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Redirect from ru-section

Hello, Wynthyst, there is strange problem on Russian section: wiki tryes to redirect any requests to minecraftforum.net, so http://ru.minecraftwiki.net/Special:RecentChanges turns into http://www.minecraftforum.net/Special:RecentChanges (certainly, page shows forum content). However, the wiki content occasionally becomes available, but with wrong theme. We are looking for answer and fix to this issue, if you can help. Norrius - Ru Admin 20:56, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Please link me where this is happening, I don't really understand. -- Wynthyst talk 22:39, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Now it seems to be ok. Too bad I can't explain that. And I can't give you a link, it was just something like change of URI then I tried to open page on wiki. Redirect from ru.minecraftwiki.net to minecraftforum.net (I've checked other language sections and found nothing unusial). Anyway, since this trouble spontaneously disappeeared, the question may be considered closed. Norrius - Ru Admin 23:13, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Our tech team is doing some hardware upgrades and reconfigs. It may have caused some temporary anomalies. I always want to know about these things, so keep reporting them if they occur. I'm glad it resolved itself :D -- Wynthyst talk 00:08, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the problem reappeared. Most of the pages are available, but some pages (Main page, Recent Changes) still redirect to minecraftforum.net HEKP0H - ru.Wiki Admin 06:29, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

It appears to be fine now. I will let the guys know it's still an issue. -- Wynthyst talk 13:57, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Extensions request

Could you ask the technical team to install in the Russian wiki two extensions already installed in the English wiki (Loops and OggHandler)? HEKP0H - ru.Wiki Admin 08:25, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Requested -- Wynthyst talk 08:28, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Minecraft Forum

Minecraft forum won't let me create an account when I've followed all the account making rules!

Idea help

I just came across the idea of removing any outdated posts on talk pages, i.e. posts about bugs that are already fixed, or posts that dont have a comment from, lets say, a year ago at least. It would reduce lag and space usage for 3-ds' or slow and old computers. MaryTheTiger 20:22, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Outdated talk page posts can be archived, but should not just be removed. -- Wynthyst talk 20:24, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Filters request

Could you import filters 3—18 from English wiki to Russian wiki? P. S. Thank you for your help with extensions. HEKP0H - ru.Wiki Admin 20:01, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Missing article on Hungarian Wiki

Hi, I'm Hungarian Wiki admin Icguy. I have a problem, there's the Crafting page on the Hungarian wiki (link), which disappeared without a trace. When clicking on the link an error message shows up saying (rough translation):

"The page "Crafting" could not be found in the database. In most cases the reason is that you clicked on a link that points to a page that has been deleted. If not so, it's possible that you've found a bug in the software. Plesae notify the admins by giving them the URL."

Now there's no sign in the Recent Changes that it has been deleted. Could you take a look at it? Many thanks!

Icguy 11:51, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. -- Wynthyst talk 11:53, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks :) Icguy 11:48, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Broken file

I found the file and was able to delete it. It was File:Mcmapmapped.jpg and would break any page that tried to show a thumbnail of it (the full image worked fine), including special pages such as Special:NewFiles and Special:FileList and its own file page.

I can only guess that the reason it broke everything was because of how large it was (6,040px × 4,776px, 2.6MB). Is there a way to block images that are over a certain dimension from being uploaded? (Or at least disable thumbnailing for them.) –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 07:38, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

I'll ask Tim. -- Wynthyst talk 15:14, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Some questions (pl.MCWiki)

Hi! Last month I wrote an email to Donovan Duncan, but he not answered. He is on holidays? Can you tell him to check messages from me? Thanks in advance! Lewandowski^{pl.Wiki Admin} talk 13:15, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Any inquiries about the wikis should be forwarded to me. -- Wynthyst talk 10:40, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Suggestion on fixing corruption in crafting page

I think the main issue with the page is the shear amount of animated sections. Anything that uses wood, wooden planks or is a wood product has to have 4 animations EACH. Wool cycles through a whopping 16 different colors whenever it shows up. The amount of scripts would be reduced to a fraction of what its currently using if we just use the standard wood color for anything involving wood and just have a small note on the page mentioning the other variations. The same could be done for beds or paintings with wool. --Moxxy 05:50, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Mods corrupts just as much, and doesn't have any grid templates at all. The animations are actually really simple, it's just layered images and the JavaScript cycles their visibility (and since JS is client-side, no affect on the server).

