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== Extension request ==
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== Templates and RGB values ==
  
Ok, I'll see about getting all three of those installed this weekend then. [[User:Briess|Briess]] 14:52, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
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Mediawiki hates me - it refuses to let {{tl|fgcolor}} (and {{tl|bgcolor}}) work correctly unless they're inserted in the middle of an HTML tag (and it '''must''' be an HTML tag - a style attribute in a wiki-markup table does NOT count). Excuse me while I go sit in a corner and whimper. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 17:35, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
: All three of the extensions you listed seem to either cause PHP to die a horrible death or are incompatible with ParserFunctions.  Are there any other extensions that fulfill the same purpose?  I'll look into what I can do to make the extensions you listed work, but I'm no PHP guru. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 01:10, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 
::After an extreme period of laziness, I would like to direct your attention to [[:Special:Version]] (I installed the extension you requested.  Sorry about the delay :V) --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 11:49, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 
::: I'll look into what I need to do to update the number of regex evaluations first thing tomorrow morning. Any specific number you're looking for? --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 04:29, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 
:::: It's a bit more complex than I had hoped to increase the regex evaluations limit; I'll have to spend more time on this tomorrow to get it working. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 03:22, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
 
::::: I got several of the random limits increased that deal with this, but I'm possibly missing a few other random template limits that may later become an issue.  If they do, just let me know. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 06:47, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Favicon ==
 
 
 
Hrm, ok. Do you happen to have a copy of the favicon image somewhere?  I couldn't find it in the copy I received of the wiki. [[User:Briess|Briess]] 18:56, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 
:I don't think I had a valid favicon, I just had an empty file to remove all the 404 errors. --[[User:Senso|Senso]] 14:13, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 
  
== Internal Error when submitting screenshot ==
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{| style="color: {{#tag:nowiki|{{fgcolor|4:6:0}}}} "
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||  This seems to be working.
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|} [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 07:46, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
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:Thanks. Of course, now a far more insidious problem has shown up - if the fgcolor and bgcolor templates are used more than 100 times in a particular page (a single {{tl|Raw Tile}} uses each once), all subsequent transclusions turn up empty. I can only assume it's doing too many regular expressions, but it can't be '''that''' many, given how simple the templates are... --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 20:07, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
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::For now, I've switched the templates back to 128-case #switch statements, and the problem seems to have gone away. Still, it seems odd that #rmatch and #rreplace would just stop working after being used 100 times in a single page. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 21:20, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
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:::The regex functions extension has an option that determines what the limit per page is. If you need a larger number, you can ask Breiss to raise the limit. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 01:41, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
  
Hey Donut, I saw your name on the screenshot template page so I hope you're the right person to talk to!  When I try to upload an image, I'm getting an Internal Error reading "The upload directory (public) is not writable by the webserver."  What do I do?  --[[User:KenboCalrissian|KenboCalrissian]] 13:31, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
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== Template:Raw ==
:[[User:Briess|Briess]] is the new server admin. --[[User:Senso|Senso]] 14:14, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 
  
== Russian Interwiki ==
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I've just adapted {{tl|gamedata}} to attempt to fetch creature raws from "raws" pages similar to the stone/gem templates (except using an extra pair of templates to transform the page name into a CREATURE id and the name of the file that contains the raws, though the former could probably be skipped by just matching against "[NAME:'''foo''':bar:baz]") - it works, but {{tl|raw}} strips out all of the linebreaks and spaces between tokens. How hard would it be to make a version of {{tl|raw}} (or add a parameter) that doesn't do that? --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 18:11, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
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:Never mind, figured it out myself and saved it as {{tl|raw2}}. Of course, now the trick will be to make it so {{tl|gamedata}} supports raw lookups for things other than creatures (possibly by simply giving it a "type" parameter - CREATURE, MATGLOSS, INORGANIC, PLANT, etc.)... --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 18:29, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
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::It already has a type parameter Oo [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 23:16, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
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:::I was referring to {{tl|gamedata}} (which I've currently hardcoded to CREATURE because it doesn't take any parameters), not {{tl|Raw}}. I'll probably just split it into several different templates and have the various infobox templates include the appropriate one. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 23:29, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
  
