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==Wiki on https==
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==Important message, outages, announcements, etc==
The wiki is now secured by letsencrypt at the url https://dwwiki.tara.gotdns.org/ or https://dwwiki.mooo.com/
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If the mud is down or you need to announce some big thing happening or there's a bug that does something super bad or similar please:
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#Go copy a message you like from [{{SERVER}}/w/index.php?title=Sitenotice&action=edit Editing Sitenotice]
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#Go to [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] and paste and edit the message for this specific use. Save.
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#Go to [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice id]] and increase the number by 1. Save.
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This can only be done by users with the <code>editinterface</code> permission. [{{SERVER}}/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop These users] have access.
  
--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 18:06, 12 May 2016 (EDT)
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After the notice has served its use:
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#Go to [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] and clear everything so it doesn't leave a ghost dismiss link.
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#(Optional) Copy your super cool new message that might be reused in [{{SERVER}}/w/index.php?title=Sitenotice&action=edit Editing Sitenotice].
  
==Mail==
 
  
Mail should work now.
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If you cannot modify that page, then [{{SERVER}}/w/index.php?title=Sitenotice&action=edit edit Sitenotice] with the message you would like to be displayer on all wiki pages.
--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 00:36, 29 October 2015 (EDT)
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*This is not currently going to update the banner. This will have to be done manually. But it should be noticed and someone will (probably) modify [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] or offer feedback.
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<!-- Doesn't quite work, takes super long, not sure what's going on.
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*This is a little buggy at this time, so someone might have to copy it to [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] for it to work. Research to improve this is ongoing.
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*Then visit [{{SERVER}}/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&action=purge this page] or [{{SERVER}}/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice?action=purge this one], if you see <code>OK</code> below <code>Clear the cache of this page?</code> the click OK to update the transclusion of the [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] that holds the real message. You probably have to be logged in to purge. This might take several minutes to update.
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==Ephebe Not A Game Area?==
 
Since Ephebe has entered the game, mentioning it under the Game Areas would be nice.
 
--[[User:Elorf|Elorf Mctak]] ([[User talk:Elorf|talk]]) 12:15, 13 January 2016 (EST)
 
  
:I reorganised things a bit, put the broader areas, then the bigger towns of the area. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 18:30, 13 January 2016 (EST)
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See also the [[Status]] page for a place to discuss issues.
  
::Hurray for organised lists! --[[User:Elorf|Elorf Mctak]] ([[User talk:Elorf|talk]]) 17:48, 15 January 2016 (EST)
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 12:50, 20 September 2020 (EDT)
==Updated==
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So I finally updated to the latest mediawiki version.
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== Alternative login: disctemp.starturtle.net port 23 or 4242 ==
  
I fixed a few broken things, if you notice other broken things let me know.
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Note for 18 Sep 2020 by QingFeng: The usual path to the MUD discworld.starturtle.net port 4242 is down! There is an alternative path to the mud: disctemp.starturtle.net port 23 or 4242. This is not a temporary copy of the MUD, it is another path to the actual MUD.
  
When I next get some time I'll try to really delete spam edits, get rid of the spam images, maybe try to allow users to self-register with tricky questions and implement some kind of offsite backup.
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(One) Wodan wisps: and this is NOT a temp mud, but the real thing, in case anyone wasn't clear on that yet
  
--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 06:21, 14 September 2015 (EDT)
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==Adding users to the wiki==
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Administrators for this wiki can create new accounts if anyone playing on the mud wants one. The only criteria right now is that they must have an account on Discworld mud. The account name should match one of their mud account name or be a recognizable variation of it. Accounts of past players are kept to know who modified what even if they are deleted from the mud.
  
[{{SERVER}}/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup Link to create an account.]
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Players should contact through the mud someone from [{{fullurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}} this list] who has been active on the mud recently asking for an account to be made for them.
  
:The link above takes me to https://dwwiki.tara.gotdns.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup. Is this the correct hostname or is the server configuration not set to disc-wiki.confusedherring.com? (though I really like the https which I'd love to see on disc-wiki.confusedherring.com) [[User:Quotid|Quotid]] ([[User talk:Quotid|talk]]) 07:14, 14 September 2015 (EDT)
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The procedure for wiki administrators is:
 
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#Go to [[Special:CreateAccount]], when logged in.
::Oops hadn't seen this. Yes it's https, it's a correct link, but not yet with a signed certificate. With Let’s Encrypt it should be doable easily with many different domains, I just have to find the time to set it up. Actually disc-wiki.confusedherring.com is not my domain, it's a proxy. Once https is online I will recommend to use that as it is more secure. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 18:30, 13 January 2016 (EST)
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:::Excellent news! And thanks for all the hard work! [[User:Quotid|Quotid]] ([[User talk:Quotid|talk]]) 07:59, 14 January 2016 (EST)
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==Update==
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I got access to the files and fixed the obvious php 5.3 failures.
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I also deactivated anonymous user creation and anonymous user editing due to the extremely high spam to real-user ratio until those can be fixed to use more effective and less annoying not-a-spambot checks.
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To do that we need extensions and so updating to the latest mediawiki version allows having more up-to-date extensions.
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There's also the migration to some other hosting announced a while back which should happen soonish at some point. Need php 5.3+, mysql 5+, file access, will need to install phpmyadmin to deal with the db stuff.
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So I made a full backup and I'm considering if updating live (by uploading new files by ftp) is possible and how likely is it to crash and burn...
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In the meantime, admins can create new accounts if anyone wants to join. The procedure is:
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#Go to [[Special:Userlogin]], when logged in as admin.
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#Click on "Create an account" link to get to the account creation form.
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#With email
 
#With email
 
##Enter a username and an email address, and click the "by email" button.
 
