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The Duran Duran wiki is slow and unresponsive, and the content is limited and of questionable interest. Bastards!! pillow talk 17:02, December 15, 2010 (UTC)

They also fucked up the images... again! —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 17:04, 15 December 2010

Yay! More Wikia bashing! I hate Wikia since they ruined all of the wikis with their new mandatory skin (except Uncyclopedia, cuz we're special). ◄► Tephra ◄► 17:25, December 15, 2010 (UTC)

And the most recent edits were made by an editor called "Wombat0121" --Mn-z 17:30, December 15, 2010 (UTC)

Meh.

Either something will come of it or something won't. So what? 1234 ~ 17:29, 15 December 2010

You Know What?

I've been looking through the old forum archives, looking for things Wikia has screwed up on, and here are some of them. Be sure to add some if I've messed up, along with a link to some evidence.

They've screwed up our image boxes.

They forced us to join their Wikia.com menagerie.

They've deleted articles just because some asshole threatened to sue them.

They've forced us to use the bullshit Monaco skin for IPs who visit the site(After saying they wouldn't).

So to hell with Wikia. I realize that this might start "drama," but after reading all the times Wikia has attempted to rule like an iron fist, while we just sit here like a bitch and take it, I think we need to actually do something about it. --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 16:15, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

That's nice. Do something? What, eh?

1234 ~ 16:24, 18 December 2010

Let's move--Poiz,Teh zork master!!!! 17:44, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Other wikis already have or are in the process. Wikia sucks and everyone knows it (or is really stupid). ◄► Tephra ◄► 18:11, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

A notable example would be the Freespace Wiki, as they have a fully functional one that doesn't rely on Wikia for anything(except ideas to improve the site). If we moved, all we would need would be tech-savvy people. --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 21:00, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

I know some, at a wiki against wikia--Poiz,Teh zork master!!!! 21:02, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Which one? --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 21:03, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

i forgot, but it was based purely on being against wikia--Poiz,Teh zork master!!!! 21:17, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Was it the Anti-Wikia Alliance? --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 21:47, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Out of the vast research that you've carried out, the only one that is correct is the one with the domain name. Correct, that one was a bad move and caused great harm to the community. However,

• Number one - a bug, was fixed.
• Number three - did not happen here but rather in the Spanish Uncyclopedia.
• Number four - a bug, was fixed AND they apologized for it.

I'm not a big fan of some of their policies, but generally speaking they've been decent with us most of the time. Are you looking under the rug for trouble because you might be bored? ~ 22:38, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

I just like to point out

Most of the bad stuff that Wikia has done over the past 2 years has been mostly out of incompetence or malice.

• The image thing was an accident, and corrected relatively quickly. Noone at Wikia was thinking, "Let's break uncyclopedia for the LUTZ."
• The domain name thing was over 2 years ago. Granted, it was evil, but we have lived with it this long.
• The deleted article was on another language wiki, and I think they may have deleted more to protect the author than themselves. They have resisted legal threats in the past.
• The Monaco thing was also 2 years, and they relented on that issue. The Monaco skin doesn't even exist anymore

In summary, I'm going to wait until Wikia does something evil out of malice (as opposed to mere laziness or incompetence) until I join a "Fuck EBIL WIKIA!!!!!" crusade. --Mn-z 22:45, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Also, it appears that Mordillo said basically the same thing I did while I was editing. --Mn-z 22:47, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

To be honest, I'm starting to agree with the deceased CartoonistHenning. Wikia has implemented various things without the community's consent. Admittedly, the staff that regularly inform us of Wikia's policies(Sannse) have been quite helpful with the site, but it's the people above her I can't stand. And yeah, I was bored, so I thought I'd do research on the issue. --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 22:54, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to see examples rather than general declarations, other than the domain move thingy. ~ 22:57, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

I would do more research, but I already finished my quota of being lazy for the day. --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 23:04, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

I can't recall Wikia doing anything evil of significance in quite a while (like 2 years or so). Granted, the site has been slow &/or buggy on occasion, but I don't think CarlB's wiki farm or any other free wiki hosting site would be any better in that respect. In conclusion, like I said earlier, lets only go on "FUCK WIKIA!!!!!" crusades when they do something that is actually evil. --Mn-z 23:24, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

I can understand what some the users feel on Uncyclopedia. Seriously. I know. DJ Mixerr 18:22, January 2, 2011 (UTC) (talk)(contributions)

