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UESPWiki:Archive/CP Debate About Mods Page

Debate about Mods Page

The wider community should be aware of a discussion taking place about modding and what type of pages should be hosted by UESP. For some reason the discussion isn't taking place on this page so I thought I should point it out for those who haven't got that page on their watch lists. –Rpeh  15:10, 7 May 2008 (EDT)

:Yep, please look if you're interested in Oblivion mods policy. (The discussion is on the  page because that's the top page for Oblivion Mods.) --Wrye 19:14, 7 May 2008 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Archive/CP Search Function

Search function

Could we add a "Select All" and "De-select All" button to the Search page? In my opinion, it would help a lot with broad and specific searches. I have no idea how hard it is to implement... --Benould  21:15, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
:I've tracked down the code changes necessary to add this feature (technically as checkboxes rather than buttons, but close enough).  I've modified a copy of the relevant PHP file, but for the change to actually happen Daveh has to update the wiki's version of the file.  I'll post a message on his talk page, too, to let him know about it. --Nephele  23:21, 16 May 2008 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Archive/CP Database Error on Schemer Page

Something funny is going on with this page. If I try to view it without logging in, I get a "Database Error" with this description:

 

If I log in, the page displays correctly. Is it me, a temporary glitch, or is something more sinister going on? --Gaebrial 10:07, 10 June 2008 (EDT)

: I get the same result, but that's probably not surprising. I'd guess that somebody anonymous tried to access the page when the database was down during the morning reboot, which means every anon editor will get that error message because of the way the caching works. Of course, I could be utterly wrong about that. Hopefully Nephele or Daveh will know more about the cause, and more importantly, how to fix it. –Rpeh  10:16, 10 June 2008 (EDT)

::I purged the page this morning which, as far as I can tell, fixed the problem. --Nephele  01:20, 11 June 2008 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Anonymous Editing During Initial Conversion

Anonymous Editing
Anonymous editing has been enabled for now. If it causes a problem, during the initial conversion we can always temporarily disable it.
: Daveh

Looks like we had a vandal. Is that right? And name looks like an ip address. Of course they could have just entered it... Those weren't anonymous edits, were they?
porting page, so instead you have to create php code to manually remove them from the database. Other option is to block the user by: Wrye 21:33, 28 Feb 2005 (EST)

Yah, for some reason anonymous editing was still on, so some from a university in the Netherlands deleted some content...certainly nice you can just roll things back easily. Anonymous editting is now off. 
: DaveH 09:12, 1 Mar 2005 (EST)

Anonymous editing probally needs to be turned off until we get our roots further in the ground. Maybe then we can turn it back on. --Aristeo 14:51, 5 June 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Images

Images
There is currently no good way of handling downloadable files. Files can be uploaded fine but are displayed using the   prefix, which is counter-intuitive. There is also a question of how well this method would handle 1000s of files. An improved system of handling files is needed. I'm not sure whether such a system can be easily added to the Wiki or if something will have to be created from scratch. Ultimately this is a lower priority since the regular content is more important and the original file links can be used in the meantime.
: Daveh

I haven't really thought of it much, but it came into light while I was fixing up the Daggerfall Preview/Screenshots page. Are there any plans on moving the images for the site into the actual Wiki images page, such that stylish editing and display could be used? For an example, just check out the MediaWiki editing page on images. It would be good for displaying thumbs for screenshots, instead of simple having links, and could help get even closer to the original layout of the site (while keeping the idea of modernizing and updating). Anyway, it's not a big issue, but it would be nice for simplifying some site editing and expanding possibilities.
:Mdimitro 02:53, 15 May 2005 (EDT)

Probably a very good idea, especially seeing as many of the images appear to be 'missing (see  or ). I'd like to know what needs replacing, so replacements can be found. Also, we can't upload yet...  :O(
:Dr. Faust 11:23, 9 Sep 2005 (EDT)

I was ready to upload alot of images to be helpful but apparently we cannot, I hope you guys fix this soon! :)
:Suprosa

