Feed The Beast Wiki:Staff's Noticeboard/Archive/2013

Staff nomination
Succubism on the FTB Forums has created detailed and informative guides on various mods, she is also recommended by various members of the FTB Team. Although she has yet to create an account on the wiki, I believe, judging by her works on the forum, that she would be able to follow the wiki formatting and content guidelines just fine. Her ability to create guides for mods is exceptional and would benefit the wiki greatly, therefore I nominate her to be a Wiki Editor on the FTB Wiki Team. --  Jin bo  bo  14:27, 12 November 2013 (GMT)

Polls
Voting ends in 5 days. Vote ended with 3 support votes, Succubism will join the team.

Voting Eligibility
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Instructions
Find the appropriate section for your vote, read the instructions on the first and second line, then click on the [edit] link beside the section titles. There are three types of votes: A detailed comment weighs more than a short and brief comment.
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Support

 * Cast a vote here if you support adding this user to the wiki team. If you want the message to be removed under certain conditions, cast your vote in the "Conditional support" section below.
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 * 1)  --  Jin  bo  bo  14:27, 12 November 2013 (GMT)
 * 2)  Her guides on the forum are a welcome source of information and always seem to be well researched. If she wants to join, she's welcome. -- MilConDoin (talk) 14:47, 12 November 2013 (GMT)
 * 3)  Her guides/cheat sheets for Thaumcraft and the many addons are wonderful. I'd welcome her onto the team -- SatanicSanta Staff &middot; talk &middot;contribs 15:26, 15 November 2013 (GMT)
 * 4)  This vote is purely based on the TC guide on the forums, which is of a very high standard. -- AgentTadpole Staff &middot; talk &middot; contribs 15:28, 15 November 2013 (GMT)

Oppose

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Neutral

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Staff nomination
have proven to be a competent person to be on the wiki team. Although he has made some minor errors when creating articles, he has corrected a good amount of other problems, I find him willing to comply with our requests and therefore nominate him to be a Wiki Editor on the FTB Wiki Team. --  Jin bo  bo  = Wiki Team Lead =  10:57, 11 September 2013 (BST)

Polls
Voting ends in 5 days. Voting ended with 3 support votes, will join the team.

Voting Eligibility
You can vote if you have made at least 10 edits in the past 30 days.

Instructions
Find the appropriate section for your vote, read the instructions on the first and second line, then click on the [edit] link beside the section titles. There are three types of votes: A detailed comment weighs more than a short and brief comment.
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Support

 * Cast a vote here if you support adding this user to the wiki team. If you want the message to be removed under certain conditions, cast your vote in the "Conditional support" section below.
 * Please put:  on the bottom of this section, where  is your comment. Click the [edit] link on the right of the section title to edit this section.
 * 1)  --  Jin  bo  bo  = Wiki Team Lead =  11:09, 11 September 2013 (BST)
 * 2)  I'd welcome you on the team, Santa -- -- AgentTadpole Staff &middot; talk &middot; contribs 14:54, 11 September 2013 (BST)
 * 3)  Anyone who can write semi-reasonable IC2/GT articles is fine by my watch. -- Retep998 (talk) 17:35, 11 September 2013 (BST)

Oppose

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Neutral

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Remove the under construction notice on the main page
No wiki is complete, this message is redundant and in the way.

Polls
Voting ends in 3 days.

The poll concluded with 1 support vote and 1 conditional support, the message will be removed after the old crafting grids are converted to the new crafting grids. --  Jin bo  bo  = Wiki Team Lead =  16:53, 26 August 2013 (BST)

Voting Eligibility
Anyone can cast a vote.

Instructions
Find the appropriate section for your vote, read the instructions on the first and second line, then click on the [edit] link beside the section titles. There are four types of votes:
 * Support
 * Oppose
 * Conditional support
 * Neutral

Support

 * Cast a vote here if you support removing the message. If you want the message to be removed under certain conditions, cast your vote in the "Conditional support" section below.
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 * The message is obviously redundant. --  Jin bo  bo  = Wiki Team Lead =  17:04, 23 August 2013 (BST)

Oppose

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Conditional support

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 * Once the crafting grid overhaul is done, and everything converted to the new system, then I'd be fine with removing the construction notice. Retep998 (talk) 17:57, 23 August 2013 (BST)
 * I agree. --  Jin bo  bo  = Wiki Team Lead =  14:30, 24 August 2013 (BST)

Neutral

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Final stage of the crafting grid overhaul project
Before I begin recreating crafting grids and populating the ore dict, please decide whether you want to use the new system.

