User talk:Mathmagician/7

Something rather interesting I came across after starting Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
Well, I decided to do some googling, and it brought up some rather interesting results. Namely, this, heh. Found the images posted to be quite entertaining! Oh and some news on my current computer situation; it's still technically out-of-commission, as it regularly fails to boot, and even then regularly bluescreens when it does boot. Though I just recently got the job I was hoping to get, so I can probably fix it within a relatively short delay. :D

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.png   http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png   03:26, August 12, 2012 (UTC)

AST
Hey Mathmagician! Are you still interested in the AST? I realize I never responded to your talk page message. :( --Trellar http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 22:31, August 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * We're actually in the process of restarting the team and are looking for a new face or two. If you're still interested, please send me a message at Special:Contact and I can fill you in on the details. :) Trellar http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 22:51, August 21, 2012 (UTC)

Spam and abuse filter
Thanks, I noticed and realized the problem were all the caps. Should have known, since I am a bit familiar with the way the spam filter works (but never stumbled with an all caps limitation yet). Thanks for checking and corroborating what the issue was. I will be using bold letters more often. :) --Liliana (my talk). 08:20, August 22, 2012 (UTC)

Re:Profile stuff
i think the addition of userbox, s ame the user p age, it will m ake profiles look more cool.

ps:forgot to put my signature, i w as in a hurry Twistedmetalero (talk) 15:45, August 25, 2012 (UTC)

Mod policy/guidelines
I posted a message at the bottom of Forum:Mod_Namespace_Suggestion. Please offer any suggestions or changes you may wish to regarding the version I've set forth at Terraria Wiki talk:Mod Article Editing Policy. If you have no problems with it, I'll go ahead and implement it (but not before Path and Leet have been given a chance to see this message and respond to it). Thanks,

Mods in search results
Could you maybe try something with js? Thanks,

I thought I'd share this
Signature Preferences, Preferences page:

Just thought I'd share the little piece of code I use to keep my sig on one line, heh. No   's involves either! ^ᴗ^

Re:Bot
You have new messages on my talk page. I said I wouldn't do this, but it seems RC is being flooded with automatic comment deletions, so yeah.

Articles needing attention
Hi! Nice to meet you! I've been working on fixing up the Boss Monsters page, but I was just wondering, when is an article good enough to not need the "Needs improvement" tag any more? I don't know if I can remove it myself when I'm finished editing or if it needs to be verified by an admin first.

Thank you! Brightcynder (talk) 23:53, September 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, nice to meet you too! If you feel the article is good enough to remove the Needs Attention category, you can remove it -- when you do so, just try to leave an edit summary that says "Removed Category" or something like that in the box in the upper right corner. If someone else thinks the article still needs work when they read it later, they can just re-add the Needs Attention category. There's not very many things here that need approval or verification of an admin.


 * We have very few policies (formal rules) about who can/should do what, but these are quite limited for the most part. We tend to operate on more of a "do first, if it's a problem then we talk about it afterwards" kind of way, as opposed to a "ask first, if it's okay then you can do it" kind of way. In general, as long as your goal is to be helpful, please don't feel like you need to ask to do anything, although you're always welcome to ask if you want to :)

Hellexarus has Returned
Hey Math, I'm back! Also, I kinda forget some templates and stuff, so it's natural that I'd come to you or path, or any other admins, for help. :P

Um, this is the only thing I need, I think... What's the template for the item.. Thing. (I don't know the name) It's the template that holds the mobs/npcs/items/etc in it. I don't know if it's very specific, but I can't really describe it well. :S

Sorry, and thanks.

Hellexarus (talk) 16:58, September 26, 2012 (UTC)

Infobox:Weapon
Hey Math, could you come on steam for a bit please? I'm having trouble getting the weapon infobox to work properly. :P

Hellexarus (talk) 19:04, September 28, 2012 (UTC)

Signature

 * Hey, I just realized that you and path have epic new signatures now. Looking pretty awesome! Did you guys do them yourselves? I also realized that I still haven't talked to path about mine yet... *contacts path*


 * Hellexarus (talk) 19:31, September 28, 2012 (UTC)

My Own Wiki
Hey, I was wondering if I should make my own wiki or not. I've been thinking about it, and now that Google Chrome helps me edit and stuff, I might be able to manage. I don't know if I have to pay for it or not, but it would be nice to have my own wiki and stuff. Although, I don't know what kind of wiki I should make. Please reply if you have any suggestions/think that I can manage! (If the wiki is set up I will make you admin. :P)

And also, I copied and pasted this to most admins that I know. Thanks for your time!

