User talk:Tierrie/Archive 8

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

Question
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)

Pirates
SerSeploud is actually confessing to have pirated games for over 8 years here, on this forum thread. And week or so back I remember seeing another anonymous comment in some blog claiming that he pirates games. IMO the IPs of these users should be banned or atleast some sort of action must be taken against them. IP no. 59.95.169.10 (talk) 11:50, March 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * I understand that it is not a decision that can be taken lightly. Still thank you for considering it.IP no. 59.95.169.10 (talk) 17:32, March 4, 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry to bother you again (and I so don't want to sound like a snitch) but here is the same user again, inciting someone else to use torrents. Now since we have the guidelines in place, I'm sure the admins can do something about it. Because wiki or not piracy is wrong and pirates are a cancer on the gaming community. IP no. 59.95.169.10 (talk) 10:56, March 16, 2011 (UTC)

Proposing new spoiler tag for the Dragon age: Redemption
Hi. As per my understanding you have created the all the new spoiler tags for this Wiki. If so, I wonder what is your idea regarding this. TC -- Snfonseka (Talk) 14:07, March 4, 2011 (UTC)

RE: Piracy
Actually I have my concerns about "discussing about piracy in Wiki" for along time. If my memory serves me correctly, I have tried to bring this topic to the attention of others (in the early stage of this Wiki) and come up with set of rules to handle different types of situations regarding privacy. But no one shows a real interest in that time and the topic didn't get much attention. My personal opinion is that we need to have set of rules to follow regarding piracy in this Wiki, then if a problem occurs we can validate the situation with that set of rules.

Regarding the current matter, even though I stand against piracy I think "A ban" is extreme in this moment, because we don't have any set of rules to validate his actions. Anyway we should act in order to discourage such behavior in the future, I this a warning will be sufficient but that warning should include that if he/ she acts like this in the future that will result a ban form this Wiki. -- Snfonseka (Talk) 03:57, March 5, 2011 (UTC)

Spoilers filtering into the articles
I deleted an edit that the user Ironreaper made to the Flemeth article. Now I know that there have been alot of spoilers that appear to be true (just in case you wish to be spoil free I wont go into which they are). The thing is that he cited a video of a bootlegged version of the game (too early to have it and whatnot) that he got from Arctistor23. I am unsure if I am overreacting so I wish to see what you think. Balitant (talk) 05:55, March 6, 2011 (UTC)


 * I actually got a response from D-day earlier on this (I gave him/her the same message as you). The issue I am more concerned with is that Ironreaper was citing a pirated version of the game. To bring you up to date with what happened... http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Arctistor23 this is the guy that supplied ironreaper with the video, one he says is pirated; and http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:D-day . Balitant (talk) 07:36, March 6, 2011 (UTC)

Fine by me to put a spolier tage in. In fact i had assumed their already was one and would added one if i noticed. On the subject of spoliers in articles, when it comes to characters that have appeared in both games, must the character photo be from DA2 rather then DA:O? I find to have a pic from DA2 is a spoiler itself, since it makes it clear that the character is in DA2, but also spoils any cosmetic changes that the character has undergone. Could we keep the character pic being the one the characters were introduced as and add a pic from DA2 into the DA2 section? I also dislike how pages like Marethari do not even have images of her DA:O look. Besides, these pics obviously came from pirated games, so how can they be allowed if you do not want any information from such games in the wiki?--Ironreaper (talk) 07:47, March 6, 2011 (UTC)


 * Some images came from promotional pictures. Others are taken during a public showing of the game. These are all valid source material. As this is a community wiki, it is up to each individual to use their best judgment when using a picture. Like wikipedia, most sources should be attributed but as this is a gaming wiki, it is a lot more relaxed. However, screenshots from a pirated copy is still not okay. If you see this, feel free to roll it back.
 * And regarding pictures, feel free to suggest something different in the talk page of the article. And if there's enough support for your idea, then feel free to change it. -- 08:35, March 6, 2011 (UTC)

Spoiler links/video
I'm so sorry that part of the game was ruined and spoiled due to the video link I showed to Ironreaper. I did not realize that he was using the video as a source to update the Flemeth page. I only meant to show it to him as a way to confirm to him that Anders was bisexual. Again, I am very sorry...Arctistor23 (talk) 15:47, March 6, 2011 (UTC)

Piracy guidelines
The following message was distributed among all active admins.

Hi, due to the concerns regarding "piracy" the following guideline was prepared in order to avoid the lengthy discussions and unnecessary ambiguity regarding the actions need to be taken, when there is a "piracy issue". Please go through them and make your ideas/ suggestions in the "comment section" in the page. I am looking forward to gather your feedbacks and modify the guideline if necessary, before taking this to the next step; which is the "forum discussion".

