User talk:Game widow

test
hi? --Uberfuzzy 00:21, March 24, 2010 (UTC) yay! you can haz a talk page! --Uberfuzzy 00:22, March 24, 2010 (UTC)

Yay!
Finally my big mistake was fixed!

I am Somali not Somalian
Hi,

I am faisal and I just wanted to ask you how I could correct the headings for the recipies..I am a british born somali and it only in the last few years that people having been refereing to me and my people as somalian when that is not the case. I am Somali, I speak Somali, and my people are Somali. So in order to help correct people I am asking people to ammend the word Somalian to Somali in their website and literature. A National of Somalia is a Somali as recognised by interantional law. So can you help, I have ammend one page but the headings are not accessible can you provide advice or directioning as to how i can do this. For your reference.Earliest recorded use of the word "Somalian" in English comes from the British linguist David Diringer in 1948. A lot earlier than i thought was the case.

I am SOMALI not Somalian

Somalinomad 09:43, March 29, 2010 (UTC)

Many thanks I appreciate such a speedy response and support on the matter.If I can be of help on anything give me shout will only be to glad to get involved.

Category Deletion
Hi Game widow (yay, you have talk page). I noticed you've been deleting alot of category pages? The ones like Fish or whatever... Shall I get my bot to help destroy these unneeded category's as well? --Lcawte 11:29, April 1, 2010 (UTC)

Hi, there!
Hi, Game Widow!

Thank you for your welcome gesture. You must be a very friendly person. I don't have camera nor a way to put pictures in. Some of the recipes I'll put will be almost colonial... very, very old, from the high mountainous Andean region. English is not my first language... it belonged to my a British ancestor 5 generations ago! So, any correction will be welcome.

Divivi 18:54, April 1, 2010 (UTC)

Mass edit
How the heck do you mass edit like that! --Lcawte 14:37, April 3, 2010 (UTC)

Finger Licking Lamb Kleftiko
Hi Game Widow. You edited my post. Why? What happened to my laboriously drawn lid closure system which is essential to the success?

Please advise.

Mavrik33 14:07, April 12, 2010 (UTC)Pete

Thanks for quick comeback. There was an illustration. Now missing. Should I just replace it? New to this.

Mavrik33 14:13, April 12, 2010 (UTC)

Newbie here.
I'm new in this Wiki, although I am active in Wikipedia. I helped write a fairly long informational article about Nepalese cuisine. I was thinking about bringing that material over, then started wondering if it would be better to link to it to avoid duplication and double work for article maintenance.

I think in general Wikipedia has a big head start with articles on various cuisines (at least on most South Asian cuisines), but it isn't the place for recipes. Would this make sense as a general policy: recipes here, informational articles about cuisines in Wikipedia (with links over here for recipes perhaps)? LADave 08:34, May 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Response is on your talk page — Game widow 17:30, May 24, 2010 (UTC)

Lactose Free Recipes
hello

I note that there is a link to the related wiki Gluten Free Recipes.

This wiki seems to be a category (as it appears under most viewed Categories), so I am guessing that the recipes automatically appear in both wikis - is this correct?

However I note that there does not seem to be a 'Gluten Free Recipe' category in the Recipes Wiki; AND there is no 'Lactose Free Recipe' category either. This two categories would be very useful for those who suffer from these intolerances.

(Is there a place on the Recipes Wiki that shows the list of categories? A link to such a page would be useful. - I note The 'Recipes by Course' - strats to do this - but is not a full listing.

I am lactose intolerent and so would be interested to add lactose free recipes.

Also on seeing the Gluten Free Recipoes wiki, thought to start a Lactose Free Recipes wiki, but it would be great to be able to have recipes to be transfrerred automatically between Recipes wiki and a new Lactose Free Recipes wiki.

Any suggestions, would be welcome.

Thanks

Guy

Question: How does one delete\merge a page
I found two recipes that are mostly identical. I would like to delete one, how do I do that? Thanks

Specifically, The following 2 are very close, the first has more information:

http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Saketini

http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Saketini_I

Thank for the Thanks
Yes - I see that you are the most active person here by far.