Hellexarus (talk) 01:46, September 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * You can actually create your own Wikia wiki ("Wikia" is the name of the company that hosts the Terraria Wiki and thousands of other wikis) for free anytime you want. To do that, you simply click the Start a wiki button in the upper-left corner of the screen and follow the process. Personally, I do not recommend starting your own wiki, especially if you don't know what topic it should be about and you're not comfortable with advanced coding stuff (like knowing how to create and use templates without anyone helping you, etc). If you do start a wiki, please note that I probably won't be able to help you with it very much, as my time is pretty limited and I have to be more selective -- I can't help everyone :(


 * That's fine Math, thanks anyways! Also, I did know that it was Wikia, I just put wiki for short. :P Also, I'm testing stuff on Path's Wikia, and I'm gonna ask him to help me out when he get's online again. (Sometime around 2:30 PM EST). Thanks anyways! Oh, and when you (possibly) respond to this, could you possibly come on steam so it's easier and more private to chat, rather than long paragraphs on a talk page? :P Thanks -- Hellexarus (talk) 13:10, September 29, 2012 (UTC)

Please read this and help me......
Hello Mathmagician,

My name is Fardeen,username fardin017.

I have been banned from the terraria online web page and i do not know why.

So it would be kind if u could tell the administrator to unban me please.

Thank You.

Signature Fardin017 (talk) 11:15, October 1, 2012 (UTC)

Again i have done nothing to get banned from the page [terrariaonline.com]

Test
another notification test MathmagicianTest (talk) 14:47, October 1, 2012 (UTC)

Hi,

I have a issue with Terraria. The problem being that when I go onto my own worlds with any of my characters when I press esc or open chests the game pauses. I can hear the ingame music but cannot move. I have tried updating Microsoft /NET from version 4 to version 4.5 but it hasn't solved my problem. I also tried installing XNA 4 again but again didn't help.

Any suggestions would be appreciated,

Thanks

Bobertini (talk) 15:28, October 3, 2012 (UTC) Bobertini

Hi, you probably have the setting to 'pause while inventory is open' or something. Try going to settings and finding that. Should help. -- Hellexarus (talk) 02:45, October 6, 2012 (UTC)

It turns out that was the case and I have now solved this problem. Thanks anyway :)

Bobertini (talk) 15:40, October 6, 2012 (UTC) Bobertini

Re:Background
Hello MathMagician. I am happy to see I have a helper on this Wiki :)

User "Flowers111"
http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Flowers111

She's uploaded a Minecraft pic and tiny pic showing what she looks like in Terr. Neither of the pics are referenced anywhere, or so pics' pages tell. I couldn't quickly find how to undo or mark a pic for deletion, so I came to you.

Rautamiekka (talk) 18:42, October 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Rautamiekka. The image of the user's player does not explicitly violate our image policy, but if it is still not in use in a few days, it'll probably be deleted. I have deleted the Minecraft image.


 * If you want to mark a page or file for deletion in the future, you can edit it and add delete, which adds it to Category:Candidates for deletion. This category is monitored by admins.


 * Thanks. I know the Terr pic doesn't violate anything but I mentioned to make a figure out of the total. --Rautamiekka (talk) 19:17, October 10, 2012 (UTC)

Article for sell prices/values ?
Does article for everything's sell price/value still exist ?


 * Not that I know of, you're welcome to create one if you want. So far as I know, every item page has the price of the item listed in the infobox though and that's usually good enough for most people. But yeah, if you wanted a listing of all items according to their sell prices, I don't think we have an article about that.

