User talk:Technical 13/2011/2

A Tip
Start using "Live Preview" instead of save page after each edit, you may not be mucking up other pages, but you sure as hell are mucking up "Recent Changes" with alot of useless edits. Its also not very wise to get into an edit/undo war with Neouni... Yawgmouth 20:50, March 23, 2011 (EDT)

Small Advise
Even deleting keeps a backup, it's not alway worth the effort to clean something up Neouni 19:28, April 15, 2011 (EDT)

Links
I thought I'd let you know; Linking Silver Flame Nugget while on the same page only yields bolded text, not a redundant link. I've corrected the error and added the correct quest item -- the Silver Flame Trinket, which still needs a bit of formatting. -- Taurolyon 13:02, April 16, 2011 (EDT)

Templates
Some things I've seen that need a bit of tweaking, and since you obviously like playing with templates... *g* - LrdSlvrhnd 15:59, April 22, 2011 (EDT)
 * Template:Named Weapon - needs a "to" in the crafting section ("Epic Crafting to Epic Uberweapon") &larr; Done. ShoeMaker 16:24, April 27, 2011 (EDT)
 * Template:Save - all the save bonuses have "to all saves" in the popup - &larr; Done. ShoeMaker 22:16, April 24, 2011 (EDT)
 * Your own character template - having the level under the class pic could be good - and maybe just make this one the "current" level - 3 rather than 23 for a reincarnated pure ranger who's leveling up again - if that's possible. Though that would probably require extra coding to denote the current life...  &larr; Working on figuring out a way to accomplish this and be able to see cumulative lives...

Here's another one - I also put a note on the talk page for it. -LrdSlvrhnd 00:54, May 13, 2011 (EDT)
 * Since there's apparently Epic XP, you might want to add that in for the popup bit in Template:XP bonus. And thanks for making the exact XP amounts as a popup rather than always on the page, I think it looks a LOT nicer like that.

And another one, this time for Template:InfoProjectNavBar: - LrdSlvrhnd 02:19, May 20, 2011 (EDT)
 * Somehow, adding this table kills the regular TOC - kind of annoying to have to scroll down through all the quests to get to the one you want to edit. Is there a way to bring it back?

Numberformat
read http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FormatNum, no use for templatesNeouni 21:46, April 24, 2011 (EDT)

On a related note to the message you left me, I wish they implented a bit of phpcode for the tooltip system so we can change defaultskins and don't have to do change vertical alignment on each row of practically every table Neouni 21:56, April 24, 2011 (EDT)

I do wish I didn't have to include vertical-align:middle; to every cell of every table I make.. *Sigh* I wouldn't mind so much if I could put it as a table or even row/column setting and actually have it work throughout the table unless I specify otherwise for a cell.. ShoeMaker 16:27, April 27, 2011 (EDT)

Tips for editing pages
Regarding the nomenclature regarding the Summary box & editing the pages, for the longest time, I was adamant to always use the Summary box. Then I saw some of your work which spanned the whole of the DDOwiki. As someone with far greater experience than I, you were the obvious choice to model on how I used the Summary box, which is to say, some of the time. As you've requested that I do as you say, and not as you do, I will continue to monitor the frequency of your usage of the Summary box. Should your volume increase, my own volume will increase. After all, leading through example is usually the best policy.

As for the templates, there are a few templates that have cause some of the DDOwiki pages to change from simple elegance to gaudy clutter. I use them because they are there, and in the hopes that at some time later, the templates will form a pattern that is not yet apparent to me. For example, the bonus XP has gone from quickly showing basic information to a jumble of numbers that one must now navigate. I'm not sure why the exact number of xp based on C/N/H/E is necessary. I'm sure the elitists that need every last xp accounted for already have their charts. For those of us that only need to know how many crates to break, it's no longer practical.

The main quest page has gone from showing an at level list, so that as you progress from one adventure pack to the next, you can figure out roughly which one to do next, to showing where they are in each of the houses with the additional step of needing a leveling guide to know where to go next. Again, though I don't see the art in it yet, it is my hope that I will see it later. Thank you for your time.

- Siltharin 8:21, April 25, 2011 (EDT)

Thank you for acknowledging where I found the nomenclature, and I hope that you will correct this, as you have asked that I have. I believe that you will see the ratio between "use" of the Summary: box and "not use" of the Summary: box is similarly tipped when looking at my own history. Once again, thank you for agreeing to correct future mistakes.

- Siltharin 8:56, April 25, 2011 (EDT)

Quest by Adventure Pack listings
I'm unsure that you were aware, but I believe that while someone was tinkering with the XP bonuses for individual adventures, they may have inadvertently broken the templates for the Quests by Adventure Pack. As you seem to be the one that created this template, I felt that you would be the one best suited to fix it.

