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== Extension request ==
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{{archive|*[[User_talk:Briess/archive1|archive 1]]
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*[[User_talk:Briess/archive2|archive 2]]
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*[[User_talk:Briess/archive3|archive 3]]
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*[[User_talk:Briess/archive4|archive 4]]
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*[[User_talk:Briess/archive5|archive 5]]
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*[[User_talk:Briess/archive6|archive 6]]
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== Can't move [[:File:Fäden.png]] ==
  
(mostly copied from [[User talk:senso]])
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It's used on [[cv:thread]], but I can't seem to move it to a better title. I think it's because of the <s>accent</s> umlaut - is there any way you can change its name manually in the database? ([[Wikipedia:mw:Manual:MoveBatch.php|This maintenance script]] should do the trick, but it requires a little setup and it might run into the same problem.) &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 19:17, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
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: I missed this. Where should this be moved to? I can give the script a try --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 20:35, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
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::I was thinking something like [[:f:thread.png]] or [[:f:rope reed fiber thread.png]] would work. If not, I can always reupload it and delete the original (assuming that works). &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 20:52, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
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::: Oops, that was my file. I guess i should take it as reminder to label files something more accessible when they're intended for public use and not just my own stuff. --[[User:Larix|Larix]] ([[User talk:Larix|talk]]) 14:31, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
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::: Can't get the move to work. I'll have to play with the DB if I want to do that. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 03:39, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
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:::: Might be because I already moved it. :) (Can't remember where at the moment, but it's on [[thread]]). &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 03:44, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
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::::: Derp. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 05:49, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
  
A string manipulation extension would allow things to be dynamically created from raw files and other powerful templates. With the upcoming big change to creature structure in DF, something that pulls info directly from raw data would really help rework the creature pages. I've been looking through some extensions, and one of these would fit well (in order of preference)
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== Announcements "NEW" icon ==
#http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultiReplace
 
#http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RegexParserFunctions
 
#http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions
 
The first one is a replacement function that can preform multiple replacements in one call (and it supports regex). The second one is a straightforward regex engine, and the last one is a collection of string manipulations. For my suggested purpose just one of the three would be enough, but none of them completely covers the tasks the of others. So, if possible, having all of them would be best. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 21:35, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 
  
:Their functionality does overlap a lot. The differences are as follows:
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Can you please add an ID attribute to the red "NEW" message in the sidebar, so I can make it hidden? Thanks {{User:Latias1290/Sig/src|13:20|March 23, 2014}}
*Multireplace can preform multiple replacements with one call, which the second one cannot. It can evaluate regular expressions for the replacement.
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:Removed it, since it's clearly not "new" anymore. &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 15:55, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
*RegexParserFunctions can preform a regex replacement. It can also be used for a regex search, which multireplace isn't meant for.
 
:Multireplace would be better suited for a template that generates diagrams. Regexparserfunctions could do this by nesting the function call many times, which I don't think is a good idea.
 
:Regexparserfunctions would be better suited for a template that pulls information from raw data files. Multireplace could do this by matching everything before and after the matchtext and cropping it, like so: '''(.*)(matchtext)(.*)=$2'''. However, to do this multireplace is effectively matching the entire page at once. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 22:50, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 
  
::This is a possible alternative: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RegexFunctions [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 05:04, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
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== [[:File:Old0c3822.png]] ==
  
==Archive Subdomain problem==
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This file is missing, but is used on {{tl|old}} and has a history page: [https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php?title=File:Old0c3822.png&action=history]. Any idea what happened to it? (Other files appear to be unaffected.) &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 20:16, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to bother, i sent an email to senso, but it seems that you are the new admin. Grats.
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:No idea. Going to rebuild images now then --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 20:30, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Yesterday i was surfing the archive [http://archive.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Main_Page] and suddendly it started to redirect to a french blog. Now it redirect to the main wiki. (Actually every subdomain redirects to the main wiki, also invalid ones) Can you bring it back? I know that it's rarely used, but sometimes it's funny to build 2D nostalgia fortresses. --[[User:Tempus|Tempus]] 09:13, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
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::And it's back after a rebuild --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 20:30, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
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::Rebuilding images is now a cronjob that will run every 30 minutes on dfaux1 as well now --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 20:32, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
  
== Contact info? ==
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== Creature token page seems to be causing your server trouble ==
  
Thanks for stepping up. Are you going to have an e-mail contact addy, for less public communication? --[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 17:31, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
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http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Creature_token comes up with a completely blank (like, about:blank blank) for me and pretty much everyone else I've asked about it. I can get the contents by pulling them from google's cache, but the site itself seems to refuse to let you load it. From experience as a webhost, this generally means that the page has encountered a critical error in its scripting, which it will dump in the error log instead of reporting to the user, for security reasons. I would suggest scouring your error logs. Don't know why this particular page is causing issues. [[Special:Contributions/74.67.17.69|74.67.17.69]] 07:23, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
  
== Favicon ==
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Probably a rendering time issue - the other versions load fine, but v0.31 takes the longest (I'm pretty sure the v0.34 page is the largest). Using action=raw also works. &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 10:43, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
  
The favicon for the previous wiki seems not to have been copied over. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 18:36, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
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Okay, disabling AutoRedirect fixed this, so I'm currently disabling pieces of it to see what's causing the problem. &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 19:41, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
  
:http://web.archive.org/web/20071127071819/http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/favicon.ico [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 01:35, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
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It appears that the TitleIsAlwaysKnown is the problem, presumably because it takes a lot of time to render on a large page like [[creature token]]. Unfortunately, this is the hook that makes links and searching work. I'll try making the extension skip section links, since they account for most of the links in that article and don't need to be handled at all. &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 19:48, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
  
== You may want to watch this page ==
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All right, that seems to have worked. The render time is back down to 1.2 seconds, which is pretty good for such a long page. &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 20:11, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
  
[[Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Spamreport]] [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 01:41, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
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Awesome, glad I could help. [[Special:Contributions/2604:6000:FB03:4601:BE5F:F4FF:FE3B:6A61|2604:6000:FB03:4601:BE5F:F4FF:FE3B:6A61]] 16:04, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
  
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== MWExceptions ==
  
== Short delay for new accounts? ==
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Greycat is having problems with editing (may be proxy-related again): http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139510.0 &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 11:04, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
  
Some wikis have a policy of a short waiting period between the creation of a new user account and the ability to edit an article.  (On the main wiki, I believe this is 30 days.)  This delay achieves 3 things, but the only one I'm really concerned with is that it would ''seriously'' slow down bots and spammers.  As a side benefit, it also prevents confused newbies from editing before they have a feel for the wiki as a whole, and spontaneous, ill-considered or mean-spirited contributions from a variety of other less-than-serious sources, such as the occasional spur-of-the-moment vandal or the late-Saturday-night beer-goggled comedy writing team.  I think 1 week would be ample, but even a 48 or 72 hour period might slow the spam bots.  No editor who has a worthwhile contribution to make would resent 48 hours to consider their first effort.
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== Bot is removing av template ==
  
