User talk:Mathmagician/6

First Drafts
Well, it took a little longer than I expected (Because I was playing around with some aesthetic coding and all) but here are the first drafts and how they look. Please don't hold back on what you think, I'd like to improve them in any way I possibly can. :)


 * Thanks for the link. I renamed the page into the main namespace so that we can communicate quickly and without talk page edit conflicts via comments. Will be looking closely at the templates, but from what I've seen so far I'm very impressed. — Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 04:22, April 29, 2012 (UTC)

plz address my concern
I've been editing another wiki who currently does not have a media host set up, and I know you guys don't allow off topic images so how does one go about changing the image size when direct linking? Specifically I want http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png smaller. 06:15, May 2, 2012 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, it is not possible to resize images when hotlinking. What you would need to do is decide which size you want for the image, use your preferred image editing software to resize it, upload the resized image somewhere, and then hotlink to the resized version.


 * P.S. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png is perfectly fine to upload here (if it would be being used here, obviously don't upload it here if you just want to use it on another wiki). Terraria Wiki:Image Policy isn't designed to strictly prohibit all non-Terraria images. If the image is useful to the wiki for a certain purpose (and esp. if it's widely used on other wikis) there's no problem with uploading it here. See Support which uses File:Symbol_support_vote.png, for instance. — Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 19:52, May 2, 2012 (UTC)
 * OFC it was for a different wiki. I ended up using a different image I think. Also as weird as this sounds I think you can resize the image on wikimedia commons and provide a direct link to the resized. Also you can force it with inline CSS or html but that's like, effort and stuff. I ended up just using a different set of images http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Artículo_bueno.svg/16px-Artículo_bueno.svg.png and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Symbol_unrelated.svg/16px-Symbol_unrelated.svg.png respectively. I'm pretty drunk atm but I think I remember seeing a way to embed the URL in an image tag, but I also read wikimedia explicitely said you can't resize external images so I didn't try hard enough to do it.


 * also thanks

Archiving
Hey there! Due to an anti-vandalism filter, I'm unable to archive my talk page (it's currently cut-pasted into a text file). Probably a bad word triggering it. Can you either add me as an exception to the filter or tell me what I need to do to bypass it? Thanks. Regards from current rollback and former admin,

Just had an idea in relation to the UpdateInfo template
Well howdy doody! I just had a bit of a brainwave while adding the UpdateInfo template to a page; adding that page to a version's category when using the template. If a version number is specified (In the added parameter, then it would be added to the   Category. If no version number was specified, then it would be added to 1.0.0 by default. How does this sound as a rough draft of an idea?


 * Most of the pages in the main namespace already have the category for the version added to them, so it seems unnecessary, but if you want to do it I don't see any reason not to. — Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 00:10, May 5, 2012 (UTC)

Talk-back
Ooops, totally forgot to leave a talkback on your page.

Re: Nomination
Almost beat you to it, heh. Was typing in my nomination when you sent me the message! ^ᴗ^

Quotation
Hey, could you please give feedback to a discussion I'm having with Path, on his talk page, regarding qapitalization?

Re: Hagaaayyyy
As per the user mentioned above, I do hope I took the appropriate actions. If I did not, please don't hesitate to instruct me and correct the course I took. I'll try to remain on Steam for a few more hours at least, so if you do turn up at some stage, I'll be able to chat for a bit. :)


 * It looks like you blocked him for having an unacceptable username. This is fine. Please check his block settings when you get a chance and double check that 1) his IP is not blocked and 2) account creation is not disabled, so he can make another account with an appropriate name if he wants to. It might also be a good idea to leave a message on his talk page saying something like: "Hey, I've blocked you because your username refers to or contains inappropriate language. But please feel free to make another account or use Special:Contact/rename-account to change your account name to one that is acceptable. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any further questions."


