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 * Archive 1: July—August 2005
 * Archive 2: August 2005—May 2006

Spoiler warnings
Does any one else think that we should remove spoiler warnings from th individual articles since there is one on the main page? We could make that one more prominent. John Reaves talk 00:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I think we could make a site notice on the wiki MediaWiki:sitenotice, and warn users about the possibility of spoilers instead of stating so on every page. —Animagi/Prongs 22:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That's a great idea. We could add a [show] and [hide] function too. Then all we'll have to do is delete  from every page. Do you know which version of MediaWiki we use? John Reaves (talk) 23:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I checked and found out that we use v. 1.5. —Animagi/Prongs 03:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I've added the text to the MediaWiki:Sitenotice. Do you know how to add a show/hide feature? John Reaves (talk) 08:57, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Adminship
I've requested adminship at Wikia (for this site) and been told that I should try and get community support first. I've been doing a lot to update and improve this wiki lately and I feel we could use an admin to take care of deletions, difficult moves, vandals, etc. I have more than 4400 edits on (see my userpage here) and am familiar with policy and procedure there. So if anybody supports this request, sign you name with four tildes (~) below. John Reaves talk 05:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC) I've also requested Bureaucrat status so we can deal with our own promotions02:45, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) Support. The admins here are rarely on here, and it would be a great help to have an active admin. John Reaves is dedicated to improving this wiki, and giving him administrator privelages will help us all. —Animagi/Prongs 22:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


 * 1) Support. John has been wonderful to the community, not only with edits, but with helping new ones (such as myself) feel comfortable, and guiding us. He should have admin abilities, not only because he deserves it, but because giving him those abilities can insure this Wiki stays clean, professional, and a Harry Potter environment we can all productively thrive in. TSummers 13:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)


 * 1) Support - N ighthawk L  eader    07:36, 6 February 2007 (UTC)


 * 1) Support I have been apart of the Harry Potter Wiki for a while, and have contributed many articles to it. I have noticed John being a very active member of it, and I support his appointment to Admin. It would be nice to have an active one who comes to the site daily. I wish you the best of luck at improving this site.  Lemniwinks

Neutral

 * +sysopped --Splarka (talk) 07:40, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the support and thanks to Splarka for the rights. Looks like we can operate on our own now. John Reaves (talk) 07:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Featured articles
I think that we should set up a voting system for Featured articles on the wiki just like they do on Wikipedia... Anybody agree? —Animagi/Prongs 03:51, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes definately. And maybe a collaboration one too? - N ighthawk L eader    05:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I think that can all be done here for now. There no need for subpages or anything. John Reaves (talk) 06:53, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, then lets just nominate any article that we feel is the best here and see how others respond... Like I feel that Quidditch is good, I've added images, and cleaned it up from its former version... —Animagi/Prongs 23:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Support - N ighthawk L eader    07:39, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Userboxes
Are there any userboxes on this Wikia? (I can't seem find any). If there aren't would it be ok to make a few and create a userbox category? - N ighthawk L eader    05:31, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Why don't we just focus more on the content than on userboxes? If you do create any, make them serve an informative purpose like User admin or User bureaucrat. Nothing like "This user like carrots" or anything equally dumb. John Reaves (talk) 06:53, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Anyone who has userbox experience: please take a look at these boxes, they wouldn't work when I added them. John Reaves (talk) 08:59, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Which boxes exactly? The admin and bureaucrat ones still work perfectly - <font face="Courier New"><font color="#3333FF">N <font color="FFCC33">ighthawk <font color="#00CC33">L eader    07:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * User admin - I think I've fixed it though. It was missing |} at the end so it was taking over the content of the page it was on.  Are there any other userboxes you know of?  We should get them categorized. John Reaves (talk) 07:20, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I haven't been able to find any others except for those two (apart from the custom ones on my userpage). I've set up Category:Userboxes in case there are any others out there. - <font face="Courier New"><font color="#3333FF">N <font color="FFCC33">ighthawk <font color="#00CC33">L  eader    07:32, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * You should move the ones you've created to the template namespace and place them in the cat. John Reaves (talk) 07:45, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * OK I'll do that now Nighthawk Leader

Collab
(This is a suggestion from an IP moved from the template) How about Hermione Granger. That needs to be expanded.

Tedious work that needs to be done
We need to tag all of the Wikibooks Muggles' Guide pages for deletion. I go through and delete as much as I can, but it would be nice to get them in a central location (Category:Candidates for deletion). So place db on the page and it'll automatically add that cat. Also, we need to start removing spoiler from articles as it has been usurped by MediaWiki:Sitenotice. John Reaves (talk) 09:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC) Update: I've deleted a handful of spoiler templates. Now there are only 143 left. John Reaves (talk) 09:09, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * There is an easier way to do this than by hand.. Go to Wikipedia and register yourself for semi auto AutoWikiBrowser and wait for permission to use the program. Then follow the instructions here, inorder to use the MWiki-Browser, somewhat like the AWB, but can be used for all wikis.. —Animagi/Prongs 03:16, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure that only works on Windows; I use a Mac. John Reaves (talk) 03:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I have removed all of the spoiler tags, and I think I marked all of the Muggles' Guide pages for deletion. - User:Scrimgeour

Marauders Map
I think that the Marauders Map image is a good search logo for the project. It is a map (used to search) and is appropriate in the context. —Animagi/Prongs 01:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) Support. —Animagi/Prongs 01:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) (place your vote here)

Neutral

 * 1) (place your vote here)