Just a thought.--[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 02:09, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
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[http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php?title=DF2014:Puddingstone&diff=204589&oldid=203339 this edit is an example]. Just letting you know. [[User:Brightgalrs|Brightgalrs]] ([[User talk:Brightgalrs|talk]]) 19:39, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
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:And it's deleting the stonelookup template too. [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php?title=DF2014:Puddingstone&diff=204589&oldid=203339 example]. [[User:Brightgalrs|Brightgalrs]] ([[User talk:Brightgalrs|talk]]) 19:41, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
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::It looks like it searched for "<nowiki>{{quality|.*}}</nowiki>" when doing the "remove quality" step, which ended up matching way too much. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] ([[User talk:Quietust|talk]]) 21:45, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
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:::Working on a way to revert those using the bot but it will take a bit. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 22:06, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
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::::I'll get them. I've been meaning to find an excuse to use AWB here. Cheers [[User:Brightgalrs|Brightgalrs]] ([[User talk:Brightgalrs|talk]]) 19:47, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
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:::::Awesome. Thanks! --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 00:15, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
  
== IP numbers instead of sig? ==
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== Server woes ==
  
When I was trying to use the standard <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki> sig, IP numbers are coming up instead of the user/date. See [[Talk:Furniture Industry]].  Don't know what's up wi'dat. --[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 06:39, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
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I can't insert {{tl|DF2014 plants/trees}} into {{tl|DF2014 plants}}; the server times out/fails to respond each time I try.--[[User:Loci|Loci]] ([[User talk:Loci|talk]]) 19:15, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Is it possible you were logged out at the time? I enabled<br /> anonymous edits for at least a trial period earlier today...
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: I'll take a look. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 22:05, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Okay, that must have been it - I had no notification that it wouldn't accept my edit, so... <br />
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:: I'm guessing this is because AutoRedirect takes more time to render links to pages that don't exist, since it checks every versioned namespace before determining that a page doesn't exist. I'm not sure how to fix this yet, but it seems to me that either disabling the additional namespace checks in the template namespace or only enabling them in the main namespace could work. Any better ideas? &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 01:25, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Otoh, I, for one, do have a problem when a page gets edited by [[24.198.25.175]] - how do I respond on their talk page? More, don't some smaller ISP's still share IP numbers between users over time in the same area? So... who, exactly, made that edit? Everyone with that ISP?  Lastly, when keeping getting a feel for who is editing what, and their style, hard to mentally keep casual track of an IP addy.  Just one vote, but in this case, it's one of dissent.--[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 18:30, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
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::: I think it makes sense to only have the checks happen in the main namespace. We can discuss more on github if you want. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 17:27, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
:Well, you da boss. You may want to make a general announcement, perhaps on the "current events" page? It's rather jarring to see IP's instead of user:names, and I would never have guessed that their :talk page would work - might want to mention that, too, for all the other ignorants out there. (Also, if I never "don't log in" again, I'll never see any response to the one IP edit I did make, right? 2 user pages for each editor w/ a user:name? And even more if they (don't) log in from different locations/IP's? hrmmm...)--[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 08:42, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 
You're on 'er, yer honour. Sleeep gooood...--[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 09:33, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 
  
==leave==
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== Cannot confirm email address ==
User AcpasNorol wants to leave the wiki (see edits). I think he was blocked before, are old spamaccounts still blocked?  --[[Special:Contributions/92.202.37.191|92.202.37.191]] 13:01, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 
  
==Personal==
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[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=140530.0#msg5470497 It's been mentioned on the forum], and I thought I'd let you know here, since I see it too.
Thanks for cleaning up after me, including the formatting on the joining page. --[[User:The Architect|The Architect]]
 
  
== Deletion Policy ==
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When I went to the page to start the confirmation process, I was told the email had already been sent. After waiting quite a while without anything, I decided to ask for another email, and that's when I encountered this error:
  
Redirects serve two purposes - links from other articles, and Searches. These fit under neither category, or none that also fit other policies (like singular/plural article names). And a lot depends on what links to them - since most of these were orphans (or effectively so, any reference only being a conversation re deletion) what are the odds of a search? <br />
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:Dwarf Fortress Wiki could not send your confirmation mail. Please check your e-mail address for invalid characters.
Re plurals - I guess on one hand once they're there, they might as well stay, but they do set a bad precedent, and they are serving no good purpose except as an undesirable crutch. <br />
 
As far as "bizmuth bronze", that's a terrible precedent imo - do we start allowing any and every misspelled word to be "redirected"? If it's regional (armour/armor) or a common confusion (adamantium/adamantine) I support it 100%, but misspellings? Bleh. Remind me to make a redirect page for the metals iorn and steal, and sliver and goaled, among others. Double bleh.<br />
 
[[Personality modding]] was someone's pet project that was never started beyond posting the (almost blank) page, and abandoned and forgotten by late '07, not updated until [[user:I2amroy]] copied/pasted the entirety of the personality page onto it without further comment.  It had no links except on 2 user pages, one where we were recently wondering "WTF ''IS'' this?", and another that's listed under "old forum links". Since the page itself was 2 years old, and has nothing that the original didn't... I think it's another that could get trimmed without loss, as the odds of anyone typing in "personality modding" are slim to none.<br />
 
So my position is "Lose 'em all, no one will ever miss them, and it's a cleaner site without" - but that's my opinion - the final policy is up to you.--[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 18:19, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 
.... Er, I really meant if you still disagree, I'm more than willing to continue discussing what<br /> the appropriate course of action should be over any editorial policies we may have on this wiki.
 
Nah - I'm opinionated and vocal, but that's not the same as being always adamant in that opinion nor believing that means that I'm "right" (nor always spoiling for an argument/fight, some evidence to the contrary).  I've voiced my point and the reasons behind it, and I believe you've weighed that (Respect) - so if in your estimation it doesn't wash, that's all good by me. (In this case.) ;)  The policies are a collaboration as much as the content itself, and we've held to that process. So, until next time... ;D  --[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 23:57, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 
  
== graphic gone missing ==
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:Mailer returned: Unknown error in PHP's mail() function.
  
