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Wikifur works with Google Glass!

Well, kinda... Pair on test loan from a friend who is a Glassware developer, working on a project that will integrate the glasses net "Search" function with a Wiki Fandom DB search app (Wikifur, Fanlore, TARDIS.wikia, Wookieepedia, etc,...).

Getting pass the Dorkage factor of having to slightly look up and say "Okay, Glass" every bloody time you wish to query, it works. =) "Okay, Glass, Wikifur, Califur" does bring up a (somewhat still on beta display territory) result card (a screenshot should go here, but the API still bugged), with very basic (emphasis "basic") information displayed. Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures comes up nice (Logo on upper right, good), but querying Furry Weekend Atlanta brings up Fur Affinity: United and vice versa, Fur Affinity brings up FurFright, Furmeet brings FurMagic... (see the pattern yet?).

There will be a (future) option of taking a picture, and upload it to the pertinent Wiki's article (a test shot of some Fursuiter friends attending Califur to his test wiki's fursuit article worked, #@$#! license input needs work "GNU!, gNu, Ganu?, genooo,..."). Cool device, too ^.^

Replacing multiple instances of one phrase with another

ReplaceText might be faster than doing it individually.--Higgs Raccoon 13:09, 4 June 2013 (EDT)

Actually doing so. There were 800+ pages needed to be changed, so I checked the Special pages directories for the option. But if I didn't knew about, I would have been an appreciated tip. Thanks =) - Spirou 13:20, 4 June 2013 (EDT)

Unsure about "Cleanup"

Yeah, I'm not to sure what is wrong with my page, i know I don't have too many sources, but all this is coming from me and my mind, how can i even source that? -Cole Cherno

A little bit fractured, for one. You have your biography segmented and mixed with your fandom history. Bring your real life Biography up first, then your Fandom involvement next (which includes your Fursona), followed by your skills, as a suggested start. There is times when too much media (images) will encroach on the article (you have to decide how much is truly needed to illustrated/inform graphically your article). And as always, the Furry Book of Style is your friend for formatting solutions - Spirou 02:40, 9 June 2013 (EDT)

Smirre

Could you help me out a little? I know the text was somewhat subjective, but I was hoping someone could fix it (rather than deleting the whole thing). Also, I apparently forgot to check all links while not logged in, which ones were members only?

Regarding the references, how should one handle references in languages other than English? Maybe add a translation? Excluding all non-English sources does not seem like the best of solutions.

5.150.238.249 05:25, 13 June 2013 (EDT)

Oops, sorry. Looks like some cache somewhere is acting up; it looked like you had reverted my edit. Anyway, do you have any tips for when there are only non-english references?

5.150.238.249 17:07, 13 June 2013 (EDT)

Sorry to get back late back to you (RL), but it seems that somebody has already filled in the reference vacancies, including the members-only one (which was/is the very first one on the article). As for the translation of reference links, Google has a built-in translator, Safari offers Extensions, and Firefox Plug-ins, so it is not (almost) an issue. The screenshots (were the use of them as valid reference is still being debated here) were a total beast altogether, as there is no way to translate an image.

No, the NPOV issue is that it still reads as "an opinion" more than "a fact", and it goes a long way in the article (more than one third) to simply point out that he has social issues with people in a single furry site: Example: Why would an admin's (Ricadonna) dislike with this individual prior to joining Sveafur be listed as an "issue" on Smirre's article? (he has no control what other people think of him). The two imaginary friends... Why bring it up?. As long it did not impact a Sveafur directly (financially, emotionally, physically), a personal quirk is not really historical data. The subjects that people found "irritating"": Unless, again, it involved somebody personally, why parade the particular subjects out? (reference links are normally enough to highlight the issue).

Deaths threats. Now this should be noted, specially if done "On numerous occasions" on the site against (presumably more than one) Swedish fur. But there is only one listed instance, and "what would legally be regarded as threatening to kill people" is an opinion based loaded phrase... And so on and on. Just an FYI on this point - Spirou 00:23, 14 June 2013 (EDT)

Trying to paint a "complete" picture, and doing so without being too biased. Hard work, thanks for your input.

There are things that I don't think could be fitted into the article while keeping a neutral point of view. For instance he has posted papers from the Swedish social services saying he has problems with, among lots of other things, paranoia. When he changed his mind and wanted to un-post them he said that "Anonymous" had hacked his computer and posted them, and later confessed that he had done it.

