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Welcome on my talkpage
Hi everybody, welcome on my talkpage. If you want to say something to me feel free to post it here! Please note I might not respond very quickly anymore, please contact an other admin instead.

Administrator Application
Hi Bennie, again. I thought long and hard about what you said on my talk page and really decided that it can't hurt to try applying right now, so here's my application.

Admin Application: Now, as I’ve been told, an Admin should have significant contributions to TibiaWiki before applying. (Not really required but of course it gives the applicant a better chance). Not that I consider my contributions insignificant, but I don’t think many will consider them significant. I haven’t added anything really huge to this, but if all the Admins spend their time adding huge things, who will take care of the proofreading and small edits? That’s why I’m here. I’m applying because I feel like I can do better things and expand on what I already do ten-fold. The reason for my not-so-huge edits is because most of my time spent on here is when I’m at work, and I have no access in-game. If I had the access, I’d be gathering NPC sounds and house screenshots for you, but unfortunately right now that’s not a prominent option. I spend a good amount of time on here each day, about 2-4 hours and I’m always looking for more information to add in. After the update hype cools down, I hope to get more active on the larger stuff, but for now there is plenty of work for me to do making sure everyone keeps their edits accurate and making sure vandalism stays to a minimum. I am also working on mastering html code, and I think I’m good with the wiki markups.

Some information about myself: I’ve been playing tibia since 2003, and was a “noob” up until 2005. I started on Amera, but moved to Keltera because my real-life friend got himself hunted. We thrived there. I joined the guild Harmony after some time on the server (I was around level 15) and ever since I have been a member on one character or another. I’ve been around the power cycle. I’ve been in the hunted guilds, the peaceful neutral guilds, the war guilds, and the “nobody” guilds. I find myself back in Harmony and that is where I will remain. I am currently level 128 (was 129) on my highest level character, though my main character is level 83. (Note I only included in-depth info for experience reasons and the guild name because it’s semi-reputable)

My username (obvious) is Myst Leingod, and my main characters are Myst Leingod and Myst Morningstar. I hope that my application will be considered and I am willing to do whatever is asked of me to help your decision. I don’t feel comfortable posting my email address here, but I will give you it if it’s necessary.

I guess that’s it! Let me know what you think, really. I want to do everything I can to help the community. I'll answer any questions you have and take any advice you give.

Looking forward to your replies,

 † Myst Leingod †  † Talk †  16:21, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

I read your application, but I need some time to think about it. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 12:00, December 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Why do you want to be an admin anyway? My personal reason was to edit the templates and make more impacting edits to the wiki without restriction. That doesn't seem to be your area, you don't really edit that much as it is. Do you want to help stop vandals? If so you've got a reasonable power in rollback, not great I agree. If it's for a sort of power trip - seriously not worth your dedication, this is a really thankless job. People only ever complain about this wiki, so you have do admin work for yourself. Personally I wouldn't make you an admin just yet, for one we've got plenty of active admins and we don't want to make the entire active community admin. I would like to see you around the wiki some more though, mainly due to you having some decent english (hard to come by as I'm sure you've noticed in tibia). None of this was meant to be offensive and it's good to have goals, I just think it's too early.  Craggles  ಠ_ಠ  Talk ∙ Contribs  12:51, December 22, 2010 (UTC)

Of course there was no offense taken, Craggles. I understand that the job is thankless, it sounds a lot like what I deal with in rl for a job honestly. I don't feel that the power will do much for me, well, because.. it's really not that much power at all. I totally understand that there are enough active administrators as of right now and I also see where you're coming from. If it were for a simple power trip, I'm sure there would be something easier to shoot for than this. What I really love to do is help people. I love to know that I'm helping (however little it may be) to keep information in this wiki correct. I have used it countless times, as have many of my friends. Whenever a problem appears I or someone else often says "check wiki" and the information is almost always right. I can't say that I'll come up with all sorts of fancy templates, or write a nice javascript application, but I can tell you that I will devote myself to keeping information on here correct. It's a small thing but very important (at least in my eyes). If my application is rejected for any reason, I'll still be here helping out. I completely agree, too, with the fact that there should not be too many active admins. As I said above (I think I did at least, O.o) I'm usually at work for most of the day. When I start to have a bit more time (after the new year begins) I will work more on getting house screenshots because I've noticed that we're lacking in that area.