 * That's good to hear. Though, I also temporarily blocked his IP for several vandalous edits (Including uploading images featuring the words in his name) before he made/logged into that account. Also, in reply to that review... Darn - now I have to play it. (-.-')


 * Oh, I see. Well since he's an intentional vandal, disregard my previous advice. And yes, I do kinda want to play that game myself haha.

ok, i thougth the color was by preference, i didint know it was put by user´s rigth Twistedmetalero 00:37, May 19, 2012 (UTC)

Brainwave.
Refer to Here. :)

Hey
That javascript import you posted isn't working for me, and Wikia's new search is making me want to use colourful language the abuse filter would pick up and ban me for.w:User:Ilvandel/global.js Did I break something? 06:55, May 24, 2012 (UTC)


 * As I posted at the top of my blog, Wikia has released official support for Go-Search in Special:Preferences -> Under the Hood -> Enable Go-Search. Currently, Go-Search in preferences is functioning properly for me (although it hasn't been functioning for a few days because Wikia's run into a ton of bugs with the new search).


 * The javascript import is from the Developer's Wiki (http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/SearchGoButton) and was not authored by myself. I haven't used it recently so I don't know if it's working or not in its current state. But your global.js at least looks fine. I'm guessing maybe the script isn't working properly or something, maybe the author needs to update it. I would advise you to just use Go-Search in preferences instead.


 * Search has been undergoing a lot of iterations since the first announcement that it was changing. If you'd like to keep up-to-date on the development of search (it's an on-going process -- not a 1-time update), I recommend following the Staff blogs on Community Central. The main 3 blogs so far have been these:


 * w:User_blog:Dopp/Updates_to_How_We_Search
 * w:User_blog:Daniel_Baran/Search_Developments:_Big_Picture
 * w:User_blog:Dopp/New_Global_Search,_plus_Updates_to_Local_Search


 * No not really but thanks. I just don't want to be playing borderlands or terraria and have to go through a search function when I'm sitting here staring at the item I'm looking up. 20:34, May 24, 2012 (UTC)

ForTesting; Craftable parameter solution
Hey there Math, long time no talk, eh? How're things going with you? Just thought I'd give you the update on the Accessory Infobox, seems I might have found the solution to those glitches with the headers and whatnot, anyway, feel free to have a read and see what you think when you get the time. Catch you later. ^ᴗ^

For testing
I am trying to edit the mainpage of the fortesting wiki but the editor is not loading. is this an issue for multiple people of just me? Thanks!

Dak47922 Talk  15:08, May 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * Can you also give me admin rights also? thanks again


 * Dak47922 Talk  15:27, May 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hey, I've granted you admin rights on For Testing -- sorry, I didn't realize you weren't an admin there! I'm not having any issues with the editor loading, it seems to work okay for me. Have you tried refreshing the page a few times? A hard refresh will purge your browser's cache; this is typically done by pressing CTRL+F5 on a Windows computer (see Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache for more information about bypassing your cache). You can also purge the server's cache by adding ?action=purge to the end of the url. Example: http://fortesting.wikia.com/wiki/For_Testing_Wiki?action=purge

Types/Subtypes List
I've finalized the first revision of the list, heh. After we've put this into the templates, I'd probably say they'd be pretty ready to be migrated over. Anyway, feel free to have a look at the list and make any suggestions you feel are necessary. :)

For testing
Hey, I was wondering if I could borrow the for testing wiki for personal use. I work for an animal rescue and we have a few domains up, but explaining how to run FTPs and code html/css is just not practical and was thinking about updating the site to run on mediawiki instead but need a wiki for demonstration purposes. With your permission I'd like to do a few things in a demonstration for the idea namely upload a picture, make a page, cross link a another page and add a category. It would all be temporary (no problem with it all getting deleted whatsoever). 19:51, June 11, 2012 (UTC)


 * Sure, please feel free to use the For Testing wiki for whatever you'd like to (so long as you're not harming other people's work). I've granted you admin rights and I wish you luck with your project.


 * By the way, if testing is something you need to do repeatedly or frequently, you may wish to consider setting up your own personal testing wiki -- e.g. I have one at w:c:mathmagician just for myself. The advantage to that is you don't have to worry about other people's code/projects/etc. interfering with anything.

