User talk:Rich Farmbrough/2013

Don't forget that you're awesome
Just wanted to drop by and tell you that I really admire your work on WP and elsewhere. Reading through your arbcom case was painful. I hope RS can provide you with a welcome distraction, as it often has for me. Keep on doing your thing. 07:34, April 11, 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks - supportive comments such as this are very helpful. RS has received a little more attention recently.  Rich Farmbrough, 10:03 20  April 2013 (UTC).

Quick question
Eh, why did you create Wixked hood? Is it really that common a misspelling? 15:18, May 7, 2013 (UTC)
 * Good question. It appears to be approximately twice as common as a starborn diamond, maybe a little more so. Rich Farmbrough, 15:28 7  May 2013 (UTC).

Pot to flask wanted page
User:Rich Farmbrough/Sandbox/pot2flask was causing a redlink to Exchange:(4). I was unable to figure out why (I assume it's something to do with it's /core subpage), so I've simply added nowiki tags to prevent the wanted page. Feel free to un-nowiki it when the wanted page is fixed.

Thanks,
 * NP. It's the call of a parameter with no default value. The other wiki tends to put default values, which is a reasonable solution in this case (but a bad one there for performance reasons) - however includeonly tags work just as well.  Rich Farmbrough, 15:31 12  May 2013 (UTC).


 * Much appreciated :) (completely forgot you were one of those old school wiki'ers who reply on the same talk page).


 * Hi again. Another six wanted pages appeared due to User:Rich Farmbrough/Sandbox. I have fixed them, but broken intended purpose of the page, for which I apologise.
 * The problem appears to be due to the naming of the potions. The correct name for a Super attack potion is super attack, however, this is different for a super ranging potion (note the use of potion in the page title). The wanted pages were for the Exchange pages for the potions that needed the potion suffix. Due to the way the templates have been set up for the page, they assume the same name for both flask and potion. So super ranged (4) becomes super ranged flask (6), rather than super ranged potion (4) becoming super ranged flask (6). A possible workaround I can think of is to add a parameter to specify if potion is part of the items name, say  which would append potion to the argument of the first parameter, whilst more or less the same syntax. Your thoughts?
 * Actually it's a little smarter than that: it finds out if the potion suffix is required by doing an "#ifexist:" - coding a separate parameter for whether or not "potion" is required breaks encapsulation - every page needs to know the correct names of the potions.  A reasonable solution  would be to provide apparatus by a template called "Potion name" - but I fear that I would be castigated for creating a template that is only called by user pages.  (There seems a short-sightedness on various wikis about creating tools before they are used - for fear of having to "maintain" them.) Rich Farmbrough, 03:32 14  May 2013 (UTC).
 * ...Or you could just create the template in your userspace. 04:01, May 14, 2013 (UTC)
 * Which would somewhat defeat the point of creating a shared, encapsulated resource. Rich Farmbrough, 13:44 14 May 2013 (UTC).

Just a heads-up
It was decided to delete all but a few examples of chatbox images. Implicit in that is that no more should be uploaded. 00:56, May 15, 2013 (UTC)
 *  Rich Farmbrough, 01:17 15 May 2013 (UTC).
 * Be sad all you want, but don't add snarky comments to articles. 01:30, May 15, 2013 (UTC)

Just so you know
A little emphasis on "warning", if you didn't notice "warning" in bold. -- 01:34, May 15, 2013 (UTC)
 * The salient point is the visual representation of the warning, as contrasted to a text warning or the image on the lobby log in. In most cases, this is not important, here it is.  I would not have bothered to create an image if I hadn't thought it worthwhile. Rich Farmbrough, 01:45 15  May 2013 (UTC).
 * You mean two skulls? How mundane... It's not so special or indescribable that it desperately requires an image that goes against consensus. If you really care that much, do an RfU. 01:48, May 15, 2013 (UTC)
 * Er.. no I don't mean that. It's not that image.  And it's the functionality - what happens when you hit a High Risk world that is important, people want to know what warning they will get when they hit that world before they loose their prized pixels.  And no I am not minded to engage in bureaucracy, to retain one minor image in one minor article.   I would have thought UCS would cover this, but if not, that's fine, it is simply a piece of learning that it is not possible to share on this wiki.  No big deal. Rich Farmbrough, 02:08 15  May 2013 (UTC).