: Undesirable, I think. Images are bandwidth hogs. --Wrye 01:10, 27 March 2006 (EST)
::I disagree with you. Images may take up some bandwidth, but it's definatly desirable. --Aristeo 16:39, 25 April 2006 (EDT)

I strongly recommend that showing thumbnails in articles should be an avaliable feature. In articles, such as walkthroughs, images give the reader visual help. As they say, "A picture is worth a thousand words." And I much rather upload a picture than type a thousand words!!!! --Aristeo 16:39, 25 April 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Style and Main Template

Style and Main Template
The main site stylesheet (and alternates) need to be completed. The style should be simple and close to that of the original site. The main template must also be modified to help improve site navigation. The site quickbar needs to be 'cleaned' up and a brief site menu added (and possibly a deeper site menu as well for faster content access). The alternate stylesheets need to be checked and certain elements modified/added (such as bold1/bold2/bold3 styles).
: Daveh

The various stylesheets and the main template have been quickly edited (to give the site navbar). A few other tweaks can be done, mainly to the MonoBook (the default) and the custom MySkin (which approximates the original site style). Which one will be used as the site default can be determined later. Most of the style changes were lost when I upgraded to the 1.4 beta.
: Daveh

DO NOT USE THE NOSTALGIA STYLESHEET. I changed my skin to Nostalgia to see what it looked like and then I couldn't access any of the Special Pages, including the Preferences page to change my skin back to what it was. This seems to be an unresolved reported bug:  For the time being, could the nonworking skins be disabled?

For the record, I managed to get out of the Nostalgia stylesheet by using a cached version of the Preferences page.
:DrPhoton 04:30, 2 Nov 2005 (EST)

:If anyone has this problem in the future, simply click here. This will force the Preferences page to display in Monobook, allowing you to easily change skins once more. :) Garrett 01:28, 5 April 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Vandalism (Warning Template Suggestion)

Vandalism
Warning Template Suggestion
For the warning text, why not make it a template, then just insert it where needed -- Lee Carre 10:45, 25 June 2006 (EDT)
:Good idea. --Aristeo 15:41, 25 June 2006 (EDT)
:I just created the templates  . Enjoy! Aristeo 15:56, 25 June 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Copyright Page

Copyright Page
This needs to be filled out. Of course that means choosing a license. Probably the simplest thing to do is just to place the whole thing in the public domain. Alternatively, the Creative Commons By-SA license or GNU FPL licenses might be used. However, both of these licenses have technical requirements that must be met to apply them.
The copyright page ought to be protected.
Fully meeting this requires editing some system settings as well as the copyright page. (Set in MediaWiki namespace. Requires sysop privileges.)
Article page footer text.
Edit page footer warning/terms.
The copyright page also needs to note that some Bethesda copyright material is present -- and that this is the only copyright limited material that is allowed to be present.
We should also have a &copy; Bethesda template for those pages, and should then apply it to all the book pages.
:--Wrye 13:27, 13 Oct 2005 (EDT)

See the proposal:
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/HTML File Cache

HTML File Cache
Need to make sure this works. I tried setting it up as per the instructions but it didn't seem to do anything. This option make be needed to help reduce the site load. We may also need to look at installed a PHP cache as recommended in the Wiki installation (TurkCache?).
: Daveh
: It looks like the cache system works. I don't see the probelem. --Aristeo 19:41, 5 July 2006 (EDT)
:: We're using the default file cache of MediaWiki where anonymous users get the cached version from disk. We're also using the Zend PHP cache system since it was simple to install. Current server load is no where near high enough to worry about more complex caching systems. -- DaveH 20:11, 12 August 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Navigation Bar

Navigation Bar
An overall Site bar has been added to let people quickly link to the main areas of the site content. Deeper site bars (of varying levels) might be useful with possibly an option of which ones are displayed. An overall site tree page, according to category, may also be useful (does the Wiki have an internal tree generation?). 
: Daveh
: We don't need anything fully automatic. Categories help sort different types of content sort of automatically, and we have manual menus of content (eg: ) that has a more friendly look to it. --Aristeo 19:41, 5 July 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/News

