FYI, I purposefully made a forum post about updates to discuss how to do them, you responded with just "they should have archive pages seperately for months" with no reason given, ignored my follow up question, and just went ahead and did your way anyways. I could have done that but tried to discuss it first. Again actively dismissing the opinions of other admins, which again isn't exactly admin-like. A wiki is a forum like any other place, and as such requires discussions among it's editors.
Ummm.. I have been randomly placing ALOT of runes and a counter appeared next to it ._. There is a maximum amount of same type of items you can spawn and then you can run out of items?
Hi there Few, I got a bot today, and I was wondering if you would approve of me getting a flag here. I wanted to get your input before deciding whether or not to make a blog.
Sure. I've only ever had one successful edit with my bot before giving up (and I find it a pain to use others' scripts), so if you'd like to setup a bot to do some quality of life edits / do some basic tasks, power to yah.
I'm sure it's obvious, put please test any major scripts on your sandbox wiki first ;)
Also, if you find any beginner guides for setting one up / running pre-existing scripts, let me know. I'm a programer so that's not an issue, but setting up bots is aggravating, and the only one I've ever gotten working had very little support.
Well, I'm using pywikipedia, and I'm assuming you do to? I would use AWB but y'know, Mac. I had huge troubles with my setup (source). Since you do like css and whatnot I would assume you use pywikipedia. Would you like guides on how to use the scripts? Here's an example one: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/category.py. That is for the category.py script, if you change category.py to what script you want, a tutorial should come up but I'm not 100% sure.
The only one I could get setup that did what I wanted easily was some old clone of some other one that used C# if I remember right (I still have it downloaded at home most likely). And pywikipedia bot was a pain to get working, so meh.
And now I'm going to have to update all my bookmarks to not hide bots (because I'm anal), thanks a lot! :3
I think half the reason I gave up on bots is I don't trust them to be as anal as me, since I'm not usually smart enough to account for every special case scenario. So if I'm going to be going page-to-page checking anyways (since I'm anal =p) I figure I might as well add it myself. Even if it's over 100 pages (I think I'm anal and self-loathing =p).
But I've still wanted to setup a bot to do basic stuff like remove whitespace and crap.
I'll be using it on one of my wikis to make up for old bad grammar, as well as me putting in {{Template:Itembox instead of just {{Itembox, so noobness and bad english basically.
Oh yah, one that removes {{Template: is a good general script to have in an arsenal too, one of the wiki's I helped a friend with had that happen a lot from the editor or something. I gave up fixing it =p
Oh, another thing to consider: localization. There are many english words that have a different spelling based on the country you're in. I believe both the RuneScape and Tardis wiki enforce British words in "honor" (for lack of a better word) to their country of origin. So wether we choose to do that or use some other form of english, it would be nice to have a standard "english" across the wiki.
Random side notes:
I really got to stop linking so much stuff that isn't important to the conversation >.<
Localization is also the reason I try to respect the dd/mm/yyyy format across all Atelier 801 wikis, rather than mm/dd/yyyy (since most of the world uses the former). But to avoid confusion I try to never condense it without using the name of the month.
Wether for dates or grammar, I think we should maybe have a simple style guide (with just a general "follow wikipedia style guide unless stated otherwise"). ex: "Transformice Wiki:Style guide"
Not sure if you ever got around to asking for a flag, but if you ever want to fix something on this wiki with a bot, you probably don't need to bother with the flag (unless you want to get around certain restrictions bot's without a flag get). My reasoning:
The bot flag is more important for larger wikis; we don't have 50 people monitoring the recent changes =p
Unless you'd plan on having the bot run ever # hours checking for spelling mistakes, odds are most changes would be things you'd otherwise be doing by hand, which would have shown up in the feed anyways.
Anywho, my 2 cents, happy wiki-ing and happy new year, ☙Fewfre☎🔎K✞16:51 Fri, 09 Jan 2015
TL;DR: Atelier 801 wiki now has staff / history pages. Do you know any release dates for their pre-Transformice games?
