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Why are we here?
The answer is simple, yet complex. Some of us are here to aid in cataloging all the cards that exist. Others because we love everything about it. In many ways, we seek to integrate everything we see in sites like Ideal808, Upper Deck Entertainment, the Yu-Gi-Oh Info on Netrep, GameFAQs, and info from sites like Pojo and Metagame. Also these sites could help Manjyome Thunder, Shriek, Janime and [http://yugiohfans.co.uk/.html Yu-Gi-Oh! Fans]

To integrate all the reference material you see there... that is our goal. To be the best and most dedicated website in existence to all players and fans alike of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Universe, and above all, to be totally 100% free to use and quote material from.

Database Update
We are currently in the process of updating the image database in accordance with our new Image Policy. During this time, some images may be unavailable.

Please do not be offended if images you have contributed disappear from the list available under the "My Contributions" tab on your user space. To standardize filenames, images must be downloaded, saved under the new name format, and then re-uploaded. Although this does remove your credit byline from the image page, it does NOT affect your overall contributions.

Contributors
To make contact easier with the main Site Maintainers, here is a list of contact details for members that wouldn't mind lending a hand to new people:

Bureaucrat


 * TwoTailedFox (TwoTailedFox@Gmail.com)

Admins


 * Narchibald84 (narchibald84@hotmail.com)
 * Pcouw (drrichardsaari@hotmail.com)
 * Vyse24 (Vyse2487@Gmail.com)
 * LeafGreen Ranger
 * AnnaV
 * Van Ludwig
 * Deus Ex Machina
 * Deltaneos‎

Volunteers
 * Andersmusician
 * Tyrant Slayer

Japanese names
For the cards, would it be possible to provide Romanized and translated (if not already in English) names?--208.252.179.26 03:16, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I eventually plan to offer an English Name -> Japanese Name -> Translated Japanese Names tabled at some point. Stay tuned.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 11:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Tagged Images
Would it be possible to use the new tagged image thing for card trivia, etc? (See example at Image:ReinforcementoftheArmyLOD-EN-SR.jpg.) --Miff Falden(tlk 03:03, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi everyone, dont know what you mean here miff thefox, about images I think we should add some fair use license template, for not breaking the law, what do you think? --Andersmusician $  00:48, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Making lists more useful
The current state of lists seems a bit unsatisfactory to me. Leaving aside bad formatting and incompleteness, it's the scarcity of information which annoys me most. There's the card names followed by centimeters, even inches, of blank, unused screen space.

What about giving basic statistics for each card in the lists? We can even make tables and thx to techies running Wikia, even sortable tables (see User:Pjacobi/tabledemo). I'm rather puzzled, why class="sortable" is available but class="prettytable" doesn't work. Perhaps because the latter is left to the individual Wikias.

Of course such a change would be a lot more realistic, if these enhanced list can be generated offline from some database or on this Wiki using a bot or a bot-assisted editor.

Pjacobi 15:59, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Image request
Hi. If anyone could get card images of: That'd be just great. Rodtheanimegod4ever 01:26, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Carat Idol
 * Larva of Moth
 * Pupa of Moth

THIS IS URGENT!

 * hey can sum1 put in the new episodes 4 season 4? -- edited by:Ogi [[Image:Wind.gif]]
 * Technically, Season 4 is not out yet. We're still in Season 3.  Minhtam2448 23:24, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Please don't use "This is urgent" for non urgent matters. Thanks.


 * Hey, if i have a bazoo the soul eater(with the historical text version), then can i use it with the 'remove cards from graveyard' effect instead of 'remove monster from graveyard' effect if i want to play it in an official way? Need someone to clarify this ASAP as i need to rebuild my deck. thanks. -- edited by Czl1992
 * Go by whatever's on the most recent text, regardless of which text is on your card. In this case, you can only remove monsters for Bazoo's effect, no matter which card you use. --Deltaneos 10:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Fusion

 * I move to add a section of monster card pages to indicate what a monster can be fused into. Especially with E-heroes, this could potentially save a lot of confusion. You know, just an idea... --Phred 19:58, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
 * In fact, couldn't this be added to the Monster's Trivia? Just a "This monster fuses with X to form Y" Could be potentially useful! --Phred 20:50, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Ironoid

 * I'm iffy on the card Ironoid. There are no other websites with this card nor has anyone ever even seen the artwork. Google comes up with 10 searches; two of them our own site and the other 8 random sites not pertaining to Yu-Gi-Oh in any way or manner. -- Huajun Chen 15:48, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. Yu-Gyo.com doesn't have it, people selling every other DM1 card on ebay don't have it, that cute little site where I got our first pictures of PG, TP, and FOTM doesn't have it, Pojo's never heard of it, etc. etc. My guess, this id just another rumor, like "Dark Master Exodia" or "Foam Neos". I'll remove my request for it and terminate all links to it. then, someone can delete it. Rodtheanimegod4ever 21:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Disagreement in extremis! At times, it actually helps to LOOK at sites before condemning them. For example: Just because you can't find a picture of something doesn't ALWAYS mean it doesn't exist!
 * - gives full details on Capsule Monster: Breed and Battle, and lists promo cards...which happen to include "ｱｲｱﾉｲﾄﾞ" (Ironoid)
 * - someone who actually HAS the card in question has it listed on their trade site
 * --Narchibald84 09:30, 22 September 2007 (UTC)


 * LATE. -- Huajun Chen 13:35, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Notice to contributors and mods
If you were wondering just what in the holy hell I’ve been doing the past three days, filling up the Recent Changes section with a gazillion categorization edits, let me explain: TwoTailedFox recently stated “categorization slows a wiki down” or something among those lines. While I agree with that statement, I still think some form of organization is necessary for this website to flourish.

