So, I feel that we are now at the point where I can start letting others register on the new site to help move over articles.
As you can see on the new Article listing, I have created "dummy" articles, which need to have the contents of their respective lostmedia.wikia.com pages copied over (just the plain source code at this point in time, as I have done with Lot 2) after which point I will go through all the articles one-by-one fixing them up to fit with our new formatting scheme and giving them a spruce-up in general (as I have done with Lot 1).
To anyone who is interested in helping transfer articles, please add me on Skype and we will take it from there (Skype name is, you guessed it, dycaite). Ideally, different users will be assigned different article lots, so as to avoid unnecessarily repeating already-done work. I will then make you an account of your desired username with a stock password, which you can then change yourself.
Thanks to anyone who decides to help; this thread will be updated with participating volunteers and their respective article lots.
Once I'm unblocked, I'm going to formally request that the subscribe/contact buttons on the front page are also removed, seeing as I control all of them and am no longer affiliated with lostmedia.wikia.com.
Don't do that, The facebook button links to the FB page, Which has the link to the new site.
You make a fair point... I just don't want anyone to associate us with the old Wikia version.
Once I'm unblocked, I'm going to formally request that the subscribe/contact buttons on the front page are also removed, seeing as I control all of them and am no longer affiliated with lostmedia.wikia.com.
Firstly, I just want to apologise to you, the readers of the LMW. I've had significant time to reflect on the events of the past few days and now realise that I was foolish in how I acted. The Lost Media Wiki is immensely important to me and as such, I let my emotions get in the way of my professionalism; so, for subjecting you all to my tirade, I am sincerely sorry. This was a rare lapse in temper on my part and I will try my best to ensure that it does not happen again.
Secondly, I just want to stress to everybody that our ongoing feud with Wikia staff (namely BertH and Brandon Rhea) is not doing us any good and has to stop. At this point in time, the best point of action is to try and make lostmediawiki.com the best possible site that it can be, not to make lostmedia.wikia.com the worst possible site that it can be; let's fight this issue with positivity, rather than negativity.
Don't get me wrong, I am still very upset about this whole thing and I still wholeheartedly disagree with Wikia's policies and will continue to protest (through various means) the fact that lostmedia.wikia.com remains active, though taking an aggressive stance with staff members is simply not the way to go about doing that and will ultimately only hinder our efforts.
You may have noticed that I have begun transferring the article list (in lots of 10) across to lostmediawiki.com (though the majority of said articles still need to actually be created). Once I have finished tweaking and importing the full list of articles, I will open the site up for registrations, so that anyone that wishes to assist in copying articles over can begin doing so (after which time I will go through every article one-by-one and touch them up myself to fit with the wiki's new formatting scheme and to improve the contents of the articles in general). Originally, the plan was to open lostmediawiki.com upon the completion of these tasks, but given the current situation, we are being forced to move earlier than planned and this is the best compromise I could come up with.
So, once again, I apologise for my lack of professionalism and maturity in this matter. I felt threatened by what had been said by BertH and lost my cool; I hope you can understand the reasoning behind my actions. Anyway, thanks for all your support guys, it's much appreciated. Be sure to keep an eye on lostmediawiki.com and lostmediawiki.freeforums.net for future updates.