User talk:Ausir/Archive 1

Hi Ausir -- we are excited to have Wasteland Wiki as part of the Wikia community!

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 * I find this a bit amusing, Ausir ;) Shaur M. S. Grizlin 16:56, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello Ausir,
Hello I am Lt Orlock, I am the one that improved the Skills category , I started today to make a page for Attributes but I finally made a category about that , so , could you delete the page attributes (Not the category)? I also wanted to thank you for this wiki and the fallout one, you've really done a great job. Something more, I was thinking if you could send an email to inXile entertainment asking about the development of Wasteland 2 , I mean they respond to the maill that No Mutants Allowed ( http://www.nma-fallout.com/ ) send them and they are a Fallout-Dedicated community site , why not sent them an email , you created the Wasteland wiki and the Vault wiki. And the size of the Vault wiki isn't small, you , with the two wikis , represent the Wasteland and the Fallout fans , also imagine the people that would atract the release of news concerning Wasteland 2 to this site. If some of these people are wiling to expand this wiki by writing article it could grow bigger in size.

Thank you ...
I hope for an official announcement soon, I can say now that these years will probably be the best for the Fallout and Wasteland games since 1995 , it was time RPG market started growing again , also thanks for making me an admin.

Creatures page...
I can not edit the Creatures page for some reason. If you can edit that page please redirect it to the Category:Creatures.

Categories
I agree with you, we should create subcategories like in Vault wiki , it will be practical for users of the wiki and it will make corrections and updates easier to make since it will be easier to find what you will be looking for.We also should make a new page type for the Creatures category.

RE: New skin
Definitely looks better than the old one, gives it new feeling over the default.--Sxerks 01:51, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

New skin..
I was on holidays for some time during August and my internet connection there was terribly slow, so now I am back and saw the new skin of the wiki .It looks better ,but I think that the wiki need a logo more like the old one.Over at No Mutants Allowed there is a user named "xulm" and he is the one that made the Vault 12 comic.He could make a logo and maybe pictures of the weapons and creatures of the wasteland...

More Post-Apocalyptic pictures on inXile's web site...
At the upper-right corner of inXile's website there are now two more post-apocalyptic pictures (possibly Wasteland 2 related).I believe that the site was updated today or yesterday because a new update called "ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE, INXILE ENTERTAINMENT SCORES ANOTHER HIT WITH THE SHAPESHAPE™ PUZZLE GAME ON THE APP STORE AND THE WEB!" appeared with the change of the picture.

Community Manager Job
Sounds like it was made for you: http://www.inxile-entertainment.com/jobs.html

- Dude101

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Hey Ausir,

Is there a way to make the article of the day actually change each day?

Fallout content.
Hey Ausir,

I was wondering about all the FALLOUT content on the Wasteland wiki. I wanted to know if you wanted it to remain on this wiki or if it could be removed. I know any FALLOUT content is way out of date here and I wanted to remove it so this page could be more focused on Wasteland and Fountain of Dreams. I have been going thru the wanted pages and a great deal of them are FALLOUT related and I just wanted to clean things up a bit. Let me know.

Roy Batty 20:33, July 19, 2011 (UTC)

RE: FALLOUT Content
I am refering to the templates and other such references. For instance, on http://wasteland.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WantedPages the first think listed is 11 links for Fallout Tactics. Each one is a Template calling for it. I wanted to know if I can remove these templates and other such pages that are not related directly to Wasteland.

So I can remove all those old FALLOUT templates. I just wanted to make sure I didn't delete anything you still needed for the vault.

Roy Batty 21:45, July 19, 2011 (UTC)

The rest of this page
Cześć Ausir, I just wanted to say that me and Kris will be working on this wiki quite a lot over the next few weeks, so do you mind if we change things when we agree what? Or would you rather we did it through you/just kept you informed? Also, you might want to clean up this page because it can be quite confusing if you don't know that the wiki moved :). Pożegnanie! Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 22:42, 8 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay, thanks Ausir :D Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 23:16, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Adminship
Although I disapprove of what I am doing as I wish to earn these things through merit, could you please make me an admin so that I can do the MediaWiki:Vector sections please? Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 23:20, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Ausir, did you see? I've seen you around here in the last few days, but I've been waiting quite some time... If you'd rather I wasn't, then I'd prefer you to just say rather than ignore me :) Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 10:08, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry to hear that. I hope you get better soon :). Kris says he's okay with it, who else do I need approval from? Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 16:38, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

1.18 / extensions
Yay, another wiki where I can bug you about this stuff ;) First off though, hope you get well soon :)

Not sure whether you noticed, but this wiki is running MW 1.16.5. If people want to re-use scripts (which includes some of the skin functionality of The Vault), you'll need 1.17 at least since 1.17 included quite a few changes to MediaWiki's JS framework and The Vault's scripts have been altered accordingly; i.e. most of them will not work in 1.16.5. It'd probably be best to upgrade to 1.18 straight away though; I'm going to adapt some of The Vault's scripts and skin setup to 1.18 in the next days, and it'll be easier in the long run not having to maintain two separate versions of everything.

Secondly, this wiki will also need the ImageSizeInfoFunctions extension (I posted a 1.18-compatible version over at The Vault in case you missed it). Since this wiki does not have a lot of pages yet, I think it makes more sense to rebuild the template repository from the ground up with The Vault's latest templates than to keep patching forks based on older template versions. I.e. since the new infobox meta-template requires ImageSizeInfoFunctions, we'll need it here as well.

I was going to mention adding the global-wrapper as well, but I noticed you've already set that in motion :) -- Porter21 (talk) 11:24, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Most extensions which are supposedly installed aren't working. Compare the sections "Parser extension tags" on Special:Version and falloutwiki:Special:Version - the "Parser extension tags" and "Parser function hooks" sections on those two pages should be mostly identical, but the ones here are much shorter. Judging by what is registered here, it seems only the extensions "Variables", "DPLforum", "Labeled Section Transclusion", "YouTube" and "ParserFunctions" are (partially) working currently - the rest shows as installed but cannot be used. -- Porter21 (talk) 14:27, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I see Porter has already spoken to you. Thanks a lot Ausir, just tell me when it's done and I'll take a look at trying again for you :). Not sure if what he means is what I do though, as he is discussing the MediaWiki version a touch more. Seen as you said you'd get the div rapper for soon, could you also look at getting this as the favicon of the wiki in time for it's face lift.

I think I did quite a good job on the various bits and bobs, but we can review it all once it is how it should look. You might see that I went for a 'boxy' look for things, and that might be pleasing and in keeping with the game whilst not being abrasive to the people who will hopefully come here for Wasteand 2. Please tell me what you think though, and I'd be happy to say more :) Φύλαξ [~μίλησε μου~] 19:51, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * mw:Extension:Vector is missing. Once it's installed, Manual:$wgVectorUseSimpleSearch needs to be set to "true" - otherwise things are looking fine (aside from ImageSizeInfoFunctions). -- Porter21 (talk) 21:27, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Spam
I think it'd probably be best if this wiki automatically imported The Vault's spam and title blacklists (see mw:Extension:TitleBlacklist and mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist for how that's done). This should help fight automated spam since the files on The Vault will likely be more actively maintained. What do you think? -- Porter21 (talk) 03:15, 16 March 2012 (UTC)