Difference between revisions of "User talk:Arcane"

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Welcome to WikiIndex - glad you are here and want to know more about your "helping others with MediaWiki instillation" - sounds cool! Best, MarkDilley

You are, always, a boon to those you help Arcane.... Thank you... TeraS (talk) 19:15, 21 January 2013 (PST)

Can you get a screenshot?

And it looks like the page was not able to save? Best, MarkDilley

Hi, MediaWiki, logos, etc

Hi, good to see someone with good MediaWiki skills around here! :)

Do you known what threshold MediaWiki uses for breaking out of 'stub' article to full-on 'good' article?

And how are your logo creation skills? We really need a favicon for WikiIndex ...

Best, Sean, aka Hoof Hearted • _Admin • talk2HH 07:45, 15 March 2013 (PDT)

Sturmkrieg

You say that people can make articles for forks of wikis. That is what sturmkrieg.com would have to be. They are a fork of the original Sturmkrieg project. Sturmkrieg needs to be about the Sturmkrieg Empire wiki, because that is the original. If Alex wants to create a historically revisionist version, he can do that. You should know that he has been banned from a German website on the same topic for being sympathetic to the Red Army. Sturmkrieger (talk) 08:40, 15 March 2013 (PDT)

Sturmkrieg pages

The background for the Sturmkrieg Empire is the predecessor for sturmkrieg.com. If we're relegated to sturmkrieg.tk, why should they get Sturmkrieg when they are in fact the fork? Regardless, why should they get a title that implies that they are somehow the main Sturmkrieg. The original background was the Sturmkrieg Empire, before Inquisitor Ehrenstein and Dondrekhan decided to turn it away from what it was supposed to be. If I have to have to start an article with some sort of different name, it implies that they are somehow the actual version and displays preference to them. Sturmkrieger (talk) 15:41, 15 March 2013 (PDT)

Hey - group hug

Hi - thanks for your comment on my talk page. There is no need to appologise to me, but thanks anyway :)))) And I wish to appologise to you - I didn't mean to point any fingers at you. We were all new here once, and I certainly made my fair share of mistakes. You clearly have some great ideas and talents (I've noticed the results of your work on SuccuWiki, and TeraS is obviously very pleased with your efforts!). I think I was just getting a little annoyed by the petty attitude of that User:Sturmkrieger. Keep up your great work here! :) Sean, aka Hoof Hearted • _Admin • talk2HH 10:43, 20 March 2013 (PDT)

Template:Sysop

the page can be undid to revision 168381. It worked well. But now there's noinclude in noinclude without exiting.

<noinclude>

[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Active administrators of this wiki]] tag their page with '''{{tl|sysop}}'''.
<noinclude>[[Category:Active administrators of this wiki]]
[[Category:People templates]]
[[Category:Housekeeping templates]]</noinclude>

--YiFei | talk 06:49, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

edit summary

Please delete the edit summary too or replace the summary with the word "spam" when deleting spam pages or the spam remains forever in the deletion log and for a few hours on the main page due to the log appearing on recent changes.--Comets (talk) 01:54, 29 May 2013 (PDT)

Did not know that. Will make sure to do that in the future.

Arcane (talk) 04:25, 29 May 2013 (PDT)

Bigotry wiki

It's down again due to the webhost being @$$clowns. They fixed it once, and I'm trying to get them to do it again. We'll be moving at some point. The Sturmkrieg project forum is also down. We can discuss things at the wiki DPL forum here:

http://www.sturmkrieg.us/Forum:Index#.UbZ8vPZvzLs

Inquisitor Ehrenstein (talk) 18:28, 10 June 2013 (PDT)

Thanks for letting me know. I'll set up an account soon and drop on by. Hope the hosting issues get resolved soon.

