User talk:WoWWiki-Rustak

Need more reverts of Puta20 changes or a ban

The vandal Puta20 has been very active lately. I think you should seriously consider banning/killing this account.

--Fandyllic 1:31 PM PST 4 November 2005

Taken from User talk:Puta20:

Since Oct. 22, Puta20 has made nearly 5000 spam edits. He's hiding website links, messing up formatting, and clogging the history for individual pages and the wiki as a whole. I understand that vandalism will always be a problem, and there will always be corrections to be made, but that's assuming that prompt administrative action will be taken against the offenders. It's futile to try and maintain the integrity of WoWWiki's articles when competing against a bot. I think this wiki could definitely benefit from a couple more admins.--Aeleas 16:14, 4 Nov 2005 (EST)

I wish it were that easy =/ Both Puta20 (whom I flubbed up the block for last time and had it expire too soon) and the new one DudaKum are coming in from hundreds of different addresses, so I can't block by IP. I can put in a limit to number of changes in some unit of time, but they're only doing about one change every 1 or 2 minutes; not all that different from, say, someone going through and making a bunch of small spelling corrections. I do agree about needing more admins; however, I've got a new machine for the wiki to move to and I'm going to upgrade to the latest MediaWiki with that move, so I wanted to get that done before doing new sysops. That'll be another week or so.. things are mostly set up, just having some problems with apache on the new machine, but should be resolved soon. Rustak 03:03, 6 Nov 2005 (EST)

The latest MediaWiki should automatically insert the nofollow tag in any external links, making what Puta20 is doing pointless. Hopefully he will become aware of that fact. Just reading up on some other techniques; it sounds like it should be possible to block the URLs he is trying to link to from being added to any pages.--Aeleas 13:53, 6 Nov 2005 (EST)

I could bag the puta bot... there are easy ways to trap each and every one of his IPs. --  _ℑilver§^ℑide 12:56, 13 Dec 2005 (EST)

Weird New Wiki Addition

There seems to be a guild specific subwiki taking up residence at Riddle. Not sure what the WoWWiki policy on this is. -- Brandonh6k (18 May 2005)

Brandon - That's just a Guild article. I'll apply a Guild template. -Laisren 04:18, 2 Jul 2005 (EDT)

Marked it with wikisquatting tag, and explained on talk page. Hopefully they'll get it and move to PBwiki or something. --  _ℑilver§^ℑide 13:03, 13 Dec 2005 (EST)

Vandalism Reverts

Nice job on all the reverts of all the vandalism. I suspect that there's a mechanism to do that where you don't have to manually find what to delete, and so on. In any case, I hope it wasn't too much trouble for you, and thanks for doing it. I despise vandals. Schmidt talk 00:42, 25 Oct 2005 (EDT)

HTML tags

In Wikipedia, you can use tags like SPAN, and possibly A. SPAN is pretty important. We should be able to use it here, but it doesn't work. Can you fix this? :Schmidt talk 03:01, 31 Oct 2005 (EST)

I second this request. The SPAN tag is vital for many of the templates that should be used, including footnotes. Please try to implement the usage of . ::Pureblade 22:40, 31 Oct 2005 (EST)

Mmm. I'll take a look at what I need to twiddle to enable span.

Rustak 03:03, 6 Nov 2005 (EST)

Just so you know, 1.5 allows < SPAN > - but < A > is still disabled. I recommend you upgrade as soon as possible - took me all of 5 minutes ROFL

Template:Usertemp:SilverSide - 15:57, 1 Dec 2005 (EST)

I assume this means that you've downloaded the software. My question is, what benefit does this give you? I know that it probably does, and I'm just wondering exactly what. I've seen it available for download too. I always wondered. Schmidt 22:39, 13 Dec 2005 (EST)

Your thinking wrong - this is webware, as in the software that is running this site. Same software that runs Wikipedia - I have two wikis myself (gunwiki and a wiki for my guild) aalong with a localwiki that is installed on this laptop soely for the purpose of getting articles put together and lookign schnazzy before uploading them to one of the wikis when I'm offline. You would have no use for it unless you have a webserver installed on your comp (with PHP and mySQL) --  _ℑilver§^ℑide 22:50, 13 Dec 2005 (EST)

P.S. You are thinking of a frontend to the wiki on your computer - I am sure it would be easy to set up a simple java webstart app and a php interface for the SQL, then edit through that, but there would be no real advantage...

Interwiki Links

When using an interwiki link such as [[wikipedia:World of Warcraft|Wikipedia article on WoW]], it directs you to www.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft. There is an ongoing discussion on making www. links to wikipedia articles show a multilingual portal, so I would reccommend have interwiki links direct to en.wikipedia.org as opposed to www.wikipedia.org. Pureblade 22:43, 31 Oct 2005 (EST)

Language page locked

The Languages page is locked. I'm assuming that was done back when there was that plugin that translated the other faction's speech. Since that's no longer a problem, can it be unlocked? It'd be nice to be able to expand it to include other languages (Demonic, Titan, Sindrassi) and other content. Thanks either way!

