User:Relyk/Wiki Newsletter/2014

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Week of Sunday, 15 December 2024

Week of Sunday, 14 December 2014

• Created [[Form:NPC infobox]] and cleaned some of {{NPC infobox}}.
• Cleaned up {{New Krytan}} after Alex, Dr ishmael, and Titus messed with it.
• User:Relyk is overly critical of {{lore discrepancy}}.
• User:Poke is overwhelmed by all the new things to document.
• Voice actors list is slightly filled in.

Week of Sunday, 09 November 2014

• Wiki app breaks 20,000 downloads.

Week of Sunday, 26 October 2014

• Added support for ground-targeted skills in {{Skill infobox}}, as well as filling such parameter for many skills. Targeting page now lists related information.

Week of Sunday, 19 October 2014

• Semantic Form added to collect Trick-or-Treat Bag research at Trick-or-Treat Bag/research.
• Blood and Madness gets posted again with minor changes.
  • No idea how we are going to document this as a release. It's also not sure if Blood and Madness will always be the recurring Halloween thing, or they were just this once lazy.
• Updated Fractal weapons to Fractal weapon skins to reflect change to consumables.

Week of Sunday, 12 October 2014

• Mithran gets a llama to play with.
• User:Dr ishmael adds the item quantity for achievement rewards, claiming someone forgot to add it. Because if something is missing, it means someone completely forgot to add it.
• Guild Wars 2 Wiki talk:Weapon formatting for discussions on Twitter, cultural biases, ideal worlds, and naked girls.

Week of Sunday, 05 October 2014

• User:Raikiri adds the {{zone map}} widget to pages. A difficult task requiring no discussion.

Week of Sunday, 28 September 2014

• Leveling equipment is now linked to by 490 pages and still hasn't been created.
  • Luckily, Relyk could recover the rough draft he wrote on September 27 but forgot to save. A list would be a nice addition though.
    • Luckily, Dr ishmael has a couple research pages with everything already tabulated.
• User:Chieftain Alex tidies up the Help section of the wiki. See Help:Contents.
• User:Dr ishmael adds skill icons for traits that vary with individual skills.
• User:Sscripko formats and cleans up drop sections for champion loot bags.
• The wikis received a software upgrade: MediaWiki 1.23.2 and SMW 2.0
  • Previously bugged SMW stuff was still borked since it was only a *software* update but all data has been rebuild since!
• Edit requests are dumb.
• The wiki contest finishes up and poke needs to throw the rest of his llamas away.

Week of Sunday, 21 September 2014

• Updated meta events to use the zone for location, after months of never getting around to it.
• User:Dr ishmael writes lots of dumb trivia because he has nothing better to do.

Week of Sunday, 14 September 2014

• User:‎Traveller removes pets from starter areas. The bastard.
• User:Selicity adds an achievement note to every collection item...

Week of Sunday, 07 September 2014

• User:Traveller creates Tournament of Glory, Guild Wars 2 World Tournament Series, and Guild Wars 2 International All-Stars Tournament.
• User:Asuka updates the {{reward}} subtemplates for personal story rewards.
• Added sexy vendor templates to Style Guide. Need a strategy for presenting acquisition of items.
• User:Mora adds the Glyph of Elementals skill pages.
• User:Katubug and User:Lelling create pages and upload screenshots for the crafting backpacks.
• Level rewards is created and filled out within a day. Now we only need to add the actual items you receive.
• User:Vaught adds recipe sheets for various ascended equipment.
• User:Idris uploads Glorious armor screenshots.
• User:‎Ventriloquist adds the Glorious armor pages.
• More than 380 articles are created the day of the of the feature pack.
• User:Ghorkum creates achievement pages for various achievements. Needs to fix the tables though.
• Thanks to User:Poke, with the release of the public commerce APIs, the wiki now shows the trading post price (lowest sell offer) in item infoboxes. The highest buy order is visible when hovering over the price.
• Added quantity parameter to {{achievement table row}}.
• Created Koutalophile and Uncanny Canner for collections.
• Created vendor item table row and vendor item table result format for custom vendor tables.
• Created Exotic crafted armor and Rare crafted armor for the upcoming collections.
• Updated champion loot bags with the {{drops}} and {{dropped by}} templates for the upcoming collections.

