User talk:Dr ishmael/Archive 7

Low Rez Armor...
&rarr; Moved to GuildWiki talk:Style and formatting/Armor/Art gallery

Effects are now skills?
Please have a look at User_talk:TulipVorlax; you're the one who knows about these things. -- ◄mendel► 07:31, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Your User Page
Sorry if im doing this wrong, im new as of about 30 minutes ago. I was looking at your main page, of characters, and was wondering on how I can get a template or something to help make it look very similar to how you have it set-up. If I could get your help, id appreciate it. X Jstn X 16:56, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The simplest way is to just copy my page, then modify it however you want. One thing to look out for is wherever you see double curly braces around something, like , that's calling a template.  If it's calling a template in my userspace, like  , you'll need to change it to your userspace instead.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 18:06, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for updating the skill costs

 * Skill points are used to buy skills from skill trainers. Each skill costs one skill point and a certain amount of money. The first skill purchased costs 50, and the price increases gradually up to a cap of 1 on the 20th skill.

I've read four different game guide explanation of the costs and they are all horribly confusing. This is the first one I've read that makes a simple thing read simply. Nice job.

Also, thanks for the other re-wording (esp. since you fixed the #s; I could only copy what was there before). Thanks! --Tennessee Ernie Ford 23:22, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

ohai (Sysop question)
Hi there :)

For the last while I've been trying to learn more about this site and was wondering something. Would you be able to try to help me grasp the level of understanding of coding Sysops are required to have?

I'll understand if you can't be bothered or don't have the time, just thought you'd be the best one to ask. --> Suicidal Tendencie 12:58, 20 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Just basic wikicode that you learn in 3 days? I still don't know how over 3/4 of all the cool stuff works :D --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG|Ohaider!]] -- (contribs) &emsp;(talk)  13:07, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, so there's not an Ishy level req? --> Suicidal Tendencie [[Image:Suicidal_Tendencie_Sig.jpg]] 13:08, 20 February 2009 (UTC) Hope he doesn't mind me calling him that...
 * Not at all. Most of us are pretty clueless still. :P [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 13:10, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * (EC for no reason, at all) Hm... so... Ishy if he does mind I'm in for it now... + Mendel, anyone else I havn't noticed? :P --> Suicidal Tendencie [[Image:Suicidal_Tendencie_Sig.jpg]] 13:13, 20 February 2009 (UTC) something strange is going on...
 * Oh c'mon... surely 2 people aren't responsable for about 90% of whatever happens when I click a button? WTB Moar Techies :) --> Suicidal Tendencie [[Image:Suicidal_Tendencie_Sig.jpg]] 13:20, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Warwick's pretty good, PanSola is proficient, Wizboy can do them too, I think, just call up some pages in Template: namespace and see who did them. Or call up Forum:Coding and see who signed. (Though I guess we can delete that section now?) -- ◄mendel► 13:30, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * lol, once again, ty Mendel --> Suicidal Tendencie [[Image:Suicidal_Tendencie_Sig.jpg]] 14:01, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Opinion needed
User_talk:RoseOfKali. Thanks. RoseOfKali 16:30, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * *points at status box* >.> &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 19:10, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry. ^_^ Just posted with some people I knew. Enjoy RL. ;) though, you did notice this rather quickly... 8-)  RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 19:28, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Probably has email notifications of talk turned on... which reminds me, I have "send email to the Dr" on my to-do-list... sigh. -- ◄mendel► 20:17, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Recruit for chicken army?
http://cocknbull.net/2009/02/09/cock-and-bull-name/ -- ◄mendel► 20:17, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Me awards j00 please?
For you. &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by La Marisa (talk &bull; contribs) 22:37, 9 May 2009 (UTC).
 * This wiki seems to be GuildWiki, not GWW Random Time  01:14, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * And Marisa is a few years too late. ;-) -- ◄mendel► 04:13, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * *snicker* Miiiiiiine, all mine....  Jink  20:55, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