Anyway, I hope this helped clarify my intentions. There's no rush/pressure either, guys. I'm not going to leave if you tell me I can't be an admin, and I'm not going to disappear if you take too long to give an answer. These things take time and that is completely understood. It may be too early, but I don't see any harm done by submitting an application now. Anyway, sorry if I rambled, and I tried to address all of your points, Craggles. Feel free to fire more questions at me. Thanks, --  † Myst Leingod †  † Talk †  13:43, December 22, 2010 (UTC)

I thought about it and although I don't have large objections I think it's good to let some trust/bond grow. Therefore your application is rescheduled/postponed for 2 months, which is February 21, 2010. This also has some other reasons which I can't tell right now but will be announced soon. In other words, you are doing fine right now, just keep up the good job and we'll see again in some time :) -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 19:12, December 22, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for considering me, and I half expected a result like this. I have only been really active for a short time and you can't just trust anyone. :) Glad to help out here.  † Myst Leingod †  † Talk †  19:15, December 22, 2010 (UTC)

Infobox's
I've had the idea for ages now that we could try and pure the core mechanics of the infoboxes on a seperate template. Things like the outline box the location and situation of the information in the corners of the templates. I know it's not entirely necessary, hell there's nothing wrong with the templates currently. I just like the idea of an all emcompassing Template:Infobox - may even tie in nicely with your configuration template.  Craggles  ಠ_ಠ  Talk ∙ Contribs  22:41, January 3, 2011 (UTC)

Mmm, your ideas sounds cool someway but I don't see a direct advantage. Wouldn't it confuse new/newer editors who want to try to understand how our infoboxes work? Actually it's already kinda complicated for me.. But you can try just for the fun of it. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 15:45, January 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Might be easier to read the code ..maybe. My idea is to take all those excessive bits of html and jam them in a template. So the templates would be in parametres like | topleft= |topright= |width= |colour=, most would be redundant no doubt but it'd be cool to change them on the fly. I'm not going to start it just yet, just mulling the ideas.  Craggles  ಠ_ಠ  Talk ∙ Contribs  16:27, January 4, 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism
The user User:Jeshiia ( talk &bull; contribs &bull; [ bot contribs] &bull; [ block log] &bull; block ) has vandalized. Please review their edits and take appropriate actions if necessary.

This person has continuously changed the other user's page, and looking into the rev history it looks as if it's been going on for a while. I reverted his edit and wrote on his talk page, but saw today that he just made the edit again, completely disregarding my comment. --  † Myst Leingod – ' ₪ Talk ₪ ' – Contribs †  13:32, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying, his edits weren't too heavy so I only blocked him for 1 month. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 13:56, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

Page http://tibia.wikia.com/wiki/Sacred_cerdas_quest is fake and I think it was created to scam ppl.

History Pages
I noticed something that I feel like I can change: Most of the /History pages for articles are not linked to the articles themselves. Maybe I can add a "See also: History" in each one's notes section. Just seeing if you think it'd be a good idea. Thanksi --  † Myst Leingod – ' ₪ Talk ₪ ' – Contribs †  14:07, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

I think you are referring to my recent edit to King Tibianus? Because Template:Infobox Item does have a link to its history page, but Template:Infobox NPC not (yet). This can be added easily. We don't add history links in the notes section though, but at the top right corner of the infobox box. Maybe it's a good idea to standardize this through all infobox templates. I'll make a project for it :) -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 14:26, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

Well I think most articles have history, whether they're items, npcs, places, spells, quests, etc. Though the first step would be logically to start with NPC pages. If you can add a history link to the Template:Infobox NPC, I'll be glad to work on it.  † Myst Leingod – ' ₪ Talk ₪ ' – Contribs †  14:34, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

Oki. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 19:57, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

Standardizing Infobox Templates
I have the bare necessities of what all the info boxes seem to be, all I need to add now is the category boxes and functionality for the sidebar. That is if we ever get them back. While fiddling, I spruced up the history template, hope you don't mind.  Craggles  <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:0px; font-size:90%;border-left:0px">ಠ_ಠ <span style="background:#DBDBDB; border:1px solid #000091; border-left:0px; padding:1px; margin-right:6px; font-size:90%;"> <font color="#6e86ff">Talk ∙ <font color="#6e86ff">Contribs  01:11, January 6, 2011 (UTC)

Looks good! -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 10:18, January 6, 2011 (UTC)


 * Also, I couldn't get your configuration template to work for more than one value, so I made my own. Template:Config. I couldn't find a anywhere in your configuration code though, so I don't think that inputting a value made any difference and it just output everything on the page. <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:4px; font-size:90%;"> Craggles  <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:0px; font-size:90%;border-left:0px">ಠ_ಠ <span style="background:#DBDBDB; border:1px solid #000091; border-left:0px; padding:1px; margin-right:6px; font-size:90%;"> <font color="#6e86ff">Talk  ∙ <font color="#6e86ff">Contribs  10:47, January 6, 2011 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I can imagine it works very strange since I'm not very good at that kind of stuff. Feel free to professionalize it.

-- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 14:44, January 6, 2011 (UTC)

Lists
Can we clean up some of these Category:Lists pages? Most of them are redundant due to dpl or outdated. <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:4px; font-size:90%;"> Craggles  <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:0px; font-size:90%;border-left:0px">ಠ_ಠ <span style="background:#DBDBDB; border:1px solid #000091; border-left:0px; padding:1px; margin-right:6px; font-size:90%;"> <font color="#6e86ff">Talk ∙ <font color="#6e86ff">Contribs  13:38, January 7, 2011 (UTC)

Sure thing. Check if they are still used with the Special:WhatLinksHere/ and otherwise delete them. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 15:25, January 7, 2011 (UTC)

Width on New Skin
Not sure if you know, I didn't. If the width of an article exceeds what wikia set and overlaps the stuff on the right; you can click a little pop out button and it'll expand over the right hand side. I know nothing about java, reckon there's a way we can force that to happen automatically? <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:4px; font-size:90%;"> Craggles  <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:0px; font-size:90%;border-left:0px">ಠ_ಠ <span style="background:#DBDBDB; border:1px solid #000091; border-left:0px; padding:1px; margin-right:6px; font-size:90%;"> <font color="#6e86ff">Talk ∙ <font color="#6e86ff">Contribs  05:52, January 8, 2011 (UTC)

I have no idea if it's possible, Daniel would probably be able to javascript it. But I think they (=Wikia) don't want it to go wide (over their holy sidebar) automatically but only on user action. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 08:51, January 8, 2011 (UTC)


 * Doubt they'd notice or check. <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:4px; font-size:90%;"> Craggles  <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:0px; font-size:90%;border-left:0px">ಠ_ಠ <span style="background:#DBDBDB; border:1px solid #000091; border-left:0px; padding:1px; margin-right:6px; font-size:90%;"> <font color="#6e86ff">Talk ∙ <font color="#6e86ff">Contribs  09:14, January 8, 2011 (UTC)

It can be done but the problem is that when you click that arrow to expand the article, it blocks the rest of the page, as I see it, that would be problematic on most pages if doing it automatically, almost everything you can imagine can be done with javascript but the problem is always wikia not wanting us to do it. --Daniel Letalis 06:10, January 9, 2011 (UTC)

Royal Painting Contest
Heya Bennie! I saw the new contest on Tibia.com and i noticed that Tibia-Wiki wasn't one of the fansites where you could post your submission/picture. How come?

Serious Eko 16:06, January 11, 2011 (UTC)

That is correct. I didn't want to review many submissions again, lazy I guess.. Well no time irl actually. You can submit your work at some other fansites though, good luck if you are participating! -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 16:34, January 11, 2011 (UTC)

Aff :( The other fansites are a bit confusing xD I like this one the most! Well, I think I'll atleast try.

Take Care. Serious Eko 21:54, January 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * This is *the* ultimate tibia fansite. <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:4px; font-size:90%;"> Craggles  <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:0px; font-size:90%;border-left:0px">ಠ_ಠ <span style="background:#DBDBDB; border:1px solid #000091; border-left:0px; padding:1px; margin-right:6px; font-size:90%;"> <font color="#6e86ff">Talk ∙ <font color="#6e86ff">Contribs  16:37, January 13, 2011 (UTC)

Messabe by User Flaay
I have confirmed the achievement "Explorer", it is given after the spectral dress mission.

Flaay 04:26, January 16, 2011 (UTC)

Your followed pages list is empty. Add pages to this list by clicking "Follow" at the top of a page

The follow button is actually on the buttom : P

Flaay 04:33, January 16, 2011 (UTC)

Farmine Hunting Places
Heya! Take a look at Farmine and the "Local Hunting Places". Somethings wrong. :p

Take Care! :D <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:4px; font-size:90%;"> Craggles  <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:0px; font-size:90%;border-left:0px">ಠ_ಠ <span style="background:#DBDBDB; border:1px solid #000091; border-left:0px; padding:1px; margin-right:6px; font-size:90%;"> <font color="#6e86ff">Talk ∙ <font color="#6e86ff">Contribs  23:40, January 17, 2011 (UTC) <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:4px; font-size:90%;"> Craggles  <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:0px; font-size:90%;border-left:0px">ಠ_ಠ <span style="background:#DBDBDB; border:1px solid #000091; border-left:0px; padding:1px; margin-right:6px; font-size:90%;"> <font color="#6e86ff">Talk ∙ <font color="#6e86ff">Contribs  00:11, January 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * My bad, fixed.
 * Thanks for mentioning it, I've just done a bit of an overhaul with how the dpl on those sorts of pages is handled. Cleaned up some rough code.
 * Nice! :D
 * Serious Eko 07:27, January 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Nice! :D
 * Serious Eko 07:27, January 19, 2011 (UTC)

