User talk:Tierrie

Need help with Portal CSS
Hi Tierrie, I need your help (again) for some CSS modifications regarding portals. According to my understanding you are the one who modified the CSS as well, so need your guidance for some issues. This is the current outcome of the Deus Ex project where I need to change the placement of the elements. Rather than playing with the values of CSS my self I thought it would be better to come to you. I really appropriate your help so far. Thanks. -- Snfonseka (talk) 05:58, January 22, 2011 (UTC)

^This issue is solved. -- Snfonseka (talk) 17:08, January 22, 2011 (UTC)

A quick thank you
Thank you for the Portal template Tierrie. I've got it up and running now on the Uncharted wiki and I've already heard a great response from the community. Thanks again, and if you ever need anything, don't hesitate to ask.--Klock101 (talk) 14:53, January 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much. The redesign was hard work, but worth it in the end. I think that I have a fairly solid understanding of how to work the Portal template now, and I realise that you won't always be available to help interested users set it up on their wikis. As a result, I'd be happy to help users where I can, so if you ever find that you don't have the time to help them out, send them my way and I'll see what I can do to help.--Klock101 (talk) 16:20, January 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * Sure thing. I'll have a look through Help:Portal tomorrow and give you some suggestions. Talk to you then.--Klock101 (talk) 23:58, January 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * I haven't forgotten about your request. I have my college applications due this weekend, along with a fairly significant project due on Friday, so I'm a bit behind with pretty much everything else. I'll have time on Saturday to make out a list of suggestions for you. Talk to you then.--Klock101 (talk) 21:37, January 26, 2011 (UTC)

Need your help on Slider
Hi, Portal design for the Deus Ex is almost over (see here). But I have encounter a problem regarding slider (probably one of my errors, that I cannot detect my self).

If you look at this then you can see there are three games in the top of the slider. Even though I have given links to three separate pages for each of these games, all those links are pointing to a single page (Template:Portal/Deus Ex: Human Revolution). Probably this is a stupid error at my end but still I cannot locate where the fault is. I really appreciate any help regarding this. -- Snfonseka (talk) 19:05, January 24, 2011 (UTC)

Oops. Didn't see your message in my talk page. First I thought (today) that it was a weird bug related to my browser cache or something like that (because the problem was solved when I checked it today). I never thought that the problem is with the "Template:Portal/Main". Thanks for pointing that out and fixing the problem for me.-- Snfonseka (talk) 12:53, January 25, 2011 (UTC)

What did I do wrong?
Hi,

I know that what I am currently doing is exactly against all the rules, but before you get upset, please let me explain:

Today I logged into my account and wanted to undo vandalism (see ). When I entered my message I was told I was blocked from editing by Exlex the reason being Spam. First I was surprised. I thought, well okay, it is certainly my IP that is blocked, because I do not have a permanent IP. But when I logged out, I was able to edit pages (and I am doing that right now, meaning I side-step a block which is why I said I am doing something against the rules).

That means it is actually really my user account that is blocked. But my block log is empty see. And there is no block info on my talk page as well. So I thought leaving a note there would most certainly go by unnoticed. Hence I decided to violate the rules and use annonymous editing to ask you for help.

Btw: Exlex does neither have a user nor talk page, hence I am adressing you for help. Otherwise I would have tried to contact Exlex.

So, can you tell me what I did wrong? In Special:Contributions/Pp2009 I can't see anything I did not really do, and nothing of it is spam. However, maybe somebody high-jacked my account did edits which have been wiped from the wiki already, so they do not show there. I don't know. I am a little lost currently...

Anyway. Thanks in advance --82.113.106.28 (talk) 07:26, January 27, 2011 (UTC) (perviously known as Pp2009)


 * Whatever caused wikia to get confused about my IP when being logged in (some more explanation here if you are interested) seems to have vanished. Next time that happens I'll simply wait a day or two before getting all panicky again... --Pp2009 (talk) 10:12, January 28, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
I have completed the portals for Deus Ex Wiki, there are areas that need to improve but that can be done later or by someone else.

Let me say thank you, for your help in solving issues related to the portals during the Deus Wiki Portal creation. As I mentioned earlier, I have given the credits to you for your excellent portal design in here. -- Snfonseka (talk) 12:53, January 27, 2011 (UTC)

In need of your almighty assistance
Hi Tierrie,

I asked you a question some time ago last year, but since then I still haven't been able to track down the problem. In case you forgot I'm coming from the Regnum Online Wiki. We have quite a bit of content, but we would like to redo the visual look of things like the main page to make it more attractive and accessible for users. I already went ahead and delved into the design of a portal based on what I read in your help section. The framework is done, and it's in a state where it can be freely edited and altered, the only problem is that the entire time the Portal/Component/Slider doesn't function.

