User talk:Dak47922

Archives Messages left previously on my talk page are archived in a chronological fashion. Feel free to read through the archives, but please do not edit them. Archive 1

Feedback
Would be appreciate here: Terraria_Wiki:Admin_and_Bureaucrat_Nominations. Also, I told Dzylon this, but this week is finals week for me in school so I may not be around much (I'll still try to check in every day). Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 00:51, March 14, 2012 (UTC)

P.S. Please keep an eye out for vandals and block where needed. Also, if you haven't already, you should link Dzylon and Pathogen to your deviant art and ask what they think about the wordmarks too =). I see you did some variations and they all look kinda cool. Hard for me to know which one to pick. Thanks!

Coins
Hello, Dak. Thanks to Math, we can now substitute the coin template using  COIN AMOUNT  or  COIN AMOUNT , which will keep visual editing mode accessible to people. Of course, you can replace cc with sc, gc, or pc. Please employ this on any page you see without it. Thanks.


 * Okay will do, thanks for the heads up! Dak47922 Talk  15:15, March 15, 2012 (UTC)

Comments & Noticeboard
Hey, I have a couple of questions for you, go ahead and reply on my talk page please (or reply here + send me a talkback notice).

1) Do you want comments in other namespaces? Currently we have comments enabled in the main namespace, for blogs, and for the Mod: namespace. Are there any other namespaces on our wiki for which you would like to see comments enabled? Or do you think the current setup is fine?

Note: when comments are enabled, the associated talk namespace is inaccessible. For example, with comments enabled in the Mod: namespace, we cannot use the Mod_talk: namespace.

2) I would like to establish an Admin Noticeboard that people could use to report any kind of issue (vandalism, incorrect info on pages, disputes with another user, etc.) to admins and rollbacks. This would A) keep my talk page from filling up so fast, B) allow all admins to see/handle the issue, not the just one who got the message on their talk page, and also C) potentially make it easier for most people to report things.

The idea I had in mind was a single page in the main namespace, where the comments on that page would be used to report issues to admins. Admins would check this page frequently, replying to comments once the issue had been taken care of. This page would be linked to from the Wiki navigation bar (and possibly other places, such as the top of admin's talk pages) to make it easier for people to find.

The content on the page itself would just be basic instructions for how people should use the page (how/what to report). It could also potentially include links to other things, such as our policy pages. Well, what do you think about the noticeboard concept? Mathmagician ( talk ♥ blog ) 01:03, March 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) In general I think that for what our users use them for, comments better than talkpages. With high traffic pages all I can imagine is a talk page a mile long and we would also have to monitor them for vandalism aswell. Comments aleviate these problems.
 * 2) The idea of an admin noticeboard sounds like good idea.Users posting in one place would be a lot better than on our indevidual talk pages. I think issues would also get fixed alot faster aswell.
 * Dak47922 Talk  22:25, March 17, 2012 (UTC)

Odds and ends
Hey Dak, just wanted to stop by and ask how things were going or if you were having any problems with figuring out any of the admin functions. Also, I did see your RE to my last post and I think, after asking others, that we're comfortable with the comments the way they are. And I will be making an admin noticeboard sometime soon. Also, a few other things:
 * 1) Check out http://fortesting.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Slime. Scroll down to the comments and see how I've gotten a little message there. Notice how clicking on the link returns you to the top of the page. What do you think about having a feature like that by the comments, across the wiki?
 * 2) On the for testing wiki, notice that I put up my favorite one of your wordmarks. What do you think about going with that one for our wiki? I think it goes best with our background.
 * 3) On the for testing wiki, check out what I've done with the wiki navigation bar. It's all messed up right now, right? That's because I'm trying to copy what the Aion Wiki did with their navigation bar. Try Locations -> Instances -> Group -> and see how the 4th level menu pops out? We used to have that on our wiki, but back in January, Wikia did a system update that broke our 4th level navigation (we were using Template:Subnav). I'm currently trying to restore it using the new style that Rappy did over on the Aion Wiki, I'll let you know when I figure out the CSS styling. (I know it works because I got it working when I copied over ALL of their CSS, but I want to selectively only use the parts of it that we need--still trying to figure that part out)

— Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 18:20, March 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * 1) I like the Idea of notice above all of the comments. I think that would be great to have on this wiki.
 * 2) I saw the wordmark. I think that that one will be fine. It does seem to work the bes with the BG. If you want any minor alterations done before you put it up let me know!
 * 3) I looked at the css file and the Aion wiki's Nav bar and I very much like the style of it. Having a fourth menu tier will surely help A LOT. If you get it implemented that would be great!
 * P.S: I think i've fugured out most of the admin functions.


