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FlaggedRevs Temp Workaround

As you all should be aware by now, FlaggedRevs is causing a large amount of issues with regards to not being able to review pages in the Module namespace. This in turn causes non-logged in users to see script errors on all articles; essentially making the site unusable. Although we are trying our best to fix this issue, we have yet to find a solution.

This brings me to my crude idea of a hot-fix which involves allowing anonymous users see the latest version of all pages rather than just the latest reviewed edit (stable page). This is by no means a permanent fix; rather a temporary fix, as this means that any vandalism or spam on the wiki will be visible to all readers until removed by an editor. I realise this is a big task, as we will be required to step up our game in regards to removing such content from the wiki; however with the fairly-well reliable PonyButt IRC log and with editors across several timezones all with incredibly weird sleeping patterns (as Paladin so kindly put it), we should be able to keep up. --Wolfman_123_ · ✉^{FTB Wiki Staff} 02:41, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

As a result of actions by Retep998, Cblair91, and Game widow, as of 6 hours ago (and as noted at the end of the Discussion section), FlaggedRevs is no longer active on this wiki. Script Errors should no longer be present on articles as a result of it. PaladinAHOne ^Staff (talk) 02:18, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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Support. I honestly believe that it is better for readers of the wiki to potentially see a small amount of vandalism rather than not be able to use it entirely. I also believe we shouldn't be forcing users to create an account simply for the purposes of reading an article. --Wolfman_123_ · ✉^{FTB Wiki Staff} 02:41, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Support. Yohoho and a bottle of rum 🐇Retep 998🐇^{🐰Bunny Overlord🐰} 05:28, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Support. We can rebuild it. We have the technology. - PaladinAHOne ^Staff (talk) 06:56, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Support. It would be a good idea to protect certain pages, like popular mod pages and guides. Xbony2 (talk) 13:36, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Support. Ayyyyyyeeeeeee -- Satanic Santa^{FTB Wiki Admin} 00:11, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

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Oppose. I don't see a point in bypassing FlaggedRevs but still having it. Either we ignore the problem and get one of the Curse guys to fix FlaggedRevs, or we just remove it. What use is it if you're already seeing the "unstable" version of the page over just seeing the page. We don't get enough spam for it even to make sense really. Chocohead ^{Nag• Edits• Staff} 19:50, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

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Removal of Flagged Revisions extension

I received an email from Cblair91 saying you want this extension removed. Can you confirm ? — Game widow ^(talk) 16:04, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

I can confirm🐇Retep 998🐇^{🐰Bunny Overlord🐰} 18:18, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

OK thanks. I've removed it — Game widow ^(talk) 20:16, 6 March 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)

Modules cannot be reviewed, so when you are not logged in you always view the stable version of a page, which means the Modules are not up to date and therefore are broken. Either the FlaggedRevs extension would have to be fixed so Modules can be reviewed properly, or it would have to be removed. 🐇Retep 998🐇^{🐰Bunny Overlord🐰} 07:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the hint. --LuminousLizard _{de-native / "en-B2"} (talk) 17:03, 13 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 {{G|Iron Ore}}. 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 Articles dependent on G?, 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):
It's gone, it's literally all gone!
And in case you need a more visual representation:

0% (0/29494)

[Purge]

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

0% of articles on the wiki are using {{G?}}
(0/29,494 Articles)

scrub --Wolfman_123_^{Wiki Staff · (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)

Staff nomination

PaladinAHOne 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^{FTB Wiki Admin} 02:54, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

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Support ― Meh ― 🐇Retep 998🐇^{🐰Bunny Overlord🐰} 02:53, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Support – I second Retep998's statement -- Satanic Santa^{FTB Wiki Admin} 02:54, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Support ― I believe PaladinAHOne 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_ · ✉ ^{FTB Wiki Staff} 03:16, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- Kek. Chocohead still uses webchat like a scrub. -- Satanic Santa^{FTB Wiki Admin} 03:19, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

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Conditional support. - 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)

Crafting grid style overhaul

The crafting grid style overhaul would make standard style GUIs follow this style. Non-standard templates will not follow this, such as Template:Cg/Arcane Worktable and Template:Cg/Essence Refiner will not be affected. Example template: Template:X9. Alternate style: Template:X1. Demonstration: User:Retep998/Sandbox/Cg.