Oh, I finally finished with the "staff" pages; I added them all to the Atelier 801 wiki, added some missing ones from the cheese.formice wiki, and added one for the sound guy. I also turned all the pages on here into summaries (to avoid info getting out-of-date), and added a redirect to see the Atelier 801 wiki. All of which took long than I expected (I always forget how annoying exporting/importing images is).
I also update the Atelier 801 History / Timeline page, but I'm not sure about some of the pre-Transformice dates; do you know any info on these by any chance? I "cheated" with the Extinction games, and just found the earliest dates on the Extinction forums for those topics, but I think they are up to 5 months off.
Hi there, I have recently started using Adobe Flash Professional CS6 but have to idea how to export transparent, zoomed in, png sprites. From here, http://prntscr.com/5iabx9, I have no idea what to do. Hopefully you can help.
Well there's a few ways, but a quick and dirty way it to open up the library tab, and right click on the sprite and export as png sequence, and scale it by changing the DPI (I use 250 95% of the time).
The more "legit" way is to open up the sprite you want (like you have in the screenshot), and then File>Export (If there's more than one export option, I think it's the first one)>Image, save as png, and again DPI 250 / w/e.
animated gifs with a transparent background are much worse, but lucky it's not needed very often. In short, you have to size the stage, publish instead of export, and remove "smooth".
So, my only problem now is that I don't have every swf, would you be able to zip all the ones you have into one of those links like you did the other day?
Did the zip I uploaded before not have all the stuff? I'll make sure to get all of it next time. And glad you got it ;) I meant 250 DPI [end thought] 95% of the time.
one value of what?
I'm really not sure why some have some stuff missing. Sometimes that's how it is in game (like the Fortoresse potato currency), but other times idk why. I tried updating to the latest version of my dumper / trillix, but still happens. I'm just hoping doing so at least fixed a different bug I won't bore you with.
As I mentioned in a previous message, most are all gray-scale for easy coloring, with the actual color having an "name" corresponding to it's default color value for multiplication. The tool here makes coloring easier. I've considered making a script to auto-color them for the swf, but then I'd also have to be able to export it while the swf is running, and uuggggg....
If you'd like a file with all items on it (no clue how up-to-date it is though), you can view the resources.swf (save page as) from the cheese.formice dressing room. If curious the crap they do to make that work, you can decompile their main swf, or event just enter than link into http://www.showmycode.com/ (it's how I found their link for their resource file). Their images are also grayscale though, so not sure what to tell you there.
I hope that helps somewhat (if for no other reason than why I only exported two of those gray scale shaman item images before going "bla, forget this"). If you'd like me to clarify something, let me know.
You filled it in wrong. If you tell me what you want linked I can do it for you. Do you want just en linked to ru, es and fr or would you like fr>es, fr>ru, ru>es, ru>fr, fr>en, es>en, ru>en (and vice versa)?
Oh, I'm wrong plenty =p Thanks for lookin' out for me though ;) Hopefully those are all the wikis, I nearly missed the ru one; One of these days I really need to find out how to tell a search engine not to favo links based on my location. I tried a tool that would list out subdomains, but 95% (random number) of them all look for subdomain on wikia.com (won't look for subdomains on subdomains), although this time I found one that actually did look, but only returned the fact there was one for "fr".
Edit: If you're ever curious how wrong I can be, just look at how many edits are me fixing my own mistakes; especially on the Kairosoft wiki =p Or even worse on the Bones Underground wiki where I rarely even bothered to fix my mistakes (first wiki attempt, not even an admin on it).
I'm not comfortable giving you admin rights at this time; not because your not a good editor / etc, but because an admin should always have a clear an level head, and strive to respect others opinions (even if they are wrong).
