User:Relyk/Wiki Newsletter/2015

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Week of Sunday, 21 April 2024

Week of Sunday, 29 November 2015

• User:Hekela works on ascended salvaging and related pages.
• User:Dagger creates {{unlocked by this}} to abstract everything into oblivion.
• Widget:Event timer is live. Hopefully, it will be switched to semantic data instead of hardcoding everything.
• User:Dagger adds mastered description to {{mastery infobox}}.

Week of Sunday, 15 November 2015

• User:Nefastu creates Research.

Week of Sunday, 08 November 2015

• User:Tanetris archives a page. Good job. Almost time to archive the Community Portal.
• Template talk:Vendor table row is discussing how to handle vendor restrictions that have cropped up over the past few months thanks to Living World and Heart of Thorns.
• User:Mervil discusses achievement hint text on Template talk:Item infobox.

Week of Sunday, 01 November 2015

• User:Chieftain Alex uploads some icons.
• Converted {{area skill challenges}} to {{area hero challenges}} and updated {{location table}}.
• Fixed {{Total guild materials}} some more.

Week of Sunday, 25 October 2015

• User:Anzenketh finishes up {{Total guild materials}}.
• According to User:Dr ishmael, User:Relyk ruins everything.
• {{guild upgrade infobox}} is go for User:Anzenketh or however it's spelled..
• User:Mora gets annoyed and adds the note about Shadow of the Mad King going on in the news template (cause no one else would).

Week of Sunday, 18 October 2015

• Heart of Thorns releases this week!
• User:Noxx is displeased with ArenaNet halting the Release feature and wants to use it for the rest of the major updates.
• Daily API is in beta and hopefully get a Widget:Daily. Unfortunately, that means User:Poke won't have anything left to do on the wiki.
• Guild_Wars_2_Wiki_talk:Community_portal#Content_status discusses how to mark Heart of Thorns content.
• Felix makes his single monthly edit with redesigning theme
• Added sums to {{mastery table}}.

Week of Sunday, 12 July 2015

• More skins are added as the skin subobjects are removed.
• Simplifying math on User talk:Tanetris. Congrats on the second edit.
• User:BryghtShadow adds a note on the FAQ.
• Traits and specializations are being cleaned up after the specialization updates, including categories.
• User:Greener gets Extended Editor rights.
• Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Feedback initiative, [[Form:Feedback]], {{feedback preload}}, stephane post, blah blah...
• User:CzechHero adds icons and descriptions to various traits.

Week of Sunday, 28 June 2015

• User:Tanetris makes his single edit for the month of July.
• User:‎CleverVictory updates thief skills.
• 207.172.186.69 updates level requirements on acquiring attunements.
• User:Leen creates List of transformations with animations.
• Created Category:API properties, added properties to {{API endpoint infobox}} along with scope and optional parameter.
  • Unfortunately the API namespace doesn't support properties.
• Updated the Effect icon templates to use {{effect}} and tagged old templates for deletion.
• User:Relyk rewrites {{skill fact}} and {{effect}} to remove all the old crap.
• User:dr ishmael updates all of the values for the subtemplates of Template:Item stat lookup.

Week of Sunday, 21 June 2015

• User:Relyk is almost finished with skill fact rewrite and will be changing templates in spite of the status quo. Prepare to break stuff.
• The wiki goes into overdrive to try and make content pages reflect the massive June 23rd game update.
• User:Valento makes an effort to upgrade each profession's page, but information about traits are likely to be out of date as of June 23rd, 2015 patch.

Week of Sunday, 14 June 2015

• User:1Maven creates {{ac}} and {{ar}} for a single table. Which is a terrible idea.
• Created {{semantic forms nav}} from original table.
• User:1Maven adds stuff on query forms.
• [[Property:Has story step]], [[Property:Has story chapter]], [[Property:Year occurred]] and [[Property:Has story section]] made for the new {{story infobox}}. Created Category:Story properties alongside it.
• {{Personal story reward item}} for annotating which item come from which story steps.
• Mawdrey and related items are cleaned up by User:Psycho Robot.
• User:Draft inquisitor creates Personal story rewards. Unfortunately, the reward template has a lot of debt collected from its initial creation.

Week of Sunday, 07 June 2015

• Talk:Aatxe, where no one can pronounce the name right.
• Transcluded Gem Store sections to avoid long refresh times caused from reloading the entire page when only editing a specific section.
• User:Relyk and Alex get into a deep philosophical discussion about endashes. It's about as exciting as watching paint dry.
• User:Chieftain Alex finishes off the merging of {{crafting infobox}} into {{item infobox}} started by Raljeor + Relyk.

Week of Sunday, 31 May 2015

• User:Raljeor creates {{crafting tier recipe table}} by abusing the sort function in Semantic MediaWiki to sort by subquery properties pulling an Alex.
• User:Ventriloquist uploads Sylvari armor gallery images, which means that most armor galleries are now complete!
• User:Mora creates various PvP Tournament pages.
• User:Tyndel cleans up in Bulk item pages.
• User:Mora creates {{World ability track}} for bars.
• User:‎Saelyth accidentally the NPC infobox and talks to himself.
• User:1Maven creates Artisan pages and template for NPC pages, much to the hohrohr of a certain someone.
• Additional changes to {{location table}} for showing area levels, created with Property:Has level range for zones.

Week of Sunday, 24 May 2015

• Added Has game context to {{craft table row}} to look up the proper chat link.
• User:Relyk created {{location table}}, {{location table row result format}}, {{Area skill challenges}}... and other... templates.
• With map objective implemented, automated the map objective summary for locations. We can now view the totals for the regions once the correct the correct properties are identified.

Week of Sunday, 17 May 2015

• User:Chieftain Alex adds chat links via {{Map objective}} to areas contributing towards map objectives.

Week of Sunday, 10 May 2015

• User:Idris writes up Playable races.
• User:Relyk updated {{item icon}} to look up by game id.
• User:Relyk updated {{day-night cycle}} after some work with User:Idris and that one guy called alex.
• User:Teranas adds API:2/commerce/transactions documentation. Thanks API keys!
• User:Mora, and User:Valento add Reaper specialization information.
• User:Relyk updates documentation on {{contains}} and {{salvages into}}.

Week of Sunday, 03 May 2015

• User:Felix Omni deletes the [[Queensdale zerg]] redirect.
• User:Chieftain Alex documents 40k bytes worth of dialogue on A Society Function.

Week of Sunday, 26 April 2015

• User:Valento adds chronomancer stuffs.

Week of Sunday, 12 April 2015

• Refactored {{vendor table result format}} and giving unique variable names before symbol table conflicts.
• User:Relyk fixes {{item table}} for an obscure table formatting bug after employing User:Chieftain Alex for assistance...
• User:Relyk moved the [[:Category:Skill weapons]] weapon sets off the pages that have no business having them. Clean up the rest of Lonami's mess of weapon sets later!

Week of Sunday, 05 April 2015

• The total number of wiki edits reaches over 1 million. Yay!
  • Note: Not all of the edits are warband related.
• Added [[Form:Parameter check]] because lazy.
• Added warband to {{NPC infobox}} and created [[Property:Is part of warband]].

Week of Sunday, 22 March 2015

• User:Teranas adds API:2/OAuth 2.0 documentation.
• The closed beta is coming up and we have no users to check stuff. Except User:Tyndel and he got no time for that.
• Discussion is still going on Talk:Minor race with no end in sight.

Week of Sunday, 15 March 2015

• User:Chieftain Alex tries to setup some revenant colour schemes, which are horrible. Suggestions are requested with regard to picking 7 colours at User:Chieftain Alex/sandbox3.
• User:Louise adds a bunch of area images.
• User:Konig Des Todes adds personal story involvement for various NPCs.
• User:Relyk add Property:Has vendor section for {{vendor table header}} and column to {{vendor list}} and {{vendor list header}}. Also required updating {{gem store table row}} and {{gem store table header}}.
• User:Valento modifies skill lists templates to accomodate revenant's new resource energy, further adjustments will be needed for upkeep at some point later, but he fears User:Dr ishmael will pull his ear not long after, so he stays silent.
• User:W.Wolf adds in-game icons for revenant's skills, replacing those crappy-squishy-ugly screenshot'd images from before.

Week of Sunday, 08 March 2015

• NPCs having multiple races is therefore a thing now.
• NPC entities that are identical canonically get merged today after User:Konig Des Todes does some prodding.

Week of Sunday, 01 March 2015

• User:Ventriloquist uploads lots of armor set images.
• User:Chieftain Alex adds a bunch of property for armor gallery images. Doesn't document a thing and create some redundant properties that no one else will want to fix.
• Armor gallery images are updated to remove the side views because previewing.
• Added group for all the achievement categories.

Week of Sunday, 22 February 2015

• Daily and [[Daily/Table]] have the new cycle implemented.
• Added Property:Has achievement group for the achievement category groups because groups.
• User:Felix Omni makes a contribution to guild missions.
• User:Louise and User:‎Spionida get into a revert war, giving the admins something to do for once.
• User:Louise updates more NPC pages...

Week of Sunday, 15 February 2015

• Alex wipes the archaic environment weapon category for Category:Bundle skills.
• User:Mora and User:Valento create skill pages for revenant.
• User:Dr ishmael reverts User:Relyk changes to {{effect}}...
• User:‎Valento makes lots of pages for the revenant.
• User:Relyk creates Revenant: The Master of the Mists because everyone loves random news articles.
• User:TxonAtana creates {{trait point}} with doubtful usability.

Week of Sunday, 08 February 2015

• User:Dr ishmael moves infobox subtemplates to appropriate category.
• User:SarielV expands PvP Golden weapons and related pages.
• User:Chieftain Alex creates {{Heart of Thorns content}} based on User:Nineaxis' design.
• Implemented {{infobox status}} on infobox pages. Added feature on {{area hearts}}.

Week of Sunday, 01 February 2015

• Added zone to {{vendor table}}.
• {{effect icon}} and {{effect}} updated. Move along.
• User:Valento sets up a new goal for his old tooltips plugin (unsure what it will be though).
• More discussion on not including upcoming content on existing articles.

Week of Sunday, 25 January 2015

• User:Louise ads some dialogues.
• User:Relyk tries adding semantic forms, but forgot the forms add empty parameters.

Week of Sunday, 18 January 2015

• PAX South is announced, probably with an expansion.
• User:Raikiri proposes new game icons.
• Reddit gets excited over expansion rumors.