User talk:Aristeo/2006-07

Steadily Improving

Well, since you asked, the only thing I can speak from authority on is the stuff I've been steadily doing, just poring through the CS and extracting every useful chunk of info from it I can. See the "What Have I Done" section on my user page for examples of that. Most of my additions have been of the "data-dump" variety, just get as much up as possible, and worry about cleaning it up nicely later. Seen alot of holes filled, running out of good sections to create. (Though the one I'm working on now will be a doozy. See the Oblivion Talk:Magic_Items page for the description of my new work in progress.) This site is pretty close to being the single definitive source for all info regarding this series of games, certainly more complete than any other site I've seen. (Most likely thanks to the wiki-format, because no single person has the time or patience to do this much work by themselves...) Anyhow, that's my 2 cents on the subject. Feel free to quote or paraphrase, whatever. --TheRealLurlock 18:34, 30 June 2006 (EDT)

And thanks for those two cents. :D --Aristeo 18:37, 30 June 2006 (EDT)

Another two cents.... I think all the work you've been doing to set up general UESPWiki info is great, and think it'll make it alot easier for new people to get started (and I'd guess from the new names that keep popping up that there are alot of people joining!). And all your new templates to help standardize things. Lurlock's work filling in all the books has been impressive. There are definitely alot less missing pages -- I notice it on the Places page in particular. The pages are getting better organized, and some of them are looking quite polished (i.e, Spells). The pages are all becoming better cross-linked, so I think it's getting easier to dive in to one page and browse around to related information from there. Sometimes it's easy to get overly focussed on all the things that you'd still like to see done -- it's good to step back occasionally and remember where things were at just a month ago (which is about as far back as my knowledge of things go!). --Nephele 12:30, 1 July 2006 (EDT)

There's still quite a few "drudgery" sections to be filled, like the rest of books, places and such. (of course I love filling in places in the 1st hand experience style, I exit a ruin or a fort, save, quit, load UESP and write a review of what I just went through :) --Vook 04:01, 2 July 2006 (EDT)

"Rest of the books"? To which books are you referring? I thought I was pretty thorough (maybe a little too thorough) with the Oblivion books. I could go through the Morrowind books I guess, but I thought those were done already. (Though I have found some gaps - 36 Lessons of Vivec only went up to 13.) I don't have any of the other games, though, so if there's anything missing from them, somebody else will have to take care of them. --TheRealLurlock 08:39, 2 July 2006 (EDT)

Okay, my info is outdated :) About a week ago I had too much time on my hands and decided to read some overdue texts, and found quite a few missing. Now most of them is in there. --Vook 17:01, 2 July 2006 (EDT)

Fanfic?

Do you think it would be a good idea good to make some space for fanfic/fanart of each of the games? Like I have two pieces of fanfic (one for MW, one for Ob) and really no place for them. Of course that would be a selfish plug if I created a separate section just for one story, so asking for opinion... --Vook 17:04, 2 July 2006 (EDT)

Yeah, I like it. Submitting it would mean you are licensing it to UESP, however. --Aristeo 17:05, 2 July 2006 (EDT)

My Renaming

I notice you just redirected Lurlock to TheRealLurlock. Is this in preparation for merging my accounts or something? Would it help if I logged off for a little while? And should I log on as Lurlock in the future? Just want to make sure this doesn't screw up my contributions page or something. (I often use it to keep track of pages I've worked on.) Let me know what I can do (if anything) to make this easier. --TheRealLurlock 19:56, 6 July 2006 (EDT)

The redirect isn't anything administrative. I just did it so people will know that Lurlock = TheRealLurlock. --Aristeo 21:28, 6 July 2006 (EDT)

HELP

Quick: someone needs to put a block on User:Nigger ASAP!!!--Nephele 12:41, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

Blocked, reverting vandalism now --Aristeo 12:45, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

Reverted vandalism. --Aristeo 12:49, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

Thanks, I kind of went into panic mode there, seeing all the pages go blank in front of my eyes.--Nephele 12:53, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

Only took about 30 clicks on his contribution page to revert. Only thing we have to worry about now is how we're going to report him on the vandalism page. =/ --Aristeo 12:55, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

I'll leave that up to you administrator-types.... I'm not sure about the obscenity implications of how many times we want to type out his name!--Nephele 13:06, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

Check out the UESPWiki_talk:Configuration page. I starred out his name, and linked to his contribs and block log pages. Hopefully everyone will get the idea. --Aristeo 13:12, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

(Cookie from Nephele moved to my Cookie Jar)

It feels like I've been an admin forever. Just one month ago I put my request for adminship on the configuration list, promising to help find vandalism and to help out with admin duties. I remember the very first thing I did was clear out the to be deleted category >:D. We've have had some great times, we've gained some great people, but have lost some good people as well. I'm glad to have you on the team, Nephele, and thank you for the cookie. :) --Aristeo 18:43, 22 July 2006 (EDT)

Cookie

(Cookie from Rethenmiir Hlao moved to my Cookie Jar.)

Thanks, Rethenmiir :) --Aristeo 08:10, 26 July 2006 (EDT)

Grimblades

Yo, Aristeo, you gotta go on this site, I see you signed up, but have yet to post.

I'm probally not going to post, but I might read those contracts from time to time. --Aristeo 22:19, 24 July 2006 (EDT)

Oh, ok, You might want to check out these ones, I reccomend them:

• Into the fire, to end the cold

• The humiliation of Hayn

• Six years ago

They feature:

• Good story
• Good length
• Good Gameplay
• Complex story
• Good use of in game objects
• A story that makes sense in relation to the characters dialouge

Rethenmiir Hlao 12:20AM 29 July

Mass Deletion

Ah, hello Aristeo! Today I uploaded 16 new spell icon images. Unfortunately, I forgot to use the O- prefix on the filenames that we'd agreed on. So I've uploaded all 16 a second time, with the right name, and marked the ones with a wrong name for deletion. I thought it'd be a good idea to leave a message here, so you're not wondering why a bunch of pages all got marked at once. It's not vandalism, I promise!  ;)

Also, I'm trying to upload new versions of some of the other icons. When I do so, I'm asked to confirm that I want to replace the images, and then I get an error message: 'Could not rename file "/home/www/uesp.net/w/images/O-drain.gif" to "/home/www/uesp.net/w/images/archive/20060729223824!O-drain.gif".' If you have time, would you also be able to take a look at that? Thanks for your time, Aristeo! And sorry to make so much work for you. -- marbx Sat, 29 Jul 2006

I don't think Daveh set up the folder permissions correctly, so the software can't override the old files with the new files. What I have to do is delete the old files so the new files can be uploaded. As for the missing O- prefix files, I can delete those right now. --Aristeo 19:30, 29 July 2006 (EDT)

Well, shoot. I guess the thing to do, until directory permissions can be fixed, is to queue up all my new versions and kindly ask you to delete them all at once? Then I can immediately upload the new versions. -- marbx Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:06 -0400 EDT

Sounds like a plan --Aristeo 20:09, 29 July 2006 (EDT)

Hello, the upgrade you (or whomever) performed on the site has resolved this problem! I can now replace my images at will. Thank you! -- Marbx 15:48, 31 July 2006 (EDT)