It forces the page to be updated, along with all the related linking tables.

[Greenpickle]

...Apparently nothing links to any of them, so there's nothing to edit; and it's not like doing anything to the targets will make any difference, since they're interwiki links.

[Nintendoguy1]

OK, I now think there is a real problem; before I had just dismissed it as a server lag but I did some detective work and found the problem.

The {{#ifexist}} function on this page is messed up.

EDIT: From what I understand, {{#ifexist}} is "if it exists|if it does not exist" and you have a link on the "if it does not exist" side.

EDIT 2: Through several edits, I managed to move the coding around so that if it says {{notes|treasure}} and the stuff doesn't exist, the links won't appear. However even though the links don't appear, they still somehow manage to wind up on Special:Wantedpages, so, I am going to make an educated guess and say that there is no way to have that template without the links. Either {{#ifexist}} was never meant to be used in transclusions (I really doubt that) or {{#ifeq}} and {{#ifexist}} are not able to be used together (more likely).