News
Right now, the only way to really do news on the main page is to manually edit the page and cut/paste old news into archive articles. This kinda defeats the purpose of having a database web system. We need a simple form of news submission form that the main page can display the most recent articles of. We'll have to see whether Wiki is capable of doing this currently or if we have to implement it on our own.
: Daveh
: Install the Inputbox wiki extension, the Parser extension, and upgrade to version 1.6.7, and I'll be able to make this setup you're referring to. With those extensions, I could even develop a forum on the wiki like the one Wikia.com has.
::All done! -- DaveH 20:09, 12 August 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Parser Functions

Parser Functions
Is there any way we can get Parser Functions installed? Thanks! Fushi 00:23, 26 April 2006 (EDT)
:I'd second the request, could let us do some fairly cool things if we're lucky! :-) -- Endareth  00:31, 26 April 2006 (EDT)
::This is done. -- DaveH 20:09, 12 August 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Wiki Security Upgrades

Wiki Security Upgrades
MediaWiki software receives regular security upgrades. I don't know if Dave is keeping on top of this, but it would probably be a good idea. But requires ftp access to site. So, Dave or someone he trusts a lot!
:Wrye 13:27, 13 Oct 2005 (EDT)
: i would strongly recommend using ssh and sftp instead of the easy to snif telnet and ftp for remote access -- The Nerevarine 09:53, 6 June 2006 (EDT)
: Wyre and Garrett seem to be knowledgable enough to do it, and I know Daveh can upgrade a wiki. I'd only give my vote to a sysop, and it seems that Endareth is on a more-or-less permanent wiki break. I wouldn't even give myself my vote, since I know nothing about the PHP nor the inner workings of a wiki. But I do think the wiki needs to be upgraded; we're way behind.. --Aristeo 19:09, 24 July 2006 (EDT)

::I've upgraded to 1.6.8 and any further upgrades to the 1.7.x path will have to wait until I am brave enough to upgrade the PHP to 5.0. -- DaveH 20:08, 12 August 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Site Load

Site Load
There is a question of whether the site can handle a Wiki of all the pages. Currently the UESP is serving 120-150k hits, 90-110k files, 30-40k pages totalling 2-3 GB of bandwidth  . Once Oblivion is released I can easily see this increasing by a factor of 5 (if not more, peak visits during Morrowind were a factor of 3 more than current values). While this only translates to a few pages per second (or so), it still may be much for the virtual server to handle. Caching options can be considered as I'd don't want to have to get a more expensive server contract for the site unless there is no other option.
: Daveh
: I don't notice any problems. --Aristeo 19:41, 5 July 2006 (EDT)

::Load seems very fine with a lot of room if we need more. Bandwidth use is around 15% of the current maximum. CPU use is similarily 10-20% with average loads of 0.5, The current server settings maximize use of memory meaning we're using 90% of RAM typically but in a controlled manner to prevent exceeding 100% and forcing it to start swapping. Stability is also fine with the server running for months without problems (current restarts have only been due to upgrades and setting changes). -- DaveH 20:06, 12 August 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Search

Search
The search page needs an improved design to make it easier to choose the various options. Part of this might be through the stylesheet or the search PHP page. An alternate search PHP page could also be created.
: Daveh
: The wiki isn't designed to have more than the default namespaces. I don't know if we'll be able to find something. --Aristeo 19:41, 5 July 2006 (EDT)

