User talk:Erig/Archive

Auto-Healer page
Page name = Auto healer Just curious weither this page is against TibiaWiki rules? It has information about botting.

Nolan is calling a wiki-bomb
As you can see on this thread: http://forum.tibia.com/forum/index.php?subtopic=thread&postid=10592478 Nolan is calling a "bomb" on the page Luminera because of his and Zalear's ban. All admins may want to keep a close watch on it because some of the idiots from Luminera blindly follow this moron.

Nolan and Zalear
As you have seen Nolan and Zalear from my game world Luminera continue spamming pages with stuff like "We are king", Nolan has indeed done this on the Luminera page TWICE which one I just changed back. They are my friends but they need a ban if they are going to continue this. Thankyou. -Grady. EDIT: Thankyou for banning them.

Spider Chain Mail
Page vandalised The Old Widow by user Smietana (Spider Chain Mail? Pfft yeah right It seems I was wrong.. SCM seems to exsist

I assume that the info was taken from the test server. It is probably better to wait until the actual release before adding new info about the update (since things could change between now and then), but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for now.

-- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 07:38, 12 May 2006 (CDT)

Page vadalised: TibiaWiki:Protected page guidelines -Grady (Sorry if I didn't use your user talk properly I don't quite know how to use it)

kk i will try and standardise the wanted pages, but I will leave the pictures blank unless they are on... --Dark Tobberz 07:39, 16 May 2005 (EDT)

BAN NEEDED: Hozav for spamming Mastermind Shield with something like jjdoifgaoighhgo....

It was a one time, minor occurrence, if it happens again I will remove them.

I would like to contribute more. Shall i go through all small pages and class them as stubs for you?

''I don't really see the need to classify pages as "stubs". Maybe on a site like Wikipedia it would help keep things in order, but on a wiki as small as this one, it's probably overkill.''

PS: Please could I be a moderator on this site? I make regular contributions And would like to contribute further. Please go to my chat to reply (Positive or negative) or ask me what you want me to do to improve the site!

--Dark Tobberz

''I don't think there's enough abuse to warrant more admins, but I'll keep it in mind. I think the main thing that is lacking from the wiki right now is consistency, most pages are a bit of a mess (although there are quite a few decent ones and its growing). Discuss the standards and then try to standardise some of the pages that are lacking, maybe?''

Hallo. I just finished the "Books" section of the Desert Dungeon Library library. Going to bed now. I'll write something about accessing the library tomorrow if I have time.

--Alreth 17:31, 25 Nov 2004 (EST)

I noticed :P. (check Recent pages, I updated Main_Page before you added this talk heh) --Dave 17:35, 25 Nov 2004 (EST)

I'm having an really bad illness today and will for the next few days. Vomiting, high fever and diaréa. No big mood for writing anything today. --Alreth 16:38, 26 Nov 2004 (EST)

Feeling a lot better today. Written a few new articles. Mind if I tell some friends about this site? They might have something to write too. :)

--Alreth 17:38, 27 Nov 2004 (EST)

Go ahead, and we're using MediaWiki here, the same software that runs Wikipedia.

Is it possible to run it with IIS under Windows, or is it Linux only? :/ Alreth

No idea. Dave 11:06, 29 Nov 2004 (EST)

Been playing around with the databse again? ;) Check this page. Linked to from Maintenance. Error message: wfSpecialDisambiguation is broken. Link tables have changed...

--Alreth 12:18, 24 Jan 2005 (EST)

No I haven't, but I've upgraded MediaWiki to the latest version as there was a security problem with previous versions. The page you mention now works, however. ;) --Dave 01:00, 31 Jan 2005 (EST)

Ah alright. :) I noticed that the pages looks diffrently (should be customised with TibiaWiki design) when you aren't logged in. Looks like the default template on Wikipedia/MediaWiki.

--Alreth 19:05, 31 Jan 2005 (EST)

Edit: Wasn't it 'Cologne Blue' as default template before? It's 'Mono Book' now, or something like that.

You're right, this was something I forgot to change back when I updated. It's been fixed. --Dave 02:23, 4 Feb 2005 (EST)

I've moved the wiki over to erig.net. Any existing tibia.erigol.com URL should redirect properly to the new domain, if it doesn't post the error here.

Also, please update your bookmarks and links if you have any! --Dave 02:33, 4 Feb 2005 (EST)

Sorry for: "Annihilation Bear is identical to Teddy Bear". But, Pick, Pickaxe and Ice Pick they were "identicals". Nolin The Second used these words.

