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German wiki links =

79.206.195.135 (Gerugon?) set up a German wiki and was wondering if you could add an interwiki link for it. --Lethosor (talk) 18:42, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for misleading that is't gerugons IP that mine (Kupferdrache in german wiki, i have no account here yet, may be I should add one), but the german wiki is started by gerugon. Great that your replied so quick. I have another request could we get a full list of used namespaces so we don't have to break the layout, which will help us to keep articles up to date, also ist easier to link between the different language versions if the sorting is comparable, also ther is a DF translation project in progress to help this great game to get more attention (at the moment only as mod, but may be we cann get enough support to make it choosable in init.txt wich language should be used. I hope I didn#t forgot anything important. 79.206.195.135 08:08, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

File upload rights

Hi Briess. I'm currently trying to upload a couple of my images so I can add my new graphics set to the Graphics set repository. I'm an experienced Wikipedian (the real Wikipedia, that is, heh), so I was wondering if I should just wait for a few days for file upload permissions (like in Wikipedia) or is it exclusively granted by admins such as yourself?

Also I think the Jolly Bastion graphics set should be added there as well. --Obsidian Soul (talk) 03:00, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

I believe it's 4 days and 3 edits, although I might be wrong about the days. Briess should be able to confirm you, but it's probably easier just to make a couple more edits. In the meantime I can upload them for you, but I'd need to know which ones and where to put them. --Lethosor (talk) 20:10, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Hm, I forgot about the edit count to article space also contributing to the autoconfirmed rights. It's been so long since I had to do this in a wiki, heh. I'll just take a look around and see what I can fix in other articles, then upload them. I'll also take care of the Jolly Bastion set. If you know of any other graphics sets not in the wiki, it would be nice to add them as well for exposure. This is the primary resource when searching for graphics set and I found my first one here. Anyway, thanks. :) --Obsidian Soul (talk) 22:07, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Ok done. I've added the Jolly Bastion set as well and removed the empty sections.--Obsidian Soul (talk) 23:03, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Awesome. Sorry I've been away - just to confirm, it is 3 edits to get autoconfirmed (I removed the 4 day requirement a couple of months ago). --Briess (talk) 05:21, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Offline HTML Dump

Hi Briess. I was wondering if it was possible for an HTML dump of the wiki to be created. That way the wiki can be viewed by DwarfForters like myself with limited/no internet access. I google'd around for mediawiki ways to do this and come up with this method using the DumpHTML extension. It would be greatly appreciated if this could happen. – unsigned comment by Bsilvereagle

From what I remember, size is a major issue with this wiki (due to the multiple namespaces). There used to be a dump of the DF2012 namespace listed in the announcements box ([1]). The link was removed, but apparently it's still accessible. I just downloaded it – it's about 10 MB, and appears to contain the latest revisions of all DF2012 articles (from yesterday, July 7) that I checked (it doesn't include articles from older namespaces, however). It's an XML dump, though, so I don't know how to make it work with various wiki-viewing tools. --Lethosor (talk) 01:36, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Also: daD generated a basic HTML dump (which may be slightly outdated): [2]. --Lethosor (talk) 01:40, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't know those existed. It's looking like daD's dump is what I'm after, it's downloading now. I guess I should have used Google instead of the wiki search bar for searching for offline.... Thanks Lethosor.

Bot

I'm thinking of trying out a bot (not immediately, as it's still experimental), and was wondering if there are any policies regarding their creation here (would I be allowed to create a new account, do you need to test it first, etc.). --Lethosor (talk) 18:55, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Only policies are bots are for people I trust. I trust you. If you create a new account, I'll set it up with the appropriate flags (just poke me here as you know how wonderful the recent changes list is for new accounts >.>) --Briess (talk) 18:57, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks :) It does show up on the recent changes differently (at least the way I created it), but just to confirm it's User:LethosorBot. --Lethosor (talk) 19:32, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Done! I also made you (and the bot) an administrator. No reason not to at this point. --Briess (talk) 19:58, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! :) It'll be nice to be able to do some admin-related things when I need to. --Lethosor (talk) 20:25, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Extension update

You might want to update Extension:RegexFunctions to 1.4.3 — the current version has some type of security vulnerability, which looks like it might allow running arbitrary code. --Lethosor (talk) 21:00, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I've updated the extension. --Briess (talk) 08:49, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

A Chinese Version WIKI?

