RuneScape:User help

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Help with Hiscore Update Bot for my Wiki Userpage
I found the bot that automatically updates the hiscores for your userpage, thought it was an amazing idea and added it to my userpage. After checking it, I found that it didn't work. I asked User:Gaz Lloyd for help, but it still isn't working for some reason. If someone knows how the hiscores bot works and knows how to fix it, I give permission to do any changes provided that they are necessary to fix the bot and you do not change anything else. -- k thx bye - Evil Borg2 03:49, August 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * I do believe you are speaking of QBot, run by Quarenon, You can try asking him if you are having any trouble, but I think you need wait a little while for QBot to realise you're on the list (I kinda guessing) or server lag, a couple of days and it should start working... should. If not, ask Quarenon. Also, I think EzHighscores goes good with this, but that's up to you. 07:45, August 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * I just looked at your page, and it seems to be working just fine. 07:49, August 5, 2010 (UTC)

No, it's still not working. my farm level is now 98, it still says 96. There are a lot of other skills that have been leveled since I last updated that the bot should have updated. -- k thx bye - Evil Borg2 20:48, August 5, 2010 (UTC)

The bot has been fixed. Thanks for your help -- k thx bye - Evil Borg2 23:11, August 5, 2010 (UTC)

IRC
Is it possible to make the program beep or something everytime a new edit appears in the CounterVandal-IRC? Very trivial, I know 10:11, August 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, although you need to use a real client (Xchat portable is a good one). From there, it varies how you can set the automatic pinging up, so once you've gotten a client post here again and I'll walk you through it (or find me on the IRC). 02:11, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * I downloaded and installed that. I've also had a look through the options and found a beep when message button. But there is still no noise. 05:35, August 7, 2010 (UTC)

Adding/removing content issues
I have a question about some editing issues: Sometimes when i add something to a page, or remove it, something called "&nbsp" appears. Usually I see it appear when i use preview, so I remove it and save. When the page is saved, it appears again! What is this, and what is the exact cause of "&nbsp"? How do i eliminate it? -- 19:01, August 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * It should be have a semi-colon attached to the end of it, which creates a non-breaking space. The function is so that if something appears on the end of a line, it won't appear with part on one line, and the next part on the following line.  So basically it's like a space that is part of a word.  For instance:

20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg
 * See it breaks. Now look at this:

20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg 20 kg
 * See the difference? It boots it to the next line.  Generally it's not useful, but with page edits it can move things like this.  It just makes things an easier read.   19:11, August 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * You're confusing me, neither of them break lines. 19:22, August 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * You must have a large monitor than I do, I never thought about that, copied it a few times, that should help.  19:24, August 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * How about this as an example:

This should go straight off the screen. Reading Non-breaking space will help (just the first paragraph or your head might explode...) In short, a non-breaking space stops word wrapping. Also, if you are using the Rich Text Editor, turning it off here and unchecking "Enable Rich Text Editing" will stop this from happening permantly (well, as long as RTE is off). 01:51, August 7, 2010 (UTC)

Missing Yew Grove threads
Here is a thread that had never appeared in the archives of Forum:Yew Grove, but has been protected, archive template added, and edited by one of the resident bots, Forum:Protection policy amendment. Currently, according to the YG, it should be located here or here due to FluffyBunnyBot. If you look at FBBs contributions, you will notice that there are quite a few threads left off of the YG archives. Is it just me? Were some of the threads archived differently? Or could it be that YG is bugged? I have been wondering this for awhile now. 08:48, August 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, the YG isn't bugged, however the forum does not appear at the top of the list because any bot edits are not considered actual "edits" per say. To clarify, if I were to edit that page, it would come to the top of the list. However, if my edit was marked as a bot edit, then it wouldn't come to the top of the list. 02:09, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * I see now, it's because there wasn't an archive=true on some of the forums then. Thanks anyway.
 * Oh, sorry, I missed what you were actually saying :P 02:21, August 7, 2010 (UTC)

Sig
Theres something wrong with my signature. Can someone help me PLEASE?