<·> Hunter of Dragoes <·> My Contributions <·> 18:38, 22 March 2006 (CST)

guild page allowed?
hi Dave, my Guild (Teutons Reloaded) has a wiki as guild homepage at swiki.net. But swiki.net is often down and slow. I would like to ask if we can move our wiki to your site. Maybe with our own directory. our wiki is now: http://teutons.swiki.net/ our homepage is: http://www.teutons.de/ Please take a look and message me :)

Leela

Hi Leela, normally I'd say yes, but as happened in the past (specifically, with my movie site) a good thing can be abused. That site was pulling 7 GB a day before I stopped movie uploads, because it was a reliable movie hosting site and became the primary source for movie uploads on WoT.

Now, a small guild page would pull no way near 7 GB a day, but if I host one guild's page, I'll most probably get offers to host others, etc., and this is a trap I'd rather avoid if I can.

Sorry!

Pifsexy needs a ban for spam on: --Alreth 18:58, 23 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * Current_events ("wassup testing this..lmao sweetokay people the event today is called get the fuck outside :)okay this is how it works. go find a hammer in your...")
 * Carlin ("this is stupid i could just erase everything.. i donno whats the point of tibiawiki lol")
 * Did You Know (...is bigger than yours)

I hadn't enabled a configuration option that let sysops ban logged in users, so now you don't have to ask me, you can do it yourself. ;) -Dave 21:30, 23 Mar 2005 (EST)

I found a place where I could block users, but when I typed in his username it said it was an invalid IP. Was this what you enabled now, so I can ban usernames too? --Alreth 09:11, 24 Mar 2005 (EST)

Yes, you should also notice "Block" next to each username in the recent changes page. --Dave 13:09, 24 Mar 2005 (EST)

Thanks for fixing that terrible book name.. I had it saved like that on my harddrive and forgot to rename it before I uploaded it. Then I tried to rename it online which didn't seem to be possible and then I had to leave due to RL reasons. --Alreth 13:51, 24 Mar 2005 (EST)

Recent changes
What does the "N", the "m" and the red "!" mean on the recent changes-page?

--Alreth 09:17, 31 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * "m" means it was a minor edit, "N" means it is a new page, the red "!" I'm not sure about, but I can guess it means it was made by a non-admin.
 * --Tendanix 11:39, 30 November 2005 (CST)

N ! 22:09 Right Horn (diff; hist). . Edwin de waterman (Talk | contribs | block)

I'm an admin now but it's still there ;)

And maybe you also shoud've asked what the "(top)" means ;).

16:22, 13 May 2006 (CDT) <·>

"!" means "not patrolled". It was used on MediaWiki for sysops to denote that they have seen a change and "approved" it. More info --Erig 19:39, 13 May 2006 (CDT)

Just a suggestion...
Emm.....

u should make i dunno how..but make links to be case sensitive because sometimes theres links like Magic level and Magic Level.... and its a mess...

--Lord de los Druidas 00:13, 24 May 2005 (EDT)

I think you mean case insensivite, los Druidas. --Alreth 09:13, 24 May 2005 (EDT)

Quest spoiling template that uses CSS and JS

 * Heylo Erig. I had an idea to make a template for quest spoiling. It would work so that you would have to click a text before you can see the actual spoil. CSS and JS will be used for this. But I'm having troubles putting it into the wiki. Is it possible that in some way enable JS support on Template:Spoil or in some other way make it work? -- Alreth ¦› Message me ¦› My contributions ¦› 12:50, 4 Jun 2005 (EDT)


 * I checked, it's not possible. MediaWiki does its best to prevent scripting from being allowed. --Erig 11:39, 5 Jun 2005 (EDT)


 * That is what I feared. :'( -- Alreth ¦› Message me ¦› My contributions ¦› 18:36, 5 Jun 2005 (EDT)
 * I think your best bet here is to have general quest info one one page and spoilers on a second page, possibly a subpage. Example: Foo Quest which contains the Template:Spoil, change the template to include a link to /Spoiler and include the top secret details at Foo Quest/Spoiler.  What do you think? 11:32, 10 Jun 2005 (EDT)
 * Done. See this in use at Edron Goblin Quest. 19:42, 12 Jun 2005 (EDT)

languages
i saw that tibiawiki ( yust like wikipedia ) has the posibility to have pages in more than 1 language. unfortenatly this are only small changes ( for NL ) and most things are still english, is there a way to change this? or to have special people doeing this?

of course i get that it's like imposible to make everything in every language  ( not only for the amount of space ), but we might give it a try, can't we?