Activity
Hey, Bennie, just thought I'd let you know why I've been inactive(ish) lately. I was hacked on real Tibia a couple weeks ago and am trying to find a new job in rl.. it really slows down my activity on everything "fun". Yes, I find making edits here ridiculously fun. Anyway, I know you postponed my admin application until February, and I hope to be back and making edits again by then (God willing). But unfortunately, right now, the bills need to be paid and I just lost my job so that comes first.

Not sure if you needed/wanted to be notified about it but you got it anyway! haha --  † Myst Leingod – ' ₪ Talk ₪ ' – Contribs †  20:01, January 17, 2011 (UTC)

That's ok, as you might have noticed I passed over most of my responsibilities to Hunter of Dragoes, or to be more specific, he is fansite contact person now. Your administrator application will go through him from now on. I suggest you message him in some time to bring up your application again. Take care (irl stuff too!).

Transcripts error!
See: Error: String exceeds 1,000 character limit here. --Sano 06:23, January 18, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting, I saw it too. It will be taken care of. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 11:36, January 19, 2011 (UTC)

Pregunta PostMan Quest...
Disculpa, se puede seguir usando los royal mailbox siendo free account? gracias por tu tiempo.

Excuse me, can I still use the royal mailbox being free account?

Tnx for your time.

I believe that the answer to that question is yes. Please remember to sign your talk page using ~. Beejay 16:59, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

File deletion
Hello Bennie,

Can you please delete File:Brown Flask (Old).gif and reupload it? I'm asking you this because I had uploaded a messed up screenshot previously (accidentally ofc), and it looks terrible on the file history.

Thank you. —Arkshi (Talk | contribs) 17:51, January 18, 2012 (UTC)

I've gone and done it. Administrators don't need to reupload it, we can delete a specific file revision.

But I don't think this is the name of the item. Isn't it called Flask of Oil? -- Sixorish 18:03, January 18, 2012 (UTC)

Oh, didn't know that. Thanks!

Regarding the item name, I named it "Brown Flask" because the same sprite could be used for different items (flask of mud, beer, rum). Also, we already have a page for each liquid these flasks hold and the files I've uploaded will only be used on the Nostalgia Island page (and perhaps on Old Sprites).

I would also like to ask any administrator to rename/move File:Bonelord (Nostalgia).gif to File:3478.gif, as this is the name of the creature in-game.

Thank you again, —Arkshi (Talk | contribs) 18:59, January 18, 2012 (UTC)

About noodles
This time in honera he got lost, and got back home only after 3 days missing with the next server save.

No white poodle.

If noodles + white poodle = basket of puppies, we would need to wait noodles comeback to try the reward?

Arius edus 12:08, January 25, 2012 (UTC)

I have no idea how it works, what I said was just a thought. I think there are people who know how to get the Basket (Puppies), they just don't want to spoil it here, which is their choice. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 13:44, January 25, 2012 (UTC)

Delete article
Hi. Please, can you delete this article: A Wandering Soul/Transcript (no s)? I missed the s. Thanks. Thascius 19:52, January 29, 2012 (UTC)

Sure! :) -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 19:56, January 29, 2012 (UTC)

Regarding the Entrepreneur outfit
Bennie could u change the template part on the Entrepreneur outfit's page. It still has it labled as the red baron outfits. I was unable to change the template cause it messed up the pictures. :s Twilightfang 14:30, February 1, 2012 (UTC)

Edit: Nvm, someone already got it :P

CSS data
Have you tried using your user CSS file for this? To my knowledge, MediaWiki (or this install of it) does not allow any form of background images on articles, but if you use it in CSS it should work.

I'm not sure how useful it is though, why not just link to an image? The only reason I can think of is if Wikia's image servers go down, but it's not a reliable solution... -- Sixorish 16:34, February 3, 2012 (UTC)

Hi Bennie,
<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">I read your message, thanks for your words. The last days I was busy a little so I couldn't continue it, but now I was able to complete it. I did my best, I put the conversations with the NPCs under the section Trascripts, as you advised me, later I will continue the 2nd stage to finish it.

