User talk:Borror0/Archive01

DDOwiki Administrator Application

 * I've watched you editing, and I think you're dedicated enough to hold the position, and brink this site back to life, so to speak. I've promoted your user account to this site's Steward, which gives you (way too many, hehe) extra powers. See Help:User_rights for a full list of what you can do (every permission from the top, down to those listed under Steward, are assigned to your account). Also, you may notice, you show up on Special:Listusers as a Steward now d-: Best of luck, and I'll be reaching you later regarding payment (not that there's very much of it right now). One last thing that isn't really mentioned on the rights page is that it's really up to you whether to display advertisements on the site - if you decide to disable them, of course, you won't get any money, any more than we will, but it will probably be a better experience for the user. Let me know which way you want it. 01:41, July 9, 2007 (EDT)


 * Money wise, this is nothing - I promised myself that I wouldn't put ads on the site just to run it. The only reason I've reneged on my deal with myself regarding ads, is to offer a better user experience - getting dedicated editors is difficult, and sometimes offering them a little money will help convince them to spend more time editing, you know? While it costs me to run the site, it also costs the administrators and editors time and effort to do just as much as I'm doing, so the idea is if the admin can give up his time editing and turn off ads, then I can give up whatever small cost it takes to run this and turn off ads. If that made sense. Really it comes down to this - without the ads, you may get bored and slow down editing, which would be bad for the users. If, however, it's paying for your bad DDO habit, then it's more likely that as long as you play the game, you'll continue to do whatever necessary on the wiki to keep being able to play d-: Depends what you think of your own perserverence, just let me know if you want me to toggle them off. You can even do it yourself, delete all the text on the MediaWiki:Gaacct page and replace it with a single dash ('-') to disable them. 22:24, July 11, 2007 (EDT)

A Few Questions

 * PS: Did the wiki just went down? If so, why? Borror0


 * New captcha, should solve your problems, and help a good cause at the same time (log out, and try to add an external link to a page to see what I mean) 22:30, July 11, 2007 (EDT)


 * Captcha - and the sandbox is just a page for editing randomly to test syntax and stuff: Sandbox 22:48, July 11, 2007 (EDT)


 * PPS:A bit curious, I guess you created EnterWiki by your own, why did you create it? Others wiki seem dead, am I wrong? Borror0


 * Was just a stray idea, wanted to be able to have one central place for information - the idea was to have something like Wikipedia, but more granular; and like wikia, but more structured. Instead of being restricted to ONE page about dungeons and dragons online on wikipedia, you can create 5000 pages about dungeons and dragons online on the WikiWork (wiki network). Instead of one page about breast cancer, or even 100 pages about breast cancer, you could create a whole WIKI of information about breast cancer, but unlike Wikia, you could keep said wiki linked in tightly with other cancer information, and the cancer wikis closely linked with other medical information, and the medical wikis closely linked with other wikis of all sorts. I just haven't had the time to devote to developing the content and advertising it and getting people to work on it lately, due to other projects. 22:35, July 11, 2007 (EDT)


 * PPPS: Can I add you to my MSN list, would ease communication when I got stupid/quick to answer question. :) Borror0


 * Yah, like I sad above, see the note at the top of my usertalk page (link in my signature) 22:38, July 11, 2007 (EDT)


 * It's fine, don't worry about it. Give me a ping and add my accounts to whatever messengers you use, my info is there. 23:00, July 11, 2007 (EDT)

Editing Skillz
Nice to see you picking up on the editing format so very fast! I love this range of edits lol. Just one tip incase you didn't realize it - you can follow every single edit of any sort anybody makes to the wiki, including me and yourself, on the recent changes special page - that way, if you want some help with editing, one thing you can do, is sort of follow me and others around the wiki. See how we make our changes, and try to figure out exactly what syntax we changed and why, you know? Once you've got the template substitution syntax down, you're mostly golden, though editing the templates themselves can be a NIGHTMARE. 13:05, July 1, 2007 (EDT)

Post template
Just wanted to see if you'd picked up on the use of the post template on discussion pages - I don't know if I've written it up anywhere, but I thought it was pretty simple to use. Try it like this: Where [level] is the level of the post - i.e. 0 for the first post in a discussion, or whatever the level of the post you're replying to is, plus one. 2 will expand into your signature as defined in your preferences, and 'Content' is where you put whatever you want to say.