##Enter a username and an email address, and click the "by email" button.
##The account will be created with a random password which is then emailed to the given address (as with the "forgot password" feature). The user will be requested to change password at first login; when he does this, his e-mail address will also be marked as confirmed.
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##The account will be created with a random password which is then emailed to the given address (as with the "forgot password" feature). The user will be requested to change password at first login; when they do, their e-mail address will also be marked as confirmed.
 
#Without email
 
#Without email
##Without an email the sysop enters the requested password or makes a random one.
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##Without an email the administrator enters the requested password or makes a random one.
##Then send password and notice to the user that he should login to change their password.
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##They then send the password to the user by mudmail telling them to login and change their password to something else.
--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 05:28, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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#If anything fails, post a message to [[User_talk:Frazyl]] or send a mudmail to Frazyl.
  
::For some reason I'm no longer an admin, so with Lexx and Chat idle, anyone who wants an account is going to have to contact you or Gunde in game, and to ask Gunde they need to know who she is in-game. [[User:Zexium|Zexium]] 13:40, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 02:08, 23 December 2016 (EST)
  
Oh I also added Quest and Quest_talk namespaces. Was a 2 lines change. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 05:32, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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==Clubs pages==
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Also asked by Emily for other mudders is to have pages for clubs. This is fine, you can create pages for your club as a subpage like [[Club/Charm Chasers]].
  
:Heh, I used 5:
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The club pages will be listed automagically in the [[Club]] page.
  
::// Quest:
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 16:39, 9 November 2018 (EST)
::define( "NS_QUEST", 502 );
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::define( "NS_QUEST_TALK", 503 );
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::$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_QUEST] = "Quest";
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::$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_QUEST_TALK] = "Quest_talk";
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:I guess you didn't use the defines or a comment? ;) [[User:Zexium|Zexium]] 13:40, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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==Todo==
 
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*Update to latest MediaWiki.
::I just added to the bit already in LocalSettings.php:
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*Move quests to individual pages in quests namespace (to prevent showing up in default search) with warning at the beginning and include them all in existing pages. This makes it easier to read the whole quest if you want to or to edit it, it still shows the pages with hidden text like now for those who prefer that, and it allows linking quests in several lists.
<pre>
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*Think of a way to allow people to create accounts themselves by checking that they have accounts on the mud, copy/pasting something from the mud or something like that.
define ("RESEARCH", 100);
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*Document everything on the mud. {{Research}}
define ("RESEARCH_TALK", 101);
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 02:08, 23 December 2016 (EST)
 
