User talk:TheSatanicSanta/Archive/2017

Difference between NI and NID?
Hi, I was taking a look at the changes you made to the navbox. Can you explain to me when to use NI or NID? I would like to improve my understanding. Crazierinzane (talk) 00:03, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * NID (Navbox item/disambiguation) is essentially shorthand for . Here is a comparison:
 * {|class="wikitable"

! You type !! You get
 * }
 * All of these result in the same thing, it's just that NID is significantly shorter than NI. Basically, you use it when you are linking to a page that has been disambiguated for a mod (eg, you wouldn't use it when linking to, say, Wolfsbane (Item)). The second form (3rd row in the table) is just a better performance version; you really should only use this if you are really concerned about the page load time. Does this make sense? --  Satanic Santa 🎅F T B Wiki Admin 00:46, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * That was well explained, thank you! It's a nice shortcut when disambiguation is in place. I'll try to use it appropriately in the future. Crazierinzane (talk) 00:57, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
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 * All of these result in the same thing, it's just that NID is significantly shorter than NI. Basically, you use it when you are linking to a page that has been disambiguated for a mod (eg, you wouldn't use it when linking to, say, Wolfsbane (Item)). The second form (3rd row in the table) is just a better performance version; you really should only use this if you are really concerned about the page load time. Does this make sense? --  Satanic Santa 🎅F T B Wiki Admin 00:46, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * That was well explained, thank you! It's a nice shortcut when disambiguation is in place. I'll try to use it appropriately in the future. Crazierinzane (talk) 00:57, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * }
 * All of these result in the same thing, it's just that NID is significantly shorter than NI. Basically, you use it when you are linking to a page that has been disambiguated for a mod (eg, you wouldn't use it when linking to, say, Wolfsbane (Item)). The second form (3rd row in the table) is just a better performance version; you really should only use this if you are really concerned about the page load time. Does this make sense? --  Satanic Santa 🎅F T B Wiki Admin 00:46, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * That was well explained, thank you! It's a nice shortcut when disambiguation is in place. I'll try to use it appropriately in the future. Crazierinzane (talk) 00:57, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Move a page
I think I need to create a disambiguation page for the next item. I've seen you do this in the changelog, could you please tell me how to move a page to create room for a disambiguation page? And would I just use "What links here" to see what pages I need to update to the new link? Crazierinzane (talk) 05:03, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * First, you move the page. If you do not have the rights needed to move a page, add Propose move to the top of the page. Then, once moved, you turn the old page into a disambiguation page (e.g., Wooden Barrel), add About to all the disambiguated pages. Lastly, as you said, you go to the WhatLinksHere and fix all the old links. --  Satanic Santa 🎅F T B Wiki Admin 08:08, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood how to move the page. I thought it was just copying things over. Crazierinzane (talk) 20:53, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * No worries. To move a page, you hover over the More dropdown next to the search bar. In that dropdown is a button that says Move. --  Satanic Santa 🎅F T B Wiki Admin 20:56, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * It doesn't look like accounts like mine have permission for that unless I'm incredibly blind to this dropdown. http://i.imgur.com/jiqQIwa.png Crazierinzane (talk) 21:27, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * You can add Propose move and someone who has the rights will then be able to move the page you want. - Indestructible Pharaoh VII 21:35, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll do that from now on. Crazierinzane (talk) 21:41, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Moving pages by just copying things over is strongly discouraged as it loses all the history from before the move. Doing a move properly will move all the history with the page. 20:57, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

tilesheet
Do you know what the oredict name for the stone button is? Check my user page if you don't know what I mean. Correct the source if necessary. Thanks -- LordofEditing (talk) 22:44, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * - "Button (Stone)". See Special:TileList if you need help with anything like this again. -Xbony2 (talk) 23:45, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Oredict tooltip
Change it to be "&7"..tag.."/&9"..mod 02:36, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure how I'd do this, since the mod isn't actually accessible. I don't actually quite understand how the OreDict lua function works. I looked at the OreDict extension code and it looked like it takes an option "mod" param in the args to the "dict" parser function, but I don't think we actually use that since adding  resulted in a nil error. ? --  Satanic  Santa 🎅F T B Wiki Admin 01:51, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Random s
I saw one of your edits on a random placement. I've encountered a few of them myself and they seem to occasionally appear when selecting a word in the visual editor and typing over it. This causes the selected word to split and the new one to be typed into it. I'm guessing it's an issue with the visual editor itself, but you should see if any other editors are having this problem. --SirMoogle (talk) 05:23, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Other editors? There's only two editors, the wikitext one and the visual one :P Hehe, I assume you mean people-editors. Yeah, Visual Editor has been known for its buggy behavior. I'd encourage you to use the regular wikitext editor when possible, pretty much nobody serious about editing uses VE. In a perfect world VE should replace wikitext completely but we don't live in said world. -Xbony2 (talk) 11:22, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Ha, I was referring to text editors. Oh well, the one on Wikia sites seem to work well... I don't suppose we can get a TemplateInfo extension or something, can we? --SirMoogle (talk) 23:02, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * TemplateData? We actually had that installed for a little while (pretty sure it was when we were pre-Gamepedia, VE was uninstalled and then reinstalled later). It probably wouldn't hurt to install it, although supporting every template with it for such a minority of editors could be bothersome. -Xbony2 (talk) 00:12, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh, also a minor note about Wikia- pretty much everything they use is super-modified and super-custom, it's its own jungle. Also a lot of Gamepedia wikis are Wikia forks, but I probably shouldn't get into all that trivia. -Xbony2 (talk) 00:18, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Witchery tilesheet
xbony2|afk: after you submit an issue, leave a message on my talk page about the witchery tilesheet xbony2|afk: yeah after i said that i went and got plastered



-Xbony2 (talk) 22:57, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I did it, and I did it all while upholding Marxist–Jebinism. --  Satanic Santa 🎅F T B Wiki Admin 01:06, 28 June 2017 (UTC)