User talk:Pereidh

=How to use a talk page= Pereidh (talk)(forums.firefall.com)
 * Consider the page to be like a forum, but without separate pages for threads. New topics at the top, new posts on a topic at the bottom of that topic.
 * Sign your posts with 4 squiggles ( ~ ) to save having to look at the page history.
 * Traditionaly this is done at the end of a post on wikis, but doing it at the start makes it easier to scan through the text to see who wrote what (the start of the line being in a consistent place on the page horizontally, while the ends of the last line could be anywhere).
 * It also makes it less likely that you'll forget to sign a post if it's the first thing you do.
 * You can even add an icon to your signature to make it look even more like a forum post, by modifying your Preferences. I changed mine to:
 * ...to add an icon, set it to a sensible size, and also include a link to start a conversation with me on the firefall forums.


 * Indent with one or more colons at the start of a line, so you can have threading within a topic.
 * Like
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=The Actual Talk=

Admin Permissions
Weableandbob (talk) 17:20, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Hey, now that it seems like we're officially moving the wiki here, could I get admin permissions? Or is that something only the Curse staff can do? As a side note, I got in touch with Pez, and while they were talking internally about hosting the wiki themselves, they won't have the time for that in the near future, so this wiki will likely be the final one. It looks like there's a bit of non-content work that still needs to be done (e.g. right now there's white text on a white background). I can dedicate some time to that once the semester is over if there's still stuff to be done. Thanks a lot for taking the time to migrate all the content over!


 * icon_user_pereidh.pngdh (talk)(forums.firefall.com) 17:58, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll contact Brianna at Gamepedia and ask her to promote you too, as my Wiki Guardian rank is more of a moderator position than a full Admin.


 * Fixing the CSS to work on gamepedia's version of the vector skin is top of my to-do list (before even updating my to-do list), after I've finished importing the last of the pages, and making tweaks to anything minor I notice along the way (although perhaps fixing every reference to the Skill section and category, so they instead use the in game term Ability, wasn't so minor. I'll leave changing page titles to use correct pluralisation, if they refer to a class of things, till later).

Wiki status and access questions
Spaceboy (talk) 00:36, 28 October 2015 (EDT) Hi, I wanted to see if I could get in touch with you about the wiki. I've begun putting in some time on it and want to continue to do so, however, I have spoken with wiki user Weableandbob and he says that he is unable to get in touch with any of the admins.

He is concerned that the wiki might end up being lost if the staff has all bailed out, and I'm concerned about that too. While there is a lot of outdated info there, there is also a lot of good info, plus what I've been adding. I know a lot of people have just decided to wait for the new patch, but this is still quite aways off and a good wiki is really needed now. There are new players asking lots of questions in the game everyday.

I left a message on Al's wiki page but haven't heard back from him. I would like to know if the hosting and admin access to the wiki is secure, such that the work won't be lost. Also, the main page needs some editing and that is admin access only.

I would also like to make a request for slightly elevated access so that I could edit the main page, as well as clean out the spam pages that are still getting posted by bots. I think some simple adjusting to the posting process might cut down on the spam, too, although I may not have the technical know how to make those changes...just depends on how it's implemented.

Thanks.

=Talk copied from firefall-wiki.com= My username on that site was Polarity

1.1 Update
CryptisMidnight (talk) 09:49, 7 October 2014 (EDT) I was wondering if it would be possible to re-categorize the Main page to make things a bit more New User friendly, I have suggestions if you want otherwise I am fine with letting you address it as you desire. I seen the Sidebar is on the To do list which will help with the navigation of the site. I have talked lycan.nick about maybe setting up a RSS feed for NEWS, Updates, or/and Dev tracker also.

BTW I really like the new CSS and Templates like Ability, they are more what I am looking for, Nice job
 * Polarity (talk) 17:36, 7 October 2014 (EDT)
 * Actually I'm working on mapping and categorising the whole site, the results of which will be most obvious on the front page, as that's where the root of the hierarchy is based. For now it's all going into an XMind mind-map, so I can see where everything is at once.  Once it's all there and everything is put into the right categories I'll update the sidebar menu and front page.
 * CryptisMidnight (talk) 15:30, 8 October 2014 (EDT)
 * I told lycan.nick about the possibility to putting a RSS feed on the wiki for news. http://steamcommunity.com/games/227700/rss/  I have limited knowledge of how to install RSS on a wiki, as i have never done so, but if this could be done in a condensed text only format that would help.  However if it can't be viewed in that manner then i don't see as much use for it.
 * Polarity (talk) 17:59, 8 October 2014 (EDT)
 * RSS would require an Extension to be installed, which has to be done by the site owner. Given that he takes a while to respond to messages it could be some time before you see anything.  I'm already waiting on extensions for a load of stuff I need to do.

Deleting cosmetic pages
Weableandbob (talk) 18:13, 23 October 2014 (EDT) Wind Sensei went through and created individual pages for each cosmetic item before I told him to consolidate the information on a single page. All that's been done now, but the old pages still need to be deleted. I believe they should all have the delete tag on them already.

Ares Vendor Table
BanditLeader (http://forums.firefall.com/community/members/banditleader.625070/ or on the FF forums) 08:50, 27 October 2014 (EDT) Thanks so much for making that Ares vouchers table! I added some more stuff to it: Ares_Supplies

Response
Weableandbob (talk) 09:42, 17 November 2015 (EST) Just pinging you to let you know I responded on my talk page. Want to keep everything on one page so the conversation doesn't bounce everywhere.

Updates and Extensions
It looks like I'll have a relatively easy semester, so I should have time again to update and add to the wiki. On the old wiki, you mentioned that you had the Curse admins install some additional wiki addons/extensions. Do you know exactly what's been installed and is available to use? I imagine Semantic MediaWiki still works, although I don't know if there's a better alternative than that. It'd be nice to be able to treat pages as if they were objects (for one, inheritance and such would be quite useful for keeping track of creature weaknesses/resistances without having to repeat the same data on every single page), but I don't know if SMW's "classes" can do that. Weableandbob (talk) 21:37, 4 February 2016 (UTC)