...wait, what? o.O? Who are you and what are you doing on my talk page? &mdash;Dr Ishmael 23:42, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Your lover? :O La Marisa 03:35, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Now that's the funniest thing I've heard all night XD Jink  04:28, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I think Ishy has some explaining to do.--Łô√ë [[Image:Gigathrash_sig_G.jpg|Roar.]]îğá†ħŕášħ 05:01, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Your just jealous of him Jink. Also, I'll see you tonight with some bubbly, ishy ;) La Marisa 05:28, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * LMAO! He's my husband. XD  Jink  11:41, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't date women who fail at contractions, sorry. &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 13:59, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Wait and see how you'll be doing when Jink's contractions set in... ;-P -- ◄mendel► 14:12, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Well yeah, but she won't be failing at them. :P &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 04:06, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Your still jealous Jink. By the way... Liek mah troll? :D La Marisa 03:02, 14 May 2009 (UTC) Gotta love my troll. Sorry, couldn't help it. Velico 03:04, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Um, yeah... who are you again? &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 04:06, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * *is still laughing at the fail* Jink  04:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Entropy [[Image:Entropy Sig 2.jpg]] (C) 04:30, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I think this "troll" is being quite effective at starving himself/herself. ;) Jink  12:55, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Help on my title pages
hello, sorry but I'm going to steal your time once again. I updated my title page this morning here, but it won't update on my character page here. and on the titles page, down at the bottom i get this message "Expression error: Unexpected < operator", even though that part of the page was just copied and pasted from the Title List template. your help will be appreciated! 22:19, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I think you forgot to get rid of the last ) --JonTheMon 22:40, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * rah-ha! thanks!, still have that weird redt text error deal though... ShoganKiller 23:01, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Removed a parenthesis that was messing up your code on your titles page, then null edit on the character's page fixed the red error text. :D -- [[Image:Isk8.png]]   Isk8   (T/C) 23:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * ty for your help guys, now i just have my sig issue, but i think i can get that on me own ShoganKiller 00:06, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * ok guys, this is starting to piss me off, everytime i edit a page that is linked to another page by the means of those types of brackets, the page (such as my user pages) dont update the linked part of the page, is this an IE bug or somthing? because this has never happened before... ShoganKiller 15:17, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * moving this to the bug page... ShoganKiller 15:24, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * You may just need to purge both the inclusion and the page that contains it (Ctrl+F5 on both, plus a couple extra minutes and refresh again, usually works). Other than that, I've never seen this problem.  RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 04:54, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Hiya, help?
Hey ishmael, since you're a [PRO]grammer, I ask you: we have some problems over at Template:Armor art gallery trying to implement the "without helmet" thing. I tried my best, but there's a really bitchy issue with the line-breaks. Can you look at my revisions and try to retrace and see what I did there? Before 10th August it was almost right but with that line-break issue I tinkered around for over an hour, just to split the images up in the end. However Kali doesn't like it, so maybe you find a way to fix it? -- Taki Fujiko  04:29, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what the reason was for the other edits on the page, but you broke the Clipping parameter at some point (you changed it to display for some reason), and the changes you made to the "Profile" text aren't working.  To make this easy, I'm going to roll back all your changes to un-break both of those, then add back only the "nohelmet" stuff, then I'll try to see what's wrong.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 04:56, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, and now I think I see the problem - you were adding two new table cells outside of the table you wanted them in. Of course that's going to look goofy.  I'll have it fixed in a jiffy.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 04:59, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * *watches as the Doc blows up RC* Jink  05:18, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Teehee. Quote from Tonight's History Detectives Episode, spoofed:  "Suddenly, EXPLOSION!  Hip-hop!  Everyone died.  Tonight on the evening news."--Łô√ë [[Image:Gigathrash_sig_G.jpg|Roar.]]îğá†ħŕášħ  05:21, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey, it's been a while since I've done that. :P I've been away too long, I totally didn't think of switching to my bot account for that.
 * Taki, it should be fixed now. The reason for the RC-bustin' was I changed your "nohelmet" parm to "Nohelmet", in keeping with the title-case nature of all the other parameter names on that template.  Let me know if you need any other help!  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 05:23, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you! :D RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 18:10, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, thank you Dr. --[[Image:Takisig2.png]] 16:17, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

hiya
hey i was looking at that file with ur picture as a necro with the mask of the mo zing and was wondering if it clipps the mask with the armor "asurian armor"? just ummm edit mab the thing and say it there thnx &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.142.133.58 (contribs).


 * If you look at the "Summary" section on the image page, you'll see that I didn't upload those pictures originally - I just re-uploaded them to the correct filenames. I don't have a necro with the Mo Zing mask, so I wouldn't know.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 03:32, September 25, 2009 (UTC)

Test version of Cootle Sizzlehorn
Hey Dr Ishmael, I was wondering if you still need/are using Cootle Sizzlehorn/Test version. If not, I'll delete it. Thanks-- (Talk) (Contr.) 19:51, October 4, 2009 (UTC)
 * Damn, I was going to ask the same question Random Time  18:57, October 5, 2009 (UTC)
 * I deleted it because a) it's orphaned (I edited MP47's post above to make it so), b) Dr Ishmael is inactive at present, and c) if he decides he does need it when he becomes active again, he can undelete it himself. -- ◄mendel► 20:04, October 6, 2009 (UTC)

Hunter's Ale is not an "Alcohol Point", it is "Alcohol"
Good catch. I think this was an artifact of the original organization, which grouped things according to which title they, erm, abetted. &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 04:56, October 22, 2009 (UTC)

Happy Birthday
That is all. Lazuli 04:34, October 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Try not to hit the ether too hard. ;) [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 08:25, October 26, 2009 (UTC)


