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Category overhaul
Everything related to categories is terrible. To start, we have changed the policy to allow for multiple categories per page. To make this more useful, we will be creating more descriptive categories. The following list of new categories will be updated as we add more:



We are also going to be renaming some categories and reevaluating their usefulness. The following categories need to be renamed and/or reevaluated:



Please discuss stuff. --  Satanic Santa F T B Wiki Admin 22:14, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

G? Phasing Out
The move from the old grid style to the new (and current) tilesheet system was a great thing, but in order to keep backwards-compatibility, G? was made to convert anything like |ore=Iron Ore into  . The move was a really long time ago, and G itself really is inferior to Gc or O, meaning we're looking to phase out using G?, and try and avoid using G when you can achieve the same thing more efficiently using Gc or O and |link= and more importantly |mod=. With mods ever overlapping of names, it makes pages look much nicer if the grid icons work when the wiki knows which tilesheet to get the image from (which with G, it doesn't and can only guess, meaning it fails when there's overlapping of names). This is still in an early phase, so information may and probably will change from this.  Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 21:10, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Looking at, there are slightly more pages than we expected. A few thousand more. Don't worry though, there's a doom counter to know what percent of the wiki currently needs fixing before G? can be deleted safely (ignoring template modifications to stop using it): And in case you need a more visual representation:

 Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 01:30, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

scrub -- Wolfman_123_ Wiki Staff ·&#32;(Talk) 10:01, 31 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Yours doesn't have a purge button :P  Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 13:09, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Bee and Tree Note
Any bees in Extra Bees or Magic Bees must be referenced to the Forestry tilesheet, due to a bug in NEI, and not me. Combs added by either mod should still reference their respective mod's tilesheet however.

Tree Saplings added by Extra Trees also need to be referenced to the Forestry tilesheet, due to the same bug. The wood planks and other products (like fences or doors) however should still use the Extra Trees tilesheet.

Bug me if you have any questions.  Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 01:32, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Why don't you just separate them manually? --  Satanic Santa F T B Wiki Admin 02:06, 4 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Later, this was only meant to be a temporary solution until I know an update to the tilesheets would come quickly after me doing it.  Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 02:14, 4 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Looking at this further, many of the tree/bee templates need all the bees/saplings in one place, otherwise there'd be a massive and horribly complicated mess trying to work out which tilesheet to call the sapling from. Just having everything on F makes life much much easier.  Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 16:23, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Script error
If I'm not logged in, then I have script errors on the items in many crafting grids and infobox icons, for example on the Insulated Wire article. The Error message is: Lua error in Module:Language at line 25: attempt to index local 'args' (a nil value).

Backtrace: 1. (tail call): ? 2. Module:Language:25: in function "link" 3. Module:Grid:44: in function "chunk" 4. mw.lua:567: ? 5. (tail call): ? 6. [C]: in function "xpcall" 7. MWServer.lua:87: in function "handleCall" 8. MWServer.lua:301: in function "dispatch" 9. MWServer.lua:40: in function "execute" 10. mw_main.lua:7: in main chunk 11. [C]: ? If I'm logged in, does the presentation. --LuminousLizard de-native / "en-B2" (talk) 20:25, 7 February 2015 (UTC)