User talk:JC the Builder

JC the Builder: You seem to be to have quite an extensive UO knowledge/history and drive to document the game. Please reconsider contributing your knowledge at UOStuff.com. I was honest about the timing of UOStuff.com updating and expanding. We (the UO Community) would be honored to have your contributions. -Quaz'r

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and you don't even have a user page yet? :P

So, how long is this wiki in progress so far.

what are your goals,
what kind of server,
how much wiki editing knowledge do you consider yourself capable of,
are you planning any google ads to keep it running,
and how many admins does the site have so far. ?

UOStuff doesn't see much activity in edits lately, i can agree on that... Though wouldn't it make sense to merge the efforts of the 2 projects somehow?

i must warn you i'm a chaotic editor / admin, but can get some interesting stuff done ;)

UO is not currently my main focus [1], though i can help in some areas.

- BBR talk / cont 06:17, 15 November 2006 (PST)

I have been focusing more on site content then anything else, that is the most important thing right now.

My goal is to build an enclopedia for UO. At present time, the focus has been to keep up with current publishes. Then to work backwards from there to fill out the site.
UOGuide is currently hosted on a shared server, but will upgrade to dedicated when needed. I already understand a lot about hosting after managing the HOT Guild Website and forum for a couple years now. Right now, the site is up all the time and the speed is adaquate.
I have learned a lot about Wiki editing, and am constantly reviewing the help pages on Wikipedia when I want to know more about something. Actually I just refreshed myself on the indentation syntax so I could reply to your comment in the proper way.
The plan is to run this site ad free. The hosting is already pre-paid until next June or July. If the costs increase, donations or other means will be looked into for funding.
Currently, I am the only administrator. The plan is make the most active contributors administrators of the site.

JC the Builder 10:14, 15 November 2006 (PST)

sig

You need to make yourself a proper sig ;) check my userpage for a how-to.

btw, as you can see, i'll start off with the Directory, and relevant categories and templates, it'll give you a base to expand upon.

The blue banner on the left, appears to be 2 lines of text too small currently - BBR talk / cont 01:51, 16 November 2006 (PST)

MD

btw, imo Markeedragon should be removed from the fansites..

i've been boycotting them myself for a long time now, as they are providing illegal third party software, and botting software for World of Warcraft, they probably won't care much about their legal activities in UO. - BBR talk / cont 02:20, 16 November 2006 (PST)

I want to keep the official fansite links the same as on the official fansite page on UO.com. You and I might not like it, but until his site is removed (if ever) it has to stay. I want UOGuide to be as objective as possible. -- JC the Builder 08:32, 16 November 2006 (PST)

i'll see if i can pass the word to some contacts then. ;) - BBR talk / cont 09:19, 16 November 2006 (PST)

ext

Plenty available [2], just depends what you want to expand. Maybe the googlesearch extension? - BBR talk / cont 23:46, 4 December 2006 (PST)

I don't want to add extensions for the sake of it. The current search seems to do a good job as is. -- JC the Builder 08:53, 5 December 2006 (PST)

i think the addon adds a bulletoption that allows you to search the site, or search google. i.e. someone wants to look for a uo specific subject. - BBR talk / cont 11:07, 5 December 2006 (PST)

Quest Characters

I'm thinking those don't belong under Monsters. Maybe under Quests? --Cogniac 21:40, 29 December 2006 (PST)

Yeah, they probably don't. If you can think of a better layout or something needs to be put on a new page, just do it at this point (with the exception of the main page). Later on when the site is more established, major changes will be discussed in depth. JC the Builder 22:25, 29 December 2006 (PST)

I figure I'll move it once I get out of the Animals section, which obviously might take a while. Hehe. --Cogniac 22:36, 29 December 2006 (PST)

Page links

Yeah. I've been experimenting with the amount of links on certain pages. You should've seen it in earlier versions! I had totally linked up the italicized Lore sections in Races and the tables on such pages as Arms Lore and Item Id, until I realized that both looked terrible. I have so far thought up three linking conventions: no links in tables (still wondering about the links in Template:Creatures), no links in italicized text, and no links within quotations. Other than that, I'm still going back and forth on the number of links in some pages, so it's a work in progress. --Cogniac 19:24, 30 December 2006 (PST)

400 pages

Just posted Lava Snake, which happened to be page #400. --Cogniac 20:27, 31 December 2006 (PST)

Arg! I was going to post the 400th page =[ - JC the Builder 20:29, 31 December 2006 (PST)

Haha My bad. Just saw your creation description. Hehe. =P --Cogniac 20:33, 31 December 2006 (PST)

vandal

any way to edit / block that recent vandal's name and or ip?

