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#Fix the Oyster Egg messes. Most of the egg drop lists use redirect pages instead of direct links. | #Fix the Oyster Egg messes. Most of the egg drop lists use redirect pages instead of direct links. | ||
#Tying into the previous, many adventuring locations are linked through redirects. Fix that, too. | #Tying into the previous, many adventuring locations are linked through redirects. Fix that, too. | ||
#Convert some html tables to wiki tables. [http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/index.html Convenient conversion link]. Beware of lots of nowiki tags, but that's easy to deal with with find/replace. A more problematic issue is that it always completely drops any parameter ''or'' row/column with a 0 in it (ie. cellspacing="0", <nowiki><td>0</td>), and also completely removes blank rows and columns. Even when that would mess up the formatting (which it usually does). Make sure to put in some meaningless filler text in blank rows and columns that you can find/replace out afterwards. Or find a better converter (in which case tell me about it). And be sure to similarly account for the stupid handling of 0's. | #Convert some html tables to wiki tables. [http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/index.html Convenient conversion link]. Beware of lots of nowiki tags, but that's easy to deal with with find/replace. A more problematic issue is that it always completely drops any parameter ''or'' row/column with a 0 in it (ie. cellspacing="0", <nowiki><td>0</td></nowiki>), and also completely removes blank rows and columns. Even when that would mess up the formatting (which it usually does). Make sure to put in some meaningless filler text in blank rows and columns that you can find/replace out afterwards. Or find a better converter (in which case tell me about it). And be sure to similarly account for the stupid handling of 0's. | ||
Incidentally, have you ever been so bored you wanted any possible idea of something to do? I suggest going to a [[Special:Random|random page]] and start linking up game stuff that should be linked up, and references that it wouldn't hurt to link up. Be sure your wikipedia links work and go to the intended content (they always show as blue, so don't think there's actually something at what you tried to link to). | Incidentally, have you ever been so bored you wanted any possible idea of something to do? I suggest going to a [[Special:Random|random page]] and start linking up game stuff that should be linked up, and references that it wouldn't hurt to link up. Be sure your wikipedia links work and go to the intended content (they always show as blue, so don't think there's actually something at what you tried to link to). | ||
Revision as of 21:26, 12 July 2008
I decided to have a blue name instead of a red one. A somewhat useful piece of information: if you ever see a Flargen in the game then that's not me. Unless it turns out no one has the name and I get a wild hair up my hindquarters and decide to get a new multi. Such a sequence of events has yet to occur, however. I am otherwise simply a more-or-less typical player who sometimes moonlights as a snarky wiki editor and spader.
Pet Projects of Mine
Since I might forget them otherwise, here's my awe-inspiring list of things I intend to get done on the wiki one of these days.
- Fix up the Junkyard mess. There's, like, 5 pages for basically the same information. There are probably similar messes for the other sidequests. I'm kind of fearful of looking into it, so I'll just limit myself to the Junkyard for now. Fixed, though just fixing that up revealed 6 other messes related to the level 12 quest.
- Do the same for the other sidequests.
- Fix the Oyster Egg messes. Most of the egg drop lists use redirect pages instead of direct links.
- Tying into the previous, many adventuring locations are linked through redirects. Fix that, too.
- Convert some html tables to wiki tables. Convenient conversion link. Beware of lots of nowiki tags, but that's easy to deal with with find/replace. A more problematic issue is that it always completely drops any parameter or row/column with a 0 in it (ie. cellspacing="0", <td>0</td>), and also completely removes blank rows and columns. Even when that would mess up the formatting (which it usually does). Make sure to put in some meaningless filler text in blank rows and columns that you can find/replace out afterwards. Or find a better converter (in which case tell me about it). And be sure to similarly account for the stupid handling of 0's.
Incidentally, have you ever been so bored you wanted any possible idea of something to do? I suggest going to a random page and start linking up game stuff that should be linked up, and references that it wouldn't hurt to link up. Be sure your wikipedia links work and go to the intended content (they always show as blue, so don't think there's actually something at what you tried to link to).
