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Primatechpaper.com

I saw your post on the talk for primatechpaper.com and I was wondering if you could help me to get on the site. I go to the jobs page and there is no space for me to enter a password. Was this a limited time thing? Thanks Nick Petrelli 22:46, 1 December 2007 (EST)

Ability name changes

http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/List_of_Anomalistic_Abilities

i guess this seems a pretty good place to kind the 'real' ability names. for example on here theres 'induced radioactivity' but here its named as Radiokinesis. ah well i though you might wanna change some of the names lol

http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Radiokinesis (induce radioactivity) http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Florakinesis (plant control) http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Cryokinesis (freezing)lol XD http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Spontaneous_Regeneration (Rapid cell regeneration) http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Omnilinguality (Omnilingualism) somewhat minor http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Self-Duplication (replication) http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Electrokinesis (lightning)

and http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Emotion_Manipulation (bliss and horror) i though i might as well put that one cause on the page it actually says the haitians father had that ability

tbh i couldnt be bothered to nomiate all (or any :D) of the above for a name change cause theres just too many.

btw sent this to some of the other admins too. have fun lol

• ActivatingEvolution.org is fan-contributed content. It has no bearing on our article names.--Hardvice (talk) 16:10, 2 December 2007 (EST)
  • yeah but surely florakinesis and Radiokinesis are the correct terms for the power.
    • "Florakinesis" means "flower movement". "Induced radioactivity" comes from the Genesis files, which appeared in an episode and thus trump any name we might want to make up. See Help:Naming conventions.--Hardvice (talk) 16:17, 2 December 2007 (EST)

Animals with the Humans category

• I noticed that Mr. Muggles has the Humans category on his page. Since the Template:Character_box was designed for either Humans or Evolved Humans, it presents a problem. I dont want to futz with all the wikicode you worked on, so I thought I'd just ask you. Perhaps just something tweaked in the template could fix this?--Piemanmoo 15:53, 5 December 2007 (EST)
  • He wears clothes, doesn't he?  :) Yeah, should be an easy enough fix.--Hardvice (talk) 15:54, 5 December 2007 (EST)
    • Wearing clothes=human? Does not wearing clothes=nonhuman? Cool, I'll have to try that. :) -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 18:09, 5 December 2007 (EST)
      • It is one of the seven rules of the farm.--Hardvice (talk) 18:24, 5 December 2007 (EST)
        • Then in the Orwellian universe, Mr. Muggles is definitely human since he is not equal to others: Muggles has appeared in 18 episodes, Lyle in a mere 12. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 20:05, 5 December 2007 (EST)

Age template

I was looking at Peter's page, and I noticed that he will be turning 28 in a few weeks. I was thinking about all the people whose ages will need to be updated, and was wondering if there was some way to make a template which automatically updates ages. For instance, Wikipedia has a template they use, but it seems pretty complex. Lostpedia has copied it, and it seems to work for them. Any thoughts? -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 01:27, 9 December 2007 (EST)

• Should be easy. Actually, if the character box has DOB (does it?), we can make it calculate using just {{expr:}}. Otherwise, we can add a DOB variable and have age calculate if it's present. I'll take care of it now.--Hardvice (talk) 02:01, 9 December 2007 (EST)
  • Thanks. I have to head to bed. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk)
    • It's not that easy as we have to reference the current point in the timeline. I mean, storywise, we will probably continue in March/April 2007 when irl it is Sept/Oct. 2008 (over a year later). If we automate it, we should define a storydate which for now should be "March 20, 2007", correct?--MiamiVolts (talk) 02:07, 9 December 2007 (EST)
      • Hm, good point. It may be more trouble than it's worth. Perhaps it would be easier to just use dpl to generate a list of birthdays (could even be a new lists article) and monitor that manually.--Hardvice (talk) 02:13, 9 December 2007 (EST)
        • That works for me. There really aren't a whole lot of characters for whom we have an actual birth date. Usually, we just know the year or at most the month. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 15:52, 9 December 2007 (EST)

your username anagram

• I think I might have figured it out. Do I have it ~right? (SacValleyDweller (talk) 01:38, 9 December 2007 (EST)) Dave Rich
  • See here. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 01:58, 9 December 2007 (EST)
    • Yatta!--SacValleyDweller (talk) 02:13, 9 December 2007 (EST)

Family trees

Hey, Hardvice. Will you take a look at some of the family trees? Since Template:PortalCharacter was adjusted, it seems some of the family trees are acting oddly. (Take a look at Template:Petrelli Tree for a more extreme example of how the lines aren't quite matching up and the bottom cells don't fit in the box.) Thanks, man. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 21:20, 13 December 2007 (EST)

• By and large, the positioning just needs to be tweaked. A natural vertical height of two lines and a vertical height of lines=2 are different by a few pixels. In the worst cases, we might need to adjust the background images a touch, but most of the time we should be able to get away with nudging the offending cells up a few px.--Hardvice (talk) 03:59, 14 December 2007 (EST)
  • Yeah, that's kinda what I thought, I just didn't want to mess anything else up since I don't have my head fully wrapped around the PortalCharacter changes yet. Thanks for the fix. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 06:46, 14 December 2007 (EST)

DPL

I'm trying to get my head wrapped around DPL. Is there a way to print just the title of articles that have a certain response for a variable? (I'm not sure if I'm using the right vocabulary, sorry.) For instance, could I print just the names of articles that have power(s) = None in the character box, or that have artby = Micah Gunnell in the Graphic Novel sidebar? -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 19:11, 18 December 2007 (EST)

• It's possible. To do it, you need to use include (to get the template parameter) and includematch or includenomatch (to get only certain values). There's an example here. Includematch/includenomatch use regular expressions, which can be a bit awkward at first.--Hardvice (talk) 20:25, 18 December 2007 (EST)
  • Thanks, I'll play around with it. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 20:46, 18 December 2007 (EST)
    • I'm having a really hard time figuring out the language for includenomatch. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 21:09, 18 December 2007 (EST)
      • You mean includeNOTmatch?--MiamiVolts (talk) 21:14, 18 December 2007 (EST)
        • Actually, I mean includematch. It's the regular expressions that are tripping me up. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 21:19, 18 December 2007 (EST)