because of the name he's somehow not showing up as a normal user. - BBR talk / cont 04:55, 16 January 2007 (PST)

Yeah, there is some bug in the privacy shield modification I did. SysOps are supposed to see the IP. I will look into it in the near future. If he does anything again I am just going to pull his IP from the database directly so he can be banned. - JC the Builder 18:11, 16 January 2007 (PST)

Could you deal with him somehow, so he at least has a "name", and not special:contributions - BBR talk / cont 11:42, 21 January 2007 (PST)

I am very busy working on some phpBB3 MODs at the moment and don't have the time to fix the bug causing the name display issue. I will probably be able to get to it later this week. In the meantime, I blocked the original vandal. - JC the Builder 12:54, 21 January 2007 (PST)

Well.. he [3] is still active. - BBR talk / cont 23:50, 21 January 2007 (PST)

I upgraded to Mediawiki version 1.9, so that reverted all the changes I made regarding the privacy shield. I will try again someday, but probably not in the near future. - JC the Builder 21:13, 22 January 2007 (PST)

protection

i dont think Atlantic should be protected. as protecting pages inhibits change. which is what a wiki is all about :P

Some, such as templates which affect a "lot" of pages should be protected, but even then not all of them. most conditional templates are and should be protected, navigational menus probably don't need to be, as there is always room for improvement. - BBR talk / cont 06:11, 1 February 2007 (PST)

The Atlantic page was protected because I was trying to create a sort of portal page. But it hasn't taken off, so I will remove the protection. - JC the Builder 10:34, 1 February 2007 (PST)

Byte markers

When did you add in the markers on the recent changes page to show how big our changes are? They are rather nifty. --Cogniac 20:58, 5 March 2007 (PST)

It was in the last MediaWiki update. There is probably going to be even more changes related to that in the next one. -- JC the Builder 10:05, 6 March 2007 (PST)

Bestiary Pictures

I'm going to go ahead and start leaving out the pictures for the Animals and Monsters. I figure we can start grabbing all of our pictures from the KR client when it comes out instead of using the outdated models from the 2d client. --Cogniac 17:43, 10 March 2007 (PST)

I don't think the 2D client will be discontinued for a long time. If you don't want to do the screenshots that is fine. In all likelihood there will be both 2D and KR screenshots of creatures. If and when the 2D client becomes less popular then that can be given up on and perhaps discussion will happen on removing 2D interface and creature images. - JC the Builder 20:25, 10 March 2007 (PST)

Hosting

Have a look at this one : [4] . we're currently talking with the site owners there to merge wowwiki.com into the wikia community, free host large community. worth taking a look at perhaps ? - BBR talk / cont 00:26, 15 May 2007 (PDT)

The biggest issue with this I see is the URL structure. Right now it is very simple, for example uoguide.com/Veteran_Rewards but hosting through them it would be uoguide.wikia.com/wiki/Veteran_Rewards. I also don't think they will allow such heavily customized styling on their site. -- JC the Builder 14:26, 15 May 2007 (PDT)

I think there's a good bit possible for design, but anyway, they're making the move today. suposedly keeping the gray etc. ill post you a link when its done. - BBR talk / cont 23:56, 15 May 2007 (PDT)

[5], [6]. wowwiki moved, and is now "on" wikia.. i'm not fully sure how the process went trough it all, but it's faster than ever ! - BBR talk / cont 06:24, 1 June 2007 (PDT)

I just reviewed the policies and they force you to put advertisements on the site. Even worse, there would be no direct control over those advertisements. On the WOWWiki you can see the gold for sale and leveling services already. I know this site is a bit slow but that is the breaks with such cheap hosting. I will try and get some type of donation thing going soon because the year contract will be expiring in a couple months. - JC the Builder 15:48, 1 June 2007 (PDT)

spam

You might want to disable anonymous logins, and enable the option that requires all users to verify their email before allowing edits... check the recent change list why. - BBR talk / cont 00:36, 14 June 2007 (PDT)

Mainpage Poll

Just gave the main page a little edit to get it quasi-up-to-date for now. I figure we probably need a new poll. I'll leave what it is up to you, though. Also: the checkboxes and bars and such in the polls have always been broken. They just show up as the red x in a box, etc. Just checking to see if that's just me, or what. --Cogniac 01:02, 28 June 2007 (PDT)

Thanks so much for doing that. Feel free to update as much as you want. I just updated the poll as you requested. However I don't understand what is broken for you. If you could take a screenshot and post a link to it so I can see exactly what you are talking about. - JC the Builder 18:42, 28 June 2007 (PDT)