Merged Pages and Categories

 * Gameplay: The Basic and Advanced Gameplay categorizes have been combined into one mega-category. The numerous sub-categorizes that were formerly part of the Basic Gameplay have been cut down and also been moved to the mainstream Gameplay category. This new category is very broad—the whole reason why I underwent major revamping—but its border is thick enough to separate the term “replay” from pages in a whole other realm.


 * OTK, FTK, Lockdown: Notice how these three items no longer have categories? That’s because they’ve either they have become a deck type or moved to their respective Card Trivia pages. There’s no such thing as a lockdown without a deck built around it or an OTK that doesn’t require less than two cards.


 * Anime Terminology: Pages like “KaibaCorp”, “Electrodes”, and “Armor of Unity” have been merged and classified into their respective pages, depending on which series they belong in. The exception to this is the Millennium Items, seeing as they’re practically the symbolic centerpieces of the original anime.


 * Character Pages: The Ghouls, the Society of Light, the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX minor characters, etc, have all been merged.


 * Card Lists: Remember the massive amount of card lists we had just a few months ago? Notice how they aren’t there any more? Because really…how many people will type in “card lists” in the search engine? Isn’t it so much simpler to put information directly in front of them, rather than make them do all the work and searching? It’s because either:
 * They have been converted into templates. (Ex: Amazoness card list, Ninja card list, BEWD card list)
 * Deleted, because they’re useless. (Ex: Vampire card list, Sphinx card list)
 * Moved to their appropriate content page and abridged under a dynamic box, the same ones we use for the character decks (Ex: Counter Trap Cards card list, Field Spell Cards card list)

Card Trivia

 * Some people seem to not understand what "card trivia" is. The following is accounted as card trivia:
 * The Japanese name of a card (Ex: Sangan is called “Critter” in Japan.) There are a million and a half ways to translate Kanji into English. Before you add in a Japanese name on a trivia page, first check it up on Google or another search engine to make sure it’s widely accepted in the fandom. An example of this would be Graceful Charity’s Japanese name. It can be correctly translated into “Angel’s Charity”, “Angelic Charity”, or even “Angelic Almsgiving”. However, the most widely known Japanese name for Graceful Charity is “Angel’s Gift”.
 * Ties to historical background such as religion, literature, art, or geography.
 * The cover pages of booster packs, etc. that the card appears on. (Example: Archlord Zerato is the cover page for Ancient Sanctuary booster.)
 * Artwork censoring, in terms of sexual suggestiveness, religious offense, etc., from the OCG to TCG. Most censors include taking out the halos of fairy-type monsters, covering up the cleavage of female monsters, the demon horns taken off fiend-type monsters, or taking out the crucifix. (Examples: Shining Angel had a halo)
 * Redrawn card artwork. (Examples: Otohime, Soul of the Pure)
 * Progressive storylines that a series of cards tell. (Warrior Lady of the Wasteland was once D.D. Warrior Lady after being returned from the different dimension as seen in Karma Cut and Different Dimension Gate.)
 * Other card artwork that the card has appeared in. (Example: The man from Second Coin Toss appears in the artwork of Goblin Out of the Frying Pan, holding a Gust Fan, and alongside Goblin of Greed who has a Pot of Greed in his hands.)
 * Picture counterparts or “brothers” that resemble each other in terms of physical body features, outfits, weapons, but not necessarily, (and rarely), in color. (Example: Dryad looks like Lady of Faith.)


 * What does not count as card trivia:
 * “This card resembles a turtle”.
 * This card is spelt “so-and-so” in the video game “whatever” no longer attributes as card trivia. Misspelled video game card translations and wry card effects are now going to be distributed into their respective video games pages reserved to game glitches only.
 * The attack name of a monster. (Example: In the anime, Cyber Dragon’s attack is called “Super Strident Blast”.)
 * The different effect that a card has in the anime that’s not in the TCG. (Example: In the anime, Card of Sanctity allowed both players to draw until they have six cards in their hands.) Don’t get me wrong: This is very valuable information and we’re glad you can share it with us. However, any differences in the Anime from the TCG will be listed strictly on the Anime and Manga Appearances page rather than the trivia page.

Vandalizing

 * Vandalizing: Yes, Alexis’ boobs are big. It’s nice to know. We’ve gotten over half a dozen dickwads concerning her sex life with Jaden on her character page and that’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all the reverting of vandalized pages some of us had to undergo from the multitude losers who apparently have nothing better to do than replace entire pages of content with jjswg. Please. Go jerk off to more hentai; we don’t need you here.
 * Anonymous vandalizing — We catch you up to doing no good and we ban you for anywhere from an hour (hopefully you’ll get off that library/school computer by then) to a week.
 * Logged In Vandalizing — If you have an account and are found disturbing the peace on this site, you will be banned. For an infinite amount of expiration time. You can never edit. Here. Ever. Again. So don’t do it, ok?

