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Table editing help request!

Ok my requests are always odd and wierd: I have three tables at User:Chieftain Alex/sandbox, I'm looking at the third one - there is an orange heading band, followed by a series of rows with weapons in them (no icons). How can I insert a light grey/silver line between the rows only? (I want to keep the main background white and the top bit in orange) I was thinking

<hr> </ hr>

could be used somewhere but idk yet.. thoughts? Chieftain Alex 12:28, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Neither weird nor hard. I made you an easy example of use + your recolored table in my sandbox.-- Sagi 08:51, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

I see what you've done, but that has a line between columns too :p (I'd asked for rows), but I can't even remember why I didn't want the current setup in my sandbox, so consider case closed. Chieftain Alex 12:45, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

*closed*-- Sagi 13:15, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Image redirect question

So basicly, when someone clicks on this icon he/she is redirected to my main page, but there's the annoying "(Redirected from File:User Sagittario Main page.png)". This doesn't happen when I click on an image on GWW main page. How have you managed to hide that? Thanks in advance -- Sagi 08:57, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Just like my signature, you want the link parameter:

[[File:User Sagittario Main page.png|20px|link=User:Sagittario]]

Which produces the appearance of:

Chieftain Alex 12:47, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Awesome! Thanks Alex -- Sagi 13:15, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Failed Feedbacks

Check this one: Feedback:User/Titani_Ertan/Allied_Battle_AI Revision as of 09:59, 2009 September 21 by Titani Ertan.

Observation: Adjust (old) hero AI to not rush for a spirit, is NO suggestion.

When I see a lot of obsolete or no use pages being deleted. Why do stupid pages such as this one remain "alive"? Why not dump them as well? Yoshida Keiji talk 12:08, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Countdown timers

I have seen clocks in special events but don't know where to find...their templates? Can we have one for the iirc with Lo Presti or somebody help me include one in my talk page? The difference between timezones is a killer for me, even when very good at maths. Yoshida Keiji talk 23:11, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

The template and example of use are in my Sandbox. Here's the source code:

{{Event countdown
| IRC with Stephane
| displayutc = Jun 12 2012 08:00
| startutc = Jun 12 2012 08:01
| endutc = Jun 14 2012 12:01
| interval = 720
| duration = 60
}}

And the timezones are real horror in summer because not every country has DST and Anet often ignores DST. -- Sagi 06:13, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

I think something is wrong there because the countdown says meeting already started... Yoshida Keiji talk 08:14, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

help  :)

→ moved from Guild_Wars_Wiki_talk:Community_portal#help_:.29

could someone help me please, i want to put a deletion tag onto a couple of pictures, but i dont know how to do it, and cant find it on wiki, 30 mins trying to find so far  :P i guess its something really easy but im not good enough to work it out myself. Spark-TBa 12:52, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

{{delete|reason-goes-here}} - see Template:Delete --snograt 13:59, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Ty for reply and for moving my post to appropriate location. :) Spark-TBa 09:17, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Recent Changes Spamming

I remember I did this myself when I was a wiki noob, anybody can check my contributions back to my early days to find out. I kept doing that for three days and got a message in my talk page to use "preview". Since GWW is in low activity the 500 last edits can still let me see past the spams. I wander...What would happen in GW2W immediatly after it's release if just 5 players make around 100 edits each...how are we supposed to bookkeep?

What can a registered user do besides using a spammer's talk page if he/she is still not reacting to other's messages? Yoshida Keiji talk 07:58, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Beyond telling a vandal/troll to stop, the only thing a normal user can do is report them on the Admin Noticeboard (GW2W) and keep reverting any changes they make until an admin can deal with them. It's not a perfect system, but I'm sure you can see the implications of giving regular users "power" over each other (don't read into my word choice there, I'm tired :P).

