User talk:Hockeyben/Archive 1

So whats the plan now import everything to this wiki from Wikicars by hand? Coolow 20:09, June 9, 2011 (UTC)

Imports
I vote that we import articles and import the images with the article rather than importing all of the images first. Coolow 06:58, June 11, 2011 (UTC)

and how long will that take????? Coolow 15:37, June 12, 2011 (UTC)

what will be the web address when shoutwiki import this wiki Coolow 05:51, June 13, 2011 (UTC)


 * Fuck it. Let's start over at Wikia. You can start copy/paste articles there. I actually like the Wikia skin. --Knightrez(Talk) 09:42, June 13, 2011 (UTC)

sounds good to me Coolow 06:14, June 14, 2011 (UTC)

Down again
Fucking bullshit host. The sites down AGAIN. I'M FUCKING OUTTA SHOUTWIKI FOR GOOD. Once is enough, but twice is laughable. --Knightrez(Talk) 06:26, June 19, 2011 (UTC)

Coolow 14:16, June 21, 2011 (UTC)

88.110.27.83 14:16, June 21, 2011 (UTC)

BRB
Sorry for my absense. I promise I'll work here when I have the time. I also gave you bureaucrat rights too. Btw, has RM been doing anything? --Knightrez(Talk) 04:39, September 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the 'crat rights. No sign of RM, although I've informed him on wikipedia. We're quite far along in the import, with 5500/6300 pages. Don't be fooled by the 7,000 article count on wikicars, they are spam pages, the count was 6300 in December.-Hockeyben 14:24, September 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * If you made this skin, it's kinda nice. --Knightrez(Talk) 15:36, September 4, 2011 (UTC)

RM account
Here it is User:Aldrich.uyliong. -Aldrich.uyliong 15:16, September 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Just sign my talk page on Wikipedia,to prove it's you, and I'll give you back your bureaucrat/sysop powers. ---Hockeyben 15:18, September 4, 2011 (UTC)

Saw your message, I'll give you back your powers now. ---Hockeyben 15:20, September 4, 2011 (UTC)

Wikicars
shouldn't "See Wikicars' comprehensive Review" be "See Autopedia's comprehensive Review"? --Knightrez(Talk) 15:43, September 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * well, since 4,500 other pages use see wikicars' comprehensive review, I thought it was best to stay consistent. ---Hockeyben 15:44, September 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Then we may as well change the site naame to Wikicars --Knightrez(Talk) 15:47, September 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Can't. Internet Brands own the rights to the name. :(---Hockeyben 15:47, September 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * From what I see, IB doesn't care about Wikicars. Take a look at the spam. Has IB done anything? Plus, they blocked the only adminstrators on the site including someone who's been there for 4 years. --Knightrez(Talk) 15:56, September 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * Still, I feel we should play it safe and keep the name "autopedia". Plus, I can contact wikia, and see if they can run a bot to changes all "WikiCars" phrases to "Autopedia". ---Hockeyben 15:57, September 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Gotta go, it's 12:02 in the morning. --Knightrez(Talk) 16:03, September 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, See ya later. ---Hockeyben 16:03, September 4, 2011 (UTC)

Classic Car Wiki
Hey

I runThe Classic Car Wiki and I was wondering if you would be willing to help us out by adding any car on our wiki that is older than 25 years of age. You don't need to worry about photos as we go to enough car shows!

If you are intrested please let me know as we need someone like you who will be able to add the 'backbone' to articles until we come along with more info and photos.

Cheers TheWWC 23:54, September 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi. Cool wiki you run there. At the moment, I don't have time to really contribute there, as I'm busy going thru the marques, and adding models. Within the next couple weeks, I'll see if I have some spare time to help you.

If you want, you could always contribute to Autopedia as well, as it is always great to find someone interested in cars. ---Hockeyben 23:57, September 4, 2011 (UTC)

Hey Hockeyben, I noticed you were taking info from another wiki project, is it an open source so we could use the info then build on it or would we need permission from someone? Thanks for your kind words and we hope to see you around soon!

TheWWC 00:03, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, we're taking it from Wikicars, which is open source, and we are merging with them. So I would say, feel free to use the info there. ---Hockeyben 00:04, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Alright cheers, thanks for that! Please let them know about us and what we are doing (as you are leading the merge) just so they know what is going on. Thank you ever so much!

TheWWC 00:07, September 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * There is nobody left on WikiCars, the two editors, Red marquis and Silver Knight left WikiCars, and initiated the move to Autopedia. I know the two them, and I doubt they would have a problem with it. ---Hockeyben 00:08, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Alright cheers, just wanted to make sure, so how long have we got to copy stuff over before the site goes down?

TheWWC 00:09, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Wikicars is free to edit by anyone, but everyone there either lost interest in editing, or moved here. So you have an infinite amount of time to copy. ---Hockeyben 00:10, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Hockeyben! Thought there may be a time limit on the hosting or something as you have been editing so manically! Once ive done everything I need, ill find a way to repay you!

TheWWC 00:12, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Instead of copying from wikicars, why don't you just copy from here?-Hockeyben 00:18, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Hey, Im going to copy the stuff from wikicars about the car manufacturers and then for the cars copy the stuff from here, thanks for letting us use your info! Best of luck with all your editing and we hope to see you on our wiki soon (if your free any time soon)

TheWWC 02:01, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * @TheWWC We aren't taking this info from Wikicars, we're moving from Wikicars. The two site are the same, but with a different name. The reason why we're moving is because that site uses an outdated MediaWiki. Because of the outdated MediaWiki we decided to move. While we were moving, the owner, Internet Brands blocked and stripped our admin rights. --Knightrez(Talk) 11:32, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Oh ok then, I understand now. In that case ill just get everything from here from now on and then add my own knowledge to it.

