User talk:WilliamAnsley

delete location
Like cancel, delete was moved around. It's now in the menu under edit.

If you don't see a delete entry in the edit menu for the sandbox page you want to delete let me know which page to delete and I'll get rid of it.

Thanks for help with the chronology page
Hi thanks for your corrections to the recent page edits. If you are interested there are a few tasks I am hoping to see someone adopt. First I would love if someone wanted to take over the current page summaries that I am currently doing. I can go into details if you are interested. It mainly consists of doing 3 edits a week as each page comes out and then a fourth edit to adjust page breaks and prepare for the next week. I originally took it on to see what needed to be streamlined. Of course by doing it I got it added to my regular plate of chores. I enjoy it and it adds zest to reading the pages. My problem is at some point in the next three months to a year my ability to edit the site will be gone as a result of some oncoming life changes. So I would love to find someone willing to enjoy this task.

Alternately, Volume X and Volume XI have many sections where the entries are incomplete. So it would be good if someone would volunteer to tackle backlog. Usually it is pretty easy to complete one section in one editing session. If either of these tasks interest you let me know and I will provide further details if needed. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110423051546/common/avatars/thumb/8/88/1298786.png/20px-1298786.png Rej¿¤¤? 02:01, November 23, 2011 (UTC)


 * I am interested, but I am not ready to commit to anything yet. I would appreciate it if you would provide some more details about both task you have mentioned above. -- William Ansley 04:04, November 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * The beauty of a wiki (when run right) is that most things require no commitment and not much skill—do what you can and the next person can improve it. I've polished articles started by others, and other times started an article with a couple of notes and left it for others to polish.


 * For most of the Chronology, the goal is just to add notes (with wiki links where appropriate) to each page. Try to figure out what others might search for in the future and mention it.


 * The one part with a time constraint (sort of) is adding new templates each week. It's not hard, but it's trickier than just typing notes. Mess up the templates and the page is hard to edit and ugly to view, get them right and it's easy to others to add notes. I was doing it for a while, then Rej took it over (thankfully, my time to edit has been limited for quite a while). Argadi 12:16, November 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * I am good a messing things up. So I strive to make getting things right as easy as possible. The key has been to have a short current section for each week. Plus a willingness to preview things to find the errors. When I screw up I just remember Agatha blowing up the coffee machine and go about the repairs. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110423051546/common/avatars/thumb/8/88/1298786.png/20px-1298786.png Rej¿ ¤¤ ?


 * The beauty of a wiki is that the right monster usually selects themselves for the right job. The other beauty is that there are a lot of others around to help. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110423051546/common/avatars/thumb/8/88/1298786.png/20px-1298786.png Rej¿ ¤¤ ?

The better task to get ones feet wet is helping to get Chrono X and XI up to date. That consists mostly of picking an uncommented section. Calling up the pages. Noting the details in the character, text, quotes and extra's field then summarizing story on that page in the action field. Per section the characters tend to repeat so cut and paste works well. For a summary you can either roll your own which you may find more satisfying or refer to my weekly notes User:Rej Maddog/Rej's Weekly.

Keeping the pages current simply means doing the same thing for current pages. While Argadi is right that no one needs make a commitment, this task does means everytime the Foglio's put out a new page then an update will be needed. Experimenting I found out it is easiest to do it as I first encounter the page. Not too much work at once and of course if I do it on time everyone can enjoy it soonest. The Foglios can be relied upon for pages MWF. If we can be relied upon for a well updated index to the pages it will help GG scholars everywhere. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110423051546/common/avatars/thumb/8/88/1298786.png/20px-1298786.png Rej¿¤¤? 00:45, November 25, 2011 (UTC)

I regards to what happened to Othar dude, it's a good guess he got "thrown out of the ship"...again XD.Master 3x3lcior 10:19, January 26, 2012 (UTC)

tina shoutout
Thanks for your editing help with the chronology page.

I elided everything back and just included the clank under the troops and minions phrase. Corgi pointed out elsewhere that she was likely a steam-punked shout out to tina (platinum) of the metal men. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110423051546/common/avatars/thumb/8/88/1298786.png/20px-1298786.png Rej¿¤¤? 05:36, January 27, 2012 (UTC)

Try a nonbreaking space
I noticed your experimentation with the new template. A non breaking space will use a blank space to represent the page link. This will be invisible until you directly mouse over it. & nbsp ; remove the spaces in practice http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110423051546/common/avatars/thumb/8/88/1298786.png/20px-1298786.png Rej¿¤¤? 23:03, February 23, 2012 (UTC)

Two page spreads page -- Yeah!
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110423051546/common/avatars/thumb/8/88/1298786.png/20px-1298786.png Rej¿¤¤? 20:57, October 20, 2012 (UTC)

