Zelda Wiki talk:Skype

CALLING ALL ACTIVE USERS!
Do you want to be more active in the Zelda Wiki community, more than just editing articles and commenting on talk pages? Would you like to build and maintain a relationship with the staff here at Zelda Wiki, for any reason? Are you cool? If any of these fit you, we want YOU for the Zelda Wiki Public Chat based in Skype! We are currently seeing a slow rise in user involvement and we'd like to keep the trend going! We aren't just a bunch of uptight, wiki crazies - we do talk about wiki stuff and Zelda in general, but we're all pretty down to earth and love meeting people as interested in the Zelda series as we are. The chat is made up of a mixture of staff and regular users here on ZW! Anyone, and we mean ANYONE is welcome! Simply contact one of the active users on the main Skype page here! =) 22:41, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Necessary?
Why is this protected fully? How can people add themselves to the list with an admin level protection? At least lower it to autoconfirmed or something. I need to add my new info to the chart, considering that I lost my sirtweek account. 20:34, 3 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Done. 21:40, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Just some questions..?
It is possible to create a list of users who are only semi-active in the Skype chat ? I was thinking about joining the Skype chat, but, mainly only staff join the Skype chat. And, if I'm correct, there's still a warning about how the chat may be slightly inappropriate for younger users? If any younger users are on the Skype chat, can the other users try to be... slightly more... appropriate? Mainly the reason users aren't joining is because of that, or, at least I'm not. Thanks and sorry for the overflow of questions... :'( 01:41, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Hello, I'm not a staff and I was invited to the chat by Dany a year ago, or you can just join like others do. However, I can't really answer the chat's issue with having a lot of content that is inappropriate. --XXSuperXXNintendoXx 02:58, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Oh, sorry. It's just that having a warning that says "The Skype chat may occasionally have content that could be considered inappropriate to some users. Join at your own discretion." kind of scares (younger) users off, because not everyone wants to join a chat that's inappropriate, or they are just not allowed to. 21:34, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

New Images
I've taken a few good screenshots of the Skype chat. Should I upload one or keep the one we have? 20:26, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * If you want. Skype's been updated quite a few times, so it wouldn't hurt to have a recent picture. 22:23, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I have a bunch of them. Is there any one I should add? 00:38, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Well we don't know what you have. Upload whichever one you feel is the most relevant. Also, Merry Christmas :) 11:47, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Public Chat key
According to Help for Skype: What are Public Chats?, Public Chats were discontinued in version 4.0. I tried pasting the code into a Skype window with "Echo / Sound Test Service" as instructed, but it didn't work. On a related note, could someone invite me to the Skype chat? My Skype name is snorlax_monster. -- Snorlax Monster  14:54, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Name Change
Seriously, who changed the name of the chat? It's not really funny, and it discourages new users from joining the chat, so is it possible to change it back to Zelda Wiki Public Chat? And there's no way I'm going to screenshot a chat with that name, and isn't this wiki supposed to be appropriate for all ages? 16:13, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * You left the wrong chat. The old chat has an obscene name, and yes, the WIKI is appropriate for all ages. I warned you before you joined Skype that it's not appropriate for younger users but you did so anyway. We don't moderate the Skype chats and have no plans to do so. If you want in the new public chat, you'll have to temporarily add one of the active users as a contact so they can put you in the chat. Otherwise they won't be able to add you. After they put you in it, you can remove them from your contacts. 03:42, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Wait..? I left the wrong chat? I wasn't doing anything on Skype (I didn't leave) and in my history, that chat showed up as "recent", so I must have been on it- and yet, I never added anything to it. I don't want to join the new chat, if there is one... Wait, I'm confused- did I switch chats between the time that I locked myself out and rejoined? I was just surprised, as I logged in on Skype, and, on the sidebar for history, I saw the name, however, it doesn't seem like I was on that chat at all. 14:31, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Can you please block/ban/kick me from the chat so it stops cluttering up my Skype account? I've tried multiple times to clear the chat from history, to remove it from recent, and with every new addition to it, it's getting added... Again. I just left the chat with /leave, and it's still reappearing. So can you please do me a favor and block me from it? Also, you didn't exactly warn me. You told me it is sometimes a small bit inappropriate but normally isn't. You actually invited me to join it in the first place, so... 00:34, 26 February 2013 (UTC)


 * The whole purpose of the Skype chat is to allow people to communicate on a more casual level and let loose a little. Given that we strive to maintain a semi-formal, family-friendly environment of on the wiki, the Skype chat serves to counterbalance that, which is why the chat is not heavily moderated besides kicking out blatantly disruptive users that ruin the chat for everyone. So... the chat is what it is. We're sorry if you felt misled about that. If you decide it's not for you, that's fine. It's entirely your choice. 01:04, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The only thing I have against the chat is that... It's completely off topic. It's usually not even related to Zelda at all, or at least normally isn't. I just simply don't like the chat. I found that the "appropriateness level" of the chat is way under exaggerated on the wiki itself. (just look at the top of this page...) However, I don't have anything against the chat or the people who participate in it. I would, however, like to be removed from the chat. Can you please try to block me from it? Sorry for anything that sounded rude... I was trying to make a point. Sorry... 01:15, 26 February 2013 (UTC)


 * No, that's fair, you have a point. People come and go, and so the chat tends to go through different phases. Sometimes it's more wiki-related, sometimes it's less so. I'll go ahead and change the header. Justin put forth the idea of having a chat exclusively for wiki editors, perhaps we might follow up with that sometime in the future.


 * Pakkun's the chat creator so I'll try to get a hold of him and have you blocked from the chat. 01:28, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Links not working
There seems to be an issue with the chat links, as they aren't functioning properly. They aren't allowing people to join the chats, instead giving people an error message stating that the chat host is unavailable (which is false). Unless we can find some solution to this, I recommend that we remove them (at least until some solution can be found). 04:02, 28 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Agreed, neither one of the links work, so there's really no reason for them to stay up at this point.  04:09, 28 March 2013 (UTC)