Talk: Dzylon

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So this migration thing...[]

Hey Dzylon, this is Tesla3327, or as you might know me, Landisnicholas. For some reason Curse did not let me migrate. So here is my new account if you would please reapply the Admin status on my page. I will send you a message on the old board to verify it's me. Tesla3327 (talk) 22:12, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

User:Landisnicholas is linked to everything you've ever done on the wiki, you can't just switch over. If you can't reclaim your account, contact Wynthyst at wynthyst@gmail.com. Dzylon (talk) 00:44, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Old Wiki Main Page[]

Dzylon: I was wondering if you or someone else could unlock the main page templates on the old wiki. I would like to fix them, and add a link to the curse site up at the top. Slayingthehalcyon (talk) 19:17, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Okay, done. Rappy will probably just revert your changes, though. Dzylon (talk)

I added the link to this wiki, the only problem that I have though is that I have no idea at all what was attempted with the tags. >.< Slayingthehalcyon (talk) 20:08, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. And those verbatim tags were there because I was using them to circumvent Wikia's abuse filter and link to the wiki without the rel="nofollow" attribute, boosting our page rankings in search engines. Dzylon (talk) 20:24, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Alright, because those didn't make a lot of sense. XD 68.204.95.51 20:28, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Also[]

Check this out please I would like to propose this for page layouts? Slayingthehalcyon (talk) 20:04, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I don't think that's a good layout for the wiki. It wouldn't be very editor-accessible, and search engines wouldn't be fond of it. The current layout is one that works well and is familiar to everybody. Why change it? Dzylon (talk) 20:24, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

It seems to me that you don't have very many editors. >.< And I can set it up so that it acts like an infobox template. Slaying^talk 20:48, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

You're right about that, but that's because Infinity Blade is kind of dead right now. The Half-Life wiki is more or less the same way at the moment. Anyway, about the layout you're proposing. It's not accessible. The wiki's based on a game, so we don't have to worry about screen readers, but search engines won't know what they were looking at. The tables would completely throw them off. They just aren't designed for content like that. Pretty much anyone that works in web design/development will tell you that tables should never be used for layout. What about headers? They're used for linking to sections, section editing, and TOCs. We could fix this by hiding the headers within the table cells on the left, but that would be hacky. Also, what would we do about subsections? The layout you're proposing is also uncomfortably tight, in my opinion.

Additionally, the majority of our articles are exactly like this one. Not much text, but a rather large infobox. With your layout, there would be a ton of whitespace between the content area and the gallery. Most people would need to scroll down to reach it. You can see this effect (but less exaggeratedly, because it has a lot of intro text) on your example page by expanding one of the sections in the infobox, or both. We could nullify this by collapsing the infobox, but that'd be frustrating and counter-intuitive, given the infobox is the page's most important element on the page.

Why do you want to change the layout? It works well the way it is now. Dzylon (talk) 21:18, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I figured that it would give it a nice, and appealing look. I was also wondering if you knew of any applications usable to open the .xxx files in the games, I've been trying to find an application for that, in an attempt to see if I could add better pictures. Slaying^talk 17:45, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

I have all of the sprites from both games converted already - I'd be happy to send them to you as soon as I get back to my computer. You may have noticed that I've added a few of them to the wiki already, such as the one on The Holy Band.

If you prefer, I could probably send you the program I used as well as the commands used to process the files instead (if I can find them). Thanks for your help, Dzylon (talk)

Just send me whatever is easier for you to send. and your quite welcome. Slaying^talk 18:53, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

If you need anything at the moment I am on. I will be on for about 35 more minutes from 20:11, 13 March 2013 (UTC) Slaying^talk 20:11, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Sprites[]

Okay I'll get to uploading the needed ones in the next couple of days. Slaying^talk 00:49, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Stubs[]

Hya, Just wondering, but what is the byte maximum for stubs, and how do you check byte amount for pages? Slaying^talk 14:36, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

The actual size of a page doesn't have much to do with a page being a stub. Stubs are determined individually based on 1) the amount of content in the page and 2) the amount of content that could be in the page. For example, a page like Siris would be a stub if it only had two or three paragraphs, but Weallix, which is a lot smaller than that, is not considered a stub because we don't know much about the topic.