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$wgExtraNamespaces = array (
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  100 => "Research",
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$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[RESEARCH] = true;
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</pre>
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::--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 08:33, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
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So there's some tables/rows in the db that use latin1 encoding and most of them use binary... (Something like this ALWAYS happens :() Which is probably not good for the upgrade since starting with 1.15 latin1 is not supported. I think the only way to fix those is editing the dumped sql to make it uft8 and drop/add it back, but the dump is a bit over 200 MB, which most editors don't handle well. :( --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 08:10, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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:I have an idea about that. Take the dump, use awk or similar to split it into separate one per db table files, use iconv to fix the table files that need fixing, then cat it back into a single dump. [[User:Zexium|Zexium]] 13:40, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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::Except for spam it we might just be ascii text anyway. Unfortunately it's a lot of data to try and find any bad text in it, but if there's any corruption it can be reversed. Also I can dump table per table, some tables are just cache or will disappear after the upgrade. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 08:33, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
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:Has the new account creation system been advertised on the boards at all? As for admins being inactive on-mud, I admit that, but perhaps an open page can be set up here to request an account? '''<FONT COLOR="red">Я</FONT>ehevkor''' <big>[[User talk:Rehevkor|<FONT COLOR="black">✉</FONT>]]</big> 22:19, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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::It's just temporary. We have like 1 new user every few weeks versus hundred of spam attempts per day. Unfortunately I have a project due in a week but I hope to resolve this better soon. Preferably by upgrading mediawiki which would make installing up-to-date extensions possible. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 08:33, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
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==Registered user spam==
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Some spambots register themselves and modify [[Idlechasing]]. This is probably because [http://www.idlechasers.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://www.idlechasers.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page] now redirects there.
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I protected it so only administrators can edit it. If this remains the only target for this spam, that I recall was the kind present on the idlechasers wiki, then they should tire of failing at some point.
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<strike>Any changes can be placed in the talk page and will be put soon.</strike>
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Or I guess we could just include another "real" page that's editable. Yeah that sounds nice. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 21:55, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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Ok after a false start I moved [[Idlechasing]] to [[Idlechasing_real]] so the last one is editable by registered users and is included in the former. I hope that the spambots are dumb enough to just try on [[Idlechasing]] which will fail because it's protected. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 22:02, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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:In regards to the whole spamming thing, I did a tracert on the IP address of the most current one (173.234.121.94) and it resolved to rdns.ubiquityservers.com. Is it possible to just block all access from that domain somehow? I looked into it a wee bit and seems that specific company is used as a source by a large number of spammers, probably as a proxy of some sort. -- [[User:Baldarov|Baldarov]] 2 June 2011
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::They're a data center leasing servers. The ips are probably just compromised computers so blocking whole ranges is unlikely to fix anything because they'll be compromised computers outside that range, most of the ips will be collateral damage.
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::What we could do is not make new user be confirmed automatically. Not sure what restrictions there are on uploading files but if it's not protected by the captcha we could try to add that to it. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 21:53, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
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::I've done a little searching - apparrently ubiquityservers are well-known for hosting spammers.  Therefore, I've just tried putting in a set of range-bans on their entire domain.  It's unclear whether the wiki actually supports range-blocks or not (there's a system setting that controls it; I can't tell whether it's set or not); we'll wait and see whether this eliminates the current lot. --[[User:Chat|Chat]] 14:11, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
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I think we could cut nearly all the spambot edits by installing [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist Extension:TitleBlacklist].
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*We could block usernames with numbers or with CamelCase. Regexp could look like
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<pre>([A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z]|[a-zA-Z]*[^a-zA-Z])</pre>
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*We could block creation or move to pages having names used for spam but not for normal pages for example:
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<pre>(cig|smoke|wiki|movie|bullion|bored|valium|proactol|reports|buy|submission|blackjack|casino|online|software|insurance|certification|User[^:]+:([A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z]|[a-zA-Z]*[^a-zA-Z]))</pre>
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That way by blocking keywords the spambots will need to keep coming up with new ones and if we spot patterns in user names we can block those too. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 23:27, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
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:Why not use /[a-zA-Z]{3,12}/ ie just restrict wiki user names to valid mud users. Add a note on the user creation page to contact one of us on the mud with tell or mudmail if their wiki name isn't being accepted, and "wiki user names are subject to the same constraints as player names" without stating what those constraints are - players should know what the constraints are, non players probably don't have much reason (if any?) to edit the wiki anyway. It seems that most of the spambot names have numbers on the end, and if we can control the regex at the admin level, then we can always lift it for 5 minutes if someone has forgot their pw and wants to create a new user with name + digit. [[User:Zexium|Zexium]] 13:13, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
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::Sounds good to me.  --[[User:Chat|Chat]] 18:49, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
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::Sure, we could require users to fit /[A-Za-z][a-z]{2,11}/ (spammers use names like WossnameThingy) but we can't without access to the server as far as I know.
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::We need some extension to block some user names, merge those phony users into anonymous and prevent creation of bad pages and block other stuff like blanking most of the page which can be detected automatically by [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter AbuseFilter] with various [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter rules].
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::I posted links to extensions on [[User_talk:Drakkos#Extensions_to_fight_spam|Drakkos' talk page]]. The new host for the wiki needs to update mediawiki and install extensions to help fight spam.
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::I'm not too keen on hosting the wiki on my home connection but I might do a test export/import when I'm less swamped with things in a week or so.
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::--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 19:12, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
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Is it possible to block user registrations for names that start with "Chenxuej[0-9]"? We have had 4-5 different usernames in the past days for that.
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--[[User:Gunde|Gunde]] 07:52, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
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== CheckUser ==
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Does anyone think installing [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser the CheckUser extention] would be useful, for blocking the IPs of the spammers? '''<FONT COLOR="red">Я</FONT>ehevkor''' <big>[[User talk:Rehevkor|<FONT COLOR="black">✉</FONT>]]</big> 12:25, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
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:Maybe but when blocking a user it says it blocks the last ip used by that user. Do we suspect the spammers use different ips to create the user and then to make changes?
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:What I'd like to use would be [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Help:RevisionDelete RevisionDelete] to be able to [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Revision_deletion delete revisions] that are spam or gibberish so spammers can't link to the revisions (not sure if they do that though but maybe that's why they keep coming). This does not seem to be an extension but I don't see (show/hide) or (del/undel) buttons in history so it doesn't seem to be working.
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:To revert lots of bad edits by users we could consider [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Nuke Extension:Nuke]. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 14:21, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
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:Oh right to find if the spam users are in the same ip range and block that. Yes that would be useful. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 16:22, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
