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Awesome site! The preceding unsigned comment was added by GreenieGobbie (talk • contribs).

Thanks! Glad you enjoy!

--Jamie 02:50, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Why 'Bad Characters' instead of 'Villians'? --Lollerkeet 09:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

That is a great question. I think I chose good vs. bad instead of heroes vs. villains to allow for people like "Aunt May" and "Uncle Ben" who are good people, but not necessarily "heroes".

It was a decision which I didn't think was better or worse than any other option at the time... :)

--Jamie 16:02, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Where can I find transcripts of comics?

I would assume scanning the book onto the Internet is illegal, so I was wondering if there is a site with the words on it. Some of the stories sound interesting, but are not all covered here.

I don't believe word-for-word transcriptions are legal either. :(

I have never seen such a site in my meanderings on the web...

Sorry,

--Jamie 20:06, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I see. How about just the story, or even a list of characters? You guys do pretty good here, but there's a lot of comics you don't have, too.

We're working on it. Unfortunately, most people don't seem to want to do issue summaries (a shame, I think its the heart of the project), and those of us who do have limited time, and a lot of that is being consumed by other necessary tasks.

What books are you looking for? There are some more-specific sites on the web that have issue summaries (ie, Uncannyxmen.net has UXM issue summaries, and probably a lot of other x-books).

Also, feel free to pitch in and write summaries for issues you do have. We'll appreciate it.

--Squirrelloid 18:55, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't own any comics; not Marvel, at least. Specifically, I'm looking for Iron Man (all the volumes). I have to say, though, you guys did a great job with Amazing Spider-Man. Keep the Coffee Shop running! DMX 17:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Have you checked Tales of Suspense? #39 is the first Iron Man, and he has a story in that title till it ends (at which point Iron Man and the Sub-Mariner picks up, and after that his regular Iron Man series). --Squirrelloid 20:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi

let me start by saying u r my hero. I have ben through a lot in my life . at one point i wanted to die.But i started drawing.i made super heros i only have 4 of them but they each are made of me. i have nitro boy who can turn metal and unleash infanit amounts of heet.he lives w/ his mother who is hooked on drugs so while hes saving the world, he has to protect and take care of his family. then we have heat flash. think super man but based on heat.he is the third born out of fifteen. he is in a foster home who treets him like crap.and his problem is he has a delinquet record and no one trust him. then ghost Think Neo, anican skywalker, and static shock. he stays in an orfanage he trust no one. his problem his super since of humer and loud mouth. last but not least u got Darius Vhonjill Anthony Thomason he morphs to any animal he touchesthats all i came up w/4 know .i wana bring these characters to life and i wanted u to help me The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dvat (talk • contribs).

What kind of help were you looking for, Dvat?

--Nathan Elliott (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk • contribs • email) 16:59, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Odd Gallery Bug

Over at Marvel Comics Presents/Covers I've been experiencing what seems to be a bug with the Gallery code. I tried to add the cover for Comics:Marvel Comics Presents Vol 1 20, but it wouldn't show up on the page. I added several other covers and they all worked fine.

The image filename appears to be correct, as does all of the other formatting, but absolutely nothing is appearing on the gallery. If you want to check it out, it's between issues #18 and #21. My code is below if you want to check it. I would've asked this on the forums, but I kept getting a CGI error when attempting to register, so I'm trying it here. Thanks!

Image:Marvelcomicspresents 20.JPG [[Comics:Marvel Comics Presents Vol 1 20|Marvel Comics Presents #20]]

Cerebellum 15:53, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Looks like you just forgot the | (pipe) between the image name and the image description.

It seems to be working now. :)

Cheers!

--Jamie 04:47, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. Cerebellum 17:12, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Optimizing the usage of DPL

Hi folks, I'm PanSola, a Wikia Helper. I am dropping by to chat about DPL (Dynamic Page List) usage practices. This site is among one of the most popular Wikia wikis that use a large number of DPL calls, and as DPL queries can sometimes pose quit a load on the servers, being careful with the usage of DPL can help improve the general user experience at Wikia.

One of the most simple ways to reduce the demand of DPL on the servers is to enable caching of the results. The more often a page with DPL calls get viewed, the greater the effect caching has. And so on a popular wiki such as this one, enabling caching is likely to help reduce the server load quite a bit.

Unfortunately there is a downside: caching means the results won't immediately update when information on the wiki changes. Sometimes the information can be out of sync by several hours. If you are worried about technical accuracy, you can place a note warning the visitors "new changes may not be updated immediately". For mission-critical usages of DPL that are time-sensitive such that any delay is unacceptable, enabling caching wouldn't be a good idea.

