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Thanks for the link, it's more of a verification thing, to make sure they didn't mess any of the weapons up. The page is just temporary and will be merged into the regular Loot page in a week or two once it's mostly complete. --{{User:Tlosk/Sig}} 20:30, 24 February 2012 (PST)


In the Special Properties, Bonded was missing the closing brackets, so it was reading everything from Bonded forward as being inside an unterminated link. In writing templates I often take several tries to get all the bracketing right hehe, but in the process have learned that anytime you see a set of brackets in plain text (curly or square) it means that somewhere there's an opening without a closing or a closing without an opening. --[[User:Tlosk|Tlosk]] 17:15, 14 March 2009 (CDT)
== Wikia ==
Because we publish under an open license, there's nothing we can do to force Wikia to shut down their version if they don't want to, we've asked them several times in a couple of ways and basically it makes them money so they refuse. We go back and forth with them in search listings but one big advantage they have is they're such a large wiki farm that they have a lot of ingoing links that count towards SEO even though they are unrelated to their AC wiki. The best thing we can do is just remind people in /cg and on the forums whenever it comes up that they should use the current site. Not ideal but not much we can do about it. --{{User:Tlosk/Sig}} 07:55, 2 March 2012 (EST)
: That's lame... Oh well.  Is it possible to put a link on the front page of it to tell people about the new site, or even better, right in the header of the page? --[[User:Atarax|Atarax]] 03:10, 3 March 2012 (EST)
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== Bots ==
'''Contracts'''
I can answer it for you. Bots are accounts that you can use to do minor repetitive edits. Bot edits do not show up on the recent changes by default, thus saving the recent changes from being cluttered up with the same minor edits. Bots can also be used to patrol for vandalism and such.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots
Hey, Atarax. Just so you know, I added the contracts parameter to the quest template a while back so you can just list the contracts there now to keep the guides tidier. I thought they should be listed in the summary table as they are the standard for quest tracking now aren't they.  --[[User:Arkalor|Arkalor]] 06:33, 13 April 2012 (EST)
: Very cool thx. I'll use that! --[[User:Atarax|Atarax]] 06:37, 13 April 2012 (EST)


I dont actually have any software to automate my bot (tlosk might) but I do a lot of  minor repetitive edits so I thought I could use a bot account.
== Item Table ==
--[[User:An Adventurer|An Adventurer]] 10:38, 3 February 2009 (CST)
I checked a couple pages that use {{tl|Item Table}} and they seemed to be working ok, do you have a link to a specific page where the icons are off? --{{User:Tlosk/Sig}} 08:49, 18 August 2012 (EST)


I'm currently using custom scripts but after we upgrade to 1.14 we'll be able to use some of the utilities like the one you linked to. Our current version doesn't fully support the Bot API which is required (even though you can use AutoWikiBrowser with a nonbot account it still uses the API to function). If you'd like one also make an account and let me know. --[[User:Tlosk|Tlosk]] 17:37, 3 February 2009 (CST)
: Appears ok in Firefox, probably a rendering issue with Chrome, I will dig into it and see if I can come up with a solution. --{{User:Tlosk/Sig}} 15:36, 18 August 2012 (EST)


== Cantrips ==
== File Names ==
I've started a [[Cantrip Template|cantrip template here]]. We'll use the talk page there to discuss improvements. --[[User:An Adventurer|An Adventurer]] 13:10, 23 January 2009 (CST)
That would be true of any version of windows, file names have some characters that are restricted and are reserved for system use (/\:?"<>|). You'll get an error message if you try to rename a file using one of these in an explorer window, WST should give you an error message but I just didn't code one in (adding all possible error messages isn't trivial and so instead of having the program crash on unhandled exceptions and lose any work in progress I just have it fail at the task at hand and continue). Now because the wiki server is linux based it is possible to have files with for example : or ? in the name, and there's a rename box when uploading files that allow you to change the name from the actual file name, but I'd recommend avoiding it if at all possible, it makes it more difficult when backing up the files to a non Linux system. --{{User:Tlosk/Sig}} 11:10, 15 September 2012 (EST)
 
:yes. All unique/set/quest only cantrips should redirect to the standard cantrip page for the stat they increase. --[[User:An Adventurer|An Adventurer]] 15:53, 28 January 2009 (CST)
 