A new idea

 * I'd like to hear some opinions on getting a YGO Wiki-only IRC channel. (That is, if Fox approves of the idea, first. ;P) What do you think of that? It'll communicating much easier than just simply using talk pages. Maybe some of you can settle the reverting battles much quicker this way. XDD;;

Quesions? Comments? Suggestions? -- Huajun Chen 19:09, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * That's a nice idea. Wikia ACG has it's own channel, The Gaiapedia has a channel to (Though that's basically inactive). And I've registered a number of other ones. So if TwoTailedFox doesn't know how to, I can register the channel, and drop myself down to Alternate+Access and give him Contact status. ^_^ I'm also known in #wikia for using my own special  and   commands to quickly deal with flooders and other IRC spammers. That, along with the phpBB forums which have been requested to be installed here once a permissions bug is fixed would make for very nice methods of communication for users in the wiki. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local  (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 18, 2007 @ 11:09 (UTC)


 * Man, you're smart. But for the rest of us who didn't graduate from geek alpha squad academy, please translate all of that into English. -- Huajun Chen 11:44, 18 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Wikia ACG and The Gaiapedia have their own channels I've registered.
 * I can register one for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki if TwoTailedFox doesn't know how to use ChanServ (What's used for registering a channel). Then drop my status down to second/alternate while giving TwoTailedFox primary control over the channel.
 * I have 2 special commands for my own use called  and   which help stop spam in the IRC like how rollback allows us to kill spam in one click instead of 2 or 3 here in the wiki.
 * An IRC Channel is a nice idea that will fit in with the phpBB Forums that will be installed here when the Wikia Tech Team fixes something wrong with them.
 * Got nothing to do with geeks... You started talking about IRC Channels, and I used IRC Language. Hang around in IRC and you'll pick up those terms allot. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 18, 2007 @ 14:26 (UTC)
 * (Didn't notice the Timestamp till now) Though there is something I should note. The IRC page has some bad things which should be fixed:
 * mIRC isn't the only client, in fact there are plenty of other ones to use. You can also access IRC through the web.
 * Also, it may be a good idea to move the channel to FreeNode.
 * All of the wikia which have IRC channels use FreeNode. Not just for some sort of tradition but for some very good reasons;
 * Wikia's own IRC channel is actually located on FreeNode, not only that but Wikia itself is registered as a group there and FreeNode is the official place for any Wikia project using IRC.
 * Because Wikia's #wikia channel is located on FreeNode, the advanced support for things that users of this wiki can't help with isn't available by simply saying to someone "Just use  for more help." if you're not on the same network.
 * There's also a very large reason using FreeNode is a good idea. Wikia has it's own CGI:IRC client located at http://irc.wikia.com so in other words, as long as the channel is located on FreeNode any user of the wiki can simply go to http://irc.wikia.com and connect to any of the Wikia channels without downloading a program. There's also http://java.freenode.net for a little better web client.
 * ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 18, 2007 @ 14:59 (UTC)


 * 100% support behind a Freenode YGO Wiki IRC. I'm not familiar with how to use ChavServ, since I've never managed an IRC channel.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 17:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, register a nick with NickServ for yourself TwoTailedFox on FreeNode and I'll set everything up for the channel. Which do you want I think I'll put #yu-gi-oh as the channel and redirect #yugioh to it also. Tell me when you have your Nick and I'll transfer the channel to you. I don't know how active you are, but I'll keep myself as alternate so that if your nick expires and someone takes it I'll automatically be set as Contact for the channel instead of having it suddenly disappear. I'm on nearly every day so don't worry about me expiring. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 18, 2007 @ 18:23 (UTC)
 * I setup the channel and put up a new IRC page. I also tweaked the Sidebar. When the phpBB forums are setup we can also set MediaWiki:Forum-url to the location of the forums and it'll show up in the sidebar. Have any of you ever used a Mailing list? Wikia wikis have mailing lists associated with them, if you want we can set that up for use and also link to it from the sidebar. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 18, 2007 @ 19:04 (UTC)


 * We have one set up, but I don't believe it's ever been used. Oh, btw, I already have "TwoTailedFox" on Freenode. ^^--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 19:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikia ACG
Summary: The Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki is considering joining Wikia ACG, below is some information on what technical things in the project or policies will change as a result. Links to more information on the project after the list.

I didn't intend to mention Wikia ACG to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki until the project had grown a good deal, but TwoTailedFox seamed pretty interested in joining the project, so I guess I'll ask the community for some feedback on this and detail what would end up changed: Theres a bit of information on the project at What will happen?, Anime:Extended information, and Wikia ACG Terminology and the project page is at Wikia ACG. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 18, 2007 @ 23:45 (UTC)
 * The Project uses a set of bots to sync various things across all the wiki in the project:
 * There are some pages that these bots would overwrite here:
 * Template:Delete would be overwritten by Anime:Template:Delete.
 * Template:Disambig would be overwritten by Anime:Template:Disambig.
 * And Template:Stub would be overwritten by Anime:Template:Stub.
 * Also, the Anime:Template:Fair use may have a few more options for use than your Template:FairUse but they are different titles so yours won't be overwritten.
 * There are a number of licensing templates for use also. Along with a number of interesting other ones.
 * Also, the images inside of w:c:Naruto:Images/noedit will show up here.
 * I haven't finished enough work on TagSyncBot yet to let me exclude UserBoxes from being synced so all the ones at Anime:Project:Userboxes/listing will show up here. But, when I fix things up extras that don't fit can be excluded.
 * Wikia ACG Has a set of Global JS/CSS that will be referenced:
 * A new Show/Hide will be working.
 * I have a special Box class for CSS which is very nice for doing styles for tables and other boxes and templates.
 * If you want to use them, there is a good bit of preloaded JS that work nice for userscripts that do things like adding tabs, tabmenus, etc... And it's possible to add my BasicTabs and even WikiSwitch systems.
 * Wikia ACG does have some global policies, but I don't think any should really be a problem:
 * Copyrights: This is just the basic copyrights page, it's more of a shared page so that other projects don't half to bother creating one.
 * Fair use policy: The basic Fair use policy, but we normally wave the act of tagging each and every image for those wiki which have been around awhile and have a few hundred images already.
 * Jump start from Wikipedia policy: The policy does talk about starting articles from Wikipedia articles, but that goes on a "Don't reinvent the wheel, unless it needs reinventing" motto and the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki is already more comprehensive than Wikipedia so that doesn't really apply.
 * Some community feedback/input/confirmation would be nice. Even though TwoTailedFox says that he likes the idea we can't really go ahead without feedback from the community. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 21, 2007 @ 16:38 (UTC)
 * Just a small note but, as the 25 will make it a full week that this has been up right on the main Community Portal where everyone looks. And pointed out on both the Main Page and in a Sitenotice. Since the Founder and most active admins agree with the idea they do intend to go ahead with this without feedback if no-one posts any feedback, or even a question by tomorrow. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 24, 2007 @ 13:00 (UTC)


