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== Column templates ==
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Hey, Tony, I'm going through the editing templates and categories and I came across this category: [[:Category:General wiki templates]]. You tagged what looks like three template pages that were going to be used to format columns. Since the pre-existing category page capitalizes the W in Wiki, you wound up linking to a non-existent category. Also, those column templates don't seem to work and there is a working {{tl|Columns}} template already in existence. And, nothing links to those three templates. So... should they be marked for deletion maybe? [[User:Zombie Man|Zombie Man]] 01:59, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
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: Sure, it was probably just an attempt at an old formatting project.  :) --[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 01:20, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
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== New Interwiki Links ==
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Here are a few examples of interwiki links:
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<nowiki>[[coh_forums:10177909|Belle's City Traveler column]]</nowiki> shows up as [[coh_forums:10177909|Belle's City Traveler column]].<br />
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<nowiki>[[coh_forums_threaded:10177909|Belle's City Traveler column]]</nowiki> shows up as [[coh_forums_threaded:10177909|Belle's City Traveler column]].<br />
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<nowiki>[[pw_forums:996|Wikia move announcement]]</nowiki> shows up as [[pw_forums:996|Wikia move announcement]].
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o.o hiiii!--[[User:Sleepykitty|Sleepy Kitty]] 06:24, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 
  
 
==Search Bar==
 
==Search Bar==
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: Aha! Just noticed this. I implemented the JavaScript I wrote to move the Search bar into the main site JavaScript, so it should be applying to everyone now. The Search box should now be beneath the Navigation box. If it's not working for you (and you're using a modern browser with JavaScript enabled) let me know! -- [[User:Sekoia|Sekoia]] 19:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 
: Aha! Just noticed this. I implemented the JavaScript I wrote to move the Search bar into the main site JavaScript, so it should be applying to everyone now. The Search box should now be beneath the Navigation box. If it's not working for you (and you're using a modern browser with JavaScript enabled) let me know! -- [[User:Sekoia|Sekoia]] 19:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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This is SO not an issue any more.  :)  --[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 01:02, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
  
 
==Paragon Free Press==
 
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: Okay, [[User:TonyV/History_of_the_Paragon_Wiki|here's my first crack at it]]! --[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 15:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 
: Okay, [[User:TonyV/History_of_the_Paragon_Wiki|here's my first crack at it]]! --[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 15:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
  
==Server information?==
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== wiki about City of Heroes/Villains in spanish ==
Hi Tony, I'm Catherine from Wikia and I handle most requests for new wikis. I got a request last week for a separate wiki for the COX Defiant server, which you can see here: http://requests.wikia.com/wiki/Defiantcox  
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I'm an administrator of the wiki about City of Heroes/Villains in Spanish here at wikia. Is a very new wiki (it was create some time ago, but was abandoned with no contents until last month when a friend of mine adopted it).
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I want to know if the community at this site thinks that is ok if I borrow images of this wiki for the one in Spanish, and also if you may be interested in interlanguage links (we have very little contents at the moment, but I hope it will grow).
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Well, I'm not very good at speaking English, but I hope you can understand me.
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Thank you --[[User:Ceriwden|Ceriwden]] 15:52, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
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: Hello Ceriwden!  I'll be contacting you about this. We are planning for the new Paragon Wiki to be multilingual--[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 01:02, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
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==Unlogged in Editing==
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o.o Looking at the recent changes page, we have a number of ip addrs showing up.. but when I logged out and randomed a page, I didn't get the edit option. @.@ am I missing something? I though the ip addrs where only used when recording unlogged in editing... --[[User:Sleepykitty|Sleepykitty]] 08:35, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
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: If you're referring to the "127.0.0.1" edits, I think that those are edits made from the back-end on the server itself, probably by Sekoia.  Those are okay.  :) --[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 11:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
  
I recommended that [[User:Bubble923]] come talk to the community here about whether the material s/he wants to add should be here or in a separate wiki, but I can't see any on-wiki indication that they did thatI've now gotten a new request at http://requests.wikia.com/wiki/Defiant for the same thing, so I'd like to solicit your opinion.
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::@.@ kk! --[[User:Sleepykitty|Sleepykitty]] 17:56, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
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==wikia site?==
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Is this now the 'official' Paragonwiki? The wikia one is still there... I was editing it for a few weeks and wondering why it seemed so out-of-date. I tried putting a notice on the front page directing to this one, but it got reverted. --[[User:Graal|Graal]] 11:53, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
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: This is definitely the official Paragon WikiFor a little under a year, we actually were hosted at Wikia, but we left due to some broken promises and contract violations on their part, mainly around how intrusive their advertising was. When we left, it wasn't exactly on good terms with Wikia, and they are keeping their copy of the wiki active, although there are very, very few people who use it or keep it updated.  Nevertheless, any notes from users pointing to this site are being reverted by Wikia's staff.
  