Did you start these wikis?

A bit about me - I was born in South Africa of British parents, I have travelled and worked around the world. I am now living in London.

Lactose-free wiki
Thanks for adding the recipes to the wiki I have tried to create.

I say 'tried', as I cannot figure out how to use it....

I am used to creating web pages and editing html code etc. but I cannot see where one goes here to start. I cannot find the front door. Any help would be appreciated.
 * 1) I want to give the wiki the same look as the other recipe wikis
 * 2) I want to be able to change the menus on the left ( I see you managed to add 'Soy Milk Recipes'
 * 3) I cannot see how I (or anyone else cann add recipes to the wiki.
 * 4) I cannot find any Help pages to give me info

Capitalization?
hello

I note that wikia does not see that for example: Soy Milk = soy milk= Soy milk

Is there a way around this problem?

As I wish to allow a user to search for recipes that use a certain ingredient, from its page in the Glossary,but the capitalization means it must be an exact match

I have figured out I can use for example:

Special:WhatLinksHere/soy_milk

But it is case senstive!

thanks

Adminship
Hello, please remove my admin rights here on the Recipes Wiki. If possible, please allow me to retain rollback incase I do come across vandalism here in the future. Thanks! Ajraddatz Talk 22:02, August 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello again, it seems that the spam/vandalism is picking up again, and I am finding myself with a bit more time, so if possible please re assign my sysop rights. I promise I won't go changing my mind again :) Thanks, Ajraddatz Talk 23:36, September 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * I had not noticed your message until just now, rights adjusted. — Game widow 12:12, September 21, 2010 (UTC)

thoughts on new Wikia
Hi Game widow, I'm a long time Wikipedia editor, and a wikia newbie. I just created a new Wiki here on wikia, at http://ingredients.wikia.com and I was looking for some input from recipe wiki if I'm not working in the same scope. I'm not looking for recipes on the wiki I created, but rather information on general preparation of ingredients. I was looking for some community portal on this wiki, but I couln't find it, so I just grabbed a name from the recent changes list, and that's how I ended up on your talkpage. Would you mind taking a look at the chicken article on my wiki, and see if you think it can/should coexcist with recipes? Would be greatly appreciated. Martijn Hoekstra 20:35, September 11, 2010 (UTC)

3 Ingredient Crockpot Pork Roast Fix
Thank you for fixing my 3 Ingredient Crockpot Pork recipe. It was my first submission and I didn't realize I should have put brackets around the ingredients. Still learning the ropes. I love this site and can't believe I haven't discovered it until now. So many recipes and so little time. I'm off to find some fall recipes.

Lill Hawkins, http://lillslist.com 16:18, September 20, 2010 (UTC)

Hi!
Hi! I have just created a swedish recipe wikia, but what do i have to do to make it look more like this wiki?

Wikiboy96 07:50, September 25, 2010 (UTC)Wikiboy96

Hi
Hi, ok I went and made an account after I got your msg , now how do I add my previous post from b4 you sent me the msg to make an account to this new account? Previous post was Request for help finding an old time Estonian dessert recipe "Bushka" Thanks, RubyD

k I think I got it figured out  so nws
 * If you have found a recipe here for that, please let me know which one and i'll make it easier to find. If you didn't, you might try asking about this dessert on nami-nami.blogspot.com This seems to be an Estonian food blog. ... and Welcome :) — Game widow 10:23, September 26, 2010 (UTC)

Blog page doesn't render properly
just posted a new blog entry and the formatting doesn't seem to come out right.

would you care to take a look and let us know what we can do about it? thanks.
 * done — Game widow 14:47, October 5, 2010 (UTC)

VeriVorst recipe

 * Verivorst

Manual of Style
Hey Game widow, does this wiki have a Manual of Style?WIERDGREENMAN 13:45, February 8, 2011 (UTC)