Added information
Hi I was wondering if I could post that WoF is homophobic? I know it sounds stupid,but think of it this way,when you get past it,it teleports you in front of him...know what im saying?Well,im asking first because its kindda immature and i dont want a warning or so. :)

JoeyRush 15:01, June 25, 2012 (UTC)Joey RushJoeyRush 15:01, June 25, 2012 (UTC)


 * That's inappropriate. Please don't add anything like that to an article.

Renaming Ball 'O Hurt page
I tried renaming the Ball O' Hurt page, but it said it was invalid. Jatato 18:28, June 27, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for trying =). I looked into it and fixed the problem, and you can now find the properly named page at Ball O' Hurt.

QUESTION:
There was an old image with chandaliers rigged up to timers for artificial lighting. Do you know where/what image?

Mod Namespace Suggestion
Please drop in and tell me what you think, as I'm sure yours and Dzy's opinions will be of great consequence; short and to-the-point, heh.

Just stopping by
Hey Math hows it been? Got bored and decided to see how things turned out. Things look pretty good, use have done a good job :D. Few things i noticed need to be cleaned up the double/broken redirects, cat all the uncat categories/templates, delete filter 6/7 they are useless (like completly useless) and how about some new pics in the front page gallery. Gracey91 (talk • contribs • count) 14:07, July 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hey, glad you stopped by. I cleaned out the broken/double redirects as you're right they were a mess. I'll take a closer look at the filters again when I get the chance. The categories/templates I haven't even looked at recently, preferably I'll leave that up to someone else =P. I've been a bit inactive here, more active on other wikis. The front page actually only has autoconfirmed protection (we had to lower it as a condition for applying for spotlight), so if you happen to know good photos to put there (I don't off the top of my head), please feel free to do so if you'd like.

HELLO
HI ARE U ONLINE AT TERRARIA??


 * Hi, yes, do you need help with something?

HELLO
HEY WANNA PLAY TERRARIA WITH ME??

Fardin017 04:29, July 7, 2012 (UTC)

OK IF U HAVE LOG ME IN HAMACHI PLS LOG INTO MY TERRARIA SERVER AND SERVER ID IS 5.183.121.98

Fardin017 04:33, July 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, I'm sorry, I don't have Hamachi set up. But please feel free to ask other people in chat or in the forums if they'd like to join you! I don't play Terraria multiplayer very much myself, I mostly play single player and help answer people's questions on this wiki.

HELLO??
HEY,MATHMAGICIAN???

Fardin017 04:37, July 7, 2012 (UTC)

HEYYYYY
HEY ARE U THERE???????

Fardin017 04:39, July 7, 2012 (UTC)

PLS HELP ME THERE IS NO ONE ELSE TO HELP ME PLS DOWNLOAD THE HAMACHI SET UP FROM HERE filehippo.com/download_hamachi/

Fardin017 04:54, July 7, 2012 (UTC)

PLS
PLS MATHMAGICIAN HELP ME BY JOINING MY SERVER!!!!!

Fardin017 05:08, July 7, 2012 (UTC)

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PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS TALK AND HELP ME!!!!!

Fardin017 05:13, July 7, 2012 (UTC)

Category glitch
Hey Math, check out the recent activity, I think you did something to cause a glitch that spams "categories added." Just a quick notice.


 * That's on Wikia's end, there's nothing in particular I did to cause that. I've seen it before, I wouldn't be too concerned. (Also, when our wiki is upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.19 sometime later this month or early next, expect to see more bugs like that.)


 * Doh! I thought you were doing stuff in the mediawiki-section. Never mind :D Yeah, I hope the update won't cause a lot of trouble for us.

User rights - history pages
Hey, I feel like we should change "bureaucrat" to "administrator" in the section of Wikia.css that identifies management on history pages. I don't think there's any merit to identifying users as bureaucrats.


 * Go ahead, I think that's a good idea.

Traps
I took down the signatures and the pictures but, other traps like :pitfall trap, dart trap, landmine, triggered explosive carpet,flying boss buster and the wired sand trap. also how do i not get credit if i was the first one to think about the trap??????