[[File:Pumpsnc4.png]], from the [[pump]] page, is MIA. I have no idea why or how, she gone.--[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 09:52, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hopefully this will be an easy fix, sorry I don't have anything more specific for you to follow up on. —[[User:Lue|Lue]] ([[User talk:Lue|talk]]) 00:00, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
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:Thanks for the heads up. I'm aware of the issue but have not had the time yet to diagnose and fix - I am planning on spending some time with it this upcoming week. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 05:33, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
  
== Quote page - Karl's recent deletion constitutes vandalism ==
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Still broken. [[User:Atheistcanuck|Atheistcanuck]] ([[User talk:Atheistcanuck|talk]]) 21:38, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Karl is continually removing any and every quote I add to the quote page while leaving alone anything added by anyone else. Ie, he's clearly attacking me rather than trying to improve the quote page.  This behavior is strikingly aberrant especially because he seems to be in favor of keeping any other quote no matter how bad. 
 
  
I've acted in good faith to improve the quote page, and am trying to participate in a dialog about the other deleted quotes which I honestly don't feel belong on the page on their own merits.  He's judging quotes i've added solely on the basis that I added them.  He's also deleted other quotes i've added previously, and appends his recent changes summary with smilie faces as if he thinks he's being funny.  This amounts to vandalism pure and simple.  Needless to say, this is unacceptable behavior.
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== Adventure mode redirect ==
  
--[[User:Squirrelloid|Squirrelloid]] 16:29, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
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For some reason [[adventure mode]] redirects to the 0.34.11 adventurer mode page, so I went to see if I could change this. Apparently, it contains a redirect to [[adventurer mode]], which redirects to the DF2014 page. I'm not quite sure what's going on here, so I thought I should bring this up. It's perhaps related to why the [[adventure mode]] links in [[DF2014:Adventure mode quick start]] are red, which is why I was looking into it in the first place. —[[User:Lue|Lue]] ([[User talk:Lue|talk]]) 23:07, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
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:This should be fixed now. &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 01:12, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
  
Addendum: My attempts to talk with him about it on his talk page caused him to merely delete my text with no response.  I hate to ask it, but i'm asking for administrative action - he's clearly incapable of separating personal from substantative differences.  --[[User:Squirrelloid|Squirrelloid]] 16:31, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
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== BriessBot ==
  
The quote I removed was based on the way you remove them, they were not grade-A funny quote. A taste of your own Medicine. You judge quote based on your biased opinion, saying they need to be funny, which is not the case, it's written nowhere on the wiki. You try to impose your own twisted sense of humor on this wiki. The fact no one cares about the quote make it hard to add them back, even if me and corona wanted to have some back, you opposed your veto, saying it was hardly a consensus.  
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Something is fishy with your unrating script. http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php?title=DF2014:Dolomite&diff=204130&oldid=202335 [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] ([[User talk:VengefulDonut|talk]]) 22:07, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
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: Derp. I'll have to look into fixing this. Although it may be easier to just fix it manually? Oh never mind there are A BAZILLION PAGES. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 17:23, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
  
You are by the way really condescending vs me and corona, talking about whining and all, did it ever occur to you that humor might be a personal taste ?
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== Missing image ==
  
Oh, and by the way, it's unnecessary to copy/paste your rant on multiple page. --[[User:Karl|Karl]] 16:44, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
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[[:File:Seed0volcano.png]] (reported at [[Talk:Seed archive]]). &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 19:17, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
  
:As much as i hate to have a discussion with you on someone else's talk page
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== Image brokenness ==
:First, the discussions, while on related issues, served different purposes.  Namely a referendum on the quotes talk page on those quotes versus talking with an administrator about the appropriateness of particular editing behavior.
 
:Second, you're applying a different standard to quotes I've added than to other quotes on that page, which means you're targetting them because I've added them.  Ie, exactly what I've said above.  I doubt anything which I add you would ever consider grade-A funny, solely because i've added it.
 
:Third, they certainly aren't quotes crafted by me - i've merely noticed them and decided they should be added.  They deserve to be judged on their own merits.  You're not hurting me by removing them because I added them, you're hurting the page, and you're penalizing the people whose material it was originally.
 
:--[[User:Squirrelloid|Squirrelloid]] 16:49, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 
  
== Number of regex evaluations allowed per page ==
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Back in 2012, DrSazar added the poorly-named [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/File:Sperm.jpg [File:Sperm.jpg], a photograph of a sperm whale. At some point after May 2013 the photograph [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php?title=DF2014:Sperm_whale&oldid=203603 changed into an image of actual sperm], presumably drawn from wikimedia commons. The wiki software shouldn't be losing images, or replacing local images with reference images. It's not the only image that [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Thread seems to be missing], either.--[[User:Loci|Loci]] ([[User talk:Loci|talk]]) 16:05, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
  
The number-of-functions-per-page parameter in the regex parser functions extension defaults to 10. Limiting it to a small number isn't warranted since computation time is based more on the complexity of the expressions involved rather than the quantity. A higher limit would allow [[template:diagram]] to be used more than three times on a single page. I've compared the serve time of these two pages: [[User:VengefulDonut/g|a]] [[User:VengefulDonut/r|b]], and found the difference was usually about 0.003 seconds. Based on this, I don't think its use is dangerous. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 17:38, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
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:[http://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/c/c7/Sperm.jpg Sperm.jpg] is still on the servers (as is its thumbnail). [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/2/23/Dyed_thread.png Dyed_thread.png] is also on the servers, but its thumbnail appears to be missing. I'll try rebuilding the image table to see if that fixes anything. &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 16:20, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
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::Dyed_thread.png has been fixed. I'm still not sure what's wrong with Sperm.jpg - it's stored on the server, but Mediawiki doesn't seem to be recognizing it. &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 16:28, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
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:::Mediawiki Commons has a history of being entirely dumb. I moved the page; I think it's possible that busting the thumbnails could theoretically fix it, but I'm not sure. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 03:40, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
  
:Hmm. If the ceiling is a few hundred, we probably won't bump into it. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 13:02, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
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== Cloning the wiki ==
  
::When you were testing [[template:diagram]], the limit you bumped into was the post-expand include size limit for templates. Templates are not allowed to generate more than 2MB of data on a single page. Since trying to display 2MB of data in one article is a bad idea anyway, this limit is very reasonable. If you want to see the include size, serve time, and other properties of an article, they get added as comments the page's html source when served. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 14:00, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Briess! lethosor directed me here from IRC.
  
== Cannot add new accounts ==
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Making the wiki available offline has been discussed before by many different people. [http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=df_portable_wiki Some even manage] something almost useful. You've helped the situation by making the XML dumps available, however so much information in the wiki is locked behind templates that depend on custom PHP extensions to expand properly. I want to pick up this torch and produce something usable and useful for everyone.
  
The wiki will not allow new accounts to be created as the picture thing seems to be set up wrong
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My plan is simple.
  
