User talk:Game widow

Curse?
You're not part of Curse. HotdogPi ⑬㊲ 23:15, 29 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes they are. Not all of the Curse wiki team is on every single wiki. They tend to focus on a few wikis rather than the entire team spread across all wikis. http://www.wikiswtor.com/User:Game_widow http://www.skyrimwiki.com/User:Game_widow http://www.falloutwiki.com/User:Game_widow  18:34, 30 January 2013 (UTC)


 * It would have been nice if the user had provided those links when creating their page. A new user claiming to be part of Curse without any evidence, not in the Curse rights group, and not on the Directors page, looked rather questionable. -- Orthotope 20:03, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Install an extension
Hello im from the minecraft-es wiki. We want to install this extension.

Could you do it?

Thank you. --Trarsheise (talk) 09:34, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
 * No problem at all, I'll get that set up and let you know when it's active. — Game widow (talk) 14:38, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
 * And it's done. — Game widow (talk) 02:01, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Gamepedia points/level
Hey Game widow, I know it's not a terribly important thing, but my profile still shows me as not having any Gamepedia points, and as a result, being at level 1, and it's shown this since the update in which it was first added. Does it appear correctly for others (viewing my profile while logged out shows the same thing, so I'm leaning towards "no"), or is there something deeper going on? 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 20:28, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think the background process is actually done crawling through all the wikis and updating the information yet, but i'll check into it. I know my own profile is not up to date either — Game widow (talk) 11:35, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thanks. =) 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 06:52, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Add a group
Hello again,

I'm from the Spanish wiki and we want a new group called "Usuarios de confianza" with the right "autopatrol". Could you do it?

Thank you =) --Trarsheise (talk) 15:13, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I believe so, I'll get back to you shortly — Game widow (talk) 15:57, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I do believe it's done — Game widow (talk) 16:55, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Great! Thanks a lot. --Trarsheise (talk) 19:15, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * EDIT: We have a little problem. Could you add a right for the group "burocratas" so they can add other users to the new group?
 * Thank you. --Trarsheise (talk) 16:59, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Is this still not working for you, or are things working properly now? — Game widow (talk) 18:41, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * This is still not working. Image.
 * You can see it at es:Especial:ListaDerechosGrupos. At the group "Burócratas":
 * Agregar grupos(translate: add groups): Bots, Administradores y bureucrat
 * Eliminar grupos(translate: delete groups): Bots, Administradores, Burócratas, Usuarios, nopreviewrequire, directors y usuarios de confianza
 * I hope this help you ;)
 * Sorry about my bad english Trarsheise   ►Discusión◄►Contribuciones◄ 23:43, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, it helps, and i will look into it further — Game widow (talk) 03:08, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Internal error when unwatching pages
Hello. These are the error messages returned when a user attempts to edit their watchlist. Reported by a user on the Russian wiki, I tested by trying to remove an entry from my watchlist (and received the same error messages) there and on this wiki.

Unwatching pages by clicking the Unwatch button in the page's options removes it from the watchlist without any errors.

--GreenStone (talk) 00:26, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I have reported the issue to our Platform team — Game widow (talk) 00:40, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

2013 Minecon Cape contest
Hey Game widow, I just completed all but one of the "ways to enter" extra entry things (after no small amount of difficulty on my part) for the Enter to win a 2013 Minecon Cape contest, and it's now showing that I have 2111112 entries; refreshing the page hasn't changed this. I don't know if it's just a display bug and I only have 9 entries, or if something went seriously haywire and I really ended up with over 2 million, but if it's the latter, I'd really rather not be disqualified for something completely beyond my control. =) 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 06:23, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, you would definitely not be disqualified for something that was not your fault. I'll look into it — Game widow (talk) 12:51, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Aah, thanks! =D 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 21:00, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Seems it's fixed (it now shows me as having 9 entries); thanks for your help! =) 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 08:33, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

About Chinese Minecraft Wiki
I've pinged minecraft-zh.gamepedia.com, I got 190.93.244.101. I found it is in Costa Rica. That's far away from China -- where most Chinese-speaker in. I know gamepedia use CloudFlare, and they have a panel point in Hong Kong. Could you switch the panel point to Hong Kong for Chinese Minecraft Wiki if possible?  a20001017 Talk 09:04, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure there's anything we can do about that, but i will ask — Game widow (talk) 12:18, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

About Bots
Hello Game widow!

How could I make a second account with the same email in order to create a bot account?

