User talk:Ameyaselene

Greetings
It's great to see some new blood coming in and adding information! We hit a bit of a slump, but I'm working hard to fix up some of the problems, and get stuff added that is needed. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! -- Wynthyst    talk  01:28, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for the warm welcome. It's nice to have a new project and a new place to congregate with other pedantic gamer nerds and work on a project of such grand scale. It's definitely a first for me, but I'm looking forward to the challenges! - A l e r i k  ta • co  01:41, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Signature
If you are going to use a template for your signature (which is not recommended btw), Please use a subst: command so that any changes to the template will not affect signatures across the wiki. Thanks! -- Wynthyst    talk  15:44, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I am. At least I think I am...my knowledge on the subject is pretty limited, but I did put a subst: command in the sig box of my preferences. Prior to making my sig I searched around for any real definitive rules regarding sig templates but didn't find any, so that's why I did what I did. If that's against policy I'm happy to change it to something else. It just helps me to have a visually distinctive sig when trying to fish through long discussion pages for my own comments.  15:54, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, the subst doesn't seem to be working, and yeah, we don't have a definitive policy against it... yet... It just becomes and issue on a long standing wiki with an active editor, you could easily use your signature tens of thousands of times during your participation here, and if you change that template, the server is forced to parse those changes to every instance of it. This can become an issue if it occurs to several people a day... (which with an active community is more than possible). They also tend to become vandal targets, and vandalism causes a double strain since the changes not only are made, but have to be unmade. This all impacts the Job Queue and the overall performance of the wiki, and now that we are part of Curse, on the network. -- Wynthyst  [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]]  talk  06:06, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Should I mark my template pages for deletion? Alerik 06:12, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Not for now, let me see if I can come up with a viable alternative in code first. -- Wynthyst  [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]]  talk  09:16, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Item Dump
You may have noticed, I got it done yesterday. If there is anything missing now, it's because it wasn't in the xml. I haven't gotten to the images yet, I have to see what images are still missing (though I believe everything that Trion has provided has been uploaded). -- Wynthyst    talk  16:38, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, Roobarb and I were talking about the upload yesterday and are very appreciative for it. Thank you! As far as the icon stuff is concerned, I'm not sure. There's some weirdness going on. For example, Tigram Stillstep's Extra Headband uses icon bandage special1.png but if you do a search for that file name you can't find it (though now that the item upload has shown that it exists I can link to it instead of the bad-quality .jpg I had made earlier). -A le rik  talk 16:46, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I will go through the wanted files list and try to get as many uploaded as I can. -- Wynthyst  [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]]  talk  16:53, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The thing is that I'm beginning to wonder if it's just a matter of indexing. Like I showed in the item above, the icon is actually there...it just isn't showing up in the search when you look for it. You may have been right in saying that all the icons have been uploaded, and it's just a matter of them not showing up in the search for whatever reason.
 * I think I've discovered the difficulty. The links have been created with lowercase letters, while the images have uppercase ones. I will see what I can do to resolve this. -- Wynthyst  [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]]  talk  16:57, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
 * When you search for images you have to add the File: at the beginning, that's why you couldn't find it. File:Bandage special1.png. -- Wynthyst  [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]]  talk  19:20, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
 * That's odd, because if I do a search for something like "chain" and hit the Multimedia link, I get all kinds of icons containing the word "chain" (click here to see what I mean). -A le rik  talk 19:24, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it depends on if you are using Go or Search. I honestly can't tell you why you couldn't find the Bandage special1.png, it's been here since January. -- Wynthyst  [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]]  talk  02:11, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Quite strange. Eh, I'll just chalk it up to unexplainable weird weirdness. lol -A le rik  talk 02:15, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

xml
Can you work with XML files at all? You can download all the game information that Trion has made available here The Discoveries file includes all the NPC data, but looking through it, it appears that it would give you only the basic information (name, level, type, category, plane, default faction relationship). If you would find that helpful to your project, you might want to download it. -- Wynthyst    talk  08:04, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not really much of a web developer. Really though, adding NPCs is pretty easy to do manually. I will probably check out what it has to say about faction relationships though (see the discussion regarding faction stuff on the TODO talk page). -A le rik  talk 13:43, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * You can open the xml files with Notepad++ you just have to navigate through the code tags to find the info. I just wanted to put it out there for you as an alternative. -- Wynthyst  [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]]  talk  14:09, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Wyn convo continued
discussion consolidated on User_talk:Wynthyst


 * That was done for a reason: I don't seem to be able to edit your talk page (it was/is broken?). I've tried at least a dozen times to edit it, and I just get a blank white page. Refreshing just takes me back to editing your talk page. The IRC bot is reporting my edit, but somewhere along the way they're getting eaten. -A le rik  talk 02:27, 17 August 2011 (UTC)