 * Happy birthday, Bot Ishy ;) --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG]] -- (contribs) &emsp;(talk)  12:27, October 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Happy Birthday :-) A_F_K_sig_2.jpg A F K When Needed 12:54, October 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Bippy Harthday! Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 15:17, October 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * С Днём Варенья, RC Bot-man Ishy! RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 16:12, October 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Happy birfday. &mdash; Balistic 16:15, October 26, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks everyone! And what's my birthday present? A wonderful, wet, rainy day. Bleh. -_- &mdash;Dr Ishmael  17:38, October 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Here you go - Birthday Cupcake.png]] [[File:A_F_K_sig_2.jpg A F K When Needed 17:51, October 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Harpy blithday! I buyed you a microwave oven, but I eated it :3 [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 19:01, October 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Umm... thanks? I hope you don't get any indigestion? o.O  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 19:16, October 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Happy Birthday! <--took 5mins to work up the courage to write this. Also, nice job on the miniatures page(moving the frogs to their own section), it make more sense now. Chibi Moon Shadow 19:31, October 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Happy birthday. Cress Arvein [[Image:Cress sig.JPG]] 19:38, October 26, 2009 (UTC)

Transmog Tonic
Actually, I've seen it too. Right after using the tonic, sometimes (but not always) your character will do one /clap. There's also something similar in the Costume Brawl. When entering the outpost or battle, your character will perform one emote over and over (different for each profession and gender) until you move for the first time. I think it has something to do with humanoid disguises in general. You never notice it with other tonics because, well, they have no emotes. --Macros 15:11, October 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Come to think of it, the emote Livia does in the Costume Brawl is /clap, too... suspicious. --Macros 15:17, October 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Hm. Like I said in the summary, I've never noticed it myself.  I'll watch more closely today - I'm expecting the next quest to become available, and we'll probably have to use tonics to enter the UW again, so I'll have plenty of chances to see it.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 15:27, October 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, I just saw it on one of my wife's characters. Seems to be pretty rare, though.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 16:55, October 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * That IP you reverted was actually me. :P And I've seen it clap up to 3 times in a row after transforming. You worded it better. RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 01:27, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, okay. Maybe I'm just blind, but I still can't remember ever seeing my characters do that.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 02:11, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Having a baby does that to a person.... Jink  23:16, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * With a cartoony stream of pee to the eye [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 23:44, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Cartoony? Oh, those things are very much real and wet... I'd still pick the eye over the more concave parts of the face. RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 00:09, October 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Nope, I had it worse than that. A couple weeks after we brought her home, she made a mess on the changing pad while Jink was changing her.  Jink called me in to hold the naked baby while she put a new pad on the table... and she pooped all down my front and onto the floor.  -_-  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 00:53, October 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * After I stopped laughing, I feel sorry for you. ^_^ RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 12:38, October 29, 2009 (UTC)

The kind of person who...
This is the kind of person who refers to TEF as, Ernie. ;-)

PS Good Every Bit Helps edit; seemed like the least we could do is explain how to complete it 1x. &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 23:38, October 31, 2009 (UTC)


 * As I said in the summary, that was my intent. Either repeat the single Skeleton capture 3x, or use a solo farm to get 3 at once.  I had actually written that before I knew it was repeatable, thus I couldn't have intended that to be relevant for completing the quest more than once.
 * And if people want to call you Ernie, then they're gonna call you Ernie. Fighting it only makes it worse, as I found out long ago.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 02:24, November 1, 2009 (UTC)

Glovebox
User_talk:RoseOfKali/Mesmer_gloves: can I take you up on that template offer? :) I've gotten around to taking a bunch of the missing screens, working on formatting them now and will upload them as they're ready. RoseOfKali 15:30, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * Will do. Someone will have to create a "No Image Available" for gloves, my image manipulation skills aren't good enough for that.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 15:59, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * Since this is being templated now, I standardized the image names to match the existing conventions. The changes I made were "armor" &rarr; "Armor" and "gloves dyed" &rarr; "dyed gloves".  I moved all existing images that I could find, including the ones you just uploaded.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 17:42, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, tyvm, I'm glad I took a break before spam-uploading. ^_^ You're the best. ;) RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 20:35, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, by the way, wasn't "armor" supposed to be lowercase? Or is it uppercase just for images, but lowercase for the actual armor article titles? RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 20:40, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * We changed it for articles but left it on the images, since there would've been a whole fudge-ton (prolly close to 1,000) images to re-upload. Now that we can simply move images it wouldn't be nearly as annoying to do, but there isn't really a need for it.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 21:00, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * Understood. TY. :) RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 21:41, November 16, 2009 (UTC)

