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| == Power stations as resouce buildings? == | | == EMR BOT == |
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| I was updating [[Dentonside]] building status when I noticed that [[Tolman Power Station]] isn't listed as a resource building. The same happen to [[Krinks Power Station]] in [[Williamsville]]. I think it's ridiculous, because two very important items can be found in them: generators and fuel cans. Sure, there are only two of them throughout Malton, but so are forts. | | Is the bot still alive? I've been updating some of the talk pages. Please respond. --[[User:Gmoney|Gmoney]] 09:04, 25 February 2012 (UTC) |
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| I asked the same question on the [[Tactical Resource Point]] talk page, but I don't expect to have answers. For now, I'm going to take initiative and put both of them under "Factories" slot. If you agree on that, we can put them under Malls/Forts slot instead. And maybe give them a color in the barricade plans, as well. -- [[User:Kittithaj|Kittithaj]] 05:39, 9 August 2010 (BST)
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| :Sounds reasonable IMO, I like your initiative. -- {{User:DanceDanceRevolution/sig3}} 09:17, 9 August 2010 (BST)
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| ::I like it as well, since it's obvious we just overlooked them when considering the barricade plans and the like. <s>Sounds to me like they should be listed with forts and malls as multi-block TRPs for simplicity's and consistency's sakes.</s> Should be listed with Factories, as you said, since it makes more sense in terms of what they have. I'll probably make the appropriate changes to the barricade plans and templates in a sec, since I don't see why there would be any objections. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 16:31, 9 August 2010 (BST)
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| :::Done. They should be listed on the barricade plans and on the TRP page. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 17:16, 9 August 2010 (BST)
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| ==Sysop input requested==
| | Hey, how do you make user boxes? --[[User:Suburb 22 Zombies|Suburb 22 Zombies]] 03:37, 17 April 2011 (BST) |
| There's a sysop-only vote taking place, and we haven't heard from you yet. Check [[UDWiki:Administration/Discussion#Iscariot.27s_Vandal_Data|here]]. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 20:23, 9 August 2010 (BST)
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| ==bot problem== | | == Template:Mall Logo == |
| EMR Bot is changing status overriding in-person scouting that was done the same day. I suggest changing it to not update anything newer than 48 or 72 hours. Also, it should take into account that EMR reports do not see barricades or anything (living or undead) inside buildings. -- [[User:Grogh|Grogh]] 23:13, 10 September 2010 (BST)
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| :I [[User_talk:The_Rooster/Archive/2010#EMR_Bot|asked him about it earlier this year]]. Might have some answers you're looking for. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 05:34, 11 September 2010 (BST)
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| ::Yeah I've noticed you've been fixing various edits that were less than clever for ages now. My original reasoning for this was the the suburb news would be a better way to see if an edit should be skipped (as explained in link given). Well nobody updates suburb news at all anymore, so that's become useless. It already skips updating for anything over a week old, but I also added a condition so that it won't update if there was a more recent edit than the broadcast time. (No more suggesting a status from a 3 day old report, when an edit was made yesterday)
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| ::As far as accounting for indoor zombies and barricades goes, it already does that somewhat. The problem is that it's major guesswork, and that the "official" danger levels don't line up with what people tend to put anyway. That said, I'll see about tweaking the numbers a bit. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 15:53, 11 September 2010 (BST) | | Does it need to be case sensitive? Lots of people tend to make the first letter upper-case. --{{User:Akule/sig}} 00:30, 26 April 2011 (BST) |
| :::I know what you mean about the suburb news, and even the BIC's aren't getting updated much. Anyway, thanks for tweaking! -- [[User:Grogh|Grogh]] 01:28, 12 September 2010 (BST) | | :I made a change so that whichever case is used during the update, it is converted to lower case for the purpose of {{tl|Mall Logo}}. See [[User:DangerReport/Bale Mall]] and [[Bale Mall]]. The former has upper case Ruined, yet the Bal Mall logo is the correct logo (ruined). ~[[Image:Vsig.png|link=User:Vapor]] <sub>00:57, 26 April 2011</sub> |
| | ::Gotcha. So it converts all of the text to be lowercase. Nice. :D --{{User:Akule/sig}} 01:06, 26 April 2011 (BST) |
| | :::Yeah it converts the result of {{tl|DRstatus}} to lower case. ~[[Image:Vsig.png|link=User:Vapor]] <sub>01:16, 26 April 2011</sub> |
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| ==replying here because PSP editing sucks==
| | Oh god. This makes things ''worse''! {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 22:40, 2 June 2011 (BST) |
| Credit only because he clearly C+P everything from my group. --{{User:Axe Hack/Sig}} 20:47, 14 September 2010 (BST)
| | :The wiki update, I take it? --{{User:Akule/sig}} 22:47, 2 June 2011 (BST) |
| :It's a table and some headings, you could claim half the wiki looks the same. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 20:52, 14 September 2010 (BST)
| | ::Accepting uppercase input. Basically breaks a dozen other templates if it's used. But it's hardly world-endingly bad. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 22:50, 2 June 2011 (BST) |
| ::True, but using the same color and ordering of each header? And the same "Under Construction" template? At least make a point as to where he found 'em codes. --{{User:Axe Hack/Sig}} 21:00, 14 September 2010 (BST)
| | :::It makes for some unusual problems, as people can make variant group names just by altering case. Such as [[The dead]] or [[the dead]] or [[tHe Dead]] or [[the DEad]] (the actual group is [[The Dead]] or [[the Dead]]). --{{User:Akule/sig}} 23:01, 2 June 2011 (BST) |
