User talk:Emily Diehl

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Contents 1 Brief wiki outage coming! 2 Linking to the GW2W from the GWW 3 Friends 4 Guild Wars Wiki down 5 Wiki issues 6 Wiki upgrade coming Monday! 7 GW2 8 Hi Emily 9 MediaWiki 1.15.1 Upgrade 10 Could support be moved below search?

[edit] Brief wiki outage coming!

Hiya everyone! I just got an email from our IT folks saying that they'd like to take the wiki down for some maintenance on Monday (March 24). They said they'll be doing it from approximately 2:00 AM Pacific until 6:00 AM Pacific, so the wiki will most likely be unavailable during those times. I am going to get an outage notice on the website and post it on the wiki bugs page, but I'll leave it to guys to decide whether one of the dismissable site notices should go up about the scheduled downtime or not :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 00:35, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

The wiki's still a little unused at the moment, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to use Sitenotice. What sort of maintenance will they be doing, out of interest? (And thanks for fixing the caching issues :) ) -- pling | ggggg 00:45, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, good idea. I'll play around with the site notice. As far as the maintenance goes, I think they are doing some stuff to our backups. I don't know any concrete details, though. By the way, the change of username really threw me. I knew that was your icon XD -- Emily Diehl (talk) 00:53, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah, ok. Although, I'm guessing a MediaWiki version upgrade of GWW is in store ;) (Yep, new name for the GW2W - didn't like my old one so I though fresh wiki, fresh name :) ) -- pling | ggggg 01:07, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Aww looks like I was wrong about the upgrade :P -- pling | ggggg 01:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Linking to the GW2W from the GWW

Heya guys! Here's a topic I've been thinking about that I wanted to send past you. When this wiki first started, we didn't announce it anywhere because it was blank. Even though there isn't much content here now (since we haven't really announced much), the structure of the site is coming along and I'm seeing a lot of policy drafts getting written.

My question to you all is when do you think we should move forward with promoting the wiki? I don't think that we will announce it on the official website just yet (we'll probably steer away from this until we have more official GW2 content ready to go). I do think that we should consider putting the link to the site back on the GWW homepage, though. It would be nice to get more folks over here to weigh in on policies so everyone that wants a say can have one before the wiki explodes with content and all the policies are already decided.

As I always say, this is a community-driven wiki, so I don't want to just do something without talking to you guys first. Just consider it/discuss it, and give me your thoughts :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 01:43, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't know about others, but I for one would not like large numbers of people coming over so soon. While I don't want to try to hide it or discourage people from contributing here, we've already had problems with people thinking that we make GW2 here or that we have the beta date, etc. If we are going to have a link on the GWW, then we need a strong disclaimer about the function and content of the wiki. Lord Belar 02:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

We have a few pages on the GWW that already link to here - The Movement of the World and Sylvari to name a couple. There is also a link from the GuildWiki main page, so this wiki already has some publicity.

I do think there will be some redundancy in content - i.e. Guild Wars (1) articles on the Guild Wars 2 Wiki when there is a perfectly good wiki for that purpose - but I think we have just enough users to make sure the content can be regulated at a safe level. We are getting such articles at the moment anyway, but they are being handled fine for the time being. Vandals could be taken care of relatively quickly: most of the grandfathered sysops are active on the GWW so should be easy to contact for emergencies. As Belar says, though, maybe the content regulations should be worked out first. I shouldn't think we would have too much of a lasting problem with a GWW link. -- pling | ggggg 02:20, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Personally I would prefer to keep this wiki as it is now until we get some more content and so more interest in creating policies. At the moment we have too much policy drafts and still no real idea about how we should continue. And I think we are not ready to let lots of visitors in here.. poke | talk 15:14, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Nothing's really been decided upon yet, but hopefully it will soon. I'd prefer to keep the wiki fairly closed until the policies, structure, etc. are set, and we have GW2 content to add (so there is more than the same content and GW1 stuff). Calor 15:18, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the responses, guys. I can see your reasoning with keeping things how they stand for the time being, so I'll make sure that we respect that request on our end and hold on announcing the wiki until you're ready (although we weren't really planning on doing this until we released more content anyways...hehe). I'll check in periodically to see where we're at for content policies and such. When you guys feel we're at a point where we can start linking off the GWW, just let me know :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 18:34, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Friends

hey emily i got this realy good question i met alot of wonderful people on gw 1 the problem is i dont know them in real life will i be able to have the same friends in gw 2 or even the same guild i think that should be in faqs :D so do we have the same friends Dwgsong 23:23, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Uh.. if those people want to be friends with you, then yeah. But it's really got nothing to do with the game itself. It doesn't belong in the FAQ either, it's pretty much common sense. -- Pling \ talk 23:25, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Well i think it has allot to do with. Its just like been capable of reserving names form GW1 by activating your respective Hall of Monuments. Maby if the friend(he/she)has their hall of monument active, their name stay in your friend list. Bu the guild thing, hmmmm i don't know about that thats allot of trouble dragging some old SQl dumps('m sure they use that to store Guild member) to a brand new game. Me as a game dev i would not want to do this even if its all automated^^! But also as a player i don't want to rebuild the guild and type everyones name and pay well over 30k for re-envites and

if we have guild halls with the same concept as GW1 ma i would have to spend 5mil to buy 5 Full Guilds again:{ --161.38.223.219 20:21, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Guild Wars Wiki down

