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I too will be leaving. I will check the forums periodically, but my role will shift from an active poster/contributor to a passive observer. You can still contact me on Palutenapedia if you have anything to tell me. I will be spending some more time on that wiki along with Torchickens's Balloon Fight Wiki.  If any members create a new wiki on wikkii.com, I will gladly help them out (please relay this message to any new members who join after I leave). Whenever possible, I try to match whatever investment (as far as time and effort goes) they put into the wiki.

As a final contribution before I leave, I would like to tell you guys about an independent video game wiki network that I found. Some of you may have already found it, but here it is just in case: Wikitoria. It has a Soul Calibur Wiki, a Tekken Wiki, and a meta-wiki hosted by the alliance. It centers around fighting games, so maybe Smash Wiki could join. I was waiting to announce my discovery until after they finished the work on their homepage, but NIWA is entering a transitional period that I'd rather observe than take part in. I do plan to return after everything has settled down.

On a side note, I am working on a top secret project that I think will help NIWA. If things go as planned, expect an announcement in late February or early March.

Goodbye

Because he was lazy.

What does NIWA not stand for?

Is there any wiki here that was interested in Monaco? I know it had faults, and it was a Wikia skin, but there were some good ideas in it (iconified tabs do make it easier to use, hover menu navigation, etc...). So, were there any wiki's here or anyone who missed Monaco when the wiki went independent?

Why? I was 1/3 the way through porting Wikia's Monaco skin to be a generic skin installable on any MediaWiki installation, was wondering if anyone actually wanted me to complete it so it could be used.

Monaco has its faults, but if you can turn it to a "normal" Mediawiki skin it could make a nice option. I know lots of wikis migrating from wikia wish to keep the skin, and though I personally like Monobook better, you could most certainly catch the attention of several wikis with that concept.

SmashWiki's glad to be on board and away from Wikia's endless meddling and fixing what ain't broke.

Heh. 

This is why i hope people change their welcome messages to: "Welcome to ______ Wiki. _______ has moved to (URL)." or something similar. That way the new users see that the old wiki has moved.

That's what I'm doing with Pikipedia right now, it works pretty well.

Uh, I posted how Pikipedia moved on the other thread with the exact same topic, here's my idea:

I'm a bit curious: How did Pikipedia manage to accomplish their switch from Wikia? Was it using this same method, or is there a better way that we aren't aware of?

For Pikipedia, Greenpickle created a bot that transferred all of the pages and files we needed, along with their history, probably via the Special:Export and Special:Import features. The only drawback was that the file upload histories were replaced with the name of the bot, the Special:Import/Export pages don't support files, although they will include content added to file pages. Pages on Pikmin Fanon were manually imported/exported through the Import and Export pages, images were uploaded with Greenpickle's bot. I suggest using a bot for pages that do not contradict pages that already exist, and then writing a script to generate a list of contradicting pages to merge. If you want to do this, ask Greenpickle, I'm not very good with automatic stuff and whatnot.

Pikmin 2, I love the 2-player game-play and the funny cut scenes.

Purples, can kill most any creature with ease, Bulbmin, polyhazard-resistance, Yellows, can carry bomb-rocks/withstand an instant-kill hazard, plus they throw high.

We kinda just have to wait for it...

Brawl

The Wikia staff honestly don't care. I left a comment on one of their talk pages and POOF, a day later, the comment was gone, it didn't even show up in the edit history.

I just laugh... Wikia still thinks that even if all the editors leave right now many more new users will join. What they don't realize is that the new users will have no idea how to do anything and will spend most of their time on their user pages.

I like IKE! Do you?

We like Ike! I mean, yeah, I do too.

Oh, ok. I guess we'll hold up a bit, then.

Yeah, definitely.

The new pikmin fanon logo can be found here:

http://fanon.pikminwiki.com/images/2/26/Background.png

Someone should change it accordingly on the main NIWA site page.

This is the image I use for the desktop, I didn't picture the actual desktop itself.

What?

That's cool.