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[edit] Featured Article
I hope that no one minds that I added the featured article. We can always take it off, and I want to see how it looked. I chose "The Derelict" because it had a picture, its a popular article, and fairly well written. Any questions, comments, or concerns on the featured article? — Mary (talk) 03:09, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Layout
I was looking at newly created wikis, and I noticed that they have a different front page layout. Like the front page of this wiki... does anybody think that this layout is better than the one we have, and that we should change our current layout? Thanks — Mary (talk) 22:12, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
- I think we should let content dictate our layout. The Disney Pins wiki you site has no content and looks like a pitiful empty shell. If you want a shell of an Irwin Allen site, go visit Alpha Control.org. They have a lot of pages, but a great deal of them are just empty placeholder templates.
- After getting a majority of episode articles completed, I think our next goals should be improving articles to featured status and completing the production calendar. I'd like to get something going that would automatically post what happened on this day in Irwin Allen production history on the front page, using content from our production calendar pages. Most major wikis have this on their main page. As for featured pages, I think the leaders at this point might be The Reluctant Stowaway (LiS episode) and Preplanis, though they both still need quite a bit of work before they can be considered complete. -- Connor Cabal 23:42, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
I was just using the Disney Pins Wiki as an example for a layout option. Your right, its an empty shell and it's looking like its going to stay that way because I have no plans on starting it up. The people over at AlphaControl must be having a great time over there... I checked the recent changes and all I saw was WillRobinson deleting vandalism. I'll keep my eye open for any automatic programs for "What happened on this day" because as of right now I have not heard of any programs like that. I do think that "what happened on this week" might be better, but we can cross that bridge when we come to it :). We should probably start rating pages, using the stars on the bottom of the page to give it a rating of 1 - 5 so we have a better idea of what we think are featured page worthy. Right now, I'm not really impressed with our main page, I think that it needs a little fine tuning so i'll look around for things that can help us to improve it. — Mary (talk) 21:25, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
- Rather than being overly concerned with the main page, I'd suggest that traffic is a better place to focus attention. How many hits do we get? Where do our visitors come from? Is this data posted anywhere? WHY aren't we a spotlight wiki yet? These things are more important to me, FWIW. -- Connor Cabal 02:50, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Connor, I really wish I had good answers for you, but I don't. To answer your first question: I found this page on wikia help but I'm confused by it and I can't get it to work for the IAW. Second: I don't know. Where our users are from would be helpful information to have but I can't find it. Its possible the only way to learn that is to ask the user directly, and thats not really helpful because we have users who make one or two edits and never come back. And now what has been annoying me to no end: I have absolutely no idea why we don't have a spotlight yet. I've kept an eye on the spotlight page, and they are accepting new spotlight applications but for some unknown reason they aren't changing the spotlights they have. We are third in line to get a spotlight up, so I have my fingers crossed that we will be in the next batch of spotlights. I'm terribly sorry that I can't give you any good answers, if I can find something i'll let you know. — Mary (talk) 03:25, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Ivan Tors Lives - A New Wiki Launching April 2009
Hobo 01:55, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[[Category:]]My name is Mark Watson, and this is what I am preparing for 2009: Ivan Tors Lives! The brand new wiki depicting Ivan Tors' life from box-office sci-fi schlockmeister to one of the most prolific and celebrated television producers focused on the wildlife genre debuts in late April 2009 at http://www.torsworld.wikia.com.
On TorsWorld.wiki.com/IvanTorsLives, you'll find featured articles written by Ivan Tors fans the world over, edit and post comments and reflections on Ivan Tors' life and times in the wildlife-oriented television industry, watch full episodes and multi-excerpt compilations from selected Ivan Tors Enterprises-produced series, including Daktari, Off to See the Wizard, Malibu Run, Primus, Flipper, Science Fiction Theater, Sea Hunt, The Troubleshooters and the critically acclaimed wildlife factual series Jambo and Last of the Wild as well as Tors' extensive collection of cult motion pictures released in theaters during the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, rare footage from Tors' film and TV productions, and photographs of selected Ivan Tors Productions actors and production crew members throughout the decades during the twentieth century.
I hope you'll want to log on to http://www.torsworld.wikia.com and click on Ivan Tors Lives, starting April 29, 2009.
Meanwhile, discover the life and times of one of Hollywood's most acclaimed disaster-epic hitmakers, the legendary Irwin Allen!
[edit] VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
Which version of VTTBOTS is released by 20th Century Fox?
The 1960s film version starring Walter Pidgeon
The ABC Television Network version starring Richard Basehart
If you correctly answer the response to the question above, Wikia users and creators are right! Both versions of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea were produced by Irwin Allen, but with separate all-star casts.
Immediately following the success of the film version of VTTBOTS, Allen went on to produce and/or executive produce other feature film epics and episodic series television productions - which also include The Swarm, The Poseidon Adventure, When Time Ran Out and the ABC series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Swiss Family Robinson - a family drama adapted from the novel by Johann Wyss - and Code Red, Allen's first full-scale drama series for Columbia Pictures Television (now Sony Pictures Television).