Do you happen to have the webserver address for the russian wiki?  I wasn't able to recover that from the db dumps when I took over the wiki, unfortunately. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 06:35, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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== RAWs ==
  
== RE: Ads ==
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Is there any way we can categorize the RAW files?  Perhaps by having a <nowiki><noinclude>{{category|Raws}}</noinclude></nowiki> at the bottom?  Or would that break your system? [[User:Mason11987|Mason]] <sup>([[User talk:Mason11987|T]]-[[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|C]])</sup> 14:39, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
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:I am. [[User:Mason11987|Mason]] <sup>([[User talk:Mason11987|T]]-[[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|C]])</sup> 14:41, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
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::I'm a little OCD about that sort of stuff, and if you looked at the RC you probably saw my ongoing attempt to organize things, I saw those pages and just ignored them because I didn't want to break things :).  But if that can happen that'd be great. Thanks! [[User:Mason11987|Mason]] <sup>([[User talk:Mason11987|T]]-[[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|C]])</sup> 14:44, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
  
You might be interested in looking into Firefox and AdBlockPlus. Had no idea the new host even had ads on the pages until I noticed your post in the current events. (After coming from a very long forced vacation, admittedly.) -[[User:N9103|Edward]] 21:42, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
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== Stones, gems, and /raw ==
  
== Wagn ==
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In the process of creating all of the templates to handle the various /raw pages, I included the ones necessary for stones, gems, and metals. How much work would it be for you to change your stonelookup/layerlookup/gemlookup templates to read their data directly from the corresponding /raw page instead of fetching it directly from the corresponding inorganic.txt file? I haven't created said /raw pages yet, but it'd be trivial to do so. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 04:42, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
  
Other than server maintainability (I'll be able to drop the PHP stack on the dfwiki backend server); the big three are:
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:It would not be a difficult change. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 05:58, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
*Uptime.  I'm sick (and I'm sure others are sick of it too) of getting an email at 3:30 in the morning from the server saying that PHP has crashed. Again.  because of one of many known mediawiki bugs.
 
*Wagn offers much more extensive inter relational features for articles (cards).
 
*End users can directly modify HTML for layouts and looks of pages.
 
--[[User:Briess|Briess]] 20:38, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 
  
== [[Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Versions]] ==
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== Philosophy ==
Based on your comments and input on the administration requests pages I thought you might be interested in this kind of discussion.  Please bring in your comments on this page and on it's talk page and let everyone know what you think.  Thanks! [[User:Mason11987|Mason11987]] 20:46, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 
  
:== What about <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:version|version]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki>? ==
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I don't get exactly what this is all about.  I guess you disapprove with how I handled the "quality" stuff.  But I think I did exactly what you said I should do, which is "disregard the lot and do what you think is correct".  It seems in this case that you were "the lot", but I assume even in those cases you'd still offer the same advice. [[User:Mason11987|Mason]] <sup>([[User talk:Mason11987|T]]-[[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|C]])</sup> 17:13, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
  
Did you have something like this in mind? [[:category:version]] [[template:version]] (: [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 21:32, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
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== DF2010:Quality ==
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I don't believe the revert was justified, as I went through all the content I copied, commented out stuff I was very sure was wrong, but had a possibility of being right, put {{verify}} tags on things that were likely correct, but had a possibility of being wrong (I think I put in four, admittedly one of which was on the value modifier for Masterwork items because it was higher than the known stated value (what little you left behind) for artifacts), and removed things that I was sure were no longer relevant.  I turned a blank page into an actual, decent, article.--[[Special:Contributions/74.103.148.193|74.103.148.193]] 23:18, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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:I guess the {{verify}} tag is pointless then.  Alright then I guess I'll just shut the fuck up and not bother helping out anymore, because clearly, I'm not wanted.--[[User:Draco18s|Draco18s]] 04:10, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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::"...a blank page was more beneficial to the end user..."  As an "end user" a blank page is ''never'' beneficial.  As an "end user" I would rather have duplicated, mostly correct, information than have to navigate an additional link.  I apologize for '''being bold''' and trying to help.--[[User:Draco18s|Draco18s]] 17:36, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
  
