User:Meander



User:Meander/SandBox

About Time, meander!
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
 * "The Riddle of Strider" J.R.R. Tolkien

Who am I?
Heh, my goodness, existential question right off the bat, huh?
 * I...
 * am an ardent screen-shot taker and will be adding visuals wherever I can.
 * enjoy the flavor of dialog and lore in-game so much that I have been known to compose fiction and stomach-churning rhyme featuring guildmates and NPC's.
 * have zero understanding of how a wiki is created, maintained or edited. So I look forward to the learning!

Move in and get comfortable! Gonna be here a while=P.

 * 1) Links - still learning from Help page
 * 2) notes, colors in background, popups, zero margins, line breaks
 * 3) can gifs be loaded? →  Yes
 * 4) how do I use a picture as a link?  Like an ingredient pic to an ingredient page? Button pushers! → filename.png or   —→ More help on Help:Images

DDO Objectives
DDO wiki:Help and information wanted listing

NPC's want some love, too.

 * NPCs - location fixes
 * Vendor NPCs and Collectors have outdated pics - descriptions changed. Get pics of new descriptions and load. Also NPCs without any pics at all.
 * WoW vendor NPC vendor items on NPCs- heavy crafting game, makes sense to have evolved item system. WoW also has a fairly easy-to-use system in place to get lay-wiki editors up to speed.
 * EQ P99 vendor NPC Interesting.
 * Alpha-sorted NPC list in Elder Scrolls merchants/items not provided.
 * Raz Best evolved NPC and voice actor, ever.

Utility NPCs

 * Go through NPC categories -- organize more clearly - floater pages
 * hop through with identifier symbols on NPC pages, like a deck of cards
 * Collectors - and Potions page - lots of consumables to fill in Template:Consumable
 * Tutorial NPCs get |role? --define role: how-to info for classes, fighting monsters, ...actionable information
 * Get a head-count on the tutorial npc's

Outdoor Zones

 * Barovian vacation from the drag of city folk. New lands to explore and take tourist pics.
 * Currently working on Land of Barovia outdoor zone monster pages, pics

City Zones

 * keep filling in the table as I go
 * Houses have sub-zones like Locksmith's Square. Ask about sub-categories
 * Map update - Solve picture clarity problem - see below.

Inns

 * ---bailing on flavor NPCs until further notice, since our roleplay group has stifled ---
 * standardize them as well as possible, pics, plays.
 * Category for Flavor NPCs?---nope. learn how to make collapsible lists

Monster Hunter

 * 1) Get a list of the monsters without mugshots and go get them! Poke-wiki, gotta catch them all.

Things I have learned:

 * Random page generator has been good to just meander and fix stuff or find things that need pictures. This is a good way to get used to wiki practices.
 * Enlarged font in the game so it can be read more easily when I take pics.
 * Total newb error - check to see if you are logged in before you save, and DON'T try to login without copying. When you come back, nothing will be there. =(.
 * There are different types of apostophe's. Make sure you know which one is being used. Lefty-slant backtick is under the tilde on my keyboard.  Beware, someone may be using it. The usual one > '   and the Impost(er)rophe!--->`
 * Fiddling around with User page is not a bad way to figure out how to use the editing tools.
 * When starting a page through a red-link, be sure the spelling is correct. ie NPCs renamed within an NPC template will still have the faulty spelling as the link.
 * DDO affects out-of-game graphics. So, if I go into the game and slide my gamma bar back and forth, for instance, all my graphics (even in other programs) will be displayed differently until the game is no longer running. Minimizing DDO into my toolbar has hosed the quality of what I am doing elsewhere on several occasions.
 * Bringing up brightness either from the keyboard or from the DDO graphics control panel does not affect the screenshots saved to the hard drive in any way. All the brightening/contrast/gamma must be happening after the screenshot is taken - which is why so many images loaded into the wiki are so darned dark.
 * The screenshot loses a lot of yellow, straight up. I think my City Maps look like crapola even with editing, and especially if I've forgotten that DDO is running in the background when I load up the images.  SO: trying https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/28106-trs-hdr-ish/ to punch-up the yellows. Hope it helps.
 * I have something weird going on with .png files and case-sensitive disagreement between the wiki and whatever my laptop is doing.
 * I have loaded quite a few NPC pics (.jpg) without any problems. However, the Cove stuff that I "save as" a .png (per the item call on the template) is not being accepted. I think my machine takes short-cuts and saves as... something else... until called to the task of displaying the new file format. Maybe I need to re-open every "save as" once after I close it to be able to load it up to the wiki.
 * And when I change something from (Level 16) to (level 16), my laptop reverts it to a cap, causing more problems. I have to rename the pic completely to get away from the reversion.
 * This last thing might be a Windows quirk. In my experience, the file is renamed, but Explorer doesn't realize it. Try pressing F5 to refresh the content of the directory in Explorer. --Cru121