Hi Briess, I just a new player of DF. This WIKI site is awesome! It is pretty cool to do some translation when I am free. Is it a possible to make a Chinese version site of this? --Qianbb2004 (talk) 15:10, 02 August 2013 (UTC)

Polish Dwarf Fortress wiki

Hello there!

I would like to add a link to Polish Dwarf Fortress wiki, so that it will be possible to connect every article from this page with [[pl:Article name]] template.

Here is a website: http://pl.dwarffortress.wikia.com/ and here is a main page: http://pl.dwarffortress.wikia.com/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress_Wiki

Thank you in advance, --Marzecki (talk) 14:23, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Spambot activity

Hi, I was wondering whether you could add a filter option to the "recent changes" pages so it could hide user registrations: whenever I want to review the most recent changes it seems that the only things going on are a hundred or so spambot registrations. While I know you're doing the best you can about that, it'd be cool to be able to hide these useless events from view. Thanks! 78.250.226.221 14:05, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Alternative captchas

It seems, from the ConfirmEdit page, that ReCaptcha might not be as secure as other types of captchas. This wiki seems to have solved this problem by using FancyCaptcha. While it might not be as secure (according to the page on mediawiki.org), its code is part of the extension, which means it can be easily modified to prevent automated scripts from succeeding, even if they guess the captcha correctly (check the source of the account creation page). It seems to be reasonably effective - the change was made near the end of July, and only 3 accounts have been created since then. --Lethosor (talk) 14:45, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

I'll take a look when I'm over this nasty flu. --Briess (talk) 08:28, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

I am no longer dying sick, but I do have a business trip and a bunch of work to catch up on. If I haven't gotten to this in a week or so, feel free to yell at me to look at this. Thanks :) --Briess (talk) 02:50, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Italian main

Hi, I'm an user of the italian community, I'm here for ask to you if will be possible to create a main page with italian language, and after (subpages) the others page in italian.

In this moment the wiki use this link http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page but for the italian page we can use http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page/italia or http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page/italy or http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page_Italy

I'm here only for ask and for information, if it is possible.

I'll wait answer.

Thanks a lot for your time.

NB sorry for my english

(Comment:) mediawiki.org does something similar to this - I'm not sure how well it would work for some pages on this wiki, especially for pages that check the /raw subpage (they'd have to be rewritten to use the base raw page), but it's worth looking into.

(Regarding the Italian wiki:) There's a Polish wiki set up on Wikia - maybe this could be used as an alternative, and we could link to that (like the Russian/French links on the Main Page). --Lethosor (talk) 00:43, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

(comment): i see this www.wikidot.com, is a good site? (User talk:Jostino) 19:47, 20 September 2013 (GMT+200)

Wikidot is a pretty good site, as well as Wikia (which may be better, since it uses the same software as this site). Unfortunately, this site uses a lot of extensions and modifications, which would be difficult, or even impossible, to set up on a large hosting site. I'll look more into the possibilities of hosting pages in different languages here, which would be much easier to set up. --Lethosor (talk) 21:04, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Additional languages

It may be considerably easier to set up non-English wikis on this site than on other wikis (as I mentioned above, the extensions and patches we use here would be hard to set up, even on a MediaWiki hosting site). Using this site would allow complex things (mainly templates and functions) to be used without being copied over to other wikis. Also, foreign-language wikis would tend to be a lot smaller than the main English wiki (due to fewer contributors), so size shouldn't be a problem. A few things I've found that could assist with this:

• Some templates exist that could probably be ported to this wiki: Wikipedia:mw:Template:Languages uses a lot of #ifexist checks (which could be deleted for languages we won't use at all). Wikipedia:meta:Template:Languages is similar, but adds uselang= to change the interface language for foreign-language pages (which could also be specified in the preferences, so I'm not sure how useful this is).
• Extension:Translate seems promising (it's used on some WMF wikis) - I haven't looked into it much, but I'll test it out when I get a chance.

