User talk:Lotroadmin

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Questions & Requests

Fedaykin pointed me here: I wanted to get in touch with you to see if there are any advertising spots available on lotro-wiki.com. We offer high-quality strategy guides for the game and would be interested in getting a box-shaped ad on the front-page and above the fold (so users would see it on the first page without scrolling). I'd gladly provide you with review copies of our products free of charge first so you can take a look and check the quality of the products yourself. Ideally please reply using the contact form on our website at killerguides.com or on the talk page of Killer Guides. (different account, forgot pw) --Lucio 03:16, 17 September 2008 (PDT)

This wiki is pretty much ad free, but with that said I don't mind you posting a review of your guide book with ISBN number, publisher website and the Wikipedia isbn search app. Maybe someone could create a "list of books" (or media) under the social section that could list the all books related to the game and the lore. --Lotroadmin 16:05, 27 September 2008 (PDT)

Logo Contest

It looks like the contest is finally over :) It's all up to you to put it up now, when you get around to it... and let me know if you want me to change anything. --Fedaykin 19:35, 26 May 2008 (PDT)

Nevermind, I guess it'll be going for another three days first... just a heads up :) --Fedaykin 06:23, 27 May 2008 (PDT)

Interwiki

Did you see the request that we get some interwiki links set up so that we can more easily reference other wiki? Wikipedia at least, though I am sure there are others that would be useful.--YuriPup 10:29, 10 April 2007 (PDT)

I will look into it..it seems pretty complicated to set up and just as complicated to maintain as there's no webpage to add the entries (or as least not from what i can tell). --Lotroadmin 22:14, 10 April 2007 (PDT)

Reading it over didn't seem that bad--I just have no clue where to configure it. WikiMedia' stuff on it.--YuriPup 06:16, 11 April 2007 (PDT)

Chat Meeting

Hi there Lotroadmin.
Just letting you know (in case you didn't see the site-notice) that a chat meeting has been scheduled, and you can see the details here. Hopefully we will see you there!
--Fedaykin 02:24, 4 February 2008 (PST)

Gold ads

Gold ads seem to have disappeared all together.. hmm

Idea on Graphics/Icons

I put the idea on my talk page (User talk:Eleazaros) and I'll wait until I hear back on if this is possible from an expert on MediaWiki... I figured, let my page get cluttered up with this 'junk' versus yours.

Simply put, perhaps a method might be possible to reduce "graphics clutter" and help folks manage/find icons a bit easier. In preparation for something like this, I started working on a preliminary categorization of icons on the site. IMO, something should be done so folks (like me *snicker*) don't upload tons of icons simply to have some templates show them correctly.

--Eleazaros 15:30, 5 January 2008 (PST)

Namespace thought

I'm thinking we may want another namespace for NPC's. There are a lot of NPC's out there... Not sure but I figured I'd mention it. (As I go through these titles, I'm "fleshing out" the info they rely upon.

--Eleazaros 23:21, 5 January 2008 (PST)

Probably not a bad idea, should it be limited to NPCs or should it include mobs and bosses? --Lotroadmin 19:11, 7 January 2008 (PST)

"Mabey" Inappropriate content

Please check this -- Category:First_Age

Content wise, it's fine. It's the external book links I put in that may be inappropriate for the site. To sum it up, "look elsewhere for info -- here are other lore sites ... go buy a book ..." If it's improper, please let me know. If it's OK, have faith, I'll do a lot of that "go read a book about it" for lore outside the scope of the game's time frame... *snicker*
--Eleazaros 17:28, 7 January 2008 (PST)

I like how wikipedia defines as appropriate external links, maybe we need to define that here. As long as the links are valid sites that don't require a password to view or covered with ads, it's okay by me. --Lotroadmin 19:07, 7 January 2008 (PST)

Thanks -- good deal on that. I kind of like the "go read a book" reply to some "reference" questions.. --Eleazaros 19:29, 7 January 2008 (PST)

Common.css

FYI -- I was wondering if I'd done something there that caused that ) to show up so I looked at the history to check... (I hate not knowing when I mess someone up with something...). That was put in there, on accident, with the first change to that file and has been in there since so I guess it wasn't me that did it... -- FYI -- the tooltip stuff... it parses for the table definitions then checks for the classes in the HTML is how it works. So I juts need to make sure that all the classes are there for it to find and what not... Then it should work based upon what he did. Biggest diff IMO... IT should probably be adjusted to get the info from the URL versus rendering pages to parse through then present the portions it wants to... We can discuss that at the meeting I guess. I 'should' have it mostly working by then. (hope, hope... hehe)

--Eleazaros 08:10, 10 January 2008 (PST)

Skinner's rights

Can you set Skinner to ninja? That's my skin development and testing account here so I don't trash my UI while figuring out the site architecture.