 * All you editors out there: Comment! Even to support this idea, we at least want a general idea of the support this idea has amongst you.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 21:03, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
 * At the moment I see no reason to support or not to support it. It could cause more problems or make things easier. It is a double edged sword. Big Boss 0 21:05, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
 * In response to the potential to cause problems, remember you guys will have a say in how Wikia ACG affects its members in general and Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki in particular. So hopefully when a problem emerges and has been identified, it can also be resolved via the involvement of the communities. -Afker 22:38, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * ^_^ That was actually addressed off page: User talk:TwoTailedFox, User talk:Big Boss 0. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 25, 2007 @ 22:43 (UTC)
 * Well I sort off like the idea and I agree with Dantman that it needs community support to progress further.."Go Ahead..Make my Day" ..-- Cometstyles 21:12, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't really see what difference it will make. As long as the way things are entered doesn't change...too much, at least...I'm sort of neutral on the issue.
 * --Narchibald84 13:30, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


 * We can make a list of the advantages and disadvantages it will cause, then we would be able to see if it is better to support the ACG Project or continue the Wikia in the way it is. I can't make the list because I don't know much about this, but maybe another person like an administrator can do that. What do you think guys? --Dragon Slayer 20:42, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Well I can't really come up with a good list, I've already listed out the pages with information, and made checks to make sure that nothing on the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki collides badly with anything that Wikia ACG Shares. But I'll try to list the different types of WikiText/JS/CSS additions that would be added (Even though those pages I've pointed to already give that information, if anyone would actually care to read them...)
 * Wikia ACG deals in 2 main things... Shared content that makes it easier for wiki even without good technically knowledgeable editors to have useful complex templates and other js and css. And a unification of wiki; Primarily through some global policies that the projects in the wiki have in common and agree on (None of the current ones interfere with the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki, and by joining the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki will have input into the creation of future ones, so there's no issue with policies), and through backlinking (Basically all the wiki in the project link back to the central wiki in the project, and the central wiki in the project link out to all the focused wiki; Kinda like a web, it makes it easier for similar wiki to be found and theoretically helps spread out both readers and editors to all the wiki). Heres some of the bits of shared content:

