User talk:Merrystar

RE: Spotlight Criteria
Responses, point by point:
 * 1) I'll see what I can do about the sitenotice. We've had this discussion before with Wikia staff, so I'll see what's the general opinion about our bloated sitenotice.
 * 2) On it, though I'd like some coding to get such a display.
 * 3) We're also on that. Fortunately, one of the other admins is/has been taking care of that (the cache needs to be updated, as we've had those pages uncategorized from the beginning. :).)
 * 4) We feel as if the Wikia welcome tool is not particularly helpful with regard to welcoming users because of the fact that it's automated. We feel better welcoming them in a more personal matter. As a result, we've been welcoming users ourselves (the admins, I mean) and if we had to switch to the Wikia welcome tool method, it would be somewhat disconcerting for us admins. We humbly request that we are allowed to forgo this requirement in lieu of welcoming users ourselves. I'm sure handling the inflow of users will be no trouble; there's almost always an admin around to handle Recent Changes patrolling and welcoming a lot of users if need be.
 * Oh, that. The CSS was only for code reducing (taking advantage of a fix used by Monobook folks to make boxes display properly), and we recently re-arranged the home page for SEO/content purposes. We're not planning on changing it anytime soon, so it's stable at the moment.

As for the last part, Wikia's caching system went haywire recently while they were updating some stuff. It doesn't affect Webkit based browsers such as Apple Safari or Google Chrome, but other browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer's CSS rendering's has been screwed up because of that. We're currently waiting for a fix to this, as it has substantially broke viewing for some users. This will probably be fixed by the time we ask for the Spotlight in June, and we'll let you know when we're ready for spotlighting. Thanks for letting us know what we need to fix. R A N 1 {ADMIN} (talk • contributions • logbook) 02:09, April 9, 2010 (UTC)