: I did see that before and I think that's awesome as notes about particular items in an article, but it doesn't quite bring us to the two goals I hoped for [[Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Versions|here]]. It informs users about a statement but because of the difficulty (and undesirability) of labeling every statement in an article I think a single template per article can bring something different to the table. I hope you don't mind but I copied your comment and my response to the [[Dwarf Fortress Wiki talk:Versions|versions talk page]] so others can contribute to this and expand on it. [[User:Mason11987|Mason11987]] <sup>([[User talk:Mason11987|T]]-[[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|C]])</sup> 21:38, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
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== Please may I have... ==
  
:Could you drop by and comment on "consensus" again? [http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Dwarf_Fortress_Wiki_talk:Versions#Consensus.3F] [[User:Mason11987|Mason]] <sup>([[User talk:Mason11987|T]]-[[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|C]])</sup> 00:32, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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A copy or working link to part 5 of your video series on ripping through multi-layer aquifers? I can figure it out, since you did show the upper levels in later parts, but I'd like to see the complete set at least once.
:Right, but the goal as I understood it is to maintain a persistent archive of old material, which would require a copy of every page as eventually something will be affected.  As per the double redirect situation, I'll be working on that tonight. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 02:12, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 
::Unfortunately, no, there's no way for me to just copy the pages.  I figure that we move everything to 40d, have the main namespace redirect there, and once we have to edit an article, edit the redirect to become an article again. Eventually, every article will probably be edited in some way, shape, or form and thus will need to be moved out anyways. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 02:16, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Doing so greatly increases the server resources required to serve up both wikis.  This only increases disk space usage, which is nearly limitless.  --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 02:21, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:::: Re: [[:Category:Creatures]] : awwww, fuck. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 23:05, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 
  
== Slightly Annoyed ==
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I'm not sure if anyone else agrees, but I'd even be ok with a youtube link.        --[[User:Teres Draconis|jaz]] 18:57, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
  
Being a furry is not "who you are". It's an association people make by choice. Unlike race and gender, it's not genetically coded into you.
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== Re: Underpopulated categories ==
Unlike religion, it's not fueled by deep rooted conviction. It's an arbitrary and ultimately meaningless label that people can choose either to attach
 
or not attach to themselves on a whim. VengefulDonut 00:11, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 
  
Considering the application has been accepted, and my responding to you there would break the conversation on that page, I'll respond here. (A little late, I suppose) "Who you are" is defined by a LOT more than just the genetic coding that went into making you. Your personality and opinions are shaped by the actions of your environment upon you as you develop. (Your environment includes other people) A person, who they are, is defined by their actions. I am an artist, not because my blood says I am, but because I got bored in school and drew so much I just happened to get good at it and kept going. My brother is a musician because he likes women and music is good at attracting them, but he's become quite involved in the music scene itself, unrelated to his initial goal. "Who you are" is different from "What you are". --Kydo 14:10, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
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I forgot about your [[User_talk:Lethosor#Underpopulated_categories|message]] on my talk page, but the problems with categories should be fixed now (thanks to [[User:Emi|Emi]]). &mdash;[[User:Lethosor|<span style="color:#074">Lethosor</span>]] ([[User talk:Lethosor|<span style="color:#092">talk</span>]]) 21:19, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 
 
:I will allow your definition of terms. In this context, my argument would become that discrimination based on "who you are" rather than "what you are" is acceptable.
 