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Support. Yes. -- SatanicSanta^{FTB Wiki Admin} 04:49, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Support. I started this ― 🐇Retep 998🐇^{🐰Bunny Overlord🐰} 04:55, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Oppose

Oppose. I like the rounded edges more. Chocohead ^{Nag• Edits• Staff} 13:49, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Oppose. I like the sound of the idea of page space economy, but I like the idea of using original GUIs more. Something just doesn't feel right about the more compact versions. -PaladinAHOne 20:29, 20 December 2014 (PST)

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Conditional support. Only if you use the alternate rounded GUIs ;) Chocohead ^{Nag• Edits• Staff} 20:40, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Conditional support. I quite like the idea of making the titles Shaped Crafting and Shapeless Crafting rather than a Shapeless subtitle. I also have to admit that having no grid borders in the Shapeless crafting grid is growing on me; and thus I'm open to this change. However I do agree with Chocohead and PaladinAHOne in that although page economy is great and the thin border looks quite good, there's something slightly off in not having a Minecraft style border. Due to this fact I believe we should use the alternative "Thicker boarder" featured on User:Retep998/Sandbox/Cg. Wolfman_123_^{Wiki Staff · (Talk)} 07:41, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Staff Nomination

Wolfman-123- (t · c) has proven to be a very competent user of the wiki. He has been consistently working almost daily on improving the wiki. He has been active in the IRC channel, asking for help when needed, providing feedback, and generally working well with Peter and I. His edits always follow the guidelines, and have excellent grammar. He says he is up for the job of dealing with other user's edits when they do not follow the guidelines, and he has proven that he already does do this. He has a surprisingly excellent understanding of how to create very advanced wiki templates. For these reasons, I am nominating Wolfman to join the FTB Wiki Article Editing Staff. Please discuss and vote. -- SatanicSanta^{Contribs•Administrator and Editor} 05:29, 2 November 2014 (GMT)

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Support. I have stated my reasons. -- SatanicSanta^{Contribs•Administrator and Editor} 05:29, 2 November 2014 (GMT)
Support. Meh Retep998 ^{Bunny Overlord•talk•contribs} 05:32, 2 November 2014 (GMT)
Support. sounds good Yusunoha (talk) 08:47, 2 November 2014 (GMT)
Support. Always good to have more people adding stuff ;) Chocohead ^{Nag• Edits• Staff} 19:50, 2 November 2014 (GMT)

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Implementation of new |Shapeless parameter in the Crafting Table template

Chocohead has created a more understandable and all-around better version of our current |shapeless parameter at Template:X8. It adds the word "Shapeless" above the arrow in the table if |shapeless=True. Some tweaks could be made, such as ~~allowing for |shapeless=true~~edit: this has been implemented, ~~and making it use the MC font~~edit: it does this too, but apart from that it seems pretty alright. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 02:06, 19 August 2014 (BST)

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Support. I have wanted something like this for a long time. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 02:06, 19 August 2014 (BST)
Support. I didn't go looking at all the template info for nothing, and it makes life easier for crafting recipes. :) Chocohead ^{Nag• Edits• Staff} 02:11, 19 August 2014 (BST)
Support. After some tweaks I now like how it looks. Retep998 ^{Bunny Overlord•talk•contribs} 03:03, 19 August 2014 (BST)
Support. I likely this and would be good for readers who just want a quick glance of the recipe -- SoraZodia^talk 03:27, 19 August 2014 (BST)

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~~# Conditional support. The rendering is currently broken on my end. [1]. Fix it and I'll support it. Retep998 ^{Bunny Overlord•talk•contribs} 02:18, 19 August 2014 (BST)~~

I was trying to do something. I undid my edits. Look at it again. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 02:24, 19 August 2014 (BST)

I dislike that it isn't using the fancy bitmap font. Retep998 ^{Bunny Overlord•talk•contribs} 02:28, 19 August 2014 (BST)

There, I changed one so you can compare. Happy now? Chocohead ^{Nag• Edits• Staff} 02:38, 19 August 2014 (BST)<

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Neutral. Just as easy to put "This recipe is shapeless" in the recipe section, but I honestly don't care. -- Padfoote ^{Staff • Talk • Contributions} 02:12, 19 August 2014 (BST)

Staff Nomination

Gideonseymour (t · c) is becoming an active wiki editor. His edits are of a high quality, and his guide, Hardcore Questing Mode: An In-Depth Guide, is one of few up to date resources for the mod. As I (Padfoote) will be retiring in the near future, I am nominating Gideonseymour to join the wiki team and to be my replacement.

