User talk:VengefulDonut

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Extension request

Ok, I'll see about getting all three of those installed this weekend then. Briess 14:52, 16 September 2009 (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. --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) --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? --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. --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. --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. 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. --Senso 14:13, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Internal Error when submitting screenshot

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? --KenboCalrissian 13:31, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Briess is the new server admin. --Senso 14:14, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Russian Interwiki

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. --Briess 06:35, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

RE: Ads

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.) -Edward 21:42, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Wagn

Other than server maintainability (I'll be able to drop the PHP stack on the dfwiki backend server); the big three are:

• 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.

--Briess 20:38, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Versions

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! Mason11987 20:46, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

== What about {{version}}? ==

Did you have something like this in mind? category:version template:version (: VengefulDonut 21:32, 28 February 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 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 versions talk page so others can contribute to this and expand on it. Mason11987 ^(T-C) 21:38, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Could you drop by and comment on "consensus" again? [1] Mason ^(T-C) 00:32, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

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. --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. --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. --Briess 02:21, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Slightly Annoyed

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. 
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)

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. (: 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)