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==Sort test and example==
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Example for uses of weightkey for mixed but convertible units.
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!Using {{tl|gems}}, {{tl|lb}}, {{tl|"}} templates !!Using weightkey directly
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|{{Gem|0.02}} ||{{Weightkey|0.02/450|0.02}}
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|{{g|0.01}} ||{{Weightkey|0.01/450|0.01}}
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|{{Gems|0.03}} ||{{Weightkey|0.03/450|0.03}}
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|{{Gems|99}} ||{{Weightkey|99/450|99}}
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|{{Gems|100}} ||{{Weightkey|100/450|100}}
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|{{Gems|101}} ||{{Weightkey|101/450|101}}
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|{{Gems|37}} ||{{Weightkey|37/450|37}}
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|{{Gems|38.5}} ||{{Weightkey|38.5/450|38.5}}
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|{{Gems|39}} ||{{Weightkey|39/450|39}}
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|{{Gems|124}} ||{{Weightkey|124/450|124}}
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|{{Gems|125}} ||{{Weightkey|125/450|125}}
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|{{Gems|126}} ||{{Weightkey|126/450|126}}
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|{{Gems|74}} ||{{Weightkey|74/450|74}}
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|{{Gems|75}} ||{{Weightkey|75/450|75}}
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|{{Gems|76}} ||{{Weightkey|76/450|76}}
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|{{lb|2/9}} ||{{Weightkey|2/9}}
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|{{lb|2.5/9}} ||{{Weightkey|2.5/9}}
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|{{lb|3/9}} ||{{Weightkey|3/9}}
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|{{lb|1/9}} ||{{Weightkey|1/9}}
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|{{'|1/12}} ||{{Weightkey|1/12}}
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Even without lb, /9 is known to be in lb, /12 in feet and with no / gems, though that can be unclear, so you can now use those templates. You can also do fractions of those e.g. 2.5/9.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 12:22, 18 November 2018 (EST)
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==Important message, outages, announcements, etc==
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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.
  
==Thieves' Guild Wiki==
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After the notice has served its use:
The Thieves' guild wiki was hosted by Danduin -MayTheyRestInPeace-.
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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].
  
Emily contacted me to import the data, because we don't know how long the old host will continue to work.
 
  
The pages of the Thieves' Guild Wiki are listed in the following links:
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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.
:http://thievesguild.daftwarthog.com/index.php?title=Special:PrefixIndex&from=Crafts.arts.painting-00&prefix=&columns=3&namespace=0
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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.
:http://thievesguild.daftwarthog.com/index.php?title=Special:PrefixIndex&from=Crafts.pottery.glazing-400&prefix=&columns=3&namespace=0
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:http://thievesguild.daftwarthog.com/index.php?title=Special:PrefixIndex&from=Magic.items.held.wand-400&prefix=&columns=3&namespace=0
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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.
:http://thievesguild.daftwarthog.com/index.php?title=Special:PrefixIndex&from=People.trading.valueing.armour-400&prefix=&columns=3&namespace=0
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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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Many pages are recovered archives from the TM project that disappeared as noted in the other topic below. It would be nice to go through the skills pages and copy the missing tms into this wiki in the relevant [[skill trees]].
 
  
Pages on a topic that is already in this wiki should have the new information merged in the local article.
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See also the [[Status]] page for a place to discuss issues.
  
