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==Archived Discussions==
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== To-do list ==
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For a list of in-progress and soon-to-be-started projects at the PSUPedia, please see the following article.
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* [[The_PSUPedia:To-do_list|To-do list]]
  
 
==Current Discussions==
 
==Current Discussions==
=== Old template pages ===
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=== Editing The Portable Versions ===
I know this is probably asking for a lot, and I really shouldn't be so picky with it. But would somebody be able to compile a list of enemy, weapon, whatever pages that haven't been changed to the new standard template? I'd like to fix those, but really don't know where to start. - [[User:Saiffy|Saiffy]] 12:35, 12 November 2007 (CST)
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I've been searching around for a while to create an account to help out editing the entries of Phantasy Star Portable 2... From what i saw, only Admins can create an account there... If possible....could i have some help about it... I would like to update the Room decoration section, update the Remodelling Ticket section and help around in it... [[User:Terminera|Terminera]] 01:41, 15 March 2012 (EDT)
* After I made a similar list for the mission articles, I was considering doing the same for weapons, enemies, etc.  It will take a boat load of time to do, but it's still possible.  I'd suggest in the meantime to not worry about enemies, as I still need to make a few tweaks (in the way of a new infobox like what we're using for the mission articles) to the standard before mass-implementation.  As for weapons, for now just select a weapon category from the list and work your way down (or up) checking each link to see if it's been converted over.  Actually, I think that might be better than compiling a list since there would probably end up being hundreds of entries on that list.  So, I guess enemies would be the major workload for something like this.  Anyway, I'll see what I can do when I've got a chance.  I'm at work right now, but will have to go shortly as I've got a project coming in very soon that I'll have to get started on.  And thanks for your help!  We really appreciate it!  :D - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 12:47, 12 November 2007 (CST)
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* Yeah, sorry about that. The wiki had pretty much died as far as community support went, and all we were getting was spambot registrations and edits, so we had to turn off the ability to make new accountsAnyway, I've had essen re-enable registration, so you'll be able to set up an accountSorry for the inconvenience, but thank you for your help! - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 08:30, 15 March 2012 (EDT)
* [[Enemy list]]!  Didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would.  I still need to work out a few things with the infobox we'll use, so let's hold off on these articles for the time being.  ;) - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 13:16, 12 November 2007 (CST)
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** No Problem ^^ [[User:Terminera|Terminera]] 11:49, 15 March 2012 (EDT)
* Oh Christ, I did my own one. [[Enemy Article List]]. Still I forgot about Espio's new infobox, so his one is the correct one. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 13:48, 12 November 2007 (CST)
 
* While on the topic, the PA pages have been long neglected, and I know we shouldn't be trying to put too much on the table at once, but I made(Or stole) a possible template that I think is much easier to read for each PA [http://psupedia.info/User:Saiffy/Sandbox here]. Now, I don't think each PA having their own page is really neccesary, but I think maybe each weapon type should have their own page for skills, rather than the cluttered mess we currently have. And, of course, anyones free to make a different template, or edit mine. It's not very original, obviously. But I somewhat like the consistently. --[[User:Saiffy|Saiffy]] 23:58, 12 November 2007 (CST)
 
** I like the idea of each PA having its own page.  ;)  Something very similar to what you have would be nice, but I think we should make some adjustments to the table designs to accommodate PA-specific info.  (That one tiny table just looks a little funny.)  When I have enough time, I'll try to run some ideas through my head.  If I come up with anything I like, I'll throw together an article for it. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 11:45, 14 November 2007 (CST)
 
* Seems good to me, although PP cost does increase at level 11 and 21 for all PAs, I think. Might be better to put that under Att./Acc. mods. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 03:23, 13 November 2007 (CST)
 
 
 
=== Suggestions ===
 
I've been thinking about various things to do around here lately, and I've realized there is much more than needs to be done than one person can do, or even remember at once. I propose that we add a new project page that describes in some detail (and prioritizes) various projects and edits that need to be completed. Or even just leaving it here would be fine, as long as we have a list of things for intrepid contributors to work on. So far, I've compiled the following list: <br><br>
 
→ With the 7Up Cup soon approaching, I would like to edit the [[1Up Platinum Cup]] page with more information, incorporating all the stuff conveniently listed [http://boards2.sega.com/psu_board/viewtopic.php?t=47326 here]. Additionally, I'd like to get drop charts up for each mission (and EX mission, mostly), so people know what drops where. I'd like to have this done before the start of the event, though I myself do not have the time to do it all.<br>
 
→ With the changes in AoI (only the beginning of which we are starting to see from the JP version), the [[S-Rank Listing]] page's drop column is starting to look a little strained. For this and the sake of simplicity, I would like to eventually have drop charts for each and every mission, either incorporated into the mission page, or (preferably) on their own page. This would be a long term project, as it obviously would require quite a lot of effort from many individuals, but it is something that should be done at some point. While we're on the topic, I should note that only rare or otherwise noteworthy items would be mentioned in these charts. Things such as Moon X boards or rare ores (which drop anywhere) would be left out.<br>
 
→ As discussed recently on my user talk page, if at all possible, we would like find someone capable of programming a stat gathering and calculating tool to be hosted on the site. It would have to be separate from the wiki framework, unfortunately.<br>
 
→ Failing the above, it would behoove us to create several "information gathering" pages, in which users could display their stats for various race/type/level/etc. These could then be used to create summary articles with updated stat modifiers and the like for AoI.<br>
 
→ Similarly, we may want to create pages for gathering synthesis rate information, since these data will also be changing somewhat drastically with AoI. There is currently no resource that lists such information, so I reckon many would find it useful.<br>
 
→ Many weapon pages (but most importantly S-Ranks) still need to be either created or updated to the new format, and the vast majority lack pictures. I would like to encourage anyone who has the time and resource to help create new pages when able. Additionally, I would like to post a topic on the official forum (and possibly POSW) requesting pictures to be submitted for the articles. If anyone remembers Keg's picture request topic from the BB forum, something along those lines, except users could just upload the pictures here directly.<br>
 
→ Similar to the above topic, I would like to begin collecting images of the new AoI weapons, just to give viewers a taste for what is to come, or to show off new weapon manufacturers. <br>
 
→ I'd really like to get a new logo for the corner up there. The radish looks awesome and all, but it has nothing to do with PSU whatsoever, and frankly it seems silly.
 
