User talk:PARAGON-TonyV

Test forums down?

Just as I figure out something to really post on the test forums, I can't get too them. It looks like more fun stuff with the transition.

And while talking about the transition, what provider are you using and do they seem decent. I'm definatly paying too much for my provider and need to change. --StarGeek 12:59, 13 Feb 2006 (PST)

You're right, they were down. Dammit, I thought I tested everything. When I moved the PC Free Press site over, I forgot to go in and change the forum database information. I've corrected it now, and the forums should be accessible at their normal location, http://www.pcfreepress.com/forums. Soon I plan on adding a redirect to The Paragon Wiki.com domain so that you can get to them through that location, too.

As for the hosting provider, it's kind of ironic that you mentioned it, because I talked about why I changed and who I'm with now in a rather detailed post in the forums. Of course, if you couldn't get to 'em, you wouldn't know that. Grrr...

--TonyV 17:18, 13 Feb 2006 (PST)

Edit Patrol

Can you turn off editpatrol? It's such a silly feature -- rarely used except on big wikis. -- Taxibot Yellow 23:49, 30 Nov 2005 (CST)

It's mainly on because that's the default setting when MediaWiki is installed. I don't really see any reason to turn it off, it's not really hurting anything. I think I'd rather leave it on in case I decide to start using it someday than turn it off and not have it available.

I posed an announcement of the wiki on the official boards, and if I'm lucky, maybe the wiki will start getting a lot more attention. If so, there may be folks out there who want to use edit patrol, so I'll leave it on for now.

Oh, and for anyone reading this who doesn't know what edit patrol is, there is more information at the Wikipedia help site about it.

-- TonyV

You can turn it back on without a problem, if you want to use it in the future. I really wish it would default off. -- Taxibot Yellow 19:20, 10 Jan 2006 (CST)

Spam

You may want to check out MediaWiki anti-spam features... -- Taxibot Yellow 12:31, 15 Jan 2006 (CST)

Checking it out now, thanks! -- TonyV 12:36, 15 Jan 2006 (CST)

Version update

Latest MediaWiki 1.4 is 1.4.14.

Wikipedia appears to run 1.6alpha, and they have this nifty features where pages can be protected against new users & anonymous edits while leaving it open to existing users. I'm trying to see if this feature is available in earlier versions.

-- Taxibot Yellow 16:00, 20 Jan 2006 (CST)

That's cool. Since it's relatively stable as it is, I haven't really bothered checking up on upgrades and such. I know I do need to, since I don't want to miss out on any potential security patches. 8-/

I want to keep it to the stable versions, so I might check into the 1.4.14 version. I'll hold off on the Alpha until it's released as stable. I just hope that when they do the upgrades, they don't change the database schema or make an easy way to upgrade it as well.

-- TonyV 10:55, 21 Jan 2006 (CST)

Made TV Security Chief Template

Just letting you know I set up a template for the Terra Volta Security Chief Template:Mission SeeTVSecChief

PBAoE

Before I go trawling to replace "Point Blank Area of Effect" with "Player Based Area of Effect", I think it would be better to use "PBAoE" in all of those cases, perhaps with link. The long form is just annoying.

See comment on Talk:Ice Armor.

-- Taxibot Yellow 18:17, 3 March 2006 (PST)

No, don't trawl, I've seen players refer to it as both. I could swear that I've seen it somewhere official, either in-game or in a dev post somewhere, as "Point Blank." I'll try to dig up the citation. Is there anything in particular, other than player posts, that makes you believe that "Player Based" is more correct?

And I really do prefer sticking with the long form. It may be annoying to type, but it's much less annoying to read, and more importantly, much more clear than PBAoE. I want the wiki to be as user-friendly as possible, especially for folks who may not be familiar with MMORPG-speak, and I really don't want anyone to have to click away from an article just to understand the article. I don't want to create needless cross-references if it can just be spelled out. Besides, if we started abbreviating PBAoE, then for consistency, I think we should use all of the in-game abbreviations, and I really don't want to do that.

--TonyV 18:52, 3 March 2006 (PST)

Back in EverCrack, it was refered to as point blank area of effect, and I too, am pretty sure I've seen devs use it as such. A quick google search only pulled up point blank. --StarGeek 19:40, 3 March 2006 (PST)

"Point blank" implies a very short distance. PBAoE usually has a long range, the difference is that the AoE is centered on the player, hence Player Based. Perhaps the ABBR tag would come in handy here? People who aren't familiar with it can just hover over it for the expanded version. -- Taxibot Yellow 12:54, 7 March 2006 (PST)

Well, no range at all is a very short distance . It is point blank, esp. compared to the range that a targetted AoE has. I wouldn't call any PBAoE as having a long range. Most are barely enough to reach from side to side in a hallway in a door mission.

Finally, Positron post defining it as such. Ok, I've gone overkill here, I'll shut up now, move along, nothing to see here --StarGeek 19:04, 7 March 2006 (PST)

Deletion

Need a Paragon Wiki:Deletion Requests page. Mida Touch Badge needs to go on it. -- Taxibot Yellow 20:01, 9 March 2006 (PST)