User talk:Rosicrucian

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Why'd you change the BW Silverolt page back?

You put it back to the rather uninspired "Watch out for my deadly spoons". Why? Did you find the new caption I added unamusing? Buddy 23:45, 7 April 2010 (EDT)

GoBox Templates

Just out of curiosity, what program would I need to be able to read .psd files? ---Blackout- 07:53, 16 September 2009 (EDT)

Photoshop, or a Photoshop-ish program like GIMP. -Mazenoise 10:10, 16 September 2009 (EDT)

Pretty much what the man said. It's a Photoshop format, but a number of graphics programs can read it these days.--Rosicrucian^Talk 10:59, 16 September 2009 (EDT)

And to think I just happen to have GIMP on my computer. ---Blackout- 12:38, 16 September 2009 (EDT)

New vandal needs ban

This guy Thanks. Dead Metal 13:53, 22 September 2009 (EDT)

Anon vandal guy

200.97.215.168 needs to be dealt with. I already nominated his spam for speedy deletion. ---Blackout- 06:33, 1 November 2009 (EST)

And here he goes again. ---Blackout- 07:06, 1 November 2009 (EST)

SG Bludgeon caption

What is the caption you keep returning to SG Bludgeon, I don't recognize it as anything. I figures a nice Kid rock song quote would be more rcognizeable. 207.181.17.24 20:27, 11 November 2009 (EST)

It is wiki policy to revert when people are just changing other people's captions without adding content.--Rosicrucian^Talk 20:50, 11 November 2009 (EST)

Also, eyuw, Kid Rock. --M Sipher 20:53, 11 November 2009 (EST)

Don't be hating on a Michigan boy. Besides, how is a retarded cowboy quote any good? Maybe I can find something from Ted Nugent for SG Carnivac (if he had a picture)...207.181.17.24 21:12, 11 November 2009 (EST)

keys to the 'bot

I have been abyssally busy, and the linkfix 'bot has been broken since June. In theory I'm working on a ground-up re-code. In practice... the project is in someday-maybe territory. That's bad, our link-structure will start to get ragged.

I've rolled the Deceptitran link-fix 'bot back to May of this year and gotten it working again. But since I've been crazy-busy I'm also giving you a copy of the keys. Go to the movelog in RecentChanges and you should now see the Deceptitran links are live. (The 'bot itself is protected by a server-login you'll have to give the first time you queue a link up per session. I'm PMing you the password for THAT on the Allspark messageboard. You will remain logged into Deceptitran for several hours.)

• The interface is a bit clumsy-- but also self-explanatory.
• Enjoy seeing the SQL-echos! They make my life easier when debugging.
• Queued fixes changes are executed at a rate of 1-per-minute 24/7.
• You can go into a job and remove specific pages by hand if necessary, or force them to edit-right-now with "do one edit"
• There is no 'pause' and no order; a linkfix is executed at random from the hundreds (or thousands) pending.
• If a link is in a template (like a franchise navigation) it will try to edit all the pages that include that template. (Null-edits,) That's wasteful... but who cares? Deceptitran can make 43,000 edits per month... wasting its time doesn't hurt anybody. (The template itself is also on the list of pages to fix that link on, so it'll get it eventually.)
• It does catch storylinks. It does not catch previous/next links in templates. (something to fix for the recode.)
• It will simply fail to fix some links. It always has. If it's IMPORTANT, double-check.
• If there are no pages-that-link-to-this, Deceptitran just sits there and gives you a blank page.
• You cannot queue up the same job (fix) twice without deleting the old one.
• Completed jobs must be removed by hand.

(You'll figure out the workflow-- tabs are your friend.) I think that's all. I used to just go into the movelog and queue up recent page-moves twice a week... it shouldn't take more than about 3 minutes. (I picked you because you don't go around rearranging deckchairs.) If you think someone else should have access... let me know.

Statistically, making arrangements like this probably means I'm going to suddenly find myself back on tfwiki more, rendering all this unnecessary. For problems, questions, or passive-aggressive statements... you can usually find me online @ my IM account, which is listed on my userpage. -Derik 07:02, 21 November 2009 (EST)

Hello, and goals

I wanted to see about setting goals, rrather than randomly editing articles. I put them on my user page. Can I get feedback on them? Primal Rage 12:27, 23 November 2009 (EST)

Admin request

Hey, yellow-kid type!

Could you (or another admin, but it looks like you're around...) possibly add the following line to the very beginning of MediaWiki:Common.css? (So it's BEFORE the previous import?)

@import "/w2/index.php?title=User:Derik/Common_tmp.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css";

As a user CSS page, only I (or possibly an admin?) can edit it, so it's safe from most vandalism.

(The idea is to move styles that are semi-finalized off of my server's temp file so that if my server goes down the CSS is at least loading off of TFWiki. The link to my server's temp file remains for rapid-development purposes though.) -Derik 13:50, 29 December 2009 (EST)