For the rest of the pages, if you spot pages that should be imported and that are not yet here (or as Thief/PageName), please add them in the following list and I will import them with full histories.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 12:50, 20 September 2020 (EDT)
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Thanks. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 16:39, 9 November 2018 (EST)
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==Clubs pages==
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== Alternative login: disctemp.starturtle.net port 23 or 4242 ==
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]].
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The club pages will be listed automagically in the [[Club]] page.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 16:39, 9 November 2018 (EST)
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==Poisons==
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[[User:Riannon]] removed the information for making poisons on the pages [[Smoke bomb]], [[Hallucination poison]], [[Bloat poison]], [[Gp poison]] and [[Venom poison]], but did not explain why or put a summary for the changes.
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Since this information is readily available and because I do not believe in making it harder for new people to find new information I'm going to put it back for now with a more colorful warning on top of the page.
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Feel free to comment here about it, but I feel not wanting others to share information is against the whole point of the wiki. For example I wouldn't mind if people shared their recipes for brewing.
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Even obsolete information just has to be marked as such until more up to date information can be obtained.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 22:01, 23 December 2016 (EST)
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:I have removed this information from the wiki because it's knowledge is restricted in game. Frazyl is mistaken
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:about it being readily available. Under current Conlegium Sicariorum policy the books it is found in are restricted
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:to assassins of GL300 and above only. New assassins have no problem learning this information from older assassins,
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:myself included, if they're responsible with it. Summary - it shouldn't be included here as it's restricted in game
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:and new players have access to the info provided they follow guild policy in regards to it's use.
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:[[User:Riannon|Riannon]] ([[User talk:Riannon|talk]]) 01:50, 25 December 2016 (EST)
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::What you did by sneak-modifying pages is wrong, this is not allowed on this wiki.
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::Submissions to the Discworld MUD Wiki must be made in the spirit of information and knowledge sharing. You have no obligation to share any new information, but it is against the Discworld MUD Wiki's policy to try to remove, censor, drown, degrade, disorganize, damage, sabotage or destroy useful information entered by other contributors or yourself. You must document in the summary why you are doing a non-trivial change which seems to be against this policy. Every contribution should strive to help others understand the world better, either by contributing new information, by organizing it better or by presenting it in a better way. Information that is no longer relevant should be marked as such and updated when better information is available. To create or keep an account or to change anything in the Discworld MUD Wiki you must accept this policy.
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::You should communicate with a bureaucrat on the wiki or on the mud if you wanted to report that your work is used without your permission on the wiki. The work you seem to object being present on the wiki, labeled «From Lexx's "From Spiders to Smokebombs"», seems to have been written by Lexx, not you. It does not matter if it is in a restricted section of a library. You cannot know how Jerec, who made the contribution to the wiki, obtained the text and unless you have spoken to the author you do not know if there was permission to post it here. Contacting the author of the work is what you should do if it is not you and you think something wrong happened, it is not up to you to police the use of a work done by someone else. However, since the text itself is not needed, it does not fit in the style of the wiki and I think it can be more concisely written here, I'm working on new versions of the pages that only show the information if you willingly highlight it, so people do not spoil themselves without wanting to. If you want the best for people and not control over them this should be fine for you.
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::However, you did not limit yourself to removing excerpts of that text, you also removed some information about making poisons. Discworld MUD game rules does not forbid sharing them. Be advised that by saying "knowledge is restricted in game" someone might think this is against the game rules. It is not. I carefully reviewed the game rules, and I can find absolutely nothing preventing anyone from sharing poison information to anyone in any way. You can review the game rules there: http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/playing/documentation.c?path=/concepts/rules
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::Furthermore, the Ankh-Morpork Guild of Assassins charter (to be clear which is not a part of the game rules) does not forbid sharing poison recipes either.
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::People share information about poisons all the time, for example: [http://discworldhelp.proboards.com/thread/812/poison-recipe]. Some have mentioned publicly that they used the poison labs without beings assassins. These things happen. They are either allowed to happen in game by the game code or not.
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::Poison information is similar to various degrees to witches' tea recipes, thieves' safe cracking, priests' wards, knowing the best hunting spots, getting the most out of wizard spells, quest information, how to do obscure achievements and any number of other systems in the game. If you believe in sharing information you should do so freely to help others.
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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.
  
::TL;DR Bottom line, this wiki exists to share information and if you don't want that then you can't be part of it.
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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
::You cannot censor the whole internet and every attempt will draw attention to it and make it more widely shared.
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::Respect Existence or Expect Resistance.
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::--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 21:01, 30 December 2016 (EST)
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==Adding users to the wiki==
 
==Adding users to the wiki==
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The procedure for wiki administrators is:
 
The procedure for wiki administrators is:
#Go to [[Special:Userlogin]], when logged in as an administrator.
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#Go to [[Special:CreateAccount]], when logged in.
#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.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 02:08, 23 December 2016 (EST)
 
--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 02:08, 23 December 2016 (EST)
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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]].
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The club pages will be listed automagically in the [[Club]] page.
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--[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] ([[User talk:Frazyl|talk]]) 16:39, 9 November 2018 (EST)
  
 
==Todo==
 
==Todo==
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== TM wiki gone ==
 
== TM wiki gone ==
  
As Aphaea noticed, the [http://tmwiki.firstserved.net/ TM wiki] is gone, but archive.org still has several snapshots, [http://web.archive.org/web/20120818122620/http://tmwiki.firstserved.net/index.php/The_TM_Project 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? --[[User:Gunde|Gunde]] 16:05, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
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As Aphaea noticed, the [http://tmwiki.firstserved.net/ TM wiki] is gone, but archive.org still has several snapshots, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120818122620/http://tmwiki.firstserved.net/index.php/The_TM_Project 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? --[[User:Gunde|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. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 17:42, 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. --[[User:Frazyl|Frazyl]] 17:42, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 14:03, 11 May 2022

Filing cabinet.gif Old content for this page has been archived, and can be found at the following locations.
Main Page/Archive 1Main Page/Archive 2Main Page/Archive 3
Main Page/Archive 4Main Page/Archive 5Main Page/Archive 6

Important message, outages, announcements, etc

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:

  1. Go copy a message you like from Editing Sitenotice
  2. Go to MediaWiki:Sitenotice and paste and edit the message for this specific use. Save.
  3. Go to MediaWiki:Sitenotice id and increase the number by 1. Save.

This can only be done by users with the editinterface permission. These users have access.

After the notice has served its use:

  1. Go to MediaWiki:Sitenotice and clear everything so it doesn't leave a ghost dismiss link.
  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)