User:Ferretwings

Contact: Please leave a comment on my Profile page, or use my Talk Page. If you wish to catch me when I'm on-line, it varies between 13:00 UTC and 4:00 UTC (and if I'm experiencing insomnia, even later). Some days I'm only on a couple of hours, and sometimes I feel like I'm on all day. Of course, I wouldn't be here if I didn't want to :)

History: I bought the Steam version of Terraria in 2011, and played off and on since then. My first edits to the wiki were in Dec 2013 for grammar and formatting. I had experience as an Instructional Support/Database Manager/Programmer and cringed at how some of the info was presented. I wanted to help more, but was unfamiliar with wiki code.

Terraria Game progress: I play on the PC. I love to collect, and spend more time crafting than fighting. I've beaten all the pre-hardmode bosses using hardmode gear. I'm a wimp, and reached hardmode through multiplayer, allowing my team-mates to do all the fighting. I have started over with a new character, and am leveling up on my own now. I can't count how many times I've died, lol! I have learned a number of lessons from my hardmode world... protect your new world from corruption, as it can get out of hand fairly quickly even in pre-hardmode. Remember corruption spreads through grass, so if you have forest beside your corruption, you need to take measures immediately. Half my hardmode world is Crimson... it is so sad. To make matters worse, I added an artificial Corruption biome. The Dryad is not pleased with me, and has threatened to move out.

Wiki skills: I am really good with tables and templates, wiki code, some html, quite a bit of css, parser functions, string functions, have learned quite a bit about DPL, and plan to learn Lua. I have never walked away from a coding problem; I always assume it can be solved with the right tools. I have put a number of coding projects on hold, because one idea leads to another, and I have difficulty actually finishing anything. *sigh*

Wiki editing: I will sometimes spend time on the Forums, or the now defunct Terraria Online, looking for information. One of my goals is to make sure the history on all the item pages is complete. For all versions. I've seen editors revert history edits because it didn't pertain to the pc version. Mobile and Console users may want to know a bit about their version history (not all info can be found on their version history pages). I will often look at the history of edits for a page, to see when and what changes occurred for pc, mobile, console, and 3ds.

I am currently working on adding a new feature to the Npc infobox (something I've been wanting to see done for almost a year now). Nothing big, just a little "extra". I'm nearly done. You can see my idea/progress at User:Ferretwings/Sandbox/Queen Bee. This project is now on hold. Ok, I've added half of it to the official NPC template :).

'''A huge project I've had in the back of my mind ever since I became an admin, is to create a method of storing and retrieving recipes. DPL would be used to retrieve the recipes. No more copying and pasting from page to page. There are still a couple more projects that take priority, some of which the recipe project needs set in place first, so this project is on hold.'''

I would love a shortcut link to this user page (for use on my other user pages). This works, but it is actually an external link: [ UserWiki:Ferretwings]

  <[ Contributions (canonicalurl allows for query strings, e.g. limit=3000)]>

URL link experiments: [ click here] [ click here]

working links: User:Ferretwings -> This will point to the page the user has set in their preferences. If the user has set their main user page, then it will link there. (however, the link cannot be placed on the main user page, as you can see it will simply be bold-faced)

These url links don't work: <-UserWiki:User:Ferretwings -- User:UserWiki:Ferretwings -- User:Ferretwings:UserWiki localurl: prefixes it with the current namespace :/ Special:Contributions/Ferretwings&amp;limit=3000 -> the & changes into %26 and the = changes into %3D which is not what I want.

Editing transcluded sections (tests)
User:Ferretwings/Sandbox/DPL/Surrogate_templates

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Note: requires wanted section to be surround by :

Transcluding from a page containing more than one transcluded section (very similar to the function of lst and lsth):

Currently working on
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Links
Terraria Other wikis: wikia, ign, gameiki

Community forums Terraria Online forums Reddit Twitter: ReLogic Terraria Cenxx Demilogic Wiki editing help:Gamepedia Help:WikisWikipedia Help:Editing Gempedia Forums Gamepedia Extensions Templates Item Infobox NPC Infobox Global variables/constants and Parser functions Parser functions MediaWiki:Common.css CSS help Codecademy HTML tutorial and testing HTML help HTML Color Picker Data IDs Item IDs (Steam Community) Category:Items Category:Craftable_items different way to list recipes: Recipes Recipes/Sawmill Dragon armor/Crafting Terra_Blade/Crafting

Other user pages:help.gamepedia, and Gamepedia Wikipedia Sandboxes: Public Sandbox, Template, Sandbox Test User:Ferretwings/Notes

Useful HTML entities: (breakable space), (non-breakable space),     (en space & em space),   and  ( | pipe character), ( & ), and ( < ), ( { ) &#35; More can be found here (not all may be available for use): HTML 4 Entities and HTML Char References.

