The Wiki Thread

IcedPee · 2014-02-23T15:57:05.000Z

Thanks a lot Soy.

The only other thing is, how can I add things like lemonade or other drinks to the “liquids&drinks” footer at the bottom of the page?

Soyweiser · 2014-02-23T17:08:12.000Z

[quote=“IcedPee, post:84, topic:823”]Thanks a lot Soy.

The only other thing is, how can I add things like lemonade or other drinks to the “liquids&drinks” footer at the bottom of the page?[/quote]

Edit this: http://www.wiki.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?title=Template:Liquids&action=edit

You can see the different templates used (including the ones used by other templates) at the bottom of a page when editing a page. That way you can look in the tree of templates used.

Zireael · 2014-02-26T10:59:34.000Z

Thanks Soy, I jumped on the bandwagon.

In related news, I suggested splitting the Crafting page but I’m running into problems, set up a separate sandbox whatever page to show how I envision it.

SKiPPY · 2014-03-03T17:56:23.000Z

For the stats and skills page, should we just combine the two? Many stats determine the overall effectiveness of a skill (strength affects melee damage, intelligence increases rate of skill comprehension, etc.), and pointing out the relationship between a stat and the skills it affects will help people understand the game mechanics and use character builds in a more effective manner. We should consider putting the two pages together and showing the relationship between stats and skills.

This is a big change, and i was wondering whether or not anyone else would be onboard with this.

Niko_Moldova · 2014-10-25T19:07:38.000Z

Possible error for the registry/unregistered edit pages on the wiki.
Wasn’t sure where to put this or if anyone else had already mentioned any of it, but War Novel has Western Novel’s information in it and Western Novel doesn’t exist as a page. It bugged me so I tried to edit it but the cat pictures thing isn’t showing up, meaning I can’t register or edit pages. I took a look at the source code where I found a link to here:
http://challenge.asirra.com/js/AsirraClientSide.js
around the cat picture code.

Not sure if that’s what’s causing it, but I found this on the linked page:

WARNING: Asirra, the cat and dog CAPTCHA, is closing permanently on October 6, 2014. Please contact this site\'s administrator and ask them to switch to a different CAPTCHA. Thank you!

which means it was to show up bolded and in red on the captcha itself, but as I said I don't know if that 's why it's not showing up for me. Also, in case it's just a problem on my end, I copied the book template and changed the data to represent War Novel in a text editor:

{{Book {{row/Books |name=war novel |description=A thrilling narrative of survival in a prisoner of war camp during the Second World War, filled with riveting subplots about rat farming and dysentery. |weight=686 |tohit=0 |color=c_brown |reqint=7 |glyph=1 |mat1=paper |mat2=null |volume=3 |bash=-2 |cutting=0 |readtime=20 |fun=4 |skill=none |price=55 |reqskill=0 |chapters=28 }} {{Books}} [[Category:Books]]

which someone who can edit pages can paste into the proper section.

Basically, if the wiki does use the Asirra CAPTCHA, this pretty much means the pages with it are unusable to unregistered users through no fault of the wiki itself. As one of those pages is registration, that could be a problem.

Zireael · 2014-11-02T13:41:32.000Z

Has anyone taken a look at the CAPTCHA?

KA101 · 2014-11-02T23:20:27.000Z

Zireael:

Has anyone taken a look at the CAPTCHA?

Org issues, sorry. We’re working on it.

KA101 · 2014-11-09T04:56:00.000Z

Update: we’re working on replacing the captcha, but in the process got botted about as bad as it was back when I was on GearHeadWiki.

Currently the wiki’s locked down HARD and I’m working on the problem. And merging. And umpteen other things. If folks are available to play Whack A Spammer, reply here and I’ll see about getting a group together to get us operational in time for the release.

Update, 2d: I think Kevin and I have whacked all the spammers, and I’m looking into a new captcha. I hope to have it unlocked and operational by this time tomorrow.

KA101 · 2014-11-09T09:02:31.000Z

I’m pleased to report that the captcha is operational and editing/account-creation is unlocked once more. Feel free to head over and give it a shot.

Zireael · 2014-12-06T08:49:34.000Z

How do I indicate books required for the recipes? I thought I’d update some crafting templates, but all I managed to do is un-set the autolearn flag.