Spaces
Please don't add unnecessary spaces to articles. Only one space should come after a period, and there should be no space between an asterisk and a sentence in Trivia points. 19:32, May 23, 2013 (UTC)

Have you checked your en.wiki mail lately? 203.81.67.127 03:14, May 24, 2013 (UTC)

Ascension crossbow gemw
Was this a mistake? 17:31, June 4, 2013 (UTC)
 * This is script based, therefore there's some kind of bug. Rich Farmbrough, 17:48 4 June 2013 (UTC).
 * Possibly the GEDB isn't properly set up yet. Rich Farmbrough, 17:50 4 June 2013 (UTC).
 * It appears not to be that. Rich Farmbrough, 17:51 4 June 2013 (UTC).

http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Exchange:Off-hand_Ascension_crossbow/Data?diff=8150109
Was that using the (new) script? 17:22, June 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes. Interestingly it has not updated the Exchange page itself. Rich Farmbrough, 17:31 5 June 2013 (UTC).
 * That's why I asked, I'll bug Joey about fixing that when he comes back. 17:32, June 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * Works for main-hand, now. :) Rich Farmbrough, 17:34 5 June 2013 (UTC).
 * I saw; weird. I guess I'll have him take a look if more happens, your first edit might have just had a fluke. 17:35, June 5, 2013 (UTC)

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Re: br tags
Was your comment directed at me or at Cam? On a personal note *shudder* @ not closing tags properly; but if it's better for performance... (even tho I question the actual performance impact, as it should parse the whole page regardless if there are br tags with the "/" present or not). IP83.101.44.209 (talk) 17:05, June 20, 2013 (UTC)
 * Cam, primarily. But it was more to inform the debate - everything seems back-to-front.  The only other point that is being missed is that we should provide easily parseable wiki-source, since this is part of the CC-BY-SA  common good being generated, along with the rendered pages.
 * As to performance, that is really trivial, whether the engine is converting to or from XHTML. I did a quick perl test - on a busy system, in a large (400k) chunk of tetxt - each replace takes about one third of a millionth of a second.
 * Rich Farmbrough, 17:21 20 June 2013 (UTC).
 * Oh and remember, of course, pages are not rendered every time they are viewed, but far less frequently. Rich Farmbrough, 17:26 20  June 2013 (UTC).

Gargoyle slayer mask
I changed the name/link of the slayer mask you said to be the one for gargoyles on your user page. It was named Mask of Stone (which is the Cockatrice one). I renamed it to Mask of Granite. 15:49, July 13, 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 15:51 13 July 2013 (UTC).

Typo redirects
Please don't make redirects for your random typos. We have autocomplete for a reason. 17:31, July 18, 2013 (UTC)

Template:Redirect
I was wondering if Redirect would be better merged into Otheruses? They serve more or less the same purpose.
 * Yes there are arguments for doing that. There is a tension between having multiple simpler templates, and fewer more complex ones - and of course the two need not be exclusive.  In this case we would need to add a parameter to Otheruses such as "redirect", e.g. "redirect=Rock soup" - this would mean more typing, a more complex template and no reduction in cognitive load.  Ways we can make templates easier to use are:  make similar templates work in a similar way, use templates that are in wide currency (on other MediaWiki wikis) and make easily confused alternatives work the same way, while having a clear canonical way of invoking templates. (The last point is wider principle widely used in Internet RFCs, that we should be accommodating to "input" while producing clean "output".)  Rich Farmbrough, 10:03 26  August 2013 (UTC).

Gratz to Angel Skies - 99 div
Full clan ranking for div here.

Rich Farmbrough, 14:21 19 September 2013 (UTC).