CategoryTree
Hello! I notice that you edit this wiki alot. I thought that you might be interested in this use of the CategoryTree parser function in case you aren't aware of it; it seems like it's something that could get lots of use on this particular wiki, when we have an article on an ingredient or a type of food and then a category of related recipes. --Cumin The Barbarian 20:21, March 1, 2011 (UTC)

WYSIWYG source editor bug
Well then, if you work for Wikia, I can ask you to write a bug report for me rather than figuring out how to do it myself, muahahahaha! If you look at New England boiled dinner, I've just noticed that if you open it up in the editor, press the "Source" button to see the source code, and then press the "Source" button again to go back to WYSIWYG mode, it strips all of the formatting off of the paragraphs within the div tag containing the transcribed recipe.

It's a pretty common type of bug, I do lots of work with these sorts of WYSIWYG editors; but I don't envy whichever one of your coders will have to fix it. Cheers, Cumin The Barbarian 02:23, March 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * You've probably already determined my browser and OS but just in case, I have observed this bug in Chrome 9.0.597.98 on Windows XP and in IE 8.0.6001.18702. In Ubuntu Linux 10.10 with Firefox 3.6.13 the WYSIWYG editor wouldn't even load, but the browser on that system is heavily modified and does things like spoof its user agent, so it might be my fault.


 * You may have also guessed that the reason why I'm using the WYSIWYG editor is the same reason why I didn't have an avatar set up until yesterday and I'd never edited my user page before; it's the default and I'm lazy. ;^) --Cumin The Barbarian 18:23, March 2, 2011 (UTC)

Copyvio at Mangia_Mangia!_-_a_delicious_Italian_recipe_you'll_love
The page Mangia_Mangia!_-_a_delicious_Italian_recipe_you'll_love is a copyvio, it's a direct copy of this page or another one with the original text of the recipe. I was going to quickly slap a copyvio notice on it as below and tell the user to ask you what to do - I think that there are special copyright rules for recipes under copyright law, right? She just has to re-write the directions in her own words or something? - but the page is locked into some sort of form-based editing mode and I can't figure out how to turn it off so that I can add the notice. (Is this the Semantic Mediawiki plugin, or maybe a proprietary Wikia feature?)

So, I'll let you deal with it, however you guys deal with these things.

I haven't finished porting the ambox template but I'll leave it like that for now.

...also I'm noticing that there's probably a bug in your CSS (or maybe elsewhere, I didn't look at the output HTML at all) because within the ambox template above the external link is appearing to me like an internal link. (Possibly the appearance doesn't matter to Wikia, I'm just mentioning it because spammers might try to make external links look like internal ones; they've done that on some of my own wiki sites.) --Cumin The Barbarian 02:27, March 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * If Wikia doesn't think that there need to be copyvio notices on recipes, that's fine with me.


 * As far as the appearance of external links: most external links appear to me with a little icon near the end that differentiates them from internal links. But the external link in the template above doesn't have the little icon; that's all I'm talking about.  --Cumin The Barbarian 14:06, March 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * So as a third separate issue... how would you put a notice at the top of an article like that which has a fixed layout? Or maybe notices are frowned upon?  (That's perfectly okay with me too if that's the policy.) --Cumin The Barbarian 14:33, March 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I guess I probably meant a template... by "fixed layout" I mean that even with the WYSIWYG editor feature turned off in the Wikia preferences, when I go to edit that page I get a multi-field form instead of a single large text field.


 * Thanks for the suggestion to delete the page and create a new one when I encounter something like this. Do you know whether or not there's any way to get the full source code of the article somewhere, instead to having to manually copy it field-by-field?  The determining technical factor may be whether within the PLB mechanism the field values are each split out into their own individual database column, or if it's all stored as a big blob of XML or something in a single database column.


