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User talk:MiamiVolts
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Micah
Hey. Micah has a Season Three History page but since most people have agreed not to include one (at least until the end of Rebellion), should it be deleted? Josh KorolenkoUTChronicles
- Na. I think it's okay to start doing the Season Three history pages.--MiamiVolts (talk) 01:31, 2 August 2009 (EDT)
Temperature manipulation image
It was actually a painting of Isaac's. An example of induced radioactivity. 
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- Ok. If it's a screenshot, I need to know from which episode and then I can restore it. Thanks.--MiamiVolts (talk) 10:54, 2 August 2009 (EDT)
- It can be seen in Genesis when Simone comes to Isaac's loft and witnesses him destroying his paintings.
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- Ah, then it's a duplicate of Image:Painting boiling water.jpg. I added that to User:Altes/Temperature manipulation for you. If you still want the original image, please let me know. Thanks.--MiamiVolts (talk) 10:47, 3 August 2009 (EDT)
- It can be seen in Genesis when Simone comes to Isaac's loft and witnesses him destroying his paintings.
Archive help
Miami, could you help me creating a talk page archive? I know how to make the sub page and all, but I have only a vague idea on how to put an "archive notice", so to speak, in my talk page, similar to yours or Ryan's. Intuitive Empath - Talk - Contributions 12:12, 2 August 2009 (EDT)
- Basically, you just add a user talk subpage such as "User talk:Intuitive Empath/Top", edit that to list the links as you want, and then in your talk page you call the subpage as a template at the top of the page. You can take a look at "User talk:MiamiVolts/Top" for an example. Template:ArchivePrelinks may help you some if you have a lot of topics to process and want to link each of them like on my page. If you still need help, please let me know.--MiamiVolts (talk) 18:40, 2 August 2009 (EDT)
- Well, a bit of copy and paste from your template and a lot of copy and paste from my talk page, I think I did it. Intuitive Empath - Talk - Contributions 21:06, 3 August 2009 (EDT)
- Yeah, it looks great. Congrats!--MiamiVolts (talk) 01:49, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
- Well, a bit of copy and paste from your template and a lot of copy and paste from my talk page, I think I did it. Intuitive Empath - Talk - Contributions 21:06, 3 August 2009 (EDT)
Just a thought
Hey, I noticed you removed Tracy.jpg's AFD tag and added it to Heroes Wiki:Used files since it was linked to, but not used, on a talk page. I was wondering that, in order to make identifying these types of files easier, would it be possible to include a Special:Whatlinkshere, so that there'd be a list of what pages link to the file, alongside the list of what pages use the file? Hope you understand what I'm getting at. --Radicell 00:43, 3 August 2009 (EDT)
- I think you mean to add a call to "Special:Whatlinkshere" under the "Links" header. That's possibly in the new MediaWiki version Admin is working on, but I'm not sure. It might be doable to add a footer to image pages with those pages linking to the image by using existing MediaWiki options in this version. Is that what you're getting at?--MiamiVolts (talk) 01:09, 3 August 2009 (EDT)
- Yes, exactly. I just thought that it'd be a good addition to help prevent people from mistakenly adding the AFD tag to such images (like I had done with the Tracy image). So d'you think that it'd be possible to do (I suppose the MediaWiki stuff that controls how the website looks will need to be played around with)? --Radicell 01:43, 3 August 2009 (EDT)
- I checked around and was able to get it working by editing MediaWiki:Linkstoimage on the new server, but unfortunately the links appear in pre-tagged form in the current server version so I commented that code out here for now. Feel free to take a look at the source code.--MiamiVolts (talk) 02:49, 3 August 2009 (EDT)
- So I assume that once the new server is finished and goes online, the code will work? Thanks then. Also, you know how right now, in the image upload form, if one uploads an image with the same title as an existing image, it will display a page asking the user to confirm whether or not to upload over the existing image? Could it be possible to implement a feature that would detect whether or not a category has been assigned to the image being uploaded? And if it detects no categories, it would display a page that asks the user to either add categories or go ahead and upload anyway? Could that somehow be achieved? --Radicell 06:52, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
- Yes, the code should work when Admin updates the server and someone (likely me) uncomments it. :) As for the image upload form, that might be possible, but wouldn't such a message be better placed on the image 'successfully uploaded' page? What do you think?--MiamiVolts (talk) 14:43, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