Arcane (talk) 05:50, 11 June 2013 (PDT)Arcane

Were you prevented from logging on? I've noticed that the ConfirmEdit sometimes doesn't work. Inquisitor Ehrenstein (talk) 14:36, 11 June 2013 (PDT)

I was blocked from setting up an account due to having a dynamic IP address that the DNSBL identified as one belonging to a vandal or a troll (I've had that happen to me on another wiki before). I was wondering if you couldn't set me up an account to get around that. Arcane (talk) 18:22, 11 June 2013 (PDT)Arcane

I created your account. I used the same email address as at Bigotry Wiki. Inquisitor Ehrenstein (talk) 21:42, 11 June 2013 (PDT)

I managed to get into my new account, changed my password, got to the point I was about to create a forum avatar, then it logged me out and refuses to accept my account password. Not sure what's going on. I also saw an error message about one of your widgets being messed up. If you want, you can send me an email via WikiIndex's email feature, we can swap personal email addresses, and we can communicate that way. Arcane (talk) 02:28, 12 June 2013 (PDT) Arcane

Talk page replies

MediaWiki is not a email engine. Please post replies directly on the original talk page. (See wp:WP:TP for how to use talk pages. (I wonder why don't we have that? ) ) --YiFei | talk 12:54, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

I noticed you've moved my replies in the past, and while I mostly thought it strange, I'm afraid I must ask you to please not do so in the future for a few reasons:

• This is not Wikipedia. The link you provided is helpful, but those rules are not necessarily applicable everywhere.
• The method of reply used is not improper to my knowledge, as posting replies on the original talk page only sends one user new message updates, especially if they have email updates enabled.
• I have sent messages like the ones you have complained about in the past to other users without problems before.
• The messages I was sending to another user (who in this case happens to be a fellow admin on another wiki) were to discuss how to communicate with each other more efficiently since the web host our wiki was on was making direct communication there difficult, and both of us getting replies to each other was vital.
• The methods we used to communicate did not violate any rules here, and we communicated in a similar manner to each other on the wiki we were discussing without a problem.

In short, please do not remove replies from my talk pages or others in the name of your interpretation of how they should be used from now on, at least not without consulting Mark Dilley first. Arcane (talk) 08:03, 12 June 2013 (PDT)Arcane

OK, but how do we keep track of what message we're replying to? Email engines have something like:

Dear Lorem, 

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor 
incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud 
exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor 
in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur 
sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est 
laborum.

Ipsum

On 00:00, 01 January 2013, Lorem wrote:
>Dear Ipsum, 
>
>    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor 
>incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud 
>exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor 
>in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur 
>sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est 
>laborum.
>
>Lorem

That would be quite good. Or can we make replies like putting them in italics? --YiFei | talk 11:07, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Sturmkrieg

inquisitorsasha@sturmkrieg.de

I reset your password an added you to IP block exemptions. Inquisitor Ehrenstein (talk) 11:20, 13 June 2013 (PDT)

Forum

I've moved to a VPS server, and I got the forum set up. It's available again. You can access it here:

http://forum.sturmkrieg.com/

Inquisitor Ehrenstein (talk) 22:04, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Bigotry wiki is back

Inquisitor Ehrenstein (talk) 02:17, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Block no-edit users?

I personally  Oppose about blocking users like DalscoraZoows (talk | contribs | deleted | block log | uploads | logs | abuse log | user list), they do no harm. What they do is just creating accounts. If they vandal, AbuseFilter would disallow them. In addition, what if they're not spammers, and see an admin block them, what would they feel? --YiFei | talk 08:21, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Still on this topic: Why did you block Fcuscdrmeh3 (talk | contribs | deleted | block log | uploads | logs | abuse log | user list)? Why you think they're spammers? I sometimes block them because some of them does the account spam, such as 198.27.74.0/24, which have:

Special:Permalink/171577#Block no-edit users? (≥342 user created)

This proves that the IP range is full of spammers. --YiFei | talk 05:31, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

? --YiFei | talk 02:25, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, force of habit. I know the abuse filter is up, but a lot of spam accounts still seem to get through, and I guess it's a knee jerk reaction to just block them automatically. Arcane (talk) 03:48, 29 July 2013 (UTC)Arcane