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Thanks,

<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; ">Yours Haitham

Cheevo Archive Wiki
Hi Bennie,

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">I am here on behalf of the Cheevo Archive Wiki in order to make a request of the Tibia Wiki. I am unsure whether or not you are the person I should be talking so if there is someone else on this wiki who it would be more appropriate to contact, please let me know. <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">Firstly, I guess I should give you a rundown on exactly what Cheevo Archive Wiki is. Well basically it is a wiki that was made in order to provide easily accessible guides and to Video Games achievements/trophies. The wiki was formed on February 28th 2012 and so far is going pretty well. We were approved of Wiki Spotlight on the 22nd of March and are now working on getting some partnerships going with other affiliated Video Gaming wiki's such as this one. <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">So now the big question, would the Tibia Wiki be interested in forming some kind of affiliation/partnership, we would add a link to the Tibia wiki on our main page and add the Tibia Wiki to our list of Affiliated Wikis (not created yet). We believe the partnership could be mutually beneficial. <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this request. <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">Thanks <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt">.50CalAssassin - Talk To Me Fellow Editors! 02:56, March 27, 2012 (UTC)

I don't see the relevance of your request for this wiki, but you could ask all admins on Talk:Administrator Team. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 21:45, March 27, 2012 (UTC)

Spring Patch 2012
Hey Bennie! Sorry I didn't realised you were also still editing but I've just seen that you're about done now. I've got a few more to add to the list so I'll do that now. :) Beejay 16:21, April 3, 2012 (UTC)

That's ok, I should have announced it before editing or something. Seems there were a lot of people eager to upload new images for the changed item sprites, which is a good thing :) -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 21:54, April 3, 2012 (UTC)

Loot parcer
Hello Bennie, perhaps you may help. :) As many of us noticed some loot has been changed in this latest update. Since it concers so many creatures it would be good to be able to compare it with the old game versions. Now the loot parcer is set to 8.6 - 9.5 but I think 9.5 should have it's own do to the spring patch. What can be done about it?

Please look into it,

yours

Skjortis

Skjortis 16:37, April 3, 2012 (UTC)

We have a list of creatures which loot has been changed. Therefore it is not necessary to create new statistics for all. The Loot Statistics parser has already been changed for this, which you can see here. Beejay 16:46, April 3, 2012 (UTC)

Well, I see that now. Got what I was looking for. Thanks alot!

Skjortis 16:59, April 3, 2012 (UTC)

Casino Page
Hello, i saw earlier today someone created a "Casino" page for people who own casinos around different worlds and in their own houses, sadly i saw it got delete and i understand why but i thought...why not remake it but with different categories for worlds that do have them, i bet people who own casinos in-game would love to advertise it here :P just an idea that i thought would be very cool =)

289martin289 00:58, April 9, 2012 (UTC)

"Gambling" is a popular method of in-game scamming, and we cannot moderate it. We should not facilitate illegitimate services. We frown upon world-trading and item trading advertisements so why should service providing be any different? -- Sixorish 03:22, April 9, 2012 (UTC)

That is true i understand, anyways thanks for a quick response, i din't take in count the people who would scam i was just trying to help a friend, thanks anyways ^^

289martin289 12:00, April 10, 2012 (UTC)

Rookgaard Creatures
Please revert my edits in "Rookgaard Creatures" page, and if possible, leave me a note on what's gone wrong with the edit.
 * Done.

-- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 16:15, June 14, 2012 (UTC)

Level of new items
Hello Bennie! Can you tell me what method you used to get the level requirement of the next update items? Thanks! —Arkshi (Talk | contribs) 17:28, June 24, 2012 (UTC)

Yesterday Daniel Letalis sent an email with a link to his dat reader. There you can see some additional information, besides the new sprites. He also sent this email to your hotmail, so you can find it there. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 19:57, June 24, 2012 (UTC)

Wow! It has been some time I changed my email... I didn't know there were so many things on my old one. Thank you! —Arkshi (Talk | contribs) 21:57, June 24, 2012 (UTC)

Traveling, sails, boat, magic carpet, steamship . dog slegs etc
i actually think merging all of these and similar articles would be more usefull then the way they are scatterd now, its not gonna be easy but its gonna be very usefull imo, as in 1 page where you can check how to get to anyplace its possible to travel to, what it requires, etc. will save alot of time, what do you think? ~ Vapaus (talk)

Offline training rate
Where did you find that "Training speed is in percentage of optimal online training"?

CipSoft said they used formulas to determine it, I don't think they mean it will be strictly relative to current rates.

