Difference between revisions of "User talk:Fleeting Whisper"

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Welcome!

Hello, Fleeting Whisper, and welcome to the Paragon Wiki! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Feel free to fill out your personal user page so we can get to know you. There is a collection of Userboxes you can easily add there. Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date.

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Again, welcome! ∙ Snorii  Talk ∙ Contribs 10:00, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

Disambiguation pages

I've noticed you've been creating some disambiguation pages lately. Those are tremendously helpful, so thanks for taking the time to do it! When making them, though, it's not necessary to create a page with the name "(Disambiguation)" in its title -- especially if the page name without that is redirecting there. So for example -- please just make "Gale" a disambiguation; don't redirect "Gale" to "Gale (Disambiguation)". Disambiguation pages shouldn't have that in the title except in unusual circumstances. Thanks! -- Sekoia 14:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Paragon Times Articles

Just wanted to say thanks for pitching in on the Paragon Times articles. I'm delighted to see that someone is interested in helping on those.  :) --Eabrace 16:46, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

It's official. You are an archiving machine. In appreciation, I award you the unofficial title of Paragon Wiki's own Paragon Times Archivist. Here's a badge to go with your new title.

:D --Eabrace 06:02, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

D'aww, thanks :) Still can't find a bunch of the images, though... :( --Fleeting Whisper 06:04, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Redirects

Hi Fleeting! Just thought I'd offer a quick tip. If you leave the edit summary blank when creating a redirect, the wiki will automatically fill it in for you. So #REDIRECT [[Badges]] would automatically get an edit summary of "Redirecting to Badges" if you leave it blank. It helps make it clearer in the Recent Changes log what's going on, and makes it easier on the editor since they don't have to type it out. :) (It's certainly not required though so don't feel obligated to do it!) -- Sekoia 14:54, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Animated Emote Images

Hey, Fleeting, could you do me a big favor and hold off on uploading the animated emote images for a bit? I think they might be choking out the wiki on the back end. I tried to bring up the Uncategorized Files page and the wiki appeared to work on it for over half an hour and never even started displaying the page, let alone the thumbnails. Going to the Upload Log and opening the images one by one to add categories to them, about 3/4 came up after very long delays and the rest were generating database errors.

Database error
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A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
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from within function "". MySQL returned error "1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction (localhost)".

I know it's not viewing the images itself that's the issue for me. I can go to Mantid's guide and pop the images right up with no perceivable delay. It just seems the wiki isn't handling the images well at all.

I'm going to see if I can get a clearer picture of what's going on from the wiki's side of things and I'll try to get back to you with whatever info I can get.

Thanks. --Eabrace 05:07, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

OK, Sekioa dug around a bit in the backend and got everything at least semi-functional. The thumbnail generation is still an issue, but the images themselves are at least able to display and accept edits to their descriptions without producing database query errors now. Might take a while before Sekoia or Tony gets the chance to figure out the rest of the puzzle, but we should be at least in a state where the images are usable now.

So, I think you can go ahead and resume uploading. But if you could do me one more favor and tag the images with [[Category:Emote Images]] when you upload them, that'll make it easier for us to keep the Uncategorized Files pages mostly clear.  :)

Thanks for your patience. --Eabrace 06:50, 14 June 2009 (UTC)