Discussion

The previous discussion that took place here can be found on User:SatanicSanta/RealSketch, due to it not belonging on this page. Thank you. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 19:53, 13 August 2014 (BST)

I think that he should be on the Wiki team. What? No. I'm totally not talking about myself. --Gideonseymour ^{Talk-Edits-Trial} 04:19, 14 August 2014 (BST)

lol. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 04:26, 14 August 2014 (BST)

Polls

User will be given a 1-2 week trial to work with the wiki team. Gideon will be given a couple of staff-like wiki rights, such as Reviewer and Autoconfirmed/Autochecked. If the user is active on the IRC channel and the wiki (must be quality edits) for at least a full week, he will be added to the team. If this is not possible, then being active for 10 days out of the 2 weeks will be good enough as well. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 20:25, 13 August 2014 (BST)

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Support. My reasons are above. -- Padfoote ^{Staff • Talk • Contributions} 22:54, 12 August 2014 (BST)
Support. He's active, he's chill, his edits are of high quality. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 23:20, 12 August 2014 (BST)
Support I can't get on right now, but if it's a vote you're after you have mine. -- -- The preceding unsigned comment was added by Succubism (talk • contribs)

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Neutral. Hasn't quite been around long enough for me to feel confident in voting for him, but I ain't gonna vote against him Retep998 ^{Bunny Overlord•talk•contribs} 23:21, 12 August 2014 (BST)
Neutral. Looking back over it, he actually hasn't done as much as I'd thought, so maybe someone with a little more experience is needed. He might well be a good staff member, so I won't oppose it, but he'd need a little more experience before I'd fully support it. Chocohead ^{Nag• Edits• Staff} 14:23, 13 August 2014 (BST)

Staff Nomination

Chocohead (t · c) is a very active user of the wiki, and has been here for a decent amount of time. The articles he creates and edits follow the style guide, and all the other guidelines. He has been consistently performing edits on the wiki since mid-June. For these reasons, I am nominating Chocohead to be a member of the FTB Wiki Article Editing team.

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Support. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 23:20, 11 August 2014 (BST)
Support. Reasons stated in nomination. -- Padfoote ^{Staff • Talk • Contributions} 23:29, 11 August 2014 (BST)
Support. User is extremely active and performs high quality edits. --RealSketch ^{•Staff •Talk •Contributions} 23:34, 11 August 2014 (BST)
Support. Seems mostly competent. Retep998 ^{Bunny Overlord•talk•contribs} 00:56, 12 August 2014 (BST)

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Translator Nomination

Luxim appears to show high understanding of how the translation system works, and seems to understand English and French very well. I have checked his/her translation of Help:Links using Google Translate, and it is mostly correct (there are a few slip ups that are probably due to either Google Translate or English -> French difficulties within the languages). Luxim is extremely active, and has been since a couple of weeks ago. For these reasons, I am nominating Luxim to be an official French translator on the FTB Wiki Translation Team. -- SatanicSanta^{Admin•Editor} 16:33, 23 May 2014 (BST)

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Support. I already stated my reasons. -- SatanicSanta^{Admin•Editor} 16:38, 23 May 2014 (BST)
Support. I've checked the above link Santa gave with Bing Translator, and noted only minor mistakes (again, most likely due to them being differences in the languages). Luxim has also show to be a very active translator. -- Padfoote (talk) 16:43, 23 May 2014 (BST)
Support? --
Jin bo bo
17:30, 30 May 2014 (BST)

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Staff Nomination

RealSketch appears to be very enthusiastic, and creates very informative and, for the most part, well-formatted articles. He has been consistently performing edits on the wiki since mid-January, with short breaks in between; which staff do as well. He has recently begun maintaining the Advanced Genetics articles, and is doing a very good job at that. For these reasons, I am nominating RealSketch to be a member of the FTB Wiki Article Editing team.