-- Sixorish 10:28, June 29, 2012 (UTC)

Maybe I was wrong then. I just trained offline for x minutes and then improved my skills by y percent. I compared this result with the training calculator of pskonejott and divided them and got 0,4997 so I thought 50% should be the rate. Don't you think it is a linear function? Offline skilling 4 hours will give twice the advancement of skilling 2 hours? -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 11:49, June 29, 2012 (UTC)

Chat
Do we use Wikia's chat system? (I don't use Wikia's skin so I wouldn't know). I noticed you promoting Beejay to chat moderator. -- Sixorish (talk) 20:04, July 13, 2012 (UTC)

I enabled it 1,5 hours ago, to test it. You can access http://tibia.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Chat in another tab on your browser. I thought it could be useful, if you wanted a quick word with somebody and avoid (slow) discussions via talk pages. Another useful thing could be that in-experienced visitors can ask questions and more experienced visitors or admins can give quick answers. But I think you need the Wikia skin enabled (which I have). -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 20:10, July 13, 2012 (UTC)

Yeah it would be nice to have a central discussion area, but I won't use Wikia's skin. Maybe if we can find an extension for chatting on Monobook (maybe something like this, can't find what extension this is though), since I believe all monobook extensions are compatible with Wikia's skin (I guess they are core and not skin-specific, to allow backwards compatibility for older skins). -- Sixorish (talk) 20:41, July 13, 2012 (UTC)

Ok, maybe you can find an extension or ask Wikia if they enable the chat with monobook skin (let it work if you go directly to the Special:chat page).

Edit: Use this link. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 20:45, July 13, 2012 (UTC)

If they could I think they would. I think the old skins have a dependency on some feature of skins, and that's why most Wikia features are not enabled in monobook. Would you be against this extension? (the same one I linked to above) if MediaWiki.org uses it, I think it will be developed well into the future (although it's marked as experimental). -- Sixorish (talk) 20:51, July 13, 2012 (UTC)

Infoboxes that are on the right of a page
What do you mean by sidebar? Do you mean just hide the infobox on the right completely? Sorry i'm just a bit confused by which sidebar you mean. <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:4px; font-size:90%;"> Craggles  <span style="align:right;background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #000091; padding:1px; margin-left:0px; font-size:90%;border-left:0px">ಠ_ಠ <span style="background:#DBDBDB; border:1px solid #000091; border-left:0px; padding:1px; margin-right:6px; font-size:90%;"> <font color="#6e86ff">Talk ∙ <font color="#6e86ff">Contribs  19:57, August 28, 2012 (UTC)
 * If you're talking about our old grey scrolling sidebar with categories in it, I just didn't add any sort of code in for a few of the templates.

Yes, I meant the old grey scrolling sidebar. But Sixorish already fixed it with a simple, to only display it with certain templates. I added a city parameter to NPCs so they now use this sidebar as well. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 20:26, August 28, 2012 (UTC)

Sabrehaven "Treasure Room"
Please, don't tell anyone. :D Thascius (talk) 22:36, September 16, 2012 (UTC)

I think I broke something, my apologies =( Moasseman (talk) 18:49, September 17, 2012 (UTC)

The user Tenonem ( talk &bull; contribs &bull; [ bot contribs] &bull; [ block log] &bull; block ) has vandalized. Please review their edits and take appropriate actions if necessary.However, I alrdy undid these edits, but nothing prevents him from vandalizing more at the point. I'll try to contain these false-edits.

Sincerely,

Moasseman

Moasseman (talk) 18:47, September 17, 2012 (UTC)

Ragnir and Bittermor
Hi. Some articles say that Bittermor is the western barbarian settlement, located under the glacier, and that Ragnir is the eastern settlement. Howerver, the Svargrond guards tell the opposite. For example:
 * Player: camps
 * Sirik: The raider camps are south of Hrodmir. The tribe to the west lives in a glacier cave. They call their settlement Ragnir. ...
 * Sirik: The most southern camp is called Krimhorn and the raider caves to the east are called Bittermor.

The Tibia Maps and the update teaser do not give precise locations, and the user (Fenrir) who added them to the articles seems not to contribute anymore. How could we check these locations? Is it worth the effort? Thanks. Thascius (talk) 21:50, October 21, 2012 (UTC)

Hello Thascius,

I don't know which one is right, but I think it definately is worth the effort to double check. I assume Sirik is right though. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 12:40, October 22, 2012 (UTC)

The articles are right. Cheers to the authors! :)

You see a barbarian banner. You read: Bittermor

You see a barbarian banner. You read: Ragnir

Shame on the guards! Regards. Thascius (talk) 18:22, October 22, 2012 (UTC)

Ok, I'm glad you found it out yourself! :) Maybe you should forward the wrong info Sirik gives as a bug.. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 20:34, October 22, 2012 (UTC)

New Analytics Tool: Introducing ParserSpeed
Hello!