The only thing that I've noticed is that on our Template:Portal/Main, clicking a portal link will take you to the main portal redirect. While on the Dragon Age Wiki, clicking a link like Portal:Dragon Age: Origins doesn't take you anywhere. I'm not sure if that has anything at all to do with the problem, or if it stems from the problem.

Anyway, do you think you could take a look? The example template is on my userpage there. If you need anything like admin rights to edit CSS or Javascript go ahead and tell me. The current CSS is just copypasta, I'd like to get the portal itself functioning before I start to edit color schemes there. I'd really appreciate it if you could leave a message on my talk page here or there. I can really imagine how busy you are though, so :P

Thanks - Edge 09:32, February 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh my gosh xD. Tierrie thank you, it works now! I think I'll be able to manage everything else from here on out now. If there is anything you need you're always welcome to ask me, I'll be more then happy to assist. (I'm not so great with templates, but I have acceptable image manipulation skills.) Once again thank you so much, I think I can sleep in peace tonight :D -Ignis_Shield_Conflict_Icon.png Edge 10:17, February 1, 2011 (UTC)

Having a Bug problem, hoping you have the answer
Ok so I'm playing Dragon Age Origins. I'm In the Throne room in Orzammar and I pick Harrowmont as the King. I read the wiki page about the bug that replays the conversation of Bhelin getting pissed. Which is exactly what happens. The problem is is after its done again nothing happens, I cant get out of the room Harrowmont says nothing relevent and the ambassador guy is the guy i talk to who restarts the Attack conversation but now there is no Bhelin standing there. I was hoping you knew a solution to continue the story.

Thanks

Nathan

mobile skin issue
Im new to wikia, and I've researched how to fix this, but I am stuck. I use my I phone to access wiki pages, and I selected the "see full page" option at the bottom of the screen. The result was a change in the skin to a new, more colorful scheme, with more options but much smaller text. The problem is, it takes much longer to load and I can't switch it back to the plain black and white mobile version. My other wikis are fine and still display it like mobile, but dragon age is stuck. Help would be appreciated. Teagan colbert (talk) 13:41, February 11, 2011 (UTC)

Quotes
Hello. I was about to start doing this but thought it best to ask your opinion first. While the quotes section on character pages is excellent, I had a thought that a single quote could be placed at the top of the pages. What do you think? King Cousland (talk) 20:28, February 6, 2011 (UTC)

Alright, thanks for your help :) King Cousland (talk) 16:06, February 7, 2011 (UTC)

Strider/varterral
Hey! Strider was recently sort of moved to Varterral (since it's the name on the achievement page). "Sort of moved" because it's actually a copy/paste of the information (because the page could not be deleted upon moving). Can you delete Varterral and Strider ASAP (before someone edits it)? This is really for technical reasons (i.e. keeping contributions to one page, and also for copyrights reasons). You'll have to merge Talk:Strider and Talk:Varterral. --D. (talk · contr) 00:31, February 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * Do you want me to delete both Strider and Varterral? Or just one of them? -- 00:46, February 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * My bad, I didn't really read what I typed! You can merge the articles and talk pages for Varterral and Strider. The other option is to just delete both the article and talk page for Varterral, remove the redirect on Strider, then redirect Strider to Varterral. --D. (talk · contr) 01:02, February 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * I was with you right up till the end when you said remove the redirect on Strider, then redirect Strider to Varterral. Do we want to keep Varterral or Strider as the actual article? -- 08:04, February 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * By removing the redirect, I actually meant to revert the last edit of Strider by Itachou, then move Strider to Varterral as the new page (which, now that I think about it, the first step about deleting both Varterral's article and talk page isn't needed because of over redirecting). --D. (talk · contr) 08:21, February 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * So let me get this right. Revert last edit on Strider by Itachou which brings back it's entire content. Then move Strider to Vaterral. I just did that. I hope I didn't blow up the world. Destroying the world would be hard to explain to penguins. -- 04:41, February 10, 2011 (UTC)

