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Aichon

ˈīˌkän :Other

Announcement: I'm no longer active.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)

Stuff in User:Aichon/Other

• Writing:
  • So you want to be a sysop? - A detailed guide to the unwritten rules of becoming a sysop.
  • Fighting the AP War - A strategic look at how AP is being used, and an evaluation of various actions. Take it all with a grain of salt, since it's unfinished and there are errors in it.
  • Iscariot's Vandal Data - A collection of my research into Iscariot's vandal data's history and my conclusion based on it.
• Suggestions:
  • Verbose Barricades - Didn't seem to garner much support, unfortunately, so abandoned.
  • Alt Proximity Warning - The DS version of a suggestion that was eventually peer-reviewed.
  • Password Change Option - A suggestion that was thought to be a dupe at the time and abandoned.

Random links

• Special:Prefixindex/User:Aichon - For me when I misplace something
• Help:The NOT so secret diary of a sysop - For newly-minted sysops
• MediaWiki:Usernameblacklist - For spam-fighting sysops
• Category:Administration Templates - For...I dunno

Idle time projects and other things to do when I'm bored

• Help:Template messages
  • Looks like an interesting read. Should really get around to reading it at some point
• Sysop Archives
  • While sysop: A lot of the archives still need moving/creating. Quite a way to go still.
• Vandal Data
  • While sysop: Working on linkifying all of the data slowly. Still have a load to go.

Received templates

Since I was getting more of these than I could comfortably display on my main page, I've moved them here instead.

	A Free Cookie
	Giles has given Aichon a cookie for his awesome barricade templates.

	A Free Cookie
	Maverick has given Aichon a cookie for his most excellent work in helping solve an inter-browser template coding issue!

	An iPad
	Iscariot has given Aichon an iPad so he can get started on takeover plans!

	A Free Cookie
	Mis has given Acorn a cookie for some kind of sorcery.

	A Free Cookie
	Axe Hack has given Aichon a cookie for pointing out his signature error.

	A Free Cookie
	Johnny Twotoes has given Aichon a cookie for his help with one of the biggest recent wiki-projects out there.

	A Free Cookie
	Bob Moncrief has given Aichon a cookie for beginning his term as bureaucrat. Congrats!

	A Free Knish
	sexualharrison has given Aichon a knish for beginning his term as bureaucrat. don't flame out in a week please.

Yonnua's Quizzles

These ones get their own special section.

	Dancing Bear made of Gold!
	Yonnua has given Aichon an animated .gif of a dancing bear made of gold for solving a quizzle! (It might take a second to load)

	"Internet for my Housemate" on DVD
	Yonnua gave Aichon "Internet for my Housemate series 1-5" on DVD.

Technology

This is just a list of the stuff I use for my personal desktop setup. If you're curious how I like any of them, feel free to ask on my talk page. In most cases, I like them quite a bit and carefully selected them after WAY too many hours of research.

Computer: 2.7GHz i7 Mac mini upgraded to 8GB RAM and a 1TB Fusion Drive running OS X 10.10 Yosemite (and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit)

Monitors: Dual Dell S2409WFP 24" monitors

Keyboard: Filco Ninja Majestouch-2 FKBN104M/EFB2 (Cherry MX Brown)

Mouse: Logitech MX Revolution

Speakers: Swans M200 MkIII

Router: 1TB Apple Time Capsule

Browser: Google Chrome

Mobile Devices: 32GB Space Gray iPhone 5s and a 64GB Space Gray iPad Air 2

Hobbies

Backloggery.com: I play games. That's a link to pretty much everything I do that's related to gaming. It has lists of all the games I own, what I think of each of them, what systems I own, what my Steam/Xbox Live/PSN/etc. usernames are, and a whole lot more. Do yourself a favor and sign up there, since the community and site are awesome.

MyAnimeList.net: I used to watch a lot of anime. These days, I don't watch as much, but here's a link to everything I've seen.

I dabble in coding on the side for fun. Check my userscripts for some examples of coding I've done for fun within the scope of UD.

Given the above hobbies, it should come as no surprise that I don't see the sun very often, but when I do get outside, I like to play disc golf. I have my own discs, I can hold my own with most of the folks around here, but I'm against calling myself an intermediate. More like an advanced beginner. I have a long way to go.