I'll drop by again later with more tips on how to improve server performance via optimizing DPL usage. If you have any questions, concerns, or think it's a good idea but need help implementing the change, feel free to discuss here. If you need a fast response from me, please ping me on my talk page (but still keep the main discussion here, so everything is in one place). Thanks. (you can also check out more tips here). -User:PanSola^{(talk/history)} 21:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I think that most of the time, our DPL use can be cached without problem. In fact, I can't think of a spot where caching would cause a problem. How do we implement this?

--Nathan Elliott (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk • contribs • email) 16:55, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Heya, glad to know the above method is applicable here! To enable caching, just make sure to add this parameter:

allowcachedresults=true

in the DPL call. Official documentation on it is at [1].

Another thing to consider with DPL's, is "exactly how dynamic" is the list? If you have a page where the list only changes a tiny bit every other month, and it's a heavily visited page, then perhaps considering maintaining the list manually can reduce server load even further than enabling DPL cache. If it's a heavily utilized page by many people, then there's less fear of the page being out of date if maintained manually. Conversely, if it's a lightly visited page, then the benefits gained from doing a manual list is smaller, and with less people keeping an eye on the page it might not be updated as quickly. So it's up to you guys to decide which lists might be worth maintained manually, and with which pages/templates the benefits of the dynamic nature of the list is greater.

I'll drop by again sometime later again to check if you need help, and offer another tip (don't want to overwhelm you all at once d-: ). Let me know if you have any questions! -User:PanSola^{(talk/history)} 17:19, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

character suggestions please!!!!

Hi i'm currently working on a canvas that incorporates both marvel and DC characters however theres so many lol an I cant seem to think or decide!! could you please suggest some characters for me? I know its probably naff but the idea of the canvas was for there to be a sort of 'bridging' between marvel and DC like two really famous characters from each falling in love (sorry i'm a softy and a romantic!!) anyway can anyone give me some ideas of characters to include? pleeeaasssseee! Piglet1066 20:21, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiaStats extension test

Good morning! I'm here to tell you about a new feature we're testing out on your wiki - Special:WikiaStats.

For every wiki at Wikia, we generate statistics that track the number of new editors, the number of articles, and various other information important to the life-cycle of a wiki. These stats are much more detailed than the in-built MediaWiki statistics page found at Special:Statistics.

As Wikia has grown we have tried to improve our statistics package to our users more robust data. As part of our latest update, each wiki will receive a special page where any logged in user can view detailed statistical information about their wiki. In addition, a number of the statistics have had their methods of calculation updated to be more accurate. We hope this will aid users in deciding where to focus their efforts.

The new Wikia statistics pages can be found at Special:WikiaStats on this wiki. (Previously the information could be found on wikistats.wikia.com.) In addition, there will be a central WikiaStats page which allows you to look up any wiki's stats, though this is not yet live.

You can find out more about the new stats page at Help:WikiaStats on Wikia Help.

We are planning to release this to the rest of Wikia next week. In the meantime, we would love to get your feedback on the new stats page - where it's not clear, numbers that don't look accurate, or suggestions for improvement. You can leave feedback here, but it would help us keep everything organised if most of the feedback was left on this Central Wikia forum thread. Thanks! I would have posted this on the forums, but I can't register, gives me an error. Kirkburn (talk) 17:05, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

In the News

Maybe this could be changed to , say, "The Daily Bugle" with the Bugle logo? Roygbiv666 16:28, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I like the idea. I think this one has to get the stamp of approval from Jamie since this is his baby and there might be "legal" copyright issues on the name...doubt it, but some weird stuff has been copyrighted and trademarked before so I never take any chances. Definitely think it should change if there are no outside issues with that name though! Good call!! --M1shawhan 16:40, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Hope not, as this entire site consists of trademark copyright material. I made the DC "In the News" into "The Daily Planet", naturally.

Roygbiv666 16:55, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

LOL! Well when you say it like THAT, how can I resist. ;) --M1shawhan 19:46, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Remove a link from sidebar

Maybe its time to remove the link to the marvelonline wiki from the sidebar..that wiki has died a long time ago...--Comet styles 05:21, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder. It's been removed. A lot of us administrators use a custom sidebar, so we tend to forget what everyone else sees. :)

— Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk • contribs • email) 14:58, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Register to forums

Hi, I tried to register at your forums and I got this error:

CGI Error
- The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

Could someone fix that or is it my error? ...--Comet styles 23:53, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Yea, that's a common error for new users. Try logging in with the username and password you selected. For some reason, the older forum software has developed a bug where it tells you there was an error, but still processes the registration correctly. Let me know if you have any problems. :)

— Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk • contribs • email) 03:34, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Needs a lot of changes

Hey all, I'm a bit new to this wiki, I usually work on things like WoWWiki and Soulcalibur Wiki...