Ur awesome (Papabear2565 (talk) 21:47, October 13, 2012 (UTC)) papabear2565

Renaming of page Hardmode Ores
To me that article should be renamed to Hard Mode Ores since Hardmode isn't the correct spelling, but the renaming form says links pointing to it aren't auto-changed.

Now that I checked, there are more of "wrongly named" pages dedicated for HM stuff. --Rautamiekka (talk) 21:56, October 18, 2012 (UTC)


 * I actually second this. It's a good thing to note, regardless of the fact that Hardcore Mode is sometimes shortened to both Hardmode and Hard Mode, in my experience. A proper boundary between these two mechanics would definitely be something I'd be interested in seeing defined. ^ᴗ^


 * Rautamiekka: I agree, go ahead and rename the page. That's true, links pointing to it aren't auto-changed, you need to change those manually. To do that, go to Special:Whatlinkshere/Hardmode Ores (there's a "What links here" option in your toolbar at the bottom of the screen, if you don't have it, click the Customize option to add it to your toolbar) -- that will show a list of all pages that link to Hardmode Ores. Then you simply edit all those pages and change the links to point to Hard Mode Ores instead.


 * If you forget to check incoming links with "What links here" don't worry about it too much. When you rename a page it will automatically leave a redirect behind, so incoming links will be redirected to the newly renamed page. Sometimes this creates a problem called "Double redirects" -- but I will check for those at Special:DoubleRedirects later -- they can be easily resolved later.


 * If you have a list of pages you want renamed, feel free to rename them yourself, or list them here and I can do it for you if you want.


 * There's no official term. I prefer "Hardmode" - that also seems to be used more often on the forum. Redigit has used both terms (example). Whatever we go with, I agree that it should be consistent. Not that any of that matters, as I've already been outvoted.


 * Official would be following how the game has it named, if HM even is ever mentioned in the game. --Rautamiekka (talk) 01:06, October 19, 2012 (UTC)

New category idea: corruptible/corruptibles
An idea hit me about a category for blocks that can be corrupted by Corruptor or by The Corruption expanding on its own. --Rautamiekka (talk) 15:28, October 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * Sounds like it could be helpful. Go ahead and make the category if you'd like :) -- you don't need to ask my permission to edit things.


 * I kinda do, and you know a few things more. --Rautamiekka (talk) 20:12, October 20, 2012 (UTC)

Background - finally complete
I ended up scrapping my original project in favor of something simpler. Here it is - http://fortesting.wikia.com/wiki/For_Testing_Wiki

Suitable? Detestable? Is there something I should change? Please let me know what you think :)

(The lit area at the bottom left seems kind of distracting to me, I think I'll take that out. I'm just far too lazy to do it tonight.)


 * It looks pretty nice. Do you have a full version of that picture, w:c:fortesting:File:Bg.png (without the black square in the middle)? I'd like to try making the background partially transparent, just to see what it looks like.


 * Also, at the top of the screen there's that black bar (#WikiaTopAds in the HTML) ... doesn't look terribly appealing, I feel that top strip should be part of the image, not black like the rest of the middle.


 * No. The two areas are only a few blocks apart in the world itself. I could do something with it if you're really interested in a transparent body.


 * With my ad blocker on, I had semi-forgotten about that. The area's filled now.


 * JungleTreasure.jpgExample: 80% white on top of an image Yes, I am interested in making the background of the wiki not be plain white. It can still be mostly white, I just want to experiment with opacity so we can have the background be partially seen behind the article. Here's a crude example:

┌────────────────┘ I built the map in tConfig (not sure why), so I can't change it with tEdit. Unless you don't mind waiting a while for me to finish another version, you might want to ask Path to do it, then. I personally wouldn't like a transparent article body, but I've got an open mind.

Or we can use the background I already have prepared while we wait for me/Path to finish a new one.


 * Okay, go ahead and put the current background up (or ask around first if you think other people would mind). It looks good enough to use to me, and since you went to the trouble to make it, we should use it :)


 * While we're at it, how about the footer/header? I like the stone image I used on fortesting, but you brought up the fact that using it in the header is kind of illogical (rock texture in the sky). Do you have any other ideas?