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Support. I already stated my reasons. -- SatanicSanta^{Admin•Editor} 22:42, 14 June 2014 (BST)
Support. More staff pls Retep998 ^{Bunny Overlord•talk•contribs} 22:53, 14 June 2014 (BST)
Support. My reasoning is stated above thanks to Santa. -- Padfoote^{Staff • Talk • Contributions} 23:06, 14 June 2014 (BST)
Support. The articles mentionned above are complete and well-formatted. -- Luxim (talk) 13:41, 17 June 2014 (BST)

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Translator Nomination

Luxim appears to show high understanding of how the translation system works, and seems to understand English and French very well. I have checked his/her translation of Help:Links using Google Translate, and it is mostly correct (there are a few slip ups that are probably due to either Google Translate or English -> French difficulties within the languages). Luxim is extremely active, and has been since a couple of weeks ago. For these reasons, I am nominating Luxim to be an official French translator on the FTB Wiki Translation Team. -- SatanicSanta^{Admin•Editor} 16:33, 23 May 2014 (BST)

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Support. I already stated my reasons. -- SatanicSanta^{Admin•Editor} 16:38, 23 May 2014 (BST)
Support. I've checked the above link Santa gave with Bing Translator, and noted only minor mistakes (again, most likely due to them being differences in the languages). Luxim has also show to be a very active translator. -- Padfoote (talk) 16:43, 23 May 2014 (BST)
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17:30, 30 May 2014 (BST)

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Motion to allow new users upload images

Since images are a huge part of the wiki, I suggest allowing new users to upload images. --

Jin bo bo

17:26, 11 January 2014 (GMT)

Discussion

Hi, I am a new user. I cannot vote, but I can give my opinion. Since I became part of the wiki, I have needed to upload images sometimes. For me, getting the images uploaded, was not a big problem. It took 1/2 a week and could easily find the place where to put them. Of course, it would be easier if I could upload them myself, but in the way it is done right now, there is a strict regulation on the naming, so it won't quickly become a mess and uploading offending or wrong images is impossible because someone is checking everything. --Newnottakenname (talk) 12:51, 12 January 2014 (GMT)

The only regulations are that block images be prefixed with Block, image icons be sent to retep, tilesheets be prefixed with Tilesheet, and crafting grid tank overlays be prefixed with Tank. I wouldn't count that as strict. :P --

Jin bo bo

13:43, 12 January 2014 (GMT)

Well actually, nobody should even care about what tilesheets are prefixed as since they can't import a tilesheet without a butt anyway. But the Block and Tank rules? Totally strict. Even I didn't know those rules :D PonyButt (talk) 23:17, 12 January 2014 (GMT)

Strict my butt. Stop using your bot to make normal edits like this. --

Jin bo bo

02:28, 22 January 2014 (GMT)

So, since this has happened, the majority of uploads by new users have been what should be included in tilesheets. I think it needs to be more obvious that users do not upload texture files. Maybe we could have a big fat warning at the top of Special:Upload that says something like "If this file would be used in a Navbox, imageicon parameter, or any crafting grid template, do not upload it. Instead, send it in a zip file named the same as the mod to Retep998. -- Satanic Santa^SysOp•talk 08:41, 7 March 2014 (GMT)

I suppose that can be arranged. --

Jin bo bo

13:19, 7 March 2014 (GMT)

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17:26, 11 January 2014 (GMT)

Support. I'll support this as part of helping the wiki be more welcoming to new users. What if people decide to try and upload their own tilesheets and get all annoying when they realise it doesn't work? -- AgentTadpole · Staff ^talk_contribs 01:47, 12 January 2014 (GMT)

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Conditional support. I support this so long as Jinbobo is personally responsible for deleting all junk images. -- PonyButt (talk) 20:11, 11 January 2014 (GMT)
- Conditional support. I agree, we all know this is gonna happen. --Alistaire (talk) 21:21, 11 January 2014 (GMT)
- Conditional support. Yeah, basically that. SatanicSanta ^{Staff · talk ·contribs} 23:42, 11 January 2014 (GMT)
- Or we lower the threshold for the account to be autoconfirmed. You guys aren't doing anything to spam posts anyway. --
  Jin bo bo
  04:37, 12 January 2014 (GMT)
Conditional support. I'm all for this As long as before the image goes out to the public a staff member checks the image. -- Christophernjsp_>Talk 08:14, 21 January 2014 (GMT)