If you're in a hurry, you can use this shortcut: [level] However, as you'll quickly notice, that breaks if your post has any complicated stuff in it (template substitutions, links, anything with an = mark, a few other things, all break it if I remember correctly). Hope that all made sense! 00:22, July 9, 2007 (EDT)

Patrolling
You're mostly doing sweeping at the moment, which is fine, but I wanted to make sure that if you started RC patrol too, you knew to mark the edits you'd checked for accuracy/non-spam as patrolled - in the recent changes, there's exclamation points next to un-patrolled edits. If you follow the (diff) link to the edit itself, you'll see a link above the new half of the diff to '[Mark as patrolled]' - if the edit was correct or good in your opinion, click that link please - it saves me time later (I always patrol new edits to the wiki, and there'd be no point and you and I checking the same edits) d-: 18:07, July 10, 2007 (EDT)


 * Hmm I'm not sure. It looks like he's mostly targeting the Unique quest rewards and Unique chest loot pages, and over the last few months he's seemed to be mostly keeping them up to date. It's your call, dropping him a line and asking might be the best idea.

Regarding patrolling, this page might help you. At the moment it needs work on my part, but, well, it works d-: 18:24, July 10, 2007 (EDT)

News
Regarding this - I spellchecked a bit, and removed the list - if you want, you can edit the home page and update the current projects section on the sidebar, with that kind of info, K? That's why I added it in there d-: 20:47, July 21, 2007 (EDT)

Back
Hey, I've been gone for 2 weeks. Care to give me the quick recap as to what's been up, and hit me with some PPoIs regarding things I need to check up on? Thanks d-: 01:54, August 16, 2007 (EDT)

Request for template change

 * I'll let him deal with the templates unless he needs to specifically ask me for help. But regarding the information about editing talk pages... that should be obvious d-:

There's a purple bar that shows up above the editing box on every talk page you edit, please read the links in that bar, specifically the wikiquette one (I haven't had time to type out the discussion policy yet). 15:59, August 23, 2007 (EDT)


 * It is a lot like HTML - in fact, most raw HTML is allowed through the parser. Some wikiml duplicates html functionality for ease of maintenance ( bold makes more sense in many cases than bold - and yes, I know capatalized tags are invalid XHTML - I gave up trying to serve anything wiki-related as valid a long time ago) but if you're more comfortable with it, HTML markup is fine (though it does obfuscate the source for future editors.

And templates aren't that difficult to understand if you've used SSI or anything more complicated, perhaps some playing with PHP or whatnot.

But again, anything confusing, just leave a note on my talk page - or ping me, my IM and other contact information is linked from my talk page. 00:50, August 27, 2007 (EDT)

Favor List
I found a favor list on the main forums in Google Docs and I exported it to Excel. I created an excel spreadsheet of it and would love for it to get up here somehow. Any ideas? I can email you the excel ss.
 * Go for it.


 * PS- Sign you posts like this ~ . Borror0 13:29, September 11, 2007 (EDT)


 * Sorry, how do I find your email address? Scottvin 13:39, September 11, 2007 (EDT)
 * On your right, you'll find "e-mail" this user. ;) Borror0 14:16, September 11, 2007 (EDT)

Site Format/Sizing
I had a friend reviewing some of my work here on the DDOwiki and he mentioned that because of the ads on the left and site navigation bar on the right that he was getting a horizontal scroll bar. It turns out, he was in 1280x960 and I did my edit in 1680x1050. Does DDOwiki not textwrap for whatever screen size you are using? Mad Bombardier 10:04, November 2, 2007 (EDT)