- Siltharin 8:56, April 25, 2011 (EDT)


 * Fixed, there seems to be a hard limit on how many templates you can use on 1 page, and templates inside templates count too Neouni 10:18, April 25, 2011 (EDT)

Templates regarding xp bonuses
The current templates are not working properly. At this time, there is an unrecognized punctuation error. Beyond this, I believe the templates are misleading. For example: In Caged Trolls, on normal difficulty, there are only 22 monsters to be killed. On hard difficulty, there are 28 monsters to be killed. The current template indicates that I should be able to find at least 33 monsters on any difficulty. I respectfully request that the xp for each bonus be removed as it is providing erroneous data to the players. Having no experience listed means that DDOwiki does not guarantee that Conquest can be had on each level. Having xp listed for Conquest on normal does.

- Siltharin 8:17, April 26, 2011 (EDT)

Botched Templates
You botched the Spell Pen augment template... in the case of the Scepter of Mad Trickery, 1-3 Spell Penetration 1-91-3 Spell Penetration 1-9: Your gain a +7 bonus to the die roll to penetrate the target's Spell resistance.,

Yawgmouth 20:59, April 27, 2011 (EDT)

What's your source that I botched this template? According to the Spellpen template history the only one to ever edit this template was Yoko5000. The Spellpen template only calls one other template of long popup with a history that shows the only two editors as Borror0 &amp; Elliottcable. Please do a little research before head first into war mode attacking me. Thank you... ShoeMaker 21:18, April 27, 2011 (EDT)

Yawgmouth 01:07, April 28, 2011 (EDT)
 * I forgot the "use of", the way to use that template is Spellpen|bonus|level

Perhaps I need to go in and change the order of the input to ??? That would make it more cohesive with many of the other similar templates.. Puts everything in the order it is listed on the item. 59 items are linked to that template that I would have to adjust because they would break, I'll get back to you if I feel it is feasible after a good night sleep.. ShoeMaker 02:37, April 28, 2011 (EDT)

Post from Template talk:Xpcolors
I love all the work you're doing for the symbols/popups! I /salute you, sir!
 * Taurolyon 18:42, April 29, 2011 (EDT)

I am partially colorblind myself.. That is what gave me the idea for the popup.. Then I thought about it and decided I didn't want to have to mouse over every value to see what diff it was for, so I added the card symbols.. I am sure that others after mouse-overing a couple times will pick up on the pattern as well.. :) ShoeMaker 00:39, April 30, 2011 (EDT)

72.95.104.174
If you like to make many edits while not logged in, please also patrol all your edits so the other 1000 edit users don't have to. Neouni 06:50, May 4, 2011 (EDT)

Epic Treasure Hunter's Spyglass

 * I am in the process of going through and re-doing Epic Treasure Hunter's Spyglass as is appropriate.. Feel free to review so you can see the changes.. :)  ShoeMaker 19:25, May 8, 2011 (EDT)


 * Yes I see, that makes sense, but then we probably need a TOC to easily jump to the last one ... don't you think? ;) -- SisAmethyst 19:54, May 8, 2011 (EDT)


 * Ahhh, I see you updated it already, very nice! What is with the double headline? -- SisAmethyst 19:59, May 8, 2011 (EDT)


 * The table at the top actually dual purposes as a TOC. As for the double headlines, the top one is a linked headline to the actual item page and creates a line for the TOC, the second is a inclusion from item..  ShoeMaker 21:27, May 8, 2011 (EDT)

Dream Scourge

 * You know you can actually 'move' a page instead deleting it, which would keep links intact? ;) ... Also the habitat of those Quori creatures is neither the Inspired Quarter nor the Isle of Forgotten Dreams. They actually habit on this lets name it dream plane. You are for example in Jeet's dream fighting those creatures, but they are not running around in the plane of Eberron. -- SisAmethyst 21:05, May 8, 2011 (EDT)
 * Uhmm, never mind, its probably time to get a nap at 3 o'clock in the night ... I actually see that the Dream Scourge page existed before ... anyway, have to go back and run this quests to check out some thing like the alignment. I am not sure the given alignment and other info is 100% correct. Also I am a bit unhappy about the habitat as already mentioned.
 * PS: nice work on the Vendor pages! -- SisAmethyst 21:14, May 8, 2011 (EDT)

Cheap Excuse
Actually the server keeps a copy of each revision, and since you usually take 10-40 revisions to work out a template, i hardly thing that would make up for the space benefit on the original page ;) Just tell us that your bored already Neouni 14:37, May 14, 2011 (EDT)

Dynamic Tables
Wiki seems to read templates before building the tables, so using wikicode to make dynamic tables doesn't work. You can however get by this by making a table inside a table, and using html  tablerow, tablecel.

Doesn't matter if it's wikitable inside html-table or the reverse, as long as the statements use html to make it dynamic.

Fixed Template:Unique spell effect for you, whatever you wanted to do with it further. Neouni 19:13, May 23, 2011 (EDT)