| :::And if he does change the colour? And the text at some point? It is as you point out "under construction". If those change then it's just another group page with coloured background and groupbox and slab of text. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 21:06, 14 September 2010 (BST)
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| Set {{CodeInline|<nowiki>style="letter-spacing:-.2em"</nowiki>}} on the V's. Adjust value until overlapping. <small>Also I pressed +, woo tab key</small> {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 05:49, 16 September 2010 (BST)
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| {{Cookie|[[User:TripleU|Trips]]|[[User:The Rooster|Rooster]]|reason=working magic on his sig.}}
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| :As an additional reward, I'm breaking the rules of your talk page by bringing the conversation to it! Yay! --{{User:TripleU/Sig}} 06:06, 16 September 2010 (BST)
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| ==Sig Switch==
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| Friendly notice that having a massive switch statements in your sig is threatening inclusion limits on several parts of the wiki, particularly [[BIC]] related stuff which will start to collapse as you sign more danger reports. Could I ask that you significantly reduce them? Pruning the main one to days of week would help a lot. It's not like anybody will read mouseover text anyway. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 21:26, 19 September 2010 (BST)
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| :Also I used + because I can. You realise the wiki will close off trailing tables for you, right? If you remove it, the + button won't leave new messages outside your table. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 21:35, 19 September 2010 (BST) | |
| ::Also, do what he says. Most of the folks that have stylized talk pages use that trick so that the + button still works. It also wikinewb-proofs your page a bit. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 21:46, 19 September 2010 (BST)
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| :::[[User_talk:Poodle_of_doom#New_Page]]. Ignore my poor spelling and talk of shrooms. --{{User:TripleU/Sig}} 00:08, 20 September 2010 (BST)
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| :Alternatively, if you want to keep the idea but want to cut the bulk down a bit, you could simply create pages at <code>User:TripleU/sigXXsaying</code> where <code>XX</code> is the day of the month, each one holding a single saying that would have otherwise gone in your switch statement, then, in your signature, rather than using the switch, you'd just tell it to include <code><nowiki>User:TripleU/sig{{CURRENTDAY}}saying</nowiki></code> at the point where that switch statement goes. Yes, it means creating a lot of pages, but it also means cutting it down from its current size to around 1/30th the size while still keeping the same functionality. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 21:44, 19 September 2010 (BST)
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| ::I like this idea best, I'll do it now/soon/Septemper. --{{User:TripleU/Sig}} 00:08, 20 September 2010 (BST)
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| ==[[:Category:Suburb History]]==
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| Hey Rooster,
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| A few days ago, {{usr|Rosslessness}} suggested I help out with [[:Category:Suburb History]]. It was suggested I help out with it because I'm looking for jobs, and it was fairly neglected. Since then, I have noticed that you've been doing a lot of work on it, and Screenshots seem to be appearing out of nowhere. Is this just co-incidence, or would you like me to leave [[:Category:Suburb History]] alone and leave it for you to do? <small>—The preceding [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment was added by [[User:Dezonus|Dezonus]] ([[User talk:Dezonus|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Dezonus|contribs]]) 12:00, 22 September 2010 (BST).</small>
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| :I do indeed have it covered, I'm often working in the backwater categories of the wiki so don't mind me if things start going crazy. As for screenshots from nowhere, I uploaded over 700 via a bot account, which are cunningly set to be hidden by default on [[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]] so you don't have to put up with the spam. Fear not. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 12:07, 22 September 2010 (BST)
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| ::Hello Rooster, I would just like to complement you on the [[:Category:Suburb History]] bot updates to date. It's a great page. Any chance you could fire up a new batch upload from your shiny bot so that October 2010 gets updated? How often do you usually run it? --[[User:Unlife|Unlife]] 02:23, 23 November 2010 (UTC)02:21, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
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| == Those DHPD User Pages Again ==
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| For my sins I've been put in charge of the DHPD Wiki pages so I'm revisiting that question of all the user pages in our category
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| http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/User:Aceofdiamonds
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| http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/User:Albright
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| http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/User:AmeliaPierce
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| http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/User:Brett_Day
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| (which only seem to have been edited by this Novelty person - whoever they are, unless I'm misreading the logs)
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| http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php?title=User:Plash_Ricrem&action=history
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| Where the only edit seems to have been made, not by the User, but by their edit page? How does that even happen?
