User talk:The Duke of Rockford

Abuse Filter
Abuse filter isn't a bot per say. It's an extension to MediaWiki software that auto-blocks users who try to make certain types of edits. So it's sorta like a spam filter bot, but prevents edits in the first place. I'm not sure about how it works exactly or how to set it up, as that's all part of the Curse staff's work (Bumble, Tesla and Wynthyst). Any extentions used on the wiki can be seen under Special:Version. Each extension has a link to it's page on MediaWiki, for example AbuseFilter. -- Sigil Baram talk 02:24, 2 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you for this information. I appreciate it. :) --The Duke of Rockford 02:29, 2 December 2011 (UTC)


 * No problem. Another Solution I've seen around is to use Captcha's for editing and then have a user group which is allowed to edit with no captcha's. This group can also be give the ability to elevate other members into it so people don't have to wait for admins. It can be discouraging to new users though. Make sure those in the group know that they have the ability to add users though. I had an issue where someone didn't realize that they had the ability to promote me. haha -- Sigil Baram talk 02:51, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

noincludes
I'm mystified by how your categorizing of the Succubus items hasn't reeked havok (ok so category spill over isn't that bad) on Scythe of Caresses. I would have guess that &lt;noinclude&gt; was required, but this doesn't seem to be the case. I tried to look at Template:Materials to figure out this magic, but I just see a blob of characters atm...(Not that it ever looks like much else) Meh, my pillow is calling. -- Sigil Baram talk 06:12, 2 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Do you have example of this havoc? I just started on wiki so I wouldn't know all of this. Do you mean like some pages once had many, many categories on it somehow? --The Duke of Rockford 00:10, 3 December 2011 (UTC)


 * A lot of our templates work by transcluding (including the content of one page on another page) item and equipment pages. Anything that is on the page is carried over including tags, categories and templates. So it's very odd that the Scythe of Caresses isn't including the categories you put on the Succubus item pages. Since they aren't being included there is nothing wrong with having them that way. I'm just confused about WHY they weren't included. As for an example... We try to avoid this category spill over and clean it up when it happens so finding an example wouldn't be easy. Ironicly I thought I would try a couple list pages and see if one had this... looked at List:Evie Weapons first and it is transcluding Category:Incomplete from somewhere. Hunting it down would be painful and I'm tired atm so I'll leave it there so you can see what it does. Looking around some more all the weapon list except List:Karok Weapons have this, so there is either a template issue or someone added a lot of weapons to the incomplete category manually instead of using { {incomplete} }, which is wrong anyway. |incomplete=yes should be used. lol Bot project. -- Sigil Baram talk 05:17, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Category Links
To make a link to a category put : in front of "Category". I.e. Category:Story. Also a pipe (|) can be used to change the displayed text as with a regular link. -- Sigil Baram talk 21:16, 6 December 2011 (UTC)