Are you moving all the pages over?

TheWWC 14:09, September 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yep. That's what i'm currently doing. ---Hockeyben 14:10, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Ok then, best of luck with that! Ive noticed you have been hard at work adding pages over! I was wondering if you wanted to become partners or something when we both become bigger (well you already are), have a large community of contributors and have sorted everything out that needs doing e.g. After you have finished with the move.

Some of my friends are going to start helping soon and I am going to post on some forums to try to get more visitors and contributors to my wiki within the next week. If you have any other ideas how I can increase the traffic without a spotlight (as the wiki is too small to apply) please let me know!

TheWWC 14:18, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

How about we affiliate with each other? I had a link to Classic Cars Wiki on our main page, and you add a link to Autopedia on your main page.

As for traffic, I can't say I really have any suggestions, but the bigger the wiki gets, the more hits it gets on Google.

Best of luck! ---Hockeyben 14:20, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Ok then that sounds good to me!

I will add the link later on after I finish what I have set out to do today!

TheWWC 14:22, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Motorcycles
Do you think Autopedia should have articles on motorcycles? I've always liked MV Agusta, Aprillia, Ducati, Yamaha, and Harley-Davidson. --Knightrez(Talk) 14:54, September 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure! Autopedia is about everything cars. Maybe not tractors, but definitely motorcycles. ---Hockeyben 14:55, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Hey again!

Ive added a link to Autopedia under our Affiliates. If you go to our home page and look in the box under the 'Features Image' the next one starts as 'Special Thanks'. Look at the bottom of it and there is a link to your site.

Knightrez has had some concern of me copying from here and Wikicars but ive assured him it is only temporary until we get round to adding our own knowledge and info from multiple other sources.

TheWWC 14:57, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * I see the link. I still think its fine that you guys copy, but don't use every single article from here, or less your site will look like verbatim next to ours. ---Hockeyben 15:00, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * @Hockeyben The problem is, who is gonna keep up with the motorcycle updates? --Knightrez(Talk) 15:03, September 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * We don't need to constantly update them, we only need articles. It won't be me, however. ---Hockeyben 15:04, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Great! A new Ferrari 458 Spyder came out and we don't anything updated. --Knightrez(Talk) 15:06, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Can't you update it? Your our Ferrari expert. Who says we need RM to do every single update?---Hockeyben 15:08, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

I understand, Im not copying every article otherwise there would be no point to me even doing it!

We do write our own articles and have been adding our own info to pages etc. We have been adding all our own photos including some of car badges and interiors etc with hundreds more yet to come after they have been cropped, edited and renamed by my small team of editors. It may look like im doing all the work but I have a small group of people helping me get stuff done as well!

TheWWC 15:07, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, that's fine. Good luck to you guys. ---Hockeyben 15:08, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * @Hockeyben That's what I'm doing right now. --Knightrez(Talk) 15:12, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words!

Good luck to you guys too!

TheWWC 15:15, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Car updates
Would you like to help me on the car updates? We can't let RM do all the work. --Knightrez(Talk) 15:41, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * I won't be able to for a while. I'm currently filling in the missing models, and then I need to upload the jeep images I lost.-Hockeyben 15:44, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Ok --Knightrez(Talk) 15:45, September 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Something's wrong. I can't copy paste the Lamborghini and Koenigsegg article from Wikicars. Which means we're gonna have to redo the whole page. --Knightrez(Talk) 01:45, September 6, 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, I'll let you handle it. Wonder what happened to the articles on wikicars:( -Hockeyben 02:00, September 6, 2011 (UTC)


 * While we were moving, RM deleted the articles on Wikicars that were already imported to ShoutWiki. I didn't think it would do any harm until now. :( --Knightrez(Talk) 02:10, September 6, 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned pages
Your latest Holden pages I noticed, are copied from Wikipedia. But where are the links? --Knightrez(Talk) 15:50, September 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thought you didn't like me copying the links from Wikipedia. Remember the argument we had on ShoutWiki about that issue?---Hockeyben 15:52, September 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * I can't remember that argument. --Knightrez(Talk) 15:55, September 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * I included some links that you didn't like, you removed my bureaucrat powers, and I got mad at you. That was like two days before the great SHoutWiki crash.---Hockeyben 15:56, September 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * Ok, go ahead and do what you like, but don't forget, if a car, for example, is called the AMC Javelin, you would add   --Knightrez(Talk) 15:59, September 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay. Sounds good. ---Hockeyben 16:01, September 7, 2011 (UTC)

Missing images
I thought Wikia imported all the images. I noticed half of the wiki's articles have missing images or images that weren't uploaded. Take a look at Ford and Bugatti --Rayous(Talk) 15:41, September 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * No, only images uploaded by either you, Red marquis, or TristanT were brought over. i.e. 26,000 out of 30,000. ---Hockeyben 15:45, September 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * But why didn't they import all of it? Can they bring the rest back? --Rayous(Talk) 15:54, September 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * Some sort of licensing crap. ---Hockeyben 17:50, September 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * So 26,000 images aren't categorized. --Rayous(Talk) 01:11, September 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Why do you care so much about categorized images? -Hockeyben 02:42, September 10, 2011 (UTC)

Wikicars' to Autopedia's
See if Wikia can use a bot that can change Wikicars' to Autopedia's --Rayous(Talk) 15:27, September 14, 2011 (UTC)


 * Can't you do that? Ask via Special:Contact. ---Hockeyben 15:28, September 14, 2011 (UTC)

Spam comments
Thanks for cleaning up those spam comments. --Rayous(Talk) 13:31, September 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * No prob. ---Hockeyben 15:02, September 18, 2011 (UTC)