In general, I think it's better for all the enthusiasts on a topic to stay on one wiki -- siphoning off some COX players to work on a separate wiki reduces the pool of editors here, and increases the chance of duplicate articles if that wiki tries to create articles on some things locally rather than using cross-wiki links to Paragon WikiOn the other hand, server wikis can contain character profiles, guild/supergroup profiles, fan fiction and other information that might not be welcome in this wiki.  [[Wikia:World of Warcraft|WoWWiki]] has several successful "realm wikis" that are organized this way.
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: Sorry for the confusion.  One of the problems is that Google ranks their site higher than ours because of search engine optimization games they play that I don't really want to get intoStill, via word of mouth, the hope is that most members of the community know that this is the real Paragon Wiki, and that our staff is devoted to keeping the community informed, not managing some bottom line advertising number.
  
I'd like to hear from your community where you think this type of material belongs -- as part of your main namespace?  Here in a separate [[w:c:Help:Help:Custom namespaces|custom namespace]] (such as Servers: or Groups: or Fans: or the like)?  Or in separate wikis for each server?  Please discuss it and let me know what you think, and I will know how to answer this requester.  Thanks— [[User:CatherineMunro|Catherine]]<staff/> <small>([[User talk:CatherineMunro|talk]])</small> 17:41, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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: Oh, and thanks for coming by, your edits will be very valuable and useful to the community--[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 12:43, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
  
:o.o did they say exactly what it is they wanted a server specific wiki for? @.@ I can't imagine anything other than char profiles and sg ones, but that sort of thing is being added to the city of heroes main pages soon, so a wiki for that would be a bit redundant.. not to mention one for each server.. o_o you'd have very little content on each one.. o,o anyway, sorry for reading your mail tony! --[[User:Sleepykitty|Sleepy Kitty]] 22:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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== Hami-O Edit ==
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Was the [http://paragonwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Hamidon_Origin_Enhancements&diff=147234&oldid=146868 change] to the Hamidon Origin Enhancements page on line 2 intentional?  The previous version seemed correct to meMaybe I missed something?  --[[User:Eabrace|Eabrace]] [[File:Healthbar notify phone.png|20px|link=User talk:Eabrace]] 13:34, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
  
Hi Catherine, thanks for the heads-up! I pretty much agree with Sleepy Kitty.  I've striven very hard to ensure that the main namespace of the Paragon Wiki only contains factual and official information relevant to the game, and avoids information about player characters, supergroups (i.e. guilds), and other fan-based information.  We've had a standing policy for several years now that all of this information should be placed only on the Community Portal and on User pages.  Honestly, I don't see a need for a Defiant City of Heroes wiki.  However...
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== Resistance Scum! Loyalist Trash! ==
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Hey! Can we have fun with [[:File:Wiki.Loyalist.png|this]] and make the Resistance icon the Ouro logo for a little while? :D Then it's the war of the wikis! ~ {{:User:Aggelakis/Sig1}} 01:22, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
  
Sleepy Kitty is right in that some people have set up wikis to basically be repositories of fan-based information.  The most popular of these that I know of is called the [http://virtueverse.com/index.php/Main_Page VirtueVerse], also based on MediaWiki, that applies specifically to the Virtue server.  I can definitely see a desire, need, and usefulness to having such a wikiThe Virtueverse has extensive information on players, characters, groups, fan-written background information, and so on.
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: Yes, I think that's a wonderful idea:) --[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 12:39, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
  
I'm not sure how the best way to handle this would be.  I still want to make sure we keep the Main namespace clear of fan-based material, because if someone searches, for example, for "Freedom Phalanx," I don't want results for fan-based supergroups related to the Freedom Phalanx to be pulled up.  Maybe setting up some sort of fan-based namespace is the answer, then having categories such as Cross-server, Defiant, Virtue, Infinity, etc., along with categories such as Players, Characters, Supergroups, Background Information, etc. would work.  Or we might want to consider setting up a separate wiki instead of a namespace so that searches are more intuitive, but if we do, I would think that one factual- and offical-based content wiki (this one) and one fan-based content wiki with categories would suffice.
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== I shouldn't exist! ==
  