Seige or Siege?
Are your sure your correction was correct? Phil wrote Seige and that is an old spelling of Siege. Argadi (talk) 11:34, March 11, 2013 (UTC)

26 Years
You (unless there is a highly unusual coincidence) commented on Girl Genius Labs recently that you wanted to read the books because you didn't want to wait 13 years to get to the end. I have some bad news—the professors have said that Mechanicsburg scenes would be the end of the first third of the story, so the expectation would be 26 more years to get to the end of the comic. Argadi (talk) 01:05, May 27, 2013 (UTC)


 * The information comes from one of the interviews with the professors. I might poke around and try to find it later. Argadi (talk) 08:21, May 27, 2013 (UTC)

Useful Info on Templates
Templates can be tricky to deal with. And development can be complicated by Wikia's caching of pages (at it's whim). It is sometimes useful to add ?action=purge to the end of URLs to tell Wikia to throw away the cached version for the page and read all of the templates again. Argadi (talk) 01:48, March 8, 2014 (UTC)

Old News
I am saving old news that I remove from the news section of the main page here for no particular reason except that I have found I eventually always want information if I delete it completely.

The Girl Genius Volume XII Kickstarter ended on June 2, 2013. 4,441 backers pledged a total of $389,079; just over seven times the $55,000 goal. In addition to being able to print volume XII in hardcover and softcover, the stretch goals reached will allow the Foglios to, among other things, reprint the previous 11 volumes in softcover, hire a part-time business manager, and optimize the Girl Genius website.

Girl Genius and the Rats of Mechanicsburg is now in Beta for iOS devices. An Android version should soon follow. As announced by programmer and project manager Stephen Beeman, "the goal is to release [for] Android and iOS simultaneously."

A new Girl Genius Kickstarter project to print volume 13, Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City, is now in progress. The base funding goal of $55,000 was reached in well under 24 hours. Six stretch goals have been announced so far and have already been achieved. The total raised is now is just over $105,000 with just under 1700 backers and twelve days to go.

The Girl Genius Kickstarter project to print volume 13, Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City, is in its last few days. The base funding goal of $55,000 was reached in well under 24 hours. The total raised is now is just under $150,000 with nearly 2500 backers. Seven of the eight stretch goals have been reached; there probably won't be any more. This project includes two exclusive items: a Mamma Gkika medal and patch. If you want one or both of these, pledge now before it's too late!

The Girl Genius Kickstarter project to print volume 13, Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City, is in its last few days. The base funding goal of $55,000 was reached in well under 24 hours. The total raised is now is just over $155,000 with nearly 2500 backers. Nine of the eleven stretch goals have been reached; more may be posted soon. Aside from the limited-edition volume 13 hardcover, this project includes two exclusive items: a Mamma Gkika medal and patch. If you want any of these, pledge now before it's too late!

The Girl Genius Kickstarter project to print volume 13, Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City, is in its final hours. The base funding goal of $55,000 was reached in well under 24 hours. The total raised is now is just over $160,000 with nearly 2600 backers. Ten of the eleven stretch goals have been reached. Aside from the limited-edition volume 13 hardcover, this project includes two exclusive items: a Mamma Gkika medal and patch. If you want any of these, pledge now before it's too late!

The Girl Genius Kickstarter project to print volume 13, Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City, is in its final hours. The base funding goal of $55,000 was reached in well under 24 hours. The total raised is now is just over $165,000 with over 2600 backers. There are now a total of sixteen stretch goals, of which the first eleven have been reached. A stretch goal of particular interest to die-hard Girl Genius fans comes at $200,000. If this total is reached the Professors have promised to make a real "How We Make Comics" short film. Aside from the limited-edition volume 13 hardcover, this project includes two exclusive items: a Mamma Gkika medal and patch. If you want any of these, pledge now before it's too late!

The Girl Genius Kickstarter project to print volume 13, Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City, is in its final hours. The base funding goal of $55,000 was reached in well under 24 hours. The total raised is now is over $176,000 with just under 2800 backers. There are now a total of sixteen stretch goals, of which the first thirteen have been reached. 'A stretch goal of particular interest to die-hard Girl Genius'' fans comes at $200,000. If this total is reached the Professors have promised to make a real "How We Make Comics" short film.''' Aside from the limited-edition volume 13 hardcover, this project includes two exclusive items: a Mamma Gkika medal and patch. If you want any of these never to be re-printed, re-minted, or re-sewn items, pledge now before it's too late!