Piracy guidelines

-- Snfonseka (Talk) 13:33, March 8, 2011 (UTC)

This will go to the forum discussion, as I mentioned above. Usually I always go for a public discussion before doing any important change in this Wiki. I just want to get the admins' feedbacks on this, before going for the forum discussion. -- Snfonseka (Talk) 04:44, March 10, 2011 (UTC)

DA Legends FB wiki group
I'd like to start up a facebook group for wiki members with head starts in DA Legends to find each other in order to add each other, so as to help this thread.

However, before starting a page using the wiki's name, I'd like to consult if that's ok with the admins, so as not to infringe any rights. Should I go ahead and create it? DarkosCY (talk) 12:25, March 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey there! Administrators are just users who volunteered to help moderate this wiki and we don't have any more or less power on the rights to use to use the wiki's name - that belongs to the community (unless it legally belongs to wikia then it belongs to wikia!). I think it's safe to go ahead and make the group :) -- 07:35, March 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry for getting in the middle of your discussion. I think it is better to contact someone in Wikia Community Central regarding this, before creating the group. This is just my personal opinion. -- Snfonseka (Talk) 10:51, March 11, 2011 (UTC)

Edit war on companion page
Hi Tierrie. I don't know if you've noticed, but User: Itachou and User: HelterSkelter have been having a sort of edit war about whether Dog is a full companion in Dragon Age II or not (See Companions (Dragon Age II)). I don't really know what the protocol is for this kind of situation, so I thought I'd tell you so you could sort it out. Thanks --Davilimap (talk) 12:57, March 14, 2011 (UTC)

As long as I've got your attention, since I don't want to create a whole new message, could you please delete the page Mother Teresa? Some smart guy was making some unproductive edits. --Davilimap (talk) 23:41, March 14, 2011 (UTC)

Quick question
Hello Tierrie,

I made three new pages and wanted your feedback if you have the time.

The Fixer

The Runner's Retort

Embroidered Dancing Shoes

(Savagy 00:08, March 21, 2011 (UTC))

Reversal of Changes requested
My apologies, I tried to fix a problem and I made it worse.

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_companions_quests_in_Dragon_Age_II http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/The_Long_Road_%28Dragon_Age_II%29

The list of quests did not link properly to The "The Long Road" page. Seems that a quest or topic of the same name exists in both the first and second major games.

Changes involving the parenthesis appeared to be ignored... the link would render as one for the quest in the old game and ignore the "(quest)" string in the page name

I tried to fix this by renaming the quest page itself, and it didn't work.

I tried to undo my revisions and that did not work either.

Before I completely botch up the works, I am requesting assistance such that my edits for those two pages, including the page renaming, can be reverted to such a state that the edits no longer exist, or whatever other action is best for the help of the Dragon Age Wikia.

Thank you for your help. Sorry about the mess. -- (djstale 05:35, March 21, 2011 (UTC))

New page creation
Thank you for the greeting! I've written a short walkthrough to the quest "The Last Straw", although not nearly finished, it is a start. I was going to upload it, but somehow the site won't allow me. Would you mind helping me? If you want to upload it, I can just send it to you? Thank you

Kikkomanicus (talk) 22:44, March 21, 2011 (UTC)

Notice about Upcoming Page Template Changes
Hello! I'm part of the Community Support Team at Wikia, and I want to let you know about an upcoming change that will affect this wiki.

This wiki is using a feature called CreatePlates, which is old and buggy and is being phased out. It is scheduled for removal from this wiki next Tuesday, March 29, 2011. '''This change will not affect the appearance of the wiki or any of its content. '''

It will, however, affect the templating options members see when they create new pages.

To help you manage this transition, we've set up our more current templating tool, LayoutBuilder, to allow you to pre-build new layouts before CreatePlates is disabled. LayoutBuilder is slightly different than CreatePlates in that it lets you create highly structured page layouts that maintain their shape over time. If you'd like to see it fully in action, you can try it out on our test wiki, which allows anyone to create new templates. (Users will be able to access your new LayoutBuilder templates as soon as CreatePlates is turned off.)

Another thing you may want to adjust is your "Standard Template" page, which will be an additional option presented to users when they create new pages. Standard Template is different from LayoutBuilder templates-- it's just a content starting point for an otherwise normal, non-templated page. You can change the appearance of your Standard Template at MediaWiki:Newpagelayout.