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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)

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Support. -- Jin bo bo 14:27, 12 November 2013 (GMT)
Support. 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)
Support. Her guides/cheat sheets for Thaumcraft and the many addons are wonderful. I'd welcome her onto the team -- SatanicSanta ^{Staff · talk ·contribs} 15:26, 15 November 2013 (GMT)
Support. This vote is purely based on the TC guide on the forums, which is of a very high standard. -- AgentTadpole ^{Staff · talk · contribs} 15:28, 15 November 2013 (GMT)

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Staff nomination

TheSatanicSanta (talk · contribs) 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)

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Support. -- Jin bo bo = Wiki Team Lead = 11:09, 11 September 2013 (BST)
Support. I'd welcome you on the team, Santa -- -- AgentTadpole ^{Staff · talk · contribs} 14:54, 11 September 2013 (BST)
Support. Anyone who can write semi-reasonable IC2/GT articles is fine by my watch. -- Retep998 (talk) 17:35, 11 September 2013 (BST)

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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.

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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)

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Support. The message is obviously redundant. -- Jin bo bo = Wiki Team Lead = 17:04, 23 August 2013 (BST)

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Conditional support. 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)

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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.

	Code	Result
Old	{{Grid\|Ice,Dirt,TNT}}	Template:Grid
New	{{N\|begin}}{{G\|Ice}}{{G\|Dirt}}{{G\|TNT}}{{N\|end}}

The grid template now automatically resolves of mod counterparts of items. Observe where the grid links to and what the tooltip displays.

	Code	Result
Old	{{Grid\|Iron Gear (BC)}}	Template:Grid
New	{{G\|Iron Gear\|mod=BuildCraft}} or {{G\|Iron Gear\|mod=BC}}

Variables are now also supported inside grids and tanks.

	Code	Result
Cells	{{G\|Iron Gear\|10\|mod=BC\|title=$2 $1s from $3.}}	10
Tanks	{{G/T\|lava\|2500\|10000\|title=$2 out of $3mB of $1.}}

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.

	Code	Result
Old	asfjhalskufhakjsdhflaksuhefkajshflkuehsdf	asfjhalskufhakjsdhflaksuhefkajshflkuehsdf
New	{{G/T\|water\|8000\|10000}}

Ore dictionary

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

{{G|Oak Wood Planks}}{{G|Copper Ore}}

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:

{{G|Oak Wood Planks|no-oredict=1}}

produces:
You also can call the grid display logic to achieve the same effect, the Template:Gc offers an shortcut to Template:Grid/Cell.

{{Gc|Oak Wood Planks}}

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:

{{O|plankWood}}

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.

{{N|begin}}<span>A</span><span>B</span><span>C</span><span>D</span>{{N|end}}

produces:

ABCD

{{N|begin|slide=1}}<span>A</span><span>B</span><span>C</span><span>D</span>{{N|end}}

produces:

ABCD

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.

Code

Result

Old

{{Grid/Carpenter
|A1=Ice,Dirt,TNT,Oak Wood Planks|A1A=2,4,8,16
|A2=Grass,Copper Ingot,Iron Gear (BC),Glass|A2A=64,32,16,8
|tank=Water,Honey,Lava,Fuel|mB=2000,6000,1000,9000}}

Template:Grid/Carpenter

New

{{Cg/Carpenter
|{{G|Ice|2}}{{G|Dirt|4}}{{G|TNT|8}}{{G|Oak Wood Planks|16}}
|20={{T|Water|2000}}{{T|Honey|6000}}{{T|Lava|1000}}{{T|Fuel|9000}}
|A2={{G|Grass|64}}{{G|Copper Ingot|32}}{{G|Iron Gear|16|mod=BC}}{{G|Glass|8}}}}

2
4
8
16

64
32
16
8

Carpenter

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~~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)