I guess it's possible, but is there much of a demand for it? :P --Erig 04:09, 7 Jun 2005 (EDT)


 * if you decide to do that, i can help in spanish translation :P --Lord de los Druidas 14:33, 7 Jun 2005 (EDT)


 * We could do another version of this in the Noob Language. For example the list of items would be moved to fre itenz plz. 10:42, 10 Jun 2005 (EDT)

whell, i ques we got to make the interface language good working, not that half of it is dutch and the other half is english. for example: ( opens in new window) should be in dutch ( opent in een nieuwe scherm ) or something in that direction. and under special pages i still having more... but in dutch it should be meer... ( yes, im using dutch as example! i don't wanna be insulting or anything with it ). --zeonz 22:39, 8 Jun 2005 (CET) extra: having birthday in 1 hour and 21 minutes.

ban needed
User:Bunafi, he is spaming pages and using innapropiate language... look at the history of this pages: Ashta'Daramai Library, Twin Axe, Cobrafang Dagger. -- 03:31, 25 Jun 2005 (EDT)


 * 18:57, 25 Jun 2005 Alreth blocked "User:Bunafi" with an expiry time of 42 weeks (Spaming pages and using innapropiate language. Reported here) -- Alreth ¦› Message me ¦› My contributions ¦› 12:58, 25 Jun 2005 (EDT)

Ban needed
User:Lolige for spamming pages and using innapropiate language. [User contributions]
 * 18:48, 25 Jun 2005, Alreth blocked Lolige (expires 18:48, 15 Apr 2006) (contribs) (unblock) (Spamming diffrent pages with false information.) -- Alreth ¦› Message me ¦› My contributions ¦› 12:52, 25 Jun 2005 (EDT)

Spelling mistake
Hey Erig, it seems that you changed "NPC Billy" to "NPC Billie". It was right in the first place so I'm gonna have to change it back. Or did you change it for a specific reason?

--Rekujot 16:37, 3 Jul 2005 (EDT)


 * I changed Willy to Willie, which is correct. I'll move Billie to Billy. --Erig 06:12, 4 Jul 2005 (EDT)

off topic...
i was considering adding a spreadfirefox logo on my page or the front page, since it is one of the best to view the site with (i compared with others). I know you have one on erig.net so should we have one here? --DM  ¦›  Contribs ¦› talk to me 14:35, 22 Jul 2005 (EDT)

image formats
Ok. I had always assumed that a gif would be smaller than jpg for a non-photograph image. I was wrong, you were right (I tested it myself). I'll upload screenshots as jpg from now on.
 * 06:57, 27 Jul 2005 (EDT)


 * Well I don't really care if it's jpg/gif as long as it's the smallest size possible. I say .gif for in-game items because they need to have zero loss of quality, plus they're small enough (normally 32x32) that it doesn't really matter much. Screenshots, on the other hand, are generally a lot larger and as you've discovered, .jpg is usually better.


 * I was going to type a huge paragraph but heh, you can always find it on the internet: on this site, you can find information on which image compression format to use, Gif vs Jpeg vs PNG. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/gif-jpg-png-whats-difference Cameri 01:56, 26 October 2005 (EDT)

Items (redirect) --> Item
I think the page listing items should have the plural title. I can't seem to move it to Items to reverse the redirect (presumably because Items has previous edit history?) I guess an admin would have to delete the history (which consists solely of a flawed attempt at making a redirect to Item). Can you make me an admin plx plx plx.
 * 06:57, 27 Jul 2005 (EDT)


 * Yeah, okay. I was going to make you an admin yesterday until I saw your violation of my .gif policy! I'll make you one now, but make sure that doesn't happen again. ;) --Erig 08:04, 27 Jul 2005 (EDT)
 * Thx, Erig. The direction of the redirect has been reversed (fixed) and I have already taken the opportunity to block a spammer (User:Ezecapo) for 24 hours.  See the spam here if you are so inclined...
 * 08:07, 28 Jul 2005 (EDT)

image loading
User:Taliboy was uploading images that were not different from before so i deleted, i later realized these were new images for update. So i tried uploading them as well which resulted in old image. Then i deleted the old entries and started fresh and it still came out old image, so i am not sure what to do? (e.g. new:Combat Knife old: --DM  ><((°>  Contribs <°))>< talk to me 19:43, 8 Aug 2005 (EDT)
 * Seems fixed? --Erig 02:33, 9 Aug 2005 (EDT)
 * try uploading the new image yourself, i just tried again and it came out as old one :/  --DM   ><((°>  Contribs <°))>< talk to me 09:53, 9 Aug 2005 (EDT)
 * I suggest you clear your cache or something, as I see the new image fine. --Erig 10:50, 9 Aug 2005 (EDT)

