Thread:Hackey5/@comment-17897872-20150707194633/@comment-5645428-20150818101847

Man, we should so have a wiki convention!
 * Starting with the infoboxes, eh, I'm skeptical about converting to these new ones. I guess I'm skeptical about any radical change, especially those in response to the whole mobile revolution. I can see that Wikia have identified flaws in retaining table layouts and are trying to phase them out. They want to switch the standard tabular infoboxes into more responsive versions which use tags instead of wikiext. But, as far as I can tell, our infoboxes here aren't having any issues. I have yet to begin updating the container templates, which includes all the complex ones, so I'll consider performing an upgrade then.


 * I didn't bring up our WAM score in relation to requesting a spotlight. And while I did persist thoroughly, you might like to make an attempt from a different perspective. From what I can recall, there was no definite reason why we shouldn't receive a spotlight, just a repetitive statement of not having enough pages and therefore being unable to fulfil the criteria, which indicates an evidently flawed system that discriminates against small wikis.


 * I will soon myself be progressing to article editing, a finale crowning my wiki agenda, which has acceletated as of late. I made a breakthrough yesterday with the CSS as I learned how to use @media selectors that apply styling only under specific ranges, specifically browser width, allowing me to repair the biggest 'glitches' on the site that occurred with the content body, navigation bar and admin dashboard. Now, I've narrowed down the task list to fixing up the search page, a more few special pages and those popover menus, before performing one last overall refinement check. And yet, I stumbled onto the matter of providing a lot briefer support for Monobook. I doubt that any editor here would even have knowledge of what it is unless they've used other wikis outside the Wikia network, and yet, I have never encountered anyone who's enquired about it before. I have made a poll that asks users about the skin they use. Expect a landslide I use Oasis, never heard of Monobook. However, I may still provide Monobook styling, such as a proper background and an improved core interface, but not much more.


 * The way I see it, it's a matter of reading an offending user, and judging not how long to block them for based on their offence, but for their intent. There's an adundance of bored losers who have nothing better to do than make a nuisance of themselves on the Internet. Block them for a week and they wouldn't return after a couple of days anyway. But then there are others who set themselves an objective, a grave objective to frustrate others and disrupt a working system. They aren't here to edit, and that, among those who are here to edit makes quite a statement. These all too bright fellows would then continuously hang around while the common troll goes crawling back into its hole, but such the position we as admins are in, I say those who refuse to let a month-long block take mind of them should be reported to Wikia, and that we are entitled to do by Wikia's own terms of use. And of course we can block them again if for some reason they decide to re-emerge from a block of that duration with bad intent (not to mention, we could even monitor their activities on other wikis, given their kind of attitude to begin with). Overall, efficient handling of these kinds of situations on our behalf will ensure those who don't belong here are silenced well before they can cause any lasting damage. We're all experienced, and I trust we can all make sound judgements.


 * Haha, I think I need either really virtuosic pieces, jazzy pieces or light hearted pieces. Pop music, love music, and arranged major key orchestral pieces for piano, not so much. Considering your sight-reading ability, I have to give it to you, you pull off your pieces very sucessfully. :D  I return once more to the ML Rag, you did closely mirror the YouTube version. It contains ornaments between some of the left hand quavers which are not part of Scott Joplin's original composition. You included these ornaments while you played, and I'd really like to know how you pulled them off.


 * Lastly, as I have mentioned to Nusdan, I believe those Lenny faces should be deemed as spam. By definition, they really are. Us two are both going to start deleting them where they occur, so you might like to help us with that. If they become increasingly prevalent, an official warning may be worth considering.

It's a pain that the MediaWiki namespace is still locked, but we've made substanial progress nonetheless. Ten days until the first anniversary of the wiki's rebirth!