 * Sky + longer-than-usual Wyvern? Skybridge w/ vines hanging down? Either of those would be pretty cool I think.


 * I agree with Math's ideas there, either one would (imo) appear very aesthetically pleasing!

Latest anime thoughts
Heyo Math, Hisashiburi! How've you been? Just a quick thought I decided to act on; do you easily notice when one or two characters (main or not) in an anime extend their sentences with unnecessary additions? Stuff like Dog Days' where Yuki and D'Arquien add that little "de gozaru", and in Macademi Wasshoi, where Tanarot adds "de aru"? Lately, and I'm completely unsure of why, this has really started becoming an annoyance to me, as I just seem to always pick it out. It's like when someone says "You're now aware that you have to think about breathing to continue breathing", and it stays in your head no matter what.

Anyway, I was wondering if those sort of verbal tics bothered you at all, and if so, to the extent that they seem to bother me. ^ᴗ^ Heh, catch 'ya!


 * Some odd speech or verbal tics bother me, but others are entertaining. It's a case by case thing for me. Here's a few that I don't really like.


 * 'de gozaru' is an archaic form of 'desu' (verb, "is / to be") historically used by samurai. Coming from D'Arquien, it kinda makes sense. I'd say this one wasn't that bad imo.
 * Wilhelmina ends all her sentences with 'de arimasu' (uncontracted form of 'desu', used in writing but not often in speech) in Shakugan no Shana. That was much more annoying to me.
 * Yukari in Rosario + Vampire says ~desu desu all the time << very irritating.
 * In an anime called Saikano (don't recommend watching it, it's pretty crappy imo), all characters use the Hokkaido dialect, which is really weird to listen to. However, since all the characters talk the same way, it's a bit harder to notice.
 * This is fairly uncommon in anime I've seen, but characters who speak in a very thick Kansai dialect are always annoying to me. This is most noticeable when females use 'uchi' instead of 'watashi' to refer to themselves, and ending sentences with '-hen' and 'ya'. Two examples I can think of are Kagenui Yozuru in Nisemonogatari (sequel to Bakemonogatari) and Nekomi Nabeshima in Medaka Box (2nd season currently airing :)


 * For verbal tics that I do enjoy:


 * Fairy Tail has so many funny speech patterns for different characters. My favorites are Elfman's 'otoko' and Ichika shouting ME N!
 * Ojou-sama talk is entertaining. Typically involves using 'watakushi' for "I", ending sentences in 'desu wa' and the trademark laugh ~Ohohohohoho. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_D2gXaSu1Y << Kuroko in To Aru Kagaku no Railgun is probably my favorite example of this. A more typical example would be Cecilia Alcott in Infinite Stratos (many haram anime have a blonde ojou-sama).
 * Some unique laughs are very enjoyable. Kobato's *kukuku* in Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, Akeno's *ufufu* in High School DxD, and Akiko's *guhehehe* in Oniai are probably my favorites.
 * Female characters that incorrectly use the male personal pronoun 'boku' to refer to themselves are fairly common, this can actually be pretty endearing when used to emphasize boyishness. To mention Oniai again, Gin (her nickname, since her hair is silver) is a perfect example.

Administration Request
Dear Mathmagician,

I belive that I may be a great Administrator for the Terraria Wiki. I often edit articles, add information, and keep up on? my facts. I study in Terraria on many facts, testing theories and discovering information. I have exceeding grammar and great spelling. I play Terraria in Hard Mode, and I never cheat, hack, or abuse glitches. I hope that you may accept my request to become an administrator.

Sincerely, Loolookacky2


 * Hi, I can't make anyone an administrator by myself, the wiki has a Admin and Bureaucrat Policy which requires nominations to take place here on this page. At that point in time, other active editors on the wiki can ask you questions (and you can answer them or decline to respond), make comments, and/or vote on the nomination. If it seems like most everyone participating agrees on the nomination, then we can grant you admin rights.


 * I would recommend you keep editing for some time before applying. All the other admins had at least 500+ or even 1000+ edits and have been on the wiki for at least a month or two before becoming admins. While this isn't a requirement, it's a good way to see that candidates are trustworthy and knowledgeable about wikis. At this point in time, you've only made about ~60 edits, so I probably wouldn't feel comfortable asking you to be an admin here yet.