With less than 24 hours to go, the Girl Genius Kickstarter project to print volume 13, Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City, is down to the wire. The base funding goal of $55,000 was reached in well under 24 hours. The total raised is now is over $182,000 with nearly 2900 backers. There are now a total of sixteen stretch goals, of which the first fourteen have been reached. 'A stretch goal of particular interest to die-hard Girl Genius'' fans comes at $200,000. If this total is reached the Professors have promised to make a real "How We Make Comics" short film.''' Aside from the limited-edition volume 13 hardcover, this project includes two exclusive items: a Mamma Gkika medal and patch. If you want any of these never to be re-printed, re-minted, or re-sewn items, pledge now before it's too late!

With only a few hours to go, the Girl Genius Kickstarter project to print volume 13, Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City, is really down to the wire. The base funding goal of $55,000 was reached in well under 24 hours. The total raised is now is over $190,000 with over 3000 backers. There are now a total of sixteen stretch goals, of which the first fifteen have been reached. 'A stretch goal of particular interest to die-hard Girl Genius'' fans comes at $200,000. If this total is reached (and it's getting close!) the Professors have promised to make a real "How We Make Comics" short film.''' Aside from the limited-edition volume 13 hardcover, this project includes two exclusive items: a Mamma Gkika medal and patch. If you want any of these never to be re-printed, re-minted, or re-sewn items, pledge now before it's too late!

Volume XIII: Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City was complete as of Phil Foglio announced the title in his blog on December 28, 2013. He also announced that he and Kaja are taking a two month break. They will return to updating the main story on March 3, 2014. Until then, Christopher Baldwin will be the first Girl Genius radio play the Foglios ever did.

Version 2 of the Girl Genius Paper Doll App is available at the Apple store. New high-resolution Girl Genius Paper Dolls have been available for a while now

A deck for a card game called Pairs, featuring art by Phil and Kaja Foglio, as well as an additional deck featuring art by Cheyenne Wright, will be produced by Cheapass Games.

Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City has been nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story. Congratulations to Phil, Kaja, and Cheyenne!

Girl Genius and the Rats of Mechanicsburg is available for iOS in the App Store and some Android devices on Google Play. All Kickstarter backers should get an email by March 27 with the unlock code for their bonus content. See the Kickstarter update or this Girl Genius Adventures blog entry by Kaja for more details.

The Girl Genius main story It has now entered Act 2, and the volume number has been reset to 1.

The "new look" to the Girl Genius website, mentioned three weeks ago at the end of a blog entry by Phil has finally appeared. So far, it appears to be a new, more Steampunkish theme overlaid onto the old content, but there is now the option to bookmark individual pages of the comic through the web interface.

The art for the Muses Pairs deck is now complete and can be viewed at the Cheapass Games website, along with the art for Cheyenne's Professor Elemental Pairs deck.

The Girl Genius Kickstarter project to print volume 13, Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City, has been successfully funded. The base funding goal of $55,000 was reached in well under 24 hours. The final total raised was $219,327 with 3,378 backers. All sixteen stretch goals were funded including a serious short film (as opposed to the goofy one that already exists) on "How We Make Comics" as the final goal at $200,000.

Thank you for your enumeration of the extras
The lists of extras and double-page spreads are a nice addition to the wiki. Thank you for the work.

(Going back and looking at old comic pages is a tough job, but someone has to do it.) 24.91.82.29 10:31, May 14, 2014 (UTC)


 * You are quite welcome. I am very pleased to know that someone finds those pages useful. Obviously, I am doing this for my own enjoyment as much as anything else or I wouldn't be putting in so much work, but I was also hoping that my efforts would be helpful to other Girl Genius fans. My original impetus was to help myself, because I got sick of hunting for certain pages in the online comic over and over. My major fear now is that the website upgrade that was promised as the last stretch goal of the Girl Genius volume 12 Kickstarter, if and when it finally happens, will break all of the links on this wiki, or, at least, on my pages. -- William Ansley (talk) 12:43, May 14, 2014 (UTC)


 * One of the reasons for using a template for links to the individual comic pages was to make transitions easier. Hopefully we can automate that switch, but double-page spreads might take hand-editing. Argadi (talk) 10:43, May 15, 2014 (UTC)


 * I looks as if we may find out how easy the transition will be rather soon. Based on Phil's recent blog post, it seems as if the website redesign has been done and will go live next week. (I wish he would stop posting all of his Girl Genius Adventures updates to Kaja's account.) I need to start learning how to work with templates; there are a lot of things I would like to do with them, if I could figure out how. -- William Ansley (talk) 12:03, May 15, 2014 (UTC)

Please leave comments on your edits
Especially when making cryptic changes to magic files like MediaWiki:Wikia.css. It's useful to know the effect you were aiming for so I can watch for the change and see whether the effect is appropriate. Argadi (talk) 10:16, November 8, 2014 (UTC)

Image Border Display on this wiki
This image shows up with a border in the Community Central Wiki, but not here:



Even though it should: