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Tooltip formatting
Because I am feeling so generous I have provided another alias to Tooltip color in the form of §. In addition it now supports more Minecraft formatting codes such as      and   for extra formatting goodness. For some reason using  in crafting grid tooltips appears to break things so using   works perfectly. 🐇 R e t e p 9 9 8 🐇🐰 Bunny Overlord 🐰 04:33, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks to we now have an even fancier template TTF which parses   formatting codes inline in the text and inserts the appropriate markup. 🐇 R e t e p  9 9 8 🐇🐰 Bunny Overlord 🐰 22:40, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Staff nomination
is active on the wiki and IRC, committed to contributing, follows the ACG and MOS better than I did when I was first nominated, and is a babe. For these reasons, he is nominated to be a member of the FTB Wiki Staff. Please vote y'all. --  Satanic Santa F T B Wiki Admin 02:54, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

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Voting ends in 7 days on January 11 2014.

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 * 1)  ― Meh ― 🐇 R e t e p  9 9 8 🐇🐰 Bunny Overlord 🐰 02:53, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 2)  – I second 's statement --  Satanic  Santa F T B Wiki Admin 02:54, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 3)  ― I believe  should be promoted as he has proven to be very eager to help where possible and he has shown that he is not afraid to ask for help or instruction to further improve his edits and general knowledge. This support is conditional however as I still believe he needs to get a proper irc client. ―  Wolfman_123_  ·&#32;✉  F T B  Wiki Staff  03:16, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) * Kek. still uses webchat like a scrub. --  Satanic  Santa F T B Wiki Admin 03:19, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * 1)  - His edits are good, and he's been fixing the whole G? thing, and I can't be bothered to accept all the changes :P But I don't think he needs to get a proper IRC client. :P  Chocohead  Nag • Edits • Staff 16:36, 5 January 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)

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)

Resource page tooltips
I hereby decree that in the infobox for resource pages, each icon must add the mod name to their tooltip using my fancy new Resource Icon template.

For example instead of   we do    which looks like this:

Copper has been reformatted to use this new style as a demonstration.

🐇 R e t e p 9 9 8 🐇🐰 Bunny Overlord 🐰


 * I have a complaint. Shouldn't |imageicon have so that it will cycle through all the copper, rather than just GregTech's horrific coloured one?   Chocohead  Nag • Edits • Staff 13:51, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Overhaul RI Template
As good as RI is, it is still at heart a Gc, but meaning many parameters that Gc has aren't being used, but are still slowing the wiki having to check them. User:Chocohead/Sandbox/Template:RI fixes this, by stripping it out so it only uses what it uses from the Gc template. There are two different versions depending on how invalid mod abbreviations are entered, the documentation on the template page explains that difference. IMO, this'll make a good template better (by making it more efficient and neat).  Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 01:32, 2 January 2015 (UTC)