Body opacity
Hey, I hope you'll reconsider your opinion on making the body slightly more opaque. After playing around with the console, I still think a completely opaque body would be ideal, as it's the most functional option we have here. At the very least, I feel we should change it to .85 or so... .75 is simply too eye-straining (at least to me).


 * I changed it to .85, is that better? P.S. Great job implementing everything. Do you by chance happen to have a version of the background where the ground is more level with the bottom of the viewport? So there's more sky at the top and less black at the bottom? If not it's not a big deal, I just find the darkness at the bottom of the background to be kind of annoying.


 * I modified MediaWiki:Wikia.css a bit to restyle the "My Tools" menu in the toolbar a bit, and also to make it exactly match that of the account navigation menu.


 * Also, one more thing that still needs to be done is that File:Bg.png needs to be made into a JPG instead of PNG to reduce file size. Because right now our site background takes a very long time to load for that first page view (though of course on subsequent page loads the image is already in the browser's cache and loads immediately). But try viewing the Terraria Wiki main page in a Chrome incognito window (which doesn't use the browser's cache) to see what I'm talking about.


 * Much better, thanks. I'll adjust the background using media queries sometime soon (or you can, if you feel like it).


 * The new toolbar menu is nice. I actually preferred the old account navigation menu, but it's not like very many people will be using it anyway. No big deal.


 * I compressed the background enough to cut off a little over 200 kb, from 466 to 260. The downside is that there are now some fairly noticeable artifacts around the trees.


 * Update - I produced a 369kb png file with no quality loss (using PNGCrush). I'd rather go with that than the lossy jpg. Any objections?


 * Alright, I suppose that's reasonable. By the way, I have added the Snowstorm script (which I have further optimized) to just the main page (it won't affect any other pages), and it is set to time out after 300 seconds so that it won't run forever. Is that okay to just let it run on the main page? I think it looks really cool together with the snow biome background :)


 * That sounds good. I'm not even noticing any lag in Firefox (whereas there was some serious lag with the old script).


 * The old script naively animated each and every single snowflake with http://api.jquery.com/animate/. Now what it does is it creates a bunch of snowflakes left-to-right absolutely positioned inside a single div tag and animates the div tag. That cut the number of objects being animated down from hundreds to just ~7 or so.

Rollback nomination
Hey there Math, not sure if you've seen yet, but I'm looking to nominate Sküljagger to become a rollbacker here on the wiki. ^ᴗ^

Small request
Hi, how to do the same Wiki-navigation as on this wiki?

PS I apologize for my terrible English... Igor (talk) 12:16, January 7, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey Tulen, sorry, I've been pretty busy lately. The code that styles the navigation can be found in MediaWiki:Wikia.css, specifically the section starting with:


 * You may be able to copy it and tweak it from there?

Recent vandalism
Hey, I couldn't make the Admin Noticeboard work for some reason, but I saw that you were an Admin so I figured I'd try this. The user 'Teleswagz' has changed the title of the Hallowed Armor page to 'Teleswagz Armor'. Additionally, he's uploaded an inappropriate picture (a naked man from behind with some of his 'bits' hanging down). Since it appears to be the last photo uploaded to the wikia, it's on the right of every page I go to. Grating, to say the least. Just thought I should let someone know.

76.119.21.50 04:25, January 14, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting me know. I've deleted the images, fixed the pages and blocked the vandal. Sorry for the trouble :(

Xbox 360 video proposal.
Hey! A new video was proposed (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Terraria_Wiki:Proposed_Videos#Xbox_360_Tutorial_Video) I left my vote but I want to get at least one more opinion. Please take a look and leave your vote. thanks! Dak47922 Talk  02:26, January 17, 2013 (UTC)


 * I watched the video and left my comment there :)

Dog Days 3?
Hey there Math, hisashiburi~! ^ᴗ^ How've you been? I've not seen you on too often, so I thought I'd leave a multi-purpose message. Have you heard? It seems there's going to be a third Dog Days! I really can't wait for it, even though I only just stumbled upon it when updating my anime status. Anyway, flick me a message when you get this! :)


