From Yahoo! Media Player

Hmm... Lucas Gonze. The name rings familiar. I once exchanged a bunch of emails with a Lucas Gonze back in 1999/2000 in the midst of the P2P crazy. The guy was developing something called WorldOS at the time. It's nice to see what your up to these days -- if you are the same person. Best of luck. -- ben houston www.exocortex.org

Hey ben, it's excellent to hear from you. I see on exocortex that you're doing interesting stuff, things which are ridiculously far beyond your degree. Where are you now? You in Vancouver? I am in Los Angeles, myself. Anyhow, I'm looking forward to running into you again. -L

[edit] Spotlights

Hi Lucas! Thanks for the great work you've been doing here. I've got a couple of things to ask you about. First of all, I would like to feature your wiki in our "Wikia Spotlights", which can be displayed on our other tech wikis in order to bring more readers and editors here. You will need to reach 100 articles, and meet the other criteria at Wikia:Wikia Spotlights, but I think the results could bring you a lot more traffic.

The first easy thing you can do is to use the "move" tab to rename your main page from Main Page to Yahoo Media Player Wiki: our stats show that including your wiki's topic in the title of your main page increases search engine rankings and visitor traffic significantly. We would also like to change your skin from the current Quartz-smoke to Monaco-smoke, which keeps the same color scheme but uses customizable menus on the left. Before switching over you will want to add a 135x155px logo to Image:Wiki.png, as this is the logo used by the new skin. (I can help you with this, if you like.)

Finally, as we announced in our site-wide talk page notice recently, Wikia needs to change our layout and ad strategy for business reasons, to continue to be able to support our free hosting. I would like to help you make some changes to the layout of the main page, as described at Help:Main page column tags. With your permission, I can play with some possible layouts on a temp page, and you can tell me what sort of design you like best. If you're interested, I can also add some more interactive content, like embedded video or embedded RSS news feeds.

Thank you very much for your patience and cooperation -- I know ads aren't a fun thing for anyone, but we need to adapt to the changing market in order to keep our servers up and running, so that the YMP Wiki can continue to thrive and grow with the new visitors we hope to bring in! I look forward to working with you -- please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any concerns or questions about the changes. — Catherine (talk) 17:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Catherine,

I have changed the title of the main page, per your suggestions. About changing the skin, the one issue would be maintaining our current custom menus and maybe avoiding the work to resize the logo, since that would probably have to be done by an internal yahoo person and I don't work there anymore. 135x155px is pretty tiny and would be hard to read, but I'm happy to give it a chance. I'd love to see the temp page, especially with an embedded RSS news feed.

I don't care about ads. That's fine. You need to pay your bills, we need you to be able to pay your bills.

About the number of articles, well, it is what it is and the contributors will have to figure that out. The vibe I'm getting after taking care of this wiki for a while is that fewer better-maintained articles are better than more.

Can you help me learn how to copy over our current custom menus?

Lucas gonze 17:44, 23 June 2008 (UTC)