:You didn't even have do all that work to make me allow that. I will use words with whatever meaning you want the words to have, as long as we both know what the meaning is. If necessary, I can just make up a new word to fill the gap of the word you redefined. (: [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 01:12, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
::Actually, this is a pretty basic concept at the moment, dude. The whole nature versus nurture issue of what defines us as people. It's part of that weird overlap between experimental psychology and philosophy. These days most people pretty much agree that who you grow up to become is heavily influenced by your experiences in life, with genetics only holding a foundation which defines how you are most likely to react to certain things at a face value. Like, disliking certain flavors is caused by how your brain processes that information, not your experiences. --Kydo 13:54, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
:::This little section just caught my attention because of the mention of the word "furry". But I have to remind whom it may concern that if not furry-fandom, homosexuality is -- not always, but most the time -- "nature" rather than "nurture"; it has to do with the prenatal sexual transition (that is, physical and mental, which are often separate) triggered by masculanization hormones, which can go awry. If a mother has multiple children for example, she might develop an immunity against those hormones, interrupting them from doing their job and while the fetus (which is female by default) may masculanize physically, the brain may be left incomplete, in that regard, producing a gay male. A male that didn't ''choose'' to be gay, like most right-wing activists believe, but was born that way and exhibited behavioral characteristics of a female to whatever extent at an early age. I don't know if any of this pertains in any way to the discussion, I just like talking about stuff like this. :3 <math>Insert formula here</math>
 
 
 
==Not what you know, but who you know...==
 
But I can't remove <nowiki>{{mod}}</nowiki> from it because it's locked
 
Hey! Good catch - done. And any time see a need for something, absolutely, no problem, just lemme know. (I assume you didn't RA because of time/energy, obviously not b/c of qualification or interest.)--[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 20:29, 12 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
 
btw - you don't think the [[Modding Guide]] deserves that category and warning template? I'd think that is the essence of what that's for, no?--[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 20:44, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 
The article is about how to make mods, not about particular mods
 
:Sure, but that template does more than label a mod as such. It does (at least) two other things that are directly related - first, it's a (friendly) warning, which is not out of place on that page imo, and it also adds that page to the "modding" category, which is again approp. --[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 20:55, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
== DF2010 ==
 
 
 
:"it feels good to spread it"?  I'm "proud"?, Wow... haha.  I named an article something succinct and people continue to use it.  It isn't some ego high I get when I see other people use it as you seem to be suggesting, although I find that hilarious.
 
:The reality is that people will put things in the wiki and they need to use SOME word/phrase/term to refer to the upcoming version of DF, and "The upcoming version of DF" doesn't exactly have the kind of ring to it that people would use.  Having them all use the same name for it makes it substantially easier to search for and update then thousands of phrases like "the next version", "post-40d" "the upcoming version", "the yet-to-be-released version".  Basically people WILL make references to the next version in this wiki as long as information exists about it, and having them all use the same name (even if it isn't accurate) is certainly more helpful then everyone using whatever name they choose.  I'm skeptical there will be another major release version (that we will have in it's own namespace) in 2010 anyways.  Basically I disagree with your assessment of the harm I've done, and I disagree with your assessment that I get some kind of pleasure out of people using some random name, but I'm glad you took my joke on the versions talk page so seriously. [[User:Mason11987|Mason]] <sup>([[User talk:Mason11987|T]]-[[Special:Contributions/Mason11987|C]])</sup> 18:59, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
:::I re-read your memssage a few times and I suppose I could have taken it in a different manner and so I removed my last message.  It appears that after your initial assumption about my intentions it was hard for me to AGF with regard to you. 
 
:::I still disagree with your concern about the use of the name, and I disagree that we should encourage people not to use that name.  A single name now is better then no name, and that one has already stuck.  If we can replace it with the real name later then so be it but I don't think the use of the name should be cause for concern.
 
 
 
== Re: Bot Edit Request ==
 
 
 
I was already planning to do that, the way I want to do it is just a little more involved than previous scripts. I want it to change them if they're non-namespace links, and then if the page has any red links after the change, to add {{tl|Red link}} to the top, so that we have a nice way to find what redirect chains need to be fixed. It's the second half of this that's a little trickier than just going through and changing them. [[User:Emi|Emi]] 18:51, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Article Names ==
 
 
 
Article names only with the first word capitalised? I'm assuming this is the rule you were quoting: "Naming: The titles of new pages should be singular nouns, with only the first word capitalized. Example: Screw pump, Metalsmith's forge, Gear assembly." The next sentence was "Exceptions are proper nouns and terms that are always plural." I am fully aware of this convention, and always attempt to follow it. The only articles I can think of where I capitalised more that the first word were proper nouns. --[[User:Eagle0600|Eagle0600]] 01:17, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Mineral template ==
 
 
 
Wow, that's neat. I just made one minor tweak to not make it list everything as "layers" since, well, only layer stones are layers. I'm not quite sure how those templates work, but it would probably suffice to have it only append "layers" if it's an ENVIRONMENT token (as opposed to ENVIRONMENT_SPEC which can be a layer stone, a large cluster, a vein, or even a small cluster). --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 23:43, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
:Hehehe. I was just considering whether to comment on your page about that same issue. I guess we're on the same page :) [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 23:45, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
 
::Just noticed that the environment links (i.e. stone types or layer types) aren't being reinterpreted into the current namespace. I'm not even going to try fixing the template, since it's highly likely I'd just break it. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 00:19, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Ah. Oops. I'll nab that next. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 00:20, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Aquifer Breach ==
 
 
 
Any word on getting part 5 up? I noticed it's still not up, but there's no info as to it getting remade/abandoned either. --[[User:N9103|Edward]] 14:11, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
==Link format==
 
I noticed your corrections to the trap design article. Is there a functional difference between the two methods of linking, or is just a cosmetic thing? The auto-format box uses brackets. If that is incorrect, I'd love to know so I can work within the system in the future. Thanks! [[User:JohnnyMadhouse|JohnnyMadhouse]] 14:49, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
 
:Thanks! I will keep that in mind in the future. [[User:JohnnyMadhouse|JohnnyMadhouse]] 15:14, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
== The Raw Templates ==
 
 
 
These raw templates seem to be quite versatile, automatically adapting to changes. I was thinking that it might also be nice for them to support previous versions, if only to easily improve the consistency of pages in the 40d namespace and also simplify importing 23a data (for the stuff that's actually '''in''' the raws, anyways). Given that older versions used different raw filenames (and the fact that some raws, such as Creatures, are split across multiple files), it might be useful to choose some reserved page names that will contain '''all''' of the relevant raws from a particular version, whether by copy/paste or by transcluding each individual raw file from its own page (assuming that won't cause its own problems). Opinions? --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 18:01, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Material inclusions for the stone infobox template ==
 
 
 