RoF stubby
The reason it was still a stub was because technically it's a stub since there's no NF trainer listed. It's better in that respect than a few other skills, though, because it IS actually possible to figure out where it is (and inevitably find out it's Kamadan probably anyway :P ) by having a Prophecies character get monk primary or secondary and not do the Protection Prayers quest, then go to Kamadan. There's a few that ARE physically impossible to get though, should be in the Category:Need Factions Skill Trainer or Category:Need Nightfall Skill Trainer --Gimmethegepgun 01:49, November 17, 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah, right, I keep forgetting about those. I've always thought that they shouldn't be called stubs, though, as they are actually nearly complete articles (a stub is an article with very minimal content that needs to be expanded).  This is more of a "needs research" situation.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 02:03, November 17, 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree. For simplicity, especially since essentially every skill, if not every skill, is beyond a stub state, we should just change the text of to say it needs research or something --Gimmethegepgun 02:11, November 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * Makes sense, imo. RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 02:13, November 17, 2009 (UTC)

Wondering if you can do some bot magic.
So you know how for like four years we've been reverting people who add Ruby and Sapphire to creature drop pages because every creature in the game has a chance of dropping them? Well apparently, they don't. See here.

So I was wondering if you could whip up a script that would give us a list of every article that's got Ruby (Rubies) or Sapphire in the edit summaries somewhere, just as a starting point for adding them in. 20:44, November 17, 2009 (UTC)


 * Interesting. Well, there goes that bit of conventional wisdom, *POOF* =O
 * Wouldn't it be better to use GWW:Category:Drops sapphire and GWW:Category:Drops ruby as starting points? It seems like they've been documenting this for a while already, so those are probably pretty complete.  I don't know how much we'd really want to trust the edit histories here in any case, given how likely it is that at least a few people would've added sapphire/ruby to random monsters just to be silly.  But if you insist, I'll see what I can do - Mendel's better at dealing with the wiki dumps, although I haven't seen him being very active lately.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 21:19, November 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * I think that since no one's gonna go and look at a specific monster page in order to figure out if it drops Rubies/Sapphires, we should just make a list of what CAN drop it in the respective pages. Even though it's not even "most", it would still be the most expansive category in GW history, so it wouldn't do much good for finding something anyway. Just rob them of the list from the categories and put it into a list that's actually helpful :P --Gimmethegepgun 00:25, November 18, 2009 (UTC)
 * I suppose those are both better ideas than mine, I just wanted to do something special and hi-tech. [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 01:09, November 18, 2009 (UTC)


 * @Gimme: True, but who's going to look at a specific monster to see if it drops, say, linen? Yet we still list that, and all other crafting materials, on individual monster pages, so I don't see why we shouldn't list rubies/sapphires.  As far as being "the most expansive category in GW history," I actually looked at the history of both the ruby and sapphire articles to see what people had listed in the past (before we replaced the list with an "everything can drop this" note).  With only a couple exceptions, everything that had been listed is now listed in GWW's drop categories.  I'm starting to realize that these gems aren't nearly as widespread as everyone thought they were.
 * @Felix: *patpat*, 's okay. I would've started working on that immediately if it weren't for the strong likelihood of false positives.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 01:42, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

Be careful, doctah!
You're Searing a hole in my Heart! :P --Gimmethegepgun 20:43, November 21, 2009 (UTC)


 * XD Y'know, I actually made the same mistake and corrected it on Savannah Heat right above that. &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 20:48, November 21, 2009 (UTC)

.dat extraction
What does .dat extraction involve. Is it easy and where can you link me to more information. yours demandingly,  Random  Time   22:34, November 24, 2009 (UTC)


 * Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's not. Here is a list of the programs I use for gw.dat extraction (both texture and text), and here is the technique I use for viewing inaccessible skills in-game.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 23:12, November 24, 2009 (UTC)
 * I've summarized it all, with some extra info, all on one page. Eventually I'll write my own guide for using CheatEngine, too.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 03:21, November 27, 2009 (UTC)

Thank You
For putting the post by that piece of shit in its place. ... I swear, whoever posted that...I want to punch them...HARD.   rede | beiträge 02:37, November 27, 2009 (UTC)


 * No problem. Incidentally, I can program in C++, which I know isn't too different form C#, and I would love to dig deeper into gw.exe to figure stuff out.  I actually had the idea a few years ago to try and work up a chat logging program for GW (mostly for my wife, who has (at last count) 17 folders full of screenshots logging all of her RP sessions), but never got anywhere with it.  So if you're still recruiting for the project, I'd love to help.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 03:20, November 27, 2009 (UTC)


 * Sure. Incidentally, I lost my original code that I was working with when I lost a HDD.  I only remembered it when that prick put something up.  Maybe we can do it in C++, like a portable Qt frontend for server settings and whatnot.  Considering Qt comes out-of-the-box with its own networking libraries, which I have yet to dig into, our dependence on external libraries and whatnot should be nil...which is good, because Qt does not make importing external libraries easy, the only real flaw I've found with it.  [[Image:RHSig.jpg]] rede | beiträge 21:30, November 27, 2009 (UTC)