That's about all I can think of right now... ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 27, 2007 @ 00:33 (UTC)
 * WikiText (Synced Templates): See Category:Templates/shared, Category:TagSynced.
 * Well I don't know about to many specifically useful ones, but there are a few nice synced templates that are generally helpful.
 * There is a Deletion template here, but there is actually a shared deletion template used in Wikia ACG which has more options and is pretty useful itself. Works for normal and speedy deletion, as well as a has a optional reason field, change of the discussion page displayed, and preloaded reasons that I can add more to if you want.
 * is a useful template to use when explaining things about other templates. If you were talking about the deletion template you'd use And you'd get something like  where it was linked to, didn't need any tags, could easily be copied, and it also lets you list out a large number of parameters that should be displayed in that example, as well as a prefix if you are talking about something that should be substed or is used in another method
 * The general See also, Main, Spoiler, Stub, etc... templates are all synced so no-one needs to create them if needed. As well as a useful directory template.
 * There's just something I would like to note about all the templates. I've actually done quite a lot of work on them... Templates like actually combine the uses where a wiki would normally create templates called GFDL, FAL, GPL, LGPL, etc... And also let those do different things by creating even more templates like GFDL-self. As with that one, there are a lot of templates that I have in Wikia ACG which are similar or derived from normally used Wikipedia templates, but have been considerably improved. Including combining many similar templates into a single one. And expanding what most of them can do.
 * Common pages: There are some common pages put in central locations so that each wiki in the project doesn't need to define half the terms or bits of information there are.
 * Articles for General but applicable terms like Anime, Manga, etc... Would be made on the main wiki in the project so every wiki with an anime series doesn't need to define what anime is on their own wiki.
 * Same goes for Genre and various bits of generally used terminology.
 * CSS
 * I normally create a Color Scheme for a wiki as I need to add some neutralizing css to a Wiki's Monobook so that the global css doesn't break anything. Of course wiki like the AliceSoftWiki can always opt out from a color scheme designed individually for the wiki as the neutralizing css I add can simply use the normal colors that you see on the wiki, but generally a color scheme is nice as it normally makes a wiki a more comfortable place to be.
 * There was a discussion on MediaWiki talk:Common.css and you'll see mentions of my Box class and other css classes. They're quite useful and versatile things that eliminate the need to use a lot of useless templates or do a lot of hand styling to tables and other things in articles. It also standardizes various templates and things so that it's much easier to change them around when needed.
 * JS
 * There are some preloaded JS things which make it much easier for users to add nice custom tools for their use in their User JS. Mainly if you copy most my own global js there's a useful tab system there, including my WikiSwitch which makes using multiple wiki much easier.
 * There's also a Show/Hide system in Wikia ACG's JS. The one here on the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki is actually broken, and also doesn't activate when you're in any skin other than Monobook. So those users using Wikia's new and very handy Quartz skins won't have as pleasant a time on the wiki.
 * Also for a little help, I've also got a script there that makes the Edittools box collapsible and makes that persist that way for them, for those who don't want that in their way.
 * I haven't flushed out all the bugs yet, but I've used the YUI that Wikia is loading to create a tab system. So using some classes and elements in the WikiText of the page could separate content into separate tabs.
 * I haven't been here very long (and actually haven't contributed much except on my userpage), but I see many benefits to joining the Wikia ACG, and few reasons not to. --Dinoguy1000 What?I did it! 17:49, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi, just wanted to make clear that if the purpose of joining ACG are just technical issues of the 'MediaWiki' that could be fixed by some technicians just here, then that's not enough reason other than be together with them. You also say that image and content templates are some other reasons for joining them, we could also make some similar ones here. I just dont see any reason for a merging of the 2 projects by now.--Andersmusician $  14:04, 29 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, you and Dinoguy1000 actually are going on the same list of reasons. Both of you note the few reasons that point either way, but say two different opinions on it. Basically it's a case of the classic "Is the cup 'half full' or 'half empty'?" debate. Two even sets of reasons where people pick one based on their general outlook.
 * But firstly, it's not exactly a Project merging with a project. It's a wiki, joining into a project made up of a large group of wiki. The project itself doesn't have a real central location at the moment (till the ACG Wiki is created) but I'd say joining in fits more than merging.
 * The technical things are just what I focus on because the majority of issues I find with a wiki coming into the project is that it may have templates or various types of organization that could make it that if the automated parts of the project were run on the wiki, it could break the site. And because I don't want to break a wiki nice enough to join I look over everything to make sure that running things on the wiki won't mess anything up.
 * There's of course other things than the technical things. But first, before I go of the technical stuff I should note somethings.
 * The templates and other things used in Wikia ACG have been made in special ways. They use some techniques that as a result may end up breaking if you pull them out of the project without working with things that they depend on. So the best way to get those things into a wiki is not to copy them but to join the project. Majorly these techniques I mention are ones that make the templates work nicely in a customized way even when they are duplicated identically onto dozens of different wiki.
 * Also, if you decide to copy from elsewhere you may not actually be getting very good things, a lot of Wikipedia templates break when copied to Wikia, and not only that, but they're also poorly done for the most part because wide use stops changes from being made to improve the templates.
 * Technicians here on the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki!? The Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki has been running on bare bones for quite some time because there are no such technicians here who can deal with the advanced techniques and other things in WikiText, JS, or even CSS.
 * But off the technical stuff, the project isn't all technical, it's largely a community thing. The focus is to give every Anime, Manga, Comic, Cartoon, and related Game universe it's own area for complete documentation. Giving the larger ones individual wiki, and the smaller ones not big enough a Mini-wiki area. And unification/navigation is part of it all. All the wiki in the project link back to the main wiki, which in turn has many links linking out to the other wiki in the project. The idea is that instead of making the readers or editors half to to to the central Wikia to find other wiki, instead they can go back to the general wiki in the project, and easily find the other wiki or Mini-wiki which are related. It helps spread out both readers and editors. In addition to that, another portion of unification is not pointlessly doing things over and over. Instead of having each and every wiki go through the same set of startup issues, and other midway issues. If a problem was encountered in one place and a solution was found, then that could be made globally so that other wiki don't end up running into the same issue. Even going back to the technical bit, even if the wiki did have some technical users that's nothing compared to having technical people on multiple wiki combining efforts and solving problems globally from one spot so that no-one else needs to run into them. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Oct 4, 2007 @ 04:34 (UTC)


 * I don't see why to change something that is good in the way it is, I'm neutral about this. --Dragon Slayer 03:22, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

CSS and JS
Well, even if we ultimately don't join the Wikia ACG, would there be any objections to copying over at least some of the global CSS and JS? From what I can see, there shouldn't be any problems with doing that... --Dinoguy1000 What?I did it! 16:54, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Prefixes to Namespaces
I don't know how many will understand, but I'll try and explain.

In MediaWiki we have what is known as a Namespace. This is the part before the : that you see on pages like Yu-Gi-Oh!:Community Portal and Yu-Gi-Oh!:About. But not every thing that is before : is a namespace, only certain things registered into the system are.

For some time now the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki has been using a set of 7 pages for each card: But these are not namespaces. Even though for some time they have been treated that way here.
 * Card name
 * Card Gallery:Card name
 * Card Rulings:Card name
 * Card Errata:Card name
 * Card Tips:Card name
 * Anime and Manga Appearances:Card name
 * Card Trivia:Card name

But if the community wants it, I could request that the techs do a bit of changes to the wiki to turn the 6 prefixes into namespaces.