Week of Sunday, 31 August 2014

• Dumb discussion about documenting skins over at Guild_Wars_2_Wiki_talk:Community_portal#Documenting_skins_-_in_their_own_namespace. Probably confusing the crap out of everyone.
• Reduced the query size issue for {{vendor table}} because stephane yelled at me harshly.
• Rampaging llamas are invading the wiki and might poke some people into action.
• User:Ventriloquist is promoted to sysop.
• Mawdrey and {{Mawdrey nav}} get some more work and discussion thanks to the convoluted crafting process.
• Arc gets reverted for the fourth time or something and the user decides to approach Ventriloquist on his talk page instead of actually discussing the problem on the talk page. No one wins the contest of who can be more stubborn.
• Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Requests for adminship/Ventriloquist is going on.

Week of Sunday, 24 August 2014

• Chris Cleary posts on exploit and safe spots. He defines it as a position that abuses of geometry and pathing to avoid taking damage while engaging an enemy. He gave the case of standing outside of range of stationary bosses, where the boss should reset. Leashing is the system where the NPC will reset if it can't hit or reach a target. Thus we can say players are abusing the leashing system to prevent it from triggering by the use of safe spots. The problem is that leashing is wildly inconsistent and false positives happen. While Chris gives examples of poor boss or dungeon implementation, he doesn't say this is an issue of poor implementation of the leashing system. This doesn't make sense on what he's arguing, since leashing issues (and hence geometry and pathing) are related to poor dungeon implementation or poor boss implementation. The cases where ArenaNet would consider a temporary ban for exploiting this issues ends up being unclear and players will end up nitpicking what is or isn't an exploit in the same way ArenaNet nitpicks how they want players to use mechanics. If the leashing system didn't exist, then the safe spot issues would be an issue of poor game design due to geometry and pathing mechanics. Maybe there simply isn't a satisfactory solution from both the devs and players due to how complex the game is.

Week of Sunday, 17 August 2014

• User:Ventriloquist uploads lots of equipment screenshots available on the german wiki.
• User:Mora makes nav templates for the vine back pieces.

Week of Sunday, 10 August 2014

• Some people prefer references to other fansites even when the information was given directly to the wiki. This is why we can't have nice things.
• User:Chieftain Alex finishes the {{wardrobe}} for displaying the skins in the wardrobe format.

Week of Sunday, 03 August 2014

• Look at how easy it is to make these tables: Bag of Purloined Goods/drop rate. Like 8 minutes total.
• User: Dr ishmael and User:Poke add name parameter to {{world boss table}} for generating tables for individual bosses.

Week of Sunday, 27 July 2014

• User:Dr ishmael updates recipe sheets after the update to icons.
• Bored editors decide to start a discussion about the {{gww}} and trivia on Talk:Brick of Clay. User:Thrain gets pretty irate about the issue in IRC. Fortunately, Tanetris was quick to threaten banning chat because discussion about the wiki was taking place. The drama llama was impressed and nothing got resolved.
• User:Vahkris and User:Tyndel added pages and icons for many of the wardrobe armor pieces.
• User:Ventriloquist updates skill facts for elementalist skills.

Week of Sunday, 20 July 2014

• User:Tyndel updates content in Monger's Sink.
• Titus goes to Alex to fix the family trees yet again.
• User:Tanetris accuses User:Poke of treachery.
• User:Relyk gets Extended Editor after some... poking.
• Added an achievement count to {{Achievement table header‎}} finally instead of adding a manual tally on each achievement page.
• Mukilol posts a Reddit thread on creating PvXwiki version 2. The thread spurs the rare comments from wiki users who never comment on the subreddit normally. And Mithran gets downvoted to oblivion. Tahiri posts on User:Chieftain Alex's talk page as a former Build Master and important person. Like threads before, people comment that they would love to but will rapidly forget the site exists.
• User:Dr ishmael repairs more weapon sets for loot tables.

Week of Sunday, 13 July 2014

• Anon uses a discussion on Talk:Gathering tool#Trimming of overview 4 months ago as a straw man to criticize the wiki in the most ambiguous terms possible.
• User:Mora adds images for the Ley Line weapon skins.
• User:Mora adds infusion slots to legendary weapons on the {{weapon infobox}} since they were updated.
• User:Tyndel updates a variety of NPC articles!
• User:Dr ishmael updates loot weapons sets to use {{loot variant table row}} to semanticize the items.
• User:Anzenketh creates Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Living world formatting‎ for formatting Living World articles.
• User:Relyk writes up a page for Story infobox, will wait about a month for response.