Note counting some of the events here (where you've done personal attacks, swearing, and not considering the opinions of others, when faced with confrontation), I've also been looking through some stuff from other wiki's you've joined, and found some similar occurrences in the past:
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So while you're a great editor (I'm impressed by how much stuff you've done across Wikia) and I enjoy having you around, I'm not really all that comfortable having you as an admin. If that's a "deal breaker" that's quite unfortunate, but I hope that won't be an issue.
Yo, whenever you export stuff from SWFs, what do you use to do it, and which SWF do you use? When I open ChargeurTransformice.swf there are only about 6 shapes and 5 sprites,
I use "SWF Memory Dumper.exe". I'm not 100% sure of any safe link, but the link in this vid's description might work (I'm not vouching for this links credibility/safeness). That vid also shows what it looks like. Basically, you open up Transformice (or any other Atelier 801 game your interested in), find it on the list, select "Transformice" (even if you are doing a different game), "Scan Process", and then dump to disk the ones you want (I usually sort by size, and take the top half minus the biggest two [I think they are code, but I can't open them either way]). You can set the output location in options.
Edit: I'm making an assumption here you use both Windows and the standalone client.
Nah, I was just wondering out of a matter of interest as it would be something I would use. I use Trillix and screenshot, but I was wondering for transparents. I use Mac so i couldn't download that dumper thing.
Ah. Well, if you ever want a dump of all the files let me know and I'll zip them up or something. (not like it's that hard =p)
I'm sure there's probably a mac way of doing it as well.
And I recently got a more up-to-date version of trillix, so I'm going to try and get some of the assets I couldn't before (due to what I'm assuming was a slightly corrupted fla, so I'm assuming it was an issue with an old trillix version). Who knows, I might even be able to actually open up some stuff in the two files I couldn't before.
I think the two I can't open are mostly code, but that could be cool to find out certain game values, and how to easily assemble the "skins" (get an image of all the skins / furs is a pain, since they are in multiple parts. So without the actual number of how they are assembled in code, I have to actually move stuff by hand until I find the correct positions, but since I'm a little OCD (self diagnosed), it has to be perfect, and since they draw some stuff as fuzzy images to increase speed, it's hard to actually find it exactly. I already did this once with Fortorese skins, and that took me like ~2 days (admittedly some of that included other stuff, as well as trying to figure out how they did it for future reference).
I extremely doubt I'll run across an OSX way, but if I do I'll keep you in mind ;) Odds are I'll forget to confirm this when I get home, but the exe might not require an "admin" to run it, so you could potentially (?) use it on a library computer or something.
Edit: exactly 340.6 files is when it becomes "to hard".
So I just checked, and it seems it doesn't need admin rights to run, so you could run it on another computer (it's a standalone application, so no instal or anything).
Also, I needed to get a fresh dump so that I could get the new UI icons, so I zipped it up. http://www.2shared.com/file/uzYqXNP7/tfm_V1-213.html
Oh yah, I forgot they were in there; last time I noticed it was months ago. But with all the placeholder junk in there, not really sure how useful it can be.
They all seem bunched together apart from the top one. I don't mind if you separate the others, or bunch the first one with the rest but it's annoying me :L
Ah, that issue, annoying but simple to solve. Wiki syntax treats all newlines as a new "paragraph", which has margins and crap above it. But when inside a table, only the first newline gets those types of weird effects, which makes it even weirder; never bothered to figure out why as of yet =p
If you do ever need to account for line breaks and br tags, you just need their immediate parent element to be a <p style="margin:0;"></p>. I find this can be useful for navbox "content" areas.
Fine by me, nice but short :) I never use that feature, since it's a little out-dated with the new forum system. Plus I rarely see it, since I use Special:RecentChanges, (either bookmarked, or from the links on my "global profile" on my user page).
Edit: It's still something that should definitely be updated, I just rarely remember to / feel bothered to. Oh, and I like that you included the wordmark.