<pre>
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# Massage the DF2014 namespace into a set of static HTML documents
To help protect against automated account creation, please type the two words you see in the box below:  
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# Bundle these documents in [http://kapeli.com/docsets the docset format]
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# Release the docset in [http://kapeli.com/dash Dash] on OSX and [zealdocs.org Zeal] on Windows and Linux.
  
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Dash/Zeal provide fast instant search and they're designed for searching through sets of documents already.
  
Please fix, I would like to set up and account versus being just an IP
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Step 1 is where all the work takes place of course. I want to do it in a way that is as light on the existing infrastructure as possible. Using the [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/api.php wiki's API] and the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Expandtemplates action:expandtemplates] feature, I can expand the XML dump into rendered HTML. But this is essentially scraping the wiki, which isn't good.
  
:I found this other site "http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/" by googleing "Briess contact wiki" which looks very simular, and reCAPTCHA works on. That .net site did let me make an account and post the above message. Then it showed up on the .com site, and then the .com site let me log in. [[User:Larek|Larek]] 00:33, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
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Instead, I would like to setup my own instance of the wiki and run all the processing locally.
  
::Well I still can't post on the .com site as each post seems to require the annoying reCAPTCHA thing (which doesn't work). But any thing I put on that other .net site, shows up on the orginal .com one very quickly. [[User:Larek|Larek]] 00:37, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
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'''So my question for you is''', can you kindly give the assets needed to setup a clone of the wiki? AFAIK, all I need to make a facsimile of the wiki is:
  
:::Briess asked, The .com site is the First (and Second) hit on google when searching for "dwarven fortress wiki"  which is http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com  And yes I know that its "Dwarf Fortress" not "Dwarven Fortress", is just that when I speak to others about DF "Dwarven" is usally said since it is Dwarfs that build that Fortress.
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# the custom CSS theme
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# a list of extensions you have installed (and their source if necessary)
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# anything else I don't know about that affects the content generation
  
::::Well I don't know what you have access to, and how lowlevel you can get on the webserver. But a Robots.txt that prevents google from indexing the .com site would fix my issue.
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I noticed that some of the custom extensions are available [https://github.com/DF-Wiki on github], but is that all of them?
::::I can't find any trace of a 301 redirect on the .com site through IE6 or Netscpe. Also redirect checking tool http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/ seems to think there is not redirect either. Hope this helps. [[User:Larek|Larek]] 15:17, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 
  
== Interwiki links to russian DF wiki ==
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Cheers, [[User:Rmblr|Rmblr]] ([[User talk:Rmblr|talk]])
  
We previously had the ability to create interwiki links to the corresponding page on the Russian DF wiki. It seems that this functionality has been broken. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 06:15, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
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edit: - I forgot to mention images. I plan to support an image-less version of the docset at first that will load the images opportunistically if the internet is available. Eventually, if you don't mind, I'll fetch images in bulk from the wiki (respecting the cache and expiry headers of course).
  
:The russian wiki is at http://www.dfwk.ru/ [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 14:01, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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Briess - I was thinking of putting some of the settings we use on Github, like WMF's [http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php InitialiseSettings.php]. Thoughts? &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 20:40, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
  
== Custom namespace on the wiki for DF mods? ==
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Rmblr - what custom CSS theme are you referring to? Aside from [[Mediawiki:Common.css]], I don't believe we've made any modifications to the Vector theme. &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 20:42, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
  
I'm one of the people working on the [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46472.0 Ark Project], a collaborative DF mod.  So far we've been using a [[User_talk:Lancensis|user talk page]] on the DF wiki for planning purposes, but we were thinking it'd be nice if there were a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces custom namespace] called "Mod" on the wiki.  This would also help clean up the problem with [[:Category:Mods|mod pages in the Main namespace.]]
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Lethosor - I assumed you were using some custom CSS to display things like ASCII tiles, stone infoboxes, etc. Is that not the case? [[User:Rmblr|Rmblr]] ([[User talk:Rmblr|talk]])
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:Oh. If you're referring to diagrams, you can find the relevant CSS in the [https://github.com/DF-Wiki/DFDiagram/blob/master/modules/ext.DFDiagram.css DFDiagram extension] (they're converted into &lt;canvas> elements on the client side by default, but you can disable that in your [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-dfdiagram|preferences]] or simply by parsing the wikitext, which should generate a HTML table instead). Other than that, most CSS is stored in templates (although it can be several levels down - infoboxes use {{tl|infoheader}}, {{tl|infocell}}, etc.). &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 16:38, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
  
As an aside, it might also be helpful to have a "Utility" namespace for [[Utilities|utilities]], which are in the same boat as mods.
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: That's reasonable to me. Let's take discussion of what to do for this to the github issues tracker. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 17:50, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
  
I noticed the DF wiki already has custom namespaces for bloodline games, so hopefully this isn't too much to ask.  Thanks!
 
  
Oh, and apologies for contacting you via both this and a PM.  I sent the PM and then noticed you hadn't logged onto B12 forums in a while, so I didn't know if you'd get it.
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== Email problems ==
  
--[[User:Footkerchief|Footkerchief]] 21:24, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
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Ohey, New here. Made an account yesterday, and inserted my email adress where it belonged, and then the wiki returned this:
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Error sending mail: Unknown error in PHP's mail() function.
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Same happened for my other email account... Any ideas?
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[[User:Su8perkillr|Su8perkillr]] ([[User talk:Su8perkillr|talk]]) 14:33, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
  
Thanks a ton!  This'll be really helpful. One thing though: the new namespaces don't seem to have [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages subpages] enabled, and a lot of the people currently hosting mods on their talk pages are using subpages.  I know people can switch to using categories instead (we may do this), but it's something to consider.  Also, this is pure irrelevant nitpicking, but namespace names usually use the singular.
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:Email features are currently broken ([[#Cannot_confirm_email_address|see above]]). &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 16:50, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
  
--[[User:Footkerchief|Footkerchief]] 21:08, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
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Ah, sorry for my blindness... I thought I saw no such thread above. Thanks though! [[User:Su8perkillr|Su8perkillr]] ([[User talk:Su8perkillr|talk]]) 20:02, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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::No worries. I need to fix it but haven't had time to work on it recently. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 18:36, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
  
Awesome, thanks!
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== Error on page; image missing ==
  
--[[User:Footkerchief|Footkerchief]] 21:45, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
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The page "http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Pasture" is generating the following error, towards the top of the page ...
  