That said, regular maintenance just depends on a dedicated community and spamming F5 on the Recent Changes page. If you start patrolling regularly, one method can be to scroll down to the last instance of someone reverting vandalism or an admin intervening and scan "up" (to the present) from there, that way you can reasonably assume that any edits prior have already been checked. I'm sure the community as a whole has learned a lot on the matter from this wiki that they'll carry over to the GW2W, and combined with the automated tools (such as AbuseFilter), I'm sure we'll have a handle on things. On a side note, I believe there are programs designed to make patrolling RC a lot easier, although for that Google can help you more than I can. ~FarloTalk 08:38, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

I forgot to mention one thing. Can't the Recent Changes have a function feature to introduce other user's names so that it won't list the edits of such people to clean up the Recent Changes listing? This would help "real" contributors to check without spams interference. Yoshida Keiji talk 08:48, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Not that I'm aware of... aside from the toggles at the top of the page I don't think there's any way to exclude certain edits or users. Again, 3rd-party tools might have that feature, but I've never looked into those. ~FarloTalk 08:59, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

I don't know how to fix this

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Gallery_of_Peacekeeper_weapons

To me it says "Extension:DynamicPageList (DPL), version 2.0 : WARNING: No results." - I dunno how to fix this, or where to put it to flag it as a faulty page, but hopefully here it will receive some attention. Cheers. --Alex Eternal 17:52, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

It cannot be easily fixed; the page was originally created without the necessary categories on certain other articles (mostly because the idea was implemented before it was discussed, fleshed out). Let me see what I can do to adjust things for now. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tennessee Ernie Ford (talk) at 18:16, 4 July 2012 (UTC).

Cheers for having a look, I don't particularly need the page, I just thought I'd add it to the collective's to-do list. Thanks guys --Alex Eternal 23:08, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for calling it to the attention of the collective :-). (There are probably a few other stray articles out there that are left-over from that — and a few other — unfinished projects.) – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 00:38, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

commendations

where do you turn commendations in for items? --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 97.102.163.101 (talk).

See Imperial Commendation#Collectors or Ministerial Commendation#Collectors. -- FreedomBound 23:17, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

DPL Manual (a copy on this wiki?)

Hiya. As per the notice at the top of the mediawiki page, The site with the DPL manual on has been afflicted for at least 6 months with a virus such that any time you follow the link to the manual you could end up with a virus on your pc.

I'm in the process of copying most of the content from that manual and changing the examples to suit this wiki, I'm wondering if I could put this manual under some place like Help:DPL manual & put the sub pages from the corrupted site as sub pages of that help page. It seems to have this license which allows it to be copied but not massively edited (probably fixing the links such that they link to the correct pages would be ok)..

Also I won't want to link to the original version since theres a virus on that site as said above. Chieftain Alex 17:20, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Guild Wars Wiki Dump

Hi,

I was wondering if there was a dump of all pages on the wiki I could download for personal use. I just want to parse through the dump of wiki files to try and correlate certain things with other things. Like figure out who drops what items and so forth.

It seems this question has been unanswered for a very long time: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_Wiki_talk:About#Dump_Available_-_Usable.3F

I also found this: http://archive.org/details/wiki.guildwars.com but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be be a full dump, it only includes the edit history.

Thanks for your help in advance!

--192.168.103.30 23:31, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

That first topic was actually about porting over the old GuildWiki to this one - and trying to obtain a dump from gravewit/fyren/wikia. You could put in a tech request for it, I'd imagine ANet's fairly busy atm but it's not terribly difficult so they'd get to it at some point. -Auron 13:17, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick answer. I'll request it but I doubt they'll have time considering GW2 just launched. --192.55.54.42 16:59, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Note that your request should be placed here. --Silver Edge 19:05, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Template:Skill infobox

For some reason, when the "categorize" parameter is set to no on {{Skill infobox}}, it creates a white space below the concise description. E.g., Lightning Orb (PvP) with categorize set to "y" and then set to "n". Can the infobox be edited to not add that white space? --Silver Edge 06:06, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Resolved. --Silver Edge 08:55, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

How to link undo of elder revisions in Summary?

