User talk:Xevo

Left justified skin
I'm playing around with the site's skin. The old right-justified Truglass skin is still available in "My Preferences"->"Appearance Tab"->select Truglass...then Save.

Gold seller Ads
I have no problem with the ads, but I would like to see this one blocked. I have no problem advertising other games or wiki-related stuff to help you pay the hosting fees but I don't want us to advertise gold seller's services. The same thing applies if any similar ads show up. Would that be fine by you? --Borror0 19:30, May 14, 2010 (EDT)

I need the web url that appears at the bottom of the ad. Its too fuzzy in that pic to make out. This is just an experiment, I'm not sure the ads will even make enough to be worth it. I THINK it is GoldRockU.com...which I have now blocked --Xevo 19:38, May 14, 2010 (EDT)

testing @ 1287539590

Wiki Imagemap Extension
Hi Xevo, if it isn't difficult to implement is there any chance the imagemap extension can be added to the wiki? I would like to do an image of Stormreach, the Harbor, the various Houses and other areas into one clickable imagemap for this page: Places. Thanks in advance! UltraMonk 09:37, October 20, 2010 (EDT)


 * I have just installed the ImageMap extension --Xevo 11:46, October 24, 2010 (EDT)


 * Thanks for installing it however there seems to be a bug, whenever I insert the appropiate imagemap tags (As from this page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Imagemap) when I save the page it goes to a blank page and the changes are not actually saved. UltraMonk 07:30, November 12, 2010 (EST)


 * Sorry, it should be fixed now. --Xevo 16:03, November 13, 2010 (EST)

DDO VIP
Most of those rights are given by the basic membership with the exception of "skipcatcha" and "autopatrol." If you're going to give that user right this freely, it'll undermine our best quality control tool (patrolling) because many users we trust enough to give "skipcaptcha" to are not trusted enough to have their edits automatically marked as patrolled.

How about giving accounts with a verified email addresses "skipcaptcha"? It was that way before and we never had bot problems. It's an obvious necessity unregistered users but, if one goes through the trouble of creating an account, then we should let him or her skip the captcha. Being asked to fill a captcha for each edit is just too much to ask to new users. --Borror0 17:19, December 12, 2010 (EST)


 * for the record we did have bot issues back in 2007 (see Special:BlockList), but i agree with Borror on Special:ListGroupRights. "skipcaptcha" for all registered users or email confirmed users (ddowikivip?), "autopatrol" for superusers and above. --yoko5000 00:53, December 13, 2010 (EST)


 * We did have bot issues in 2007, but that was before Elliott improved the captcha. Elliott switched to a more effective captcha at some point and we never heard from bots again. --Borror0 09:23, December 13, 2010 (EST)

Google Analytics
I still see Google Analytics loading when I load a DDOwiki page but I no longer can access the DDOwiki data on Google Analytics. Did you just forget to remove the old code or is it a new account I don't have access to? If the former, could you remove it as it would be slowing our loading speed? (Likewise for Mint if it's still there too.) --Borror0 17:26, December 12, 2010 (EST)

User promotion rights bugged
Special:UserRights is completely bugged for my account. created another account (User:Yoko4999) for testing and got the same result. i'm guessing things are the same for recently promoted users. can you look into that please? much appreciated. --yoko5000 00:53, December 13, 2010 (EST)
 * It looks like Borror0 gave you the Bureaucrat user permission a few days ago. That only allows for making people a sysop. The Steward permission is required for full management of user rights. I will try to improve upon the permissions each group gets. Is that the issue, or is it something else? --Xevo 07:52, December 14, 2010 (EST)
 * yes, "makesysop" and "makesuperuser" simply arent working for me. --yoko5000 03:55, December 18, 2010 (EST)
 * I can't figure out how makesysop and makesuperuser even work. I got it working a different way though. You should now see "User rights management" in your Special Pages list. --Xevo 17:51, December 19, 2010 (EST)
 * works. problem solved. thank you so much! --yoko5000 23:48, December 19, 2010 (EST)