Quest spoiler pages, etc.
Erig, I just tried to do something I read about on meta. I was trying to set the quest pages up so that only the first pages of quests (e.g. Edron Goblin Quest) are members of Category:Quests and the spoiler pages (e.g. Edron Goblin Quest/Spoiler) are members of Category:Quest spoiler pages, but it doesn't seem to work. There doesn't seem to be any way to remove the Foo Quest/Spoiler page from the Quests category. I have tentatively settled for giving the spoiler pages a (re-)sorting key:

...which forces them to the end of the Category:Quests listing. However, this is an ugly and only marginally effective hack. Any ideas?
 * 05:12, 10 Sep 2005 (EDT)

Image not quite deleted
See Category:Images for deletion. It seems to show a thumbnail for Image:HL\'s shop.gif which I thought was deleted. If you click on it, it shows nothing, yet it still seems to kinda exist. It's an unused duplicate (of Image:Outlaw_Camp-NPC_HL.gif) anyway, so if you can figure out how to completely get rid of it...
 * 02:08, 11 Sep 2005 (EDT)


 * Seems solved :)
 * 04:52, 14 May 2006 (CDT) <·>

New bug - blank pages

 * Please have a look here (TibiaWiki:Bug_reports). -- Alreth ¦› Message me ¦› My contributions ¦› 19:38, 23 Sep 2005 (EDT)

File Upload Error

 * Please also look into the File Upload Error listed on the Bug Reports page.


 * 10:31, 14 October 2005 (EDT)

Erig For a few weeks every time when i logged onto tibia.erig.net the screen would appear blank on any number of browsers i used. Finally a few weeks ago i could log on and have access. The new e-mail registration would not accept my e-mail which i previously used so i instead just made a new one. I do not have any idea why it would noty accept the old one (popcornguy@hotmail.com) or why nothing came up when i logged on. If you can explain? --DM  ><((°>  Contribs <°))>< talk to me 13:26, 23 October 2005 (EDT)


 * My hosting provider and hotmail don't get along very well. Try checking your "Junk" folder, or subscribing using a non-hotmail address. --Erig 01:22, 25 October 2005 (EDT)
 * My address is hotmail and I had no problem at all.
 * 14:05, 25 October 2005 (EDT)
 * I too can't login with my old username, Alreth, anymore. Every screen turns blank when I'm logged in as that. :( --Alreth2 15:13, 29 October 2005 (EDT)

I noticed after that problem with uploading images, any pictures i upload do not seem to be appearing on any pages. Just the link. See Alawar's Vault Quest. for Image:Alawars_Vault1.gif. --DM  ><((°>  Contribs <°))>< talk to me 19:50, 8 December 2005 (CST)
 * Image:Alawars_Vault1.GIF - notice the capital GIF, it's case-sensitive (and it should be moved to .gif anyway, uppercase file extensions suck :P). --Erig 01:36, 11 December 2005 (CST)

Bad Edit
Aaa added some unneccessary profanity to the page TibiaWiki:Searching. I don't think I understand why, but I removed the text. Probably should just delete the page, since it was apparently created just for this purpose.

09:26, 5 January 2006 (CST)

Another One
Wow.. The wiki must be getting more popular. Another guy spamming at least one page with garbage. Again.... I cleared the text from the page, but it should probably just be deleted.

User:Seto Deeper Fibula Quest/Spoiler

15:35, 5 January 2006 (CST)

Spamming Pages and Innappropriate Language
Missy has been making some inappropriate edits on the wiki. Kaio has removed the bad stuff, but maybe one of the admins can just do a rollback so that it's not in the edit history. At one time, Rune Farmer said that the number of vandals was a sign of the popularity of the wiki.... I guess that this wiki is becoming more popular! At least 4 vandals in less than a month! Congratulations, Erig!

Just kidding :)   but really, the wiki does appear to be getting more popular. I have noticed a number of new contributers, mostly just a couple edits/fixes, but every little bit helps!

08:14, 18 January 2006 (CST)

Suggestions
Tiquanda is huge, and contains many different plant species, and I think there should be a template for the purpose of explaining all the trees in Tibia. This will help players understand some quests like the explorer society one.