I definitely think that going with fifteen wikis for each live server, plus an extra one for official information (this one), plus possibly one more for the Training Room (test) server, would be going a bit overboard. Let me ping the Paragon Wiki forums with this message and see if we can get some more thoughts and opinions, and hopefully Bubble923 might pop over and comment as well. --[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 04:41, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
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I am not [[User:GuyPerfect|GuyPerfect]]. I am his righteous doppelganger Guyperfect. I logged in as though I was GuyPerfect, but am masquerading as a do-gooder. I do not have a user or talk page. --[[User:Guyperfect|Guyperfect]] 18:53, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
  
:Hi all -- any news on this discussion?  Bubbles never answered my attempts to contact him/her, but it would still be good to know what the community consensus on this idea is. :)  — [[User:CatherineMunro|Catherine]]<staff/> <small>([[User talk:CatherineMunro|talk]])</small> 23:51, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
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: Noted. --[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 18:54, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
  
::o,o yes, the discussion is [http://paragonforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=859 here] on the wiki's forums. With yesterday's announcement, it looks like we might need a junk wiki for fan chars anyway. >.> Hopefully we'll get back about it soon... --[[User:Sleepykitty|Sleepy Kitty]] 00:06, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
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== Legacy badge image(s) ==
  
Okay, brief update.  As Sleepy Kitty pointed out, we've been discussing it on the main forums.  The main sticking point in my mind that is that there is an existing fan-based content wiki out there called the VirtueVerse.  Ideally, I'd like for this wiki to be the master fan-based content wiki for City of Heroes, since they have a really good head start on content and user base. If they want to host on Wikia all the better, since it would make it easier for us to share resources, and not to put too fine a point on it, since Wikia is so damn good at hosting MediaWiki sites.
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Is there some way to access (or make available) legacy images? It's a bit byzantine, perhaps, but I would like to be able to repurpose the old [[Image:Badge count 50.png|36px|50 badges]] badge image as a graphical highlight for my level 50 characters on [[Image:Badge ouroboros enabled.png|24px|Ouroportal]]. :3 I'm willing to do any necessary legwork you care to assign to me. --[[User:Rugiel|Rugiel]] 03:45, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
  
From posts from the VirtueVerse administrators, though, it looks like 1) they're not interested in moving to Wikia, and 2) they're not interested in expanding to be a cross-server fan-based wiki.  I want to leave the possibility open that they might change their mind, but it looks at this point like if we want a cross-server fan-based content wiki, we'll have to proceed without them, at least initially.
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== News/20120913 ==
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[[News/20120913]] - is this ready to go public? It needs to get added to [[news]] if so. ~ {{User:Aggelakis/Sig1}} 05:46, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
  
We're tossing around ideas for namesI think that "branding" the wiki is much better than just something generic like "City of Heroes Players Wiki." Yuck! When I get time, I'd also like to get some thoughts about technical considerationsMore on this later... --[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 13:45, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
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:Not yet, the plan was for it to hit at noon Eastern tomorrowSome people have already found it, though:) I'm still trying to figure out what's brokenThe donations are going through, but it's not updating the amount. --[[User:TonyV|TonyV]] 05:49, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 05:49, 13 September 2012

Column templates

Hey, Tony, I'm going through the editing templates and categories and I came across this category: Category:General wiki templates. You tagged what looks like three template pages that were going to be used to format columns. Since the pre-existing category page capitalizes the W in Wiki, you wound up linking to a non-existent category. Also, those column templates don't seem to work and there is a working {{Columns}} template already in existence. And, nothing links to those three templates. So... should they be marked for deletion maybe? Zombie Man 01:59, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Sure, it was probably just an attempt at an old formatting project.  :) --TonyV 01:20, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

New Interwiki Links

Here are a few examples of interwiki links:

[[coh_forums:10177909|Belle's City Traveler column]] shows up as Belle's City Traveler column.
[[coh_forums_threaded:10177909|Belle's City Traveler column]] shows up as Belle's City Traveler column.
[[pw_forums:996|Wikia move announcement]] shows up as Wikia move announcement.


