User talk:Renai Mu

Welcome Random Time  18:56, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Please when uploaded screenshots of your characters, please use the screen shot tag to mark your image with copyright information.--[[Image:Gigathrash_sig_G.jpg]]ìğá†ħŕášħ  is hosting a beauty pagent! 00:42, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Templates...
To use a page in your userspace like a template, just include the "User:" prefix on it, like this:. There's no need to put those in the Template: namespace. &mdash;Dr Ishmael 19:06, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, I didn't realize you could do that. I'm not very good at wiki editing... but thank you for telling me, I'll move them right away.  Renai Mu 19:10, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Always happy to help. :) And instead of re-creating the pages, you can just go to the Template: ones you made and click the "move" tab at the top to move them into your userspace.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 19:17, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Screenshots
When you upload a screenshot, please be sure to select the proper option in the "Licensing:" drop-down menu - "This image is a screenshot from the game." It automatically places the  template on the uploaded image, so it doesn't have to be added manually like I just did on Image:Character-Aburai_Negai.gif. &mdash;Dr Ishmael 14:20, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry. =/  I'm not trying to cause work for you guys, I swear.  [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg]]Renai Mu [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg]] 15:08, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * That's okay, it's our job to watch out for and take care of stuff like that. ^_^ And now I'm going to have to point you to GW:SIGN - your signature is too big.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 15:52, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The image itself is too big, or the text? -Renai Mu, Mistress of Stupid Mistakes
 * Never mind, I found it. [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]]Renai Mu [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]] 15:59, 12 August 2008 (UTC)


 * That looks fine, thanks again! I'm thinking we need to link our policies a bit more prominently - a lot of new users commit the same mistakes, simply due to ignorance.  Since you are still a sort-of new user, do you have any suggestions as to where we could link the policies that you'd notice them?  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 05:31, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I agree that the signature policies at least are a bit difficult to find- the image properties are fairly easy if you take even a little bit of effort in my opinion, I just took a bit of an absence from Guild Wars so when I came back I completely forgot to do anything helpful. (I'm so smart :D)  The signature policies took me forever to find, because they wouldn't come up in the search.  It could be helpful to put them in the Quick Access links; I know they're not really GW-related so I guess they don't fit there as well as they could, but it makes sense to me if you needed to look something up quickly it might be there.
 * If not there, it might make sense to put them in your preferences 'cause that's where I started looking for help originally, so people should be able to find them pretty easily. :) [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]]Renai Mu  13:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * (Reset indent) GW:SIGN says you can only have 1 image in your signature :( --Shadowcrest  05:33, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh lawdy. Haha, I guess I didn't read it thoroughly enough to notice that.  Thanks for letting me know. On an unrelated note, your signature font is really pretty! [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]]Renai Mu  13:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Boo
Just being obnoxious, dear. Derkhen 02:07, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

RE Help? ^^;
Original message on User talk:Dr ishmael

So I know this isn't your problem at all, but I dunno who else I can ask about this, so... yay me causing more problems for you, right? For some reason all of the hide/show boxes on my userpage are just... not working now, and I have no idea why because I didn't change anything. Did Wikia do an update and get rid of those, or something? If there's someone else I should bother about this, I'm really sorry for wasting your time. Sorry ^^; Renai Mu  14:08, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Strange - I see them, what browser/version are you using? Random Time  14:30, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The latest version of Firefox. They were working fine yesterday, but I've had problems before where they'd stop loading for a little bit and then would work fine twenty minutes later, but a full day is new. &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Renai Mu (contribs) 09:52, 16 August 2008.
 * What skin are you using? &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 16:17, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * PitchDark 3.0.2 [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]]Renai Mu  16:48, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I mean on the wiki. >.> &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 16:21, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * >> Whoops. Sapphire theme.  ^^; [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]]Renai Mu  16:48, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it should be fixed now - you may have to clear your browser's cache before you'll see it, though. &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 16:43, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * :D It works now.  Thank you!  [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]]Renai Mu  16:48, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

coding
I can only recommend spoj.sphere.pl ; there appears to be something similar at valladolid, and then there's topcoder, but SPOJ is what I've been using to distract myself and try new programming languages on. If you need any kind of feedback or exchange on progress or tips how to best approach a certain problem, I'd be happy to do that.