The only complicated template mods has is the version (and subsequently verlink) template, both of which are used on many pages (and those pages don't seem to have corruption issues). –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 06:13, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

A far more likely possibility in my mind is the number of revisions: Mods has over 4000 revisions in its history. Of course, this doesn't explain why other pages with lots of revisions don't seem to get corrupted in a similar fashion... 「ディノ奴千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 07:01, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Crafting#Splitting_this_into_smaller_pieces Let's keep the discussions on the normal talk pages rather than buried on mine. -- Wynthyst talk 10:43, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Well Talk:Known bugs/Version 1.3.1 just corrupted, it hasn't got many revisions or templates, so it seems to be completely random... :/ –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 00:38, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Question about HTMLTidy

Is it planned to enable HTMLTidy in the Russian wiki? HEKP0H - ru.Wiki Admin 02:28, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Only if you ask for it. -- Wynthyst talk 03:45, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

In this case, please enable it, because otherwise it is impossible to implement many improvements in the templates. HEKP0H - ru.Wiki Admin 13:59, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. HEKP0H - ru.Wiki Admin 14:55, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

My villagers have no head!!!! D:

What the hell is this??? I build some houses and spawned some villagers and they have no heads D: ist so ugly, have anyone had this to? Can i fix this?

New subdomain

Hi, i'm the lead italian translator of the Minecraft Wiki and i want to ask you how many pages we translate for obtain a new subdomain like "it.minecraftwiki.net" ?

--Raffox97 20:09, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

You need to translate all the primary pages that are linked on Minecraft Wiki/it, not just have the inks point to the English pages. -- Wynthyst talk 20:35, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

So, if i translate all the pages linked in Minecraft Wiki/it you gave to the minecraft italian community the subdomain "it.minecraftwiki.net" right?

PS: Because i'm the leader of the italian translator community of the minecraft wiki, when the subdomain is created can you insert me as "it.Wiki Founder/Admin"?

--Raffox97 08:08, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

I will ask the Italian community who they want as their community admin. But yes, we need at least the pages linked directly to the main page to be translated before you get a subdomain. -- Wynthyst talk 11:38, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. I have an advice for you, unfortunately the minecraftwiki italian community isn't very big and it isn't very active (Only me and other 2/3 members). I finish to translate the first possible to have the new subdomain :) --Raffox97 12:48, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Help (Spanish wiki)

Hello, Wynthyst.

I recently found some spam, spam-bot and trolls on Spanish wiki. We need an administrator or someone with power to keep safe the articles, block spammers and update the main page.

I'm sorry for disturbing you with this, but is important.

Ps: And sorry for my english level, I'm Spanish haha

Thanks. Kingpowl~ 21:08, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Are you volunteering? -- Wynthyst talk 11:38, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes I am. Just now I'm translating the 1.3.1 info. Kingpowl~ 12:47, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Granted. -- Wynthyst talk 14:52, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Oh, thank you very much! This helps me a lot. I'll do my best to improve the wiki. Kingpowl~ 15:16, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Template for works in progress

Hello, Wynthyst. I want to make the page oak planks, but i can't find a template for labeling a work in progress. Can you help me? Creepergoboom64 17:46, 14 August 2012 (UTC)Creepergoboom64

First off, I don't believe a page specific to "Oak planks" is necessary, since it's covered in Wood_planks. Second, We don't use a WIP template, just {{stub}}. -- Wynthyst talk 17:53, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Oh, Thank you. I'm new here, so i'm sorry for bothering you. It's just that i want to help, but i don't speak anything besides Engish. Oak planks was in the wanted pages. Creepergoboom64 18:01, 14 August 2012 (UTC)Creepergoboom64

Well, please don't let me discourage you! And questions here are never a bother! You might want to check out the Community portal and see if there are other things listed under Wanted pages that might be of interest to you. -- Wynthyst talk 18:58, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