If you're wondering what benefits this would give to the wiki, here's an explanation:
 * Firstly, currently on the CardTable templates, the code  is used to link to the card's Card Gallery. However, Template:Galleries requires that the name of the card be inputted and it uses that to link to the other pages. This is because   is a Magic Word in MediaWiki which returns the name of the page which is located after the Namespace. Just to demonstrate, when used here   outputs "" because the text "" in the title is a namespace. The namespace of a page can also be outputted using.
 * But what would turning Card Gallery: into a namespace do?
 * As simply put as I can it's like this:
 * Currently for the various Template:Galleries, Template:Tips, etc... you need to input the name of the card. If the 6 prefixes were converted into Namespaces then  would start to display the name of the card. This means that now, the templates can grab the name of the card on their own as the CardTables are able to do. ^_^ Suddenly you don't need to add the name of the card to the template. This also means that if a page is misplaced and you move it, then the template will automatically correct itself to point to the new links just as the normal card pages using Card tables do.
 * But it get's better... As I said before using  outputs the name of the namespace. Now, on the page Card Gallery:Blue-Eyes White Dragon using   would output "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" so this means that that has the card name. In addition, using   would output "Card Gallery". Which gives another bonus. Remember how there were 6 different templates, , , , , and  and you needed to use a specific one for each page. Well, because changing the prefixes to namespaces would let the templates also know what type of page they are on. So all 6 of those templates can be merged into one.
 * So what does that leave us with? Those index templates won't need input on the name, and all 6 templates can be merged. So now, if we call the new one Template:Index just sticking at the top of any of those pages will output the correct type of index, automatically with the card name. So those pages will now nicely work without needing user input on that.

So simply put...
 * This will allow you to use instead of needing to pick out a template and have user input on it.
 * Even after the change current links will still work so there's no downside.
 * And when you move pages everything will correct itself.

Don't worry about things that are currently in articles. I'm good with bots, so after the change I could easily have a bot change all the pages on it's own.

So is this something the wiki wants me to do? ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 26, 2007 @ 00:40 (UTC)


 * Another thing of note is that when you click on "Random page", you'd only land on a page in the main space. So making those pseudo-namespaces into real namespaces means they'd no longer be picked by random pages.  That may be a pro or a con. -Afker 19:54, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


 * That's true for Special:Randompage, but namespace is actually taken as a parameter. So Special:Randompage/Card Gallery would send you to a random gallery if the namespaces were created. Which is actually a bit of a positive because it means that most uses of Special:Randompage will give you a random card. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 26, 2007 @ 22:39 (UTC)

I have a bit of a chat log of me and Delta in IRC... It's got a few advantages listed there in a way that some may find easier to understand:  Dantman? Did you mention a problem with using String functions for those templates before?  Few minor ones...   I can't guarantee that StringFunctions will stay...    I'm using them myself, but this is a test case...    Wikia is testing enabling them globally to see if there are any issues.  There are potential issues with the extension that can lead to a Local DoS attack (Denial of Service, in other words so much stress something could crash the servers)  So Wikia is testing the extension out... But if it leads to any issues from that, then they may disable the extension.  The other is that it's a poor hack...   You're basically using StringFunctions to treat a prefix like a namespace when it's not a namespace...    It would be much more efficient and better done code wise to use real namespaces instead of imitations.  The templates are not the only reason that it's better...  So basically we're just going to have to wait, unless we decide to change the prefixes to namespaces  Wait?  For?  The other reasons that it's better lie in randomization and searches.  To see if they'll be disabling the extension <Dantman> Oh  <Dantman> Well if that happened we could revert back...   <Dantman> But I'm just saying...   <Dantman> It'll be easier to cast a vote on what the community wants first... Then act... <Deltaneos> They don't seem keen to vote. <Dantman> I'll explain the benifits in randomization first... <Dantman> You know Special:Random <Deltaneos> ya  <Dantman> Well that works for the main namespace...   <Dantman> You can actually pass a namespace parameter to it...   <Dantman> If you use Special:Random/image you'll get a random image page. <Deltaneos> Yeah I know how it works <Dantman> Ok  <Dantman> Here's the kick...   <Dantman> Right now, using Special:Random will give you a random Card, Gallery, A&M Page, etc... <Deltaneos> I kinda like Special:Random being able to land you in any of the prefixes. <Dantman> Oh <Deltaneos> Although I don't use it too often <Dantman> It would be nice to be able to split it up  <Dantman> You know... Splitting it up would actually make hits better...   <Dantman> Basically the Cards which were missing Eratta, A&M, Trivia, etc... Pages would no longer be weighted less than others...  <Dantman> It's also nice for searches...   <Dantman> We can make it so that all the new namespaces are searched by default...   <Dantman> But it also means that a user can selectively search for something within the namespaces...   <Dantman> So someone could specifically select trivia, and search for a set of words that are part of a triva item... <Deltaneos> Ah never thought of that. <Dantman> ^_^ We have some nice results from it on The Gaiapedia... <Dantman> http://gaia.wikia.com <Dantman> Take a look at the Characters/Items/Locations set there on the main page...  <Dantman> You can get an allpages list of all the Items we have listed... And even search them.. <Deltaneos> cool <Dantman> ((Though I don't know what's going on with Wikia's new search engine)) <Dantman> It also means you can filter the recent changes... <Deltaneos> Alright, you've almost got my vote. <Deltaneos> Are there any disadvantages. <Deltaneos> ? <Dantman> http://gaia.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special%3ARecentchanges&namespace=100 <Dantman> Ummm...  <Dantman> let's see...   <Dantman> A /dissadvantage/ one might face is if it were to break existing templates... <Dantman> That were using <Dantman> But even your new Navigation template uses instead so it won't even break... <Deltaneos> As in using it to print Card Trivia:XXXX <Dantman> Nah... <Deltaneos> ok  <Dantman> Or...   <Dantman> Well... <Dantman> I'm meaning that would then print Dark Magician instead of Card Gallery:Dark Magician <Deltaneos> Yeah I got it. <Dantman> So any template using instead of  would switch <Dantman> Then there's the random page thing...  <Dantman> You won't be able to do a random that goes through all of them...   <Dantman> But you can still do individual... <Deltaneos> I'll get over it  <Dantman> But it's not that bad because it actually makes randomized hits more random and works better... <Deltaneos> You're refering to the current way? <Dantman> No... I'm meaning that using prefixes will make randomized hits more random...  <Dantman> Using prefixes Special:Random will get you one of the Main namespace stuff... <Deltaneos> Yeah that's the current state <Dantman> Because the prefixed pages which are more like extensions of the Card pages are no longer in that section of the randomization <Deltaneos> Yes as in the current state is more random <Dantman> Not by card...  <Dantman> Basically by adding prefixes you'd make the random hit get you a random card, random character, etc...   <Dantman> But without using namespaces, the prefixed pages are included in that...   <Dantman> And the cards which are not missing Trivia, Eratta, etc... Pages will get hit more... <Deltaneos> Oh right, I see you meant cards with full other cards info were more likely to get one of their pages to appear <Dantman> If Dark Magician had a Card page, a Eratta Page, a Trivia Page, and a A&M Page and the Blue Eyes had a Card Page and a Trivia page, then people would see the Dark Magician pages more often and that card would be more noticed than the others... <Deltaneos> yup, you've talked me into it  <Dantman> Using namespaces you are only counting the Card Pages as part of the randomization... <Deltaneos> yup, you've talked me into it  <Dantman> I know... but I want to go into full detail even if you're the only one here... <Deltaneos> So the process of changing it....   <Dantman> I intend to paste this onto the community portal to show other people the advantages...   <Dantman> ^_^ That's why I went into more detail even though you already may have got something...
 * ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Oct 24, 2007 @ 22:53 (UTC)