 * Dak47922 Talk  15:38, March 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hey Dak please don't make edits like this. That just replaces one template with another and is an edit which serves no purpose. I'm guessing that you read Pathogen's blog, but that's not applying his template the way it was meant to be used. Please stop modifying coin drops until I can look into this and verify that we're doing it right. Thanks. — Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 18:08, March 21, 2012 (UTC)

Template:UpdateInfo
Pathogen and I have been talking about implementing a template to handle update info in the Update Info section at the bottom of content pages. What the template does is it allows us to pass in update info line by line, but the template itself handles all the formatting. This will help us to standardize our update info and have it appear uniform across the site. Let me know if you approve of implementing this template. — Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 08:36, March 24, 2012 (UTC)
 * Template:UpdateInfo (complete with documentation)
 * Test Page (formatting comparison)


 * It looks like a good Idea! I approve of using it.


 * Dak47922 Talk  19:44, March 24, 2012 (UTC)

Update info template ready to go
UpdateInfo is installed and ready to go. Check out the Dungeon page to see what it looks like, and check out this edit to see how I converted what was on the page into the form that the template reads. Basically you just remove  around patch numbers, remove * at the start of lines, and put | at the start of every line inside the template. Again, be sure to check out the template documentation so that you know how the template is used.

Pages that are using the template already will display "v1.1" instead of "1.1" for the patch number. So look for that little 'v' as a visual indicator that that page is already using the template. Pages that don't have that little 'v' are not yet using the template.

Note: this template is not designed for use in the Mod: namespace. It is only designed for usage in the Update Info section of official Terraria content pages (main namespace). — Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 06:02, March 25, 2012 (UTC)

Stuffs

 * http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Admin_Noticeboard <-- please check this regularly
 * http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Wiki_Projects <-- please share your opinion
 * My work on the level 4 navs will be resuming shortly. I apologize for promising they'd be done so soon... but they will get done, I've just been neglecting it a little. @Dzylon: If you have code for the level 4 navs you've been testing on your wiki that you'd like to share with me, let me know.
 * Was thinking about starting a discussion about what (if anything) we should do with our front page. The current "news feed" thingy isn't that great now that development has stopped. I think we need to look at some other wikis and take some hints about what type of content to put on our front page and how to make it look pretty. Our current front page is functional... but probably a graphic designer's worst nightmare due to stuff not lining up, banner not fitting perfectly, too much white background, links to content being so far down, gallery in the right column kinda sucks/we need more visual content, etc. What do you think? Front page needs a discussion about a design revamp? — Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 20:21, March 29, 2012 (UTC)

Main Page
The Main Page discussion is live here. Please drop in and voice any opinions or concerns you have there.

Question
I hope I'm not sounding desprate or anything, but could you consider helping promote the Terraria Fanon Wiki? Its not seeing that many viewers and currently, the only few people inside are the admins. LumpZ 14:05, April 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure I can help that much but you can promote the wiki. (Look here) If you have twitter you can tweet @wikia and say that you need editors and visitors. they usually re-tweet your message to their +3,000 followers. Ill see what i can do but the above methods will likely be more effective.
 * Dak47922 Talk  14:48, April 20, 2012 (UTC)

Check
My vandal report chap. Koggeh

I already saw it ill keep an eye on them. Thanks!


 * Dak47922 Talk  16:02, April 25, 2012 (UTC)

The Pathogen - Admin Nomination
Please drop in at the nominations page and share your thoughts regarding the nomination of The Pathogen for administrator. Thanks,

Sig
Hey! How's it going? That signature of yours looks somewhat familiar.. =P


 * P I hope you dont mind. lol Dak47922 Talk  14:49, May 4, 2012 (UTC)


 * No, not at all! :)

Restoring Pete's Admin Rights
Hey Dak, just wanted to touch bases with you on restoring Leet-Pete's admin rights. He was previously an administrator here but was demoted for inactivity. I'd like to restore his admin rights as he's done a lot of good work here and he plans on being active for a while now. I've talked to Dzy and Path and they both agree with this. What's your opinion? — Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 22:52, May 5, 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry for not responding earlier. A storm knocked out my internet. I agree that this is a good idea, especialy if Pete has past admin experience. After adding pete I think we should have a pretty stable admin team. Thanks for the message! Dak47922 Talk  14:42, May 6, 2012 (UTC)

Manual of Style
I want to work on fixing up some of the policy pages, starting with the creation of a proper Manual of Style. Here's a rough draft, your feedback is appreciated. — Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 02:38, May 8, 2012 (UTC)

New nomination
I have nominated Dzylon for receiving bureaucrat rights on the Terraria Wiki. If you'd like to, you are encouraged to participate in the voting process here: Terraria Wiki:Admin and Bureaucrat Nominations. Thanks!

— Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 03:38, May 13, 2012 (UTC)

Mod Namespace Suggestion
Heyo Dak, if you drop in at any stage in the next few days, feel free to tell me your two cents, as I'm looking forward to hear some feedback on that idea. Thanks

Collapsible
Hey, I saw you said that the collapsible elements on your profile aren't working. Which browser and which device are you using to connect to the internet? The collapsible divs work perfectly fine when I view your profile in Chrome or Firefox, Windows 7, PC.

Also, those are powered by w:c:dev:ShowHide -- a script from the Developer's Wiki that is maintained by users (Wikia isn't responsible for maintaining or fixing it). However, there is a new, built-in collapsible feature with  that is part of core MediaWiki software now: