Guild Wars 2 Wiki talk:Requests for technical administration

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Contents 1 Wikipedia 2 Website logo 3 Delete Gw1:Guild Wars Utopia 4 cite.php 5 Make creation of a redirect page for moved pages optional. 6 LoopFunctions Extension

[edit] Wikipedia

We need to set up interwiki to link to Wikipedia, sort of like on GWW.

Reason

Very useful for trivia sections and anywhere else to linking on Wikipedia.

Possible pitfalls

Umm, there are none? — ク Eloc 貢 22:30, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Um, wikipedia:Main Page? Lord Belar 22:37, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

PWNT RT | Talk 22:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, it didn't work last night. — ク Eloc 貢 22:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and we need it still to be set up to just type W as a prefix. — ク Eloc 貢 22:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Bump? Could we get it so your can interlink like GWW by just using W: at the beggining of it? — ク Eloc 貢 15:40, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

These too, please :) -- pling | ggggg 15:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Website logo

On GWW, the logo looks like , while here on GW2W, it looks like . Could we get the logo here changed to something better and more Guild Wars related? — ク Eloc 貢 00:09, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

I think Emily said they were creating a new GW2W one; check her talk page on GWW (or archives). -- pling | ggggg 01:20, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, it is Guild Wars 2 related (it's a two and it is basically the same shape as the logo on the left) poke | talk 23:50, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh shit, I never noticed that it was a 2. lol. But still, I think it should be made into something better, and maybe a little more obvious. — ク Eloc 貢 02:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Delete Gw1:Guild Wars Utopia

Reason

The page exists at a currently invalid page name, it cannot be accessed, however it still listed in Guild Wars 2 Wiki:List of candidates for deletion, Guild Wars 2 Wiki:List of candidates for deletion and Special:Allpages, sysops cannot delete it.

Possible pitfalls

Probably none, however there is a potential complication: it may be necessary to temporarily disable gw1 interwiki links in order to access and delete the page in question.

It's only a nuisance, but it would be nice if this was added to the to do list. -- Gordon Ecker 04:37, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

It seems that it has been deleted. -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 23:40, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] cite.php

Reason

• Inline citations would be useful for articles which draw from a large number of sources, including FAQs, lore-related articles such as Charr and pre-release articles.
• Can also be used for inline footnotes.

Possible pitfalls

• See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php#Current_problems.

-- Gordon Ecker 00:16, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

And "pre-release articles" would also include articles about unreleased Guild Wars 2 expansions after Guild Wars 2 is released. -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 00:28, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

I second this request (if that makes any difference at all).-- Shew 01:22, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

References are important for the credibility of the uncertain GW2 information summarised by the wiki. So I also support the addition of this extension. -- Aspectacle  02:25, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Based on the discussion from the GWW, I think the general consensus is that it would at least benefit this wiki.-- Shew 22:40, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Since this was accidentally installed on the GWW, it's already up over there (oops). I've been told that you'd like it up on this site, too, so I will put in the request to get it installed here. -- Emily Diehl (talk) 02:43, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!!-- Shew 04:09, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Make creation of a redirect page for moved pages optional.

I'm not sure exactly what is involved, but I think I saw something about this discussed over on GWW.

• Pro: Less work for SysOps since a lot of delete requests are a result of useless redirects a.k.a. move remnants.
• Con: May be subject to abuse, but what isn't?

--Max 2 05:42, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

[edit] LoopFunctions Extension

Allows the processing of repeated template parameters. In particular, it makes the processing of lists of related items more manageable.
Note: This is not the same as the Loop Eetension. LoopFunctions are particularly suited for handling sequences of template parameters that make up a list. They are a not programming language kind of extension.

• Pro: Makes managing lists of things in template parameters easier.

It is a standard and tested extension and is less cumbersom than roll-your-own variants.

• Con: Yet another extension to test and keep up to date.
• Irrelavant: There are templates that currently take lists of parameters. These may or may not be candidates for rewriting, but they show how messy it is to handle lists without a mechnism like this.

--Max 2 06:07, 13 May 2010 (UTC)