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Support. I created these flippin' templates, if no one votes, the new system shall take over. Bwahahahahaha. -- Jinbobo ^{SysOp · BotOp · talk · contribs} 17:58, 3 August 2013 (BST)
Support. 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)
Support. I like it. Looks like it would make things easier on the coders. :) -- Masbk2 (talk) 10:44, 4 August 2013 (BST)
Support. Vote cast for Jadedcat (talk · contribs). -- Jin bo bo Wiki Team Lead 13:14, 4 August 2013 (BST)
Support. 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)
Support. At last, the system I wanted is finally here. Yay! -- Retep998 (talk) 15:17, 5 August 2013 (BST)
Support. 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)
Support. 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 · talk · contribs} 10:34, 6 August 2013 (BST)
Support. 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)
Support. It is SO amazing and easy to use. |Figgycity |(Talk) 16:10, Thursday 8 August (GMT)

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Neutral. Vote cast for Chrissy McCloud (talk · contribs) -- Jin bo bo Wiki Team Lead 11:38, 4 August 2013 (BST)

Template Requests

Infusion Altar crafting grid
Essence Refiner crafting grid request - Ars Magica 2's ways of creating its essences involves the use of the Essence Refiner which uses a GUI different from the vanilla crafting GUI. It's possible to use Template Cg/Crafting Table but that may confuse readers. (I have already uploaded a image file of the Refiner's GUI for use/compare)-- SoraZodia^talk 04:56, 17 August 2014 (BST)

~~This one will be a little tricky, but I'll work on it. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 18:40, 17 August 2014 (BST)~~

Is there anyway to update the canning machine's template to the new layout in one template since depending on which of the 4 (1,2,3,4) modes it's on, the GUI arrows and slots change?

Could I get a blast furnace template too?

And the IC2 bottling plant?

And the solid canner?

And the block cutting machine? The block cutting machine doesn't have the warning triangle if it has a blade in, so looks like this, and so would probably be better for templates.

IC2's added lots of new stuff ;) Chocohead ^{Nag• Edits• Staff} 20:24, 17 August 2014 (BST)

~~PS: Is there anyway I can help you, since there's a lot to do for one person?~~

(This is directed towards SoraZodia as well) Basically, all you need to do is give me the GUI images from the assets folder, and tell me what each slot does. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 22:23, 17 August 2014 (BST)

Does it matter if it has the stuff at the side (progress bars and the like?) Chocohead ^{Nag• Edits• Staff} 22:34, 17 August 2014 (BST)

By GUI images, does it include the animation image it uses to show progress or just the GUI image in general? If it's the latter, shouldn't the uploaded file do the trick?

The 5 small circles arranged in a "+" pattern inside a big circle are the Essence Refiner's input slots where the player may insert the appropriate item (or any items/blocks in general). The small circle found outside the big circle is where the Refiner outputs the essences. There's a rectangular slot on top of the big circle but it's meant to be used as a way to lock the Refiner via Runes combinations (The uploaded file had it edited out) -- SoraZodia^talk 14:31, 18 August 2014 (BST)

Animations are not used. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 17:01, 18 August 2014 (BST)

Template:Cg/Essence Refiner is done. Now to work on Chocohead's requests. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 17:34, 18 August 2014 (BST)

When uploading them, what do I do with the inventory slots under the machine GUI? Can I just give the raw assets files to you and you can sort them out for me? Chocohead ^{Nag• Edits• Staff} 20:17, 18 August 2014 (BST)

~~Just hand it over to me and I'll handle it. -- SatanicSanta^{Talk•Contribs•Admin} 23:41, 18 August 2014 (BST)~~
~~Link: https://www.mediafire.com/?pydql52bs9ve65e Long Explanation of each one (which was perfectly indented when I copy and pasted it):~~
For the Solid Canner:

The left slot is for items to be canned

The middle slot is for cells/fuel rods to have the items canned into

The right slot is for the outputted item

The slot underneath the energy icon is for batteries
For the Bottling Plant:

The top slot going into the tank is input for filled cells

The bottom slot going into the tank is the input for empty cells

The slot coming out of the tank is for the outputted full cells

The tank stores liquid that either taken either from cells or pumped in

The slot underneath the energy icon is for batteries
For the Canning Machine

Fluid Enrich:

The top left slot is for items to be canned into (CF Backpack or CF Sprayer for example)