Trarsheise   ►Discusión◄►Contribuciones◄ 17:29, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid it isn't possible. You could create basically a dummy account on googlemail which redirects to your primary email address and use that. That's the only relatively easy workaround i can suggest. — Game widow (talk) 18:08, 2 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks anyway, I'll do that. Trarsheise   ►Discusión◄►Contribuciones◄ 21:23, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

SyntaxHighlight GeSHi?
Could we finally have SyntaxHighlight GeSHi enabled? The original request/veto was almost three years ago, and with Lua, I believe it is more relevant than ever; it's not like the extension itself is unstable or the like, given the fact that it's been used on Wikimedia wikis - including the English Wikipedia - for close to a decade now, and has been bundled since MediaWiki 1.21. Thanks! 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 04:57, 11 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Personally, I don't like GeSHi. Mainly because of its terrible class naming scheme which makes styling it difficult, but its also the sort of thing that I prefer to see done with JS. It gives you more control over what syntax it supports (no regex-based highlighter perfectly highlights all syntax), and you're not slowing down the page load waiting for it to parse a big script. I've been using Prism.js for ages and it works pretty well, and is really easy to extend (I added support for lua really easily) and theme. –Majr ᐸ Talk Contribs ⎜ 05:44, 11 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm inclined to agree with Majr here. But if you two can come to an agreement, i can act on it — Game widow (talk) 11:32, 11 September 2014 (UTC)


 * If you don't mind us using your talk page for it, I'll see what we can do, otherwise I can move the discussion over to Majr's talk page. =)
 * Majr: Like it or not, GeSHi is the de facto standard for syntax highlighting on MediaWiki wikis, and SyntaxHighlight GeSHi is the standard - de facto and de jure - for implementing it via an extension. While I can't speak for ease of styling, since I've never had reason to restyle GeSHi's output, I can say from personal experience that the added overhead from GeSHi's processing is so minuscule as to be nonexistent from a human perspective, even on very large files. (I'll also grant you the bit about regex not being suited for constructing parsers; that's not exactly a controversial notion.) There are other extensions for syntax highlighting, some of which don't use GeSHi, but I've never had reason nor opportunity to actually try any of them.
 * I am the opposite of you here; I don't care for JavaScript solutions, instead preferring something server-side. There is no good argument for not syntax highlighting scripts for every person that views them, and the only way to do that client-side is to include the syntax highlighting JS in a global JS file, in which case the overhead of loading the script is present on every uncached pageload. At best, you can write a wrapper function to check for highlightable scripts on the current page and then conditionally load the script if any are found. And if the script isn't loaded globally, it falls to each individual to discover and then add it for themselves, a straight-up non-solution: very few people are going to be interested in going through the effort, especially when they're already accustomed to syntax highlighting on other MediaWiki wikis Just Working&trade;. 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 16:00, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I am totally fine with you guys hashing it out here :) — Game widow (talk) 01:48, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Problems with external links
Hello! I'm from russian wiki, and I have problems adding external links or calling templates, that have external links, example is License Mojang, that links to Minecraft EULA and Curse terms. When I click "Save Page", I'm asked to choose cats, but it even shouldn't ask it, because I am an autoconfirmed user and have right "skipcaptcha". When the cats are chosen, I click "Save Page" again. But it again asks me to choose the cats! I tried logging off my account, choosing cats 3 times, but nothing works. It began after wiki updated MediaWiki to 1.23. --Dand0 (talk) 07:11, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * And I have no such problems in English Wiki. --Dand0 (talk) 07:20, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Usually that only happens when you are not logged in. I will look into it — Game widow (talk) 11:11, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Related topic: I had a similar captcha incident (that used blurry words rather than cats), but only whenever I open this website, no matter what wiki, since day or so prior to the MediaWiki update. After the update or short time after it, the site no longer asks for a captcha. Also, I'm also a contributor from Russian wiki, but made an edit in the English wiki first. –Regards, Naista2002  ᐸ Talk Contribs 11:31, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I am logged in, I checked it. So, user DragonX24 has the same problem as me. Naista2002, it will stop soon, I have to enter CAPTCHA every other visit to the wiki or another web-site, that uses CloudFare. --Dand0 (talk) 12:12, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Almost, the problem is in infinite Cat-CAPTCHA, not just having to pass CAPTCHA for auto-confirmed users. --Dand0 (talk) 12:19, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * So, I looked into Wynthyst's talk, and found this. There, there was the same problem with Cat-CAPTCHA (is it extension Asirra?), and it was fixed. —Dand0(talk) 12:56, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Dand0, that problem stopped on my host, and I already knew about that stuff being CloudFlare's. Also, in your signature, set the talk link to the english talk page, even if it doesn't exist. One that clicked the link may not knew Russian. To help with navigation, add an interwiki at the beginning — what I shall do right after posting this reply. Anyone can create your English talk page. –Regards, Naista2002  ᐸ Talk Contribs 13:37, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Naista2002, I only tested my signature. Is your problem solved? --Dand0 (talk) 13:48, 12 September 2014 (UTC)