User talk:TOR/Archive

Hello
From admin to admin, I'd like to say hello. I hear you're the "tech guy" (not my words) that helped us facilitate the move. I'd assume that you've got admin (and more) privileges, especially that you'll be helping people rename their userpages. Welcome to our community ^^

Before the move, we had only 3 actual admins (now 4 that I've been promoted from Jr to full sysop), so it's a bit strange for me to see others editing MediaWiki pages and whatnot. Just so I'm not completely confused by all these new faces, do you have a list of all the new sysops on your side that will be helping us with the site? It's been just Ganiman, Mierin, Gahoo and I for so long that new faces are a bit surprising. -- 21:12, 19 September 2007 (EDT)


 * Hi. You can see all the people with staff access here at Special:Listusers/staff, most of those won't be around here though.  There is a page with more info on us all at http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_staff].  The ones you are most likely to see are the Community Team, TOR, Angie (our gaming goddess), and maybe a passing tech doing a specific job.


 * There is also one "janitor" so far, User:GHe. He may delete a piece of spam or two, but otherwise probably won't be seen here. (A Janitor is a contributor with extra access on all Wikia wikis - they are expected to defer to local admins, the are just around to help with global cleaning up and helping)


 * Hope that helps! Maybe you could build a page to explain this to people?  Thanks -- sannse (talk) 18:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Can I somehow get my old username back?
I'm very attached to "Itazura", and rather not have "FFXI-" in front of it; may I please have my name back? --FFXI-Itazura 04:06, 20 September 2007 (EDT)
 * I'm sorry, that name is taken on Wikia. But you can have any variation on it... how about ItaZura, Itazura-, or *Itazura* ?  You can still adapt your signature to show the previous name, it's only the automated parts that would show the variation. -- sannse (talk) 19:04, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * That sucks. -_-  Ifrit no Itazura, then, if possible.  Of course, if you can rename the other guy, and let me have my "Itazura" back, that'd be even better...   (Is that other guy an active contributor?)  --FFXI-Itazura 22:36, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Username Conflict
Since the username Sigma seems to exist on wikia, would it be possible to change mine to "Eithin"? --FFXI-Sigma 05:49, 20 September 2007 (EDT)


 * "Eithin" is available. TOR will note here when it's done -- sannse (talk) 17:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for changing my username. However, my contributions page (with the exception of the top few entries) seems to have been mixed up with User:FFXI-Itazura's? -- 16:11, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * T_T It's a plot against me!  They took away all my contributions, and still won't tell me anything Wikia's "Itazura" is active or ever contributed, so I wouldn't have a case for asking the other user to be punted.  For all I know I probably created "Itazura" on FFXIClopedia before that lesser imitator created his "used once" account on Wikia.  Shakes fists in the air  --FFXI-Itazura 19:40, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Broken Items
The Category:Limbus link has database errors. Bajoyasujoya 13:20, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Works fine for me, fyi. -- 13:22, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I see Category:Limbus as OK too. Can you give more information?  What is the error message? What URL are you on when you see it?  Where on the page is it?  What browser do you use and are you logged in or out?  Thanks! -- sannse (talk) 19:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Images for links on the side of the forums are no longer there. Fusionx 21:19, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * He means the affiliate images on the forums as they are likewise displayed on the sidebar here on the wiki. Please see if you can get them back up after you move the forums. Here is the image:
 * http://www.petfoodalpha.com/Images/Buttons/pfabutton.jpg Thanks. -- 21:34, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Username
IUser:Nynaeve is one of the users with the FFXI- prefix, well, both of them FFXI- and FFXI-FFXI-. She can't login to any of these and was wondering if her name, user and user subpages could be changed to User:Birgitte, which I was unable to find in the central wikia userlist, so I'm thinking that it's free to use? :)

She would like the password and e-mail to remain the same. If Birgitte is taken the next option is Egwene, then Faile. -- 23:16, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


 * yep, "Birgitte" is available. TOR will note here when it's done -- sannse (talk) 17:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Was able to log onto FFXI-Nynaeve finally but I would still like to move everything to User:Birgitte provided my contributions and Subpages can go with it. Really don't want to lose everything. -- 23:25, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Youtube
Can you please take a look at the problem we are having with the youtube videos. I have updated the links with the new coding ( code ) for about 30 + videos in category:videos section. Most of the earlier ones i edited worked just fine. About the past 20 or so do not work. I have reported a software bug for all of them.

Should i continue to edit them with the new code? Or give you time to fix it? Thanks in advance--Spops 16:58, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks Spops. I can see you have the right code, looks like there is a problem in pulling videos over here from YouTube. TOR will have a look as soon as he can, might as well hold off on the editing until then.  Thanks -- sannse (talk) 19:23, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Looks like none of them are working at the present time now. Should you list something in the FFXIclopedia:Move page so users know it's a known issue but that they should not remove current code from any pages even though its broken? I've noticed a few have done that and they have been reverted back in. -- 23:27, 22 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Sounds as though some were cached, that would explain why the broke on saving... I've put a note on the "Move" page. ("some" incase some are still cached and show, confusing people more!) -- sannse (talk) 20:25, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I've also noticed a large number of videos and images which worked prior to the move but now have ceased to function. A lot of users have deleted the images they uploaded afterwards thinking they would not need them. Do you have any idea when and if we might be able to get these restored?-Heretic mkII@ffxi 03:43, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