KA101 · 2014-12-06T18:08:01.000Z

Zireael:

How do I indicate books required for the recipes? I thought I’d update some crafting templates, but all I managed to do is un-set the autolearn flag.

Looks like you add lines for book_learn# (the actual value is the book name, and wikilinking works; # = 1-6, in order of which recipe entry you’re talking about) and book_learn #_lvl for the level you need to get the recipe from that book. i cribbed from the spaghetti bolognese code.

DigitalPhantom · 2014-12-08T01:47:10.000Z

KA101:

Update: we’re working on replacing the captcha, but in the process got botted about as bad as it was back when I was on GearHeadWiki.

Say… were you using the same ID (KA101)?

[size=8pt]my deepest apologies for OT…[/size]

KA101 · 2014-12-08T04:04:45.000Z

DigitalPhantom:

[quote=“KA101, post:91, topic:823”]Update: we’re working on replacing the captcha, but in the process got botted about as bad as it was back when I was on GearHeadWiki.

Say… were you using the same ID (KA101)?

[size=8pt]my deepest apologies for OT…[/size][/quote]

Indeed.

DigitalPhantom · 2014-12-08T22:49:32.000Z

Well, then. I thought I saw a familiar name. May this project not go the same way, eh?

KA101 · 2014-12-09T04:01:01.000Z

DigitalPhantom:

Well, then. I thought I saw a familiar name. May this project not go the same way, eh?

There have been some times when it was a near thing, but yeah.

JayJayForce · 2014-12-09T15:46:42.000Z

Has anyone else had problems with accessing the wiki?

I’ve had a bunch of intermittent 500 page inaccessible errors over the past few days and today I got a new error preventing me from accessing the wiki saying it was: over the maximum users allowed? or something like that. Waited a few minutes and everything seems to be working fine now.

( Yeah, first post. Pity it has to be about this )

Zireael · 2014-12-09T16:36:11.000Z

I did have 500 or above max number of users errors, too.

KA101 · 2014-12-09T23:56:20.000Z

Just checked and it seemed to be working fine; I’d had an error once but it kicked back in OK when I checked (the downforeveryoneorjustme site came back as just me, and the wiki was up when I checked again).

GlyphGryph controls the server so that sort of thing needs to go to his e-mail.

JayJayForce · 2014-12-10T18:09:10.000Z

I’ll see how the wiki behaves and contact GlyphGryph if need be. So far, so good today.

I know this part of the forum is pretty dead, but I have two announcements to make. repost it somewhere else if you feel it is worth it.

All the Guides can now be accessed from the Guides page off the Main page. I haven’t put them all into the Guides Category or put the Navbar in yet though. I’ll probably do that later though. Some of them are very outdated or incomplete though, unfortunately, I’m the person who would be reading them, not writing them, so I would really appreciate it if some of you could update them.
This is more specific. The enemy categories in the wiki don’t follow a set format. Some have the second word capitalized, others don’t. I at first thought it would be a quick fix since I would only have to move a few pages and edit the enemy Navbar and Sidebar, but then I realised I would also have to edit every single page in that category to standardise the category pages. Needless to say, this is tedious and unfun. It will only get worse, however, the more pages are added to the wiki. It’s a pretty minor OCD problem, so it might not be worth the time and effort, especially if we decide later to reorganize the enemy categories. The wiki needs content above everything else, but this would only worsen the problem, especially if it is present in other places. Is it worth it to do it now, or do we just ignore it and focus on other things?

On a side note, I got a bit disheartened when I found out about the item viewer since it is far more complete and up to date compared to the wiki, but looking at it, while it’s certainly useful, it is limited in what it can do.

pre post edit: I almost had a heart attack when the forum asked me to login again when I went to preview this post and it then took me to a blank page afterwards. Why would anyone set the default to auto-logoff you after only 60mins? So glad I could recover this.

KA101 · 2014-12-10T22:38:27.000Z

When in doubt, follow the game’s formatting. Second and subsequent words in names aren’t capitalized unless it’s ACSL, so far as I know, so going forward don’t capitalize 'em and that should set the standard.

No idea re auto-logoff, but no worries. We’re fairly informal here.

And thanks again for your work on the wiki, as well as welcome to the forums.