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Link's Activity Level Totally Inactive. Sorry guys :( Passively active. Probably checking in a few times a week. Active, checking in once a day. Very active, checking in a few times a day. Insanely active. Probably watching you right now. Speak! Below is a shoutbox for shorter messages. Please use it in place of my talk page for shorter messages. Please review the last entry on GA page please. As the only user against the vote I'd like someone else to rule. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 11:36, 20 August 2009 (BST) hai link pm'd you on the forum hope that was ok! --mo ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ MCM MOB DB 23:34, 15 August 2009 (BST) hi, just one question: when adding a comment to a Suggestion page, what teplate should i use so I have my name and current date there? could not find it anywhere The Only reason I reference Isc and Thad, is that there's been no one better recently. --I'm not the Ross UDWiki needs, I'm the Ross it deserves. 12:09, 8 September 2012 (BST) Yeah, not to react but that's no joke the only time I've heard Iscariot's name in at least a year. That was actually supposed to be the joke. DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 12:45, 8 September 2012 (BST) I figured. This place has gotten really undramatic lately by the looks of things. Somebody throw a coup. Linkthewindow  Talk  07:34, 9 September 2012 (BST) Your observation is dead on. This is a very different wiki to the one we 'grew up' in. I'll say that, the the dead will return, I bet... A ZOMBIE ANT 07:49, 9 September 2012 (BST) Not sure about that, the drama peaked around the whole Grim coup saga and has been steadily decreasing since. I've returned/lurked occasionally since I left, and it's become - and stayed - a lot less dramatic (which is good.) On an unrelated note, love reading my comments from three years ago. Linkthewindow  Talk  08:01, 9 September 2012 (BST) Lul. UD's numbers have been dying too I think that's the biggest thing A ZOMBIE ANT 08:31, 9 September 2012 (BST) When writing, please keep messages as short as possible (longer ones go here). I'll reply here as well. Remember, click here to leave a message. Stolen from this Wikipedia user.

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Welcome to Linkthewindow's talk page!

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+I am SOO N00B!+ Thanks for helping me and I hope I am doing this right. Anyway. Please contact me. I need help learning some of the ropes. That is if you have time.. I really need help reviving and have some questions. Maybe we can talk on aim or email or something till I get the hang of this. --User:CaptainTim/Sig 6:43, 14 February 2009 (EST)

Good Luck

With the application by the way. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 12:43, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :). Linkthewindow  Talk  12:45, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Uranium

BOMBS--/~Rakuen~\^Talk I Still Love Grim 02:41, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

honestmistake

While grateful for your support in the promotion bid I feel I really should point out that I simply do not have the skills or patience to do many of the technical functions that a sysop normally does. This is not to say that I cannot and will not learn enough to help out, rather to point out that I currently have no clue as to how they work. If you were voting for me because you trust my judgement on issues like A/VB and Misconduct then thank you… if you think I can be trusted to maintain the wiki infrastructure then please change your vote to abstain because I am crap at editing stuff let alone fixing other folks mistakes. --Honestmistake 13:58, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Wow! Honesty on my wiki!

Seriously though, I think you'll do a fine job. We've got people who understand the technical side of the wiki, and, personally, I imagine that there would be other sysops like you, that don't understand what Perl, MySQL, and Apache are, but they still make fine sysops.

I've got sysop poweres on a wiki (I'm the only member :P,) and the tools aren't that hard. It's mostly just point and click.

Oh, and you really need to learn how to use paragraphs :P. Linkthewindow  Talk  14:08, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

How dare you sir... I will have you know that I have a degree in English Literature! You may have a point though ;) anyway; thanks for the support. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Honestmistake (talk • contribs) at an unknown time.

Although you still need to learn how to sign :P. Linkthewindow  Talk  14:21, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Stupid work laptop !*$? --Honestmistake 14:53, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

You're

welcome. :) --Suicidal Angel - Help needed? 00:07, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

NecroWatch

I was alerted your recent NecroNet scan update for the Woodborne Building "Scan". Let me begin by thanking you for your past contributions to the NecroWatch Project. The success of the project has, and always will be, through the continued support of the UD community, and thus your contributions are therefore greatly appreciated. With that out of the way, I investigated the issue you encountered with the scan update and it appears to have been a problem with the image file upload. While I am not privy to the exact details suffice it to say the upload appeared to have failed, and yet, I was still able to view the image you had attempted to upload. I have since copied said image to my desktop as a BMP, converted it to PNG, and re-uploaded it successfully. I also included your original signature/timestamp on the associated User page (giving credit where credit is due). Please visit the link above and confirm that everything is now accurate. I hope this setback does not in any way discourage you from continuing to report scans via NecroWatch in the future and should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks. --Mobius 17:37, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

'crat elections

It's three months from successful promotion, not start of the last elections. Go undo it. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 11:54, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Done before I read this. Thanks. Linkthewindow  Talk  11:55, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

No probs, as much as they dislike me, I'm at least consistent in my adherence to the rules. Accordingly Cheese is entitled to serve for three months before his spot gets put up for election. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 12:01, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Only in your abuse of them. --Karek^maps?! 03:34, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Irony really is just a five letter word to you isn't it? -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 10:45, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Good times...