The infoboxes for stone types, in the old version's wiki pages, included what minerals/gems could be found within that stone. Would it be possible to add this functionality for the new templates? I know it's less straightforward than the material properties, but I imagine it could still be automated. [[User:G-Flex|G-Flex]] 03:20, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
:Yes. That is next on my list, time permitting. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 12:46, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
::Looking nice so far, though I'm rather puzzled as to why it works on some minerals (e.g. granite, olivine) but not on others (basalt, bauxite). Also, chromite started giving 502 Bad Gateway errors, for some reason. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 17:08, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
:::The wiki's regex parser is acting weird. The same search strings that give me exactly what I want elsewhere just crap out here. It's a continuation of the same problem I was having before. I'm not sure if I can do anything to make it go away >.< [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 17:17, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Apparently it's a problem with PHP's preg_replace function. The exact same selective failing happens elsewere. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 17:31, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 
:::I have a guess about where the point of failure is and an idea for a way around it. No time just now to try it, though. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 17:34, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 
::::Looking a bit better now. [[DF2010:Chromite]] has started giving 502 Bad Gateway errors again, and I can only guess as to why - probably some extremely specific set of HTML that's tripping an anti-exploit application firewall of some sort (like mod_security). --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 16:03, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::The following code seems to trip it: <tt><nowiki>{{#rreplace:{{#rreplace:{{cv:Inorganic stone gem}}|/.*?{{rxtag|IS_GEM|1}}(?:.(?!\[INORGANIC:))*?{{rxtag|ENVIRONMENT_SPEC|1|CHROMITE}}/s|prefix-\1\2\3-suffix|nf}}|/(?<=-suffix)(?:.(?!-suffix))*$/s|}}</nowiki></tt>. I haven't the slightest idea why. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 16:21, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::It works for things there the first [ENV_SPEC:thing:etc] tag is comparatively high up in the raw file. I suspect PHP restricts the amount that can be captured in one match. It probably also restricts the amount of backtracking allowed.  [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 16:26, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Expletives uttered during development (IRC) ==
 
 
 
Yeah, sometimes stupid things happen.  It seems I'm mostly cussing at myself for being stupid. --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 20:30, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 
:I'm workin on it >.> --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 22:31, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 
::Yeah, use irc.redwolfs.net to connect to newnet for now --[[User:Briess|Briess]] 22:34, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
== BASIC_COLOR ==
 
 
 
Several layer stones, minerals, and gems use BASIC_COLOR so that the mined stone/gem appears in a different color. These particular stones are [[dacite]], [[phyllite]], [[gneiss]], [[bismuthinite]], [[stibnite]], [[anhydrite]], [[clear tourmaline]], [[gray chalcedony]], [[dendritic agate]], [[shell opal]], [[bone opal]], and [[clear garnet]]. One minor annoyance is that while DISPLAY_COLOR specifies both foreground and background colors, BASIC_COLOR includes only the foreground color, so simply using one's value in place of the other won't work properly. The proper solution would be to only pass the "itemcolor" parameter to {{tl|Mineral}} if a BASIC_COLOR token is present, but I don't quite recall the best way of doing that. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 16:30, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
:Got it to work this time :D [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 21:26, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Can you take a look here? ==
 
 
 
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Dwarf_Fortress_Wiki_talk:Centralized_Discussion#Template%20madness
 
 
 
 
 
Thanks
 
 
 
== Templates and RGB values ==
 
 
 
Mediawiki hates me - it refuses to let {{tl|fgcolor}} (and {{tl|bgcolor}}) work correctly unless they're inserted in the middle of an HTML tag (and it '''must''' be an HTML tag - a style attribute in a wiki-markup table does NOT count). Excuse me while I go sit in a corner and whimper. --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 17:35, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 

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Templates and RGB values[edit]

Mediawiki hates me - it refuses to let {{fgcolor}} (and {{bgcolor}}) work correctly unless they're inserted in the middle of an HTML tag (and it must be an HTML tag - a style attribute in a wiki-markup table does NOT count). Excuse me while I go sit in a corner and whimper. --Quietust 17:35, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

This seems to be working.

VengefulDonut 07:46, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Of course, now a far more insidious problem has shown up - if the fgcolor and bgcolor templates are used more than 100 times in a particular page (a single {{Raw Tile}} uses each once), all subsequent transclusions turn up empty. I can only assume it's doing too many regular expressions, but it can't be that many, given how simple the templates are... --Quietust 20:07, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
For now, I've switched the templates back to 128-case #switch statements, and the problem seems to have gone away. Still, it seems odd that #rmatch and #rreplace would just stop working after being used 100 times in a single page. --Quietust 21:20, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
The regex functions extension has an option that determines what the limit per page is. If you need a larger number, you can ask Breiss to raise the limit. VengefulDonut 01:41, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Template:Raw[edit]

