User talk:Dzylon

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I need to talk to you.

Can we talk on something more comfortable, like Steam or anything? If so add me. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198016658674/


 * Sure.

Simply Hal-arious
The section title says it all! Haha, lovely userbox. ^ᴗ^ I'll have to make a few more once I get some more ideas.


 * Thanks :). I myself think the wording is a little awkward in that one, but oh well.

Question about Data IDs
Would it be okay to change the Data IDs in the upper right corner of templates so that it's like this: 321


 * Sure, I changed it - example.

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^


 * Alright, thanks :)

A few different things
That's a very nice talkback template you have there :)

Also, I'm about to review the site-wide JS again -- namely, switching over to use the new importArticles method that Wikia's performance team came up with a few weeks ago. I'll also be sure to add the search JS while I'm at it.

One last note: sometime in the near future I'd like to update all of our templates that use the old ShowHide code and switch them over to using mw-collapsible. Basically like what you did with Monsters. I was looking at Navbox, and my question is: should we be using that template now as a building-block for all the navigation templates? If that's okay, I can continue looking through our table templates and switching them over to use Navbox.


 * Thanks! It does the wikier good to do something totally pointless every now and then.


 * Also, I'm happy to hear about the search improvement. Thanks for writing that up.


 * Lastly, I've been slowly switching over the templates in Category:Table Templates to Category:Navigational templates. A few remain, but those aren't in use. I'm sure we can just remove the showhide code entirely from the site eventually, but there are still some pages using it.

Bot
Hey, is there any chance you could get your bot to go through Special:BrokenRedirects and delete all those comments? I'm guessing all those broken redirects happened when the Suggestions page got moved to Blanzer's blog, since Suggestions used to be called "Parts of the wiki". If that's possible to do, that'd be great. Thanks!

Edit: Actually, I think deleting the root page Parts of the wiki may work. I deleted that, let's wait a couple days and then check Special:BrokenRedirects to see if that clears up the issue.


 * If it doesn't, I'll use the bot. I just requested a fresh database dump, and I'll go ahead and set up Pywikipedia as well. *Not leaving talkback, I'm sure you'll see this in RC*

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)

answered
Thanks for the reminder, though I am glad that the terraria will continue its development in 2013. :)

Page Background
Hey, any chance you would be interested in repairing our background image so that it displays properly with the new wider layout? If not, please ask Pathogen if he'd be willing to give a crack at it. And if not, then maybe I can (though you really don't want me editing images ... the designer kittens might perish :P). Thanks!


 * I started work on one resembling the new official background (link) a while back, and just started working on it again today. It should be finished soon - I'll put up a forum at that time.


 * If you're interested, you can find a rough example using the one on the official Terraria site (linked earlier) on fortesting. I think it'll go well with the wiki.


 * Ooh, that is nice. Two things. 1) Are we allowed to use that image from the official site? (public domain? copyrighted? licensing?) My first guess would be it's copyrighted... 2) It feels a bit off compared against the header with the rocks. Rocks do not float in the sky. Well.. sometimes they do :)


 * 1) Technically, just about everything here is copyrighted, lol. I think it would be better to use our own design in any case. 2) Yeah, I see what you mean - I could put some kind of large floating island up there, but that might make it all seem too cramped.

Re: Mob Drops (Sorry for slow reply!)

 * Not quite sure how all this works. Sorry I'm a noob. Talk on steam?


 * Hey Dzy, are all the mob drops in infoboxes supposed to say "N/A" if no value was specified? For example: infoboxes at Unicorn, The Twins. Wouldn't it be better to just leave it blank rather than "N/A" if the item drop rate isn't specified.


 * Now that I think about it, "N/A" is too equivocal to be used here. I'll change it to blank, like you said.


 * By the way, my laptop's display failed. Any editing I do is from a mobile device which, with Wikia, is finicky at best. I should be able to carry out my responsibilities here as I normally would before long.


 * And on the subject of the mob drops (this is directed to anyone that happens to read it): I've created a hidden category, Category:No drop chance, to list pages without drop chance data. I'll work on that myself when I can.


 * Okay, thanks. Sorry to hear about your monitor :( -- will you be getting a new one soon?


 * Hopefully. Thanks for taking care of that css stuff for Koggeh, by the way.

Related Discussions module
Hi Dzylon. It's great to see that this wiki is using the new Forum feature! However, I need to request that you remove the CSS that's hiding the Related Discussions module on the article pages. All wikis need to comply with the Terms of Use and allow this feature to function as intended. Please let me know if you have any questions, or if you would like to convey any feedback about the Forum feature. Thanks! BertH (help forum | blog) 23:20, December 13, 2012 (UTC)

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

Just a little message:
Clearly, your the bestest guy/girl I've ever talked to, I belive. I hope you go to hell. I hope you get #1 on the Terraria Wiki.

(1337yeah (talk) 02:03, December 27, 2012 (UTC))

Nomination / moving on?

 * Added my support to your nomination for Pathogen
 * Sorry to hear that you're ready to move on, although that's the way of life of course. Will you still be around on other wikis such as Central, or on Steam (admittedly I'm not on Steam very often anymore :P, since all the games I've been playing recently are not on there)


 * I'll probably keep hanging out at Central for a while, if only to try my hand at whatever interesting support requests pop out at me. It is my general intent, though, to avoid Wikia in general - I'm not such a fan of that company anymore (but that doesn't have anything to do with my decreased activity here). I'm sure I'll come back to edit here on the wiki again. Perhaps when console Terraria is released?