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::I have php code that can do a basic "is this a valid mud character" name check. However, I have no idea if it can be incorporated into the wiki software or not .... [[User:Zexium|Zexium]] 23:54, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
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:::Thing is players often enough do not use a mud character name for wiki account. Though I suppose it could be mandatory for new ones. It would certainly be easier to check if they exist. Not sure how to include that check either. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 00:02, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
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::::As written it's an includable file with a single function that returns "true" if the name given is a valid character name. It uses the php sockets interface to open a telnet session and do a finger at the login screen, so there's no login (username / password) needed.
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:::::Ok, update - I spent some time this evening modifying a copy of the confirmUserCreate function for the version of wikimedia that we're using to incorporate a test of "is a currently logged in mud user with an mud account created at least 1 day ago". I *think* it's good to go. All new user accounts that weren't being created using character names of players would need to be pre-authorised by wiki admins, but I don't think that should be an issue. I can dial the test back to use "is a valid player charactername" with either or neither of "the character is logged into the mud" and "the character was created at least 1 day ago" instead of using both the secondary conditions as at present, but I don't think the triple check (valid player character, logged in, created at least 1 day ago) is that onerous a combination. [[User:Zexium|Zexium]] 22:38, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
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::::::That sounds nifty. I'm wildly guessing there might be a way to hook in like extensions adding user creation checks presumably do without overwriting the function to avoid having to patch mediawiki with each version?
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::::::If you could put it up somewhere we could check it up. Mmm. Is there some means of preventing lots of requests in a short time?
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:::::::I'm looking at that following a chat with Mishal (dwpriests wiki). Also, as a precursor filter, blocking any usernames outside the permitted lengths on the mud (less than 3 characters, more than 12 characters, containing digits). Actually, the latter qualifications I could implement easily, it's preventing the extension hitting the mud too hard when the wiki gets hit with an autocreating script that's the bigger issue. I'm thinking of a separate table of requests and if a site hits some threshhold (trying to create characters too fast, or too many failures in a given time) hooking back to the ip banning function. But this is a lot more effort than just patching the createUser function. Also, I have no idea how much of this could be done by, for example, prohibiting user names that include digits, have more than 12 or less than 3 characters in the existing wiki software. Eg if we can define a regex for a valid user name, use /[a-z]{3,12}/i and a message like "Ideally your user name should be your mud character name. User names are subject to the same character and length limits as the mud applies". Bear in mind that anyone whose mud character name is hijacked here can contact a wiki admin by mud-mail to get the issue resolved! [[User:Zexium|Zexium]] 20:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
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::::::::You could check [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist Extension:TitleBlacklist], because it blocks users based on regexps in addition to other things and it should be compatible with Mediawiki 1.12.0+.
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::::::::Looking at the subversion source files it adds a hook "$wgHooks['UserCreateForm'][] = 'TitleBlacklistHooks::addOverrideCheckbox';" to check various things.
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::::::::In fact if the source is not too difficult to work with it would probably be a good idea to add functions to that extension so we could also block new pages with that code (because unregistered users post spam even despite the captcha). --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 00:45, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
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::::::For putting it up on the site you'd need to ask Drakkos to do it, I don't think anyone else has access.
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:::::::Not yet, I need to mitigate sending repeated requests at the mud if we get hit by a script first. As I don't actually run  a wiki myself, I need to work out the best way to marry such functions to mediwiki. I might create a new mediawiki extension that's designed specifically for validating against dw, rather than patch the existing one. [[User:Zexium|Zexium]] 20:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
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::::::Checking fast I did not find any way to pre-authorize user names or do much of anything to users except modify groups or block them. Possibly creating a new user while logged in as admin might bypass checks but you'd need to turn it over to the user after that... --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 19:32, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
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::::As an academic exercise, I pulled the latest 500 ips from the block log showing only single ips, and identified /16s that had 4+ hits and /24s that had 3. The following ranges were hits: 173.201.0.0/16, 173.203.0.0/16, 174.129.0.0/16, 60.217.0.0/16, 79.125.0.0/16, 188.143.232.0/24, 202.108.50.0/24 [[User:Zexium|Zexium]] 03:31, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
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==Judge==
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As of {{Devblog|357 this announcement}}, judge now works in a completely different way.  This means that:
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There will be a short period of silence, followed by a long period of swearing, followed by changes to several templates.  Please bear with me. --[[User:Chat|Chat]] 19:08, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
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:OK, I now think we've got enough research on Judge to start putting weapon ratings back in.  A word of caution, however: Please don't add any weapon ratings in unless you:
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:#Have a JIR of at least 220 in the appropriate weapon class (If you don't know what a JIR is, go back to step 1).
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:--[[User:Chat|Chat]] 19:46, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
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Shortly I'll update the weapon infobox for entering judge data for overall, attack and parry with strength between 8 and 24. Provided it doesn't go horribly wrong and need to be reverted for fixes.
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It should be easy to extend it beyond 24 if need be, just some copy paste but I'm not sure anyone is testing beyond that.
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As a side-effect, the old judge overall, attack and parry data will not show anymore. This is necessary because without str we don't know what the old data was and it needs to be rechecked or entered. This is consistent with similar past updates.
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The prototype for the new infobox filled with new data will be in [[Fine sabre]].
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Unfortunately, it's not possible to just copy the data from the tables because it reads the string, not the number...
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 01:13, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
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Ok it works now as in [[Fine sabre]]. I'd just like to put table lines for the str table but it doesn't want to work.
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For those weapons done by Baldarov and others with the "Strength/Judge Results table" the info in that table was the one to use anyway, not the data without str in the infobox that's not shown anymore.
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Todo: see if I can muck up something so we can put the numbers 1 to 14 instead of the label like "rather good" to place the info in the infobox for all those pages. Another day though. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 03:16, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
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:I like the idea to summarize everything to one side of the weapon page.  However, an opinion - aesthetically, the fine sabre example looks, well, overly busy on the weapon info column now.  Would it be possible to do a multiinfobox?  The front box could be as it has been, but have the Str-16 (being median 9 to 23) relevant judge info displayed.  Then, if a person so desires, the second info box could just show the expanded judge info. If preferred, I can move this thought to the template's discussion area. --[[User:Groth|Groth]] 03:35, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
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::That's an interesting idea. But looking over all the str variations would take 14 clicks and wouldn't the buttons to show all available str be rather similarly spammy? Then again I'm not very knowledgeable on the multipane infobox things, maybe it can be made to work...
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::Would it help if the other judge info were put on top? --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 03:59, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
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::Oh maybe if instead of rather good (11/14) it was just "11 rather good" that would save 1/3 lines. Or I could scrap the string name to save on vertical space... --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 04:04, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
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::Ok changed it. It looks much more compact now. Still wish there were lines between rows. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 04:36, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
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:::Regarding the click for your str part there could be links to click for each str there is data for and one to show all. I just have no idea how to make that work with css at the moment. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 07:10, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