Quetzal
The edit. But at least it was definitely broken! :P  ***EAGLEMUT***   T  A  L K 18:22, November 27, 2009 (UTC)

Revert on User:Syarco
Special:Contributions/83.163.18.99. Pretty sure it's him :P (actually, I am 100% sure) --- -- (contribs)  &emsp;(talk)  20:58, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, so was I, but... it's the principle of the thing. Although if I'd looked at his page history it would've been obvious. >.>  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 21:37, November 28, 2009 (UTC)

i did *not* forget to sign, you did not see this >.>
Aww, I was in the process of humiliating you with an unsigned template :( --Gimmethegepgun 01:36, November 30, 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah, but I am too quick for your humiliation! &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 01:39, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Humility != humiliation. You should know this. I now reserve the right to lol at you at a later time regardless of circumstance --Gimmethegepgun 01:42, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * *mumblemumble* >.> &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 01:51, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * ^lol A_F_K_sig_2.jpg A F K When  Needed  16:48, December 6, 2009 (UTC)

Show/Hide boxes
To use S/H boxes on a wiki, do you need some specific extension, a line of code somewhere (I presume the latter at least, since I saw div classes)? Asking for a totally unrelated wiki :P --- -- (contribs)  &emsp;(talk)  17:52, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * It's a combination of CSS and Javascript. The specific implementation we use is NavFrame, but apparently it's been replaced with collapsible tables.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 18:01, December 7, 2009 (UTC)


 * The major difference is that div boxes aren't tables, but rather floating boxes, right? --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG]] -- (contribs) &emsp;(talk)  18:22, December 7, 2009 (UTC)


 * Basically, yes. Divs are much more flexible than tables, which is why the current web design trend is to avoid tables whenever possible, only using them when necessary to display tabular data.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 19:04, December 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, and the wiki HTML coding has made me adopt this statement: "When in doubt, use a div" --Gimmethegepgun 19:08, December 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * Okies, thank you both. That's all for now ;) --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG]] -- (contribs) &emsp;(talk)  19:52, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

*bows*
Lose your Head + Wandering Mind

Anything to note when you're adding skills never seen / confirmed to be used? You're the master of it, iirc A F K  When  Needed  19:49, December 7, 2009 (UTC)

really?
I thought they were relics from copy / pasted Official Wiki pages. Because, they've the notes on so many pages if we did note the attributes surely we'd have them on many more pages? :S A F K  When  <font color="SteelBlue">Needed  21:23, December 7, 2009 (UTC)


 * They're more common on Prophecies monsters, especially Soul Reaping for necros, but yeah, we list them when we know them. &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 21:26, December 7, 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism
Does your wife know?--Łô√ë <font color="Black">îğá†ħŕášħ is hosting a Card Creation Contest! 02:55, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I showed her and she laughed at it. :D &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 03:00, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * It was quite amusing. Very tempting to spam the fake Dr ishmael with "neener neener neener!" But I shall refrain. ;)  Jink  05:51, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * Wait, when the vandal said fag, did he mean gay fag or the South Park "Harley rider" fag? Honestly not sure which one would be more detrimental to the Chicken King's relationship, what do you think Jink? haha that rhymed --Gimmethegepgun 06:18, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * Or he might have been implying that you are a dangerous and easily available carcinogen source.--Łô√ë [[Image:Gigathrash_sig_G.jpg|Roar.]]<font color="Black">îğá†ħŕášħ is hosting a Card Creation Contest! 06:58, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * Nah, he's from Kansas, not Britain --Gimmethegepgun 08:22, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * That's Arkansas, tyvm. :P &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 14:59, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * Or perhaps the poor user was implying that Ishy was one stick out of a bundle. Jink  15:49, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * And what's *that* supposed to imply, eh? >.> &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 15:57, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * Sometimes I just hate the interwebz. IRL we'd be able to tell if Ishy was bleeding sarcasm or not, but we just don't know now :( --Gimmethegepgun 18:29, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, we know now (check the edit summary) --Gimmethegepgun 05:13, December 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * ohai
 * Is that pronounced Our-Can-Sas, Ar-Kan-Saw, or something else? :S A_F_K_sig_2.jpg <font color="SteelBlue">A F K <font color="SteelBlue">When  <font color="SteelBlue">Needed  18:37, December 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * Ar-kan-saw. Jink  19:23, December 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * BTW, when I said Kansas, I meant the IP. Did a WHOIS on him, came up with KS, meaning, proxy or similar aside, he's from at least the Kansas area --Gimmethegepgun 19:10, December 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks Jink :) A_F_K_sig_2.jpg <font color="SteelBlue">A F K <font color="SteelBlue">When  <font color="SteelBlue">Needed  19:26, December 10, 2009 (UTC)

Botblock
Just a random thought I felt was somewhat fitting here; It's annoying that RC doesn't show every block by default.

