User talk:Bluegoblin7

Welcome...
Hi Bluegoblin7 -- we are excited to have Worldwide Trams Wiki as part of the Wikia community!

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

Best wishes, Catherine Munro

Hi
Hi BG7

I already have an account here which I created a while back. Tbo 157 11:30, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok Tbo, thanks.
 * I've sysopped you up here, so please feel free to get stuck in. I also want to use a different main page to SW etc, so if you could work on that as your first "challenge"!
 * Please delete anything that's not in use. Save cluttering up the wiki!
 * Thanks,
 * Bluegoblin7 19:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Trams Wikia NL
Hi BG7,

The Dutch Trams Wikia is now part of the family! From now on I will try to give it the same touch as this wiki. If you have any comments, please do so. --Eelco 02:11, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Eelco,
 * Thanks a lot.
 * I also left a message on your talk page at NL about standardisation.
 * Thanks,
 * Bluegoblin7 11:18, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Monaco
Hi Blue Goblin -

Great work on Trams!

Sorry about changing the default skin. Should be good now. Have you seen the page on Monaco Skin Customization?Monaco has a lot of really cool features that let you expose new and experienced users to your wiki's content. If you need help customizing, let me know. Also, once you've built a bit more content, please consider asking for a spotlight.

Thanks, -- BillK  (talk ) 19:31, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

PS - I've added some pictures from my travels. I hope you can use them. :)


 * Thanks Bill - no worries about the skin! I will probably use Monaco when I have time to customise it!
 * Great pics - will find use eventually!
 *  BG 7   15:30, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Hey
Hey Bluegoblin7,

thanks for the invitation, but I wasn't planning on doing much work on the Trams wiki's. I just help my husband, Eelco, around with some random stuff on the Dutch wiki.

It was nice meeting you, and good luck with the English wiki.

Greetings,
 * --ThePegasus 10:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Cascade style sheets & content
Hi BG7,

I just had a look at the Blackpool Transport article and I was wondering where all those weird text like " <td colspan="2" class="" is coming from? I have the feeling that your cascaded style sheets don't contain all the classes you're using. Is that because the text is a copy from the wikipedia article. If that is the case, please beware of the fact that the .css files on wikipedia contain far more classes than the .css files I uploaded on both the EN and NL tram wiki's. Bear that in mind if you copy content from wikipedia. --Eelco 05:17, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Eelco,
 * I was aware of these! Wikipedia are overly-complicated in the matter!
 * I have a user (dubbed WP's template king!) coming over to have a look. It seems to be mainly Infobox, Infobox Public transit, Infobox Bus transit and Navbox. I had a "good" copy of Infobox rail for the articles that call that.
 * Thanks for warning me though!
 *  BG 7   08:09, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Spotlight
Hi Bluegoblin7. Worldwide Trams Wiki is really nice and very close to meeting the requirements for a spotlight. You have a good welcome template, and you're using it, you have a nice front page and a logo, and over 100 pages of content. So that's all really great, and I think it will be a good spotlight!

The one area I think needs a bit of cleanup is the categories. You have a fair number of uncategorized pages (especially the dates), and a lot of uncategorized categories. Could you work on this?

The other thing I noticed, and this isn't a requirement, is that you don't have a customized favicon. That's the little image (the default is a yellow "w") in the address bar of your browser. Would you like to create one?

Let me know if I can help you with the categories or the favicon, or if you have other questions! Once you get the categories cleaned up we'll be happy to put Worldwide Trams in the queue for a spotlight. -- Wendy (talk ) 17:54, 1 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Good deal about the categories. I can't make .ico files myself either, but I use this web tool to convert png/jpg images into them.  When you upload the result to the wiki it will look blank on the screen and may take a little while to appear up in the addressbar so be patient :).  Let me know if it doesn't work at all for some reason!  -- Wendy  (talk ) 18:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)