I've just adapted {{gamedata}} to attempt to fetch creature raws from "raws" pages similar to the stone/gem templates (except using an extra pair of templates to transform the page name into a CREATURE id and the name of the file that contains the raws, though the former could probably be skipped by just matching against "[NAME:foo:bar:baz]") - it works, but {{raw}} strips out all of the linebreaks and spaces between tokens. How hard would it be to make a version of {{raw}} (or add a parameter) that doesn't do that? --Quietust 18:11, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Never mind, figured it out myself and saved it as {{raw2}}. Of course, now the trick will be to make it so {{gamedata}} supports raw lookups for things other than creatures (possibly by simply giving it a "type" parameter - CREATURE, MATGLOSS, INORGANIC, PLANT, etc.)... --Quietust 18:29, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
It already has a type parameter Oo VengefulDonut 23:16, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
I was referring to {{gamedata}} (which I've currently hardcoded to CREATURE because it doesn't take any parameters), not {{Raw}}. I'll probably just split it into several different templates and have the various infobox templates include the appropriate one. --Quietust 23:29, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

RAWs[edit]

Is there any way we can categorize the RAW files? Perhaps by having a <noinclude>{{category|Raws}}</noinclude> at the bottom? Or would that break your system? Mason (T-C) 14:39, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

I am. Mason (T-C) 14:41, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm a little OCD about that sort of stuff, and if you looked at the RC you probably saw my ongoing attempt to organize things, I saw those pages and just ignored them because I didn't want to break things :). But if that can happen that'd be great. Thanks! Mason (T-C) 14:44, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Stones, gems, and /raw[edit]

In the process of creating all of the templates to handle the various /raw pages, I included the ones necessary for stones, gems, and metals. How much work would it be for you to change your stonelookup/layerlookup/gemlookup templates to read their data directly from the corresponding /raw page instead of fetching it directly from the corresponding inorganic.txt file? I haven't created said /raw pages yet, but it'd be trivial to do so. --Quietust 04:42, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

It would not be a difficult change. VengefulDonut 05:58, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Philosophy[edit]

I don't get exactly what this is all about. I guess you disapprove with how I handled the "quality" stuff. But I think I did exactly what you said I should do, which is "disregard the lot and do what you think is correct". It seems in this case that you were "the lot", but I assume even in those cases you'd still offer the same advice. Mason (T-C) 17:13, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

DF2010:Quality[edit]

I don't believe the revert was justified, as I went through all the content I copied, commented out stuff I was very sure was wrong, but had a possibility of being right, put [Verify] tags on things that were likely correct, but had a possibility of being wrong (I think I put in four, admittedly one of which was on the value modifier for Masterwork items because it was higher than the known stated value (what little you left behind) for artifacts), and removed things that I was sure were no longer relevant. I turned a blank page into an actual, decent, article.--74.103.148.193 23:18, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

I guess the [Verify] tag is pointless then. Alright then I guess I'll just shut the fuck up and not bother helping out anymore, because clearly, I'm not wanted.--Draco18s 04:10, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
"...a blank page was more beneficial to the end user..." As an "end user" a blank page is never beneficial. As an "end user" I would rather have duplicated, mostly correct, information than have to navigate an additional link. I apologize for being bold and trying to help.--Draco18s 17:36, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Please may I have...[edit]

A copy or working link to part 5 of your video series on ripping through multi-layer aquifers? I can figure it out, since you did show the upper levels in later parts, but I'd like to see the complete set at least once.

I'm not sure if anyone else agrees, but I'd even be ok with a youtube link. --jaz 18:57, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Re: Underpopulated categories[edit]

I forgot about your message on my talk page, but the problems with categories should be fixed now (thanks to Emi). —Lethosor (talk) 21:19, 8 November 2014 (UTC)