Week of Sunday, 06 July 2014

• User:Ventriloquist attempts to cleanup Category:ArenaNet icons... 1000 files down, 1000 to go!

Week of Sunday, 29 June 2014

• User:Relyk fixes {{parse tier}} for calculating achievement category totals.
• User:Sirrush adds parameter to {{releases nav}} to present by season.
• THERE WAS NO JUMPING IN GW1 BECAUSE GLINT WAS HOARDING IT ALL. IT ALL MAKES SENSE.
• User:Santax advertises Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Projects/Living World changes to cover the changes needed for Gates of Maguuma. Get on it people, you're on vacation.

Week of Sunday, 15 June 2014

• User:Chieftain Alex creates [[Form:Equipment query]] to facilitate searching the semantic database for equippable items.
• User:Santax adds concept art to The Shattered Henge. Yup.
• Created [[Form:Vendor query]] for querying {{vendor table}}.
• Created {{Vendor item table header}} and {{Vendor item table result format}} for {{vendor table}}
• User:Bogya adds section stubs to NPC dialogues.
• Discussion on Talk:Living World Season 2#Season start/end, person summaries continues, even though most of the information needs to be removed from that page.

Week of Sunday, 08 June 2014

• User:Bogya uploads armor galleries for heritage armor and other armor sets.
• User:Chieftain Alex edits all the infoboxes to use the same historical + categorization logic. historical = y deprecated in favor of "status = historical".
  • After much infobox spamming, he realised that there wasn't a point to adding an additional SMW property and reverted much of his edits. Relyk still hasn't noticed.
  • Relyk knows why Alex reverted the content, but claims boolean value can't be used to address all cases for what is desired.
• User:Chieftain Alex updates the formatting of the templates in Category:Notice templates. Wording still needs attention on Template:Historical content.

Week of Sunday, 01 June 2014

• User:Chieftain Alex removes the NPC level annotation since it was a useless annotation that was vulnerable to non-numerical values. Somehow Relyk's previous edit had caused lots of errors and yet gone unnoticed. Relyk was quite aware of the implementation and that people shouldn't use the range format in the first place.
• User:‎Rhynchelma fixes up more NPC pages.
• Quaggans will now be used for all of our notice templates. No questions allowed.
• User:Relyk posts User:Relyk/sandbox/availability on User talk:Chieftain Alex/sandbox3 after User:Anzenketh posts on talk page. Anzen hasn't responded to the post yet. Main reason for doing so is User:Chieftain Alex went ahead with proposal and wasn't clear on what to do. Original argument holds after Introducing the Story Journal came out.
• User:Dustix uploads image galleries for Hero and Mistforged weapon sets.

Week of Sunday, 25 May 2014

• Anzen and others are tracking the progress on releases with Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Projects/Living World changes. Check it out!
• User:Dr ishmael fixes up Strawberries and Biscuits because they are delicious.
• Anzen is asking a lot of questions and playing around with SMW, let's see how long the hype train goes!
• User:Anzenketh creates {{location result}} and {{Location result ul format}} for displaying locations. Unfortunately, Relyk went through the exact same thought process months ago and created {{location result format}} to do that for queries.
• User:Anzenketh makes dialogue pages for the rest of the services. Creates {{dialogue}} for generating dialogue for static dialogue that will rarely change for about 10 pages on each service. I guess copypasting text is too challenging for people.
• User:Rhynchelma adds categories to various pages that aren't categorized in a continued spree to fill in special pages like Anzen.

Week of Sunday, 18 May 2014

• User:‎Anzenketh tags PvP Steady weapons and individual articles for deletion due to being removed from the game and based on an answer from IRC by Horrible. User:Relyk says not to do that. In the meantime, fixed the steady weapons to no longer show aquatic weapons because seeing a red link for pages that will never be created pisses Anzen off.
• User:Dr ishmael creates User:Dr ishmael/bulk for organizing the armor set boxes after some spamming on talk page about issues.
• User:Rhynchelma adds categories to release pages, ends up making some redundant categories but who cares.
• User:Rhynchelma adds appropriate NPCs to many area pages.

