User talk:Raxous

Hello all again!

Not sure if I'm 'sposed to be writing in here but it said 'Start this article...' and that was just tooooooo tempting! :-)


 * You can do pretty much whatever you want in your user space (User:Raxous and User:Raxious/*). The talk page for your main user page is usually for people to leave you messages (like this one).  --Fyren 07:20, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanx!

Taking orders
Could you change the Order's abbreivations to redirects? like SS, we do not need the one line articles. personally I would say the centre O should be lower case similar to the skill names eg OoP & OoA rather than OOP & OOA. --Jamie  06:44, 3 August 2006 (CDT)


 * thank you :) --Jamie [[Image:Jamie.jpg|24px|(Talk Page)]] 06:47, 3 August 2006 (CDT)


 * np! BTW; Seems like "case" makes a difference when adding pages; i.e. when I search(ed) for "WOH" and "woh" nothing came up even though there was an entry for "WoH", however, even though I added a page titled "OOP", "OoP" & "oop" still hit a match on that page i'd just made, my only conclusion, at this time, is that if a page is added "Case-sensitively" it can only be found from a search entered "case-sensitively". I.e. a search on "WoH" would find the page if titled "WoH" but entering "WOH" or "woh" will NOT find this page ("WoH"). I wonder if this is a know phenomena and if not if an admin could test it. (NOTE: I have now added a page for WOH to resolve this problem, at least temporarily.)
 * Unlike Wikipedia we don't create thousands of redirects here. This was put to a vote some time ago GuildWiki talk:Redirects and the result was that we don't want to increase our redirect usage. So please don't create a redirect for every possible combination that somebody could search for (e.g. in plural form i.e. with an "s", with a capital just at the start, all capitals, title case etc.) We've decided we don't want too many redirects, only one and only for terms in common usage e.g. "RC" for Restore Condition is ok, "Restore Conditions" and "Rc" are not. GE for Grasping Earth would not be used either, unless it came into common usage. Hope this clears is up, thanks --Xasxas256 07:23, 3 August 2006 (CDT)


 * In answer to your question, MediaWiki (the software we use) is case sensitive (although a restriction is that the first letter is always capitalised although you can link to both Bug and bug). Another thing is that mySQL doesn't fulltext index words less than 4 characters in length see here. --Xasxas256 07:29, 3 August 2006 (CDT)


 * I understand, but I think it is important to clarify that;


 * 1. The entry "WoH" was ONLY returned when I searched for "WoH". When I searched for "WOH" or "woh" I did not get ANY results.
 * 2. The entry "OOP" is returned wether I search for "OoP", "oop", or "OOP".


 * Thus I think it might be useful to advise people that abbreviations should be added in single case (uppercase only?) to avoid this problem. Furthermore I think that (If I am right) you can now remove the original "WoH" entry as the new entry I added ("WOH") covers it and will be returned wether the user enters "WoH", "woh" or indeed "WOH".
 * Rax 07:48, 3 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Major update to the above, find it at Talk:Main Page/editcopy under "Abbreviations" I think it's second or third heading from top of page.
 * Raxous 12:23, 3 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Raxous, this will probably interest you: GuildWiki talk:Redirects. Feel free to put in your 2 cents (you'll see I've posted a reply which was originally intended to reply to your post on Talk:Main Page/editcopy. --Xasxas256 22:30, 4 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Thanx, noted and contributed! # Raxous 09:26, 5 August 2006 (CDT)
 * After testing, I agree with your findings. All caps always seems to bounce directly to the article if hitting enter or pressing "Go" after the search term.  Pressing "Search" doesn't make a difference for most of these as three letter words aren't indexed for search (no results returned regardless).  The only remaining question to me is the search term results on accronymns that are four letters or more, and would therefore be in the search index.  I'll test that this weekend. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 10:00, 5 August 2006 (CDT)

Having orders taken away
I added the names of the two NPCs who can be used to jump to the Elite Canthan Missions this weekend to the relevant Game Update article and then someone promptly deleted this update. It took me a couple of minutes to find them originally, so I thought I'd help others who had similar difficulties. Anyone know why these additions were removed and where I should put such info in the future if that wasn't the right place? Raxous 17:36, 6 August 2006 (CDT)
 * The news page is just a transcription of the GW.com news. Tetris later re-added the links in a way that makes it clear it's not part of the actual news item.  For game updates, you'll note that we always have a section labelled as GWiki notes to make sure it's not confused with ANet's text.  Don't worry too much about it.  When you have a question/problem, it's probably best to ask on the article's talk page.  --68.142.14.88 17:45, 6 August 2006 (CDT)
 * Understood. Many Thanks. :-) #Raxous 04:21, 7 August 2006 (CDT)

Hack / Abuse
Just a heads up, someone has stripped out many high level entires and replaced with; "Get your Guild Wars Platinum & power level service here: [link removed] Just a heads up. Happened 2 minutes ago. # Raxous 09:15, 9 August 2006 (CDT)
 * The vandal has already been banned and most articles have already been reverted - just cleaning up a handful of remaining ones now. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 09:19, 9 August 2006 (CDT)
 * Ah, too late as ever... sorry for the spam in that case... # Raxous 09:20, 9 August 2006 (CDT)
 * Nothing major, just removing the link to the gold site from here. --Rainith 14:00, 9 August 2006 (CDT)