→ I've more ideas, but I can't think of them at the moment.<br><br>
 
So, any and all comments on any part of these suggestions would be much appreciated. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 01:20, 11 October 2007 (BST)
 
** I was always under the impression it was supposed to be a vine leaf. >_> - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 08:42, 12 October 2007 (BST)
 
*** You're probably right, but it looks rather silly regardless. Anyway, I threw together a few [http://psupedia.info/qwerty/wikilogos example logos] in my spare time. I'm not going to lie, these don't look very good (though better than the ones I made a while back), but it gives an idea of what we could potentially do. Personally, I'd prefer if we could just get some very simple (yet still PSU-oriented) picture with a transparent background, like the current one. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 04:40, 13 October 2007 (BST)
 
**** Yeah, something simple would be nice I guess. I'd say the first logo thingy is out right away for its aggressive colours (sorry to be blunt), but the Colony Square one doesn't look bad at all. As for the text, I like the black font better (more subtle than the blue one), but as for the contents I somehow always preferred omitting the 'the', whyever it was part of the site name in the first place. ~_~ - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 10:28, 14 October 2007 (BST)
 
 
 
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* At one point I tried to make a 'to do' page, and subsequently Hitomi did (which still [[TODO|exists]] by the way), but they ended up being neglected mostly. As for stat modifiers, the easiest way to figure them out is probably using the available (Japanese) sites. I reckon those would be far more relevant than 'level xxx male human base stats', so from there on it should be easy mostly. If I could get some tips on how to go about implementing a stat gathering/calculation system I'd still totally do it by the way (since certain other sites might be closed down at any time). In any case, good initiative. - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 12:00, 11 October 2007 (BST)
 
* I've kind of been holding off on creating new weapon articles (excluding ''Illuminus''-exclusives) since so much of the data on our current arsenal will be changed next month (or thereabouts).  We could, of course, get a jump on things by gathering the changed stats and storing them on weapon talk pages until the change.  Also, one thing I think should be added to the list is the redesign of the front pageI'll see if I can think of anything else, but for now, I've got to get back to work.  D: - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 19:09, 11 October 2007 (BST)
 
* [http://mewn.psupedia.info/illuminus_images Weapon images here]. Obviously still a lot of weapons I haven't/can't get my hands on. Includes some old S-Ranks such as Skela and Muzzlefever because I wanted pics of them. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 19:53, 11 October 2007 (BST)
 
** Just wow. I'm amazed; quite some of these look simply stunning (Cubo Simba, Okarod, Vambrella, to name a few). Awesome job. :> - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 23:58, 11 October 2007 (BST)
 
** Indeed. Anyway, I'm debating whether we should start adding those images for items, as I think it would be preferable to get an assortment of images from various characters, just for the sake of variety. As for weapon pages, I see no problem in going ahead and making them. The only major thing that will change with AoI is synth percents, and we don't know most of those anyway. But yes, those pics are indeed nice. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 01:37, 12 October 2007 (BST)
 
*** We might as well use them.  I agree on the variety thing, but we can always add new pictures later.  Once I get my new contutor (<_<), I'll ''finally'' be able to start contributing weapon pictures.  Anyway, what I'm getting at is that we can just move some of these pictures to the gallery at the bottom of a page when we start getting new characters using the weapons. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 14:50, 14 October 2007 (BST)
 
 
 
===Category cleanup===
 
After creating and categorizing some random item articles, I realized how overgrown the categories section is.  It needs to be spruced up something fierceI mean, do we really need categories for each star rarity of each weapon, item or material?  Personally, I think the categories should be shrunk down to a much more reasonable size by removing the filler, especially since most have barely been used.  [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 16:44, 11 August 2007 (BST)
 
* At the time I figured a complex hierarchical cross-category system might make up for one of the weaknesses of wikis over regular database systems: providing complex searching functionality. I got kind of frustrated, but eventually came to the conclusion wikis and database systems just have different strengths, that at this point seem to be very hard to combine into one. At the time I liked ideas like the templates that would automatically put items into 'Items containing <Ingredient>' categories or whatever it was, though it seems to be gone now. Eventually I gave up and decided I felt like pages dedicated to a single item would be best left to db systems that could just automatically generate them, but didn't want to force my opinion onto others, and stopped trying to work on developing item database templates (the ones I did make were a terrible mess, and mostly aimed to imitate real databases by converting all raw data into tables and automatically adding any derived values, such as PM feeding bonuses). Now, I feel that way even more strongly, because the times have changed -- PSOW is doing a way better on job on its item database as it used to. Kef finally started helping them out too, and although I'm not quite seeing them adding unicode or multi-lingual support yet, and even though I strongly oppose sorting items that largely fit logical patterns by alphabetic order (currently taken into account for the most part, although for [http://www.pso-world.com/items/psu/1/weapons/ weapons] 'Brand' has yet to be made the tertiary sorting method after weapon types and star rarity), they're doing just about anything else. That's just me though -- I wouldn't have a clue anymore how much people actually use the in-depth item articles over here. Depending on that, yeah, the huge category overload might be obsolete. - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 11:21, 11 October 2007 (BST)
 
 
 
=== Individual Weapon Page Redesign Discussion: Join In! ===
 
Announcing this so more people'll see it: In light of the weapon info template's broken nature, several of us have been proposing redesigns for those pages.<br><br>[[User:Qwerty/Sandbox/Weapon_Page|Querty's is here]], and [[User:F_Gattaca/Sandbox/Weapon_Page_Redesign:_Yasminakov_0002_Example|this is my counterproposal]]. [[User_talk:Qwerty/Sandbox/Weapon_Page|Join the discussion]] and say which one you like better, or how either could be improved! [[User:F Gattaca|F Gattaca]] 14:44, 1 August 2007 (BST)
 
 
 
=== Attention Duelists: New Weapon Page Standard ===
 
 
 
