Forum:Moving Bumps

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This is the thread for posting problems or bugs you've noticed at the new wiki. Please list them in the format demonstrated and be patient while waiting for help.

Finally, please strikethrough entries with <s> and </s> when they are resolved. --—SilverCrono^[T/C] 16:27, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

General

• Photobucket no longer works for images.

  Do we want to keep hotlinking to external files enabled? This adds additional load to other peoples' sites, which we can easily support here. Without hotlinking, it makes it slightly harder for spambots to put up "unwanted" images, and allows us to categorize and add info about the licenses properly. -- Prod 17:06, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  I think linking to Photobucket is very convenient for things that only have one time use, or for talk bubble pictures. I'm against disabling it; keeping Photobucket and internal images is my vote. --—SilverCrono^[T/C] 18:36, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  I second this motion, since I don't feel like relearning anything. :) --— Radical D ^{(bother \ stalk)} 19:08, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

• Editcount doesn't work.

  Do we really need to know edit counts of each user? You can view your own edit counts within your user preferences (suffer from closet editcountitis ^_^), and compare them if you want. -- Prod 17:06, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  I agree. Measuring edits creates more vanity and competition than is necessary. --— Radical D ^{(bother \ stalk)} 17:21, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

• Decide on sysop/bureaucrat policy.

  Decide what? Why must this change? --—SilverCrono^[T/C] 18:36, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  Do we just re-grant the same people the same ranks, or do we have re-nominations (or whatever the process is). -- Prod 18:55, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

• Do we continue the walkthrough space, or move those to strategywiki (focus on encyclopedia information) and form a strong partnership.

  Um...I say continue walkthrough space. --—SilverCrono^[T/C] 18:36, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  SW has been doing guides for years and have gotten pretty good at them. They have a Chrono Trigger guide already completed (and start of a Chrono Cross guide). -- Prod 18:55, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  I agree that we keep the existing walkthroughs and continue to add new ones. We can add links to all walkthrough pages leading viewers to strategy wiki, as a sort of "second opinion" type thing. --— Radical D ^{(bother \ stalk)} 19:08, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

• Re-purpose Chrono Wiki Facebook page from Wikia, or start a new one.

  I'll redirect the facebook page into this wikia. I'll make a message of it to the 98+ fans on there as well. Zey^pher 18:49, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

• Keep User blog space, or just drop it and consider deleting existing pages

  I saw, ditch them. We didn't exactly need them at Wikia. When we did enable them, it mostly just for fun. We can use talk pages or sub-user pages to replace what blogs would've done. --— Radical D ^{(bother \ stalk)} 19:08, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

• Delete all page comments?
• Reconfigure all permissions for various groups
• Deyvid Petteys and Zeypher need their user rights.
• Use same favicon from wikia, or a new one?
• Name selection: Chrono Wiki, Chronopedia, <insert other options here>

  I saw a few mentions of sticking with Chronopedia, and some of using Chrono Wiki. Looking through the site, things appear fairly inconsistent between the uses of the two, so we should pick one and use it everywhere. As the project namespace is Chrono Wiki, I'd be tempted to stick to that (less work for me :)). But also the fact that if people are looking for a general chrono wiki, they'll type in "chrono wiki" first. Only people who know about the site would search for chronopedia, and as we're a fork, almost noone is going to know about us, and wikia already has really good ranking on that. -- Prod 21:02, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

Coding

• Main page column codes don't work.

  Pretty sure this was specific to wikia. StrategyWiki has some column templates that can be used (check Template:Col), or if only for the main page, then it can just be hardcoded. -- Prod 17:06, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

• <choose> and <option> no longer work.
• <poll> doesn't work.
• <poem> doesn't work.
• <imagemap> doesn't work.

Images

• No images moved have categories or summaries attached.

  Artifact of the move, since there is no clean way to transwiki images. The bot's edits should all be at the top though, it's just a matter of rolling back its edits. We need to figure out a controlled way of doing this so we don't miss any. -- Prod 17:22, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  We could start with the site images (logos,etc.), then move through each name space. Starting with the Chrono Trigger Category, and the first item in that category, then move to the subcategories. Once that's done, move to the next namespace and repeat the process until we've fixed them all. As of right now though, I can't rollback, but I'll help out anyway that I can. --— Radical D ^{(bother \ stalk)} 17:31, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  Categories are missing though. I was thinking more of a "This user takes A-C, this user takes D-F, etc." -- Prod 18:55, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

• All images have weird photobucket links next to them.