You can check page size using {{PAGESIZE:{{FULLPAGENAME}}}} or {{PAGESIZE:name_of_the_page_you_want_to_check}}.

By the way, I didn't know you could specify image height like you did with the Helio Armor. That's useful. Dzylon (talk) 15:09, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Okay and yeah that's something that I learned back on wikia, and you can also specify height of a <tag> by using height="". Slaying^talk 15:20, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Javascripts[]

How do we implement javascripts into the website? I know that I can do a single user one, but I have no idea how to use it. >.< Slaying^talk 18:08, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Only users with admin rights (which I plan on giving you if you keep editing here) can change the site js. If you post it here, I'll take a look at it and implement it if it's beneficial. Dzylon (talk) 18:30, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Ahhh, Okay. the script is for a IRC div box login, it allows users and anons to log onto a chat. Sign up is simple and allows for a easier form of communication for users and other people. When that gets uploaded the div on the page IRC will become a chat-like pane, via the use of a <div id="IRClogin"> </div> and can be placed on any page. Slaying^talk 19:04, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

/* IRC Login */
$(function() {
    if ($('#IRClogin').length) {
        if (typeof wgUserName == 'undefined') {
            var nick = 'Wikian' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 100);
        } else {
            var nick = wgUserName.replace(/ /g, "_");
        }
        $('#IRClogin').html('<iframe src="'http://webchat.freenode.net/?nick=' + nick + '&channels=infinityblade&prompt=true" width="660" height="400" style="border:0;"></iframe>');
    }

:The IRC is up and running. [http://infinityblade.gamepedia.com/User:Slayingthehalcyon/IRC IRC] ~~~~
});

sorry[]

i got a little ahead of myself there XD i started moving pretyy quick. the thing about me is that when i find something to chamge, i usually dont stop until i change it everywhere it needs to be changed. >.< Slaying^talk 23:26, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

No problem at all, we all do stuff like that from time to time. By the way, awesome idea with the script :). I implemented it (after I made a few small modifications to it) here. Dzylon (talk) 01:40, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

So I saw, sweet! Slaying^talk 22:06, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Drudge Work[]

Okay do you have any monotonous tasks that you need done? For example, I would like to fix all of the screen shots of the game so that they don't have the little options tab in then or the fast forward button. That way you are only seeing content from the "game". If you have any changes that you need to implement across the site, let me know, as I have a lot of time to do stuff like that during school days. Reason being, I'm homeschool and finish schoolwork in like 2 1/2 hours. ;) Oh and just so you know, my IRC handle is @Slathehal I will give you voice and mod on there, when you log onto it. Slaying^talk 22:56, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, that would be helpful. Aside from that, there are infinite monotonous tasks to be done here. I'm waiting for Curse to modify the Gamepedia engine so that I can use my bot. In the meantime, one of the things I've been trying to get done is to move the {{ib1-2}} or {{ib2-1}} from below infoboxes to above them. I'm almost done with {{ib1-2}}, so you can do the other one if you want: Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Ib2-1.

Also, another thing that needs to be done is the italicization of all instances of Infinity Blade I, Infinity Blade II, Infinity Blade: Awakening, and Infinity Blade: Dungeons (in links or otherwise). I've been meaning to write a script that does that when the page is loaded... I can give it to you when I finish, if you want.

There are just two more things I can think of right now - they aren't really projects, they're just some things you can take care of if you happen to notice them while editing. Galleries should have widths="185px" and XP should be capitalized. There's also a to-do list (that I haven't really been keeping up to date) on the Community Portal.