 * This sounds like a good idea. I'll vote for it. --Van Ludwig 16:45, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * You have my support. --Dinoguy1000 What?I did it! 16:55, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I give you my support, it is a good idea and the only disadvantage is nothing compared to all the advantages. --Dragon Slayer 20:26, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I give you my support because I do. Now can we fucking join the fucking ACG so that this site can get a fucking move on? -- Huajun Chen 00:19, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Supportaroosky. Danny Lilithborne 05:50, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Done, the prefixes have been converted to namespaces. There are just a few things we'll half to do later. The monobook tab for the Anime and Manga Appearances namespace is a bit long. So I'll probably fix that up with some JS (Would be nice if I had the Wiki ACG code already here to make the code cleaner). And I'll half to fix up the template being used. Also there is a little bit in the Quartz skin I need to tweak by adding a few MediaWiki namespace messages. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Nov 12, 2007 @ 02:33 (UTC)

Adding German Cards?
Hi, I'm not sure if this discussion has come up before, but I just found a site that has good quality German Yu-Gi-Oh! card scans. And I was wondering if you would like me to upload them. Whatever the choice, heres the link. http://karten.gwindi.com/kat/Yu-Gi-Oh-C88.html. Look234 21:34, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

User card lists
Hello all!

I recently registered here and started looking around at user pages, and I noticed: there didn't seem to be any system for users to list what and how many cards they have (although a few users (TwoTailedFox comes to mind) seem to have created their own lists). Considering that one of the reasons I registered here was to make such a list for my own collection, as well as the fact that most people who contribute here would have collections of their own that they'd probably want to brag about, it struck me as quite odd that no system was already in place. So, I started working on a system in my userspace.

So far, I've created/planned around a dozen layout templates, and have a pretty clear idea of just where I want this to go. However, I'm going to need some help making templates for every set (a task that I'm both looking forward to and dreading ^^), and an extra mind or two coming up with ideas wouldn't hurt. I've listed the templates I've made thus far for the system on my main user page, and there's also a sample set (CT04-EN) there for testing. There currently isn't any documentation, but that will follow shortly after I finish work on the templates. I'd appreciate any comments anyone might care to make, or any help anyone is willing to offer! --Dinoguy1000 What?I did it! 18:20, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, there's a format on the character pages that I'm in the process of aping for my own lists. It doesn't have a template, though. Danny Lilithborne 05:51, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Could you give me an example page of what youre talking about? I don't often look at character pages here... --Dinoguy1000 What?I did it! 17:22, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, Jaden Yuki is probably the best place to go; several "decks" there. Danny Lilithborne 06:20, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I have a complete list of all yu-gi-oh cards (Total:2603 cards) including the light and dark structure decks I made it Microsoft Excel I find it very effective I can e-mail you a copy yu-card. my e-mail is brian_zuck@hotmail.com 11\8\07
 * Thanks for the offer, but I've been planning on using the card lists here on the wiki, although you're more than welcome to help. And are you sure you have every Yu-Gi-Oh! card listed (I don't know the actual total in the English TCG, so...)? --Dinoguy1000 What?I did it! 17:22, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Problem Reports
You probably haven't noticed it, but Wikia has a new feature. Problem reports; There's a tab at the top of the page that lets anon people or users who don't know how to edit report an issue so others can fix it. It would be a good idea to get admins to visit Special:ProblemReports every now and then to look over the reported issues. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Oct 4, 2007 @ 15:53 (UTC)
 * Also, when reporting a problem, please leave a short description as to where on the page the problem is, etc. Leaving it to the classifications provided by the "Report a problem" feature results in vague descriptions of the problem, and an admin or user responding to the report must read over the entire page (more than likely) to find the problem. --Dinoguy1000 What?I did it! 17:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Use of
The use of the title template was debated in IRC, as I remember I believe the general vote was against the use of it. But some community consensus would be good. Just to note something before listing advantages/disadvantages; 90% of active Wikia wiki with users knowledgeable about WikiText, CSS, JS, and other things and also other wiki forbid the use of the title template. In addition the MediaWiki developers dislike the use of it, and also MediaWiki does have a magic word which has the purpose of changing the title, but for technical reasons which are part of the disadvantages of the title template it only works if the title there normalizes back to the normal title. In other words, the only reason that the magic word exists is so that you can see iPod instead of IPod.