For my bot tasks I usually use AWB, which merely requires knowledge of regular expressions, and sometimes not even that; and to find pages to work on, I often use awk to parse the current pages dump. More info on coding the wiki is at Forum:Coding. --◄mendel► 12:37, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * This will keep me occupied for a while... :3 I've been playing with it all day today and I forgot to actually thank you for giving me the links, haha.  Thank you so much!  [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]]Renai Mu  07:51, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to hear that. :) --◄mendel► 06:43, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I understand how you use AWB to edit, but how are you automating things with it? The only thing I could think of was running another program to do it.  [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]]<font face="Kristen ITC" color="#7777CC">Renai Mu  00:50, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * First, I turn off all the small automation features like unicodifying - it makes reviewing the edits a chore. Then I set suitable rules for "Find and Replace" - for example, one of the latest simple jobs was when I wanted to win an argument that Template:ri doesn't need to be protected, so for that I had to subst: about 500 occurrences of that template. I made a list out of WhatLinksHere and then replaced with  . There are considerably more complex things that AWB can do, and even then I had to add some rules that circumvent Wikia's anti-spam measures (argh). (For a job to add screenshot licenses and categories to a list of images, you could use "append text" in the More... tab, coupled with a replace rule that nukes the license if it is already present.) So then I press "Start", review the diff of the change, and save, and I do this approximately 20 times, changing and adding rules as I go and encounter special cases, and when the ruleset has been stable for at least a dozen saves, I can then set it to autosave in the "bots" tab because my sock User:M.Marvin is an approved bot. If you aren't, you need to keep on pressing "save", of course, and once you've demonstrated you know how to run a bot reliably (i.e. without leaving errors behind that other people have to correct), you can ask for a bot flag or threaten to destroy RC with your army of minions if you don't get one. In view of that and because it makes tracking what you did with AWB easier, you should make a separate account (like my Marvin) for AWB. --◄mendel► 01:37, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Ahh... so then to write the bot for the weapon linked-attributes, you could do something like skip any page that doesn't Air Magic, and if it does contain that, then add a category for 'Uses Air Magic', Then go through for each attribute, or something like that? Thank you for taking the time to answer me so thoroughly, by the way, I hope I'm not taking up too much of your time.  ^^ [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]]<font face="Kristen ITC" color="#7777CC">Renai Mu  03:07, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think you can skip pages like that; I usually work from a list of pages that I know need the addition. And anyway, as soon as we get the "varies" issue sorted, we should autocat these pages from the WeaponInfo template. --◄mendel► 04:08, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * There's a section for matching under the skip tab, if you put in Air Magic then it seemed to work, so if you just tell it to add the category then it should work. I think the best way to deal with the varies is to just append every category, but since I have no experience I can't really speak with any certainty. [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]]<font face="Kristen ITC" color="#7777CC">Renai Mu  04:32, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The problem is that "Varies" means different things on different items. The unique Straw Effigy, for example, comes in all attributes except primary attributes, while the Golden Boar Scepter comes in all attributes.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 05:22, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, I was under the impression varies always meant every one possible... well, if you're already planning on modifying the template then maybe you could add another variable that would be the categories, then you could check and see if attributes = Varies, and if it did then pull the category list out, and otherwise just use attributes... seems like there should be a more efficient way to do it, though. [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]]<font face="Kristen ITC" color="#7777CC">Renai Mu  05:31, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, we could introduce  and   (to replace  ; do we need others? --◄mendel► 12:04, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Not that I know of, but I haven't gone through the list of all the varies to check, either. [[Image:Renai Mu icon.jpg|19px]]<font face="Kristen ITC" color="#7777CC">Renai Mu  19:37, 1 January 2009 (UTC)