I am pleased today to announce to this community the introduction of an alpha-level tool, ParserSpeed, which can help this community continue to share content quickly and effectively. The tool, available at Special:ParserSpeed, allows users to see how long pages on the wiki take to render. Longer pages with lots of images and templates will naturally take longer to render than shorter articles. With this tool, you will be able to identify which pages on your wiki are the slowest to render, and see specific details as to what might be the cause. Identifying what causes the slow page loads is the first step towards speeding them up.

Why is page load speed important?
This may seem like a silly question. ‘This is the interwebs! It must go faster, faster!’ But it is true and actually quite remarkable how quickly we can find ourselves losing patience if a website takes even a single second to load longer than normal. Longer page loads create a significant difference in your perception of a website. We can split up its effect on website perception in three areas:


 * User experience - The speed at which the page loads has an impact on what the user gets out of that particular page. Since many users come from search, their first experience may be on a specific page. If that page is slow to load, chances are they will expect all pages on your wiki to be the same. This impression can go a long, so keeping pages as fast as possible will reduce this risk.


 * User perception - This is how a user feels about a site after a number of interactions with it. Much like user experience, their long-term perception of the site may be willing to trade some site lag for valuable content. The trade-off threshold is high however (the content must prove to be immensely unique and valuable) for the user to completely forget or ignore the site speed. Ultimately, if they find a site they feel has a better trade-off (speed vs. content), they will begin to rely upon that site more.


 * Technical perception - Google does factor site speed into its search ranking algorithms. That’s why it’s essential for wikis to make sure they achieve a balance between having a lot of information on a page that a user might land on Google from versus having so much information that it slows down page load and thus drags down the page rank. Even if a page on a wiki has more useful content than the first four search rankings, chances are the searcher will either give up after four fruitless results or feel as though they’ve reached the maximum available information available before ever finding result #5.

What Are Things to Avoid
As I mentioned earlier, it’s a tricky balance isn’t it? The more essential to canon and/or interesting information exists about the canon subject, the more important it becomes to collect and share information about a subject in a meaningful and detailed way. From DPL queries to photo galleries, there are a variety of ways built into wikis to effectively share information. But each one has a technical cost.

I’m not going to suggest this community should dramatically change how pages are coded or the way you organize information. However, I do just want to point out what things are generally best to avoid.


 * Really, really long lists - such as long lists of internal links or huge galleries of images. While having a lot of information on one centralized list is often useful, your wiki may be better served by splitting those pages into three or four different pages that are more readable and friendly to the parser and user.


 * Deep, complex templates (a.k.a. “Inceplates”) - such as templates which call templates, which call templates, which call templates, etc. Don’t have parameters just for the sake of having parameters. Hard-code whatever makes sense and try to not make templates to be a catch-all for information.


 * Expensive Parser Functions - There are a number of functions that are considered technically expensive to render because they involve doing a non-cacheable query in the database. Those functions are,  , and  . While each function is very useful in doing a dynamic display of data, even just a handful can notably slow down a page’s load time.


 * Multiple DPL & Semantic MediaWiki queries - DPL and Semantic MediaWiki are great tools most of our big wikis for conditional logic. But like an expensive parser function, these tools make complex queries to the database. Try not to have multiple queries on the same page. Use caching in DPL at all times. If a table of information is fairly static, maybe it makes more sense to go ahead and code that page out manually as opposed to having a query slow the page down.


 * MediaWiki messages - Since MediaWiki messages are loaded on each page, don’t use the MediaWiki namespace for parser functions or template calls. Keep that namespace simple.

Pages on this Wiki
So let’s take some of the tips from the first section into practice for this wiki. I want to point out the three slowest pages in the main namespace and explain why they take longer load times than others

The three NS:0 pages it takes the longest to parse on are:


 * List of Creatures by Implementation Date - A few expensive parser functions
 * List of Creatures by Experience to Hit Points Ratio - Two expensive DPL queries.
 * All Buildings - Three expensive DPL queries.