There are some very heavily weighted reasons not to use the template. If the community feels the same way I can easily have the use of it from the wiki disappear without any issues through some bot work. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Oct 4, 2007 @ 22:22 (UTC)
 * Advantages
 * You can see Dark Magician instead of Dark Magician (Bandai) in a title.
 * Disadvantages
 * When you look at the title you aren't looking at the correct one. This can confuse readers and they may not know what page to return to if they wish to see the page again.
 * People use the title to form links to the page, if you alter the title then when they try to link to the page they only have a broken link. In the case of Dark Magician (Bandai) someone would copy the text Dark Magician and end up linking to Dark Magician which is a completely different page.
 * The CSS is unstable, there is no guarantee that the title replacement will actually show up where the title is; Skin differences could end up making it show up in a different location, a skin being changed could suddenly break all the uses, and having a Sitenotice up top could make the title replacement hover over the sitenotice instead and obscure the viewing of the sitenotice.
 * By the mass majority of wiki which have had experience with this template, it has been considered a bad practice.


 * Well scrap it for pages with (Bandai), (Card), (DDM) etc. at the end of their names. I would like to have kept it for pages with # in their names like Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1. But if it's unstable and only displays right in some skins, it may be better we scrap it altogether. I don't think we need the side notice for the ones with words in parenthesis at end. maybe for the ones with the # character (if we decide not to keep it for them). -- <font face="JasmineUPC">Deltaneos  22:41, 4 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Using it on those kind of pages leads to the same issues to. Copying Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1 on Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress 1 leads you to Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress because # is for an anchor and not valid in a title.
 * Yup, the whole thing is unstable, skin issues aren't the only ones. Take a look at normal monobook (Which it was designed for use in) if you have not disabled the sitenotice (Do keep in mind that Anons can't disable the sitenotice, and therefore will have this glich all the time if an Anonnotice is set): ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Oct 5, 2007 @ 00:59 (UTC)

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4886/titleglitchpg5.png
 * Is there anyone who is opposed to the complete removal of the Title template use from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki? If no-one opposes it then we'll probably just send a bot to remove all of them and then delete the template. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Oct 24, 2007 @ 22:58 (UTC)

Gaming wiki chat this Sunday!
Hi all,

On Sunday October 14th there is going to be an IRC chat for gaming wikis at the #wikia-gaming channel. Contributors, admins, and foudners of all/all gaming-related wiki on Wikia are invited to discuss common issues that we might have, sharing our experiences, and helping each other out. The time of the chat will be:

Please help to spread the word, and hope to see you there!

-User:PanSola 16:01, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Reminder that the IRC meeting is happening soon! You can connect to IRC by simply clicking on the blue link above. -PanSola 19:54, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Card Rarities
can you, in each card page, write the rarity of it for each pack. This would be very convenient. Thank you.
 * Yeah, it would be helpful to make Galleries. --Dragon Slayer 22:03, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Darkly big rabbi

 * Page needs to be nuked. Danny Lilithborne 13:01, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Done! <font color="Blue">Big <font color="Black">Boss  <font color="Red">0  17:11, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Tip cards?
I've been wondering for some time, why is it that one never sees tip card information on the internet, beyond a simple count of the number of cards in a tip card set? If there's no copyright/other reason for it, why aren't tip cards treated with the same or similar depth here as regular OCG and TCG cards? --Dinoguy1000 What?I did it! 16:53, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I think it's just that no ones ever been too bothered to make any pages about them. Although they do get included in set galleries, for example Set Gallery:Duelist Pack 4: Zane Truesdale (TCG-EN). Aside from that someone made a page Tip Card, where they started listing and retyping the text for some of the Tip Cards. As far as being copyright goes, I'm unsure... -- Deltaneos 18:36, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! card poll
On page 324 of the December 2007 issue (#60) of Shonen Jump, it was revealed that Shonen Jump is holding an online poll until January 15, 2008 to help determine the next five cards to be translated into English and released in the magazine. It is important to note, however, that poll results will NOT guarantee the final selection of cards, as that choice will be up to Shonen Jump staff. Voters can choose between 20 as-yet-untranslated cards on Shonen Jump's website (and as such, the names listed below are Shonen Jump's own translations). The actual poll can be found here. A full list of card choices follows:

--Dinoguy1000 What?I did it! 04:31, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * LE8-JP001 - Arcana Knight Joker
 * LE10-JP001 - Armityle, the Chaos Phantom
 * LE10-JP004 - Card Blocker
 * VJMP-JP025 - Chimeratech Fortress Dragon
 * LE10-JP008 - Cold Enchanter
 * VJC-JP013 - Dandylion
 * LE10-JP007 - Fiendish Motor Ω
 * WJMP-JP008 - Exodius, The Ultimate Forbidden One
 * LE10-JP006 - Beast King Barbaros
 * VJMP-JP018 - Greed Quasar
 * VJMP-JP022 - Goka, the Pyre of Malice
 * VJMP-JP023 - Ice Blizzard Master
 * WJMP-JP007 - Mosaic Manticore
 * LE09-JP003 - Puppet King
 * LE8-JP002 - Summon Priest
 * VJMP-JP024 - The big SATURN
 * LE10-JP005 - The splendid VENUS
 * VJC-JP016 - Toy Magician
 * LE10-JP002 - White Night Dragon
 * LE09-JP004 - Zeta Reticulant