IMO http://www.guildwars.com/support/networknews/default.php would be a more appropriate redirect target than http://www.guildwars.com/support/. Also, IMO it would be useful to add a news item to the "latest headlines" section on guildwars.com. -- Gordon Ecker 03:32, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

I understand that you guys are working to fix this, but can you tell us what happened? Was it a freak thing, or triggered by some edit the wiki servers didn't like? calor (talk) 03:55, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

I noticed (before it went completely down) that the Halloween Art Contest 2008 page was missing...and the Halloween Art Contest subject on Regina's page was missing (ONLY the art contest subject)...hmm I hope it'll be back up tomorrow... Shew 03:59, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi guys! Yes, we currently have a large number of people working to resolve the issues. Unfortunately, I can't provide any additional details, because I haven't been given any specifics at this time. For the time being, we've redirected the wiki to our support page, and I'll try to keep this updated when I learn more. We're definitely working on it, though. I'm still in the office at 8 pm on election night (when I have a house full of people watching on my TV without me :( ). It's high priority :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 04:09, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes...the election...:(...I hope all goes well for the next 4 years... Shew 04:49, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki issues

Hi guys! I'm sorry for the sudden downtime. We're currently working to restore everything back to it's normal state. I'm going through reporting issues right now. I see the one with ImageMagick being unable to display thumbs properly. If anyone see anything else, please give me a yell immediately so I can pass it along to the team who's working on it at this moment. Thanks again, and I'll post more about what happened in a little bit. -- Emily Diehl (talk) 04:50, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi again everyone! We believe that we've corrected all of the issues that have popped up on the site. I am going to head home and watch the site from there. If anyone experiences any additional difficulties, please let me know here and I will pass them along. We apologize for the issues. I'll go ahead and post a little about what happened in my journal tomorrow. It's nothing terribly exciting (basically an obscure config that didn't get pointed to a new database after the big wiki upgrade), but I'll fill you in anyways :) Thanks for your patience, and have an awesome night! -- Emily Diehl (talk) 05:27, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki upgrade coming Monday!

Hi guys! I just wanted to give you a heads-up that we'll be doing the upgrade to 1.13.2 here and on the GW2W on Monday. Since there are a bunch of DB changes, the upgrade duration is a little longer. The scheduled downtime is from 4:30 am Pacific (so 12:30 pm GMT) until 8:30 am Pacific (4:30 pm GMT), so somewhere in the range of four hours.

I'm going to post a network news post on the website, but I wanted to give you guys advanced warning so you can get a maintenance header in place for the weekend. For the curious, here are the SVN MediaWiki patch notes for the 1.13 snapshot. Yay for new features and bugfixes! -- Emily Diehl (talk) 23:35, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Done. -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 01:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GW2

it's been some months... so are you willing to give us any information about gw2 now? :D - Y0_ich_halt 19:19, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

As Regina has said on her GWW page a few times now, it's not like each of the dev's has decided they don't feel like giving out information today, it's a decision by management to keep the lid on everything, and when they do finally decide it's okay to lift that lid, I doubt we'll have to ask to get info. - Tanetris 01:05, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Emily

I just noticed u have an acc here too :P good luck with building a home! - Wuhy 02:18, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :) I pop in here periodically, but reside primarily on the GWW (for now). -- Emily Diehl (talk) 22:30, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] MediaWiki 1.15.1 Upgrade

Hi guys! Tomorrow morning we'll be upgrading both the GWW and the GW2W to MediaWiki version 1.15.1. We'll also be installing the final pending RFTAs and making sure that all extensions are identical and up-to-date on both wikis. I'll be posting a notice on the website about this, but I wanted to give ya'll an advanced heads up anyways! Thanks :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 20:51, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the upgrade or not, but I'm occasionally getting this message when I try to edit pages: Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still does not work, try logging out and logging back in. I've never gotten that message until today. Just letting you know in case it is a result of the upgrade.-- Shew 01:10, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the report, Shew! I'll ask the team to check into it. -- Emily Diehl (talk) 01:12, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

I haven't been getting the error anymore, so I guess it fixed itself. Thanks, though!-- Shew 12:37, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

No problem! I asked the team to look into it when you reported the issue and they were able to figure out the problem. Thanks again for your report, and let me know if you ever notice any other issues so I can pass them along. -- Emily Diehl (talk) 22:31, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Could support be moved below search?

Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask or whatever. But I was kinda wondering if it was possible to move the support below the search bar, here in gw2w. It happens far to often that I click Report a wiki bug when I want to get to the recent changes C4K3 Talk 14:46, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Done. --pling  16:13, 5 October 2009 (UTC)