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| -- Sorry to bug you specifically, but you seemed like the obvious person to ask since we've discussed this before. {{User:Louise/PCatSig}} 18:21, 23 September 2010 (BST) | |
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| :It seems somebody in the group copy pasted the same exact code onto each user page (riddled with typos). I got all the ones were the user was a non-existent account or the page had been unedited which suggested they didn't want it or didn't even know they had their own user page. The others do have tiny edits, but everybody seemed to keep that copy-paste code for reasons beyond me.
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| :The revision history is wrong because Kevan had to clear out older edits on the server because they were slowing it down (maybe running low on disk space or maybe the software couldn't handle so many revisions). Those pages are all so old only the most recent edit survived.
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| :Plash's case was him editing the wrong page. His user page has a lower case r (and is blank, so you see the edit page when you click his name) but he was editing the page with an upper case R.
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| :At the time I was helping out even though there's nothing to say I could actually nuke the spammed pages, but the edited ones ''might'' have been edited by the actual user and somebody ''might'' have cared enough to Miscontibate my ass on it. I'm a wimp, should've just nuked them all and saved you the bother.
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| :Since I don't have sysopy powers anymore, I'll have to go through [[A/SD]] but I can't imagine anybody will object.
| | Nonono. I mean accepting "Ruined" v "ruined" in the template. Long story short, probably all the templates in [[:Category:DangerReport Formatting Templates|this category]] would also need this fix which honestly is more effort for maintenance than users just getting it right. |
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| :Good luck with the organising. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 20:59, 23 September 2010 (BST)
| | I didn't mean anything regarding the wiki update. Names have always been case sensitive as I recall, so that's nothing new. (The automatic redirect regardless of the first letters case was also there before) {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 23:06, 2 June 2011 (BST) |
| | :I pointed the problem out to people, so Vapor formatted the base template to [http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php?title=Template%3ABuildingStatus&action=historysubmit&diff=1881400&oldid=1527038 automatically lowercase the status]. --{{User:Akule/sig}} 23:21, 2 June 2011 (BST) |
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| :: I'll need it. I guess I'll try contacting those players who are still around, see what their thoughts are. Then I'll take it from there. Thanks! {{User:Louise/PCatSig}} 13:51, 25 September 2010 (BST) | | ::Yes, I realise that the BuildingStatus & Mall Logo templates now accept uppercase input. I am saying this is a ''bad'' thing. |
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| :::Just to say there's the page [[User:PurpleCat]] which I assume is yours. You should ask for it moved to your userspace, or just deleted if you don't care about it. | | ::It breaks all those other templates which use the status variable, but didn't get changed. Plus since the uppercase input now "works" on the report template, people use it without realising it causes other breakages. |
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| :::Otherwise all done. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 09:49, 27 September 2010 (BST) | | ::I'm saying it's less effort for user to just correct it if they do it wrong (which they'd notice with a broken image link) then to apply the lowercase logic on all templates that access the status in some way. |
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| | ::Take a gander at [[Special:Wantedtemplates]], you'll notice several templates with an uppercase status being requested, and they don't exist so there'll be derped results somewhere. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 23:30, 2 June 2011 (BST) |
| Im confused by the bot edit to vinetown. Despite no new EMRP since the last bot update its changed the status. Any idea why? The EMRP doesn't really suggest a red suburb to me. --{{User:Rosslessness/Sig}} 22:32, 28 September 2010 (BST)
| | :::Ah, gotcha. I didn't realize it caused other breakages. Can we go through the rest of the templates to fix them to make them as derp proof as possible? I only ask because I imagine that the people who will not care about the casing will make more work for those of us who do care in the long run. --{{User:Akule/sig}} 23:40, 2 June 2011 (BST) |