I also like to argue on the Internet (though not here) for fun, and there are a few sites I go to where you can get some good debates going over technology or science. These days I go by Aichon or Aichonic pretty much everywhere, but I used to go by Anubis IV and Orison, so if you see either of those, wave and say "hi", since it's probably me on an old account somewhere.

Personal Templates

These are all personal use templates my userspace relies on. You are strongly advised NOT to include these templates in your own pages since they could change at any time and break your pages. Nonetheless, I list them here so that I have easy access to them later in case I need to have a quick reference.

Colors

• basecolor - The default color used for unspecified suburbs on the various maps my characters use
• currcolor - The color used to indicate the suburb my character is currently visiting on the various maps my characters use
• NVRcolor - The color used to indicate unvisited suburbs on the various maps my characters use
• pastcolor - The color used to indicate the suburbs my character has previously visited on the various maps my characters use
• threat1color - The color used to indicate the lowest threat level on my kill heat map
• threat2color - A color used to indicate an in-between threat level on my kill heat map
• threat3color - A color used to indicate an in-between threat level on my kill heat map
• threat4color - A color used to indicate an in-between threat level on my kill heat map
• threat5color - A color used to indicate an in-between threat level on my kill heat map
• threat6color - A color used to indicate an in-between threat level on my kill heat map
• threat7color - The color used to indicate the highest threat level on my kill heat map

Formatters

• PK Record - Takes a set of variables and outputs code for one entry in the kill list
• PK Record PicURL - Takes a URL and "s" or "k" to indicate speech or kill, and outputs code for a pic in the kill list
• side box header - Takes text and formats it in the way that the headers for my side box elements are formatted
• snazzylink - Takes an internal link and formats it with a custom color while preserving the wiki's functionality for self-links
• snazzylinke - Takes an external link and formats it with a custom color while preserving the wiki's functionality for self-links and removing the external link icon
• tinynote - Takes text and formats it as a tiny note, suitable for use with footnotes or other such purposes
• Visited Suburbs - Takes location data and formats it as a userspace-styled map
• Visited Suburbs (Doug Collins) - Takes location data and formats it as a Philosophe-styled map

Input Variables

• Announce - The text that appears as an announcement across my entire userspace; leaving it empty means the announce box stays hidden
• introblock - CSS style used across my entire userspace
• talk archive links - Links to all of my talk page archives, used across all of my talk pages and talk archives
• Visited Locations (Doug Collins) - Where Doug Collins has visited; can be stylized via a style template

Logic/Utility

• intToString - Converts a number between 0 and 999,999 into text (e.g. "123" becomes "one hundred twenty-three")
• intToStringWrapper - The easier-to-use version of intToString, since you don't need to pad the parameters you pass to it
• threat picker - Chooses the correct threatcolor when provided with a number of kills

Page Elements

• announce box - The box that displays announcements across all pages in my userspace when it's provided with text
• archive box - The box containing links to talk page archives that appears on all of my talk pages and talk page archives
• Character List - The list of my characters that appears on the side of most pages in my userspace
• guideline box - The box containing page guidelines that appears in places like my talk page and talk archives
• Journalbox - Used on character pages to provide basic info
• Navbar - The header at the top of every page in my userspace
• RSoM - The old version of the Royal Society of Malton template that still uses the original colors that matched Philosophe styling
• scriptbox - The box that displays everything for each of my userscripts
• side box - The box that floats to the right and appears repeatedly on the side of my user pages
• talk header - The header used across all of my talk pages
• Threat Suburbs - A heat map used to indicate kill counts across Malton

Signatures

• Signature - My everyday use signature around the wiki, used when I'm just being me and not in-character
• Bsig - My Big Bash signature, used when I'm posting as a Basher
• Msig - My Militant order of Barhah signature, used when I'm posting as a member of MOB
• Psig - My Philosophe Knights signature, used when I'm posting as a member of the Order
• Ssig - My Soldiers of Crossman signature, used when I'm posting as a member of the SoC

Other

• Barricade Template Test Small - Test version of the now-used small barricade plans; kept for historical reasons
• Barricade Template Test - Test version of the now-used large barricade plans; kept for historical reasons