For any intrepid young editors interested in helping out the 'pedia, [[Sandbox:Spears#Minimalist_Table_3_w.2Ficons.26centering|here]] is a link to the new standard for weapon pages. For examples of this new standard in use, see [[Axes]], [[Spears]], [[Swords]]. Thank you, and have a wonderful day. --[[User:Beatrixkiddo|Beatrixkiddo]] 02:43, 29 July 2007 (BST)
 
 
 
=== User pages ===
 
Gonna make it quick. A lot of people have been making user pages for themselves, and not contributing at all to the site. It gets annoying having to sort through all the recent edits when theres a bunch of user page edits in. This isn't directed at anyone really,  but I doubt anyone who does it even checks RFB or recent edits. It's really not that big a deal, moreso a personal irk, but eh, I thought it can't hurt to bring it up -- [[User:Saiffy|Saiffy]] 03:05, 6 August 2007 (BST)
 
* They could always be seperated from the main wiki, much like EspioKaos mentioned about having offline.psupedia, maybe there could be a matchup.psupedia? could work for guilds/teams. Guild wars has started doing this with their wikis and guilds. [http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Category:All_guilds Guild list] & [http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild:A_Group_Of_Small_Girls Guild example] --[[User:JubeiSaotome|JubeiSaotome]] 22:29, 28 December 2007 (CST)
 
 
 
=== Wait a damn minute, here! ===
 
Over the past half year I've taken to working on the article for [[Machineguns]] and the indivdual weapons themselves since they're mostly neglected by other editors here at PSUPedia. At times, I feel like I'm the only one adding and editing to it. Notcing a nicer version of the weapons stats tables in other articles, I blended its style with the information I added to the Machineguns article.
 
 
 
I was told someone had reverted the work I had put into the article recently and found a rather abrasive comment by Beatrixkiddo, who had mostly undid my work. Pardon me, but I have ''not'' seen a Manual of Style on this website nor ''any'' notice here at Raffon about a discussion of such. I looked through here and did a few searches of the site; hell, I even looked at the discussion page for [[Weapons]]. ''Nothing.'' I told him to show me just where his less-detailed version of the table is the official standard and I would concede; Qwerty re-reverted the article with a link to an obscure Sandbox page.
 
 
 
He clams that page contains "the new standard" and that most of my information "was deemed unnecessary," but I can't discern ''any'' sort of concensus or decree in that sandbox page's discussion to say whether or not a standard was authorized! I see a few comments on what design people like best, some suggestions, but that's it.
 
 
 
While I'm annoyed with Beatrix's attitude towards my efforts, I'm not fuming over having my work "stepped on." I fully realize that this is an open encyclopedia and anything added is open to editing. What I'm irritated with is the lack of clarity and visibility pertaining to something that's, apparently, a standard. A standard in which much of the information I had been adding was "unnecessary" and open to removal with accompanying snide remarks. If "standards are there for a reason" I damn well think there should be clearly marked information about it. Even Wikipedia does that!
 
  
Somebody's probably going to say that it's my responsibility to inspect the Recent Changes and that I would have seen the discussion in progress, but I don't prowl the Recent Changes (much less this site) from day to day to know when discussions about style are taking place, much less in poorly marked sandboxes, and I'm sure I'm not the only one! [[User:F Gattaca|F Gattaca]] 20:33, 28 July 2007 (BST)
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=== Dynamic Page Lister Extension? ===
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I recall talking about it before but I now have found exactly how it is done. There's an extension, DPL, which can take data directly from various articles (example: all the shotgun individual pages) and pull everything into a nice table (example: the [[Shotguns]] page). That means only the individual pages need to be updated, everything is pulled from there. That also mean that adding or removing columns becomes easy since all you have to do is say what data to take. I'd like to add it to the wiki. Discuss. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 21:33, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
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* Doo eet!  :>  It sounds very promising and extremely useful.  Any potential negative side effects that you know about, though? - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 00:19, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
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** Not that I know, so it's worth a try. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 09:08, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
  
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=== Main page server status ===
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I had a consideration today about some data to display on the main page.  Commonly we post PF values, but how about modifiers?  It would probably be appropriate to have a box for event rewards/compensation/MAG+/etc. to show the server is in a different state from the norm.  It seems there's even a bit of space left for it too (on the right).  --[[User:S-T-H|S-T-H]] 06:55, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
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* I'm curious about this.  Work up an example of what you mean when you get a chance.  If we need to (it's been mentioned before, anyway) we can cut the news feed down to three posts instead of four to free up a bit more room. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 14:16, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
  
* lolk. What attitude? I said in my comment I hated to step on your feet, but that there was a standard. Obviously you noticed there was a new weapons page style in place (since you used it for the machinegun page). All other pages that I (and others such as Miraglyth) have converted to the new style lack the JP Name, Buy Price, Sell Price, etc, which I removed from your edit. I did not "completely remove" your work. I removed the things you kept that the new standard does not use. I don't "prowl" the Recent Changes either, but all it would have taken on your part was a quick comment on my talk page "Why did you modify my edit?", not a revert of my edit. If you'd like to discuss things civilly, [[User_talk:Beatrixkiddo|the sky's the limit]]. As for Qwerty's revert of your revert; he's a SysOp, and has every right to do so. His comment was not "an obscure sandbox", it was the place of discussion where this new standard was discussed for quite some time. Due to a lack of responses other than me, Mewn, Qwerty, and I think Tycho, Miraglyth decided to forge ahead with his choice for the standard. Feel free to contact me if you have anything else you'd like to ask about. --[[User:Beatrixkiddo|Beatrixkiddo]] 02:40, 29 July 2007 (BST)
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=== Server Migration ===
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Please use this section to list the problems remaining relating to the server migration (or changes that could be applied at the same time).
  