 * Oh wow, they're making a third one next summer? That's crazy. I was a bit less enthusiastic towards the end of the second one, mostly just because there was so much other stuff I was watching. This season though there's not much I'm watching, except for obviously this which I've been waiting for for the past year :)

Found a video thought you might think it was interesting because this guy is a mathhmagician.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDXXjClErk

Re: Success
*big smily face* xD

Wikia Rail CSS
Unfortunately, removing the WikiaRail on ns8 is a violation of the Customization Policy. I've removed the code from CSS. I also turned off Photo Attribution internally, so no CSS is needed to hide it. Rappy 22:03, February 17, 2013 (UTC)

"Slight" Hiccup
Heyo Math, haven't sent you a message in ages! Gotta change that, heh.

Anyway, as to the reason behind the "Slight Hiccup"; my entire wiki layout just went nuts. Below is an image of how the Wiki Activity page appears to me now. I did just clear my cache, then reloaded all of the relevant MediaWiki pages, all to no avail. Any idea why this would happen? (Other wikis are loading up fine.)

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ej82UOUMGyI/UTl_jWsqO1I/AAAAAAAAAhg/zNW6o5vh168/s600/Umwat.png

Also just noticed, no edit summaries either. T_T


 * I'm afraid I have no idea what could be going on with that. It could be that a stylesheet failed to load properly in your browser, and then that "failed" version got cached or something wonky like that. Try 1) purging your cache, 2) using another browser and 3) see if it clears up tomorrow. Most likely this is just a temporary fluke of some sort. If it turns out to be a persistent issue that lasts for a couple days -- and trying all of those things didn't help -- I think you should probably file a bug report at Special:Contact to see if they can help you. (The Special:WikiActivity page looks fine to me, so there's not really much else I can say.. sorry :


 * The problem's here. Looks like you were using the cached files, Math. A change to Wikia.css didn't change a thing (as expected), so I contacted staff.


 * The instant I published the above message, the engine re-processed Wikia.css. Everything should work now.
 * Noticed all of this just now. Thanks for forwarding that on, Dzy. I was completely clueless as to what could be causing it as I'd purged my cache a couple of times! T_T No worries anyway, at least it was all sorted. :)

Deleted Pic
Math Why Did U Delete MY Pic what was wrong with it??WolfboyX5 (talk) 14:10, March 15, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi, is this picture what you're referring to? I've restored it just now so you can use it. I deleted that picture in February 2012 (over a year ago) because it wasn't used on any pages anywhere on the wiki &mdash; as you can see at the bottom of the file page where it says "File Usage: there are no pages that link to this photo"


 * Typically when images are unused here on the wiki, we delete them after some time as part of maintenance / housekeeping. If you were using this image on a different website, instead of leaving it here on the wiki, please upload it to an image hosting website such as Photobucket. Thanks,

MainpageCategories
Hey, Math. It's certainly been a while, hasn't it? I see the console version's been released. You might be seeing a lot more of me if I can manage to get back into the game.

Anyway, I've learned a lot about web design and development in the past few months - all thanks to you, I think. I decided to revisit the main page navigation system we came up with last year, and I created a more lightweight alternative. I'll be implementing it unless you have any objections.

Thanks,


 * Hey Dzy, no objections from me. (Maybe in the future, we could add some sort of "console content" icon to it so that people can find the console-exclusive page that are currently piling up in Category:Console Version?). Actually I think the main page as a whole could use a revamp. I know I was kinda harsh in past discussions about main page stuff, sorry about that :(


 * But honestly I don't have enough free time to really devote to a big project at this point (working full time now with a 1 hour commute in both directions). If you have any good ideas or desire to redesign the main page, feel free to build a mock up and/or discuss with me and Pathogen.