I only saw you blocked Angelus because I switched S/H Bots. (p.s. Open question a few topics up) --- -- (contribs)  &emsp;(talk)  15:54, December 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oops, didn't think about that. I would've switched back for the block if I'd known.  And what open question are you referring to?  Bot ishmael 18:40, December 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see it, not related to bots/blocks/RC at all. &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 18:57, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

Redundant whitespace
Tbh, it wasn't redundant. It made things readable. Are there other ways of forcing the text to appear after the table? If not, I'm gonna put that whitespace back in.--<font color="Green">El_Nazgir 19:05, December 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * Fixed. &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 19:09, December 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah, thnx.--[[Image:El Nazgir sig.png|Talkpage]]<font color="Green">El_Nazgir 19:26, December 10, 2009 (UTC)

,
 * For future reference, I believe you can use things like &amp;nbsp;,

to add space. You can also use tags. Finally, I believe you can also incorporate padding/margins after the table's last row from within the table, e.g. . (I am hoping that the peanut gallery will erupt with erudite explanations as to which of the above is preferable.)  &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 19:41, December 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * I tried the br one, but it didn't work (it's one of the few things I know)--[[Image:El Nazgir sig.png|Talkpage]]<font color="Green">El_Nazgir 19:54, December 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * Geez, so much fuss for a little format issue. The only one of those would've worked there is the  template (which, for future reference, should always be subst:'ed).  All of the others are in-line fixes and would just insert whitespace into the text around the floating object, but not change the text's relation to the float in any way.
 * But the simplest fix was to simply turn the floating object into a non-floating one by removing the "align" attribute from the table, which was totally unnecessary in the first place. &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 20:01, December 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * Erm? My apologies...I wasn't commenting on the particular issue (since there is no link above, I didn't know to which change Nazzy was referring). I figured I would throw out lots of possible ways to add space after a table...and hope to learn something about what works better. (Of course, next to grammar discussions, formatting issues are the next greatest cause of accidental wiki drama.)  &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 20:09, December 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * Lol, I doubt any drama could come from this. I just don't know anything about wikicoding except some really basic stuff. That's why I asked in the first place.--[[Image:El Nazgir sig.png|Talkpage]]<font color="Green">El_Nazgir 20:11, December 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * Eh? are you trying not to start something? You wanna not get something going here? ;-)  &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 20:14, December 10, 2009 (UTC)

New to wiki editting; several questions
&mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by No man (contribs).
 * 1) concerning the tags <tt> </tt>
 * 2) *I'm guessing any text between the tags is omitted (not transcluded) when the template is called, but appears on the template's page?
 * 3) *Is this useful beyond template pages?
 * 4) concerning the tags <tt> </tt>
 * 5) *Text between these tags is the text that is transcluded when the template is called, but does not appear on the template's page?
 * 6) *Is this useful beyond template pages?
 * 7) concerning the parser template <tt> {#if}> </tt>
 * 8) *The parameters would be #if|condition|(condition true)statements|(condition false)statements
 * 9) *I actually stumbled upon this one looking for templates, with <tt> </tt>, and fixed it, I think. In that template, I found the location of the pipe within <tt>  </tt> a bit strange. Would <tt> | </tt> have been possible instead?
 * 10) I found a few categories with no existing pages added to my userpage after I added a few user boxes.
 * 11) *What would it take to make these category pages show a listing of all users with the [[category:]] code on their page, the way existing category pages do?
 * 12) Do you mind if I use a few of your userboxes?


 * Correct, anything within &lt;noinclude> appears as normal on the source page, but does not appear when the page is transcluded.
 * Correct, anything within &lt;includeonly> does not appear on the source page, but only when the page is transcluded.
 * One more tag is &lt;onlyinclude>, which is sort of the converse of &lt;noinclude>. If a page has an &lt;onlyinclude> section, then that is the only section that will be transcluded; it's as if everything else were wrapped in &lt;noinclude>.
 * These can be used anywhere you want to restrict what parts of a page are included somewhere else, not just in templates. We actually do quite a bit of transclusion between mainspace articles here - the Title overview is a good example.
 * See Translucion on the MediaWiki wiki for more info.
 * Basically. I like to think of it as  .  For this parser function, the condition is not a boolean true/false, it is a test for "emptyness", generally used to test for the presence of a parameter.
 * A pipe after a parameter name is used to set a default value.   would insert the value "5" if the template was called without a value for the parameter "parm1".  #if statements usually use this form with a null default value, , in order to test whether a value was passed for that parameter.
 * See Mediawikiwiki:Help:Parser functions in templates for a better explanation than I can give.
 * A redlink category will still display the list of pages in that category - this is generated automatically by the wiki software. The redlink simply means that a category page has not been created yet.  The text of a category page displays above the list of pages in the category.  Compare Category:Users/Monster to Category:Users/Male.
 * Sure, go ahead. :)
 * &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 04:33, December 14, 2009 (UTC)