Cameri 10:49, 27 January 2006 (CST)

hello
I haven't been to this site in ages, but I came back to check up on it. I've left a message for everybody on my userpage. Try to spread the message to anyone who's still active. &mdash; Rune Farmer 03:39, 19 February 2006 (CST)

(deleted "Image:Greenshore.gif": Please comply with Section 1 of the TibiaWiki Policy.)
Actually, the map was made by me :P I guess you were just wrong, so I'll upload it again. If you still think it shouldnt be there, leave me a msg on my talk Awb ~*~Got any comment? Feel like talking? Come to my talk!~*~ 05:13, 23 February 2006 (CST)

Scope of Policy Change and also Current events Question
Hey Erig, there are a couple of things that I would like your input on or that I have questions about:


 * About the recent policy change (no personal pages), would that also extend to Guilds as well? Specifically, the recently added pages Dwarfhood and Dwarven Academy. Even though there are fewer guilds than there are players, I think it is asking for problems if this gets out of hand. There is also the issue of maintenence, since guilds come and go all the time. Pages would certainly be added, but I'm sure they would never be removed if the guild folded or became inactive. I guess there could be some kind of blurb on the Game Worlds pages about some notable guilds, but I personally don't think its a good idea to have a wiki article for each separate guild.


 * Yes, guilds also apply to this rule, I probably should have mentioned this.. so I will do it now. ;) --Erig 21:15, 24 February 2006 (CST)


 * Do you have a concept of what the Current events page should be used for? I'm sure it only exists because it is linked to from the left menu. In context, it seems like it should be news about the Wiki itself, but there doesn't seem to be enough "wiki news" to merit an entire page, and you have the news on your main site that can easily fill this function. It also seems like a bad idea to have an arbitrary list of events that are occurring on different game worlds. If you didn't have any plans for the page, here are the ideas I came up with:
 * "Protect" the page, and have it be similar to the news on www.erig.net, but specifically for the wiki (news like your policy change, server software updates, any new large sections or articles that are a "big deal", etc.)
 * "Protect" the page and leave it blank
 * Designate this page for in-game tibia events (as it appears to be now), but organize it (the page is ugly, I'm going to organize it anyway until you decide otherwise).
 * Use the first option here, and have it reference the Game Worlds pages for in-game events. I can come up with some way to organize that too, if you think it's the way to go.

Thanks! I'll try not to bother you too much, but I wanted your direction on these.

08:33, 23 February 2006 (CST)

TibiaWiki en Español
I finally decided to start a Wiki for Tibia in spanish. I've gathered some people to help and I've been in touch with the staff of Tibiamx.com.mx

I have almost everything set (in the technical part). Now I need resources of information. Of course that this Wiki will be the first resource for many aspects, as the info itself as the metainfo of the Wiki (templates and such).

Ok, the question is:

'''Can I (we) take the information containted in this Wiki to used in the new Wiki? '''

We'll make a lot of translations from the english articles and I'll be very happy if you let me take some of the Templates and (of course) the images aswell.

I know you are a busy person, but I hope you can see this message and you can send me a quick reply soon.

Best Regards, Adrián Galindo México City MSN: agalindo (at) servidor.unam.mx

--Kaio 04:03, 27 February 2006 (CST)

It's not really up to me, as I have only contributed a tiny fraction of the content. Maybe you should put it to a vote? --Erig 05:41, 2 March 2006 (CST)

 Whitelaces and DM already gave their approval, so I think I can start then :D --Kaio 12:59, 2 March 2006 (CST)

Erig. I already have my mediawiki SW up and running in a development server. I configured the necessary to start to work.

Now, I'm gonna upload all the files to production in a webhosting server, and they are asking me the disk quota and DB size I'm gonna need.

With your experience with this wiki, how much space will I need?

--Kaio 20:32, 24 March 2006 (CST)

 TibiaWiki software/images/etc. size is currently 47 MB, the database directory is 54 MB. HTH. --Erig 21:12, 24 March 2006 (CST)  

Wiki Server Problem
I'm not sure if I'm the only person experiencing this, but the wiki looks all funky. It appears that it lost all of its stylesheet information. Not sure how it would have happened, but the css files appear to be missing (they should be in the "wikiskins/common" folder). You might need to replace them from the mediawiki source. Maybe check the file and folder permissions. If people will be abusing your server (if this was intentional), then you might need to tighten the security on it a little.

Apparently related is that the wiki javascript appears to be missing, also. The js files should be in the same folder as the css files.