== Could you mark me autoconfirmed? ==
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''Error creating thumbnail: convert: unable to open image `/var/www/dfwiki/images/6/62/Roach.png': No such file or directory @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2638.
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convert: unable to open file `/var/www/dfwiki/images/6/62/Roach.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3667.
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convert: no images defined `/tmp/transform_3d58c9a26907-1.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3044.''
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-- Should be fixed. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 19:09, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
  
Hey, I don't know what the rule is for this, but if I'm not autoconfirmed when you see this, can you mark me as that?  The captcha is really annoying when I'm trying to develop the [[Dwarf_Fortress_2010]] page.  Thanks! [[User:Mason11987|Mason11987]] 22:25, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
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== Password reset ==
  
== Vandal ==
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Sorry for the inconvenience - I've lost the password to my account [[User:FangXianfu|FangXianfu]]. Hopefully you have an email address on record for me & I still have access to it - most of them redirect to fang dot xianfu at gmail dot com, where you can reach me if you need to. Thanks --[[Special:Contributions/92.28.199.77|92.28.199.77]] 10:55, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
  
[[User:173.19.42.186|This guy]] has been adding trash to a bunch of the creature pages. [[User:Quietust|Quietust]] warned him already on his [[User_talk:173.19.42.186|talk page]] for unconstructive edits to [[Scamps]] (one of these edits were undone by [[Special:Contributions/173.19.42.186|you yourself]]), but he continues to make edits to the [[gremlin]] page. ---[[User:Iban|Iban]] 11:08, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
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:I sent a new password to an email at ironicorbit.org. If that doesn't work, I can try the email above or send it to your account on the forums (Xinael?). &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 15:28, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
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:: Note to self: really really really really badly need to fix the email services --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 03:42, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
  
== Can I have admin rights? ==
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== Can't upload files  ==
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I wanted to upload an image about picking bioms for the Quickstart page, but I’m not allowed to. At the time my account was created, the site engine said that it cannot send me a confirmation email because of mail() function. Here’s the image I wanted to add, please use: http://i.imgur.com/0vSEzyZ.png .
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--[[User:Tijagi|Tijagi]] ([[User talk:Tijagi|talk]]) 06:30, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
  
Hey.  I'm working on developing wiki pages for the new version of DF. These pages are listed [[:Category:Dwarf_Fortress_2010|here]]. There is a lot to do for this and most people probably won't be too interested for a couple weeks after release.  I'm hoping to have something in place for structure, and also for new users before release. In doing so I'm trying to rearrange some of the pages I've made and make them more useful. I've done a few moves but I'm going to have a lot of move over redirects to do at some point and I need admin rights to make sure I clean up the mess I make. I've been admin on a dozen or so wikis, and effectively ran [http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/SporeWiki sporewiki] for months myself. If you give me admin rights you can feel free to monitor all my actions to make sure everything is kosher. I just hate having to bother someone else to fix tiny thingsThanks! [[User:Mason11987|Mason11987]] 17:11, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
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== Dwarf Fortress French wiki ==
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Hello Briess,
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Do you know who runs the French DW wiki ? It seems impossible to register for that site ( trying to register gets this error : " Fatal error: Call to a member function xpath() on a non-object in /home/librejeu/dwarffortress/wiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/Asirra.class.php on line 52 " ) and my login from this wiki doesn't work there .
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We've got a Facebook group going and some people want to contribute to that site .
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== wiki dump available? ==
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hey i have an old wiki dump of dwarf fortress that i use through WikiTaxi, was trying to find the dump database to get a newer version but couldn't locate it
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== Confirmation email won't send ==
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Hi Briess, my account won't send a confirmation email, says something about a PHP error. I rechecked the email address, but it seems to be correct.
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Thanks, KT
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== Main page interwiki ==
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Could we get these interwiki link added to the main page?
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* [http://wikiwiki.jp/dwarffort/ jp]
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* [http://pl.dwarffortress.wikia.com/ pl]
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* [http://español.dwarf-fortress.info/wiki es]
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[[User:Brightgalrs|Brightgalrs]] ([[User talk:Brightgalrs|talk]]) 00:02, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
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== Image problems ==
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[http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page/gallery Various images on the wiki] have again gone missing.--[[User:Loci|Loci]] ([[User talk:Loci|talk]]) 16:41, 10 September 2017 (UTC)|
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:Looking now. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 00:43, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
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::This has been resolved. Thanks for the heads up! --[[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 01:40, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
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:::Now it affects [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository Tileset repository] (& few other related, like [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Graphics_set_repository Graphics set repository]). --[[User:McNattfarinn|McNattfarinn]] ([[User talk:McNattfarinn|talk]]) 08:53, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
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== Business Inquiry ==
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Hello Briess,
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I am trying to find a good way to get in touch with you, preferably through email so that I can talk to you about a business opportunity with the wiki. Please let me know the best way to get in touch with you.
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Thanks
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== Getting In Touch ==
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Hi Briess,
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I am trying to get in touch with you regarding a few questions I have about the wiki. Can you please email me back at mbarr@sovrn.com?
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Looking forward to speaking with you!
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Thank you,
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Melissa
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== Hi Briess, I have a question about a References/Sources Page for DF Modders (Real Quick Question) ==
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I'm creating a Tileset for DF and I'm now trying to go back and sight references for tilesets that I pulled tiles/content from. I thought that it might be a cool idea if there was a hosted page on the WIKI were DF modifications could be listed as "Free for Use, just sight Author" or "Proprietary: DON'T USE MY WORK w/o permission". Maybe with an included link to the latest version of the mod. I wouldn't mind doing the leg work on this if its something your on board with. Please let me. Thanks.
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-Dragonmaster13
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== Please use HTTPS ==
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Hey Briess.
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Could you please set up a TLS certificate for the forum?
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I don't like seeing NOT SECURE everytime I visit the forum.
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* Is there any update on this? [[User:Solters|Solters]] ([[User talk:Solters|talk]]) 05:21, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
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::Assuming you mean the wiki and not the forum, the wiki has HTTPS enabled as of this June. &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 00:03, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
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== Wondering if I can have a permission to translate this wiki into Korean ==
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There are Russian, French, and I've seen a dwarf asking for a Japanese in Talk:Main_Page(but seems like no one has replied yet)
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There might be some limitations since I don't understand 100% about some mods and minecart logics and I'm not an expert translator, but I wish I could do this work. :9
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Thanks. - bluebird9281.
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== Add a link to Twitch Dwarf Fortress section? ==
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Can we add a link somewhere to the DF section of Twitch?
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[[User:F00z|F00z]] ([[User talk:F00z|talk]]) 21:44, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
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:What link do you want? There are a lot of related links on the [[Main Page]], and I'm fine with adding one, but I don't know where you want the link to go. &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 00:03, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
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Just something like https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Slaves%20to%20Armok%20II%3A%20Dwarf%20Fortress that would link to the game's section on Twitch. Figure it might help some discover live DF content.
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[[User:F00z|F00z]] ([[User talk:F00z|talk]])
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== Possibility to Translate the wiki? ==
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Hi Briess,
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First of all, I'd like to congratulate you for this amazing work. this wiki is a reference for everyone!
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I'm contacting you because I'd like to know if you would authorise me to translate this wiki? I'm a translator myself and I would love to work on it, of course, for free. I'm aware it is filled with lots of content over the years so it would be a long-term project.
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My native language is Portuguese, but I could also translate to French and Spanish.
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Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Best regards,
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Elio NETO
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== Editing practice ==
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Hi, apologies if this is the wrong place to raise this, but I just reverted the four edits ([https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Billy]) of [[User:Billy]] after getting an email that a page I (had forgotten I) was following had been edited. Some more forceful discouragement may be called for. [[User:Hv|Hv]] ([[User talk:Hv|talk]]) 16:05, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
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:Thanks! Will deal with this. [[User:Briess|Briess]] ([[User talk:Briess|talk]]) 13:41, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
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== Want to translate the wiki Into Chinese ==
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Hi Briess,
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Thank for the amazing wiki!It is helpful for everyone!
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I want to translate this wiki into Chinese. My native language is Chinese. I hope that more Chinese players will know and like this game. In this official wiki, I have not found an entry that can be translated into other languages. I want to move it to other wikis. We are serving and doing related translation work, hoping to get your approval and consent.
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Finally, thank you for your contribution to the wiki.
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Best regards,
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FengMaster
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== Translate ==
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Is there the possibility of adding alternative pages for other languages?
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That way we can translate into other languages ​​without creating new sites
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== Replace Chinese Wiki with the new one on Fandom ==
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Hello, Briess! The current Chinese wiki on wikidot (listed on main page) seems to be inactive for a long time, with its main page refers to the download link of v0.44.10, and most pages are never updated even earlier than that version. Recently we are working on a new site on Fandom ([https://dwarf-fortress.fandom.com/zh]), trying to keep everything up to date. Wish to replace the links on dwarffortresswiki's main page and the sidebar link (ILL) with the one at Fandom, so that more people may get to the right place and join us. [[User:Xjtu-blacksmith|xjtu-blacksmith 黑山雁]] ([[User talk:Xjtu-blacksmith|talk]]) 03:09, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
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:I've added the link of Fandom wiki site into main page myself. Wish to add ILL for Chinese wiki site (Fandom) one day. [[User:Xjtu-blacksmith|xjtu-blacksmith 黑山雁]] ([[User talk:Xjtu-blacksmith|talk]]) 06:02, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
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:We've migrated our site to '''huijiwiki''' recently, which is a China-based Wiki farm. I've changed the link on main page. [[User:Xjtu-blacksmith|xjtu-blacksmith 黑山雁]] ([[User talk:Xjtu-blacksmith|talk]]) 02:43, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