Now, as I said, I want to make the whole picture clear, and his paranoia and needing 24/7 assistance are surely some key elements describing a part of his personality. The only sources for this are the aforementioned papers, which are only available as images, in Swedish, which is another reason why it can't be included.

As to why I've written about SveaFur in particular, it is for a number of reasons. He has been there for a long time and stirred up a lot of feelings, they had to ban him as a measure to keep the forums alive, and that's where most sources are. Of course he has been at other communities as well. I will se if I can find someone who knows more of his activities elsewhere.

5.150.238.249 03:56, 14 June 2013 (EDT)

About my article

I get that people here edit articles about others, but I'd really appreciate it if you'd stop adding that old information in my article and leave it be. I no longer want that information in my article and I'd appreciate it if you'd stop getting rid of the edits I wrote on MY article. Thanks. -Vivian Ferrox

Five digits

Congratulations on passing 10000 article-edits.--Higgs Raccoon 05:44, 24 June 2013 (EDT)

10020 edits?. 7 years, 10 months, and 6 days (or an average of approximately 3.4949 edits/day)... Yeesh, is it been that long, and that many already? 0.o Thanks all the same =) - Spirou 06:09, 24 June 2013 (EDT)

Could->May and minus Bolding in Disambiguation pages edits (June 2013)

The edits in process are being done automatically, as per prior discussions regarding these format changes on disambiguation pages. These changes have been done by hand slowly (still are) for the lasts few weeks, but I'm turbo-editing through, so this is just an FYI so it doesn't surprise anyone.

New to the format of these pages is alphabetization (it seems), and the addiction of sections (prior discussions), which will be done by hand (no way to automate these tasks). Again, just a heads-up on what's going on - Spirou 04:04, 25 June 2013 (EDT)

As per reference, most of these proposals/discussions occurred on the Fox disambiguation's talk page - Spirou 04:18, 25 June 2013 (EDT)

Lockdown

Hmm, actually I did. I made double sure since you also locked down the last PE article I made, thinking too I had done so. I wonder why it is not sticking when I press save. But Thanks anyways - Spirou 21:06, 5 July 2013 (EDT)

Well, if you locked down (protected) the Haruki Talos article, it didn't show up in the protection log.--Higgs Raccoon 22:12, 5 July 2013 (EDT)

I saw. I selected Colleagues Only, Indefinite, etc, etc,... +Save. But that's twice that it didn't take. No biggie, will make triple sure next time, or could be Safari not playing nice again =/ - Spirou 00:09, 6 July 2013 (EDT)

Question about wikify tag

I see you edited my page again, I tried to fix as much as I could the last time, but I just have a question for you. what does "references need to formatted properly" mean? -Cole Cherno 11:38am EST 7/15/13

Check your talk page whenever you can for a comment on formatting reference links like so far - Spirou 17:54, 18 July 2013 (EDT)

Splitting and merging

You're doing great merging and deleting while I'm excitedly looking at things to split in hopes of hitting a round number of articles today in birthday celebration: File talk:WikiFurCake.png‎. Amusing! -- Sine 17:40, 24 July 2013 (EDT)

well i tried

and i fucked up... i honestly have no freaking clue why you have the tag and what i have to do so thanks for adding me to your queue.... Cole Cherno 9:55 EST July 27, 2013

Question

Ok, I think I understand how to get the wikify tag off my page, i gotta remove most of the external links and turn them in sources, but give them names so that they don't all become duplicate links like the last time. Am I correct? Clarify when I do the edits tomorrow morning -User:MilitaryAviator 9:52PM EST 8/15/2013

Reverts

The IP that's been editing my page and Seto's really needs blocked, if possible, or our pages locked to logged-in accounts only. I don't really know how wikis work about this kind of thing, but... uh. She's been bothering us for the past few months. Don't need this petty dramz on a public site. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BlauRascon (talk • contribs) .

They claim that their edit is a "true fact". Is it? (We don't have to have relationship information there at all, but if it is, it should be accurate.) --GreenReaper^(talk) 03:41, 1 September 2013 (EDT)

It is not. We are not in an open relationship, never have been, and never will be. She's bothered us before on other sites, she's just following me here. Either way, just checked her userpage, Spirou's blocked her for a month - that should be enough time for her to lose interest. Thanks so much! --BlauRascon 17:01, 2 September 2013 (EDT)