 * I tip my hat to you sir! &mdash;<font color="#ff0000">Noman [[Image:Nomansig.png | link=User:No_man]] (talk | contribs) 16:43, December 14, 2009 (UTC)

Skill icon
So, what'd you change with the skill icon template? --JonTheMon 16:13, December 17, 2009 (UTC)


 * It can now handle PvP skills by stripping the (PvP) from the skill name to get the correct icon image. &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 16:16, December 17, 2009 (UTC)

Guide to evolving etc etc
I do think "Dire" should be capitalized, as it is in-game. 17:54, December 22, 2009 (UTC)


 * Wynn doesn't, and I'm pretty sure the only place it was used prior to the menagerie was in pet names, where every word is automatically title-cased. Is there somewhere I'm not thinking of?  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 18:01, December 22, 2009 (UTC)
 * /agree. Although, I tend to prefer capitalization of jargon (so it stands out better), dire pet appears more consistent with current wiki practices than Dire Pet or Dire pet.  &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 19:29, December 22, 2009 (UTC)
 * You're right, Wynn uses lower case. My mistake. [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 05:49, December 23, 2009 (UTC)

Wintersday_2008
>_< RoseOfKali 18:27, December 22, 2009 (UTC)


 * Was it the hat images? I am sorry for that, I wasn't thinking when I deleted all the existing ones the other day.  If I remember I'll try to fix the other festival pages at some point... or you could do it, if you wanted.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 19:55, December 22, 2009 (UTC)
 * You can't restore the deleted image? RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 21:22, December 22, 2009 (UTC)

gwMultilaunch = Maddy's Multi Launch?
gwmultilaunch ← is that same as Maddy's Multi Launch? I like the idea better than GWx2, but I didn't trust Maddy's implementation (location of the files, need to connect to his site after an update). Tried it, liked it, but still removed all copies and changed all my passwords that I used while it was on machine (guildwars ones only, as it turned out). Thanks. &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 03:28, December 23, 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't think so, no. Here's the Guru thread on it.  This one doesn't even have an installer, you just extract the folder wherever you want.  As far as I can tell, it doesn't "phone home" at all, either.  Mostly it looks like it's just a C# implementation of the batch file multi-instancer I had been using.  Oh, and it can also run TexMod on any/all instances.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 04:03, December 23, 2009 (UTC)


 * Awesome! Thanks for the info. I'll look to see if anyone seems to be sniffing out the source for anything ugly. (Or does Google code handle any of that?) I really like being able to multi-instance Cartography Made Easy.  &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 06:05, December 23, 2009 (UTC)

Wintersday
Have a happy and a merry! &mdash; Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 18:06, December 25, 2009 (UTC)


 * Same to you! &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 00:51, December 26, 2009 (UTC)


 * Crystal Snowflake.png Merry X-mas!!! Crystal Snowflake.png -- F1Sig.png <font face="Comic Sans MS" color="darkred"> † F1 ©  Talk  09:07, December 26, 2009 (UTC)

hey
If you are still online, can you get on IRC for a minute? Shadowcrest 03:33, December 27, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the map timer on Traveler last week
Thanks for adding the timer to expire the previous map on the traveler last week. I would edit it to revert to an "unknown" style page - but not sure I could accomplish that satisfactorily. Thought it would be nice to carry through on the idea for the entire page instead of just removing the map to help keep people from just editing an old map back? Sorry I couldn't accomplish it to see what you might think, but at least after last weeks addition it seems you might be on board with it.-- -shmE k  ( talk ) 16:51, December 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * 1) (cur) (prev)  17:32, December 21, 2009 Dr ishmael (Talk | contribs) m (2,378 bytes) (c/p leftover) (undo)
 * 2) (cur) (prev) 17:29, December 21, 2009 Dr ishmael (Talk | contribs) (2,387 bytes) (insert #expr/#time code to auto-update image link every Monday) (undo)
 * 3) (cur) (prev) 17:20, December 21, 2009 Dr ishmael (Talk | contribs) m (2,305 bytes) (Reverted User:ShmEk:don't bother changing until he's found) (undo)
 * 4) (cur) (prev) 16:17, December 21, 2009 ShmEk (Talk | contribs) (1,723 bytes) (Unknown - for the moment until updated with location) (undo)


