User talk:Phantomstrider

Hi Phantomstrider -- we are excited to have Testimonial Midgard as part of the Wikia community!

Starting a new wiki can be overwhelming, but don't worry, the Wikia Community Team is here to help! We have put together a few guides to getting started. They say imitation is the best form of flattery so absolutely check out other wikis on Wikia for ideas on layout, ways to organize your content, etc. We are all one big family at Wikia and the most important thing is to have fun!


 * Our guide to Getting Started gives you 5 things you can do right now to set your wiki up for success
 * We also put together some Advice On Starting a Wiki which provides a more a in-depth look at some of the important things you should consider when building a wiki
 * If you are new to wikis in general than we recommend checking our new user FAQ

If you need help (which trust me we ALL do) you can access our full in-depth help at Help Wikia, or email us through our contact form. Also, you can visit our live #wikia chat channel any time. A lot of the veteran "Wikians" hang out here so its a good place if come if you want to get some advice or simply make friends.

Now, go edit! We look forward to seeing this project thrive!

Best wishes, Catherine Munro

Greetings!
I'm PanSola, a helper on Wikia Gaming stuff. I want to cheer you on for having started a new gaming-related wiki, and see if there is anything I can help a fellow Wikian with. I have been an admin on the GuildWiki for quite a while, and have hung around a number of different wikis. So if you need help with any thing, don't hesitate to ask!

Some stuff of note:
 * Logo - For the monobook skin a number of users prefer to use, you can upload a 135 x 155 pixels image to [[Image:Wiki.png]].
 * There is a Wikia gaming IRC channel, #wikia-gaming, where you can hop on, ask for help from users of other gaming wikis, or offer your own experiences. You can access it from http://irc.wikia.com/gaming .  Different people may be on sporadically, but I'm organizing weekly chats at a fixed time so we can get the most number of people online at the same time to ask/answer questions, or just to hang out.  The admins of some of Wikia's biggest gaming wikis (WoW, Halo) often attend them.  You can find the time for the next chat by following this link.

If you happen to be technologically-adventurous, I can also help you with handy tools that can enrich the formatting and organization of the wiki such as templates, parser functions, and various MediaWiki extensions.

Again, if you have any question for anything at all, don't hesitate to ask me! -PanSola 21:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Check out the monaco skin!
Wikia has a new skin called Monaco, you can take a look at. I've done some customization for the MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar, and you can find more info on customizing the skin at w:c:Inside:Monaco Skin Customization. If you like the skin, you can set it to be the site's default by going to Special:Preferences, click on the "skin" tab, and scroll to the very bottom. -User:PanSola(talk/history) 03:36, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi there, I noticed the skin of this site is still at "default" (which means most visitors will see the [ Quartz skin]. I am wondering if you have changed out the Monaco skin yet. If you prefer the current Quartz skin over Monaco, I would greatly love to hear about the reasons why you find Quartz preferrable, so I can provide feedback to the Wikia staff and perhaps work some improvements to Monaco. If you already set your own preferences to Monaco skin, and just didn't realize/know how to set the site default, you can go to Special:Preferences, click on the skin tab, the scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and look for a drop down menu which sets the site default (the upper part of the page only affects your personal preferences).  Let me know if you have any questions! -PanSola 19:22, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

GuildInfobox template
Heya, I've made a GuildInfobox template. You can see how to use it over at Silens Vindex. One of the things it does is it'll automatically categorize any page using that template into Category:Guilds. If you want to change how it looks, or add/change any fields for the template, just drop me a note! -User:PanSola(talk/history) 23:31, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * You are welcome (-: If you need to make more templates, I can help too, just drop me a note on my talk page! (-: -User:PanSola(talk/history) 02:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)