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I made the infobox accept numbers instead of string so you can put "11" instead of "very-good" as a first step to be able to enter the data from table in the infobox. I also tried to make a template {{tl|Judge-str}} to make entering data take less typing but it doesn't work yet. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 20:03, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
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:Ok it works now, you just need to type for example <pre>{{subst:Judge-str|9|10|10|11}}</pre> It then substitutes this when you save the page so that it looks like you didn't use it but it was used when converting [[Rose-hilted long sword]]. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 05:52, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
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It wasn't easy, but the dynamically updated table for weapons is done for [[Daggers]].
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Basically for every weapon page we need to change
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<pre>
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{{Infobox weapon
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...
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}}
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</pre>
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<pre>
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<onlyinclude>{{Weapon_data
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...
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The data inside the template also needs to be updated to have the str versions like: Judge-overall-13 = pretty good
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Numeric values also work like: Judge-overall-13 = 9
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For now I put the values for 13 str in the table because there's no space for all possible str. Not sure if or how to make the str shown change.
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On another topic, is there still what we can call "excellent xxx" weapons? Is someone going to update those pages with what, max overall value or do we scrap the pages?
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 03:55, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
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I synchronized the weights from the old table for daggers, some of those were more up to date than the pages for the weapons. Those checked with a balance should be bold as before. I weighted the delicate black stiletto, it wasn't the same weight for both. The new table is up and running, there's still a bunch of daggers with tables to move to the weapon_data. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 08:28, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
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For weapons using multiinfobox it is not possible to just include multiple boxes at once with current code. The solution is to create one sub page and place just the weapon_infobox inside them and then include those in the multiinfobox like in [[Switchblade]]. You then load the sub pages in the weapons table but not the main page and they'll all show up! :) --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 21:31, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
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In regards to the weapon box info, should the "Appraises as" paragraph still be needed if all of the info is going to be in that? Seems a bit redundant to have the same exact data in two places. If it is due to some items not having exact measurements then I can see those being around. On a completely different subject, it is possible that the custom axes have a possibility of 10 different judge values for each type (5 weight categories, plus an additional one if weapon is stone which adds additional 20% to weigh, possibly changing judge as well) --[[User:Baldarov|Baldarov]], 3 June 2011
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:Mmm. Well appraise serves as a nice way to verify the weapon type (there were some copy paste errors in the past it seems). I think the only thing that's sometimes in appraise and not in the infobox is the colour. There's the rough dimensions but I'd rather not have those in the infobox to prevent the weight issue of not being sure if it's exact. Plus the [[measuring tape]] can be carried around and the balance not. So yeah I guess after I do a check to verify the weapon types are in the right category I guess we won't strictly need it anymore.
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:For the custom axes we can do 10 different infoboxes I guess... Or maybe include 5 on top and 5 on the bottom. I need to check on what data I can include from [[Research:Flails]] for the custom stuff.
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:Baldarov could you please check and if possible fix the table in {{tl|Wr-speed/doc}}? I tried to put something from the weapons in the wiki but I'm really not sure especially of those I made up that starts with "?". --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 23:34, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
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::I checked it out and put some new entries based on what the other categories have. I've not seen any others than what's listed there (I've looked also). I've been GFR'ng some of the heavier weapons in hopes of getting some other categories but I've not had any luck seeing any. I can compare swords now though so I can at least verify the order. Need a witch mocking in order for it to work though atm. I've started on the ordering of custom axes. Hope to get that cleared up too. -- [[User:Baldarov|Baldarov]] 00:01, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
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:::Thanks. I've integrated those speed for the infobox and tables. Looks much better than just "?".
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:::I'm thinking maybe if you GFR the lightest weapons they might go even faster? If you fail GFR it makes it heavier so you could try that on heaviest weapon to see if it goes slower.
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:::I can cast GFR and mock if you see me online but I'm mostly trying to finish the weapons. :S --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 00:43, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
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===Work in progress===
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Need more info on ranged judge:
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*[[:Category:Fired weapons]] => [[Fired weapons]]
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*[[:Category:Thrown weapons]] => [[Thrown weapons]]
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Changed to {{tl|Weapon_data}}:
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*[[:Category:Axes]] => [[Axes]]
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*[[:Category:Daggers]] => [[Daggers]]
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*[[:Category:Flails]] => [[Flails]]
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*[[:Category:Heavy-swords]] => [[Heavy-swords]]
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*[[:Category:Misc weapons]] => [[Misc weapons]]
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*[[:Category:Polearms]] => [[Polearms]]
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*[[:Category:Swords]] => [[Swords]]
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*[[:Category:Maces]] => [[Maces]]
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Summary tables:
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*[[All melee weapons]]
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*[[All ranged weapons]]
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They had to be separate for the code to work and trying to pass the judge data just failed.
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===Parametric judge===
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You may have noticed some weapons pages being converted to use the {{tl|weapon data var}} template.
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This is because I've cracked the formulae for strength's effect on judge (works on all swords so far, at any rate) - so weapon data can be derived from a single number for each of overall, attack and parry, rather than an array from 9-23 str, and still produce the same results.
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Pages with parametric judge format have various benefits:
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* They provide a much finer-grain measure - parametric overall judge, for example, has a range of 0-201 instead of 0-14 - so allow better weapon comparison.
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* They can be used to extrapolate judge values at strengths outside the 9-23 range.
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In order to determine what the parameters actually are for a given weapon, however, we still need the full judge/strength set (in most cases from 9-23 str, though there are some weapons that can be converted with less data).
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Therefore, please:
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* Once full judge info is available for a weapon, either:
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** Convert it to parametric form yourself - you'll need to do a fair bit of trial-and-error with the parameters to make the results match up; or
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** Put the page in [[:Category:Weapons ready to be converted]] and I'll get around to converting it at some point.
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--[[User:Chat|Chat]] 21:19, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
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:I've tagged a bunch, there's more in [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Rbkey]] that are missing 9 to 12 but have 13 - 23. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 22:27, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
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===Vertical-select tables===
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I've added a new feature that collapses the rather large judge tables down to a single judge line, with buttons to change the strength the line uses.  See [[Copper short sword]] for an example of it in action.
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Please take a look, and let me know if you think this should be the correct long-term format for judge data (in which case all the weapons will be converted to use it), or whether you think something's not right.
