Talk:GuildWars.com news

Start fresh or what
Are we going to add older news posts here aswell? | Chuiu 17:29, 21 April 2006 (CDT)


 * The answer depends entirely on whether we can find a chump person bored enough to do the dredgework. &mdash; Stabber 17:30, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
 * Or a bot that reads stuff from the official website and writes to the wiki? Not that I'm advocating for adding the olds d-:  I'm currently neutral on whether we should do it or not. -PanSola 17:35, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
 * I think we should backfill at least to the beginning of this month. --Rainith 17:36, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
 * Already in the process of writing the damn bot, since it seems like I'm the only botmistress around these parts. &mdash; Stabber 17:36, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
 * Dredge work or drudge work? Seriously though, I think we should try to collect back to the start of April. --161.88.255.140 17:38, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
 * The pun there was intentional. &mdash; Stabber 17:41, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
 * Doh! I was getting ready to do it myself.  I don't really do things like this by hand I use regular expressings to find/replace tags and what not to wiki formats. | Chuiu 17:45, 21 April 2006 (CDT)

Bot status: very highly irritating. No two news archive pages use the same format, and the format often varies within the same archive page. Thse news archives were clearly created by hand instead of automatically from some database. I don't think this is automatable without a lot more gruntwork. Better to do them by hand and not go all the way back to March 2003, I think. &mdash; Stabber 19:13, 21 April 2006 (CDT)


 * I have pulled in everything upto May 2005, which clears all the red links from the GuildWars.com news page itself. I'll also do the April 2005 news posts, which will take us up to the release date of GWP. I seriously don't see any purpose in going further back than that, but it's up to the community. &mdash; Stabber 07:45, 22 April 2006 (CDT)

RSS Feeds from Guildwars.com

 * Is there any way MediaWiki can take advantage of the new RSS feeds that Arena Net is putting out for Guildwars.com News and the Game Updates? I don't know enough about the software to even start researching it.  If we could pull in the RSS news regularly, that would save all the dredgework and leave us to just make comments on the content.  User:Beldin 5/9/2006 9:34 CDT.


 * Guild Wars doesn't get enough updates to justify the time to program automated pulling of its' RSS feeds. More likely, the editors who keep up with those pages will use the RSS feeds themselves, enabling us to post the new updates even faster. &mdash;Tanaric 21:39, 9 May 2006 (CDT)

I'm getting notices through my rssreader of news updates before they even go to the main site.. Seasonal Treats (Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:45:52 -0700)

With Halloween just around the corner, you might be giving some thought to holiday d&#233;cor. How about a   Guild Wars     theme for your Jack O'Lantern? Our talented friend, The Pumpkin Lady, has created a new batch of   Guild Wars     Guild Emblems to add to the set she created last year. You now can choose from more than 40 different   Guild Wars     pumpkin patterns. Check here (http://www.pumpkinlady.com/gwpatterns.htm) for the patterns and handy "how to" carving info!

Page problem?
Anyone else getting an error displaying this page? I keep getting: A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "MediaWikiBagOStuff::_doquery". MySQL returned error "1030: Got error 134 from storage engine (localhost)". Even if I try to attach &action=purge I get an error. I can only view it via the edit button. --I am 161.88 14:38, 23 May 2006 (CDT)

Wikify news?
Is there any special reason why we don't wikify news? Has there been a concious decision not to do it or are we just lazy? -- 01:33, 11 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Dunno. Most news articles aren't counted towards the article count because they don't contain internal links.  I wondered this myself looking at the dead end pages list.  --Fyren 01:46, 11 October 2006 (CDT)