 * First of all, I'm rather sad to hear about your intent to depart, Dzy. You're one of the longest standing editors on the Wiki, one of the most highly-acclaimed in terms of code implementation, and one of the editors I respect greatly due to your dedication, efficiency and overall awesomeness. I do, however, accept that it is your choice to leave, and I will in no way judge you for it. I believe I'm one of the few who can actually say this, but; "It really was great having you". ^ᴗ^ Second, I'll say a big thanks for the nomination, Dzy. (And thanks to Math for the support :3)

Note
Hey, just wanted to note that I made this comment. Inquiry: are you OK with just allowing people to add videos for now without the formal video policy? Frankly I think the video policy has kind of outlived it's usefulness. As Sannse said at the time, we should review it to move to a more open policy where everyone can add videos. Since everyone is pretty much doing that right now anyway... and we don't nearly have the resources to review every video... and it would just be hindering people who are looking for information to remove videos while enforcing the policy... do you think we can just consider that policy void/retired for the immediate time? And later we can consider a more formal approach?


 * Affirmative. Also, please join me in chat.

Template:Console
Hey, could you please keep this template separate from the infoboxes instead of integrating it with them? As a boilerplate, it isn't part of any infobox, so I think it's bad, if not confusing, design to combine them in the same template.


 * Unrelated note: I know I said I would get the specification for hover tooltips to you this weekend. As of right now, looking into it, I'm seeing lots of potential issues both on the design and implementation side of things. This is something that I'd like to have a week to think over. I'll get back to you as soon as I can.


 * Why don't I just write the script and then you can review it when I'm done? I'm not seeing the sense in this whole "specification" idea. If you're the one doing the decision making, you might as well be writing the script yourself.


 * Also, you were right about the console template. I'm not sure why I was trying to combine them in the first place. Thanks for the heads up.


 * Me making a specification is not me saying I would do all the decision making. Like I said in chat, you're free to not follow the specification in some places, or modify it as you develop the application.


 * In software development, rarely is coding the first thing that happens. Complex programs require careful thought and abstraction before development even begins (there's also a business aspect such as demand, marketing, budget, etc. but obviously that doesn't factor in here).


 * If you want to begin by building a working mock up, that's fine too. Either way, it is likely that whatever we start with will change a lot before it becomes the final product.


 * I think that a spec like the one you're suggesting would both complicate and elongate the process. I mean, this isn't some vast, complex tool like Wikimarks. A standard exchange between you and I - without specs or guidelines or anything like that - should be enough for a project like this. Remember when we were working on the new theme for the wiki on ForTesting? Something like that.


 * I will wait to see what you come up with, and we can iterate off of that :)

(reset indent) Back on topic about Template:Console &mdash; can you think of a way to reword it so that it applies to monsters as well as items, maybe something like Template:ModHeader-Reborn? Longer wording though may not make it display very nicely alongside the template.. yeah we could get word wrap, but then the boilerplate might be too tall. We could also introduce a parameter to that template like or something to change the word "item" to "monster". What do you think would be the best way to go about this to accommodate console-exclusive monster pages?


 * Yep, I saw your summary in RC. I've already adapted the template to fit "enemy", "NPC", "monster", or whatever else. I would recommend "enemy", though, because it takes up less space.


 * Awesome, thanks :)

Spotlight
Any particular thoughts about applying for spotlight again? I was thinking it might be nice to request a message like "Terraria is now available on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3!" (and let Wikia's artists come up with an image). We'd just have to keep Special:UncategorizedPages empty and lower protection on the main page I think, like last time.


 * Sounds good to me. I see Brain and Dragon Stinger in the special page, but they both have categories, so we're good there. Plus, the main page is already unlocked.

Quality/rarity
Afraid I have no idea how to add the Quality/Rarity and make it link and show the correct color. Perhaps could you tell me how? :)

GT: MSD l Spawned  (That is a lowercase L) (talk) 23:15, April 8, 2013 (UTC)


 * Of course :). When you're dealing with infoboxes, just click the "v" at the top left of the box. This will bring you to the template's documentation. In the case of rarity, by going to an infobox's documentation (in this case, let's say Infobox:Weapon), you can find the information you're looking for at the bottom of the page. According to that list,  returns Tier  6 (Purple).


 * That advice applies to the regular wiki editor, not the terrible visual editor, which I recommend disabling at Special:Preferences (but you can also change it manually on a per edit basis at the top left of the editor's text area).


 * Also, please start a new section when leaving talk page messages. This keeps everything nice and organized. Thanks,

Links
I am new to the editing of wikis and I was wondering how to link  particular words (Like the name of an item) to the required pageEditorofArticles (talk) 01:11, April 10, 2013 (UTC)EditorofArticles


 * To link to a page, disable your visual editor and insert this: . That's it. Just two brackets. If you want to display text different from the page being linked to, you can use this:  .   produces this: main page. For more information, see the Mediawiki help page, or you can just ask me :).