--Lethosor (talk) 21:31, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Update: Extension:Translate is working very well - all that's required is adding <translate> tags around the page content. It lets any (logged-in) user edit translations by default, but pages need to be marked before they can be translated, which needs to be done by an admin by default (I'd recommend allowing at least autoconfirmed users to do this with something like $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['pagetranslation'] = true;). MLEB is the bundle I'm using - it includes a few useful multilingual extensions, including Translate, Babel, and a language selector (which allows you to change the interface language without messing around with your preferences.) --Lethosor (talk) 17:26, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Interesting. I like the idea, but I can't do anything about it until I get back from my business trip. It's probably about time to update the mediawiki software too - I'll look into both at that time. Thanks for doing the research on this! --Briess (talk) 17:56, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Templates have been harder to work out than content pages - the best method I've found so far is using {{int:}} to change the displayed text based on the interface language (which I suppose is more useful to end users anyway). Unfortunately, this would require editing MediaWiki: messages, which normal users can't do... :(
Anyway, MediaWiki 1.22 should be released soon, so it may be worth waiting to upgrade (the only useful thing I've found in 1.21 is Ajax patrolling, which I've already implemented). Also, if you end up doing software upgrades, Extension:WikiEditor and Extension:CodeEditor (and maybe even Extension:Scribunto) could be useful (WikiEditor is extensible, so it would be easy to set up DFWiki-specific editing customizations - maybe adding a CP437 palette, for example). --Lethosor (talk) 01:49, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Database error when editing an IP talk page

A database query syntax error has occurred.

This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:

(SQL query hidden)

from within function "User::updateNewtalk". Database returned error "23502: ERROR: null value in column "user_id" violates not-null constraint

".

I'm not having this issue with 1.21, with a nearly-identical installation (except for the namespace-link patch, and I'm not sure how that could cause it). --Lethosor (talk) 20:37, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Can you make a branch for me with your code as is on the dfwiki github? --Briess (talk) 21:00, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

I meant that the error is occurring on this wiki - I haven't seen this issue on my own wiki, which uses pretty much the same extensions and settings (except it's using MW 1.21, which would make it hard to merge on GitHub). Fortunately, the problem isn't as severe as I thought - messages still get posted (see User talk:127.0.0.1), but it's still confusing to editors. I'm wondering if there are other patches you know of (besides the link patch) that have been installed on this wiki since the 1.20 upgrade, or if the database settings were recently changed. --Lethosor (talk) 21:55, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Not that I'm aware of. The code on github is what the wiki is using, minus the extensions, I believe (I may turn them into submodules at some point) --Briess (talk) 05:52, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Pull requests

Do you need to do anything special to merge in changes I made on the dfwiki repo, or are changes I make to master automatically merged? --Lethosor (talk) 20:41, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

I merged them in, but deploys are manual. For some reason, I didn't get a notification of the pull request, I just fixed that so I do get them again. I'll deploy the change shortly. Also, I'm back from the business trip, yay! --Briess (talk) 05:51, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Email Contact

Hey there! I'm trying to get ahold of the administration team to talk about a partnership proposal, but I cannot find the proper channel to pursue. If you get the chance, can you drop an email at kristophermsandoval@gmail.com and let me know the proper channel to go through? Thank you so much! I look forward to hearing from you! 24.10.3.183 19:24, 7 October 2013 (UTC)