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Can't move File:Fäden.png[edit]

It's used on cv:thread, but I can't seem to move it to a better title. I think it's because of the accent umlaut - is there any way you can change its name manually in the database? (This maintenance script should do the trick, but it requires a little setup and it might run into the same problem.) —Lethosor (talk) 19:17, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

I missed this. Where should this be moved to? I can give the script a try --Briess (talk) 20:35, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
I was thinking something like f:thread.png or f:rope reed fiber thread.png would work. If not, I can always reupload it and delete the original (assuming that works). —Lethosor (talk) 20:52, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Oops, that was my file. I guess i should take it as reminder to label files something more accessible when they're intended for public use and not just my own stuff. --Larix (talk) 14:31, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
Can't get the move to work. I'll have to play with the DB if I want to do that. --Briess (talk) 03:39, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Might be because I already moved it. :) (Can't remember where at the moment, but it's on thread). —Lethosor (talk) 03:44, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Derp. --Briess (talk) 05:49, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Announcements "NEW" icon[edit]

Can you please add an ID attribute to the red "NEW" message in the sidebar, so I can make it hidden? Thanks Latias1290 (talk)

Removed it, since it's clearly not "new" anymore. —Lethosor (talk) 15:55, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Old0c3822.png[edit]

This file is missing, but is used on {{old}} and has a history page: [1]. Any idea what happened to it? (Other files appear to be unaffected.) —Lethosor (talk) 20:16, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

No idea. Going to rebuild images now then --Briess (talk) 20:30, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
And it's back after a rebuild --Briess (talk) 20:30, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Rebuilding images is now a cronjob that will run every 30 minutes on dfaux1 as well now --Briess (talk) 20:32, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Creature token page seems to be causing your server trouble[edit]

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Creature_token comes up with a completely blank (like, about:blank blank) for me and pretty much everyone else I've asked about it. I can get the contents by pulling them from google's cache, but the site itself seems to refuse to let you load it. From experience as a webhost, this generally means that the page has encountered a critical error in its scripting, which it will dump in the error log instead of reporting to the user, for security reasons. I would suggest scouring your error logs. Don't know why this particular page is causing issues. 74.67.17.69 07:23, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Probably a rendering time issue - the other versions load fine, but v0.31 takes the longest (I'm pretty sure the v0.34 page is the largest). Using action=raw also works. —Lethosor (talk) 10:43, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Okay, disabling AutoRedirect fixed this, so I'm currently disabling pieces of it to see what's causing the problem. —Lethosor (talk) 19:41, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

It appears that the TitleIsAlwaysKnown is the problem, presumably because it takes a lot of time to render on a large page like creature token. Unfortunately, this is the hook that makes links and searching work. I'll try making the extension skip section links, since they account for most of the links in that article and don't need to be handled at all. —Lethosor (talk) 19:48, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

All right, that seems to have worked. The render time is back down to 1.2 seconds, which is pretty good for such a long page. —Lethosor (talk) 20:11, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Awesome, glad I could help. 2604:6000:FB03:4601:BE5F:F4FF:FE3B:6A61 16:04, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

MWExceptions[edit]

Greycat is having problems with editing (may be proxy-related again): http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139510.0Lethosor (talk) 11:04, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Bot is removing av template[edit]

this edit is an example. Just letting you know. Brightgalrs (talk) 19:39, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

And it's deleting the stonelookup template too. example. Brightgalrs (talk) 19:41, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
It looks like it searched for "{{quality|.*}}" when doing the "remove quality" step, which ended up matching way too much. --Quietust (talk) 21:45, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Working on a way to revert those using the bot but it will take a bit. --Briess (talk) 22:06, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
I'll get them. I've been meaning to find an excuse to use AWB here. Cheers Brightgalrs (talk) 19:47, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Awesome. Thanks! --Briess (talk) 00:15, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Server woes[edit]

I can't insert {{DF2014 plants/trees}} into {{DF2014 plants}}; the server times out/fails to respond each time I try.--Loci (talk) 19:15, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

I'll take a look. --Briess (talk) 22:05, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
I'm guessing this is because AutoRedirect takes more time to render links to pages that don't exist, since it checks every versioned namespace before determining that a page doesn't exist. I'm not sure how to fix this yet, but it seems to me that either disabling the additional namespace checks in the template namespace or only enabling them in the main namespace could work. Any better ideas? —Lethosor (talk) 01:25, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
I think it makes sense to only have the checks happen in the main namespace. We can discuss more on github if you want. --Briess (talk) 17:27, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Cannot confirm email address[edit]

It's been mentioned on the forum, and I thought I'd let you know here, since I see it too.