Slider in Monobook
I really like the slider code you made for the "Portal" templates. I have been planning to use it on BioShock Wiki, but I had a small question for you. Is there a reason why the JavaScript wont work in Monobook? I noticed that you have only been putting the code in Wikia.css and Wikia.js, but I placed it in Common.css and Common.js respectively. It works, except that in Monobook clicking the buttons in the slider does nothing. Do you know why this might be the case? ~ Gardimuer { ʈalk } 19:28, February 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * (Not sure where you would like me to respond; but I'll continue here.)
 * I know that most wikis don't set up custom themes for Monobook, but I have on BioShock Wiki. I like all of our templates to look equally good in Monobook and the "Wikia" skin.
 * The slider works fine in the Wikia skin, but in Monobook clicking on the left/right buttons in the slider does nothing, and clicking on the "portal_sliderlink" divs also does nothing. So in Monobook the slider is essentially stuck on "portal_content-1". I have no experience with JavaScript, but I hoped you could tell me why the code only works for the Wikia skin. ~ Gardimuer { ʈalk } 02:51, February 13, 2011 (UTC)
 * Found the problem. Wikia skins create an object called WikiaScriptLoader. Essentially this allows pages to load scripts dynamically. There is no easy way to statically add jQuery's ui to the page, so in my design I have created it so that jQuery's library is loaded dynamically using WikiaScriptLoader. This object is not present in Monobook but I might be able to hack it in for you. I would need Common.js's protection level lowered so I can add the wsl code into Monobook.


 * This is probably because Wikia no longer supports Monobook, which means that anything they have designed in the last few skin iterations isn't included. WSL is one of these new objects. -- 04:32, February 13, 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't know of any way to lower the protection level on a MediaWiki page. Is there a way to do that? If not, you could just place the altered code in a   section on my talk page and I could apply the changes. I really appreciate you taking the time to investigate this. I would understand if you decide not to work on it any further, considering it won't be benefiting your home wiki. ~ Gardimuer { ʈalk } 02:20, February 14, 2011 (UTC)


 * If I recall correctly, just make the page editable by anyone. The other option if you are a bureaucrat is to grant me administrative powers for the duration it takes to fix the problem. I don't mind making the changes, but, I would like to make them myself. I find that coding in an environment like this can be a little trial and error and I would have to make multiple changes until I get it right.


 * I rather like helping out. It's part of why I joined the wiki community - to lend my expertise in making the wikis more friendly to everyone. If you have other questions, feel free to ask them. Cheers! -- 02:28, February 14, 2011 (UTC)


 * I have given you temporary sysop privileges on BioShock Wiki. Here's hoping you can make it work. ;) ~ Gardimuer { ʈalk } 14:06, February 14, 2011 (UTC)

I like to hear your opinion
Hi, I just opened a new forum thread; Forum:Changes to Template:ClassInfobox. TC -- Snfonseka (Talk) 07:06, February 13, 2011 (UTC)

RE: Email address
Hi, I sent an email to your gmail. -- Snfonseka (Talk) 01:34, February 15, 2011 (UTC)

Feedback
Thank you so much for your help!

As for feedback... I'm probably not the right person to survey about lowering the technical savvy. I understand html and CSS well enough, so I never looked at the help explanation, but that page is very well laid out and it seems clear enough. When I was investigating the slider I just went through all the pages of meta-templates/components involved in displaying the slider template on the main page, then combined the code and sorted it out to see what parts I actually needed. Personally, I think it is more intuitive not to use so many meta-templates for a table design that is relatively simple, but I suppose that depends on the situation and what a person is planning to use the template for. Dragon Age Wiki and Assassin's Creed Wiki both need PortalSection because they have multiple components on their mainpage that use the same CSS design. In my case, I'm only using the slider portion on BioShock Wiki, so PortalSection and PortalTransformer were just extra code to sort through.

Using less meta-templates might make it easier for other users to understand... or it might make it harder for people with beginner-level template making experience. I'm not sure. Regardless, your design was perfect for my own needs, and I can't think of any drawbacks of the system as it is. ~ Gardimuer { ʈalk } 08:56, February 15, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Dragon Age Legends
Hello. I've sent you an email regarding the beta key. -- Rufusdrake(talk) 05:27, February 15, 2011 (UTC)

Mobile phone
You should probably remove that blue background. ;] --D. (talk · contr) 17:16, February 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * I made the change and nothing showed up. I thought mobile skins were broken. Damn you caching! On the bright side, I can start making changes to the mobile skin. -- 20:09, February 16, 2011 (UTC)

Portal help suggestions
Hey Tierrie. Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you. Anyway, in terms of improving the help guide, there's not much that I can think of. It's very easy to copy and paste the individual templates that are required, and the .css.

However, one thing that wasn't immediately obvious to me was the JavaScript. It took me the better part of 2 hours to realise that I needed to edit the common.js for the slider to slide. Maybe a mention of it in the help guide, or even better, the script that needs to be copied to common.js, along with a mention of the autofill bug fix.

Also, I'm not too good with, well, the technical stuff behind the portal. I can design various portal boxes, but as for the style sheet in the .css, I had to get some help with that. It's a pretty major part of the portal design, and maybe a mention of the logistics of it would help. Nothing major, but it would help if you again put in the required code into the help guide, with the various rgb colours removed, and instead insert tags like (BACKGROUND COLOUR HERE) or (BORDER COLOUR HERE).

