All posts by Vanilladazzle

I've been working on moving the chat to Discord. I didn't post anything publically, because I was afraid it was something that Wikia Staff could come after me about. However, after having seen a MAJOR wiki post about them doing the same, I'm going to post about it here. Also, many other wikis are moving chat to Discord. Most posters on KAOS come from one of two wikis. Both of those wikis have unofficial chats on Discord and severely reduced activity in their wikia chat rooms. Soon, I will close the chat here. Come get the access coad for the chat on discord if you haven't already. Otherwise we'll have to meet somewhere like Central so I can PM it to you. Just ping me in chat here. Pingdaz. There's also separate chats for cursers and non cursers...

Pros to Discord

-less glitchy

-access to back chat

-access to PMs when people are offline-a plus when people aren't on much or are in say India and you're in the US

-ability to slice chat into channels for when it's busy

-voice abilities

-lack of chat widget previewing who is inside to anyone even blocked users is more private for people (this is a big one for me as I have a really bad cyberstalker problem with which Wikia staff flat out refused to help)

-protection from raiders, randos and socks because you need a code to get in

-pinning messages from live chat

Cons (and maybe some of this is there and I haven't just figured it out yet)

-learning a new site

-less customization

-no short term bans (I've heard it's permaban, kicks and that's it) would make it hard to discipline people that are basically ok but act up sometimes

-loss of extensive profile attached with a click, though Cube could make a bot where a link to people on here could be stored and retrieved with a command...

-not sure if there's a log to look up who kicks or bans users and could be an issue of power abuses

-less information in general-no tag for joining chat or going off and users show as active when they are active on any discord so they may not be looking at that chat. I haven't found any logs to look at actually.

http://kaos.wikia.com/wiki/KAOS_rules-the_short_version

People seem to be having a problem locating the rules.

Under the KAOS community tab, you find options for guidelines and leadership information-including the rules.

For describing users that know a programming language, which should we use?

See here:

http://kaos.wikia.com/wiki/Java?diff=9070&oldid=7799

to see where this would go

http://kaos.wikia.com/wiki/Challenge:_Picture_Painter

http://kaos.wikia.com/wiki/Challenge:_Recipe_Card

http://kaos.wikia.com/wiki/Challenge:_Flower_Grower

I can't do these yet because I'm not this far in intro to js. The first two need pics from a completed challenge, preferably cute versions. The last one needs more information.

The TOS tags that state:

☀All Khan Academy content is available for free at khanacademy.org

You will see that in the Editing Guidelines,  I said, DO NOT ADD the http to it. I even made a video where I went to the KA page and showed myself copying and pasting the phrase from KA.  I went through and made sure all of those look the same. Any edits that do this are going to get rolled back.

Khan Academy posted that they will be adding more exercises to their math mission. Changes will take place between now and August 15. Based on their list of subtopics they provided, the changes will effect math from high school and college, with possibly some changes in the middle school area. It does not appear that percentages in pre-k through 6th will be effected. However, I am just reading and attempting to interpret their materials, so I could be misunderstanding.

They will also be making Calculus missions specifically organized for high school AP students.

A thank you to our current user of the month, TJ, for bringing it to our attention.

The chat ping for me has changed. You now ping me in chat with "pingdaz" and "pingvd" so I don't get pinged when people mention me.

I created tutorial videos that covered editing guidelines. No one watched them, so I am puting the guidelines onto a page as well.

TheViralSorceress had a good idea here:

http://kaos.wikia.com/wiki/Processing_JavaScript?diff=7692&oldid=7036

From now on, that section should be "Sites with X lessons"

August 1st is approaching and we are taking nominations for emote of the month. User of the month has already been selected and will be announced in the next few days when change the front page. Just a reminder that the admin team selects the emote of the month and now that includes KCF.

If anyone has questions or comments you can leave them, but this is more of an announcement than discussion topic.

Should we do "Khan Highlights" or "Khan Academy Highlights"

I believe GLY was putting them in as Khan Highlights. Also, whatever we as a community decide, it would be great if everyone helps to change them over together.

Resolution, even though the thread hasn't been open long, most people voted and everyone said Khan Academy not Khan, so from here forward, please change the user profiles over accordingly.