Benefits of the new system

 * Ore dictionary
 * Simpler invocation of tanks.
 * Simplified crafting grid template creation.
 * Infinite animation frames.
 * Variables in tooltips.
 * Full implementation of grid functionality.
 * Automatically resolve file names and links of items with mod variants in grids.

Downsides of the new system

 * Slightly more typing when implementing crafting grids in articles.
 * Cannot animate the ore dictionary and normal animations at the same time.

Comparisons
Note that some names of templates are not final and may change in the future.

Grids
Grids are much the same except that animation using a list is no longer supported, Instead you use a wrapper to active the animation. The grid template now automatically resolves of mod counterparts of items. Observe where the grid links to and what the tooltip displays. Variables are now also supported inside grids and tanks. All other old parameters are still supported.

Tanks
Before you have to type out a string of complicated code that I wouldn't even try to type to create a tank, now you only have to type out the type of liquid, the amount of liquid used, and the maximum amount of liquid. Also, in the old template, due to the way the it is implemented, it was impossible to generate a tooltip for tanks, now, a tooltip is generated automatically and does support variables like grids do. Another perk is to not need to capitalize the first letter of the liquid name.

Ore dictionary
An ore dictionary has now been implemented. To call it you use: produces:

Note that you call the ore dictionary directly with the normal grid template, set no-oredict to 1 if you do not want to use the ore dictionary: produces:

You also can call the grid display logic to achieve the same effect. produces:

You can also call the ore dict by supplying the ore dictionary with a tag name. A wrapper is created to achieve this effect: produces:

Crafting Grids
Creating crafting grids is now easier than ever. Compare the code of Template:Grid/Carpenter with Template:Cg/Carpenter.

Animation and slides
Animation and slide wrappers are created and can be used in lots of situations. They both cycle through divs and spans. A B  C  D  produces: A B  C  D   A  B  C  D  produces: A B  C  D

Implementation of crafting grids in articles
Crafting grids previously automatically cycle through items, now it does not, instead the user would have to click on buttons to flip through pages. Some stuff you normally will have to type to create tanks can be omitted here since it is included in the crafting grid template.

Polls
With all that said, please cast your vote below, voting ends in 1 week. Please make sure that you have read what have changed above before casting your vote.

The poll concluded with 10 support votes and 1 neutral votes, the new system shall be implemented and the old system shall be replaced. --  Jin bo  bo  = Wiki Team Lead =  15:37, 13 August 2013 (BST)

Voting Eligibility
Anyone can cast a vote.

Instructions
Find the appropriate section for your vote, read the instructions on the first and second line, then click on the [edit] link beside the section titles. There are four types of votes:
 * Support
 * Oppose
 * Conditional support
 * Neutral

Support

 * Cast a vote here if you think that this system should replace the old system. If you want this system to be implemented with conditions, cast your vote in the "Conditional support" section below.
 * Please put:  on the bottom of this section, where  is your comment. Click the [edit] link on the right of the section title to edit this section.
 * I created these flippin' templates, if no one votes, the new system shall take over. Bwahahahahaha. -- Jinbobo SysOp ·&#32;BotOp ·&#32;talk ·&#32;contribs 17:58, 3 August 2013 (BST)
 * It seems like a very nice way to make the system more flexible, and more consistent between other templates. It is more complex, I agree, and could look a bit "scary" for some people, but should be better overall, I think. -- Throne3d (talk) 23:17, 3 August 2013 (BST)
 * I like it. Looks like it would make things easier on the coders. :) -- Masbk2 (talk) 10:44, 4 August 2013 (BST)
 * Vote cast for . --  Jin bo  bo  Wiki Team Lead 13:14, 4 August 2013 (BST)
 * Looks good and seems to work without problems. The extra work is mostly taking the time to adapt to the new methods. -- MilConDoin (talk) 15:08, 4 August 2013 (BST)
 * At last, the system I wanted is finally here. Yay! -- Retep998 (talk) 15:17, 5 August 2013 (BST)
 * I like it. The slide version would make adding different recipes to single pages very reader friendly. -- Quantumpugilist (talk) 07:59, 6 August 2013 (BST)
 * Presumably we can set up a bot to replace all existing crafting tables? It's going to be a hell of a replacement job otherwise -- AgentTadpole Staff &middot; talk &middot; contribs 10:34, 6 August 2013 (BST)
 * I'm all for the new system though I also support AgentTadpole's idea of trying to bot the changes for the existing pages. -- Beleriond (talk)
 * It is SO amazing and easy to use. |Figgycity |(Talk) 16:10, Thursday 8 August (GMT)

