User talk:MagicCarrotAdmin

Welcome

Hello! Welcome to Coasterpedia! Thanks for creating the Valleyfair page. You're the admin from Killer Bunnies Wiki, right? Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything. KoopaTroop 16:11, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

Best Practices?

You're welcome! :)

As for best practices, I'm probably not the best person to ask, since this wiki only gets about 1 contributor every few months! Of course, since it is spotlighted now, I'm hoping for more contributors soon.
Here are some of the things I've done anyway:

1. On the main page, I have a "New Here?" section that says, "You could also write about some of your favorite roller coasters, or your favorite theme park. Another good place to start is with the Wanted Pages." This should (hopefully) encourage new visitors to start making or editing articles.

2. Users can also check out the "My Home" page, where I've added a "Helpful stuff" section on the right side. In the helpful stuff section is where I put the infoboxes, as well as other tips and tricks. Administrators should be able to edit the "My Home" page. By the way, did you see that when you made the Valleyfair page?

That's all I can think of for now.

I suppose it might be possible to automatically start pages with a template, so that when someone creates a new page, there would already be an infobox for them to fill in. I'm not sure how to do that though. If you want, you could try asking about it on the forums at Community Central. That site is extremely helpful. There is also this help wiki, which is another great resource.

Thanks for asking! I hope this helps!

--KoopaTroop 01:07, August 31, 2010 (UTC)

Valleyfair(!)

I think you are probably right about the extra puncuation mark in the name.I've seen it spelled both ways though, and the official site spelled with the "!". I moved it back now, so if someone types in "Valleyfair!", it will redirect them to "Valleyfair". Thanks for pointing that out! MontagnaMagica 16:03, September 4, 2010 (UTC)