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Ron-Goron
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  About the VEwiki
May 6, 2008 6:54:27 PM    View the profile of Ron-Goron 
Basically what I'm asking is if we can clean up and update the wiki stuff because there are too many gaps and empty files.  For example...I clicked on the Engineers corps and all I get is the biographies of the members, not the main page that explains what they do and such. Personally I think it would be really good for VE if we had a descriptive and attractive looking wiki site that we can use as our database for all our information...

Are there wiki administrators?  If not, can some be made?
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  RE: About the VEwiki
May 6, 2008 7:12:58 PM    View the profile of Cosmic 
The VE Wiki is actually a relatively new project. A lot of descriptions have yet to be made, and there's only probably 1-2 people that are fluent enough in "wiki-talk" to understand how to manipulate the wiki. Riqimo would be one of them, as he's done a lot of work on the VE Wiki.

Do you know much about Wiki doings?
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  RE: About the VEwiki
May 6, 2008 7:23:05 PM    View the profile of Ron-Goron 
well i find the coding isn't really a problem for me, if i want to do something that i've seen before on the real wikipedia then i just get into the real wikipedia and steal the coding off there, it works real good.  Eventually i just got used to the codes, just like html, you know?

there are other star wars wikipedias that have some nice templates that we can use too... it all just takes some time and patience, and then BAM... you got yourself a nice looking wiki site.

so yeah... i know a little about wikipedia codes
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  RE: About the VEwiki
May 6, 2008 7:40:18 PM    View the profile of Aeos 
Sounds good Goron, though dunno about the rest, but I'm nto fond about using other templates. We've got some people here who's very good in graphics, and I recall some professionals as welll:P
We could just design a template and have it incorporated though its up to Kadann really,

Currently I think we've got too little data with certain topics, and too much date on other topics.

And I'd also like to suggest for the DJO part of the wiki that we could maybe include info to the people about "what not to do" if you're a not a DJO member, because we tend to occasionally climb down some's throat when he or she posts something that includes the Force or whatever.
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  RE: About the VEwiki
May 6, 2008 7:44:50 PM    View the profile of Ron-Goron 
Quote:I'm nto fond about using other templates.

lol, well what I meant was that perhaps we could study some sophisticated coding that other wikis have to get our own ideas, i don't like the idea of copying and pasting templates either :P
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  RE: About the VEwiki
May 6, 2008 8:18:35 PM    View the profile of Cosmic 
You can show us a sample of what you mean, Ron, by making a wiki page for your character.
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  RE: About the VEwiki
May 6, 2008 8:28:00 PM    View the profile of Ron-Goron 
lol, i did that the second day i joined up

links in my sig
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  RE: About the VEwiki
May 7, 2008 7:50:33 AM    View the profile of Riqimo 
The most sophisticated Coding we got on there would be the Character Sidebar Template.  It looks to see IF a variable has a value, and if it does, it makes the table slots for it.  Elsewise, it doesn't include anything and goes to check the next variable.

If you want the most complex coding, consider the Story Participation Template, which does the math to total up your total posts for you.

Both are my creations

At this time, I think I'm the only one capable of programming those templates from the ground up.  However I know that others (C-3PX2 for example) that have enough understanding to copy/paste/edit the templates I made with these advanced programming lines to things that may suit them better.

It's nothing overly complex (in my opinion) but eh, it does take a bit of getting used to the syntax, especially if you have coded other computer languages (damn those coding habits that sneak into my wiki code)

Anyways, as for the VEEC wiki pages, those are mostly blank because.... we don't have much of a VEEC
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  RE: About the VEwiki
May 7, 2008 1:52:18 PM    View the profile of Ron-Goron 
nice job on those templates too doc

but would it be too difficult to form a team or something of that sort to update and monitor the wiki pages?  because although we may not have that much to put in the wiki, still haven't put everything that we can and/or need to in it...
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May 7, 2008 2:28:34 PM    View the profile of Riqimo 
We have unofficial folks that go around and do it.  I kinda manage over that unofficially since I am the only active person on it who has sysop privileges.

For now, it'll probably stay unofficial, but that doesn't mean that work on it goes unnoticed
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May 7, 2008 3:55:33 PM    View the profile of Ron-Goron 
well if thats the general consensus... then can permission be granted for filling in the blanks?
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May 7, 2008 7:17:58 PM    View the profile of Riqimo 
Sure, why not?
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May 8, 2008 11:19:25 AM    View the profile of Ron-Goron 
muchos gracias
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May 11, 2008 3:14:14 PM    View the profile of Blue-Leader 
I could help out as well, I am somewhat familiar with VeWiki, and very familiar with Wikipedia.
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May 11, 2008 3:19:59 PM    View the profile of Ron-Goron 
awesome, just fill 'er in where you see empty spaces

i'm pretty much just using the abundant information that is on all the VE sites and transferring them onto the VEwiki pages, easy stuff really.
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May 13, 2008 9:21:59 AM    View the profile of Ron-Goron 
faced with a little problem

in the main page, under the divisions list you can find links to pages such as the Corps and Navy, ect...

however the links do not lead to the direct page themselves, but rather to a "catagory page"... this in turn can lead to slight confusion and difficulty in navigation.  So in turn, i would like to change this so that the link leads directly to the the page which it should go to..

(So that this) Main Page/Divisions/Stormtroopers>Catagory:Corps/Articles Under Catagory 'S'>Stormtrooper Corps

(Will be this) Main Page/Divisions/Stormtrooper Corps>Stormtrooper Corps

This changes the amount of link clicking from 2 to 1, making navigation much easier and more organized

However... I need to be a VEwiki admin in order to change the settings on the main page, so lemme know what you think
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May 25, 2008 9:28:53 PM    View the profile of Blue-Leader 
Yeah- I really see some pages that need to be deleted and such. And the main page is messed as well... I have also updated some of the Squadron pages as they were out-of-date.

So... we should get some Admins. Or appoint some, I would be willing to be one. And I am sure Ron would to.
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June 18, 2008 7:12:06 PM    View the profile of TX-47 
I'[m trying to get info together for my wiki page at http://www.vastempire.com/wiki/index.php?title=TX-47 and found a couple problems.  Somehow 'TX-47' got placed at the end of the 'Y's in the category "STCMembers"http://www.vastempire.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:STCMembers.

I've tried editing the page but I can't find any errors in the code.  Also I haven't been able to add a picture on the occasions I've tried.

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June 26, 2008 5:14:45 PM    View the profile of Blue-Leader 
Just edited it TX, you are now in the right section.
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