 * On a wiki, the point of a redlink is to signify that something is unknown or doesn't exist; there's no real need to do anything special to point that out. The extra code required to display a "location unknown" image if the new image exists, while still making it link to the upload page for the new week's image, would be very ugly.  We do that for the armor galleries in order to (hopefully) inspire people to update the galleries, but for this single image, which usually gets updated within a couple hours anyway, it's not necessary.
 * The problem with the map image was when someone would (with good intentions) upload the new week's map over the old one without changing the file name. This isn't a problem for the text bits, as they're all part of the main article and get overwritten every week anyway.  There's nothing wrong with leaving them like they are until Nick's new location is found, and it will only be "wrong" for a couple hours in any case.
 * Now, when we discover that Nick is indeed on a cycle (52 weeks seems most likely, but whatever), then it would make sense to parse out all the location/dialogue info to a subpage that we could transclude each week's info from with a similar "timer" system. I think we can leave it as-is until then.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 17:08, December 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Back when he erroneously appeared in Arbor Bay, Linsey slipped that he wasn't supposed to be there for at least a year, and that's why there was no dialogue in place (it was blank). This implies that the cycle is more than a year. :) RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 18:28, December 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * Meh, that wasn't really the point of my argument, but whatever. :P &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 20:25, December 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * I know, just commented on your 52-week guess. :P It may be a looooong time before the cycle loops. RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 00:54, December 29, 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, especially if they were really silly and decided to make him eventually collect every single trophy in the game. That would be almost 5 years. o__O  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 01:42, December 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * TY for the reply back. I kinda figured it was a bit more then it was worth doing or would've been done.  I know I'm inept at constructing it all together--  -shmE k  ( talk ) 21:04, January 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * Say "inexperienced" rather than "inept". ;) And your suggestion is making me start to seriously think about setting up this page with dpl sections to somewhat automate the location/dialogue parts of the page (won't be completely automatic until his cycle restarts, but at least the framework will be in place).  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 21:46, January 1, 2010 (UTC)

Happy New Year
Happy New Year! --  <font face="Comic Sans MS" color="darkred"> † F1 ©  Talk  11:18, January 1, 2010 (UTC)

You lost the bet
talk:Flurry of Splinters. What I actually wanted to say was that " |type=Explorable area" in location boxes isn't standardised (some read area, others read Area), and Prophecies doesn't have an Explorable Areas navbox. If you ever need something mind-numbing to do.. :P --- -- (contribs)  &emsp;(talk)  23:06, January 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * I went one better and made Template:Prophecies Explorable Areas and Template:EotN Explorable Areas. I'll set up AWB to add them to the articles later tonight.  Then I'll see if I can get AWB to standardize the templates.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 00:02, January 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * A week late, but follow-up on this: I was able to use AWB for both actions, although I couldn't go full auto since 1) it could only append the navbox to the end of the article (had to manually move it above the categories), and 2) the various articles didn't have consistent formatting for the infobox code (variety in spacing, mostly), which meant I could only give it find/replace on the  link itself, and that still didn't guarantee that it would get the one in the infobox.
 * Doing this made me realize how inconsistent the style/formatting is on our explorable area articles. I guess that's as good a candidate as any for my next big improvement project, but I'm gonna need a lot of people's input on how best to standardize said formatting.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 23:55, January 10, 2010 (UTC)

I phail in gramar..
EL Tonics. Thanks for fixing it and sorry for wasting your time. ***EAGLEMUT***  T  A  L K 23:42, January 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Don't apologize, AWB makes it super easy to fix little things like that (thus why I've been using it a lot lately). For this I just made a list from the category, set the find and replace text, and let it go on auto-pilot.  Prolly took less than a minute to set up.  So no, it wasn't wasting my time. :P  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 23:48, January 10, 2010 (UTC)

Good to have you back
Yes, I know it's been near on 3 months already, but I think nobody's told you yet. :) Also, you're still listed as "semi-active" on GW:AI. -- ◄mendel► 00:55, January 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks. ^_^ It started because, once I found out about them, I wanted to make sure we had all the new Halloween stuff documented properly (and before GWW, although I think I lost that race most of the time).  I'm more active in GW overall at this time of year, with three big events close together - Halloween, Wintersday, Canthan New Year - but without the new skills/quests, I probably wouldn't have done much on the wiki.
 * After Halloween was over, I continued because... well, mostly because I'm unemployed and don't have anything else to do. Patrolling and editing GWiki gave me an escape from all the stress and anxiety I've been under during my job search - although those have also found their way through into some of my comments over the past few months, for which I apologize.
 * I've resisted switching myself over to fully active because I know my current spurt won't survive for very long after I find a new job. I had hoped to be employed before Christmas, and I was very close to getting an offer, but nothing worked out.  Now, though, I've got an interview on Wednesday and two other solid leads through referrals, and I'm certain I'll be employed by the end of the month.  Of course, it all depends on how demanding the job will be and whether I have to commute or not, but more than likely I won't have nearly as much time for the wiki anymore.  I'll probably be able to patrol RC once a day or something like that, maybe find time for some bigger projects on the weekends.  So thanks for the reminder, but I think it will be best to leave it at "semi-active" and consider my current activity as an (admittedly long-lived) anomaly.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 01:34, January 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Get me a job too plz [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 05:29, January 11, 2010 (UTC)