User talk:Cogniac

SysOp

I promoted you to SysOp since you are a valued contributor to the site. You can now edit every page on the site. - JC the Builder 22:56, 28 December 2006 (PST)

Page Links

It is good you are adding links to other site pages, but there is also a point when it becomes too much. For example, on the Spellweaving page you edited this, "The following graph shows how each individual spell can be cast to gain in skill. Cross reference your skill level at the top with the desired spell along the left column. If your skill level is in the green, you can gain from that spell. If it is in the yellow, gains are possible but are more difficult." Having the skills page linked 3 times in the same paragraph isn't going to serve a purpose and too many links will obscure important keywords that should stand out and be linked. Generally, the first time an important term appears on a page is when you make a wiki link. You are doing a wonderful job, I hope you keep it up. - JC the Builder 06:08, 30 December 2006 (PST)

Vote on Poll

I have installed a new poll extension which I hope to use on the front page. Please go submit an answer to the TestPoll so I can see if it is working properly. - JC the Builder 21:05, 4 January 2007 (PST)

Those checkboxes (I guess those are supposed to be checkboxes) are rather broken. Other than that, good show. --Cogniac 12:33, 5 January 2007 (PST)

I know, I am going to fix the style and images to make it more pretty. - JC the Builder 12:57, 5 January 2007 (PST)

Something Must Have Broke

When I was coding the new privacy shield I had to comment out some code that I had no idea what it does. Let me know if you see anything broken. More on that stuff in the UOGuide:Blog. - JC the Builder 21:16, 5 January 2007 (PST)

About catagorizing

I wish I had caught you sooner before you made all those changes. Adding every item to the Item category is kind of pointless. I have discussed this with BBR before and we agreed that things should not be categorized so broadly. For example you added the Clothing, Equipment and Items categorizes to the Valorite Robe. Those three should actually be categories for other categories. Items would be the top level, then Equipment would be a subcategory of Items, then Clothing a subcategory of Equipment. Finally Cloaks would be a subcategory of Clothing.

I don't think I have explained this very well. If you have more questions let me know. - JC the Builder 15:32, 27 May 2007 (PDT)

The way I was thinking of it was this: you look in the Items category and see every item there is to see. You can either look through the giant list, or pick a subcategory to filter out a bunch of the selections. Then you can select your item from this list, or go down another subcategory. Rinse, repeat. --Cogniac 15:36, 27 May 2007 (PDT)

Well I sort of see the purpose of categories as a way to find like items. Now if every UO item was added to the Items category, what purpose would it serve? No one would ever be looking at that. But maybe someone will want to look under the Robe one for other types of Robes. - JC the Builder 18:45, 27 May 2007 (PDT)

Oh well. I see where you're coming from, and I suppose it makes sense. I've switched about half of it back so far. If nothing else fails, we have no "Wanted Categories" anymore. --Cogniac 18:46, 27 May 2007 (PDT)

I hope you are not offended by these nitpicks. I see you are creating some highly specific categories such as "Leather Ninja Jackets". Is there more than one "Leather Ninja Jacket"? Categories need to have items to fill them. I don't think going any lower than leather armor would be worthwhile. - JC the Builder 15:41, 31 May 2007 (PDT)

I'm just building some of the Category hierarchy. I figure they're bound to introduce various items with UO:SA and beyond, as well as there being a lot of obscure seer/event items that will eventually fall into some of these categories as their articles get made. Better to have them there and empty in preparation for future articles than having to constantly create them as articles are written that fall into them. --Cogniac 15:45, 31 May 2007 (PDT)

Don't worry about banning spambots

You are doing a lot of great work on the front page and stuff. I just wanted to say though that banning those spam accounts is probably a waste of time. I haven't noticed them being used for more then one edit. I have been quite lazy and will try to look into the anti-bot stuff BBR was talking about a couple weeks ago. - JC the Builder 19:40, 5 July 2007 (PDT)

I was actually looking at the history of one of the Talk pages from one of the bots you hadn't banned and it had spammed that page 3 times in a row. So at least some of them are being used again. Probably each gets assigned to a specific page and then spams it periodically. On the plus side, it looks like UOStuff is having the same problem. =P --Cogniac 19:49, 5 July 2007 (PDT)

Ok, keep banning them then. I will try and look into a more permanent solution soon. - JC the Builder 21:58, 5 July 2007 (PDT)

text color links

This should help :

Template:Link, Template:Link, Template:Link

- BBR talk / cont 03:43, 6 August 2007 (PDT)

conditional macros

Have a look at this template: [1] or [2], it should show you everything you need to know. Result for them: [3], [4] - BBR talk / cont 23:40, 6 August 2007 (PDT)

Meh i was bored. Just see Sandbox. i put it to float on the right side, but you can have it float on the left just as easily with the "align" parameter. You should be able to do the other parameters yourself. - BBR talk / cont 00:30, 7 August 2007 (PDT)

The floaty thing is actually a feature that allows you to put text on the left or right of the item text, to save space ;) - BBR talk / cont 22:44, 7 August 2007 (PDT)

Client Updates

I was going over the site statistics and those client number update pages you were adding actually drive quite a bit of traffic to the site. Nice work on adding those. - JC the Builder 21:58, 13 September 2007 (PDT)

Thanks. I've always seen UOGuide as an archive as well as an information repository, plus, meticulously sifting through all those pages to pull out the Client Patches and System Publishes soothes my OCD. Of course, even I get tired of it eventually, which is why I haven't worked on it much the past few weeks other than to add the latest patches. I went through a little over 2,500 pages on UO.com to come up with what we have so far. Only about 7,000 more to go to get back to early-mid 1999! Also: I put in those placeholders for the KR closed beta patches because I have all the patch notes already set up for them, I'm just waiting to hear back from Jeremy on the actual patch numbers, so those will also go in eventually.

I'm also waiting on some other info from her and Leurocian so I can do some more work on my other project, which is that item property template which is finally mostly working. Hopefully that will bring in some serious hits once I get it fully functional and can fill out all the artifact/item pages with it. --Cogniac 13:21, 14 September 2007 (PDT)