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--[[User:Chat|Chat]] 17:31, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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:Well I think it looks great :D. Just wish I could figure out how that parametric thing works so I could change stuff if needed later on.
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:So... I guess the next step will be to add the same strength thing to the main weapon lists somehow?
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:--[[User:Baldarov|Baldarov]]
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::Alas, it won't be that straightforward.  The vertical-select code requires the full table to be available in the article, and then works by hiding all but one of that table's rows.  The server won't be able to cope with having 15 strength rows per weapon on the weapon list pages.
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::If we want to do something similar on the list pages, then we'll need to use another way.  The most obvious solution would be to implement the parametric judge formulae directly in javascript and invoke that on the weapon list pages; I'd rather not do that until we're more sure that the current formulae work, however.
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::--[[User:Chat|Chat]] 20:16, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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:It looks nifty but I'd like it if there were a show all button to switch back to seeing them all (and another to collapse it back I guess).
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:I guess it would be even niftyer if there was a list of the str buttons available to click on...
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:For the weapon tables for now I guess we could show a few. Like 13, 16, 20 maybe? That way you look at the closest one to your str if that's doable. Until we decide what to do next.
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:Mmm. Could we pass a parameter in the url for example str=14 and use that in the wiki templates to show just that? --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 21:25, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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===Str variants of weapon type tables===
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Ok I've made completely dynamic tables for every str from 9 to 23.
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No change for entering data, just modify the individual weapon page and add it to the base weapon type page. The base page is the "13" one, clicking on 13 return you to the base page.
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The other pages include the base page so you can just go to the str you wish to see. The links for the other weapons type are the same str as you're currently viewing since the most likely use case it going to your str then look the different types for your str.
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I had to change the templates a lot after doing lots of pages and it seems that as a result the pages are rather sluggish loading but it should stabilize after all the pages have been updated in the cache or something like that.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 01:37, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
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I've put the "unknown" that replaced the "?" smaller because it was too visually obstructing for indicating lack of data.
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I feel that the ? were easier to locate and took less visual space, not sure if the more verbose unknown is better. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 22:39, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
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==Archiving==
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The main talk page was getting pretty big, so I've archived the old bits off.
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The process for doing this is:
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*Archive talk pages when you start seeing the "'''WARNING: This page is X kilobytes long'''; some browsers may have problems editing pages approaching or longer than 32kb. Please consider breaking the page into smaller sections." message when editing them.
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*Move any sections which have not had edits within the last 30 days to the archive page.
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*The archive page is called 'Talk:''pagename''/Archive X', where X is 1, 2, 3, etc.
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*Put the {{tl|talkarchive}} template at the top of each archive page.
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*Put (or update) the {{tl|archives}} template at the top of the main talk page.
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--[[User:Chat|Chat]] 17:25, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
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== Quest pages ==
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What's the plan for the quest pages to remain in sync? That is, quests are duplicated on several pages, odds are modifications on one page won't be made on all of them unless everyone is aware that the quest is also present on another page.
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I thought that maybe there was a wiki thing in place so that sections from one page came from another or that they mirrored each other but apparently not. Not sure if that's something that actually exists. Anyone know?
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Barring that, should we remove duplicate quests and replace some of them with links? Or some other way to keep all the quest text in sync?
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I came up with some ways to handle the issue:
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*Make a page for every quest, the other pages link to the quest page. Downside is there will be lots of pages.
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*Put all quests on one page, then the other pages link to the section of the quest. Probably a bad idea because the page would be too big.
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*Make sure each quest is only on one page and that other pages are only links. Would need to decide on a level (domain/area/city) which would hold the real quest text.
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*Add comments in the source of duplicated quests that the other version needs to be updated as well. People could miss that though.
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*Insert idea here.
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Or does everyone feel quests duplicated on several pages is no big deal after all? [[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 22:31, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
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:The third one would be easiest, but... eh.  The first one is probably the best solution (possibly we could even stop using hidden text), but I don't like that they would then show up in [[Special:Random]].  They do currently, but it's not especially important because 1)there are comparatively few of them, and 2)spoilers are hidden and mostly below the fold anyway.  There are only 1,234 content pages currently, so if we added a few hundred quest pages they'd be a significant portion of that.  Maybe if we had a separate namespace ([http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces]) for them?  Then they wouldn't show up randomly. --[[User:Ilde|Ilde]] 02:23, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
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::A separate namespace sounds good especially if it allows us to show the text unhidden. As it turns out Special:Random also excludes redirects, so we could add redirects from the normal namespace for pages people might search or we want to link to... Probably only entry pages with warnings like Category:Quest pages and Unofficial_Quest_Solutions. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 02:53, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
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::: I actually like the hidden text as it enables me to uncover the mystery line by line if required (for example if I get stuck just because I cannot figure out the right verb, "exacto" comes to mind...). --[[User:Gunde|Gunde]] 23:19, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
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So, will someone create a quest namespace for quest articles? Or should we put them in the research namespace?
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The primary advantage of a quest namespace is that this will stop quest pages appearing in [[Special:Random]], which can send someone who doesn't want to be spoiled to a quest page and it will stop them appearing in default search (happens when the article doesn't exist) [[Special:Search]], which will reveal the context of the search, that is unhidden quest info.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 18:31, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
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:AFAIK, creating a new namespace requires editing the server's LocalSettings.php; as such it's something that only [[User talk:Drakkos|Drakkos]] can do, so you should speak to him.
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:Please don't move quests into the Research: namespace - that will end up polluting Research: with things that aren't research, and we don't want that.
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:--[[User:Chat|Chat]] 22:45, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
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::Hey, what about the Help: namespace?  It is somewhat appropriate and not really in use (the only thing in it is [[Help:Contents]]), and I don't think Special:Random catches pages in it.
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::--[[User:Ilde|Ilde]] 18:42, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
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Ok, so I came up with a few ideas to improve quest pages. For the namespace I was waiting for the captcha to be installed first so as not to ask too much at once...
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So I made a template {{tl|Prehidden}} that basically is like {{tl|prebox}} with white on white text. The advantage of prebox is that it preserves line breaks and spaces and other characters without breaking out too easily as with &lt;p> (making a list with * or : makes everything after visible) while removing then obsolete &lt;br> tags and allowing some formatting like '''bold''' or ''italic''. Also it puts a pretty box around the text.
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:See [[Alchemists'_Guild_quests]] for examples.
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If it is agreeable we could turn {{tl|Hidden}} like {{tl|Prehidden}} unless there something that I didn't think of.