When i sign, the date appears in code, not in normal text. What's up with it, and what can i do about it? Example: 01:15, August 7, 2010 (UTC) This is what happens automatically when i place four tildes to sign. I can't help. BTW, theres just Signatures/Joeytje50 in my sig thing at preferences, without something making it have an enter after the sig. 01:19, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, I've removed some of the extra spaces in your signature. This will hopefully fix the problem. 02:06, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * This is happening to Azliq7 too, see Talk:Dragon platelegs/skirt ornament kit (sp) and Talk:Dragon platelegs/skirt ornament kit (or). A bug? 02:11, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * It could be a bug. I've looked around, and have seen similar things happening with a few user's sigs. I'll look at the code and see if some tag is causing it, or something. 02:13, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * I've changed mine multiple times, yet it keeps doing the same event.... I do not see why my signature worked perfectly 24 hours ago, but now made me change it to the most basic form. Still bugging me...(I'll change back once I learn why, if it is my fault or if it has to do with the new servers.) 02:39, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * It has also happened to me 02:45, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * I've asked around, and it seems that putting tags around your signature should fix the problem. Please try it out, and if it doesn't work, post back here. 02:55, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Nope. - 03:03, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * For those interested, it is now working, thanks to User:Joeyaa. Someone had added a category, and some whitespace, to Template:Nosubst. 03:55, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * DARTH SIDIOUS 2... he's been doing that to a lot of templates lately... 05:06, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yea, I saw that. Most likely AWB to add all of the templates to the templates category, which isn't really needed... 14:07, August 7, 2010 (UTC)

Family Photo
I would like to know 4 things:
 * What is a family photo
 * How to have your pic in it
 * Is there a minimum # of edits to the wiki to have your pic in it
 * When will the next photo be taken? 16:44, August 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ask Swiz as he did the last one. 17:01, August 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * A RuneScape Wiki family photo is an unofficial annual collaboration of in-game screenshots of wikians we've been doing since 2009. Mo 55 55 compiled the image in 2009 (image here), and Ssswizmig compiled the image in 2010 (image here). We'll likely do another one in 2011, but as there is no official page to sign up to be in the photo yet, I'm afraid you'll just have to wait 'till 2011 . I'm sure there will be people talking about it in the Shout Box widget when the time comes, so keep an eye out around there.
 * This year, I think Swizzl3 had a subpage on his userpage to sign up for it... once signed up, he met in-game with the person to take their picture. Alternatively, take the screenshot yourself (probably much easier) and send it to the operator via their talk page.
 * No. All wikians are allowed. We are a family, after all
 * Next year. So far, we've had one once a year, so I'm quite sure we'll keep that tradition. 06:18, August 9, 2010 (UTC)

Redirecting
With the new drop table design (as seen in the gargoyle article), there is no way to say what level clue scrolls are. I changed the gargoyle article to say "Lv 3 Clue Scroll," but I can't link it to the clue scroll page. Can someone explain how I can link it to the clue scroll page? 67.184.24.110 12:35, August 8, 2010
 * The standard linking format is "Clue scroll (level 3)" if I recall correctly. 02:58, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Template issues...
Any of you peoples know just why this page is not behaving? The sidebar is covering up the edit link at the top, so its here 02:53, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * I probably won't be of much help, but I remember things like that happening when 'align' coding is messed up somehow. Not quite sure.  18:11, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Image issues
How come some images are not showing up correctly? Currently some images in articles are affected, as is my sandbox userbox. 10:41, August 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * I believe it's a wikia server issue and there's nothing we can do about it, other than wait for it to fix itself.  20:46, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Category:Clan Chat threads
Could someone figure out why the threads remain in Category:Clan chat threads, but the main (forum) page is in the correct category? I'd do it myself, but I got work in a bit and have to get ready for that. 20:48, August 10, 2010 (UTC)