I don't mean to sound mean in this message

Carsakiller (talk) 01:14, July 20, 2012 (UTC)Carsakiller

The way you "get credit" is that your name appears in the page history -- that's how wikis work, the article contains a list of authors, and all of them helped to build the article. Most wikis (including this one) are meant to portray content in a factual manner from a neutral point of view, meaning the following: So, it's not that you can't "claim credit" for your traps, it's just that the way in which you were doing it was not correct. The correct way to do it is to make a blog post, talk about it in the chat room, use the forum, etc. Articles and the content in them are not owned by anyone, so it is improper to say "this is my trap" in an article.
 * 1) No personal opinions in articles. You cannot write "I think the wooden sword sucks" in an article. Nobody cares about your personal opinion in articles. To share personal opinions, create a blog post.
 * 2) No guesses/rumors in articles. All article content must be completely factual and unbiased.
 * 3) No personalized content in articles. Nobody owns an article or any content in it.

Chat
These don't sit well with me. Perhaps something a little less... controversial? :/

Just a small reminder
Regarding your reply to Forum:WoF Server, let's try not to draw conclusions (or generalize). Quote: So if you ever hear someone say: "my server's IP is 127.0.0.1" or "my server's IP is 192.168.1.122", either they're trolling, or they're a noob. -> Not knowing about technical stuff like hosting and IP addresses and being a newbie are two different things. Plus, you indirectly (and unintentionally) called the OP a "noob."


 * Thanks for the note. It wasn't my intention to be harsh. However, I do believe that anyone hosting a server ought to know what is and isn't a valid IP address. Generally, I see that as a "newbie" mistake, as anyone hosting a server should have a certain amount of technical know-how. Whatever my feelings on the matter, I have reworded the post now so that hopefully it is more constructive. Sorry :(


 * No worries. I agree to a certain extent with what you're saying, but I don't think it should be expected from the average player to know which IP address is valid. The reason being that most games make multiplayer server-hosting much easier, by having a matchmaking- or search-option, so the host doesn't need to share their IP address. This is the "standard" in multiplayer gaming that most players are used to.

ShowHide.js
I know very little of js, so I'm wondering, do you know how to edit the ShowHide.js so that there is a space between the title and [show]/[hide]?


 * Thanks for letting me know about that. That's actually just a minor visual appearance issue. JavaScript is used to make parts of webpages interactive, but if you want to change the way they look, that's what CSS is for :)
 * I fixed it, but it may take a day or two for you to see the changes due to caching. Purging MediaWiki:Common.css and whichever page you're looking at that has the collapsible navframe -- may help clear your cache if you'd like to see the changes immediately.


 * The Developer's Wiki has a neat little script that adds a "Purge" option to the edit button (you know, like when you click the arrow next to the Edit button and it has "History", "Rename", "Delete" ...) You can install this script by putting


 * in your global.js on Community Central, that will make the script work on *all* Wikia wikis for you. If you just want the script to work on *only* the Terraria Wiki, you can put it in your wikia.js here on the Terraria Wiki.


 * I see, thanks for the info. Btw, even though I don't use the purge-script, I once noticed that I had the "purge" option available, although I don't remember which page it was on. It's a nice script indeed, I'll add it for sure. Now I don't need to type ?action=purge in the URL every time. :)


 * You were probably on the For Testing wiki -- I believe an old version of the PurgeButton script is applied wiki-wide there.

MediaWiki help
Hi. There seems to be some problem here. Can you help please. Thanx. --UltimateSupreme (Talk to me) 08:13, August 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * Great. Thanx. Just so you know " JavaScript parse error: Parse error: Missing ; before statement in file 'MediaWiki:Common.js' on line 21" --UltimateSupreme (Talk to me) 10:07, August 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * That countdown thing.. was something that was there from the beginning. I didn't enter it. --UltimateSupreme (Talk to me) 00:59, August 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * I have cleared up a lot of things. But still my global.js isn't working. Can u help me with it? Thanx. --UltimateSupreme (Talk to me) 06:45, August 8, 2012 (UTC)