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As for quest duplication, it is possible to include pages with {{tl|Include}}. It's only a matter of merging quests into the subpage and the template includes them with formatting and a link to the included page.
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:As for what includes what [[Unofficial_quest_solutions]] looks good, there's some difference to the structure of the Discworld quest pages though.
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If we get a namespace for quests, I was thinking that each quest could get its own page in non-hidden text, which would then be included in the lists in {{tl|Prehidden}} boxes. So if you don't want to be spoiled too much you can check the lists and to edit the quest and to be spoiled it would be easier to see it all at once in the quest page. It would use a tweaked include template.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 07:02, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
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:Ooooo!  The include templates are a neat solution for the duplication issue; kudos for that. --[[User:Ilde|Ilde]] 03:04, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
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Slight issue, when including a page with the template include it doesn't work. You'd think it would check if there really was a loop, but no it just refuses to do anything. The only workaround that comes to mind is to make duplicate {{tl|Include}} templates, one per level. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 07:14, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
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Ok all pages have the same format and duplicate quests have all been merged except for Sentimentalist and Distant Exhibitionist which have several versions.
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Some quests fitted several areas, put them in the most important area. To place a quest in several areas would mean putting the quests in individual quest pages and including those in all list pages that is concerned, but we said that would be too many pages so we'd need the quest namespace. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 02:01, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
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It occurred to me that while we can't include the text of the quests that could go in several places in more than one place (because we can't include sections, only pages as far as I know with mediawiki) we could place links to the quest.
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Might be worth going through the quests vs the mud quest pages to put stubs for quests missing and links to quests that are somewhere else, at some point.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 23:20, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
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==Spam==
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Right, after doing some analysis on the anonymous IP addresses we've been getting spam from, I've identified netblocks owned by Nobis Technology as containing many (alas, not all) of them.  To give an example, all four of the IP range blocks I previously implemented have been from this set!
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I've therefore blocked the entire lot.  Hopefully this will cut down the spam load somewhat.  The list of their domains is at [http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/NTGL/nets the ARIN WHOIS register], may be worth checking it if spam spikes in future in case they've been assigned new netblocks.
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--[[User:Chat|Chat]] 23:50, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
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:Hopefully this'll help. If not we may have to consider something a little more drastic. '''<FONT COLOR="red">Я</FONT>ehevkor''' <big>[[User talk:Rehevkor|<FONT COLOR="black">✉</FONT>]]</big> 00:04, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
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I've now coded a script that can analyze recent IP blocks and match them to network domains - the results can then be used to work out which netblocks to ban.
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* The code is at [[User:Protectbot/source/block-analyzer]]
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* I've been running it with the [[User:Protectbot|Protectbot]] account, but I think it will work for anyone - though non-admins would need to tune the rate limit down.
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* You'll need to use the various NIC's whois servers to get the list of an organization's netblocks, once the script identifies a suspicious owner.  Unfortunately, none of them have quite the same interface, so each takes a bit of getting used to.
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* I've generally applied the rule of '3+ spam IPs = block', but there's necessarily a degree of judgement involved.  It would be a bad idea to block BT, for example, even though there are multiple spam IPs in their netblocks, as many legitimate contributors will also be using them.
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* This method won't work for spammers that create accounts on the Wiki - the mediawiki software defaults to an (IMO, idiotic) restriction that no one can see the IP that creates an account, thus we can't block based on it.  That said, the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser CheckUser extension] fixes this, so may be worth installing.
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--[[User:Chat|Chat]] 22:46, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
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===Captcha===
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The (re)captcha doesn't seem to stop them. I was wondering if it's some default implementation of re-catpcha for Mediawiki, and if so, if we can slightly modify it to fool their spam software (since I assume that they're just stupid bots targetting mediawiki wiki's, rather than specifically this wiki). --[[User:Aeatan|Aeatan]] 13:51, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
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There's many extensions we could add to deal with spam including asking a question about the mud, but none of us have access to do that. Need a new host. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 17:56, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
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== Spam Redux ==
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Is it using [[special:wanted pages]] to identify pages to create? [[User:Zexium|Zexium]] 02:13, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
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== [[Alias]] vs [[Aliases]] ==
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These two pages should probably be merged or moved to be more intuitive with links added between them. Either Alias should be a section of Aliases and then move Aliases to Alias or move Alias to a new page (i.e. Alias Tip and Tricks) and then move Aliases to Alias. As it is the nice information on either page might go unnoticed by users when they search for the opposite page's name and there probably shouldn't be a page of both the singular and plural of a given thing (with singular being more standard). I would go ahead and fix them, but I'm not sure which solution would be preferable. I'd lean towards the new page somewhat give the way the alias info is already separated into different pages and to keep the page from getting overly cluttered. --[[User:Sigil|Sigil]] ([[User Talk:Sigil|Talk]]) 18:34, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
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:Done.
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:I merged them because the info seems to not repeat, the table of contents at the beginning allows to go to the bit of interest. I think it's not too overly long.
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:--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 03:26, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
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== Upload problems ==
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I keep getting this message:
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<pre>Upload warning
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The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again.</pre>
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...when I try to upload an image.  I've tried saving the image as a .gif, as a .jpg, and as a .png, but get the same thing every time.  It's not over the size limit, either--only about 8-54KB depending on format.  Is anyone else having this problem?
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ETA: The image in question, uploaded elsewhere: [http://i49.tinypic.com/2q8a736.png]
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--[[User:Ilde|Ilde]] 00:44, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
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Oups upload_tmp_dir wasn't in open_basedir. Please try again.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 02:32, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
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Ok seems to work fine now. Feel free to rename, was just testing it worked.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 02:47, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
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Aha!  Great, thanks.  :D  ETA: Annnnd uploaded a new version since I managed not to crop the first one properly. --[[User:Ilde|Ilde]] 03:39, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
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== Email new password not working ==
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Apparently the "email new password" button on https://dwwiki.mooo.com/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=login isn't working, and this error message appears if you try:
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:Error sending mail: PHP is not configured to send mail
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I got this same error message just now when I tried to set an email address in my preferences, too.  (Although it did save the email address I used.  I speculate that when you set an email address it ''attempts'' to send an email, presumably to confirm it, and that's what caused the error message.)
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--[[User:Ilde|Ilde]] 07:31, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
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Should be fixed. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 11:34, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
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== TM wiki gone ==
 