 * (Either way, actually, your tech people ought to fairly easily be able to build a PHP page, like the "View Source" for a locked article or template on Wikipedia, that would allow someone to just cut and paste the full wiki markup for the entire page... you could put that in as a feature request, if you want, and say that I asked for it, in case users asking for things carries any weight.) --Cumin The Barbarian 14:54, March 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * I actually wouldn't say that the PLB is broken; I've worked with several competing products that do the same thing like and this one doesn't seem to work too badly, prima facie.  It's nice to see one customized for MediaWiki.  It just needs a feature like the view source page I describe above or some other way to turn the templating/PLB feature off when you need to. --Cumin The Barbarian 15:15, March 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Bah. Well, the best I can do is offer my sympathies and commiserate with you, then.  :^) --Cumin The Barbarian 15:24, March 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * I added a comment to Page Layout Builder Notes#User_Experience. Noting the number of other people who have already alluded to the same problem on various pages around Wikia (and in the PLB Notes page itself) it took great restraint for me to not simply say, "Jesus Christ, just add this feature already, will you!" --Cumin The Barbarian 03:17, March 10, 2011 (UTC)

Quote of the Millenium
I found a nifty quote and I went to start a "Quote of the Month" feature on the front page but it's protected/locked now so I don't have the permission to. (Understandably; I'm sure that it gets tons of spam/vandalism. Also, I assume that something of this sort wouldn't actually get updated monthly as it doesn't on most Wikia wikis, but it's a nifty front-page gimmick.)

In case you have any interest in doing that, here's the quote:

Victorians were so cute. It's a shame that they're all dead. --Cumin The Barbarian 05:33, April 3, 2011 (UTC)

Nutrition Info
Thanks for the admin flag! I will endeavour to use my powers for good and never for evil.

I wanted to bounce an idea off of you: I've been thinking for a while that it would be a valuable thing to set up a wiki where each page is a copy of the nutrition information and ingredients list of a sample of a commercial product; so, essentially, a database of sample data about packaged food. Something like a standard wiki template or a PLB template would be used to semi-structure the data.

So first off, I was wondering what you think of that idea. And also, since someone has probably thought of this before (and obviously there have long been things like the USDA National Nutrient Database available) I wonder if you already know of any Wikia wikis or other wikis or -type projects like this?

Then, there's the issue of copyright. I would assume (without actually having done the research yet, which would probably be first on my to-do list) that the ingredients would be protected for public use in the same way that the ingredients lists of recipes are, and I would hope that the nutrition data would be similarly protected, or at the very least there would be "fair use" arguments that could be made. But regardless of whether or not something like this was completely legal, of course there would still be things along the lines of DMCA-takedown-notice-type efforts generated by companies fishing for a way to exert marketing / PR control over information about their products.

So I was hoping that you could inquire, or give me an idea, of whether this is the sort of thing that Wikia would be interested in attempting to defend from DMCA-takedown-notice-type actions. Obviously, I wouldn't expect anything like a promise to protect the info or even a clear policy statement - the best I could realistically expect if I'm lucky is probably a non-committal thumbs up or thumbs down that gives a general gist of the attitude towards an idea like this. I'd hope to have some notion of how it would be received, and how ready I would need to be to move my content to another web host, before I put too much effort into it.

[edit] Okay, after doing a little Googling, I guess the standard Wikia approach is something like this? I still would appreciate a little guidance (just thumbs up or thumbs down, really) on whether Wikia would put up some minimum of resistance to takedown notices over copies of the standardized data values listed on food packaging, if it's possible to answer that. Basically, it would probably affect whether or not I would spend the time to try to figure out and use the PLB for something like this.

If it turns out that this is a good match for Wikia and there isn't already a site like this somewhere, it might even make sense to simply set up a namespace for it here at the Recipes Wiki (if that's possible) rather than a separate wiki. (Since my primary interest with this would really be sample nutrition data for ingredients rather than for prepared food... I suppose once the templates and other details are worked out it'll actually be pretty easy to have as many wikis containing this type of info as desired.)  --Cumin The Barbarian 20:02, April 4, 2011 (UTC)