The wiki is still functional, but pretty annoying to look at. I hope this helps you get it back to normal soon  :)

07:43, 8 March 2006 (CST)

I run my static content (stylesheets/graphics/etc.) on a lightweight server. My whole server rebooted today and I don't have the lightweight server set up properly to be reloaded upon startup, so it was not enabled until I returned. I also just moved the static content from port 8081 to port 80 on another IP so this probably won't be an issue in the future! --Erig 21:14, 8 March 2006 (CST)

RSS Feed Problem
From the "Recent Changes" Specialpage, I tried to get the rss feed (I love the feed, by the way... please keep it!). I was unable to get it to work, with this error message:

The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using CSS style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

The following tags were not closed: rss, channel. Error processing resource 'http://tibia.erig.net/index.php?title=Special:...

--Digger Smith 22:25, 14 March 2006 (CST)

This has only happened recently, I know that the feed was working before the server reboot.

08:45, 15 March 2006 (CST)

For me is working fine.

I have a 'life feed bookmark' in my Firefox Bookmark Toolbar and I can see the Recent Changes updated.

--Kaio 11:39, 15 March 2006 (CST)

I also have it in Firefox live bookmark, but it is still saying "Live bookmark feed failed to load."

When I try to access the feed directly (here), it says:

XML Parsing Error: no element found Location: http://tibia.erig.net/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss Line Number 1528, Column 1:

Looking at the XML itself, there is one line that may be causing the problem:



This is an incorrect reference to the stylesheet. Everything else in the xml seems to be fine.

12:37, 15 March 2006 (CST)

I fixed the http://tibia.erig.nethttp://... problem. --Erig 17:44, 15 March 2006 (CST)

YEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAW RSS is back in business. Thanks, Erig! (I am so easily amused) --- Digger Smith, Calmera · Talk — 19:08, 15 March 2006 (CST)

ShowHide Extension
Erig, do you think it would be possible to have you install the ShowHide Extension for MediaWiki? (also see the Test Page)

Just a thought. Feel free to ignore this if you think it's a bad idea.

Thanks!

11:41, 28 March 2006 (CST)

Policy Suggestion
Erig, I think you should add something to the wiki policies concerning what sites are appropriate for linking to from articles.

Samsara had added a link to a macro website. While this is not expressly against the written policy for the wiki, and as far as I know it's not against Tibia rules to provide links to sites like this, I think it should be.

Anyway, just a suggestion. 08:35, 19 April 2006 (CDT)

No need for a policy change, just remove those at will. :) I've also added an external link warning in JavaScript, just in case. --Erig 22:13, 20 April 2006 (CDT)

Sounds good to me. Thanks! 08:42, 21 April 2006 (CDT)

Signature Problem
Every time i post my signature with --~ it comes out like this "--User:DM&#124;DM &gt;&lt;((°&gt; &#91;http&#58;//tibia.erig.net/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&amp;target=DM Contribs] &lt;°))&gt;&lt; &#91;&#91;User_talk:DM&#124;talk to me]] 21:27, 22 April 2006 (CDT)." To make it look right i just copy it from preview and post it back and it comes out right like this: "--DM ><((°> Contribs <°))>< talk to me 21:25, 22 April 2006 (CDT)"

$wgLogo in some skins
I am contributing to this wiki now for quite a while and now I was choosing another skin I saw this: Set $wgLogo to the URL path to your own logo image. Think you're the only on who can change that ;P --Edwin de waterman 00:08, 25 April 2006 (CDT)

Edit Conflict
I just wanted to save the commment about the logo in some skins when I got the Edit Conflict page. It is the --Edwin de waterman 00:16, 25 April 2006 (CDT) that the wiki sees as an other editor, though before that I added a comment to the 'If'-template with and that worked. Also a few paragraphs above this another user had problems with the --~. Though the last one seems to work correctly to me. Weird. --Edwin de waterman 00:16, 25 April 2006 (CDT)

I have no idea what you're talking about, but.. yeah! :) --Erig 23:31, 26 April 2006 (CDT)

!!--URGENT - Edit Wierdness--!!
Erig, I don't know what happened, but now when editing pages it is removing and "includeonly" and "noinclude" tags.

Since the templates for all items, creatures, etc. depend upon these tags, the wiki is getting messed up more with each page that is edited by any user.

The first edit that appears to have been affected was this one earlier this morning. It appears to have been working correctly yesterday.