== TM wiki gone ==
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So far removing all anomalies at the start of fields and capitalzing them however I will be aiming to have the 'action taken' field in a set format rather than it is now, before i work out how this will be i would like peoples input (If this page is still used --[[User:Ascdren|Ascdren]] 13:27 30 march 2013 (UTC)
 
So far removing all anomalies at the start of fields and capitalzing them however I will be aiming to have the 'action taken' field in a set format rather than it is now, before i work out how this will be i would like peoples input (If this page is still used --[[User:Ascdren|Ascdren]] 13:27 30 march 2013 (UTC)
  
== Homepage ==
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==Archiving==
 
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To archive the {{PAGENAME}}:
Should a link to [[Languages]] be include on the homepage under '''Game Systems'''? --[[User:Zala|Zala]] 18:59, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
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*Create a new archive page called 'Talk:{{PAGENAME}}''/Archive X', where X is the number after the last archive page listed on top of this page.
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*Move any sections which have been solved or that are old and not useful anymore to this new page.
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*Put the {{tl|talkarchive}} template at the top of the archive page.
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*Update the {{tl|archives}} template (increase numarchives by one) at the top of this page.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 02:08, 23 December 2016 (EST)

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  2. (Optional) Copy your super cool new message that might be reused in Editing Sitenotice.


If you cannot modify that page, then edit Sitenotice with the message you would like to be displayer on all wiki pages.

  • This is not currently going to update the banner. This will have to be done manually. But it should be noticed and someone will (probably) modify MediaWiki:Sitenotice or offer feedback.


See also the Status page for a place to discuss issues.

--Frazyl (talk) 12:50, 20 September 2020 (EDT)

Alternative login: disctemp.starturtle.net port 23 or 4242

Note for 18 Sep 2020 by QingFeng: The usual path to the MUD discworld.starturtle.net port 4242 is down! There is an alternative path to the mud: disctemp.starturtle.net port 23 or 4242. This is not a temporary copy of the MUD, it is another path to the actual MUD.

(One) Wodan wisps: and this is NOT a temp mud, but the real thing, in case anyone wasn't clear on that yet

Adding users to the wiki

Administrators for this wiki can create new accounts if anyone playing on the mud wants one. The only criteria right now is that they must have an account on Discworld mud. The account name should match one of their mud account name or be a recognizable variation of it. Accounts of past players are kept to know who modified what even if they are deleted from the mud.

Players should contact through the mud someone from this list who has been active on the mud recently asking for an account to be made for them.

The procedure for wiki administrators is:

  1. Go to Special:CreateAccount, when logged in.
  2. With email
    1. Enter a username and an email address, and click the "by email" button.
    2. The account will be created with a random password which is then emailed to the given address (as with the "forgot password" feature). The user will be requested to change password at first login; when they do, their e-mail address will also be marked as confirmed.
  3. Without email
    1. Without an email the administrator enters the requested password or makes a random one.
    2. They then send the password to the user by mudmail telling them to login and change their password to something else.
  4. If anything fails, post a message to User_talk:Frazyl or send a mudmail to Frazyl.

--Frazyl (talk) 02:08, 23 December 2016 (EST)

Clubs pages

Also asked by Emily for other mudders is to have pages for clubs. This is fine, you can create pages for your club as a subpage like Club/Charm Chasers.

The club pages will be listed automagically in the Club page.

--Frazyl (talk) 16:39, 9 November 2018 (EST)

Todo

--Frazyl (talk) 02:08, 23 December 2016 (EST)

TM wiki gone

As Aphaea noticed, the TM wiki is gone, but archive.org still has several snapshots, this is the latest one. Aphaea has started copying data across, I was just wondering: Would it be better to have the TM stuff on the skills' research pages? --Gunde 16:05, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

I think it's fine either way. I'd prefer if all the bonus ranges were on the same page because it means less clicking. The way Aphaea is doing seems fine to me, especially since there's links to other skills to help navigation. --Frazyl 17:42, 28 March 2013 (UTC)


Working on creating a house format for the TMs section being added to all the skills pages.

So far removing all anomalies at the start of fields and capitalzing them however I will be aiming to have the 'action taken' field in a set format rather than it is now, before i work out how this will be i would like peoples input (If this page is still used --Ascdren 13:27 30 march 2013 (UTC)

Archiving

To archive the Main Page:

  • Create a new archive page called 'Talk:Main Page/Archive X', where X is the number after the last archive page listed on top of this page.
  • Move any sections which have been solved or that are old and not useful anymore to this new page.
  • Put the {{talkarchive}} template at the top of the archive page.
  • Update the {{archives}} template (increase numarchives by one) at the top of this page.

--Frazyl (talk) 02:08, 23 December 2016 (EST)