Oppose

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Conditional support

 * Cast a vote here if you think that this system should only replace the old system under certain circumstances.
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Neutral

 * Cast a vote here if you think that either system works.
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 * Vote cast for --  Jin  bo  bo  Wiki Team Lead 11:38, 4 August 2013 (BST)

The Problem
There are two types of links at the moment;

Which links to wiki.feed-the-beast.com/Link*/language* - if you're on a language page, it links to the link, but in said language -, and shows up like.

Overwrite Which links to wiki.feed-the-beast.com/Link, and shows up like Overwrite.

Why is this a problem?
Old pages still use the (inferior) system. People who translate such pages, forget to add */language* at the end of the links, and it just makes a giant mess out of translated pages. Any page with links is translated faster (because links won't need edits other than maybe overwrites).

Solution
Bot-edit all pages with old links.

Discussion

 * What are you suggesting? L on every page? That would be a no. And the notes part, having separate categories for translated articles is intended, but currently using L to create such links is currently broken, I'll have to fix it later. --  Jin bo  bo  = Wiki Team Lead =  04:04, 10 August 2013 (BST)
 * The categories in are working fine for me, I believe there's no problems in changing all links, really. --Alistaire (talk) 15:39, 10 August 2013 (BST)
 * Training 5 people is easier than training 50 people. If we changed all links to L, normal editors will start forgetting to add them and will become more of a pain in the ass. If you see a translator not converting links, post a warning linking to the translating guide asking them to do so. --  Jin bo  bo  = Wiki Team Lead =  16:45, 10 August 2013 (BST)

Mod item naming convention
Currently the naming convention are the following:
 * for files.
 * for articles.

Problem
The current problem with this setup is that in some situation that items from different mods act differently, items in crafting grids will point to the article with the exact same name. For example: A grid icon will point to: Tin Gear (TE), but that actual Tin Gear articles is at Tin Gear (Thermal Expansion). An additional redirect must be created in order reach the correct article.

Solution A (AgentTadpole)
Unify the naming and use the file naming convention on articles.



Solution B (Jinbobo)
Unify the naming and use the article naming convention on files.

Titles should be descriptive, if there articles for forestry, buildcraft and thermal expansion and a user searches for the item. All three article will show up in the result, considering these differences aren't significant enough to have disambiguation pages created, if the article title has the full mod name instead of a abbreviation in it, it would be easier to identify and navigate to the article the user is looking for.

Solution C
Use the current conventions and create redirects from to the correct articles.

Explanation

 * Anyone with the edit right can vote once.
 * This poll will end in three days.
 * Add done and a comment and your signature if you support solution A by.
 * Add done and a comment and your signature if you support solution B by.
 * Add done and a comment and your signature if you support solution C.
 * Add partlydone and a comment and your signature if you support a solution under a certain circumstance.
 * Add notdone and a comment and your signature if you would like the current convention to not be changed.

Example
* blah blah blah -- ~
 * blah blah blah -- Jinbobo SysOp &middot;&#32;BotOp &middot;&#32;talk &middot;&#32;contribs 11:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Consensus Achieved
Retain the current convention and use Solution C.

Other discussions

 * I want to start translating into czech but there is no project for it,can somebody create it please ?-kiblik1
 * You can start translating directly by using the cezch language code (cs). -- Jinbobo SysOp &middot;&#32;BotOp &middot;&#32;talk &middot;&#32;contribs 08:19, 15 July 2013 (BST)
 * Can a template be created for the mystcraft navbox to put on the item pages. The current navbox is found on the Mystcraft mod homepage or should it just be copied on each page. -Madmanmayson
 * Use: Navbox Mystcraft -- Jinbobo SysOp &middot;&#32;BotOp &middot;&#32;talk &middot;&#32;contribs 05:14, 9 July 2013 (BST)