When I went to the page to start the confirmation process, I was told the email had already been sent. After waiting quite a while without anything, I decided to ask for another email, and that's when I encountered this error:

Dwarf Fortress Wiki could not send your confirmation mail. Please check your e-mail address for invalid characters.
Mailer returned: Unknown error in PHP's mail() function.

Hopefully this will be an easy fix, sorry I don't have anything more specific for you to follow up on. —Lue (talk) 00:00, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I'm aware of the issue but have not had the time yet to diagnose and fix - I am planning on spending some time with it this upcoming week. --Briess (talk) 05:33, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Still broken. Atheistcanuck (talk) 21:38, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Adventure mode redirect[edit]

For some reason adventure mode redirects to the 0.34.11 adventurer mode page, so I went to see if I could change this. Apparently, it contains a redirect to adventurer mode, which redirects to the DF2014 page. I'm not quite sure what's going on here, so I thought I should bring this up. It's perhaps related to why the adventure mode links in DF2014:Adventure mode quick start are red, which is why I was looking into it in the first place. —Lue (talk) 23:07, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

This should be fixed now. —Lethosor (talk) 01:12, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

BriessBot[edit]

Something is fishy with your unrating script. http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php?title=DF2014:Dolomite&diff=204130&oldid=202335 VengefulDonut (talk) 22:07, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Derp. I'll have to look into fixing this. Although it may be easier to just fix it manually? Oh never mind there are A BAZILLION PAGES. --Briess (talk) 17:23, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Missing image[edit]

File:Seed0volcano.png (reported at Talk:Seed archive). —Lethosor (talk) 19:17, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Image brokenness[edit]

Back in 2012, DrSazar added the poorly-named [File:Sperm.jpg, a photograph of a sperm whale. At some point after May 2013 the photograph changed into an image of actual sperm, presumably drawn from wikimedia commons. The wiki software shouldn't be losing images, or replacing local images with reference images. It's not the only image that seems to be missing, either.--Loci (talk) 16:05, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Sperm.jpg is still on the servers (as is its thumbnail). Dyed_thread.png is also on the servers, but its thumbnail appears to be missing. I'll try rebuilding the image table to see if that fixes anything. —Lethosor (talk) 16:20, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
Dyed_thread.png has been fixed. I'm still not sure what's wrong with Sperm.jpg - it's stored on the server, but Mediawiki doesn't seem to be recognizing it. —Lethosor (talk) 16:28, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
Mediawiki Commons has a history of being entirely dumb. I moved the page; I think it's possible that busting the thumbnails could theoretically fix it, but I'm not sure. --Briess (talk) 03:40, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Cloning the wiki[edit]

Hi Briess! lethosor directed me here from IRC.

Making the wiki available offline has been discussed before by many different people. Some even manage something almost useful. You've helped the situation by making the XML dumps available, however so much information in the wiki is locked behind templates that depend on custom PHP extensions to expand properly. I want to pick up this torch and produce something usable and useful for everyone.

My plan is simple.

  1. Massage the DF2014 namespace into a set of static HTML documents
  2. Bundle these documents in the docset format
  3. Release the docset in Dash on OSX and [zealdocs.org Zeal] on Windows and Linux.

Dash/Zeal provide fast instant search and they're designed for searching through sets of documents already.

Step 1 is where all the work takes place of course. I want to do it in a way that is as light on the existing infrastructure as possible. Using the wiki's API and the action:expandtemplates feature, I can expand the XML dump into rendered HTML. But this is essentially scraping the wiki, which isn't good.

Instead, I would like to setup my own instance of the wiki and run all the processing locally.

So my question for you is, can you kindly give the assets needed to setup a clone of the wiki? AFAIK, all I need to make a facsimile of the wiki is:

  1. the custom CSS theme
  2. a list of extensions you have installed (and their source if necessary)
  3. anything else I don't know about that affects the content generation

I noticed that some of the custom extensions are available on github, but is that all of them?

Cheers, Rmblr (talk)

edit: - I forgot to mention images. I plan to support an image-less version of the docset at first that will load the images opportunistically if the internet is available. Eventually, if you don't mind, I'll fetch images in bulk from the wiki (respecting the cache and expiry headers of course).

Briess - I was thinking of putting some of the settings we use on Github, like WMF's InitialiseSettings.php. Thoughts? —Lethosor (talk) 20:40, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Rmblr - what custom CSS theme are you referring to? Aside from Mediawiki:Common.css, I don't believe we've made any modifications to the Vector theme. —Lethosor (talk) 20:42, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Lethosor - I assumed you were using some custom CSS to display things like ASCII tiles, stone infoboxes, etc. Is that not the case? Rmblr (talk)

Oh. If you're referring to diagrams, you can find the relevant CSS in the DFDiagram extension (they're converted into <canvas> elements on the client side by default, but you can disable that in your preferences or simply by parsing the wikitext, which should generate a HTML table instead). Other than that, most CSS is stored in templates (although it can be several levels down - infoboxes use {{infoheader}}, {{infocell}}, etc.). —Lethosor (talk) 16:38, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
That's reasonable to me. Let's take discussion of what to do for this to the github issues tracker. --Briess (talk) 17:50, 10 December 2014 (UTC)


Email problems[edit]

Ohey, New here. Made an account yesterday, and inserted my email adress where it belonged, and then the wiki returned this: Error sending mail: Unknown error in PHP's mail() function. Same happened for my other email account... Any ideas? Su8perkillr (talk) 14:33, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Email features are currently broken (see above). —Lethosor (talk) 16:50, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Ah, sorry for my blindness... I thought I saw no such thread above. Thanks though! Su8perkillr (talk) 20:02, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

No worries. I need to fix it but haven't had time to work on it recently. --Briess (talk) 18:36, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Error on page; image missing[edit]

The page "http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Pasture" is generating the following error, towards the top of the page ...