--Bevans (FeldmanSkitzoid) 12:21, 13 Dec 2005 (EST)

I've already contacted Rustak about getting admin and unlocking a ton of the locked pages around here. Locked pages are directly contrary to the nature of a wiki in the first place... --  _ℑilver§^ℑide 13:04, 13 Dec 2005 (EST)

Some pages (mainly system pages) should be locked. which they are. and which is good. Languages though, looks like a page which could be unlocked CJ 08:40, 3 Jan 2006 (EST)

Welcome back

• i noticed this minor bug on any sections you can edit. for instance Patches, if you edit the section for patch 1.5, then commit. there will be 1 carriage return missing, thus pushing 1.5 and 1.4 1.6 closer together. CJ 10:35, 3 Jan 2006 (EST)

MediaWiki has lots of weirdness with carriage returns, it's an artifact of the fact that one (1) carriage return is parsed into a zero-width non-joiner space (&zwnj;=‌) whereas two is parsed into a new paragraph (/p + p) - thus the end of the editing area is always pulls out a return. it is all very confusing and took me a while to figure out... --  _ℑilver§^ℑide 12:34, 3 Jan 2006 (EST)

vandals

Check this out: WoWWiki_talk:Known_vandals , in the bottom. CJ 08:39, 17 March 2006 (EST)

H3

Using <h3>this</h3> header caption. causes subsequent edit tags to be messed up.

example

example, clicking the above edit thing, will not give the expected edit section.

i think this can be solved by making H3, h2, etc, not act like an editable section, but just a bold header. CJ 05:24, 24 March 2006 (EST)

I nowiki:d that H3 because it was fubaring Rustak's talk page. No good :-P

As far as I know, it's not easily fixable without hacking the code, because the wiki uses H1,H2,H3 internally for headings. Possibly it's been fixed in a later MW version. --Mikk 22:42, 24 July 2006 (EDT)

Searching, and CSS

I think the internal search is perfected, so maybe instead of having just the Google search have both, or just ditch the Google search, eh? I think the internal search is quite a bit better. Or best yet, I think maybe have a search set up like on Wikipedia, where they have the option to search Google and Yahoo (I think it is). Do you think you could pull off something like that?

Also, would it be alright (if possible) to make it so Fandyllic and I could add classes to a common CSS file that is linked from all articles? I mean, something like template:tooltipcss, so that we can just use a code such as <div class="tooltip">. Schmidt 19:58, 16 April 2006 (EDT)

Math and Wiki

As asked already here, here and here, i think <math></math> inline tags support should be added to provide better functionality to people writing formulas.

This is a non trivial task that only some skilled admin could perform, since it includes:

• installing and configuring TeX (or wikitex)
• setting up appropriate wiki variables

Can I have an answer to that?

Thanks --Mabu 19:25, 11 July 2006 (EDT)

1.7.1

Currently we seem to be running "MediaWiki: 1.5.7" : http://www.wowwiki.com/Special:Version

• Could you look into upgrading into 1.7.1 sometime ? i'm sure there are some benefits, and security fixes :) CJ 06:09, 21 July 2006 (EDT)

Yep, 1.7.1 is on the todo list, as is getting a new icon in place, and enabling CSS editing. I'm hoping in the next 2 weeks; I'll be in physical proximity with the wiki machine at that point, which will make doing some of these upgrades much more pleasant. I also plan on installing this awesome itemstats plugin. -- Rustak 17:27, 24 August 2006 (EDT) ~

Great to hear! :) -- Kirkburn 18:21, 24 August 2006 (EDT)

Admins

I have a plea to make. Since you are likely to be around a little more in the next few weeks, we need more admins. Alex and Schmidt are not around all that frequently at the moment, which means the burden is lying on Fandyllic. Today, whilst Fandyllic was busy, we had a awful attack of the vandals which we could barely control (he impersonated fandyllic and went after popular pages and new users). So basically, I'm asking that more are allowed into upper echelons to aid with the safe running of the wiki :) I know who I would suggest, but obviously Fandyllic should be the main person to converse with on this.

But mainly, we severely need more admins, before fandyllic gets fed up =) Thanks!! -- Kirkburn 19:03, 25 August 2006 (EDT)

Thanks so much. I'll do my best for the wiki :) -- Kirkburn 19:00, 28 August 2006 (EDT)

Upgrade bugs

Noticed one small bug so far - there's no redirect image. See [1] for an example -- Kirkburn (talk) 18:54, 4 September 2006 (EDT)

Huh! I'll take a look. Rustak