Another thing the search function is severely lacking in is some basic logic tools, like AND/OR searches, case-sensitive, or quoted phrases.  For example, I recently discovered that the "Allies for Bruma" quest was mistakenly labelled as "Aid for Bruma".  So I decided to fix it.  Moved the main page, then tried using the Search to find all pages that used the wrong name.  Problem is, the search gives you a list of everything which contains "aid", "for", OR "Bruma", not just pages which contain all three.  As you might well imagine, that is quite a large number of pages, most of which were irrelevant to the search.  Putting the phrase in quotes made no difference.  It even used partial words, like "Aid" gives me "Plaid Shirt" from the clothing page.  I had to go through pages and pages of results to pick out the ones I needed to change.  (In fact, check it out now.  Even though I've made the change, and the words "Aid for Bruma" should not appear anywhere anymore, look at how many results you get from the search...)  I'd have better results just pointing a Google search at the site.  Surely there's something that can be done about this?  (If nothing more than just literally placing a Google-search button on the sidebar.) --TheRealLurlock 18:02, 8 August 2006 (EDT)

:Yes, there's a number of things that can be done to improve it, all of which take time though. I'll think about it and see what the best solution is. -- DaveH 20:02, 12 August 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Site Contact

Site Contact
Currently the site contact form merely sends me an e-mail. If we happen to get a good number of site editors, I'd like to change this into a type of message board or help request forum. When a user submits a contact form, it will be stored on the site. All such messages can be listed and answered by editors. I'm not sure if the Wiki properly supports such a system or whether it will be better to create a quick database from scratch or use an existing message board code. This is a lower priority item unless it can be easily implemented.
: Daveh
: Like I said in an above comment, if you install the Inputbox wiki extension, the Parser extension, and upgrade to version 1.6.7, I will be able to make a forum on this wiki. --Aristeo 19:41, 5 July 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Deletion Review/Oblivion:Roleplaying/Runaway

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Almost nothing to do in this roleplay except sit at a campsite drinking Skooma. –Rpeh  03:53, 7 July 2008 (EDT)

 
Delete it is too short what else could you do? it would be better if combined with a slave mod (are there slave mods?) but on the whole i agree with Rpeh, the whole article could be renamed "skooma loner" as that is effectively what it is suggesting. Lewbot1 14:28, 10 July 2008 (EDT)
Delete Nothing there really. --Benould  19:38, 14 July 2008 (EDT)
Delete Does not really make sense compared to the others. Chibiace 18:54, 19 August 2008 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Deletion Review/Oblivion:Roleplaying/Wabbajack Nomad

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Other roleplays (Hunter, Wilderness Dweller etc) cover most of this so all that differentiate this one is that you occasionally use the Wabbajack. The rest of this roleplay is a random collection of ideas with no real link. –Rpeh  03:53, 7 July 2008 (EDT)

 

Delete - yeah it is just a bandit roleplay with wabbajack, maybe a small section could be put into the bandit or wanderer roleplay, to say that you could become a "wabbajack nomad" with a brief description of what it involves.

Merge Merge the useful elements with bandit. --Benould  19:41, 14 July 2008 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Deletion Review/Oblivion:Roleplaying/Fimmion

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Too short and has nothing to offer beyond collecting sweetrolls and walking around without pants. –Rpeh  03:53, 7 July 2008 (EDT)

 

Delete - not good enough, the best thing about it is the picture, in my opinion this article is one of the select few which give the others a bad name.

Delete - not much there to do. --Benould  19:44, 14 July 2008 (EDT)
Tribunal:Generic Magic Items

Generic items have common, simple enchantments often shared by multiple different items.
 
Magic Weapons
Note: The "Charge/Cost=Uses" values shown on this page do not take into account your Enchant skill, Intelligence, or Luck, all of which will affect the charge cost of using enchanted items.  The values given here assume that you have 0 in each, which is of course impossible, since all skills start with at least 5 points (usually more depending on class/specialty) and all attributes start with at least 30 points.  Additionally, since enchanted items (other than projectiles) will regenerate their charge over time, it is possible you will get more uses if you don't drain them all at once and you allow the items to recharge. 