Haha, I wonder who put that there? Or if it's just been there since he left? --Pestolence^(talk) 03:38, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

You work too hard

You spend too much time doing useful stuff here, you should be a sysop or something. --  RoosterDragon  21:07, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

let me know if you need a Vouch.--Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 21:20, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Ever considered putting yourself up for promotion? --Pestolence^(talk) 20:54, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

You cool with this by the way? =p Say yes. Accept the nomination. Surrender your will to my awesome mind powers. -- Cheese 23:24, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I was gonna, you know, wait and see if he wanted promoting, but whatever. Get over there and accept already Link! 11 minutes and four vouches, you'll have 1833 vouches by the end of two weeks. Please don't kill me, you lurking statisticians. --  RoosterDragon  23:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

*pokes Link* --Janus ^talk 23:54, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

OMG

Can I help? Can I? Please? *insert happy emoticon/acronym here* --Janus ^talk 13:44, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I'd like to help in the sense that I would like to see some of the godawful things people write below their group to show it's active... mine, for example, is particularly lame. --Blackboard 14:52, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

No need to ask, just get to it! A few of us are already edit conflicted ourselves as we work through the list. --  RoosterDragon  14:56, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes

you asked me if I wanted to put myself up for promotion. and the answer is yes. i am very much puting myself up for a promo.--Jerrel Yokotory 22:47, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Browncoats Activity

Although not currently in some subursb we do swing by our "haunts" every few weeks or months. We are known to be around Dulston, Pescodside, Rolt Heights, Tollyton and Shackleville. We are currently in West Grayside and Kinch Heights. So yes, we are active in the suburbs we have said we work in. --Blanemcc 09:30, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

TNR Activity

TNR are still active, but on a smaller scale than we had before. --Blanemcc 09:38, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Wiki question

Hi, Link. I'm hoping you can help me with this question. Are there specific guidelines (or rules) governing what may or may not be included on pages within a certain category such as a user page or a group page? I've scanned the help pages, but I haven't seen anything of this nature discussed in there. (although I could have missed it) I'm not talking about general guidelines governing all pages, but more specific rules governing content on a group page or a user page. Thanks!--Lois ^{talk 10MFH} 12:52, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Drive-by response: Pages belonging to user or groups are "owned" by those entities, they are welcome to put up mostly whatever they like, and since it is not a community page, they are not subject to policies like NPOV. They are still subject to things like no personal attacks and no-wiki breaking content. People who are not that user or part of the group are generally not supposed to edit those pages unless express permission is given. Though nobody minds minor fixes; typos, broken links, categories and the like. This is the general impression I get anyway. --  RoosterDragon  18:24, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Rooster. That answer was helpful! Do you have anything to add, Link? *grins* --Lois ^{talk 10MFH} 18:41, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, Rooster pretty much nailed it (damn those gnomes... and roosters now :P.) You might want to have a look at UDWiki:Namespaces, however. Linkthewindow  Talk  20:29, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Miscouty's Boon

Dare I say Clinester hasn't looked at the welcomenewbie? template I left... or your comment for that matter. Of course, maybe he has and just doesn't care. It's no good having a blank page around if it isn't going to get used. I say put it up for speedy deletion... if you don't get an answer from him. --D.E.ATalk 14:53, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I will, I'm just giving him a few days (it's only fair, and it's not like those blank pages are harming anyone :P.) Linkthewindow  Talk  08:24, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

User:Krazymouse

You want to talk to him about what he put down for 28.06? Thanks. Asheets 16:22, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmm... I don't really like it ether. Although I'm 300km from home editing on a crappy laptop (not to mention my infected finger.) I'll check it out again tomorrow. Linkthewindow  Talk  08:24, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Multiple Suburb Barricade Plan Code

Okay, so here is what I've figured out already.

• There are actually two tables/wiki pages needed. One for the hard code used in the table, and another to enter in your variables.
• Practically the entire table uses {{{variables}}}. At least three for each cell: one for it's corresponding X,Y location, one for its background color (which would correspond to certain text entered in), one for the hover-over tooltip showing the name of the location block, and potentially a fourth if you wanted to have a variable text in that block as well.

