User talk:Surgo

Bugs

Please add any new reports of bugs below here.

• The display of semantic properties in tables outputs with underscores instead of spaces, such as seen on the 3.5e races page here. --Ganteka Future 23:09, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Let's see if the SMW database update fixes this. Surgo 13:01, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

• A reminder to figure out a solution to doing category exclusion for #ask to eliminate all dpl lists that use |notcategory=, such as on 3.5e Class Ability Components under the Published Abilities listing. --Ganteka Future 02:42, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

• Non-pretty solution is to just add a new category, like "WotC" or "Published" or even reuse "SRD" (though it's not technically correct) to differentiate user created stuff from other, ending overlap and allowing a simple conjunction to find the proper pages. Since I think that's the only page that suffers like that, I don't think it would be hard to implement.- Tarkisflux 03:23, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

I've been asking for this feature in Semantic MediaWiki for over a year. I might hack it in myself. Surgo 13:01, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

• Don't know if this is a bug, but it doesn't look like any of the images from the wiki got ported over. Was this intentional, and if not, when can we expect to see the pictures get transferred? --Ghostwheel 08:30, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Half-intentional. This is the easiest way to deal with licensing issues by far. I'd like properly licensed pictures to be ported though, that might be able to be done automatically when I have time (feel free to add pictures for your own stuff before then though).

• Search doesn't have a "smart" autocomplete. --Ghostwheel 08:31, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Known problem, requires the installation of a new search engine. Surgo 13:01, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

• I can't seem to be able to log in for some reason. In case you're wondering, I'm Soulblazer from wikia, but for whatever reason it doesn't accept me. Do I have to register from start or something? EDIT: My profile HAS transferred over, I just can't log in. Weird.--178.128.81.175 11:25, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

You need to re-register. Profile pages were brought over, registrations were not. Surgo 12:58, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Feature Request

Can we get the [SMW:ON/OFF] hack working over here? - Tarkisflux 07:30, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

I thought it was. It's two colons, not one. Surgo 12:58, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

A Round of Applause

• Sup Surgo. I like the new site. Good work. Listen, you don't get thanked much for all that you do. Comes with the territory, I guess. Whatever the reasons... Thanks. No seriously. Thank you. Speaking frankly, I haven't contributed much to the sites. But what I have, I feel is best shown with guys like you in charge. Makes me feel like writing what I did, meant something. If only to one person, then so be it. I mean, we all know what crappy Admins look like. It's rare to find a good one. Even one as stubborn as you. Heh. ...From one user to another. Good job. And Godspeed. --Jay Freedman 10:38, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

d20 NPCs transition

Hey Surgo, nice place you got here :)

It looks like the d20 NPCs Wikia wiki is pretty dead, as it seems I'm the only one active over there (transition forum post). So, if you're still willing to do some merging of the NPC content from that wiki, I'd love to continue to contribute to it here. The d20 NPCs wiki had d20 Modern, Star Wars, Mutants and Masterminds, and some others, in addition to 3.5e D&D NPCs. I'm really only interested in the D&D 3.5e NPCs personally. So, a few questions:

• Do you think it appropriate to expand the 3.5e NPCs area here with content from the d20 NPCs wiki?
• If so, a simple database dump may not fit with the naming conventions that you have here; what naming convention(s) would be best for that content?
• The d20 NPCs had been using their own template based of the DMG2-style stat block, and a "Short" stat block for doing inline, paragraph-style stats. I'd have to look more deeply at your Stat Block 2 template, but things I like about the d20 NPCs variants that I helped develop include allowing a partial stat block (useful if you want to have a "when not raging"/"when raging" block for Barbarians that only shows what changes, or "in wolf form" for werewolves and other shape-shifters), and the look is more literally like what's in the DMG2 (making it easy to skim a stat block if you're used to reading published materials). I also have created a "Pathfinder" style template for my own personal wiki, that I never took over to the d20 NPCs wiki that I could add here, if it's useful. So, should imports from the d20 NPCs wiki be converted to your template(s), or should the template(s) here be updated and convert the NPCs you have here to a new template?

--MidnightLightning☇(talk) 13:48, 20 October 2010 (UTC)