  Do you have an example? I can't seem to find one. -- Prod 17:39, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  Every page with a gallery on it. Lucca for example. --— Radical D ^{(bother \ stalk)} 21:13, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  Looks to be something with the gallery template itself. What exactly is the point of that template, as the galleries look like regular galleries? Perhaps we can just switch back to normal galleries? (Also a perfect example of why hotlinking can be bad, it's used all over the place, and if anything happened to that image, it would mess up our site). -- Prod 22:24, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  I thought that too, but couldn't fix it. Perhaps you're right. When I started editing at Chrono Wiki, this template was preferred. --— Radical D ^{(bother \ stalk)} 22:59, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  Wikia made galleries ugly, the template made them pretty again, long story short. --—SilverCrono^[T/C] 23:00, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

• Dozens of blank image file pages. Such as this File:Sea of Eden.

  Image space will probably have to be audited in general. The file import section of the script wasn't as clean as the page history section (had to manually re-upload them). -- Prod 22:24, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  I agree. What appears to have happened was, on the Wikia wiki, these images were uploaded without MIME extension (however that happens, I'm clueless), but if you check, they don't have them on this wiki or the previous one. I can just transfer them from the old wiki to here. That's what I did with File:Mel.jpg. --— Radical D ^{(bother \ stalk)} 22:59, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

Skins

• Decide if we need a completely new custom skin, or modify an existing skin.

  Well, Monobook is already completely customized, and I believe Dolphin can be customized to look like old Chrono Wiki's Oasis, so I'm all for modifying existing skins. We don't need to get any more, we have plenty already. --—SilverCrono^[T/C] 18:36, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

• Pick a few "supported" skins (with one main default skin) and disable the rest.

  I don't think this is necessary; deleting optional skins seems a lot like Wikia in that we are disabling choice and user preferences. I definitely don't think we need useless, barebones skins like Chick, Simple, or MySkin, but deleting things like Modern or Dolphin sounds a bit harsh. --—SilverCrono^[T/C] 18:36, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  Making the site look nice on multiple different skins is tough. Especially keeping the css/js up to date. For example, with Metroid Wiki, since everything is purple, the site looks terrible in any non-power skin. With StrategyWiki, things are being built for a fixed width skin, so having things flowing around on really wide screens often looks terrible. I'm all for choice, but if the site is going to look terrible, and noone wants to fix it, I don't think it's worth it. -- Prod 18:55, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

• All skins: the Forum link in the sidebar is broken.
• In BlueCloud, the Toolbox has links with "<" and ">" appearing, making reading impossible.
• In BlueCloud, a link for uploading images is not easily accessible.
• In Power, navigation templates display awkward white backgrounds, when they should be transparent. (Could be fixed by rewritting templates).

  I would suggest avoiding Power, as it's based on Monobook, and I don't think purple is really a chrono colour :). -- Prod 17:36, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  But it's my favorite Dx. Edit: Now using BlueCloud, since it's pretty popular and looks nice. Another bug with Power are the buttons. Publish, preview, and save are oblong land misshapen. --— Radical D ^{(bother \ stalk)} 17:40, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

• Absolutely no BlueCloud customization works.

  This is a weird one; I've implemented the same changes to User:SilverCrono/bluecloud.css both here and StrategyWiki, and the changes only happened at SW, before and after clearing my cache. Prod, you have any idea why this is happening? --—SilverCrono^[T/C] 20:02, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  There's a lot of differences in the loaded js/css between the sites, it could be a function missing or something. -- Prod 20:50, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

Comments

• I did a re-sync just before we made the announcement about this site being "ready". I'm hoping that was the last one required unless there is some very important reason why we need another. However, this didn't include the image space, so any new images in the last week will need to be done manually. -- Prod 17:38, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  Cool! Because I planned to manually transfer over those edits anyway. You just saved me an hour! :)--— Radical D ^{(bother \ stalk)} 17:40, 6 August 2011 (CDT)

  Got pretty much everything before - this. -- Prod 17:44, 6 August 2011 (CDT)