| :A report indicating over 100 zombies was made. Nobody posted in on suburb news yet, but it's on the official summary and logging pages. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 10:46, 29 September 2010 (BST) | | ::::Well... if it really matters in the long run... then yeah. I'll get around to it. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 23:52, 2 June 2011 (BST) |
| ::Cool. thanks. --{{User:Rosslessness/Sig}} 10:49, 29 September 2010 (BST) | | :::::Whenever you can is fine. I had just originally brought it up as various users (mainly new ones) kept breaking the various status templates when [[The Dead 2.0]] swept over the land. I didn't want to end up changing them, as I don't have a strong understanding of wikicode. Thank you in advance. --{{User:Akule/sig}} 23:59, 2 June 2011 (BST) |
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| That depends, how is the bot operated? In which programming language was it written? I have no experience in running a bot before. And while I have basic understanding of programming concepts in general, I have limited understanding in more complex programming languages. If the bot operation is very complicated, I think another editor would be more suitable. -- [[User:Kittithaj|Kittithaj]] 06:36, 15 October 2010 (BST)
| | So you're back. I thought you'd be gone forever. |
| :So I guess the bot is a ready-to-use .exe file? Sounds interesting. Well, can you upload it somewhere and give me the link? I'll need some time to make myself familiar with it. -- [[User:Kittithaj|Kittithaj]] 12:42, 21 October 2010 (BST)
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| == Template:Mall Logo and my horrible attempts at copying it ==
| | I must admit, I'm quite ashamed of it myself. You ''did'' gave me the EMR Bot before leaving, but I never got the chance to use it, test it, or even learn it for that matter. I've been thinking ''"I must do it, for The Rooster is gone and no one else can"'' for months, but never bothered to run it even once, until the page clogged up and I had to move some old EMRs elsewhere. |
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| So I tried [[User:Misanthropy/Sandbox20a|here]] to replicate a variation on your {{tl|Mall Logo}}, and seem to have failed horribly. It's so that I can create a zombie-centric version of {{tl|DangerMap}} by having a different run of colours keying off of the survivor colours for DangerMap. I appear to have botched it royally, and you're the guy who rigged {{tl|Mall Logo}} in the first place so I figure you'd be the one who'd be able to bail my firm ass out of this. Thanks duder. {{User:Misanthropy/Sig}} 20:04, 27 October 2010 (BST)
| | You can find those EMRs, archived from October 29th to November 30th, at my [[User:Kittithaj/Sandbox#EMRP:_Reports_to_Process|Sandbox]] page. Thank you for returning and working with them. And sorry I couldn't/didn't do something with them. -- [[User:Kittithaj|Kittithaj]] 02:13, 4 June 2011 (BST) |
| :You don't need to adapt that template, the danger reports were designed so you could choose what they did yourself. Supply your own template (20a) and then set template= when calling the report (as done in 20) and all the variables defined in the danger report are available to your template. So in your case I'm just switching over the Danger variable. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 18:48, 28 October 2010 (BST)
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| ::Thanks, el duderino! {{tiny|Need to watch Lebowski less...}} {{User:Misanthropy/Sig}} 22:16, 28 October 2010 (BST)
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| == Nav Switch Code ==
| | :Ah no worries, if nothing else you'd kept an immaculate log that would've done the job just fine anyway. I checked your backup and I did process all of those reports so they're safe to nuke. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 07:20, 4 June 2011 (BST) |
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| | I posted a question on the [[Talk:EMRP:_Reports_to_Process]] talk page but I'm hoping that you could answer the question since you're controlling the bot. Should all of the "Reports to Process Later" entries be moved to the "Reports to Process" heading? And should the lone report from Feb 28 then be wiped?--[[User:Uroguy|Uroguy]]<sup>[[Zookeepers|TMZ]]</sup> 03:20, 4 June 2011 (BST) |
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| I hope you don't mind, but I used your nav switch code in one of my projects. I saw that another user asked if they could use it, and you said yes, so I figured it was ok. Anyways, I wanted to thank you for writing it; it is extremely clever and works perfect for our page. Here are the pages that use it if you care at all: [[RRF/ZomboAll|'''Page 1''']] and [[RRF/ZomboTracker2010|'''Page 2''']]. -[[MHS|<span style="color: Black">'''MHS'''</span>]][[User_Talk:MHSstaff|<span style="color: DarkBlue">'''staff'''</span>]] 15:52, 29 November 2010 (UTC) | | :I answered the talk page. I'll be messing around with the headers a bit until I catch up. No need to worry, just stick everything under "Later" for now. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 07:20, 4 June 2011 (BST) |
