User:Derik
- "Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. You can't be objective about Nixon." - H.S. Thompson
Derik talks a good game, but he's really a big softy that goes all squooshy inside at the sight of kittens or Emo Boys kissing.
They're not just doing it for attention!
Derik can't spell woth a danm. Did you know Mozilla 2.0 has MS Word-style spell check on textarea boxes?
Feel free to yell at him on AIM: ReGenesis0
Things not to message Derik about: (culled from actual conversation)
- "I just sent an e-mail to the executive producer telling him what he needs to do better."
- "Did you delete my post?"
- "I had drunken sex with another dude at a furry convention in Canada, what do I do?"
He's also apparently a Mut-Org, whatever the hell that is.
Episode article style
Do we have a definative established style for the episode entries? Lately I've been editing the Armada ones to reflect the look of the new G1 episode articles. Also, I think the RID episodenav looks abit cluttered and would rather if it was just 'Preceeded by [episode number and name/link] Suceeded by [episode number and name/link]. --FFN 02:49, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
- Cluttered in what manner? 'prev episode' and 'next episode' being too close together? I agree they could use some air. -Derik 06:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, they were abit too close together. Needed to be more clearly seperated.
Re: Pics from other sites
If you admittedly borrow pics from other sites, particularly if its their own photography, please leave a link to the site on the image's page, just for some consistency when we wiki users borrow pics. --FFN 06:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- Don't just credit, link, gotcha.
- I appreciate the tangley ethical implications, and I try to avoid gloming others' pictures unless there's a compelling reason for it- especially TFU since their pictures are their content to a greater degree. In this case they had just the angle on Blastcharge I needed. ;-) -Derik 06:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
To-Do List
- Preach the gospel of Yakitate!! Japan
- Find gayer userpic
- Send in that timesheet to Pat Hamilton
- Finish Chain of Command summary.
- Deep think: Top-level banner for declaring a page 'completionist' as of a date because it covers every single thing about that episode/story/character? How to make when a new info makes a page no-longer-complete? In general, how do we prioritize people's attention to things? Cleanup cat doesn't seem to be resulting in cleanup taking place. (This may become less of a problem as the holes in the wiki disappear and the precieved lack becomes less pressing- right now peopel are throwign themselves onto gaps like an armed grenade with no tim for cleanup of articles already written.) "Articles in need of expansion"? Dangerous.
- A PHP script to scan through the image on the wiki and list which of them have no copyright info, or copyright year and put them in a category? (A low-effort improvement drive, but an important one, from a legal standpoint.)
- World of the Transformers page
- Point one of our aspiring list-makes ar the 2007 page and make him fill in the toy section.
- Do a 1984 page like the 2007 page. The BW-years would be easiest after this.
- Prelude: Optimus Prime
- Titan Magazines comic 'overall' page.
- Call Lutzwick about prescription
- Check TRU for Amar, mail that wrong power source back to supplier. (Print e-bay communication for context since they provided no invoice.)
- Abstract for Maddie's college-search site.
- Do the retouch on that God Neptune art. (2-3 hours)
- Scan and catalog covers to my other JP guides.
- Items in need of translation front-pagery?
Derik's Resources
- Kabay - TF Gum pack-ins from 1990, Blacball, pre-robotmasters et-al.
- NTFA - TFU online (plus the odd-ends.)
- toyarchive.com - Double pretender pic, other goodness.
- Rapido's G2 Archive - For your G2 needs
- UK comic scans - No longer comprehensive dut to Titan Deference.
- Fred's workshop - For the odd bit of toy-refernece.
- TFarchive - Where tsarchive went.
- Transfans.net UK comcis guide - Scanned letters pages
- Baron Zemo's TF Museum - Revival pending
Wikimedia Resources
- en.Wikipedia.org main CSS file
- MediaWiki:Monobook.css, Raw file
- User:Derik/monobook.css
- monobook/main.css To execute changes ask Suki Brits, since Walky is baffled by CSS.
- Wiki Parser Functions
- Wiki Table Markup
Backing up the Wiki
Database backups are very large, so always right-click save-as these links. (Waiting on an answer here)
- Current Revision - Current version of all pages (~20mb of text as of 7-7-07)
- Full History All pages, all versions past & present. (~300mb as of 7-7-07)
- Images - All images (and other media like oggs I think...) in TAR format. (Surprisingly only ~630mb as of 7-7-07)