I quite like Wikia

Have you spoken to sannse? She's a scream. They are so tolerant and they- I'm saying it aren't I? No, No, not the lasers again I think we should start to pay to use Uncyclopedia! > aaaaaaaaaaaargh --ChiefjusticeXBox360 22:49, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Just waiting for her input. *me pulls torture helmet off Chief's head* --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 22:57, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Meh, Wikia's all right. It doesn't have many hot bitches, but it's all right. Also I aint paying anything to Uncyclopedia. My hardwork here is pay enough. What more could you want?--If you're 555 then I'm Talk What's it like to be a heretic? 23:04, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Never said anything about leaving Wikia. Just suggesting we try to make them do what we want for once. --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 23:06, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Like making them bend over and we rape them? Sounds like a good idea to me.--If you're 555 then I'm Talk What's it like to be a heretic? 23:13, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Wasn't what I was thinking, but making them our bitch could work... --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 23:15, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

On a 50/50 scale. DJ Mixerr 21:50, December 29, 2010 (UTC) (talk)(contributions)

Yeah

• We had a conversation on IRC about this a couple weeks ago. Olipro informed me that the only thing currently keeping us from leaving wikia is the fact that the Uncyclopedia community no longer owns the uncyclopedia.org domain name: it was sold by chronarion to Wikia. And Wikia doesn't want to sell "uncyclopedia.org" back to us, even though they clearly aren't using it for anything. Once we get a domain name everything else, according to Olipro, would be fairly simple because there are several other people who would be willing to host our wiki. I have spoken to sannse about our community buying back our domain name from Wikia, but she told me to talk to her again in January. Perhaps we could make some actual fundraising banners and raise money to buy back our domain name. -- Brigadier General Sir Zombiebaron 23:38, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

What about Uncyc.org? Crap, now Wikia will probably buy it... --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 23:47, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Why do they even care in the first place?--If you're 555 then I'm Talk What's it like to be a heretic? 23:50, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure why they care, I don't think we make them any money. But they did buy our domain name from chronarion for a sizable amount of money, so I can understand why they would be reluctant to give it back to us for free. Obviously we could always just buy "uncyclopedia.net", "uncyclopedia.com", or "uncyclopedia.gov". -- Brigadier General Sir Zombiebaron 23:56, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

So why didn't we do that like 2 years ago, or 4 years ago for that matter? --Mn-z 00:05, December 19, 2010 (UTC)

Cause we didn't have balls. We said some things we never did. Now it's time to finally do something about one rather annoying problem... ObamaWikia. --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 00:07, December 19, 2010 (UTC)

Sense of perspective

Kip ranted (my word) about the thumbnail screw-up on UnNews talk:Wikia lays off 600-700 and I rambled (his word) about keeping perspective. Further to my remarks there: One employer of mine insisted that I do my writing using software they were actively tweaking to sell as a product. The screw-ups there were constant, my ability to deliver work was at risk, and my status as their guinea pig carried no urgency with them.

As I told Aleister during the recent skin controversy, I find my free rental of Wikia's imperfect servers to be a fair deal, as it only costs me such of my imperfect writing/editing as I wish to give. The outages we have are unremarkable compared to the other outages and interruptions in our lives. Spıke Ѧ 00:34 19-Dec-10

This is me

Not caring. Because caring takes effort. Good day. 1234 ~ 00:38, 19 December 2010

Wow, you must be one laaaaaazy son of a bitch.--If you're 555 then I'm Talk What's it like to be a heretic? 00:42, December 19, 2010 (UTC)

What's your point?

1234 ~ 00:51, 19 December 2010

Good question, what is my point? What was the question? What are we talking about? Where am I? Who are you?--If you're 555 then I'm Talk What's it like to be a heretic? 01:04, December 19, 2010 (UTC)

Want an apple?

1234 ~ 01:12, 19 December 2010

Yes please!--If you're 555 then I'm Talk What's it like to be a heretic? 01:22, December 19, 2010 (UTC)

*tosses an apple*

1234 ~ 01:23, 19 December 2010

*catches applen in mouth, like a dog* Bark, bark, bark, bark.--If you're 555 then I'm Talk What's it like to be a heretic? 01:41, December 19, 2010 (UTC)

If you're so lazy, why do you edit Uncyc? --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 13:49, December 19, 2010 (UTC)

Because I feel like it.

1234 ~ 17:22, 19 December 2010

Wow... You are a lazy chick... --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 18:36, December 19, 2010 (UTC)

And?

1234 ~ 18:44, 19 December 2010

Wait, your a chick?--If you're 555 then I'm Talk What's it like to be a heretic? 18:45, December 19, 2010 (UTC)

Only on wednesdays.