That's about all I can think of. Otherwise, I found it very easy to use, and I thank you again for designing it. I hope this has helped.--Klock101 (talk) 20:15, February 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey, Wikiseer! XD I saw your countdown till DA2 demo, and I wanted to add it to AC's main page for the release of PC's Brotherhood. Can you please tell me how to make the thingy to work? =] Thanks mate. -- D. Cello 23:25, February 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * The extension you are looking for is called EventCountdown. You have to ask Wikia staff to install that for you. After that, it is as simple as putting it up. -- 00:40, February 17, 2011 (UTC)
 * Already requested. Thanks! -- D. Cello 00:54, February 17, 2011 (UTC)

MonoBook skin
I am unsure whether I am supposed to pose this question to you or one of the other admins, but since I saw you post in the mobile skin thread, I decided on asking you. I prefer the look of the MonoBook skin to that of the default one because it looks more Wikipedia like and because it has this 'wide' aspect to it that the other skin does not have. However it appears all white with unusually coloured bars and text, making it hard to read stuff....For instance the bar on top of this page containing the 'sign your post with four tildes' message is all black and I can't see the text. So basically my question is that is the MonoBook skin unfinished or something? Or is there something else I need to do in my preferences to make it look differently? Thanks for your time. IP no. 59.95.169.10 (talk) 10:15, February 18, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for responding. Unfortunately, I have not the remotest idea how to skin a skin...so I guess I'll go back and stick with Monaco now. Cheers. IP no. 59.95.169.10 (talk) 13:03, February 23, 2011 (UTC)
 * Right, got that...got confused. Thanks again. IP no. 59.95.169.10 (talk) 09:48, February 24, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Thanks for the welcome, but more than anything else, I wish someone could explain what these numbers and slashes mean! I posted my question at http://dragonage.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Stamina_Regeneration&t=20110218134044 220.255.2.147 (talk) 14:07, February 18, 2011 (UTC)

Need some help
Sorry to bother you again, but I'm having a bit of trouble with the Uncharted wiki. The cache seems to hold on to old versions of the page for far too long, and this does not seem to be the case on any other wiki. For example, the "quotes" and "images" portal boxes will not refresh unless you purge the page. However on this wiki, and on the Assassin's Creed wiki, the quotes and images refresh automatically each time the page is refreshed/loaded.

I've had several complaints about this from users, so I contacted Wikia and they said that it's not a problem on their end. Seeing as this wiki and the AC wiki both work fine, I was hoping that maybe you'd have or know of some code that can sort it out. Thanks in advance.--Klock101 (talk) 23:58, February 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorted the problem out. It's Portal/Component/Forums that causes it to refresh each time. There's a tag in Portal/Component/Forums that reads . I guess that must disable page caching.--Klock101 (talk) 17:14, February 24, 2011 (UTC)

I got a notification of an edit on a page I'm watching. The edit appears as: "Shut your trap" with no other information. Can this be deleted by me or an admin?

Thanks!

Weird edit
I got a notification of an edit on a page I'm watching. The edit appears as: "Shut your trap" with no other information. Can this be deleted by me or an admin?

Thanks! --Rosenoire (talk) 20:28, February 25, 2011 (UTC)

Need Help Posting!
I have a message I want to post, which I think is really interesting in regards to Dragon Age, but I'm not to wikis and don't know how to make it noticable.

The message is the following:

I was recently informed that the Smithsonian (the museum in D.C.) is creating an exhibit on video game art over the last forty years. The games up for the honor of being in the exhibit are divided by time period, platform, and genere, and Dragon Age: Origins is in the contending. However, the catch is that the games to be feeature are decided by a vote on the Smithsonian website. So, anyone interest in bringing Origins (and Mass Effect 2, which is another category) to one of the greatest museums in the world should check this site out.

Also I think that it would be great if someone started a thread about this on the Bioware Community forums and/or informed Bioware of this so they can post an announcement to garner support for their great games.

Sorry for the text wall... ````Bluered

Hello Tierrie,

I am Zantam03 from Gongjin's Campaign Memorials. If it's ok I'd like to ask you for some help. At first I asked it to a friend of yours but he forwarded me to you. It's about those blocks you have on the mainpage. I think they look very well (as does the rest of your wiki) and I'd like to make use of them, but as a .css noobie I do not understand much of how they're made :p. Personally I don't think I'll use them for my mainpage, but rather on articles such as these, which I think will look clearer with those blocks. Can you tell me how to implement them on my wiki? --- Zantam03 ( Talk ) 08:49, March 4, 2011 (UTC)