* Hello, Mr. Gattaca. I believe I played with you a few nights ago. At any rate, you are correct in stating that the discussion on the spear sandbox page was far from conclusive, and although it was not noted anywhere (now noted above), the table format currently in use on [[Spears]] and the like was the one that has been chosen, and it is slowly but steadily being implemented. Do not think that we do not value your contributions, as that is certainly not true. However, you must accept that article standards will be changed, and some of your contributions may be altered. Thus is the nature of the beast. It would be great if we could have announcements and such for whenever a standard or template has changed, but the core contributing group of this wiki is but a few individuals, all of whom have other obligations and cannot afford to pour in the time needed to note every template/standard change meticulously. Hell, we can't even find time to change all the weapon type pages to the new template, much less the time needed to make a consistent "Manual of Style". So please, bear with us. If things seem really disorganized and confusing, they probably are. Now, regarding Beatrixkiddo's comment, I do not think he was rude, and I know that he certainly was not intending to seem rude. If you wish to discuss this further, just go ahead and leave me a note on my talk page or something. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 05:46, 30 July 2007 (BST)
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* calc.psupedia.info <strong>needs to put calc.psupedia.info in the DNS? host unknown - someone forward this to kplayer</strong>
**I'm unsure if the two of you are even aware of this statement in my original comment, since you've both seen fit to lecture me about the nature of PSUPedia's open editability/Querty's rights as a sysop, but ''<u>I'm not fuming over having my work "stepped on." I fully realize that this is an open encyclopedia and anything added is open to editing.</u>'' All editing pages have a warning about this! Again, it was the whole lack of clear standards and Beatrixkiddo's attitude concerning them ("standards are there for a reason" when standards aren't actually ''there''--not to mention his "lolk" attitude here) that has me fuming.<br><br>I suppose Beatrixkiddo's providing a link here to the specific table in question on that sandbox is a step forward in the right direction, but I suggest a more permanent solution. It should be possible to create more "The PSUPedia" articles; having a sidebar link pointing to a Manual of Style page with subpages concerning different preferred layouts/tables/terminology would make this much more accessible to everyone.<br><br>On that note; yes, Beatrixkiddo, the Spears sandbox ''was'' obscure and would continue to be had you not linked it here--as far as I can tell your link to it here at Raffon is the only place to find it on this site save Querty's link in the [[Machineguns]] edit history. For starters, it's a ''subpage'' of the main sandbox, and the whole discussion about standards took place there as well. The discussion didn't happen in a more visible area such as, say, the [[Weapons]] discussion page, nor was there any notice/announcement that I can see so that people could voice their opinions about what they personally find useful.<br><br>Just keep in mind; this kind of thing will matter every time SEGA introduces an expansion that has a new subset of weapons. If this kind of thing wasn't brought to light, people like me who aren't "in" on secluded agreements to use a standard will have this problem when they go to make articles on [[Whips]], [[Madoogs]] and [[Shadoogs]]. [[User:F Gattaca|F Gattaca]] 04:30, 31 July 2007 (BST)
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* <s>special pages to re-enable</s>
*** If you have the time to develop a Manual of Style, then be my guest. Unfortunately, I don't have time, and neither do the other regular contributors, who number around <b>five</b> by my count, by the way. Everything you say is true (except the comment on Beatrixkiddo being rude, trust me, he had no intention of seeming snarky). Unfortunately, we're all too busy to deal with it right now. Can you at least appreciate that fact? You just have to appreciate that if any of the regular contributors changes something and references some new standard, we do know what we are talking about, even if it isn't clear immediately. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 04:53, 31 July 2007 (BST)
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* <s>URL rewrite to improve</s>
**** I'm starting on a [[Manual of Style]] right now.  I'm at work right now, however, so I probably won't be able to get much done with it until later.  But, let's all try to make this a priority of ours.  We need to officially document a uniform style and put it into use.  I've seen way too many people elsewhere say that they don't like how unprofessional and sloppy certain articles look here due to a lack of uniformity.  [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 15:34, 31 July 2007 (BST)
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* <s>URL rewrite to accept + and & (if possible) (probably not, it looks complicated and might hang the server...)</s>
**** I agree it should be a priority, I'm not exactly sure what to put in a Manual of Style though, but yeah, the site does need to be consistent. Oh, and Gattaca, you say you're 'fuming' - well, I suggest you calm down a bit. Beatrixkiddo has proven his worth as a contributor, as have you, and he was not attempting to be rude to you. Hot-headedness will only create problems here, so I'd like to see a little less of it on all sides, thanks. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 16:10, 31 July 2007 (BST)
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* <s>References not working in [[Seasonal events]]</s>
***** Believe me, Querty; if I knew how to add special "Wiki:" pages (not to mention adding them to the sidebar), I'd volunteer to take care of it myself. However, I think at least part of that is only doable by admins. EpisoKaos is already starting a Manual of Style page, so I will help get the ball rolling there.<br><br>And Mewn--much of the querulousness I have concerning Beatrixkiddo and the "hidden standard" that resulted in the removal of much of my work stems from his attitude compounded with the wasted time invested in developing the article as I did. I actually spent a few hours clumsily trying to understand the new table format and then modifying it to accept what information already existed in the Machineguns article. I understand that pretty much all of you agree he wasn't rude, though my perspective differs. Perhaps it's just my experience with people on the internet who will use smilies/tongue emotes or some form of "friendly" or "inoffensive" chaff to cover snide/abrasive behavior (PVP Online [http://www.pvponline.com/article/1752/Thu-Sep-18?y= has observed this]) that I've come to expect it. Beatrixkiddo's "lolk" attitude only reinforced my opinion.<br><br>When it comes to anger over wasted time, it's in some ways similar to the animosity people feel on Wikipedia when they toil over an article, striving to make it informative, well written, and adequately sourced ... only to see the article deleted by others. It can be quite discouraging, you know?<br><br>At any rate, I don't want to have this problem again, and I'd rather not see it happen to others. I've already added a preliminary guide on the Manual of Style concerning the weapons table format with some pointers of how it works and what to do. I based the "example and code" table on Wikipedia's own manual of style pages, modified for PSUPedia's preferred table appearance.<br>[[User:F Gattaca|F Gattaca]] 18:55, 31 July 2007 (BST)
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* <s>On the PSP line at the beginning of [http://psupedia.info/index.php?title=Template:Weapon%20stats%20test&action=edit this page], replace <nowiki>{{!}}</nowiki> by <nowiki>|</nowiki></s>
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* <s>Article names with slashes in them lead to a 404 error. (For example, the individual update articles, units like [[Cati / Stamina]], etc.)</s>
  