How to Use ParserSpeed
First, I want to say that we will be having a GoToMeeting webinar to discuss ParserSpeed and general site speed principles on Thursday, April 4th at 10:00 PM UTC. That’s 3 PM PDT (American West Coast), 6 PM EDT (American East Coast) and 11 PM BST (United Kingdom). We will answer questions on this post as well until then, but we also just want to have a live demo and interactive session to allow you to ask questions of the Wikia staff. You can register for here - https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/987185502

Since this is an alpha-level feature, we haven’t gotten to add a few things like a glossary yet so I want go ahead and review what each column represents:


 * Avg. Parsing Time - The average time it takes for Wikia’s servers to parse the page in the last 30 days.
 * Min. & Max. Parsing Time - The minimum and maximum times it took for Wikia’s servers to parse the page in the last 30 days (different parsing times depend on size and complexity of parameters).
 * Wikitext Size - The size (in KB) of the saved wikitext.
 * HTML Size - The size (in KB) of the saved wikitext when converted to HTML.
 * Exp. Functions - The number of expensive parser functions on the page.
 * Node count - Number of HTML elements a page is outputting.
 * Post-expand size - The size of the page after parameters are inserted.
 * Template argument size - Best explained here.

Part of an alpha-level release is to not only illustrate the functionality of a feature but to gather feedback early in the process, allowing us to add more features or change features to meet user needs and requests. We very much want to hear how your community will use the tool, what functionality you feel is either lacking or redundant, or any other constructive feedback you would like to share. --DaNASCAT (help forum | blog) 22:28, March 29, 2013 (UTC)

Interesting! As improvements I would suggest:
 * filtering by namespace (e.g. the ability to exclude the user namespace, which seems less relevant to improve, since those pages are rarily visited).
 * or the abilty to order by multiple columns

Also, pageviews would be a very helpful tool, especially in combination with this parsing page. I think currently a list of most visited pages is available, but more exact numbers would give the ability to improve the most visited pages. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 20:07, March 30, 2013 (UTC)

I can't see any #ifexist calls on List of Creatures by Implementation Date. The expensive parser function field in the table is blank. Did you make a mistake? -- Sixorish (talk) 00:00, March 31, 2013 (UTC)

Hi Bennie! (Hope at least this is Bennie as im nob on how to use wiki) and iam wishing that you could help me doing it? if so just message me on my talk post w/e it is called.

Hello Bennie. Thanks for telling me that thing about editing the "Sell to" and "Buy to" data, I've just started editing and I'm kind of new to this. Concerning the "Notes" data edit, I tried to put more emphasis in the fact that it's a very rare item, because, in my opinion, this is not represented by the current information given in "Notes". Tell me what you think about it.

Hatav (talk) 01:42, September 27, 2013 (UTC)Hatav

Hello can you check on my talk? Man I dont know how to make good text lines on rare items etc look on my talks. thanks bro

Hello Bennie, it's just about the editting war we're having with the new umbral weapons stats. Please take a look at the official stats showed by CipSoft staff on test forums: http://forum.test.tibia.com/forum/?action=thread&threadid=87&pagenumber=1

Thanks in advance. :-)

InExcelsisDiabolus (talk) 00:55, December 10, 2013 (UTC)

Roshamuul dates
How do you suggest we implement Roshamuul dates? I think it would be easiest to just put it on individual world articles? -- Sixorish (talk) 13:13, December 19, 2013 (UTC)

Or in the template? Maybe comma delimited and then call the template on individual world pages?

I made a small php script which checks the world stages: http://www.onlaika.com/scripts/roshamuul.php (source code: http://www.onlaika.com/scripts/roshamuul.txt). I will make it check once a day after server save with a CRON job and let it put the info in some database.

I used "guzzlemaw" and "choking" as keywords. Do we know more creatures for the other stages? -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 15:55, December 19, 2013 (UTC)

Gaz'haragoth according to User:DM here: Talk:Roshamuul. But unless you save the result every day the kill statistics won't be reliable. -- Sixorish (talk) 11:33, December 20, 2013 (UTC)

Ok, I have an idea how to do it. Will code it later on, and use haragoth as third stage indicator. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 17:41, December 20, 2013 (UTC)

The template is not being used at all right now, so if you want to add dates it won't break anything. -- Sixorish (talk) 19:17, December 20, 2013 (UTC)

CSS
You're on the right track ;) Wikia only affects Oasis, while Common is everything else. A simple way to make sure anything from Common is automatically placed into Wikia (instead of manually doing it) is to add @import "/load.php?mode=articles&only=styles&articles=MediaWiki:Common.css"; to the top of the Wikia page.

Essentially the only reason to mess with Common is if you're making changes for anything outside the default skin. Raylan13 ( talk ) 17:49, January 13, 2014 (UTC)

No problem ;) Raylan13 ( talk ) 20:25, January 13, 2014 (UTC)

Oh, sorry for wrong date and link at the update page, i have actually changed it at first but then realised i was editing at wrong tab and somehow it got messed up later, my bad RRogacz (talk) 18:07, February 18, 2014 (UTC)