User talk:Ganiman

Replacing Images Images should only be replaced if the older version is of low quality or violates one of the above policies. Why did I get in trouble about the Battledore then because its quality sucks compared to my pic. --Grr 16:21, 5 January 2007 (EST)

Vandalism
You might want to ban User:ASShole, he's been naughty. --Chrisjander 10:38, 6 January 2007 (EST)

Breads & Rice
If you type in "Breads" - Hit search - you will see THIS. The first one says Breads & Rice but when you click it - it goes to Breads. Now apparently, many, many pages have Breads & Rice rather than the actual page Breads and Rice. Is there any way to delete the so called Breads & Rice page so that it wont appear in the search? I don't know how it was made in the first place if we can't activate it. It appears like we have to move all those links... in the what links here it those pages dont show anywhere. --Nynaeve 14:54, 28 January 2007 (EST)

Thanks to User:Washuotaku, all the pages that said Breads & Rice will now say Breads & Rice. So this still brings up the problem of the Breads & Rice appearing in the search function having ppl click on it rather than the second correct one, which brings me to the question of is there a way to wipe this from the server? Also there is a Meat & Egg out there in the list as well... Anyone to get rid of this on the server as well considering the correct pages of Breads and Rice and Meat and Eggs exists. --Nynaeve 22:55, 28 January 2007 (EST)

EXP loss
And I'm telling you I personally tested exp loss at high levels prior to the "exp loss cap" update and found it capped at 2400. When I saw the update notes I thought to myself "there's a non-change". --Aurikasura 16:14, 30 January 2007 (EST)

Wikilosophy
You may be familiar with it, but if not I'd like to introduce you to the following quote from the founder of Wikipedia on the philosophy governing a massive Wiki such as Wikipedia, or on a lesser scale FFXIclopedia.

As we move forward with software and social changes, I think it is imperative that I state clearly and forcefully my views on openness and the license. This page, like all Wikipedia pages, is a living, dynamic document, which I will update and clarify as legitimate questions arise.

I should point out that these are my principles, such that I am the final judge of them. This does not mean that I will not listen to you, but it does mean that at some ultimate, fundamental level, this is how Wikipedia will be run.

(But have no fear, as you will see, below.)

[Wales]

Points 3, 7, and 8 are particularly applicable to recent events, and I'm glad to see that these standards are carrying over to this wiki as well.

Special Page Error
I've noticed the Special:Recentchanges page has an unclosed underline or emphasis tag, as all text on the page is underlined while others are not. Though I'd let you know. Thanks--Charitwo 00:25, 23 February 2007 (EST)

Forum
Please see Moderator Forum for full list of what I want deleted. Thank you. --Nynaeve 19:52, 24 February 2007 (EST)

Valentione Announcment
It appears that when you are not logged in the Valentione Announcment in red is present underneath the forum announcement. I just noticed this morning. --Charitwo 13:49, 1 March 2007 (EST)

TIME
Yeah, the only thing that links to it currently is my User page hehe. After I'm all done with it I was thinking I would go to each of the pages that feature the Airship and respective ship schedules and slip in little bits of "SEE ALSO" here and there where relevent. So, in the end there will be like 7 pages that link over to it. But I really want this page to be very thorough. I plan to add a couple diagrams and visuals and I'm currently working on the biggest part concerning the moon phases. ^^

Once I pretty the page and layout up to meet the high quality standards of the WIKI I'll make the page more easy to find :)

--Poof 15:25, 1 March 2007 (EST)

Blue Mage Subpage
I noticed you were missing some spells on your completed spell list, namely Wild Carrot, Blank Gaze, Zephyr Mantle, Mind Blast, Magic Hammer, and Exuviation. Just curious if you forgot to incorporate these(whether obtained/yet to obtain) and/or have abandoned the page. --Charitwo 15:22, 12 March 2007 (EDT)

Redirect question
There are several redirects existant that I am wary to mark, but I thought I'd get some clarification on. There are many that are redirecting to the proper page that involve Title Casing and spacing for example:

A Taste for Meat → A Taste For Meat

or

FellowLevelingGuide → Fellow Leveling Guide

Should I start tagging these too? --Charitwo 15:49, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

Reasoning
The only reason i'm touching user pages like that is that when me and Chrisjander did the deletion tag/delete for unnecessary redirects, when all the quest redirects were deleted, the (what links here) for each of them broke the respective links on those respective userpages... and that's why i was fixing those. --Charitwo 20:13, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

Hosting
Hi Ganiman. I saw your fundraising appeal and wondered if Wikia could help. We'd love to offer you free hosting. Please email me (angela@wikia.com) if you're interested. Angela 17:56, 16 March 2007 (EDT)

This host may be a bit sketchy... They seem to have been around for about as long as us, but I'm not sure they have the facilities to handle the kind of bandwidth we pull in... --Chrisjander 18:10, 16 March 2007 (EDT)

Also, as for the google ad policies, it seems to be a pain and half to get them to block the things you want blocked. Seems like handing over our baby to strangers :( --Chrisjander 18:18, 16 March 2007 (EDT)


 * Hi Chris. It's definitely not sketchy. Wikia was founded by me and Jimmy Wales (the founder of Wikipedia) and received $14million of investment last year, so we're certainly able to cope with the bandwidth of another wiki. :) Angela 19:38, 17 March 2007 (EDT)

Wikipedia
Is that supposed to reassure me? heh ;) --Chrisjander 18:31, 16 March 2007 (EDT)

Embedded Video ?
Is this a new feature you implemented? I see potential for abuse :/ --Charitwo 10:22, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

Check out this style:

The only problem I see with the straight embedding is size. We can come up with a better image than the one above, but if all videos are on /video subpages then the above icon can be sized however best for the page. See User:Gahoo/Sandbox for two examples. --Gahoo 11:15, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

I know it's a feature on the forums, but I didn't see anything about it being on the Wiki. I kinda like Gahoo's idea, however usually with embedded content, whether it be audio or video, some browsers you'll have plugin issues, especially with Firefox. --Charitwo 11:22, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

Usage does not necessarily have to be the same everywhere. What if an article wants more than one video? For example a mission walkthrough with 3 fights and 3 different videos. Since the straight embed is not scalable I do not want to see articles which are dominated by these youtube screens (not that I think there will be that many used - at least at first). If there is a logical place for the straight embedding (possibly like in your example) then I don't necessarily see a problem (until someone else wants to show a different strategy). --Gahoo 11:30, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

See User:Gahoo/Sandbox vs. User:Gahoo/Sandbox2. Colors are not meant to be final at all. Stolen from fireworks page. --Gahoo 13:22, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

I just posted a reply on forums, just wanted to throw my opinion and concerns in. I see you briefly described its use on the image policy page. Since most videos would still be considered "strategy" or "for show", these would not be appropriate on the main page but would be ok for discussion pages and such? Just wanted to make sure all the bugs and rules are worked out before we see a slew of opinionated videos get put on the site. --Wayka 14:11, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

New server problem with thumbnails?
For the first image someone uploaded since the server upgrade: Image:Onryo.jpg, when I embedded the image on that mob's page with the thumb command:  , when viewing the mob's page, it gives the following error message:

Error creating thumbnail: sh: /usr/bin/convert: No such file or directory

It's not giving this message for any pre-server upgrade pages, only this post server upgrade image. No other images have been uploaded yet that would be thumbed, so I wanted to let you know so you can see what may be causing this issue. Thanks! --Wayka 05:32, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

Time of day seems off
Another error I have noticed since server upgrade, the time of day for the server seems to be off by a few minutes, when posting new things the server side seems to be behind about 4-6 minutes from computers synchronized with time.windows.com. Example I am clicking submit on this article when it strikes 9:40pm EST, see what the time of the stamp comes out to be. --Wayka 20:35, 5 May 2007 (CDT)