I'll look around a little bit to see if I can figure it out, but if you changed something last night, then it may have also caused this. 08:54, 4 May 2006 (CDT)


 * There's an update from yesterday or before that (1.6.4). Maybe he applied it, but there was another just after they launch (1.6.5).
 * I see that now is the 1.6.3. Maybe the update is needed.
 * --Kaio 10:51, 4 May 2006 (CDT)

Fixed, hopefully. I did get the announcement about 1.6.5 as I subscribe to the MediaWiki-announce mailing list, but I seem to have forgotten about it.

In future, if it's "urgent", use the PM function on my site, as I am more likely to read that before I visit here. :) --Erig 11:21, 4 May 2006 (CDT)

I'll do that in the future.

About the problem, though. It does not seem to be fixed yet.

It will remove the tags from the preview also...so you can see the problem without actually saving the page. 11:48, 4 May 2006 (CDT)

I haven't been able to find anything else out (though I haven't been able to dedicate very much time to looking yet).

If you haven't already, Erig, I would recommend making a full backup of the wiki database. 15:10, 4 May 2006 (CDT)

As you can see, I've locked the TibiaWiki from editing by users for now. Please test this problem, as it seems odd. If you look at some recently changed files, Ancient Scarab has the problem, but Necromancer was edited yesterday and it looks fine? If it was a major issue with the MediaWiki software, it would have been noticed a lot sooner on other Wiki sites and it hasn't been, so I'm not sure what the problem could be. I have also disabled TibiaWiki's key caching software in case that is a factor. I will continue to debug, however, but my knowledge of MediaWiki's templating system is not that great. --Erig 20:34, 4 May 2006 (CDT)

Parser Functions?
Hey Erig, What are the chances that we could get you to install the parser functions extension for MediaWiki?

Here's the link: ParserFunctions Installation

This would be particularly useful for the Loot and List of Creatures by Exp/HP Ratio pages, but would also open up the possibility for some cool ideas that I have.

Just a thought. 08:49, 11 May 2006 (CDT)

Done. --Erig 21:26, 12 May 2006 (CDT)

Error in fetchObject: MySQL server has gone away
13:36, 5 June 2006 (CDT) <·>
 * I was just saving a page when I got a blank page with black text showing this :

Error in fetchObject: MySQL server has gone away

Backtrace:


 * GlobalFunctions.php line 602 calls wfBacktrace
 * Database.php line 596 calls wfDebugDieBacktrace
 * Database.php line 1787 calls Database::fetchObject
 * LinkBatch.php line 76 calls ResultWrapper::fetchObject
 * LinkBatch.php line 55 calls LinkBatch::executeInto
 * Skin.php line 192 calls LinkBatch::execute
 * Skin.php line 171 calls Skin::preloadExistence
 * SkinTemplate.php line 108 calls Skin::initPage
 * MonoBook.php line 28 calls SkinTemplate::initPage
 * SkinTemplate.php line 151 calls SkinMonoBook::initPage
 * OutputPage.php line 577 calls SkinTemplate::outputPage
 * OutputPage.php line 794 calls OutputPage::output
 * Database.php line 476 calls OutputPage::databaseError
 * Database.php line 419 calls Database::reportQueryError
 * Database.php line 806 calls Database::query
 * Revision.php line 235 calls Database::select
 * Revision.php line 157 calls Revision::fetchFromConds
 * Revision.php line 138 calls Revision::loadFromConds
 * Revision.php line 58 calls Revision::newFromConds
 * Parser.php line 2860 calls Revision::newFromTitle
 * Parser.php line 2702 calls Parser::fetchTemplate
 * - line - calls Parser::braceSubstitution
 * Parser.php line 2291 calls call_user_func
 * Parser.php line 2379 calls Parser::replace_callback
 * Parser.php line 2785 calls Parser::replaceVariables
 * - line - calls Parser::braceSubstitution
 * Parser.php line 2291 calls call_user_func
 * Parser.php line 2379 calls Parser::replace_callback
 * Parser.php line 884 calls Parser::replaceVariables
 * Parser.php line 223 calls Parser::internalParse
 * JobQueue.php line 188 calls Parser::parse
 * JobQueue.php line 148 calls Job::refreshLinks
 * Wiki.php line 291 calls Job::run
 * Wiki.php line 247 calls MediaWiki::doJobs
 * index.php line 124 calls MediaWiki::finalCleanup

Performance issue (maybe related to Job Queue)
I have been experiencing some significant performance issues when updating certain pages. I believe it is related to the Job Queue that was implemented in MediaWiki version 1.6 and newer. More information on the job queue can be found here.

It appears that instead of using the job queue for asynchronous updates (as it was designed), it is doing the related updates synchronously as part of the web update (this is explained pretty well on the Wikipedia page "Help:Job_queue" linked above).