I haven't noticed any special wiki-code for it, so there is probably some standard HTML coding for the hover function, and CSS for the background color. But I don't know if the wiki supports CSS within coding blocks, in which case I still need to figure out the particulars of that variable. That's all I've figured out so far. --Maverick ^{Talk - OBR 404} 18:30, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

With apologies to Link for stalking his talk page...again. You've peaked my interest. What's all this about then? Are you referring to Template:BarricadePlan? I was literally messing about with that template in my sandpit just yesterday to create an expanded plan of 12x12 so you could see how the plan meshed with the plans of neighbouring suburbs. I'm not sure if that's related, but I might be able to answer a few questions regardless. --  RoosterDragon  19:38, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Pretty similar, Rooster. I actually wanted to make a composite plan so you could see the barricade plan over an entire district (I was looking at Crooketon,Grigg Heights,Lerwill Heights,Mornington,and Reganbank for group reasons), but Template:BarricadePlan doesn't support more than a 10x10 grid. So I've been trying to figure out how they had the code set up. I'm currently coding it off of the wiki, and will probably create my own sandbox for this crazy thing once I get the framework laid out. --Maverick ^{Talk - OBR 404} 23:45, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Just created a Sandbox, or sandpit if you prefer, that has all the coding I've done for it thus far. --Maverick ^{Talk - OBR 404} 00:34, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Got conflicted, but I've got a nice long post to waste your time while I look at your code.

Two part post. First my quick interpretation of how the current template works, and then an explanation of what I was doing with my messing about.

The template takes the suburb's name, and and x and y variable. The x and y are the first digit of the suburbs positions in Malton, and is used to 'cheat' on giving a key.

style="{{Template:BP{{{type00}}}}}" title="{{{text00}}}" | {{{content00}}}

A typical call for a block

The template takes 3 variables for each block. One for it's type, this can be a raft of things, EH for EHB buildings (all shown yellow). VSB buildings are shown in their usual style. So you would enter Hospital for a VSB hospital block. This type variable decides what template is called to provide the format Sey you entered EH for type00 this will in turn call Template:BPEH which includes the formatting code for an EH building. In this case returning background-color: #FFFF00; so you end up with

style="background-color: #FFFF00;" title="{{{text00}}}" | {{{content00}}}

Which so far, just sets the colour of the cell to yellow.

The text bit is the building's name. That's it. So entering The Awesome Building for text00 gives

style="background-color: #FFFF00;" title="The Awesome Building" | {{{content00}}}

The title= bit is just the mouseover text.

The content bit is just whatever text people wish to have appear inside the cell. Notice how the variable for content00 appears after the pipe. Mostly this is left blank. If we entered TEXT for content00 in this case we'd get:

style="background-color: #FFFF00;" title="The Awesome Building" | TEXT

And so that cell would show up yellow, with "TEXT" written on it, and the tooltip would be "The Awesome Building".

Repeat this for 100 blocks and you've got your map. If you wanted to extend this to be two suburbs wide, you literally just double the table up. You'd have to add 100 new blocks and so a total of 300 extra variables. On each row you'd have 20 cells as opposed to 10.

Now my messing: I had code set up in my sandpit, which might help. You can find a modified template here, an example output here and the extra formatting template here. This calls the existing templates for nearby suburbs and adds their data in automatically. This however is too template expensive for real use (about 91% of the include limit). That said, it does do a lot of processing in order to include the templates automatically. It would work with a lot less calls it you set the extra squares manually. This however could create a problems in consistency and can make updates a hassle since if you altered any buildings on the edge for one plan, you'd have to go and update another plan too. One idea I had to get round this would be to have a store of code for all 10000 blocks in Malton (or maybe a district, of 500) and then a plan could call the buildings it wanted. I'm not sure how the inclusion limits would fare, there are less calls made but since you'd have to transclude from a massive store of data, that would cost a lot. A district sized store would probably work fine though.

You would have each block stored by it's co-ords. EG type1356, text1356 and content1356 for the block at (13,56). You would also set up the list so it could be called with a template of your choosing.

To set up a table, you'd have something like this as the call for each block:

style="{{Template:BP{{{type1356}}}}}" title="{{{text1356}}}" | {{{content1356}}}

And you'd enter the co-ords you wanted for each block manually. This is of course a bastard for 500 blocks since that needs 1500 manual bits of typing. You can reduce it by calling the table through another template in a method which is too complicated for me to be able to think about and explain proerly with all the other templates I'm having to create in my imagination rather than having to hand. However, you could set about 5-10 numbers in this template, and it would create the other 1500 co-ords wanted for you, then you can call the thing with these created co-ords, and then...something magical happens and you're left with an awesome cade plan for many suburbs.

My apologies for wasting your time in making you read all that. I wanted to be through, concise and accurate. I think managed about 0.5/3 on that. --  RoosterDragon  01:12, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

I'd give you a 2/3 on that one, Rooster. I had figured out the template calls and the content variable last night after looking at the source code for the page, so it was only the text variable that was still messing me up. Now it's just a matter of getting the time to code all that stuff into the table...

I agree that it would be wonderful if we could somehow have a store of data for the 'cading policy on every location. Would it be possible to somehow use a standardized form/template on each building's location page and just call that in? Or would that still be too intensive on the server?

Also many thanks to Link for letting us fill up his talk page! Thanks Link! --Maverick ^{Talk - OBR 404} 19:08, 21 February 2009 (UTC)