=== money and mission points info ===
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Feel free to append. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 19:35, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
has any 1 madde a table of the money and misson points onall the diffrent ranke for each mission? please respond <sub>-- The preceeding unsigned comment was added by [[User:Naptownz Elite|Naptownz Elite]].</sub>
 
* Naptownz Elite, please sign your comments and work on your spelling. You are looking for [[Mission Chart]], by the way. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 20:24, 9 July 2007 (BST)
 
  
=== Offline info\Enemy Info ===
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I lost internet connection for awhile, should be back on irc, also congrats on the SysOp :)
Is it really that neccesary to have info on offline weapons/enemies/whatever? Maybe it's just me, but some of the pages look really, really, well, bad with all that crap. And I think it's safe to assume that most, if not all, people use PSUPedia for online info.  
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I'll have it added to DNS later today, I can't login to forums, because of the captcha, if someone with admin access would like to fix that later, would be much appreciated.--[[User:DreamXG|kplayer]] 17:15, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
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* I turned down the difficulty on the CAPTCHA by a considerable amount. I assume that's what you were talking about, yeah? It was set so difficult before because of all those robot registrations, but that problem's taken care of, so a nice simple CAPTCHA should work fine. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 19:25, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
  
Totally unrelated, but I also think the pages for enemies should be reworked so all of them follow the same layout. Show level per mission, exp, HP. If someone can make a layout, I'd gladly add in all the info. Eventually add in drops too, perhaps.
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=== Forum status? ===
Examples:
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Just curious if anyone knows when the forums might be back up?  For the past day or so I've just been getting a blank screen.  D: - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 21:29, 24 August 2008 (CDT)
http://psupedia.info/Gol_Dolva
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* I've let Hitomi know about both this and the fact that newly uploaded images don't seem to be working properly due to a 'disk quota exceeded' error, so hopefully it should be fixed soon. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 04:44, 25 August 2008 (CDT)
http://psupedia.info/Badira
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* There's a bug with at least one of the templates. I get this: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/psupedia/public_html/forum/cache/tpl_prosilver_overall_header.html.php on line 90 [[User:Essen|Essen]] 05:40, 29 August 2008 (CDT)
http://psupedia.info/Goshin
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** Still can't access the forums, is anyone here? If you can't fix the bug can you at least change my theme? I can't login because of this. Thanks. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 16:08, 4 September 2008 (CDT)
They're all pretty different, and some are missing info. [[User:Saiffy|Saiffy]] 22:24, 2 July 2007 (BST)
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*** I've passed it up the ladder since I can't offer any assistance in that department.  Hopefully we'll have something worked out soon. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 18:35, 4 September 2008 (CDT)
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**** Found a temporary fix by forcing the default style for now. Dunno how to edit the themes, or I'd try that. But then, which theme(s) was the culprit anyway? --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 21:36, 4 September 2008 (CDT)
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***** I'd guess its name is prosilver, but can't say for sure. Anyway thanks. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 15:29, 5 September 2008 (CDT)
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====Part 2====
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Anyone else not able to view the forum? When I delete my cookie, I can view it and log back in, but as soon as I'm in, everything loads as a blank page. I think it's another skin error, since the default I see before I log in is...whatever the default one is, but I have the whitish one for my account. Anyway, if someone could log into the admin panel and set it to force the default style, that might work again. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 14:29, 12 December 2008 (CST)
  
* Sign your blasted comments. Also, I've been starting to do this in the weapon articles, see [[Spears]] or [[Wands]] for examples. - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 20:34, 2 July 2007 (BST)
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Loads nothing but blanks for me, even post clearing cookies. As far as I know I'm on the default theme, too, not sure. I never changed themes, anyway. [[User:Raujinn|Raujinn]] 17:16, 12 December 2008 (CST)
* Forgot tildes LOL.
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* I did something about forcing the default style on the admin panel and it seems to have messed up the forum for everyone. My bad, I'll have to get Hitomi to fix it next time I see him (hopefully tomorrow). In the meantime, consider the forum down. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 17:21, 12 December 2008 (CST)
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** Bad mew mew, bad! /flee - [[User:Essen|Essen]] 03:45, 13 December 2008 (CST)
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** Ok, the forum is fixed, I got Tycho to clear the cache and it seems to be back to normal. Sorry for any inconvienience caused by my nubishness. Qwerty, let me know if you still can't log in. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 05:29, 13 December 2008 (CST)
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* For future reference, pretty much any error like this really just means "go delete the cache on the FTP" (or just replace the files it mentions with their .BAK versions that should still be there in the same folder). - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 09:36, 28 March 2009 (CDT)
  