Ammunition
Arrows


Throwing Weapons


Long Blades, One-Hand


Short Blade

The Adamantium Jinkblade of Wounds is only available by beating the highest-ranked of the generic Dark Brotherhood Assassins, and thus cannot be obtained by the player before level 30.
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Renameuser

Renameuser
As Aristeo was kind enough to point out to me after having lodged an inquiry regarding such on his talk page:
 
Knowing such, I would like to ask that this extension be installed herein; is this possible? If there is any pressing reason to avoid the installation of said extension, I would similarly appreciate being informed of such. Thank you. -- Booyah boy 07:17, 3 October 2006 (EDT)
:I was just browsing Mediawiki's FAQ and came across another solution that does not require installation of any extensions.  There is already a maintenance script (as of version 1.5.7) reassignEdits.php that allows edits to be reassigned from one user to another.  It still requires Daveh to run the script, but it is probably less time-consuming than installing an extension.  The usage is:  php reassignEdits.php    .  Presumably this could also be used to merge Lurlock and TheRealLurlock's edit histories, for example. --Nephele 19:20, 5 October 2006 (EDT)
::Until a decision on this can be reached, I decided the best course would be to simply modify my signature (with the "raw signature" option), and place a minor notation on my user page listing who I am (Graye = booyah_boy). -- Graye 06:34, 6 October 2006 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/Gameplay Videos for Redguard

Gameplay videos for Redguard

Hello UESPWiki,

A week or two ago i started on making some Redguard videos. Since these are extremely rare i thought i might share them with you. The walktrough contains four videos at the moment and are already uploaded on You Tube. Here are the links for the videos.

Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 3
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Part 4
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Part 5 will be online before the end of the week.

I thought this might be something for the wiki so everyone can reach these videos in two clicks. Since im not really handy in using the wiki it might be nice if a admin could add this.

Thanks in advance  

:I've created a new page,   with your links.  I tried to fill in a bit of description, and some links to the relevant quest pages, but feel free to expand and/or revise.  I'm looking forward to having time to watch these videos, since it's probably as close as I'll ever get to playing Redguard :) --Nephele  22:47, 24 May 2007 (EDT)
UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard/Archives/File Hosting Feedback

File Hosting Feedback

Those who have been around here a while might know of my eventual wish to begin hosting more files on UESP. I'm closer to actually thinking about implementing something but would like to get everyone's feedback on it. My basic thoughts on it are:
:* This is not to compete with all the other ES hosting sites but provide another option. I find most of the existing hosting sites extremely slow and annoying overall (I recently reinstalled Oblivion and was re-downloading mods...ugh). I also want to make sure ES file content is always available in the future.
:* I don't imagine trying to host every single MW/OB mod. I'm mainly interested in making sure all the good quality mods and utilities from all games will be always available.
:* I'd like the download/upload interface to be as simple as possible and fit within the MediaWiki framework. Ideally I'd like something similar to how the Image namespace is used allowing users to upload and manage files themselves.
:* File hosting will mainly affect the site's bandwidth and the site load very much. I'll likely setup a separate light-weight web server (tinyhttpd?) to serve files/images so as to not interfere with the main web page server. The site's monthly bandwidth can be easily increased and we can upgrade from a 10Mbs to a 100Mbs connection relatively cheaply. I'll likely also design the system to allow the file/image server to be a seperate physical machine to allow it to scale easily in the long term.
No rush on this as I haven't even done any planning or designing yet beyond what I've done in years past. -- Daveh 18:13, 27 March 2007 (EDT)

:Your choice, of course, but I tend to think that it's better to stay focussed. Download sites are already pretty well covered. And running one of them is a lot of work. And I'd be very concerned with major downloads interfering with the wiki operation. OTOH, a concern about always keeping mods available is reasonable -- I remember multiple Morrowind sites going down. But a solution there might to act as a backup site for the other major sites. (If they're interested -- and assuming licensing concerns don't get in the way as they did for MW. Painful long battles just to rehost files that people weren't sure they had the permissions to redistribute. Aaargghh.) --Wrye 21:03, 27 March 2007 (EDT)