Anyways, I've just kinda thought that this wiki needs some big changes. I mean, you've either got stuff that shouldn't be there, or so little it's pathetic.

I mean, just about every character has a "Powers and Abilities" section, even normal, non-super hero characters! Guys, we already know they're not super heroes. We already know they don't have any special abilities. It's just a whole lot of annoying redundance.

And it seems that you've made it so that if someone hasn't put in info about the plot/cast, it automatically says it's unknown (even when you remove the plot/cast...). My advice is to just make it so you have to do it manually, so you don't have even more redundance. Heck, it even says on the pages of some movies from like, 50 years ago that the plot/cast is unknown!!! IT IS KNOWN, IT'S JUST THAT NOBODY'S PUT ANYTHING IN!!!!

This wiki needs a lot of work. A lot of stuff is just plain ANNOYING. Iron Hammer 19:43, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions! Creative criticism is always nice to hear. We're happy to have you here to help us out with all this work. I suggest you reiterate your feelings on the forums to ensure your voice is heard. If you have any questions at all feel free to contact me any time. :)

— Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk • contribs • email) 21:28, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Arkhampedia

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. We are tonight's entertainment!

You know, this Wiki reminds me of my father. I hated my father. What with Joker quips aside, I'd like to introduce myself and who I represent. My name is Thomas Rattim, and I represent the wiki that is called Arkhampedia. Many people ask me about what sort of education I took to be such a cruel, humor obsessed man as I am today, which entitles me to the rank of administrator on said wiki. Well, it was all down to my education, yes. When that failed, I became an Arkhampedia administrator!

Someone spin me a beer, now. I need to whet my voice for what I'm about to say.

None coming? Well, alright then.

So I'll continue with my story. So, yes, I'm an administrator or "Cell Keeper" over on Arkhampedia. Yes, it's named after Arkham Asylum. Now, we're a Wiki on all comics, similar to this wiki here. (Although you're more focused on Batman) There's a big, big difference, however. We're a humor wiki. We like breaking things! I mean... making things humorous. Yeah. That's us. There are currently five administrators on our wiki, three bureaucrats and two administrators. I'm not a bureaucrat, no. In terms of administrators, we have El Geeko Supremo (Bureaucrat too) Nina (bureaucrat), Texan Sysop (bureaucrat too), and a crazed Wookiee. Oh, and me. The half-Russian-half-British-full-Commie-full-evil bastard. That's us.

Now, our Wiki's have a lot of things in common, things I really don't think we need to go into in detail. Now, we're a small outfit. And there's lots of room for aggressive expansion. No, we're not going to have tryouts. We're not picky on who we're going to get as inmates. :) We, however, hope to expand. With all our administrators, with the exception of me and Nina, having been administrators or formerly been administrators on the Star Wars humor wiki Darthipedia, we're looking to expand to that sort of level or more. And we need users for this, eh? Yep. Well, as we've got a lot in common, we thought you ought to be aware of us being there and all, and we'd welcome any sort of cross-wiki editing or relations between us.

If you have any queries at all, feel free to ask me here. Other admins will probably drop in and see too. Cheers! :) --Thomas Rattim (talk)

Why are there so many universes?

HEY!!!!

Can anyone tell me why there are som many damn universes!!!

There should be only one huge, great, big universe.

I know that one universe is for a comic and another is for a different comic or a tv show, but cant the writers just find some way to fit it in with the other timelines and whatnot?

The preceding unsigned comment was added by Darth tom (talk • contribs).

It is maddening, isn't it? When writers want to write about the characters they love, but want to tweak their histories/powers/etc, they put them in an alternate universe. Why? Who knows... Welcome to the madness!

Artful Dodger 12:42, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

You gotta figure that these characters have been around for about 50 years now, and fitting all of their adventures into one big timeline together would largely be impossible. Then there are stories which take place in the future, and the past, but still feature the same characters. I remember one month where I noticed that Wolverine was in New York, China, Mexico, the Future, and Space all at the same time. And that was the same guy, from Earth-616! Using different universes allows the writers to do whatever they want with the character, without having to worry about what has happened in the past, or why they act or look so different all of the sudden. (It's easier than trying to figure out the whole one big timeline thing). :)

— Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk • contribs • email) 19:32, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

ok and if we say i m gifted .i just put my ass in a plain and be there or ?can u help me whit info even just