Search Bar

Could we move the left-hand Search Bar? It's way too low now - I have to scroll down to see it. It's the number one way to find an article here, it should be obvious. --GreyDog 16:47, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

o,o as it happens, thats one of the things we've been lobbing back and forth amoung admin. Right now the best solution we have is to do what Tony just did earlier today and make one of these pages on your user profile. Its only sorta a temp fix, and on a per individual level... Oh! and I've noticed a trend.. ppl have been using Tony's main user page as his talk page this week... ^^ fixed it here. --Sleepy Kitty 17:02, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
Aha! Just noticed this. I implemented the JavaScript I wrote to move the Search bar into the main site JavaScript, so it should be applying to everyone now. The Search box should now be beneath the Navigation box. If it's not working for you (and you're using a modern browser with JavaScript enabled) let me know! -- Sekoia 19:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

This is SO not an issue any more.  :) --TonyV 01:02, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Paragon Free Press

The front page says this wiki is provided by the Paragon Free Press. Is that still true?--GreyDog 18:57, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Um... Yup! I leave that there mainly out of recognition of why the wiki got started in the first place. Remind me to write that history down at some point.  :D --TonyV 03:32, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
o.o tony, go write down the history of the wiki!--Sleepy Kitty 10:56, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Okay, here's my first crack at it! --TonyV 15:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

wiki about City of Heroes/Villains in spanish

I'm an administrator of the wiki about City of Heroes/Villains in Spanish here at wikia. Is a very new wiki (it was create some time ago, but was abandoned with no contents until last month when a friend of mine adopted it).

I want to know if the community at this site thinks that is ok if I borrow images of this wiki for the one in Spanish, and also if you may be interested in interlanguage links (we have very little contents at the moment, but I hope it will grow).

Well, I'm not very good at speaking English, but I hope you can understand me.

Thank you --Ceriwden 15:52, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello Ceriwden! I'll be contacting you about this. We are planning for the new Paragon Wiki to be multilingual. --TonyV 01:02, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


Unlogged in Editing

o.o Looking at the recent changes page, we have a number of ip addrs showing up.. but when I logged out and randomed a page, I didn't get the edit option. @.@ am I missing something? I though the ip addrs where only used when recording unlogged in editing... --Sleepykitty 08:35, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

If you're referring to the "127.0.0.1" edits, I think that those are edits made from the back-end on the server itself, probably by Sekoia. Those are okay.  :) --TonyV 11:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
@.@ kk! --Sleepykitty 17:56, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

wikia site?

Is this now the 'official' Paragonwiki? The wikia one is still there... I was editing it for a few weeks and wondering why it seemed so out-of-date. I tried putting a notice on the front page directing to this one, but it got reverted. --Graal 11:53, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

This is definitely the official Paragon Wiki. For a little under a year, we actually were hosted at Wikia, but we left due to some broken promises and contract violations on their part, mainly around how intrusive their advertising was. When we left, it wasn't exactly on good terms with Wikia, and they are keeping their copy of the wiki active, although there are very, very few people who use it or keep it updated. Nevertheless, any notes from users pointing to this site are being reverted by Wikia's staff.
Sorry for the confusion. One of the problems is that Google ranks their site higher than ours because of search engine optimization games they play that I don't really want to get into. Still, via word of mouth, the hope is that most members of the community know that this is the real Paragon Wiki, and that our staff is devoted to keeping the community informed, not managing some bottom line advertising number.
Oh, and thanks for coming by, your edits will be very valuable and useful to the community! --TonyV 12:43, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Hami-O Edit

Was the change to the Hamidon Origin Enhancements page on line 2 intentional? The previous version seemed correct to me. Maybe I missed something? --Eabrace Healthbar notify phone.png 13:34, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Resistance Scum! Loyalist Trash!

Hey! Can we have fun with this and make the Resistance icon the Ouro logo for a little while? :D Then it's the war of the wikis! ~ AGGE talk/cons 01:22, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I think that's a wonderful idea.  :) --TonyV 12:39, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

I shouldn't exist!

I am not GuyPerfect. I am his righteous doppelganger Guyperfect. I logged in as though I was GuyPerfect, but am masquerading as a do-gooder. I do not have a user or talk page. --Guyperfect 18:53, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Noted. --TonyV 18:54, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Legacy badge image(s)

Is there some way to access (or make available) legacy images? It's a bit byzantine, perhaps, but I would like to be able to repurpose the old 50 badges badge image as a graphical highlight for my level 50 characters on Ouroportal. :3 I'm willing to do any necessary legwork you care to assign to me. --Rugiel 03:45, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

News/20120913

News/20120913 - is this ready to go public? It needs to get added to news if so. ~ AGGE talk/cons 05:46, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Not yet, the plan was for it to hit at noon Eastern tomorrow. Some people have already found it, though.  :) I'm still trying to figure out what's broken. The donations are going through, but it's not updating the amount. --TonyV 05:49, 13 September 2012 (UTC)