You can also choose not to worry about this, and do nothing. That's fine, too. Members will still be able to create new pages in whatever style they want -- they just won't have templates to choose from.

Please be sure to let your community members know about this coming change. If you have any questions, you can get in touch with me here, on my talk page, or through Special:Contact. Thanks for maintaining such a wonderful wiki!

--Dopp http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 18:14, March 22, 2011 (UTC)

RE:Portal
Hello Tierrie and thanks for the reply. Also nice to hear you're a huge fan of the Three Kingdoms :-) I had already read the Help:Portal page before contacting you, but I couldn't find the answer to my question there. Basically I just want the layout, and not the system. And I'd also make a slight change to it. I'd like to use the blocks to make this page look more organized. One block for every year. I also want to add a vertical line in the middle of a block, with the left part of the block showing births and deaths and the right part of the block showing events and battles. Hopefully you're willing to point me in the right direction.

regards, --- Zantam03 ( Talk ) 10:03, March 23, 2011 (UTC)


 * BUMP* (in case you overlooked my message) --- Zantam03 ( Talk ) 14:27, April 14, 2011 (UTC)

Handling the quotes in Wik
I like to hear what you have to say regarding the subject, in here.-- Snfonseka (Talk)  02:32, March 26, 2011 (UTC)

Templates
Hello. My question is: how do I create a template "Quote Box"and "portal / component / Slider"? I want to use it on my Wikia. I will be grateful for the help. -- MarkosBoss 07:09, March 27, 2011 (UTC)

And infoboxes. :) --MarkosBoss 07:23, March 27, 2011 (UTC)

Lowercase/ uppercase
According to my understanding we are following the policy of using the lowercase letters except the first letter in a particular text, whether it is a section heading, page heading or even in standard text (with the exception of names such as Hawke, Lothering etc.); Is this understanding correct? If so I don't manage to find a specific location in any of our guidelines regarding this. If not,... well then I have to make some page renaming. -- Snfonseka (Talk)  16:32, March 28, 2011 (UTC)


 * As far as I know there's no official policy about upper and lowercase text. I might be wrong since I am mainly focused on code and technical issues. I do know that there has been historical precedence and discussion about the naming convention for the wiki at Forum:Consistency. I also see that there's been a discussion ongoing at Forum:In-game wording. I will leave the rest of my feedback there. -- 23:30, March 28, 2011 (UTC)


 * I am pretty sure that we have agreed upon this (not only among admins), but based on my memory it was a year ago (in the end of 2009, I guess). I guess that since we were focused on building the Wiki those days we gave less priority on documenting those decisions. What I am wondering is whether to start that that discussion all over again and come-up with set of guidelines or insert the already agreed guidelines (related to this) to Editing Guidelines. What do you think the best and efficient approach? BTW I have noticed that when you make your signature only "User:Tierrie/Sig" code appears as text, where in my signature the entire HTML code appears. But I am also using a customized signature page, so what is the reason for this difference? -- Snfonseka (Talk)  04:08, March 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * If there's a written record of the decision then it is easiest to link to it as the current consensus and go with it. But if there isn't one you can use the consensus we generated in the forum posts listed above as precedence. There's no real need to sit around and take a formal vote as those posts are more or less requests for comments from everyone. Since there doesn't appear to be any objections, I would add that based on the comments on the forum, you are moving to have those decisions codified and anyone who has additional comments as to why it shouldn't be done can have a week to do so before you add that.


 * As for the signature, I wrote a Help:How-To Create A Custom Signature page on how to do just that. Cheers! -- 08:32, March 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * Regarding the signature: Now I understand the logic behind it. Thanks. -- 09:01, March 29, 2011 (UTC)

Templates
I would like to thank you! A few ideas of your Wikia I put on my wiki. I hope you do not mind.

-Pozdrawiam, MarkosBoss - administrator GothicPedii  16:12, March 30, 2011 (UTC) PS Sorry for my english: D

Layout builder
I've passed this to Loleil as she implemented them, but I thought you'd like to know about it too, as I am requesting to disable a wiki feature, the layout builder. It is the new CreatePage and it is breaking pages; as such, I'm suggesting to disable it. See Forum:Disabling the layout builder. --D. (talk · contr) 18:52, April 9, 2011 (UTC)

Infobox Help
Hello there good sir! I am War Clown, representing the inFamous Wiki (for the moment :P) and I'd like to ask for your help. Recently, I've made this sample infobox (it's not the official one) for new use on there (here's an example of how it looks like when filled) and I'm quite happy with it to be honest. Though, after chatting with a friend on another wiki's IRC, he suggested an idea similar to your infoboxes, which was to put an image in the supertitles of the infobox. So, I had an made for the headers, and I've been tinkering with the codes of the infobox for hours. Yet I still can't get it done right. Could you please teach me how? As I await your reply sir. Thanks in advance :D -- Juan Blanco Reception Area 10:02, April 17, 2011 (UTC)