Error creating thumbnail: convert: unable to open image `/var/www/dfwiki/images/6/62/Roach.png': No such file or directory @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2638. convert: unable to open file `/var/www/dfwiki/images/6/62/Roach.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3667. convert: no images defined `/tmp/transform_3d58c9a26907-1.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3044. -- Should be fixed. --Briess (talk) 19:09, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Password reset[edit]

Sorry for the inconvenience - I've lost the password to my account FangXianfu. Hopefully you have an email address on record for me & I still have access to it - most of them redirect to fang dot xianfu at gmail dot com, where you can reach me if you need to. Thanks --92.28.199.77 10:55, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

I sent a new password to an email at ironicorbit.org. If that doesn't work, I can try the email above or send it to your account on the forums (Xinael?). —Lethosor (talk) 15:28, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Note to self: really really really really badly need to fix the email services --Briess (talk) 03:42, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Can't upload files[edit]

I wanted to upload an image about picking bioms for the Quickstart page, but I’m not allowed to. At the time my account was created, the site engine said that it cannot send me a confirmation email because of mail() function. Here’s the image I wanted to add, please use: http://i.imgur.com/0vSEzyZ.png . --Tijagi (talk) 06:30, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Dwarf Fortress French wiki[edit]

Hello Briess,

Do you know who runs the French DW wiki ? It seems impossible to register for that site ( trying to register gets this error : " Fatal error: Call to a member function xpath() on a non-object in /home/librejeu/dwarffortress/wiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/Asirra.class.php on line 52 " ) and my login from this wiki doesn't work there .

We've got a Facebook group going and some people want to contribute to that site .

wiki dump available?[edit]

hey i have an old wiki dump of dwarf fortress that i use through WikiTaxi, was trying to find the dump database to get a newer version but couldn't locate it

Confirmation email won't send[edit]

Hi Briess, my account won't send a confirmation email, says something about a PHP error. I rechecked the email address, but it seems to be correct. Thanks, KT

Main page interwiki[edit]

Could we get these interwiki link added to the main page?

Brightgalrs (talk) 00:02, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Image problems[edit]

Various images on the wiki have again gone missing.--Loci (talk) 16:41, 10 September 2017 (UTC)|

Looking now. --Briess (talk) 00:43, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
This has been resolved. Thanks for the heads up! --Briess (talk) 01:40, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Now it affects Tileset repository (& few other related, like Graphics set repository). --McNattfarinn (talk) 08:53, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Business Inquiry[edit]

Hello Briess,

I am trying to find a good way to get in touch with you, preferably through email so that I can talk to you about a business opportunity with the wiki. Please let me know the best way to get in touch with you.

Thanks

Getting In Touch[edit]

Hi Briess,

I am trying to get in touch with you regarding a few questions I have about the wiki. Can you please email me back at mbarr@sovrn.com?

Looking forward to speaking with you!

Thank you, Melissa

Hi Briess, I have a question about a References/Sources Page for DF Modders (Real Quick Question)[edit]

I'm creating a Tileset for DF and I'm now trying to go back and sight references for tilesets that I pulled tiles/content from. I thought that it might be a cool idea if there was a hosted page on the WIKI were DF modifications could be listed as "Free for Use, just sight Author" or "Proprietary: DON'T USE MY WORK w/o permission". Maybe with an included link to the latest version of the mod. I wouldn't mind doing the leg work on this if its something your on board with. Please let me. Thanks.

-Dragonmaster13

Please use HTTPS[edit]

Hey Briess.

Could you please set up a TLS certificate for the forum?

I don't like seeing NOT SECURE everytime I visit the forum.

  • Is there any update on this? Solters (talk) 05:21, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Assuming you mean the wiki and not the forum, the wiki has HTTPS enabled as of this June. —Lethosor (talk) 00:03, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Wondering if I can have a permission to translate this wiki into Korean[edit]

There are Russian, French, and I've seen a dwarf asking for a Japanese in Talk:Main_Page(but seems like no one has replied yet) There might be some limitations since I don't understand 100% about some mods and minecart logics and I'm not an expert translator, but I wish I could do this work. :9 Thanks. - bluebird9281.

Add a link to Twitch Dwarf Fortress section?[edit]

Can we add a link somewhere to the DF section of Twitch?

F00z (talk) 21:44, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

What link do you want? There are a lot of related links on the Main Page, and I'm fine with adding one, but I don't know where you want the link to go. —Lethosor (talk) 00:03, 20 July 2019 (UTC)


Just something like https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Slaves%20to%20Armok%20II%3A%20Dwarf%20Fortress that would link to the game's section on Twitch. Figure it might help some discover live DF content.

F00z (talk)

Possibility to Translate the wiki?[edit]

Hi Briess,

First of all, I'd like to congratulate you for this amazing work. this wiki is a reference for everyone!

I'm contacting you because I'd like to know if you would authorise me to translate this wiki? I'm a translator myself and I would love to work on it, of course, for free. I'm aware it is filled with lots of content over the years so it would be a long-term project.

My native language is Portuguese, but I could also translate to French and Spanish.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Elio NETO

Editing practice[edit]

Hi, apologies if this is the wrong place to raise this, but I just reverted the four edits ([2]) of User:Billy after getting an email that a page I (had forgotten I) was following had been edited. Some more forceful discouragement may be called for. Hv (talk) 16:05, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! Will deal with this. Briess (talk) 13:41, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Want to translate the wiki Into Chinese[edit]

Hi Briess,

Thank for the amazing wiki!It is helpful for everyone!

I want to translate this wiki into Chinese. My native language is Chinese. I hope that more Chinese players will know and like this game. In this official wiki, I have not found an entry that can be translated into other languages. I want to move it to other wikis. We are serving and doing related translation work, hoping to get your approval and consent.

Finally, thank you for your contribution to the wiki.

Best regards,

FengMaster

Translate[edit]

Is there the possibility of adding alternative pages for other languages? That way we can translate into other languages ​​without creating new sites

Replace Chinese Wiki with the new one on Fandom[edit]

Hello, Briess! The current Chinese wiki on wikidot (listed on main page) seems to be inactive for a long time, with its main page refers to the download link of v0.44.10, and most pages are never updated even earlier than that version. Recently we are working on a new site on Fandom ([3]), trying to keep everything up to date. Wish to replace the links on dwarffortresswiki's main page and the sidebar link (ILL) with the one at Fandom, so that more people may get to the right place and join us. xjtu-blacksmith 黑山雁 (talk) 03:09, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

I've added the link of Fandom wiki site into main page myself. Wish to add ILL for Chinese wiki site (Fandom) one day. xjtu-blacksmith 黑山雁 (talk) 06:02, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
We've migrated our site to huijiwiki recently, which is a China-based Wiki farm. I've changed the link on main page. xjtu-blacksmith 黑山雁 (talk) 02:43, 29 May 2022 (UTC)