I do not know if this is a configuration problem, or if there is another issue that is causing this.

It is most noticable when updating templates that are widely-used (the damage calculator template or the items template for example). I was trying to update the Template:Calculator/Energy Strike page, which prompted me to leave this message for you. The update eventually does work, but it seems to me that the job queue is not working properly (I have never noticed any jobs listed in the Special:Statistics page, compared to the stats page of Wikipedia, which almost always has some jobs in the job queue).

-- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 09:35, 3 July 2006 (PDT)

SysOp
Today when i was checking Recent Changes i noticed you made me a Sysop. I though you would never make me a sysop, because i was inactive for months Thanks for this great honor =).
 * --Lord de los Druidas«|»Talk«|»«|» 19:22, 3 July 2006 (PDT)

PS: I already cleaned many Unused images. PS2: Is there something i should know..like...time for blocking users...or something..

Hey there!

Once again, congratz on being made an admin on the wiki. About time limits for blocking users... that should depend on why they are being blocked. Minor infringements should be pretty short. Sorta like a slap on the hand. Inappropriate, or repeated "stupid" updates would merit a little longer. Like a slap on the face. Intentionally making gross or extremely offensive changes would be an infinite ban. Like a kick in the crotch and a boot to the head.

I hope I didn't answer your question, since it is pretty subjective. Use your own judgement based on what they do.

-- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 05:47, 5 July 2006 (PDT)

Parser Functions problem with MediaWiki 1.7
Erig, The latest MediaWiki update has broken the ParserFunctions that are used in most of the templates. I found how to fix it, and the information is at TibiaWiki:Bug_reports.

-- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 11:09, 10 July 2006 (PDT)

Incorrect Editions
--Erig 20:14, 11 July 2006 (PDT)


 * Macarena edited Tracing Paper (This item is not obtained in Explorer Society Quest!)
 * Macarena edited Sounds (She disorganized this page.)

Loots not confirmed:


 * Loot of General Murius
 * Loot of The General Murius
 * Loot of The Old Widow
 * Loot of Demodras

&lt;·&gt; Hunter of Dragoes &lt;·&gt; My Talk &lt;·&gt; My Contributions &lt;·&gt; 16:06, 11 July 2006 (PDT)

There are other people you can tell about this. ;)

Job Queue
There still seems to be a problem with the Job Queue (see my comment above). When editing a page, the delay appears to be proportional to the number of links to that page, which would indicate that the wiki is unable to append the updates to the job queue, and is instead running the null edits before returning a response to the client machine.

Since I have never installed or maintained a MediaWiki server, I'm not sure what would be causing this, or how to fix it, but I think that it would help the performance problems that we are experiencing.

Like I said, I don't have any solutions to offer, but I just wanted to bring it to your attention again.

-- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 12:59, 3 August 2006 (PDT)

Deletion Chaos dragon axe Page
You deleted this page with the reason of: "Offer up some proof first". But the proof is. Is it a fake?

&lt;·&gt; Hunter of Dragoes &lt;·&gt; My Talk &lt;·&gt; My Contributions &lt;·&gt; 20:43, 20 August 2006 (PDT)

That is a fake someone made on TibiaNews forums, and i'm pretty sure Erig reads TN forums from time to time. The chaos dragon axe is a joke, but TibiaWiki is for actual information. -Grady

How to revert editions?
I selected my language as "pt-br" and I could not revert the Bast Skirt page for incorrect translation of link "rollback"!!

&lt;·&gt; Hunter of Dragoes &lt;·&gt; My Talk &lt;·&gt; My Contributions &lt;·&gt; 21:08, 23 August 2006 (PDT)

"Sword Of Apocolypse" looks like bad joke
A page Sword Of Apocolypse has been created yesterday, and it looks like a bad joke. I can't delete it and I don't know what else I could do about it. Please take a look at it! -- Thomas Klute 11:55, 12 September 2006 (PDT)

Question about outfit
I have a question, do gamemasters have new outfits after last update? If so, I think it would be good idea to put them on the Outfits page. Yours, Kaito Yamaro.
 * They don't have new outfits no Craggles

Ferumbras
Ferumbras always is in Kharos or appears only with raid message?

&lt;·&gt; Hunter of Dragoes &lt;·&gt; My Talk &lt;·&gt; My Contributions &lt;·&gt; 11:31, 22 September 2006 (PDT)
 * He'll only appear there with the message - else you'll get a room full of demons minus fermubby - Craggles