img.enterwiki.net
oh, my! you finally got rid of img.enterwiki.net!? nice job! now its time for you to work on site skin!? :) seriously though, i will go thorough entire file list and will let you know when i find anything wired happening. --yoko5000 00:48, February 7, 2011 (EST)
 * Thanks. Enterwiki was mostly a failed project, DDO wiki was the only site that really took off from it. There's no reason to keep the enterwiki name associated with this wiki anymore. Please let me know if you see any issues with the images. The random images I checked looked liked they were being displayed correctly. As for the skin, I'm not a web designer, I'm a programmer. So it's not likely I'll be changing the skin myself.--Xevo 22:12, February 7, 2011 (EST)
 * na, i meant changing site default skin to this kinda one (sParser mode link on toolbox on the right), not designing it from scratch. didnt Borror ask that to you? no rush on that though anyways. --yoko5000 22:54, February 8, 2011 (EST)

okay, a minor issue in regards to images. we cant upload new version of existing files (as reported on my talk page). there seems to be a workaround for this, so no biggie but can you look into that plz? --yoko5000 08:16, February 13, 2011 (EST)

Maintenance?
I've noticed the site going down daily for about 2 hours starting about 3:30 AM EST (10:30PM GMT, if you're over in Europe), and giving a 500 Internal Server Error. I kept checking up on it last night and it didn't up back up until about 5:45 AM after a DNS error (server cannot be found - server reboot?). I can recall using the site during these hours in the past, but the last couple days it has be dropping out.
 * --Taurolyon 15:32, April 25, 2011 (EDT)

I emailed Xevo the first day it went down and he is aware there is a situation. I'm also in the process of getting a local copy of the mediwiki version (link to DL) we are running from Xevo so I can import the wiki to my local system and re-work some of the templates that are in desperate need of such reworking without risking the stability of ddowiki.com. ShoeMaker 16:03, April 25, 2011 (EDT)

The wiki seems to have gotten a surge of extra traffic lately. I have doubled the memory/cpu available to the the wiki and have installed some better caching. I think things are *much* faster now. I will continue to monitor the ram usage. I get an alert on my phone the second the wiki goes down. Unfortunately, it went down last night when I was asleep and the alert didn't wake me. --Xevo 21:51, April 25, 2011 (EDT)


 * Would guess the massive crosslinking of templates doesn't really help with the performance of the server Neouni 06:16, April 26, 2011 (EDT)

Default skin reversion petition
I Don't know if I would want it back, the Truglass skin does have the 'need to define style="vertical-align:middle each and every line' bug in tables. Neouni 04:29, May 18, 2011 (EDT)
 * It seems Truglass 2 has too :( Neouni 04:29, May 18, 2011 (EDT)


 * Trueglass 2 also seems to have broken all of the &lt;pre&gt; boxes. Example here.


 * i dont get it. whats wrong with it? if you dont break line in pre code, you always get that . i dont get this entire petition thing. Truglass 1 skin has had other problems too, but most major problem is creater of it being gone and not coming back. Elliot performs lots of hacks, he did so many tricky things too on this wiki and we've been sitting here wondering. for me its time to move on form his skin and stuff. --yoko5000 00:40, May 26, 2011 (EDT)


 * I'm not against changing the default to sparseman or another skin, however, the Trueglass 2 is not working. There needs to be some further change.  ShoeMaker 01:56, May 26, 2011 (EDT)


 * I want to move to another skin too. The main problem right now is that a lot of the templates created for this wiki use css styling specific to Truglass. Changing all of those templates would, in my opinion, be too difficult and error prone. I think the best way to go about it is to figure out what styles are Truglass specific then move them into the css of the new skin. Does anyone have any suggestions for a new skin? I've heard sparseman mentioned so far. Almost all of the templates created for mediawiki have the nav on the left, so that change was a first step. --Xevo 10:17, May 28, 2011 (EDT)