 * I'm definitely of the opinion lately that the "news blog" style in the main left column doesn't really work so well, because when do we ever have good announcements? Like maybe a couple times a year? We should transition to a different design that doesn't place so much emphasis on the news posts, since we don't really make good use of them. Maybe use a gallery or slider so that we have more graphic elements. Maybe have a single poll that's always in a specific location (rather than putting them in the news posts). And definitely shorten the overall length because there's WAY too much stuff on the main page at the moment. That's my 2 cents at least :P


 * I have no recollection of main page harshness, so no worries there :) Anyway, a main page revamp is certainly something that should be done in time, but I'm more concerned about our article quality. I made some half-hearted attempts to clean up some of them (like Environments) a while back, but most of our most important pages are still not up to par with those on the TO Wiki. I feel like the best way to tackle this would be to have two to three day long "drives" where editors (only users who are signed in) are asked to improve a certain article together. I also plan on writing a general blog on improving the wiki's content soon.


 * It's good to hear you're doing well, but it's unfortunate that you won't have much time to work on the wiki. Still, life comes before the wiki, of course.


 * By the way, what's the status of that "discussions about" module these days? If it's legal, I'd like to write a script that hides it if it doesn't contain any relevant forum posts.


 * I'm not sure if having organized editing projects is something that we can feasibly do in the short term. I just don't think the resources are in place. What I think we should focus on is making sure, for the new console pages being added, that the basic information (item stats, how to get, etc.) is placed into infoboxes and that rich media is in place (images/video). This is what gamers are mostly looking for as they play.


 * Discussion module: last I heard, you're not supposed to remove it. I'd recommend leaving it alone. Does it seem redundant with the comment feature? Yes. Is it the end of the world? No. As with any website that you don't own (by the way I see you seem to have your own domain now!?), there are likely going to be things you don't like that you just have to live with. This is one of those little things, if you ask me.


 * I had something to ask you, and I chose to do it here because I forgot to answer your question about my domain. You see, I created a website at Liquidweb as part of a school project (FBLA web design competition). That plan included an "add-on domain", so I registered dzylon.com and put a tool I created for Elecbullet there. It expires in about ten days. I was disqualified from the competition because I didn't have the site up and running in time (but I got to go to Lafayette with some friends, which was fun).


 * Now, for my question - does the TO Wiki have sitelinks when you search "terraria wiki" where you live? Because where I live, the TO Wiki lost its sitelinks. (This is in a test browser so I'm pretty sure Google's not taking my search history into consideration).


 * Also, I replied to your message on my talk page.

Known Bugs (Console)
What's up Mathmagician?

I was wondering, about the Known Bugs (Console) page, as bugs get fixed, should we remove them from the page or should we mark them as "fixed"?

CrusherBumm (talk) 22:25, April 8, 2013 (UTC)


 * If you could just marked them as "fixed" in some way that would be great. It's probably a good idea to keep every (valid) bug report there just for reference. Duplicate bugs, things that aren't bugs, vandalism, etc. can be removed though. Thanks :)

Mod:Adamantite Knife
Hello. Could you please unblock or edit the adamantite knife page? I wanted to make some pages but it is disabled.


 * Hi, the Mod:Adamantite Knife page was protected from editing due to spam. I have unlocked it so you can now edit it.


 * P.S. When leaving a talk page message like this, please create a new header for your message (type it in the box in the upper-right corner where it says Summary/headline).


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Ermagerhd SAO
So I don't normally watch Animes, but I saw your page and was looking through all the stuff (like a stalker) and sword art online just sounded pure smexy.

I am now on episode 7.

SO MUCH AWESOME!

Ps. Asuna is hella sexy :P (jus sayin')

Page |  Talk  17:20, April 13, 2013 (UTC)


 * Glad you're enjoying it. Yeah SAO is a pretty amazing anime, easily up there with Fairy Tail, Fate/stay night, and Code Geass in my top favorites. It was probably the most popular anime of last year (it aired in summer and fall seasons). On anime streaming websites, the new episode each week would get hundreds of thousands of views within hours of upload, and over a million within a few days, which are some pretty ridiculous numbers. I too was one of those people spending their Saturday mornings mashing the refresh button on a couple streaming websites to see when the next SAO episode would first get uploaded (until I wrote a script to do it automatically so I wouldn't kill my poor keyboard :P)