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| :Glad to see it getting around. Perhaps one day garish rainbow coded pages will devour the wiki. Or not. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 01:34, 7 December 2010 (UTC) | | :: Thanks I appreciate the explanation. --[[User:Uroguy|Uroguy]]<sup>[[Zookeepers|TMZ]]</sup> 07:23, 4 June 2011 (BST) |
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| == Category:Suburb History == | | ==Unused Image== |
| | [[:File:1001 Days in Urban Dead.gif]] which you uploaded is currently [[Special:Unusedfiles|unused]] and is subject to deletion if it is older than two weeks. If you wish to ensure that it remains on this wiki then you will need to ensure that it is included in at least one page on this wiki..--[[User:Thegeneralbot|A helpful bot]] 16:45, 14 June 2011 (BST) |
| | :Ironically, including the image is stupid since the wiki thumbnailer breaks horribly. *shrug* {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 12:23, 16 June 2011 (BST) |
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| Stumbled over [[:Category:Suburb History]] and saw that it has been neglected since September 2010. My screenie from today was the first one entered since that time. Looks like October and November will stay empty now, as there hasn't been a screenie taken during this time. Before I go all panicky, I wonder if you have screenies covering those two months and/or can somehow retrieve them with the bot? --{{User:Spiderzed/Sandbox/Sig}} 20:59, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
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| :Yeah Unlife left me a message above about the same. The bot works from the wiki revision history so as long as we don't have another purge I can fill in any gaps. In fact it'd probably be easier if the bot just did it, say every month, for consistency.
| | You're like a zombie, you know that? You disappear, then for strange reasons you rise and shamble and get active again. I would call it curious were it not for your involvement over the years in a browser-based zombie apocalypse game... ... |
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| :Talking of all this, has DDR made the video of the mid-2010 stuff? I was looking forward to that. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 01:31, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
| | It's good to see you again, Rooster. ;) --{{User:Maverick Farrant/sig}} 20:43, 16 December 2011 (UTC) |
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| == User boxes? ==
| | :Thanks :) Although, thinking about it, I didn't play the game much... {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 21:18, 16 December 2011 (UTC) |
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| Hey, how do you make user boxes? --[[User:Suburb 22 Zombies|Suburb 22 Zombies]] 03:37, 17 April 2011 (BST)
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| | Hi! Just wanted to let you know that because the [[User:ExternalMilitaryReportBot|EMRBot]] hasn't been run in over two years, I'm shutting down [[EMRP: Reports to Process]]. New users still sometimes post EMRs there expecting them to be processed, so I've posted a sign at the top letting them know it's not active. If the Bot returns at some point, feel free to remove the sign and restart RtP. Thanks! {{User:Bob Moncrief/Sig}} 13:59, 30 November 2013 (UTC) |
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| Does it need to be case sensitive? Lots of people tend to make the first letter upper-case. --{{User:Akule/sig}} 00:30, 26 April 2011 (BST)
| | == [[:File:1001 Days in Urban Dead.gif|Thankyou for this.]] == |
| :I made a change so that whichever case is used during the update, it is converted to lower case for the purpose of {{tl|Mall Logo}}. See [[User:DangerReport/Bale Mall]] and [[Bale Mall]]. The former has upper case Ruined, yet the Bal Mall logo is the correct logo (ruined). ~[[Image:Vsig.png|link=User:Vapor]] <sub>00:57, 26 April 2011</sub>
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| ::Gotcha. So it converts all of the text to be lowercase. Nice. :D --{{User:Akule/sig}} 01:06, 26 April 2011 (BST)
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| :::Yeah it converts the result of {{tl|DRstatus}} to lower case. ~[[Image:Vsig.png|link=User:Vapor]] <sub>01:16, 26 April 2011</sub>
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| Oh god. This makes things ''worse''! {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 22:40, 2 June 2011 (BST)
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| :The wiki update, I take it? --{{User:Akule/sig}} 22:47, 2 June 2011 (BST)
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