1234 ~ 19:04, 19 December 2010

Hey! Lay off Lyrithya! If you're really nice to "her", "she" will show you "her" penis. It'll be like Chatroulette. Or that video call you got from your grandfather after he got Skype but before he knew that the computer you got him had a camera. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 23:06, December 19, 2010 (UTC)

Now, now, Modus... don't go getting folks' hopes up. You know how stubborn I can really be...

1234 ~ 02:07, 20 December 2010

Pah! My package is out all the time! And I don't even have a camera! (Just a scanner. It's not nearly as unpleasant as it sounds.) Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 21:16, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

That... would depend on the type of scanner, wouldn't it? *backs away slowly*

1234 ~ 22:55, 20 December 2010

It's a flatbed. With a pinchy lid. The old roller-style was like a massage, but the scans always ended up all skewed. They looked like Hume Cronyn, which is pretty awesome, actually. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 23:43, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

Well, that, er... sounds... fun?

1234 ~ 23:52, 20 December 2010

On a flatbed it looks like two kiwis. Not the fruit. The bird. And that's just wrong. That's why the FBI has me on a list. It's nice to be wanted. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 00:12, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

Is what happens after nice?

1234 ~ 00:39, 21 December 2010

The cross-State police chase. Obviously. That's the best part. It's like being James Brown in 1988. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 01:11, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

Is it? What about when the Mexicans get in the way and you get... er... nevermind.

1234 ~ 01:55, 21 December 2010

This is the first weird conversation ever on Uncyclopedia. I hope you're proud of yourself. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 04:37, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

Oh, quite. Aren't you?

1234 ~ 04:48, 21 December 2010

I've been told that I have no shame. I said "Listern here, Mrs judge!". Then she said "No, you listen. This is my courtroom and in my courtroom that dog won't hunt." and she ruled in favour of the plaintiff. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 05:51, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

Shame is overrated. What's a plaintiff, though?

1234 ~ 17:13, 21 December 2010

That's like a sheriff, but without the decorations. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 22:53, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

What decorations?

1234 ~ 23:04, 21 December 2010

The decorations that take something from plain to, um, sher. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 23:10, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

Ah, sher... it all makes sense, now. All becoming clear.

1234 ~ 23:53, 21 December 2010

Awesome! We're going backwards! --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 02:08, December 22, 2010 (UTC)

Are you sure it isn't all just in your mind? ◄► Tephra ◄► 03:30, December 22, 2010 (UTC)

No, lol. --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 16:16, December 22, 2010 (UTC)

I could be wrong...

But on some articles, such as raygun andFist with index finger and thumb extended, the picture boxes still aren't fixed. Is it just me, or is anyone else still suffering this? --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 02:28, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

Unlike the last time, it the overall didn't fix itself or get fixed after the problem for individuals was solved. On the other hand, didn't they only get affected after a purge/edit in the first place, anyhow, last time?

1234 ~ 02:34, 20 December 2010

I fixed them. What do I win?--If you're 555 then I'm Talk What's it like to be a heretic? 02:37, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

You need to fix Handgun, Staple gun, and pretty much all unfixed Uncyc articles too. Thanks oh so much to the Wikia bastards who didn't fully fix it. --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 02:41, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

Eh, we just need a cross-server cache purge or something. Meh.

1234 ~ 02:50, 20 December 2010

Wikia purged the backend. Everything should be good now (if not, try to clear your cache and try again). --~ 21:17, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

No difference. --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 22:15, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

Um

You guys kind of threadjacked me here. I was looking for some shared outrage over the poor function of the Duran Duran wiki. pillow talk 19:16, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, mon. People are just... centred.

1234 ~ 19:43, 20 December 2010

So why-ieee-ieee-ieee-ieee-eee don't you use it?/Try-ieee-ieee-ieee-ieee-eee not to bruise it/Buy-ieee-ieee-ieee-ieee-eee time don't lose it... Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 21:18, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

My apologies Hype, just ranting the way the title told me to. --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 21:26, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

I personally don't have anything against Wikia, so there is nothing I can rage about. Besides, I'm just here for the food--If you're 555 then I'm Talk What's it like to be a heretic? 21:45, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

Well, I just ate the last chip.

1234 ~ 22:54, 20 December 2010

Might I suggest you two get some custard? --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 23:03, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

*eats Meganew's brain*

1234 ~ 23:06, 20 December 2010

Vore, LOL --Mn-z 23:15, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

That wasn't mine, that was Modus'. --Revolutionary, Anti-Bensonist, and TYATU Boss Uncyclopedian Meganew (Chat) (Care for a peek at my work?) (SUCK IT, FROGGY!) 23:51, December 20, 2010 (UTC)