Week of Sunday, 11 May 2014

• User: ‎PurebladeProductions updates the turret and turret skills.
• User:‎Anzenketh attempts to fix {{temporary}} but turns out that Special:Wanted pages is not good for debugging. This ignores the fact the temporary template is a piece of crap.
• User:‎Anzenketh updates historical reward chests.
• User:‎Anzenketh updates {{inventory}} for using {{vendor table row}}. Guess the vendor templates are getting accepted use now with kind of forcing it on people.
• User:‎Anzenketh updates events for Escape from Lion's Arch.
• User:Mora makes a giant switch block for generating unlock information on the trait infobox. Without discussing it.
• Fixed {{inventory infobox}} to define item type for bags.
• User:Relyk passive-aggressively demands recognition for his efforts. User:Felix Omni puts forth the bare-minimum possible effort to oblige.
• User:Titus The Third creates Family trees as part of continued work on family trees within the game. This follows after the monstrosity that is {{family tree}}, the most ugly template you will ever see in your life.
• Fixed Gem Store subobjects so {{vendor list}} can filter out historical subobjects.
• User:Chieftain Alex complains about templates not functioning as expected because the function doesn't exist yet.
• User:Mora creates {{Reward tracks nav}}, finishing up the creation of reward track pages.

Week of Sunday, 04 May 2014

• User:Santax creates the "Ministry of Purity" that was previously deleted on a whim.
• User:Louise creates a multitude of NPC pages.
• "Template:Icon" is killed. Long live {{icon}}. Alex decides to move it to User:Relyk/icon as a favour, to much unnecessary bemusement.
• Alex starts discussion on waypoint objects. Starts talking about messing with the icon templates and going off-topic. Moves {{area waypoint}} to {{map point}}, which is a silly template name. The talk page consists of Alex and Ishmael talking to each other. They talk about formatting before they've even figured out how to present the information. The talk page is a rehash previous discussion on both icons and waypoints on the Community Portal. No actual discussion on waypoint subobjects has taken place yet.
• Spambots finally accept User:Psycho Robot as one of their own and attempt communication.
• User:Louise expands Warband and adds to their articles which warband charr NPCs belong to.
• User:Reelix adds some chat link codes next to waypoints. Time to visit (or not visit) {{area waypoint}}?

Week of Sunday, 27 April 2014

• User:Psycho Robot continues to set up and format armor pages for the skin sets.
• User:Santax rewrites some of the outdated help pages on the wiki.
• User:Chieftain Alex fixes up Temple armor formatting.
• User:Dr ishmael implements world boss timers using semantic objects and javascript on {{World boss table}}, {{World boss table row}}, world boss/data, and stuck on world boss#Current events.
• User:Psycho Robot moves all of the dungeon armor gallery images + corrects the set names.

Week of Sunday, 20 April 2014

• Psycho moves things like Council Guard armor to Council Guard armor1 and redirected that to another armor set. I have no idea what's going on anymore, edits should telepathetically speak for themselves.
• Alex does concurrent modification on Wikichu to poke's horror.
• User:Anja Astor returns to editing the wiki, shortly followed by a lot of dungeon armor renaming by bots.
• Psycho adds armor set parameters for various armor sets.
• {{Skin infobox}} is setup in preparation for the documentation of wardrobe skins, and a new pink themed color scheme for infoboxes and tables is added.
• User:Poke creates a table of skin ids, which was then used by User:Chieftain Alex to create Chat link format/0x0B codes. The chat link search feature was then updated to accommodate these skins. Outfits have yet to be seen.
• Bureaucrats have a frivolous debate about a user group for rollback and suppress redirect to pretend they still serve an important role on the wiki. The result was the the bureaucrats deciding to give "Extended editor" privileges based on looking at contributions and poke doing a lot of fence-sitting. The first test monkey for the privileges is User:Psycho Robot.

Week of Sunday, 13 April 2014

• User:PurebladeProductions updates some trait facts.
• User:‎Psycho Robot renames lots of armors after name changes to skins after the feature pack.
• User:Sjacie moves destroyer weapons to primordus weapons.
• Rewrite of {{vendor table row}} with {{vendor table row result format}} to support ids replacing Alex's less pretty implementation.
• Discussion on skin implementation on Armor formatting, the community portal, and weapon formatting. Psycho Robot attempts to use a walled garden analogy that makes no sense and doesn't really argue anything.
• User:GilbertNorrell updates a bunch of bundles and related skill pages.
• User:Psycho Robot posts his magnum opus on obtaining unique skins on reddit. (Reddit thread)
• Fixed every single sigil and sigil overview page on the wiki. Runes some other time as all the pages and images have to be moved and rewritten.

