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Re: ZDoom Wiki Thread

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Should just have a page for the old format and new format IMO
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The thing is that mapinfo describes 36 different things, most of which have a list of properties three kilometers long, most of which will never be used in 95% of the maps. The way it was was like this:

unreadable wall of text about something
unreadable wall of text about something else
unreadable wall of text about another thing
unreadable wall of text about yet another thing
bunch of examples disconnected from the part they illustrate

If I'm setting up a map properties, I don't care about skill definitions. If I want to see an example of cluster definition, I don't want to waddle through examples of other stuff. A shorter page with just the info I need is better. And it didn't even have a gameinfo section (yet)!

Avoiding de-syncing? The best way would just be to remove the shortened lists entirely from the main page.

But the main problem, really, is finding a way to make the list of properties legible. Maybe a table...
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Re: ZDoom Wiki Thread

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The wiki has been upgraded to MediaWiki 1.15.0. I do hope nothing broke in the process.
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Re: ZDoom Wiki Thread

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It looks like the case-insensitive search plugin thing doesn't work any more (or didn't get re-added).
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Re: ZDoom Wiki Thread

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It seems to be working for me.
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Works for me as well. (On Firefox 3.0.10, in the unlikely case it makes a difference)
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No problems thus far, other than the logo missing from the main page.

Yay, now I can do thumbnails. Unfortunately I completely forgot why I wanted them in the first place :ugeek:
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randee wrote:It seems to be working for me.
Oops, I was testing it with a non-existent page (ActivateTarget) ... no wonder it didn't find anything =p
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Cutmanmike wrote:No problems thus far, other than the logo missing from the main page.
Okay, that was because I moved it to a different directory and didn't delete the cache directory, so it was still displaying the cached version of the page that had it in the old location.

I'd also like to say that I don't like the recent trend to turn all keywords in the wiki into fixed-width typeface. I think it looks ugly and preferred the way it looked before.
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You mean [wiki=A_NoBlocking]like this?[/wiki] Yeah, I'm not too fond of that either.
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Re: ZDoom Wiki Thread

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Yes, exactly. I think monospace should be reserved solely for the examples.
Last edited by randi on Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: There, now I've spent four hours removing all of them that I could find. Much better.
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Four hours?! Err... Couldn't you just have rolled back all of hidrogen's edits and added back all the other non-wiki formatting stuff he added? Either that, or do a batch or macro? Autohotkey is great for this sort of stuff.

Let me know if any other tedious tasks like that come about, I might be able to save you a hellova lot of work ;)
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Re: ZDoom Wiki Thread

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Well, a lot of the formatting edits were also valuable cleanups of parameter lists, so I didn't want to indiscriminately undo all of them. I figured it was easier to take things out than to add them back.
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Automation is my middle name! Next time little things need changing in a whole bunch of articles let me know. Writing up a script in autohotkey to open a list of pages in a browser, ctrl + f, delete and save before moving onto the next would be fairly simple. (Sorry if I sound like an advertisement here)

Actually this counts for anyone should something like this happen again. :wink:
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Hey, wanna make one that inserts "{{Class|Actor}} → " right after the first "}}[[Classes]]:" of all actor pages?

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