Testing. Shooting for :46 --Charitwo 20:41, 5 May 2007 (CDT)
 * Verified 5 minutes off according to time.gov --Charitwo 20:42, 5 May 2007 (CDT)

It seems to be off by a bigger difference now, this is being posted at 4:00AM EST. -- 02:51, 2 June 2007 (CDT)

User creation log documention
Newuserlog --Charitwo 17:45, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Oh dear :( I wondered what happened when all that error text suddenly showed up >_> Perhaps you could ask the author about the compatibility issues? --Charitwo 18:50, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

== Image Reversion ==

It seems the image revert function is working again, did you fix it? --Charitwo 19:24, 9 May 2007 (CDT)

Name Origin
Hey, Gani. I have a question, and I mean it totally benignly. Hehe. What is the origin of your name? Because my friend, who speaks fluent Mandarin, informs me, that basically, you could translate your name as "F*** You, Man". I just think that's hilarious, and wonder if that's what was intended.Um.... love me, and don't ban me? Lol --Zaine 15:24, 10 May 2007 (CDT)

While I may not have been right, I have never been so happy to be almost-right. :) --Zaine 15:53, 10 May 2007 (CDT)

Table Classes
If you've had any experience with CSS, you might consider making some new table classes in MediaWiki:Common.css.

A  would work well enough, since most of the tables in FFXIclopedia look the same, aside from row colors (which could be denoted as   or  ), or more specific names, such as , for the minor differences in the tables. I just know it'd be a heck of a lot easier to write  than to write out , not to mention it's a form of Transclusion, so if you change the CSS, you change all the tables that use it. ~ Karuberu 14:39, 23 May 2007 (CDT)

Speaking of core files, what were you trying earlier this morning with Common.js? I only saw the deletion log, but not whatever it was you were attempting beforehand. -- 18:39, 23 May 2007 (CDT)

Ok, I figured you had experience with it, but didn't want to assume, since the MediaWiki software doesn't really require knowledge of CSS. On another note, if you're going to be upgrading FFXIclopedia, I highly recommend getting the Parser Functions extension. It would be extremely useful in creating templates. ~ Karuberu 15:01, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

Oh good, I hadn't noticed they'd been installed. Thanks for the link, in the future, I'll pay more attention to what's installed before requesting it, lol. ~ Karuberu 15:59, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

Mediawiki Redirect
Please take a look at http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Special:Listredirects?title=MediaWiki:Fundraiser_Status&redirect=no, the particular fundraiser is outdated. Both it and the article it redirects to are unnecessary. -- 19:12, 23 May 2007 (CDT)

Rise of the Zilart
Just a note when you finish up, didn't want to conflict with your edits, for consistency, noticed Xbox 360 is mentioned under Ratings and Input, but not Platforms. -- 08:49, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

Gahoo, Chrisjander, and RMT/Real Money Trade Articles
I strongly disagree with both their decisions to warrant keeping both of these articles, see Talk:RMT and Talk:Real Money Trade. It violates 3 aspects of FFXIclopedia:Prohibited Articles and therefore is subject to speedy deletion. They are here to enforce the rules, not let them be bent. The articles are not in constant danger of being recreated, and even if they were, they would be speedy deleted. If you are going to keep the two articles you might as well delete FFXIclopedia:Prohibited Articles as well because you'd be going against 3 criteria it defines as articles subject to deletion. -- 08:12, 25 May 2007 (CDT)

FFXIclopedia Skin
You going to be re-uploading that soon? >_> -- 15:19, 25 May 2007 (CDT)

User:Ganiman1
An account by the username User:Ganiman1 was created today, is this a test account or maybe someone trying to say they are you? -- 00:06, 26 May 2007 (CDT)

Sandbox
Take a look at Sandbox 3. I added a notes section, for mob articles that have additional info like TP moves and stuff, but the width is going to be a problem with the top box being set at an auto width, because notes will vary widely and an auto width for that section will cause a big fluctuation in width that doesn't align with the box on the top. -- 12:44, 29 May 2007 (CDT)