Edit: Oh, and I already have an #infinitybladewiki channel set up. You think we should use that instead? Dzylon (talk) 01:46, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Well If you already have a channel set up then maybe we should use that. I will certainly start working on the things that you mentioned. Slaying^talk 18:56, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh! and in the javascript, where it says '&channels=infinityblade&prompt=true" Change it to infinitybladewiki for the channel that you have set up. Slaying^talk 19:01, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Admin[]

Thanks! And I'll start with the level two headers. >.< XD I think I may try my hand at some cursor changes for some a new template. Slaying^talk 00:52, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Picture Wording[]

Okay so I would like to start a change, I'm going to start renaming pictures, so that the ones that are screen shots have -screen.whateverfile after them so that they won't bother the normal pictures. Normal pictures would include the item's actual picture in the game and the name that the game has for it. Slaying^talk 12:01, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

I like this change. Good idea :) Dzylon (talk) 06:51, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Messed up template on Weapon page[]

Wow that title was bad. >.< anyways, Bobi_(IB1) Is broken and as I (still learning the templates here) cannot fix it, I am leaving it in your hands. Slaying^talk 16:35, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

In this edit, you replaced Template:Infobox:Weapon with Template:Infobox. I fixed it. Dzylon (talk) 17:14, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

O.e odd, Well at-least it(')s fixed. >.< Can never remember when to put the apostrophe for that word. Slaying^talk 19:54, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

OH! and the Wiki logo that you uploaded, doesn't have the full sword?? Slaying^talk 19:57, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

I was just playing around with ideas for a new wiki logo. That file's not really important. Dzylon (talk) 06:51, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Front Page[]

Total freak of nature thing, the front page was broken, and it won't fix at all, so I edited it and after I edited it, it fixed it. >.< and all of the adds are covering page titles and stuff. >.< Slaying^talk 17:44, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

That's peculiar. Whatever it was, it seems to be fixed now, so that's good :) Dzylon (talk) 06:51, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Forum[]

The only way to give you a "forum" namespace was to give you the full extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DPLforum

Enjoy! --Wynthyst (talk) 09:28, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Actually, I'm glad that the extension was installed. I wouldn't have been able to set up a system nearly as nice as the current one without it. However, can the forum namespace be removed from $wgContentNamespaces, if that's possible? Also, AJAXPoll doesn't work at all. I was holding off on this request because I thought it was some sort of fluke, and I know how busy you guys are, but it doesn't seem to me that there's any chance of it fixing itself. Thanks, Dzylon (talk) 17:24, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Edit: By the way, the Portal namespace is still possible, right? Dzylon (talk) 19:50, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Re: Wiki Logo[]

I changed it to my css, and that looks much better than the old one. :) I like it quite a bit. It was really hard to tell what it was on the image viewing page, so I decided to place it into the hydra.css that you linked, and it looks great! Slaying^talk 14:27, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Also, what was the IRC channel name changed to? Slaying^talk 14:35, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Awesome! I'll go ahead and implement it. Also, the channel is now #infinitybladewiki. Dzylon (talk) 15:39, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Hey Dzy[]

I decided to check back here as I haven't done in a while, however the migration still conflicts with my existing Curse account, so I'm using it instead of Sam1207. Also, are our Wikis still affiliated after the move from Wikia? Thanks, Sam (talk) 19:03, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Great to see you back around. I'd rather get your old account back up and running, as your contributions are all linked to it, and I would need to contact staff to get everything merged over to a new account. When I recovered my old account, I already had one created here as well, but unfortunately I don't quite remember how I did it. Have you tried both Special:ClaimExternalAccount and Special:WikiAccountRecovery?

Also, Wikia probably won't let you partner with a site that's in direct competition with it. Dzylon (talk) 20:49, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Inactivity.[]

Okay so, for about the past month, I've been grounded off and on and haven't been able to do much, so during the course of summer I will be on much more. I am attempting to pull away from a few wikis, (not this one) as I spend way to much time on the computer.

Slaying^talk 14:01, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Great! It'll be good to have you back around. Unfortunately, I won't be on much for a while as I'll be working (on and off). Dzylon (talk) 00:29, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

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