Sure, here's what I would replace your global.js with. I've changed the "kill image lightbox" part to use the import statement from the Developer's Wiki: w:c:dev:NoImageLightbox and fixed a couple other things: ",       "sampleText": "Insert code here"    };

mwCustomEditButtons[mwCustomEditButtons.length] = { "imageFile": "http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/central/images/2/29/Button_user.png?1", "speedTip": "Global user template", "tagOpen": "", "tagClose": "", "sampleText": "" }; }

/** * Add stuff to user menu */ $(function {    $('ul.AccountNavigation li:first-child ul.subnav li:first-child').after('ContributionsFollowed pages'); });

importScriptPage('FixWantedFiles/code.js', 'dev'); importScriptPage('PurgeButton/code.js', 'dev' ); importScriptPage('InactiveUsers/code.js', 'dev'); importScriptPage('AjaxBatchDelete/code.js', 'dev'); importScriptPage('NoImageLightbox/code.js', 'dev');

/** * Auto updating recent changes opt-in * See w:c:dev:AjaxRC for info & attribution */ AjaxRCRefreshText = 'Auto-refresh'; AjaxRCRefreshHoverText = 'Automatically refresh the page'; importScriptPage('AjaxRC/code.js', 'dev'); In the future, I would recommend testing all scripts from the console before you add them to your global.js or MediaWiki:Common.js. Remember when you told me " JavaScript parse error: Parse error: Missing ; before statement in file 'MediaWiki:Common.js' on line 21" ? That statement came from your console. So where you got that from -- that's where you can enter JavaScript. The JavaScript console is part of Developer Tools in most browsers. Please test new code before you add it to your global.js, that way you know if works *before* it gets added :)
 * I was told about that error by an old friend. Probably he has a console. --UltimateSupreme (Talk to me) 07:30, August 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * You need to learn how to use the console if you're going to be messing around with JavaScript. Otherwise you're going to have these problems again. And there's not always going to be some nice person to fix your problems for you :P. What browser do you use? Chrome? Firefox? Most browsers have consoles and you can easily access them by right-clicking on a page and choose the "Inspect element" option, or by pressing F-12 on your keyboard
 * I dont think I would be getting to use my laptop soon. Btw in your fix where is the recent changes button? Its the first code in my js. It looks like this. Is there any fix for that?--UltimateSupreme (Talk to me) 09:21, August 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * It looks like that in this edit, you removed half of the code that makes your recent changes button. I removed the rest of it because I only saw the remaining part, and it was broken. You can piece it back together from an older version of your global.js if you'd like.

From where does it start?--UltimateSupreme (Talk to me) 01:11, August 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * Is it the entire thing? --UltimateSupreme (Talk to me) 10:05, August 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * Look carefully in the diff I linked, here. The last 2 lines that you removed (left hand column) are the part of your Recent Changes script that you removed. The part that was left over is the next 4 lines in the result (below).

You mean I should enter this: if ( ( skin === "oasis" || skin === "wikia" )&& wgAction !== "edit" ) {

importStylesheetPage("User:Dantman/global.css", "community");

jQuery(function($) {

jQuery(function($) {

$('<img width="0" height="0" src="' wgBlankImgUrl '"/> Recent Changes</a>').insertAfter("#WikiHeader.buttons .wikia-button[data-id=wikiactivity]").before(' ');

$('<img width="0" height="0" src="' wgBlankImgUrl '"/> Recent Changes</a>').insertAfter("#WikiHeader.buttons .wikia-button[data-id=wikiactivity]").before(' ');

Right? --UltimateSupreme (Talk to me) 00:53, August 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * Close, but not quite. You have this part correct:

To get the next part, start reading below where it says Revision as of 21:57, 6 August 2012. That's where you're going to see the 4 remaining lines.

This? --UltimateSupreme (Talk to me) 06:07, August 10, 2012 (UTC)

Instead can you please write the entire code down here. Please. --UltimateSupreme (Talk to me) 06:09, August 10, 2012 (UTC)

Gr8. So those lines are the ones you were talking about, right? --UltimateSupreme (Talk to me) 06:57, August 10, 2012 (UTC)

Last try: http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.png   http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png   17:32, August 11, 2012 (UTC)