New Message Indicator
Will occasionally appear in Japanese, linking to a URL that doesn't exist. -- 17:11, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Now that has to be the strangest bug so far! Please can you copy the URL next time you see it?  Thanks -- sannse (talk) 17:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Someone already did in the forums but i will post it here for you to see: It says: "You have new messages on 太空戰士 XI 網路版, ffxi"--Spops 18:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I think she wants the URL that the Japaneses text links to. I should note that the bit in Japanese is one link (which does not work), and the "ffxi" afterwards is a separate link, which links directly to your talk page (though the name wouldn't indicate this).  This problem has happened to me as well, and it's only a mild annoyance, as you can refresh the page and it will revert to English.  I'll try to get the URL if it happens again to me and someone else hasn't beat me to the punch.  -- 18:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks both, I got it too. The Japanese text is gone now, but there are still two links (one broken).  TOR will look -- sannse (talk) 19:24, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Both links "work" now, but they both link to the same thing, the latter of which should link to the newest revision noted parenthetically. See my userpage for an example, except the second link would be the newest diff. -- 16:55, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


 * This looks like a general problem, a confusion between our Wikia-wide notification and the older one with the diff. I'll try and track down exactly what's wrong, and get it to the technical team this week.  It might be something to ignore for a while, but we'll get it fixed as soon as possible -- sannse (talk) 20:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Forum page regarding problems
Not sure if you saw this yet but I have made a forum thread to report most problems to. The thread can be found here: http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?t=6528&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0  Please take a look at it when you can. Thanks --Spops 18:10, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Cool, we'll look there too -- sannse (talk) 19:26, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * No problem, thanks for all of the help so far-- 20:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Test edit
Hi TOR -- sannse (talk) 18:58, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Firefox problem with "Auto-Translator: In-Depth"
Auto-Translator: In-Depth won't finish rendering/loading on Firefox 2.0.0.7. I use that page frequently before the move to Wikia, so it used to work (at least with Firefox 2.0.0.6). OS is Mac OS X 10.3.9, and Safari 1.3.2 (v312.6) works with that page, but I would prefer to use Firefox if possible... --FFXI-Itazura 23:25, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.7 as well, and that page is loading just fine for me (except that it's an exceptionally long page x.x). --FFXI-Sigma 8:51, 21 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I have tested out that page on both windows and a mac running firefox. On windows it had no problem loading up at all.  When i attempted to open it up using firefox (2.0.0.6 and than 2.0.0.7) on the mac I was unable to open the page.  It actually pretty much froze up firefox.  I closed out of it and tried several more times but still had the same problem.   I guess the mac build of firefox does not like that page lol -- 10:31, 21 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, it was working fine for me before the move to Wikia, so let's not be too hasty in assigning blame to MacOS Firefox. >_>;  --FFXI-Itazura 10:56, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Site Speed
I've noticed that this site is running alot slower now. Any chance this can get sorted. This speed reminds me when I use to be on dial up, defently do not want to go back to that again. Crawlerbasher 00:55, 21 September 2007 (UTC)


 * From what i heard last night from Charitwo he said he had talked to wikia (on the irc channel #wikia) and they said they were working on some bugs. Pages seem to be loading fast this morning.  I have a fealing we might get those slow downs over the next few weeks as they iron out all of the bugs.  Be patient with wikia as they try and make Our site faster.  -- 10:39, 21 September 2007 (UTC)


 * It seems to be mostly the fact that there's a lot of page elements coming from outside the wiki.ffxiclopedia.org hostname. Maybe the layout can be tweaked so that those elements don't stop browsers from rendering the page? --Alananir 10:51, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

&action=purge
For some reason this isn't working anymore. -- 04:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Does TOR read this page?
I don't think I saw a single edit by him. --FFXI-Itazura 22:59, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, he does. I was on IRC with him this morning. You need to understand that Wikia is a business, the staff and tech usually don't work weekends. -- 23:08, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * He reads it :) He will be back online in the morning (Poland time, it's about 2am there now) and hopes to check off some more from this page. Most of the staff aren't around as much at weekends (we are still only a small company) but we do try to check in regularly even when we are away, so you can often find someone around on IRC, or via talk pages or email.  -- sannse (talk) 23:58, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
 * No offense, but the weekend has nothing to do my question unless it's been the weekend in Poland since Sep 19th.  There's been no EDIT by TOR, ever--he has not replied to anything.  (Click on the History if you don't believe me.)
 * Personally, I wanted to know if it's possible to delete/rename the other Itazura instead, if s/he is not active. Which is why I've been checking for replies, for days...  I'm sure there are other people waiting to hear back from him as well on this page.  --FFXI-Itazura 10:44, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I use the Wikipedia convention, which is not to reply on my own talk page (which I am now breaking, at your request). And since most of these issues concern not only the person who reported them, but the community as a whole (renames excluded, of course), I don't use the talk pages of my interlocutors, and post the bugs at Project:Move. Please add that page to your watchlist if you'd like to be kept up to date.
 * I assure you that I do read these messages and I do act on them. Please see my contribs here for details. TOR 11:08, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see; thank you for the response. I wasn't aware of this convention; coming from FFXIclopedia, people seem to frequently banter on each other's talk pages, and I wasn't aware that I needed to look elsewhere for the responses.  I'll put the Project:Move on watch, as you suggested.  --FFXI-Itazura

Partying
The Partying page looks horribly messed up, yet looks fine in Preview. Click for picture of messed up layout. Firefox 2.0.0.7 on WinXP. --FFXI-Itazura 23:06, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Fixed. -- 14:23, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Monobook Logo
It seems to have disappeared. -- 02:04, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned talk pages list
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Looking for lists of orphaned talk pages in these namespaces without having to check each page by hand, this query seems like an easy way to do it. Unless you have a better way, by all means! If you could be so kind. Please and thank you :) -- 02:15, 12 October 2007 (UTC)