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Aichon

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Announcement: I'm no longer active. My talk page is still your best bet to get in touch. —Aichon— 04:39, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Please be aware of the following guidelines before posting here.

• New conversations should be started at the bottom using a level two header (e.g. ==Header==).
• I like to keep conversations wherever they start, but if a conversation ends up here, I will keep it here.
• I will format comments for stylistic reasons, delete comments for whatever reason, and generally do anything else within reason.

Thanks. —Aichon—

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Suburb Groups Master

Hey when you get a moment, would you mind looking at something for me? I'm trying to create a Master Page of groups listed by suburb. I'm using a formatter style template ({{SuburbGroupsM}}) but for some reason the formatter template isn't being used. I've double-checked that its coded correctly but it just isn't passing through the right template. I'm probably missing something simple. Mind taking a look? This will hopefully help with GSGM eventually. ~ _{16:22, 17 January 2012 (UTC)}

unless I'm missing something you aren't actually calling it anywhere, template= is an unused variable. --Karek^{maps 2.0?!} 20:37, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

I know I am not losing my mind. I'm trying to do something similar to {{TrpsStatus/Formatter}}. It takes the variables of a template and uses it in a different format (I call them formatter templates for that reason). It's the difference between {{User:DangerReport/The Blackmore Building}} and {{User:DangerReport/The Blackmore Building|template=TrpsStatus/Formatter}}

one produces:

(55,47) (bic) (statuses) (update) The Blackmore Building "10+ zombies most entirely from the Ridleybank Resistance Front reclaimed this building after a short and revelrous siege" ZombGG (talk) 13:54, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

While the other produces:

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█ The Blackmore Building is ruined.

• "10+ zombies most entirely from the Ridleybank Resistance Front reclaimed this building after a short and revelrous siege"

ZombGG (talk) 13:54, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

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For the life of me, I can't get my formatter template to do the same. ~ _{20:52, 17 January 2012 (UTC)}

I'm a bit rusty, but going from what Karek said, it does indeed look like an unused variable. Take a look at the code for the User:DangerReport/The Blackmore Building page you cited and you'll see that it takes a variable named template that has a default value of BuildingStatus right at the top. The code then includes a page with whatever name was provided by that variable. The template= is not some sort of keyword like link= is. It's just a variable, and it could have been x= or anything else instead, had Rooster or whoever made the DangerReport stuff felt like using a different name.

As such, for your stuff to work, you'll need to add a template variable to Dakerstown Groups and all of those other group pages, then set it up to function similarly to how you see it functioning in User:DangerReport/The Blackmore Building. You can find other examples of this sort of thing being used with the barricade plans too (small vs. large templates based on the value of the variable passed in). The underlying assumption is that the page with the data is JUST data, and that the formatting is provided by an external template, but those suburb group listings were not designed that way, so you'd have to redo them from the ground up. All 100 of them for Malton, plus the other two cities. Unless I'm missing something, which is entirely possible, since I am rusty. —Aichon— 22:44, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

See I knew it was something simple I missed. *cough* Thank both of you. It may end up being worth it in the end to make the changes necessary to pull it off. I basically want to create a page which lists every group that has listed themselves on a burb groups template. From there, a little data manipulation and we'd have a list of every suburb a group is list in, sorted by group name. Should make gsgm easier when we do it next. ~ _{00:22, 18 January 2012 (UTC)}

WB

Can't tempt you? --Ross^lessness 20:09, 13 April 2012 (BST)

Thanks for the welcome, and I've been away long enough that I need a bit of time to re-acclimate. Give me a month or two and we can talk about it some more. In the meantime, I'll be doing some this-and-that stuff to see if I feel like I'm up for it still. —Aichon— 20:20, 13 April 2012 (BST)

Perhaps reopening the Historical Group Voting policy you started a couple years back might whet you whistle. I'd be down for helping you hammer some of it out. ~ _{23:59, 13 April 2012 (UTC)}

Or stop by UDWiki:Project Timeline. I could use someone to help me get it kickstarted. ~ _{00:04, 14 April 2012 (UTC)}

Or stop what you're doing and run away now! While you still can! D^ANCED^ANCER^EVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 00:11, 14 April 2012 (BST)

I already left once. The game has less hold over me now. I have no doubt that I could pick up and leave in a hurry if I wanted to. ;) —Aichon— 00:23, 14 April 2012 (BST)

I'm not sure sure I'd be any help on the timeline. Plus, I mostly check the wiki from work these days, and I wouldn't feel comfortable doing a wiki project on company time. A few minutes to check in here or there is one thing, but this would be something else. And my off-work time is already being fought over by a number of other things. As for the policy, the discussion from my withdrawn policy turned into a different policy that was approved already. —Aichon— 00:23, 14 April 2012 (BST)

I liked the direction your policy was headed more than where it ended up. It should have been deregulated and instead, more regulations were added. I suppose it'll always be one of those things I always shake my fist at the wiki over . Coincidentally, I have the opposite problem as you. I can't edit the wiki on work time at all and so its almost all done in between family time at home or right before bed. So I understand your reluctance to get into a project. Maybe someone's schedule will open up who will be willing to help. ~ _{01:57, 14 April 2012 (UTC)}

00:38, 14 April 2012 (BST)

I've been around off-and-on for years, so I figure nothing has really changed. I just finally decided to take down the inactive notice since I'm going to try and be around a bit more. —Aichon— 00:47, 14 April 2012 (BST)

Create some sort of vector-based version of old angry-wanker up there, because he needs to be appreciated at vast scales. Also create me some sort of sandwich. (>")> 00:50, 14 April 2012 (BST)

Yeaaaaaah...not happenin'. —Aichon— 01:11, 14 April 2012 (BST)

I still love you, even if I am disappointed. 01:39, 14 April 2012 (BST)

<3 you too, but what's with you and DDR not being sysops? Are you feeling okay? —Aichon— 01:41, 14 April 2012 (BST)

It's totally all Boxy's fault. 01:46, 14 April 2012 (BST)

Tradition

Gotta keep to the Axe Hack tradition. You know the drill. Every page without my sig gets my sig with a topic header that is pretty much saying, "+1 here". :P --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 06:37, 14 April 2012 (BST)

You could at least try to frame it as a token, pithy comment on an existing section. :P —Aichon— 06:40, 14 April 2012 (BST)

But then I wouldn't have my own header. :P --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 07:14, 14 April 2012 (BST)

Rock on dude!

Thanks for all the help on the wiki man. You're one righteous dude. --TheBardofOld 04:42, 16 April 2012 (BST)

Thanks! Was there anything in particular that prompted this? I'm afraid I don't recall specifically having helped you anytime recently. I noticed you were thanking certain current and former sysops, so I didn't know if we had done something specific that you found helpful. —Aichon— 05:19, 16 April 2012 (BST)

Just thanking you on an overall basis. The world could use more "thank yous" and the wiki is no exception. --TheBardofOld 05:47, 16 April 2012 (BST)