 * I see. Thank you so much sir :D -- Juan Blanco Reception Area 11:01, April 17, 2011 (UTC)

Hello sir, it's me again. Me and a colleague have been working on the infobox after we got the CSS covered, and we've come up with a minor success. Our only problem now with it is, we can't get the image caption to align, and the image set to the infobox does not appear. Can you please help us fix it? -- Juan Blanco Reception Area 11:03, April 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * Assuming the Wikia Contributor from my talk page here was you, then yes, there isn't anything wrong with the wiki at the moment. However, the recent infobox me and another associate have been making is having some difficulties. We can't get the caption right and the image won't appear in the box. Can you please see what's wrong and help us fix it? -- WarClown Frequency: 149.94 06:44, April 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * The initial problem has been solved (now the image shows and the caption's aligned) but now there's a problem with the resizing of the image. We can't seem to get it right after we tried fixing the first problem. If its not too much asking, can you please help us and see what's wrong with it? -- WarClown Frequency: 149.94 06:25, April 26, 2011 (UTC)

Vandal....sort of
I request the help from the almighty admin. A unregistered user created a page then proceeded to write gibberish. Another unregistered already removed what he wrote and whatnot, but there is a bit strange. The thing is that the page itself may be useful, Heavy armor (Dragon Age II), as a categories page and whatnot. And considering that he/she screwed around on the page they created, they did not truly mess anything up. Balitant (talk) 10:35, April 17, 2011 (UTC)
 * D-day has dealt with it. Balitant (talk) 11:23, April 18, 2011 (UTC)

Prototype wiki
Hello sir, I recently adopted Prototype wiki (April 17, 2011) and have implemented the idea of the main page from this wiki (except the slider part, since we do not have much content for that). However one of the user from a different wiki, said that I was not supposed to copy formats from other wikis. If this is against wikia rules, do I have to remove the current main page format? I apologize if I was supposed to ask your permission to use the format. Vatsa  19:12, April 23, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I have added "Source:Dragon Age wiki" to the css and have made this template for the main page. You can suggest any corrections to the template. Vatsa  08:21, April 25, 2011 (UTC)

Auto-refresh RC
I've been wondering why this didn't work (I thought that had to do with Wikia—yes, yes, I tend to do that :D), and realized that the current auto-refresh RC code isn't working. I've copied the code from the Vault (see here) as it works there (it's slightly different too, there's a small "loading" icon), but it still didn't work (I waited about 20 minutes). When you have time, can you check this out? --D. (talk · contr) 01:21, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure. I'll take a look. -- 02:00, April 25, 2011 (UTC)

Vandal
First, since I've never had the chance to converse with you, the previous times I was here, I talked with Loleil, so I'd just like to say hello, and hopefullly before he comes back, and doing confusing things.

It seems that you were hit by a vandal this morning, who more than likely is the same person that has previously gone on a massive, and I'm really talking massive, vandalism spree at the ME wiki that went on for weeks. I had finally hoped that he had matured, grow up, and moved on, but apparently not. I don't honestly know what his issue is, but I have a (few) pretty good guess(es) and seems to have a personal grudge with me for that (those) reason(s). I did hope that he would stop, but apparently now he feels the need to inflate his ego here, and more than likely a few other places. I hope this hasn't diminished the DA Wiki's view of us at the ME wiki, the legit ones not this guy who just inflates his ego, and I hope that he doesn't come back, but if he follows the same patters he did over at the ME wiki then here's the pattern:
 * IP, and proxies at that.
 * 1) Spoofing user names, more than likely mine using Cyrillic characters which confuse Wikia's markup and it comes out as my user name
 * 2) He keeps making proxies and keeps coming back.

He generally hits at night/very early morning (02:00 - 06:00 CST) in the United States, so I'm hoping that he won't come back, but I'm just saying what he did over that the ME wiki. I had hoped that he wouldn't go elsewhere, but alas that wasn't the case. If you have any questions about what happened at the ME wiki, fell free to contact me on my talk page, and even though I don't like cross page conversations, I'm not here as much so I might miss your message if you don't put it on my page directly. Of course any admin, or concerned user is free as well. Lancer1289 (talk) 14:44, April 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting me know. It looks like the community and Snfonseka jumped right on it. I'll keep an eye out as well. -- 02:00, April 25, 2011 (UTC)