I'll just have to steal that layout and fix up other weapon types then :3 [[User:Saiffy|Saiffy]] 22:24, 2 July 2007 (BST)
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=== Dual enemy drops ===
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You guys may recall the recent discovery of YG-01Z BUG dropping an item that not only didn't match its current drop chart, but also one that is exclusive to ''AOTI'', a strange occurrence for a non-''AOTI''-exclusive enemy.  Well, this made me think back to the Ollakas when there was some confusion about what they're supposed to drop at LV100.  In White Beast they dropped [B] Nokoku-zashi, while in Moonlight Beast they dropped [B] Katsuno-zashi.  I looked further into this and it seems that the division is between ''PSU'' and ''AOTI'' missions; I haven't found a case yet where they get mixed up.  Another example to keep in mind is Volfu.  At LV100 in Scarred Planet they drop [B] Ga-Misaki while at LV100 in The Dual Sentinel they drop [B] Giza-Misaki.  (Note that at LV125, ''AOTI'' Volfus drops [B] Giza-Misaki, which can be noted in The Egg Thieves and Forest of Illusion.)  Pretty soon I'm going to start adjusting drop charts to include these ''AOTI'' drops.  Questions, comments, concerns? - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 16:25, 1 June 2008 (CDT)
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* Looking further into this, it seems that the dual drops always occur at LV100-124.  I haven't come across any instances that do otherwise, but I won't let my guard down just yet.  As far as new drop tables to display these changes, I was working on [[Template:Enemy_drop_chart|something]], but it needs a little rethinking since it's just plain massive as it is now.  I'm actually leaning more toward simply doing two tables, just like with the area articles; one for ''PSU'' drops and the other for ''AOTI'' drops.  And from something else I've noticed, we can likely get away with removing the LV125+ rows from the ''PSU'' table (if we do it this way) since there are no ''PSU''-accessible missions that have enemies within that range (and I seriously doubt we'll ever see such a mission).  One last thing: considering this new type of drop, we may have to rethink our current weapon article drop tables to help differentiate between dual drops.  If nothing else, we should be able to use reference tags to say which is which. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 20:21, 1 June 2008 (CDT)
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** If the difference is only at lv100-124 then do a double row with different drops only for these levels. That's enough for now, isn't it? About the weapons table we can also put an icon showing the version next to the enemy name. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 01:46, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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** There's also Rappys and Jaggos, on psu v1 missions they just drop giga / skill or bullet, on aoi they drop both (giga and cati), right? - [[User:Ezodagrom|Ezodagrom]] 05:52, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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* I completely forgot that the one enemy that drew my attention back toward the possibility of dual drops has one that's below LV100.  YG-01Z BUG's LV80 drop in ''AOTI'' missions differs from its ''PSU'' drop.  But yeah, we could do it where only the rows which have dual drops are split and the others that drop the same item remain together.  I'll probably throw together a few examples a little later so we can get some feedback on different designs.  On the Rappy and Jaggo drops, I looked into it and it seems that they can drop both units from LV100-149 in either ''PSU'' or ''AOTI'' missions, no thing to really worry about there. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 08:28, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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** Hmm...but aren't cati skill and bullet aoti only units? If they are aoti only, then they wouldn't drop in psu missions, right? :/ - [[User:Ezodagrom|Ezodagrom]] 08:35, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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*** Ah, I see we've got them labeled as ''AOTI''-only; we might have to change that.  The data I'm going by is from the Japanese wiki.  Their drop charts for Desert Terror and Plains Overlord list the Cati units dropping from their respective rare enemy while the other ''PSU'' missions list the Giga unit.  Also, I'm fairly certain there was a discussion at PSOW a few months back about this very thing.  I'll have to look for the thread, but I think at least one person was able to provide proof that Cati units drop in ''PSU'' missions. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 08:50, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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*** Here's [http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=139425&highlight=cati+skill the thread I was thinking of at PSOW].  Multiple people (starting with a shop owner) confirm Cati / Bullet PP Save dropping from Jaggos in Duel in the Ruins. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 09:01, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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** Yeah but the seasonal rappies have items that only drops in aoi missions, like van brella and madam brella. So the point is still valid. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 11:09, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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*** ''AOTI''-specific special drops (they were specials, right?).  Easy enough. :) - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 11:53, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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* Here are [[User:EspioKaos/Sandbox4|some examples]] of possible drop chart styles.  I may add some more variations later. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 10:21, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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* Second one looks really nice, Espio. And this sounds like it'll become pretty complicated, having to check not only whether stuff counts as special/level drops but also for what versions they apply. Jeez. D: - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 01:48, 3 June 2008 (CDT)
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** I guess it shouldn't be too too hard to keep up with.  When drops are discovered in-game, just note which version the mission is from and that will tell you to which drop chart the item applies.  We just have to remember that when we create new ''AOTI'' mission articles, all ''PSU'' enemies must have the ''AOTI'' tag in their drop template to pull up the correct items.  I just went through and added this tag to all applicable mission articles (yay for slow days at work, right?) and filled in what I could with new enemy drops.  Unfortunately, we now have a few more question marks in our drop charts than I would like since I haven't been able to confirm some level drops (and I don't want to assume too much).  Though it seems that most enemies have the same drops, a few have changes at even lower levels than encountered before (AMF Heavy Infantry) and some seem to have completely new charts (Bul Buna). - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 13:21, 3 June 2008 (CDT)
  