Some things

 * "use tabs instead of spaces" - why? I'm a tabs guy most of the time, but I prefer spaces on wikis because the default tab-width of eight is too much (plus the fact that you can just type four spaces directly into the editor, which you can't do with tabs). Besides, white space is |MediaWiki%3ACommon.js%2FStandardEditSummaries.js|MediaWiki%3ACommon.js%2FDupImageList.js|u%3Adev%3APurgeButton%2Fcode.js|u%3Adev%3AShowHide%2Fcode.js|u%3Adev%3ARevealAnonIP%2Fcode.js|u%3Adev%3AListFiles%2Fcode.js|u%3Adev%3AAjaxRC%2Fcode.js|MediaWiki%3ACommon.js%2FSnippetsOasis.js|MediaWiki%3ACommon.js%2FSearch.js|MediaWiki%3ACommon.js%2FuserRightsIcons.js|MediaWiki%3ACommon.js%2FSubNav.js|u%3Adev%3AAutoEditDropdown%2Fcode.js&only=scripts stripped from scripts and stylesheets before deployment.
 * I've kind of shifted that script to the back burner, which I shouldn't have done. I'll have it ready soon.


 * Tabs are nicer to work within text editing programs (I rarely edit code in the Wikia editor itself anymore because you can't tab and it doesn't have syntax highlighting during editing). Also, rather than using manual spaces, you can adjust the tab spacing in your global.css, e.g.:



Achievements
Hola, admin.! Are some of these "Achievements" on this site glitchy? Because I've been on this wiki for at least 6 days in a row...and still havn't gotten the "Key to the Wiki" "Achievement" yet.....Are there any ways to fix this?

TerrariaGamerZ (talk) 20:50, April 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi TerrariaGamerZ,


 * The achievements feature is built by Wikia, any kinds of problems with losing badges, not getting them, etc. aren't something that can fixed by me. I don't have any way to manually give someone a badge, it's all automatic and controlled by the software.


 * That being said, for Key to Wiki (and other achievements for "edited X days in a row") &mdash; please be aware that you have to edit 5 days in a row under certain conditions.
 * You have to remember to sign in to your account. If you forget to log in and make an anonymous IP edit, it doesn't count, and there's no way to "reattribute" it to your account.
 * You have to make an edit with each 24 hour period according to Coordinated Universal Time. For example, depending on where you live / what time zone you're in, simply editing once a day may not be good enough. It's possible that you might edit 2 days in a row in your time zone, but those are actually not consecutive days in the UTC time zone (e.g. if you edit in the morning one day, and in the evening the next day).
 * If you keep editing, I'm sure you'll get the badge. Otherwise, unfortunately there's nothing else I can do about it. Just make sure to edit at least once per UTC time zone day. You can switch your time zone to "Use wiki default (UTC)" in Special:Preferences, then check your Special:Contributions/TerrariaGamerZ page to see what time your edits are occurring in UTC time.

Spotlight Request
Hi. Terraria Wiki is in great shape and I've added it to the approved spotlight list. -- Wendy (talk ) 02:05, April 25, 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Markup Issues
Hello Mathmagician, I've having some wiki markup issues that I was wondering if you could help with. Basically, I've been playing with the current Guide article in my sandbox trying to add a quotes box for the Guide. It keeps forcing a table of contents to show within the collapse template which is not my desire. If you could assist at all, it'd be much appreciated. :) Drkpanoz (talk) 21:34, April 25, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Drkpanoz -- that's a pretty easy problem to fix. You can make the TOC appear at a specific location (for example, the top of the article) by using the magic word (see also: Help:Magic words). For an example of a page that uses this magic word, see the Wall of Flesh page.


 * I apologize if I wasn't clear; the problem is there's a table of contents appearing when I did not intend to have one (or want one). I was simply going with the layout of another NPC's quotes panel (Nurse) and suddenly a table of contents appeared. Drkpanoz (talk) 20:00, April 26, 2013 (UTC)


 * Ah, I see. A table of contents automatically appears once there are 4+ headers on a page. If you want to suppress the TOC so that it doesn't appear at all, you can use the magic word, as described on the help page I linked.