User talk page tidbits

 * User_talk:Gearzein
 * User_talk:Gearzein
 * User_talk:Gearzein
 * User_talk:Cgndz
 * User_talk:Gearzein/Archive_1
 * Trivia trivia rule redirect
 * User_talk:Gearzein/Archive_1
 * User_talk:Gearzein/Archive_1
 * User_talk:Gearzein/Archive_1
 * User_talk:86.71.126.49
 * User_talk:Gearzein/Archive_1
 * User_talk:Gearzein/Archive_1 Terraria: The Animated Series
 * User_talk:Gearzein/Archive_1 blocks
 * User_talk:Gearzein Necroposting
 * User_talk:Gearzein Necroposting

check:User_talk:Equazcion User_talk:NoseOfCthulhu User_talk:0icke0 User_talk:TOTORO01 User_talk:OdnHarfagre User_talk:Chrisf1020 User_talk:LordofEditing User_talk:Flisch42 User_talk:Shadowsyllvet

To Do List
Now/Next: On-going: Soon: DPL possibilities: Larger projects: Maybe: Check pages to see if I started (and undo):
 * Melee weapons
 * Available on|platform1|platform2|platform3 - options pc (windows, mac, linux), mobile (ios, windows phone, amazon, amazon fire), 3DS (pc version 1.2), old gen (ps3, ps vita, xbox360), new gen (ps4, xbox1), wii u, console (ps3, ps4, ps vita, xbox360, xbox1, wii u), single platform (specific)
 * DPL lists already: Swords
 * List of weapons
 * move table row formatting to /row templates (will make them accessible to dpls)
 * finish categorizing Drop items (accessories)
 * create $($Sortkey}}
 * Armor page, make /row, any dpl possibility?
 * remove/add icons on list pages
 * History, esp. Introduced
 * Update infobox tags/flags: Drop items, Vendor items, Loot items, Quest rewards, Craftable items
 * -Template:Item infobox Template:Npc infobox Template:Armor infobox
 * How about Plunder items for items plundered/removed via a pickaxe (eg. several chests, Living Wood Table)
 * {Not available|platform|'version'/'informational'/'shaders'/reason}} "Not available on platform version number Reason: Introduced during PC update version/Cannot display due to IU/No pixel shaders present on 3DS/other reason/no reason"
 * update User:Ferretwings/Sandbox/Npc infobox
 * User:Ferretwings/System Requirements
 * finish slideshow template. It works, now expand it. Help:Creating_animated_GIFs
 * anchors on list pages
 * Baby Slime id
 * Desktop exclusive items
 * values on lists should reflect the item's page
 * buffs and debuffs pages
 * User:Ferretwings/Paintings
 * create an Editing Help page
 * User:Ferretwings/Loot
 * User:Ferretwings/Homing weapons
 * User:Ferretwings/Versions extended
 * Make list of banners per version
 * fix the Slime sorted table 1, 1m(other), 1mb(aby), b(iome)j(ungle), bjs(piked) bi(ce), k(ing), ks(piked) (see sort order)
 * Mask flag and Trophy flag?
 * Console flag and Mobile flag?
 * place <sections on Tips page, sectionnames= #s from Mobile so they can be referenced
 * place <sections on Buffs tootlips, sectionnames=buffs
 * place <sections on Debuffs tootlips, sectionnames=debuffs

Testing Area
[]  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#URL_data trying to get to archived png's https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Image_administration https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Oldimage_table Old files are moved to the folder /image/archive https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Imageinfo https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Albert%20Einstein%20Head.jpg&prop=imageinfo

My user pages
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