- Hmm, it seems to me that most of the uncategorized images we have right now are from people not bothering to write anything in the upload form, and just clicking "Upload". Even though I agree that having the message be on the 'successfully uploaded' page is more user-friendly, I think that adding a warning page is more effective. --Radicell 22:35, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
- I'm not sure it makes sense to add it just for re-uploads, but maybe you could ask what people think on the community portal talk page. I'm not against doing so, just not sure of the support for such a change. I don't think there's currently any way to search the upload form itself for a category using in-database code. The part of the upload form where you would write the categories doesn't get checked until after the image begins being uploaded, so this check would just work for re-uploads if we do it on the upload form itself. I guess it would be possible to write a server extension that would do the ideal case for Admin to consider, but that's a much tougher challenge for me and will likely take a while.--MiamiVolts (talk) 02:15, 5 August 2009 (EDT)
- Alright, I'll post on the Community Portal some time to ask people of their opinion. I think it should work like a "post preview" button; only instead the code previews the upload to see if there are categories; if there are, it uploads it, if not, it directs the user to the warning page. The idea is to apply this to all uploads (since that's where most of the uncategorized images are coming from) instead of just re-uploads. But I will first post on the Community Portal talk page to gather opinions. Thanks for your help. --Radicell 03:01, 5 August 2009 (EDT)
- I'm not sure it makes sense to add it just for re-uploads, but maybe you could ask what people think on the community portal talk page. I'm not against doing so, just not sure of the support for such a change. I don't think there's currently any way to search the upload form itself for a category using in-database code. The part of the upload form where you would write the categories doesn't get checked until after the image begins being uploaded, so this check would just work for re-uploads if we do it on the upload form itself. I guess it would be possible to write a server extension that would do the ideal case for Admin to consider, but that's a much tougher challenge for me and will likely take a while.--MiamiVolts (talk) 02:15, 5 August 2009 (EDT)
- Hmm, it seems to me that most of the uncategorized images we have right now are from people not bothering to write anything in the upload form, and just clicking "Upload". Even though I agree that having the message be on the 'successfully uploaded' page is more user-friendly, I think that adding a warning page is more effective. --Radicell 22:35, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
- Yes, the code should work when Admin updates the server and someone (likely me) uncomments it. :) As for the image upload form, that might be possible, but wouldn't such a message be better placed on the image 'successfully uploaded' page? What do you think?--MiamiVolts (talk) 14:43, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
- So I assume that once the new server is finished and goes online, the code will work? Thanks then. Also, you know how right now, in the image upload form, if one uploads an image with the same title as an existing image, it will display a page asking the user to confirm whether or not to upload over the existing image? Could it be possible to implement a feature that would detect whether or not a category has been assigned to the image being uploaded? And if it detects no categories, it would display a page that asks the user to either add categories or go ahead and upload anyway? Could that somehow be achieved? --Radicell 06:52, 4 August 2009 (EDT)
- I checked around and was able to get it working by editing MediaWiki:Linkstoimage on the new server, but unfortunately the links appear in pre-tagged form in the current server version so I commented that code out here for now. Feel free to take a look at the source code.--MiamiVolts (talk) 02:49, 3 August 2009 (EDT)
- Yes, exactly. I just thought that it'd be a good addition to help prevent people from mistakenly adding the AFD tag to such images (like I had done with the Tracy image). So d'you think that it'd be possible to do (I suppose the MediaWiki stuff that controls how the website looks will need to be played around with)? --Radicell 01:43, 3 August 2009 (EDT)
possible vandal
Hey miami, User:Troy93, has been making bad edits. eg) Troy has empathic mimicry on the ability page. Anyway, just thought i would bring that to your attention. I also undid his edits to make them right again.--Catalyst · Talk · HL 16:28, 5 August 2009 (EDT)