I was fixing Claude's page with speculative attributes, an old revision Revision as of 09:57, 5 January 2008 by Gordon Ecker, I can link like this in talk pages... but for some reason this doesn't work on summaries. Yoshida Keiji (talk) 08:39, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

You can't link to them. (the summary panel uses non formatting wiki markup e.g. [[Link]] works but '''Name''' doesn't), does not accept templates, and does not accept hyperlinks.) Chieftain Alex 10:43, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Local IP 192.168.103.xx recorded as signature

In the last couple months, IP signatures are being recorded as some local IP, like 192.168.103.50 - is this a result of a recent version upgrade, or some plugin that was added in the last 2 months? 76.164.65.219 17:17, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

An amusing side-effect of this strange bug is the recent block for IP 192.168.103.53 which is local to the wiki.guildwars.com server. Obviously there is some problem that is causing external IPs to be treated as local internal ones. Who is the right person that needs to know about this? 76.164.65.219 18:10, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

You could report it at Guild Wars Wiki:Reporting wiki bugs, Feedback talk:Stephane Lo Presti or the Guild Wars Support Forum. --Silver Edge 21:03, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Cannot create account - "could not open socket"

i cant seem to make an account. everytime i type in the info and click submit it loads a page that says "could not open socket" please help

Its a known current wiki bug. No new users have registered in the last 25 days, so its broken for everyone. On the plus side theres far less vandal spam. --Chieftain Alex 18:28, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Also, I've put a post on the support forum. I expect they'll bitch at me for putting it on the wrong site. --Chieftain Alex 18:59, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

User boxes?

I'm not sure how to make one. I'm not sure if someone made it already. I'm sorta stupid and as such would enjoy a userbox thats "This User is With Stupid" where User is a link to the users list and Stupid redirects to the user or talk page of whoever clicks it xD. I'm not sure if it would be considered offensive and I'm sure this question proves I truly need it xD (like many with weak wiki-fu) Durp da durp 03:05, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

ahh lol read the one above mine guess the no n00bs means i'm beyond help ^_^ Durp da durp 05:31, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

What does it take to run this wiki?

What are the resources that are needed to run this wiki? man power, servers, etc... I am interested in starting a wiki (completely unrelated to guild wars or video games)that could potentially grow to this size. Thanks

If you just want a wiki with little hassle then you can start one on Wikia for example. You will have adds and will have to respect their policies, but the side has many great wikies such as Wookieepedia.

If you want to setup your own standalone wiki on a web server you can find the installation requirements here. In general the Mediawiki site should have answers to all your questions.

As for the manpower required you don't need more then 1 person to "run" a wiki, but you need a lot of people to edit content and over time some "moderators" to settle debates and such. It's not unlike a forum, except that, since anyone can edit, the community can self moderate itself to a degree. — Poki#3 (talk) 12:17, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Nicholas the Traveler and Main Page/activities

For some reason, the current item Nicholas the Traveler wants and his location doesn't display on Nicholas the Traveler#Locations and Main Page/activities (which is transcluded onto Main Page), even though it appears Nicholas the Traveler/Research has been updated correctly. --Silver Edge 06:45, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

We have 197 entries of data, so I thought we might be near the maximum number of template queries we could dpl in, but even after deleting all the other rows out of /research, that doesn't fix it. Oddly though, my test query (a copy of the dpl at the top of Nicholas' page) on User:Chieftain Alex/sandbox 2 doesn't get any results.. which is why the nicholas page is blank. unfortunately I don't quite understand all the templates being used + how they mesh:

{{Nicholas the Traveler research}} - this one only does the row presentation, nothing complex there..

{{Nicholas the Traveler research.page}} - {{Nicholas the Traveler research.mainpage}} - they both format the results of the dpl based on the date range of the last week..

I can't see why anything would go spectacularly wrong unless mediawiki changed the date format without our knowing again? :/

Meh, the date format is the same as it was + still working fine. Chieftain Alex 11:02, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

I switched the date to January 15 on the research page, and that updated the main page, but not the Nick page. Both pages displayed correctly when I updated the research page on January 14, so something changed since then that caused the issue. I cannot find it, and I'm not going to mess with the code and templates. Hopefully that helps narrow down the problem. Gwynna Vive 23:15, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Is it possible to delete a Wiki account?

Forgive me if this has been asked before. If no talk nor edits have been posted, is it possible to delete the account? I see that it is impossible to change the username. I understand that you might have a problem with deleting accounts and then someone stealing work, but in this case that would not be a problem. Thank you.

Nope. Any user that wishes to quit/leave can simply stop editing, or put {{delete|user request}} on their user page if they want it gone. -Auron 06:01, 28 January 2013 (UTC)