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? 11 Upcoming maintenance this Thursday 12 Copyrights 13 Wiki maintenance 14 Question

[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)

↑ I apologize for making that comment.-- Shew ♠♠♠ 00:28, 17 May 2010 (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)

Hey Emily, I've been getting an error whenever I try to upload a certain piece of concept art to the wiki. "The file you uploaded seems to be empty. This might be due to a typo in the file name. Please check whether you really want to upload this file." I have tried changing the image's directory and its file name, but nothing has worked yet. Its size is 4.94 mb, if that helps at all. I noticed that the wiki has been down off and on this afternoon, so maybe you've already noticed the error. I thought I'd let you know just in case the upload error is not my fault.-- Shew 19:29, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Nevermind. It worked eventually. :p -- Shew 03:06, 25 March 2010 (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)

[edit] Upcoming maintenance this Thursday

Hi guys! I've been notified that the team would like to perform an emergency maintenance on the site this Thursday at 5:00 AM PST. You may have noticed some performance issues with the wiki over the past few days, and I'm pleased to say that the guys have figured out what's been causing these problems. They also believe that they've finally been able to nail down what's been causing the wiki to hiccup when admins protect pages, so we're hoping that this maintenance fixes that issue as well.

If one of you guys could please post a maintenance notice for that time, I'd really appreciate it. I'd set the notice to say 2 hours, but we don't believe it will take that long.

As a final note, we won't be pushing the 1.15.2 changes just yet. We'd like to make sure that these upcoming changes are functioning properly before we throw anymore variables onto the pile. Once we're sure everything is stable, we'll schedule another maintenance for that small update.

Thanks guys! -- Emily Diehl (talk) 23:31, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but /giggle at it being on April 1st. Mat Cauthorn, The Botanist 18:44, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Haha, no this wasn't an April Fool's joke :) We'll need to adjust the time of the notice, though, as the team ran into an additional bit of maintenance they'll need to perform before they can do the wiki changes. I've been told that they'll do these updates to the site on Monday, April 5 instead (same time). Sorry for the confusion! -- Emily Diehl (talk) 19:15, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Emily :D -- pling 21:04, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

I would really want to know how you fixed the protecting pages issue. I've been having that with one of my wikis as well... --Tera 08:17, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

I'll check with the guys and see, Tera. I can't remember the exact details :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 03:58, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks ;-) It's been driving me nuts... --Tera 15:44, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Copyrights

Hi Emily! I think it's best to come to you about this.

(Link) "Content obtained from Guild Wars 2, its web sites, manuals and guides, concept art and renderings, press and fansite kits, and other such copyrighted material, may also be available from this site." should probably be changed to "Content obtained from Guild Wars and / or Guild Wars 2, its web sites..." as I've noticed some imagery from the original Guild Wars floating around. A F K When Needed 16:20, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

"their" rather than "its", then. - Tanetris 14:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Also, MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning and MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning2 (the edit-screen text) would need to be modified to reflect both games' content. pling 00:55, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki maintenance

Heya guys! I wanted to pop in and let you know that the operations team has informed me that they will be moving both this wiki and the GW Wiki to their new datacenter homes on Monday, August 16. They expect the maintenance window to last from 6 am PST to around 2 pm PST, although they hope to have it completed in a shorter time.

I apologize for my absence around here lately. I've been up to my nose in tradeshow and GW2 stuff, so I've had to focus all of my energy on that stuff. Once things simmer down, I'll be back to posting and responding to questions. Bear with me! :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 17:49, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up Emily! --hnzdvn 17:59, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Righty-o then, thanks for the info Venom20 18:13, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

No worries! I wanted to mention something else. On August 16, we're going to actually make the wiki read only for a time while the DB is moved. So the wiki will likely be up the whole time, but it won't be editable for the period of the maintenance. Please keep that in mind so you're not worried about what's going on when you can view the site but not edit it. -- Emily Diehl (talk) 22:53, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, Emily. Hope the move will be successful. Ariyen 06:25, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Okay, I don't know if you all at community knows, but there's new fake emails going around about Guild Wars 2 and beta keys. I just have received such an email and I sent the report to NcSoft. Ariyen 22:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

They twittererererered about that, I'm actually looking forward to getting those mails, at least a change from all those blizzard scams! --zeeZ 22:05, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

^

I wonder if AneraNet will contact me in-game while I play Guild Wars 2 to inform me of special promotions like Bilzzard contacts me about Cataclysm beta keys when I play WoW. A F K When Needed 22:54, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the link zeeZ. I have gotten one spam email on Guild Wars 2 , compared to about 20 or so on that Blizzard fake emailing scams on Cataclysm or Account. You'll still have those trying to do scams. I wonder if hotmail will close their free emailling or buff up their security. Most (in the original detailed area) emails I've gotten gaming wise and spam wise has been from hotmail pretending to be from ncsoft or blizzard. Ariyen 07:53, 1 September 2010 (UTC)