{{newsletter}}==Front page updating==Hey man, we are discussing in the ninwiki thread on ETS that we need a couple of folks to have permission to edit the main page so we can add the recent soundtracks and their respective icons to get it up to date. Can you please check in at ETS when you get a chance? Cheers!
{| style="border-spacing:8px;margin:0px -8px" width="100%"|classSpamming="MainPageBG" style="width: 55%; border:1px solid #cef2e0; background-color:#f5fffa; vertical-align:top;color:#000"|{| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background-color:#f5fffa"! <div style="margin: 0; background-color:#cef2e0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding-left:0Hey, theres a spammer/bot that keeps posting irrelevant pages.4em; padding-top: 0If you could IP block, .2em; padding-bottom: 0htacces deny a few ranges, or something of that nature it would help.2em;">Things I'm currently doing my best to Do</div>|-|style="color:#000"|What can blank pages that are posted from the spammers but it's not really working. I figured you do had access to help out in those sorts of things since your the NIN Wiki?* Give categories to server expert. [[SpecialUser:UncategorizedpagesAldude999|articles which do not have anyAldude999]]* [[Special19:Deadendpages|Dead-end pages]] need to have links added to them* Work on the [[Nine Inch Nails]]25, the [[Trent Reznor]] article, or11 March 2011 (PST)* Work on [[:Category:Expand|other pages which need expanding]]* Help new users!|-! <div style="margin: 0; background:#cef2e0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;">''Name Of The Song''</div>|-| style="color:#000"|Song titles should always have first letters capitalized, even with small wordsIP block is not currently working. For instanceSo yeah, we''Down In It'' would normally be formatted ''Down in re just having to do it piece by piece until it''s working, sorry for inconvenience! Also, but this does can you not look quite right and can be confusing in some cases. Here are some general guidelinesblank a page that previously had content on (ie:*All First Letters Must Be Capitalized For Releases And Song Titles*Song titles should be in "quotes"Main page talk), while album titles should be in ''italics''*Page names an undo is fine for songs should be '''Song Title''', unless there is also a that [[Halo numbersUser:Sheepdean|halosheepdean]] for it, in which case it should be '''Song Title (song)'''*Page names for [[Halo numbersUser_talk:Sheepdean|halosTry to speak as clearly as you can]] should be '''Song Title (halo)'''*For example20: [[With Teeth 09, 11 March 2011 (songPST)]] and [[With Teeth (halo)]]|-! <div style="margin: 0; background:#cef2e0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0Oh, I apologize, but I do believe that it had been previously blanked when the spammer posted to it, I could be wrong about that though.2em;">NinWiki IRC</div>|-| style="color:#000"|If you would like to chat with usI may suggest, editing the '''NinWiki IRC''' channel is located on Freenode. You can access it with many IRC clients by clicking [irc://irc.freenode.net/ninwiki this link]htaccess file, or if you donthat hasn't have an IRC clientbeen tried already, go [http:but it is also possible the bot//java.freenode.net/ here] and enter your NinWiki name in the nickname spacespammer has either a dynamic IP, and ninwiki in the channel space. If you would like to download an IRC client, check out [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IRC_clients Wikipedia's list of IRC clients]or there is multiple bots.|-|}|class="MainPageBG" style="width: 45%; border:1px solid #cedff2; background-color:#f5faff; vertical-align:top"|{| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background-color:#f5faff"! <div style="margin: 0; background-color:#cedff2; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; Yeah, the spammer replaced all the text-align:left; color:#000; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;">Focus on NIN Discography</div>|-|style="color:#000"|The Nine Inch Nails discography is expansive and can be confusing. A Wiki is , but an undo should've reverted it back to the perfect place to catalog, in detail, each NIN release and NIN songprevious form. To help I sorted it out:*Create song pages using the [[NinWiki:SongLayout|Song Layout]], which will standardize song pages.*Add the [[:Category:NIN Songs|NIN Songs]] category to songs and the [[:Category:NIN Discography|NIN Discography]] category to releases and etc.*<u>Do it's not</u> add links a big deal, but these little bastards are going to mp3 files of songskeep annoying us until it gets sorted. If you And when Malechite gets online, he'll sort it all (I'reallym only an admin, can'' think the article needs it, ask an t fix such things) [[NinWikiUser:StaffSheepdean|Adminsheepdean]] first.*Add [[Year ZeroUser_talk:Sheepdean|Try to speak as clearly as you can]] stuff as it comes up. After all20:17, that's what this Wiki was created for originally!11 March 2011 (PST)|-! <div style="margin: 0; background-color:#cedff2; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; fontYeah, I broke all of the anti-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;">Wikipedia</div>|-|style="color:#000"|Wikipedia can be a great resource spam stuff when i upgraded to study when writing NinWiki articlesthe latest mediawiki, but itso i's important ve got to remember to '''never copy word for word what Wikipedia says'''redo it. It's not illegalI added blacklists today, it's just bad practicebut i guess they didnt take. Let's build a great wiki from the ground up -[[User:Malechite|Malechite]] 22:-55, 11 March 2011 (PST).|-! <div style="margin: 0; background-color:#cedff2; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; fontCaptcha is now working correctly -weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;">Signed...</div>|-|style="color:#000"|<div align="right">[[NinWikiUser:StaffMalechite|The StaffMalechite]]<br><span style="font-size23:10px">[[User:Buzzbot|Buzzbot]] handled the distribution of this newsletter.</span></div>|}|}12, 11 March 2011 (PST)