Thanks.
--Eleazaros 16:30, 13 February 2008 (PST)

Oh yeah, I added a new skin look to the list of skins I put together... sunburst. Kind of the reverse of that dark schema I used in the first skin. User:Eleazaros/Skins. You might find it interesting. On long pages, the background shades to an orange hue which takes over from there down. An effect I'd been trying to figure out for a bit...

--Eleazaros 16:36, 13 February 2008 (PST)

I thought skins via MediaWiki took an extension

Seriously. I thought that took an extension to enable a CSS file in MediaWiki namespace to be a skin for folks. That's where I gathered some of my information on skins from -- MediaWiki. I've been collecting a lot of information there about how to design and develop skins lately. It's part of my learning about wikis and what to watch out for.

So what you're saying is that if I put a template out there, that it will be available without having folks do the insert? If so, when I finalize them, I'll see about doing that. Right now, I'm still futzing with them a bit and cleaning up the internal comments and the like.

All the monobook based "templates" (like yours) seem to come from the same source (e.g. "you rock" is common) but they also seem to have the same bad information in them.

.portlet to adjust the left width is flat out wrong. You have to change 5 different values to properly adjust that columns width. If you did something like adjusting the portlets width to 20em it would push the entire side navigator below the main article area.

Similar such bad info and examples are in there that still exist in some of my stuff too (learning process, etc...). Such as working with the #p- classes/ID's versus working with .portlet for mouse controls. Not a good idea unless you're into frustration... That kind of "advice" info.

Anyway, I put the skins links out in that table so folks can find them easy enough and just insert the line into their monobook.css file to see what they look like without "formalizing" them as "finished". If folks have comments on them, I'd be up for hearing any and I'll see about finishing them off/finalizing them in the not too distant future.

--Eleazaros 21:03, 14 February 2008 (PST)

extension request

Could you please install CharInsert Extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CharInsert)?
it would help with inserting special diacritic characters into pages ;) --Xander 01:41, 21 February 2008 (PST)

Thanks for adding charinsert :). Note that a few special characters still need to be added: À È Ò Ù à è ì ò ù . Additionally, the <charinsert> </charinsert> tags are showing on the charinsert panel; I assume this is not intentional? --Fedaykin 13:24, 22 February 2008 (PST)

That's because extension not installed yet and wiki doesnt understand those tags, I'll remove/hide them for now... Are you sure Tolkien used those characters as well? --Xander 14:16, 22 February 2008 (PST)

Hmm... seems like you're right, he doesn't use those characters. Interesting. --Fedaykin 16:06, 22 February 2008 (PST)

also would you consider removing .com from the wiki name? that way we'll get a bit better names for project pages and other wiki related pages... --Xander 01:59, 21 February 2008 (PST)

I hope to have the extension installed by the end of the day and maybe the phpbb3 forums --Lotroadmin 13:18, 25 February 2008 (PST)

extension Done --Lotroadmin 17:25, 26 February 2008 (PST)

The forums as well? --Xander 05:09, 27 February 2008 (PST)

Forums coming soon --Lotroadmin 09:22, 27 February 2008 (PST)

forums It needs some heavy customizations but it's a start --Lotroadmin 08:57, 28 February 2008 (PST)

NEWS Extension & more

hey you "killed" one of the features on the main page and some other pages...
while news extension didn't work out for news section it was still ok for showing the pages that were last updated or created... --Xander 02:51, 13 April 2008 (PDT)

Did you change anything else?
Template:Lootbox is suddenly broken, though it still worked yesterday during our chat... --Xander 04:14, 13 April 2008 (PDT)

well the template is designed to show the item tooltips you in a this table, which make them all look like a gallery of sorts it's rather useful for boss pages and maybe even for quest pages to show loot/quest rewards... see wowwiki for a working example, I did change a few things, but only after it stopped showing tooltips for pages where they in fact exist... --Xander 14:55, 13 April 2008 (PDT)