By the way,if it's not needed, why not remove it? I mean, the same thing could happen all over again. EDIT: Remove Oak planks from the wanted page, i mean. Creepergoboom64 00:23, 15 August 2012 (UTC)Creepergoboom64

If you're talking about the special page, it's automatically generated by the software (based on links to non-existent pages). Just because a page is there, doesn't mean we actually want it; someone (or a template) has just gone and linked to something that doesn't exist. In this case, that page should redirect to the wooden planks page. –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 00:31, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Hey, not a bad idea, ultradude25! EDIT: And Wynthyst, all i see is stuff labeled cz and it.Creepergoboom64 01:04, 15 August 2012 (UTC)Creepergoboom64

Try Minecraft_Wiki:Community_portal#Wanted_pages. -- Wynthyst talk 01:11, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

The /cz, /it, etc. suffixes indicate pages that are part of in-progress translation projects (Czech and Italian, in these cases). There's no easy way to filter them out of the list, unfortunately. -- Orthotope 02:11, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Oh. I see only two fixes for this problem. One: I wait. Two: I learn italian, or Czech. Creepergoboom64 10:30, 15 August 2012 (UTC)Creepergoboom64

Error creating Thumbnail

Uh, sorry to bother you again, but i'm seeing Errors That say 'Error creating Thumbnail' then runs over other text! I can't read that, and it's confusing me. Is it a server bug or something? Creepergoboom64 22:36, 23 August 2012 (UTC)Creepergoboom64

If you could provide links of where this is occurring, I can see about getting it fixed. -- Wynthyst talk 23:14, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Some of the pages are Known bugs for the recent Snapshot, The Creeper page, A few User pages. That's The only pages that i remember. Creepergoboom64 23:32, 23 August 2012 (UTC)Creepergoboom64

I'm not seeing any problem on the Creeper page. You might want to try clearing your browser cache. It might be something in the new caching stuff they've added to the backend. -- Wynthyst talk 23:39, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Er, Sorry, What's a browser cache? I have very little knowledge on Computers. Creepergoboom64 23:48, 23 August 2012 (UTC)Creepergoboom64

Your browser stores information from each webpage you visit so it doesn't have to reload everything every time. This is called the Cache. If your browser cache becomes full, or otherwise corrupted, it can cause these kinds of errors. Depending on which browser you are using, you can either clear your cache per page (ctrl+F5 for most browsers) or you can clear your entire browser cache through the preferences/options/tools menu of your browser. For more detailed information, check here http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cache -- Wynthyst talk 03:27, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

I noticed this happen to the {{hp}} bars on Wither earlier today. Not the first time it's occurred, usually to the hp/hunger bar templates. My guess is that it's just a server load issue, as it's intermittent and seems to resolve itself within a few hours. -- Orthotope 04:12, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

It seems to be related to the wiki turning off thumbnails occasionally. That works fine for normal images, but svg images are always thumbnailed (and the CDN doesn't allow anything but normal images), so the svg files break, while normal images just look aliased. –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 04:25, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

(Sorry if there's random letters, i have a cat on my keyboard.)If i clear it, will it remove most i my info? And whta kind of info? Creepergoboom64 14:01, 24 August 2012 (UTC)Creepergoboom64

The same thumbnail-issue happened earlier this year around June 9th - 10th (especially on the german wiki), see the post from user:Oliver Scholz : Minecraft_Wiki_talk:Directors#thumbnail --Kumasasa 19:03, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Page error

This page has appeared to have a internal server error, please help us fix it.—Powup333 ZH Admin 03:46, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. When that occurs, simply delete the page and then restore it. We are trying to track down what is causing this problem, but have been unsuccessful so far. -- Wynthyst talk 04:17, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Translation complete

Hello Wynthyst, I have completed the translation of all the voices in the Italian homepage. Now it's all right to get the subdomain?