The middle slot is the item to be enriched

The left tank is the fluid to be enriched

The right slot is for items which are full (eg: A full CF Backpack, or CF Sprayer)

The right tank is for the enriched fluid (which didn't fit in an item or the item was full)

Fill Cell From Tank Mode:

The top left slot is for cells to be filled

The middle slot is unavailable

The left tank is the fluid to be filled into a cell

The right slot is for cells which are full

The right tank is unused

Drain From Cell Into Tank Mode:

The top left slot is for cells to be drained

The middle slot is unavailable

The left tank is unused

The right slot is for emptied items

The right tank is for the emptied fluid

Canning Mode:

The top left slot is for cells or fuel rods to be canned into

The middle slot is for items to be canned

The left tank is unused

The right slot is for canned items

The right tank is unused

The slot underneath the energy icon is for batteries
For the Block Cutting Machine:

The top left slot is for blocks to be cut

The middle slot (in between the energy icon and output slot) is where the Block Cutting Blades go

The right slot is the output

The 4 slots on the far right are for upgrades

The bottom left slot is for batteries
For the Blast Furnace:

The top left slot is for the iron to go

The bottom 2 left slots is for the Air Cells and the Empty Cell return

The lower right 2 slots are for the outputted Refined Iron and Slag

The 2 slots in the top right are for upgrades
~~There we go, ask if you don't understand any of it :) Chocohead ^{Nag• Edits• Staff} 23:58, 18 August 2014 (BST)~~
I've got another request so I can finish Advanced Solars. Can I get the molecular transformer GUI? Here's a link to the GUI, and a screenshot of an example, so you can see what it looks like. The top slot is for input, the bottom for output, and the box on the right is for the info (EU needed, progress, needed item names etc). I'm not sure if you'd rather use the NEI one opposed to the actual GUI, since the actual GUI has irrelevant/changeable things like progress and time taken while the NEI one makes more sense for the EU needed. ;) Chocohead ^{Nag• Edits• Staff} 21:17, 25 August 2014 (BST)

~~Done Template:Cg/Molecular_Transformer Retep998 ^{Bunny Overlord•talk•contribs} 15:16, 26 August 2014 (BST)~~

Non-Language Links

The Problem

There are two types of links at the moment;

{{L|Link|o=Overwrite}}

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.

[[Link|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 {{L|}} links is translated faster (because links won't need edits other than maybe overwrites).

Solution

Bot-edit all pages with old links.

Notes

Bot-editing those pages would mean that all [[category:*category*]] links would become {{L|category:*category*}} links, which would create separated language categories. Might wanna filter those out.

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 {{L|Category:*category*}} 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:

<Item name> [(<Mod abbv: (F|TE|IC2|BC)>)] for files.
<Item name> [(<Full mod name>)] 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.

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Add {{Status|done|Support A}} and a comment and your signature if you support solution A by AgentTadpole.
Add {{Status|done|Support B}} and a comment and your signature if you support solution B by Jinbobo.
Add {{Status|done|Support C}} and a comment and your signature if you support solution C.
Add {{Status|partlydone|Conditional support}} and a comment and your signature if you support a solution under a certain circumstance.
Add {{Status|notdone|Against}} and a comment and your signature if you would like the current convention to not be changed.

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* {{Status|notdone|Against}} blah blah blah -- ~~~~

Against blah blah blah -- Jinbobo ^{SysOp · BotOp · talk · contribs} 11:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

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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 · BotOp · talk · 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 · BotOp · talk · contribs} 05:14, 9 July 2013 (BST)

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 l m n and o for extra formatting goodness. For some reason using ''Text'' in crafting grid tooltips appears to break things so using {{§|o|Text}} works perfectly. 🐇Retep 998🐇^{🐰Bunny Overlord🐰} 04:33, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks to Kythyria we now have an even fancier template {{TTF}} which parses § formatting codes inline in the text and inserts the appropriate markup. 🐇Retep 998🐇^{🐰Bunny Overlord🐰} 22:40, 7 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

{{Gc|Copper Ore|mod=IC2}}

we do

{{RI|Copper Ore|IC2}}

which looks like this:

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

🐇Retep 998🐇^{🐰Bunny Overlord🐰}

I have a complaint. Shouldn't |imageicon have {{O|ingotCopper}} 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)