:: never really thought about it. I used the spell name because of item spells - Blood Drinker (Cantrip) makes more sense than Damage (Cantrip), and so on. For Life spells and attributes it wasn't an issue. You have a point with skills.<br><br>Its hard to say. On the one hand, I think Skill Name (Cantrip) is fine. Axe (Cantrip) works well enough. But now that I think about, really, all cantrips should be named with the base name of the cantrip. Like: Axe Aptitude (Cantrip), Blood Thirst (Cantrip), etc.<br><br>But... I really don't want to redo all of the cantrip pages. I say we leave item, life, and attribute cantrips how they are and just go with Skill Name (Cantrip) for skills. --[[User:An Adventurer|An Adventurer]] 16:28, 18 February 2009 (CST)
 
::: Just continue on with Skill Name (Cantrip). --[[User:An Adventurer|An Adventurer]] 21:39, 19 February 2009 (CST)
 
:: While you're working on this, you might like to look at http://homepage.mac.com/nygard/ac/spell-stacking-2009-02.txt.  This shows all of the spell names and descriptions, grouped by spells which will override each other, and sorted by difficulty (the number on the left -- spells with higher difficulty override ones with lower difficulty).  So, for example, you can

Latest revision as of 09:06, 15 September 2012

Thanks for the link, it's more of a verification thing, to make sure they didn't mess any of the weapons up. The page is just temporary and will be merged into the regular Loot page in a week or two once it's mostly complete. --How often to wash makeup brushes? ,<a href=http://cheap-macmakeupor.webs.com/#38275>wholesale mac makeup</a> ,,http://clarisonicmia2us.webs.com/#18392 20:30, 24 February 2012 (PST)

Wikia

Because we publish under an open license, there's nothing we can do to force Wikia to shut down their version if they don't want to, we've asked them several times in a couple of ways and basically it makes them money so they refuse. We go back and forth with them in search listings but one big advantage they have is they're such a large wiki farm that they have a lot of ingoing links that count towards SEO even though they are unrelated to their AC wiki. The best thing we can do is just remind people in /cg and on the forums whenever it comes up that they should use the current site. Not ideal but not much we can do about it. --How often to wash makeup brushes? ,<a href=http://cheap-macmakeupor.webs.com/#38275>wholesale mac makeup</a> ,,http://clarisonicmia2us.webs.com/#18392 07:55, 2 March 2012 (EST)

That's lame... Oh well. Is it possible to put a link on the front page of it to tell people about the new site, or even better, right in the header of the page? --Atarax 03:10, 3 March 2012 (EST)

Contracts

Hey, Atarax. Just so you know, I added the contracts parameter to the quest template a while back so you can just list the contracts there now to keep the guides tidier. I thought they should be listed in the summary table as they are the standard for quest tracking now aren't they. --Arkalor 06:33, 13 April 2012 (EST)

Very cool thx. I'll use that! --Atarax 06:37, 13 April 2012 (EST)

Item Table

I checked a couple pages that use {{Item Table}} and they seemed to be working ok, do you have a link to a specific page where the icons are off? --How often to wash makeup brushes? ,<a href=http://cheap-macmakeupor.webs.com/#38275>wholesale mac makeup</a> ,,http://clarisonicmia2us.webs.com/#18392 08:49, 18 August 2012 (EST)

Appears ok in Firefox, probably a rendering issue with Chrome, I will dig into it and see if I can come up with a solution. --How often to wash makeup brushes? ,<a href=http://cheap-macmakeupor.webs.com/#38275>wholesale mac makeup</a>

,,http://clarisonicmia2us.webs.com/#18392 15:36, 18 August 2012 (EST)

File Names

That would be true of any version of windows, file names have some characters that are restricted and are reserved for system use (/\:?"<>|). You'll get an error message if you try to rename a file using one of these in an explorer window, WST should give you an error message but I just didn't code one in (adding all possible error messages isn't trivial and so instead of having the program crash on unhandled exceptions and lose any work in progress I just have it fail at the task at hand and continue). Now because the wiki server is linux based it is possible to have files with for example : or ? in the name, and there's a rename box when uploading files that allow you to change the name from the actual file name, but I'd recommend avoiding it if at all possible, it makes it more difficult when backing up the files to a non Linux system. --How often to wash makeup brushes? ,<a href=http://cheap-macmakeupor.webs.com/#38275>wholesale mac makeup</a> ,,http://clarisonicmia2us.webs.com/#18392 11:10, 15 September 2012 (EST)

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