--Raffox97 15:10, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Subdomain has been requested. Please don't spam my talk page. -- Wynthyst talk 17:53, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Ok thanks and sorry for the spam :)

--Raffox97 05:46, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Since you totally failed to tag all your pages as part of the translation project (as per instructions at the top of the project page) not everything got exported cleanly. Also, your most recent translations are simply NOT up to appropriate standards, as you haven't actually translated the contents of the English page, you simply created bogus placeholder pages. Please correct these items asap. -- Wynthyst talk 21:31, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Ok, there is no problem, i'm already at work to export all page of the italian translation project on the new wiki, but i want to ask you a question. Can you give me the role of Administrator of the it.wiki? (I'm almost always online and as you can see I'm translating all the wiki :) )

--Raffox97 07:01, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Problem on the French Wiki....

Hi!

We have a pretty big problem on the French wiki, since we no longer see the badges indicating the number of elements on a grid crafts.

Knowing that we have the former provision, here is an example: http://fr.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Panneau

In theory, we should have a 3 next to the result.

The problem occurs since you set up the new system "Grid2" on English wiki. Could try to fix this problem please?

Sincerely. Itouchmasterpro 08:16, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Grid2 has different syntax, that's why it's a separate template and not replacing the old one, because every page with numbers, animations or mods has to be changed. Once that's all done then it will replace the original template.

You shouldn't need to worry about using the newer template so much though. The syntax change was necessary to improve mod support, and since it'd kind of be a waste of time for mod pages to be translated, you don't need the changes.

Updating eventually is good still, so you can use any later updates; but you can take your time with that.–ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 08:26, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Same on the Spanish wiki, it no longer works. Wynthyst could reply ... thank you very much ! :-) Itouchmasterpro 22:15, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Well, first of all, I don't know how a change on the English wiki could be affecting either the French or Spanish wiki unless those changes have also been carried over, since there is no connection between them. I believe Ultradude answered your question, and given he understands best how those templates work (he created them) there's not much I can say that would be different than what he's said. -- Wynthyst talk 22:27, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Okay, but you can't try to fix it, because the syntax... :x Itouchmasterpro 22:37, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

I'm not touching it... I'd just make a mess. You'd be better off asking Ultra for help, I mean, I can see it's not working, but I wouldn't have the slightest idea where to start to find out why. He's got a much better understanding of how it works. -- Wynthyst talk 22:39, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Well looking at the template, it looks pretty old. It still uses inline styling, an image sprite for the numbers and an image for the background, so I don't know if you've updated something that the template uses, and it's incompatible with an old version or something.

The numbers are actually there, they are just pushed offscreen, and your sprite template doesn't seem to be aligning the image properly for some reason, so it doesn't show up at all.

A change here won't affect anything over there (unless you manually copy it over). –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 00:27, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Could it have been the addition of HtmlTidy? -- Wynthyst talk 02:11, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Ah yeah, that would make sense. The number div has been moved outside the output span.

Divs need to be changed to spans, and if they don't already have a display value, set it to display: block. Alternatively, update to the latest versions of our templates (use grid, not grid2), which already have everything fixed for HTMLTidy (need to update your css and js files too). I can update your templates when I have time, but I don't have admin on french and can't even login to spanish, so I can't update the css and js. –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 02:55, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

If you want I can unlock the relevant pages for you to help me. Because now I'm totally lost. I'm hopeless.... What are the models that don't work? Itouchmasterpro 07:36, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Those pages can't be unlocked. This would be easier to explain on IRC, I'll be there for the next few hours. –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 10:48, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much, you're awesome! Itouchmasterpro 11:09, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

So... are you coming or what? I'm only going to be here for about another hour. –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 12:03, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

The link don't work :( irc://irc.esper.net/#minecraftwiki Itouchmasterpro 12:15, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Wyn, I've fixed the french wiki (spanish will have to wait until tomorrow), however they both don't appear to have the minecraft font (and fonts don't work cross-domain). –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 14:28, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes, the font doesn't work for furnaces :/ But it's a detail. Itouchmasterpro 14:54, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Minecraft font

Please, ask the technical team to upload Minecraft fonts on the Russian Wiki. HEKP0H - ru.Wiki Admin 23:28, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much. HEKP0H - ru.Wiki Admin 19:49, 28 August 2012 (UTC)