Week of Sunday, 06 April 2014

• User:Psycho Robot creates pages for Doric items.
• User:Santax creates {{story summaries nav‎}}.
• User:Santax creates Living World summary/Season 1 and wipes Living World summary. To note, the page was not moved, instead the Season 1 page was created based off a draft that Felix deleted. This leaves somewhat of a discord with some of the Season 1 history remaining on Living World summary and any revisions or discussion on the Season 1 subpage missing.
• User:Chieftain Alex modifies {{drop rate lookup table}} doing some shit or something.

Week of Sunday, 30 March 2014

• Created {{profession trainer table}} and {{profession trainer table result format}}.
• Updated {{NPC infobox}} to link to service and correctly link to Renown heart NPC for the service.
• Created {{location result format}} for simple method to display the page and its location. Like to use this on other objects and locations.
• Moved NPC service to Service. Reorganized profession trainers into individual pages for proper navigation a service pages. Removed Trainer value on Property:Has service because it fucked up all the trainers listed below it and trainer isn't even a fucking service.
• The wiki and Dulfy cooperate for April Fools' Day 2014, trying to make everyone believe that Dulfy acquired the wiki.

Week of Sunday, 16 March 2014

• Created [[Form:ArenaNet content]] and {{ArenaNet content}} to quickly create news articles on the wiki.
• User:Dr ishmael prepares a rewrite of Trait at User:Dr ishmael/Feature pack/Trait. Further editing assistance is requested on the talk page.
• User:Ventriloquist‎ adds most of the new dialogue from the NPCs displaced from the now-decimated Lion's Arch.
• User:W.Wolf contributes almost all of the set 3 miniatures, including icons and the vault index!
• User:Anonymouse uploads many much-needed Asura armor gallery pictures.
• User:Relyk's suggestion of using #subobjects for Daily is implemented on {{Daily}} via Daily/List of daily achievements.

Week of Sunday, 02 March 2014

• User:Smiley-1 contributes something not on this wiki. His contribution may or may not have been appreciated. This text is blocked in Germany.
• User:Stephane Lo Presti still too busy working on the wiki to grace his presence on the wiki.
• User:Gwylen adds Living World dialogue for the new Divinity's Edge.
• Updated the featured article for Battle for Lion's Arch.
• User:Tanetris refuses to contribute to the wiki.
• User:Santax and User:Konig Des Todes continuing their bickering as they update lore from Living World. Don't know why they aren't married yet.
• Jungle dragon gets moved to Mordremoth.
• Changed {{achievement}} and {{achievement box result format}} to allow for linking to sections on the achievement category.
• Created Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Achievement category formatting.
• Relyk makes an [[Help:Achievements example|example]]. Finally.

Week of Sunday, 16 February 2014

• User:Dr ishmael adds some .js code to prevent users from uploading files without image licenses.
• User:Psycho Robot names an NPC linguistic phenomenon after himself. (Henceforth known as PRLP.)
• User:Tulen elementti uploads massive numbers of beautifully named + dyed gallery images (yet again).
• User:Ventriloquist continues his NPC page creation conquest.
• User:Titus The Third created a family tree for the Tyrian royalty. File has yet to grace the mainspace.

Week of Sunday, 09 February 2014

• User:Chieftain Alex create {{release features}} in the typical ugly approach of {{weapon gallery}} of having a switch statement for every possible case instead of a parameter. Template was not immediately implemented due to forecast angsty response + unknown future status of release table row.
• User:Noxx completely rewrites the Release article using {{release table row}}. This is after waiting since September 7, 2013 for a response on Talk:Release/Features. If his summary for the changes is anything to note, making the changes without prior discussion definitely ruffled Relyk's feathers.

Week of Sunday, 02 February 2014

• Wrong wiki.
• User:W.Wolf creates the featured article for The Edge of the Mists (release) with one line.

Week of Sunday, 19 January 2014

• User:Konig Des Todes adds lore for various races in recent lore interview.
• User:Chieftain Alex finally splits living story content from {{Personal story infobox}} into {{Living story infobox}}.
• Finished The Origins of Madness (achievements).
• User:Airytrrahc vandalizes User:Auron and a bunch of random pages. He will return later on.

Week of Sunday, 12 January 2014

• User:Valento and User:Mora finish adding game ids for skills.
• User:Chieftain Alex creates the orphaned file project in the hope that other users will share in his frustration.
• User:Chieftain Alex adds a miniature index parameter and property even though we don't need it.
• Created [[Form:Multiupload]] for streamline uploading files.

Week of Sunday, 05 January 2014

• User:Valento adds game ids to skills.