* Great stuff! Hope you stick around for a while :) - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 01:34, 3 July 2007 (BST)
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=== Forums - a consultation ===
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* This is a controversial topic and I'm by no means for them (nor am I totally against, either), but I feel as though we should explore any avenue that could help the site even if we take no action on it. I can see both pros and cons for forums, the pros being that it might enable people unfamiliar or unwilling to use a wiki to leave feedback, give us information or corrections in a forum environment that they might be more familiar with. It might also let the staff have a place where they can discuss sensitive matters in private (not sure if this can be done on the wiki, but if it can, it might be something to look at). The cons though are that bad forums may reflect badly on the site (might endanger our neutrality too, if we have such a major community element), and that effort has to be expended to moderate any forums which may prove not to be worth it in the end. The last time PSUPedia had forums they became a terrible circlejerk - the main reason why I'm personally skeptical about them. Still, feel free to discuss and debate - this is a consultation, not a vote, and nothing is binding. But if particularly compelling arguments are made and enough support to make it worthwhile comes up, it may be possible to trial forums as an experiment. At this stage though, this is just a discussion and nothing is planned. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 16:00, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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** I think it's good if it's used to talk about facts (not opinions), submit information, talk about the various projects and make polls. Other talks belong to another forum. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 16:38, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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** This is a touchy subject. While the ancient PSUP forum was indeed a massive circlejerk, very unique circumstances brought that about (very few people used PSUP at that time, we had very little information about PSU since virtually nothing specific was known, and only like 5 people used the forum anyway). I highly doubt that a new forum would have even remotely similar results. However, I am somewhat skeptical, as I do not quite see the need for forums here. For information submission or questions, people can simply use the talk page. I do understand that many people are confused by the wiki system, but I just don't know how much of a help the forums would be. For things other than info submission and article questions, I'm not quite sure what else would be discussed that isn't also covered on the official forum, PSOW, or hell, even Diadu. It would facilitate communication between staff members here, yes, and that is probably one of the biggest positives a forum could have. As far as the community aspect, I feel it would likely be a double-edged sword. While I'm sure having forums would give a more community feel and get (potential) users more enthusiastic about PSUPedia, it is unavoidable that certain individuals would think poorly of either the general forum content or the moderation, and therefore it would leave a bad taste in their collective mouths regarding PSUPedia in general (I know some feel this way concerning PSOW). Anyway, I'm willing to hear more discussion on this topic, and I'd be open to trying forums if users seem to want them. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 17:01, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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** I remember the mess that was the forums here a few years back.  After a few visits, I made sure to steer clear of them from then on.  But, I think it's worth a try again since the site has improved remarkably over the years.  Maintaining community neutrality is a must, but with the moderation we've carried out on the wiki, I doubt it'd be much of a problem to continue at a forum.  If we can set up and stick to guidelines that state "information only" and "no trades, no guilds, no console wars, no drama, no shit," things could work out.  On the other hand, strict moderation tends to piss people off or simply scare them away.  The bad side of this could be giving the site a bad name with the people who want to use it to sell Meseta or their rarz or recruit guild members.  Conversely, in the case of strict moderation scaring people away, it would lead to a smaller community of only the people who genuinely want to use the board for its intended purpose.  All in all, I think it's worth a shot.  If we decide to try it and things start going down the drain, we just pull the plug. ;) - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 17:43, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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** @ Essen - that would be mostly the point, for discussion of objective info that will help the wiki as a site, and to encourage people to participate. The community niches are taken up by the official boards and PSOW, while Diadu has the drama niche, so I'd like to see if we can do something different.
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** @ Qwerty - It's true that unique circumstances, not least the immaturity of Ahzi, Asim and Internets brought that about, but I think the danger remains of it potentially not being popular enough to be worth it. As for people thinking badly of the site because of the forums, I think that's a danger, yes, but I'm not sure that anyone who currently contributes right now will be turned off helping the site because of forums, especially if we can run them well. If people who have never contributed before do not use the site as a result of the forums, that is really not an issue for me - in my view we ought to be considering how to improve the site as a whole, not necessarily to see how many people we can get using us without contributing (whether by editing the wiki or submitting info via other means). In short, if we get, say, 10 new regular contributors helping out via forums (or even on here) and 5 people decide to not use the site because of the forums, I still think that may be worth it.
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** @ Espio - The biggest problem with setting up forums is to establish a balance between helping the site and establishing a community that can help the site. I think that if the only thing we ever concentrate on is site information, no-one outside the wiki contributors will probably bother with forums. But at the same time, too much community stuff might bring in people, but would possibly make us partisan. I've no interest in this site being rivals with anyone, and I don't want 'official board sux' or 'posw sux' mentalities running through anyone who posts on PSUP (of course, people can hold private opinions, I just don't want PSUP being a staging ground for closed-minded attacks). With that in mind, should we trial forums, I would want to start with 3 public forums: 'General PSU discussion' for discussion of the game, 'PSUP discussion' for discussion about projects, corrections, help on the site etc. and 'Off-topic discussion' just to give other people something to talk about. That's all I can see us needing, at least at the start. I don't like the idea of trade forums and anything remotely like Player Matchup forums will open a guilded can of worms. I suppose the general thing we should be aiming for is 'Come for the talk, stay for the site.' As for moderation, a degree of strictness is required, so yeah, no console wars, no drama bullshit, limited flaming/trolling at the very most, and maybe a pointer that if people want to flame and troll the official boards and Diadu are far better for that. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 07:16, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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*** I'm assuming there probably isn't going to be many more replies, with only the regulars checking this area for stuff other people brought up. As for the image thing I believe this will only cripple the immature that somehow end up being banned. Jokes I'm fine with personally, and I believe other people here have trolled ridiculous topics elsewhere before too. Active moderation I don't really feel up to myself, but I feel like modding attitudes would be a more important issue. Either way, circumstances have indeed changed since back then. Would it be worth it? A trial period (although that probably means little more than "we're starting it but might or might not dump it again") most certainly would seem to be, since there isn't much to lose. Other than time, and personal stains of creating another potential failure (or to be arrogant and blind enough to have believed in it for that matter). I think I voted against this ages ago when the discussion came up at one point shortly after the original forums, but I don't mind anymore per se. - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 14:07, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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*** OK then add a section specifically for data submission (for easier use) and make sure you can subscribe to an RSS on each sections separately. If there's all that I don't see why not try. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 15:28, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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* Ok then, since the general feeling is that we should at least try, what steps do we need to take now to set up a "trial"? I presume we will need Dream_XG's help on this, no? If for nothing else, then at least to set up a subdomain (e.g. forums.psupedia.info; I fear that failing to place it in a subdomain could cause some nasty wiki-URL side effects). When it comes to forum software, it seems to me that phpBB3 would be the obvious choice, considering it's free and other comparable packages are ridiculously priced. However, I'm open to hearing other suggestions. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 16:18, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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** I'll speak to DreamXG, since I imagine he's an expert (there are forums on some of his other projects that I assume he set up). I'm not technically very good at setting up forums, although I should be fine with an administrator control panel once all the groundwork has been done. A subdomain will probably be a good idea. I noticed that the other projects use vBulletin for their forums, so I'll see what he thinks. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 16:48, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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*** Ah, I see. What other projects do you mean, though? I can't seem to find any of them linked on tsukimono.net. Anyway, I'm most familiar with phpBB, and I've dabbled in Invision Free, but I reckon vBulletin would be simple enough to figure out, if that's what we will use. I didn't really consider it or Invision since both seem ostentatiously priced, but if DreamXG already has a license, then I guess it could work, though I personally prefer the more simplistic look of phpBB. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 16:59, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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*** http://fantatennis.org/forums/ (don't mind the rather bad colour scheme) - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 17:04, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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*** You might also want to take a look at [http://getvanilla.com/ this one]. It is a very different concept than most forums but, having used it mostly for work-related stuff, I find it very useful. Especially if you don't have that many sections. Otherwise I'm more for a sucky phpbb3 than a bloated vbulletin. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 17:45, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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**** Eh, that looks ok, and I guess it could work. However, part of our reasoning for a forum would be for the community aspects, and I think this would be better achieved with a more traditional forum. I agree that vB is bloated, and that's really why I'd prefer phpBB3. I mean, vB is fine for PSOW's new forum system, but I don't think anything as fancy as that would fit with PSUPedia. Also, I did a little looking into it, and it seems that there are much fewer freely available styles for vB, compared to phpBB. Anyway, just my two cents. (In case it isn't obvious yet, I like phpBB. :>) --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 18:02, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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* Regardless of which forum software we pick, it may be worthwhile looking into a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PHPBB/Users_Integration user integration plugin]. I'm actually ambivalent about this, since I don't think it would be particularly necessary, but I just wanted throw it out so you know it's available. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 18:23, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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** Right, so for forum choices we seem to have Vanilla, phpBB3 and vBulletin. I agree with Qwerty that a more traditional forum might be better but Vanilla would work in a pinch. As for a user integration plugin, sounds like an unnecessary hassle and it has the potential to be more trouble than it's worth, especially if we're only trialing forums. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 18:42, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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* I have nothing against 2ch, but Vanilla isn't very appealing visually. Essen, could you elaborate on your criticism against phpBB3? Cause otherwise this seems like a pretty clear-cut case to me. - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 10:37, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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: Edit: What about [http://www.forummatrix.org/compare/MyBB+phpBB MyBB]? - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 11:25, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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** The vanilla forum after the first installation is what it is: vanilla. Then you can install [http://lussumo.com/addons/ addons]. There's addons for adding functionality or for changing the look of the forums. Or you can make your own look, the CSS isn't complicated. When you install an adddon, you just have to unzip the files in the correct folder. Then you activate the addon in the admin panel. Updating the forum is done entirely via the admin panel, vanilla itself is gonna ask you to check updates and will download and install everything.
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** The difference with traditional western forums software is the organization. In other forums you have categories and posts in these categories. In vanilla you tag your post and then everyone can filter the posts like they want. This is the sort of nice things you can do with vanilla: get everything except off-topic on my index page for example. Not having to enter a section, go read the posts, go out the section, go in another section, repeat. Less clics with vanilla since you have all posts by default.
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** You can probably make a media-wiki style without much trouble either since vanilla is very simple by default.
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** Anyway if it's not vanilla I'm for phpbb but be ready for updating it every month because of all the security problems. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 15:16, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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** Vanilla seems like an interesting concept, but from a purely subjective point of view I have to say I prefer the idea of having seperate subforums than tagging posts. I like to go into an individual subforum and know that the majority of what I see will be about that particular topic - it's what I'm used to, after all. Also, from a non-personal point of view, this alternative system seems a little too avant-garde, I think people in general might prefer something more traditional. I think myBB might not be bad, but realistically I am not an expert on different forum software so I will leave that up to others. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 15:38, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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* Just throwing my opinion in on this.  I'll be good with whatever is selected.  I've used phpBB, vB, Invision and others, so I've adapted to pretty much everything.  As far as setup goes, couldn't help there since I've never tried; but as a member, I'd know my way around. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 12:01, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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* I agree with Mewn; I'm sure Vanilla would be fun to use for a different sort of experience, but I have serious doubts about it's usefulness in achieving our desired ends. Concerning myBB, that summary makes it look like it is almost exactly like phpBB, but (I reckon) probably with much fewer extensions, plug-ins, and styles. I just don't see any real reason to use it over phpBB. Anyway, just my two cents. In other news, I looked into the setup for phpBB, and it looks very straightforward, only requiring FTP of the software to the server, and subsequent installation through a built-in wizard you run in your browser. Assuming whichever package we pick is just as easy (phpBB is one of the easier to install according to some reviews I read), I reckon we may only need DreamXG to set up the subdomain, and then we can handle the rest on our own. Probably. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 18:56, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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* Well, I think DreamXG is talking to Tycho - I didn't count on the fact that, after all this time, he is still unwilling to talk to me. But no matter, so long as his help is secured it's no big deal. I think that if we go with phpBB we will need to install a plugin for RSS feeds - that way we can have a subforum dedicated solely to data submissions as Essen requested. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 19:11, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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** Just posting [http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=544331 a link to such a plugin] for future reference. It seems to be capable of exactly what we want, generating RSS or ATOM feeds for either selected forum sections, topics, posts, PMs, or the entire forum. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 20:06, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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* 'Looks easy/hard to install'? I've already prepared all three, and only still need to do the configuration/add-on stuff, so I'm basically waiting for a decision. XP - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 19:54, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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** Well, I can only speak for myself, but it looks to me like phpBB would be a good compromise, since no one seems to have any major objections to it. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 20:06, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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* Actually phpBB3 appears to have [http://www.phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php?i=browse&mode=group:phpbb&sub=3 100+] mods, MyBB [http://mods.mybboard.net/mods 200+]. Looking for styles for phpBB3 on their own site [http://www.phpbb.com/styles/db/index.php?i=browse&mode=group:phpbb&sub=3 sucks] (even if you try to search [http://www.phpbb.com/styles/db/index.php?i=browse&mode=popular&sub=rating differently]), but they [http://www.google.com/search?q=phpbb3+styles are around] anyway. Why doesn't have phpBB3 that many? Because it's not phpBB2, which is like 15 times as old. Skins for MyBB are [http://mods.mybboard.net/themes easier] to get, although they don't seem to be easy to find elsewhere (I love [http://www.mybbstyles.com/index.php this one], but can't find the source). Also, the MyBB site [http://mods.mybboard.net/uploads/previews/3803-1188579853-Myportal.png sucks] for getting an idea of what the skins look like. So I dunno, it's not like only one of the two has third-party support or anything. - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 20:35, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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** I see, I figured that phpBB would be more known and therefore more supported, but it was just an assumption. Anyway, [http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/ this page] is a nice place to preview styles for phpBB3. Personally, I think [http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/Serenity Serenity] has a nice, minimalistic appearance and would generally mesh with the site as a whole in terms of colors. Other ones I liked are [http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/AeroBlue AeroBlue] (although possibly to dark), [http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/Milky+Way Milky Way] (except the orange, but we can change that), and even the default alternate theme, [http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/subsilver2 subsilver2]. Serenity, Milky Way, and subsilver2 (and a few others) can be recolorized via [http://beta.colorizeit.com/ this handy tool] that even generates all the necessary files for you. anyway, just something to think about --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 21:01, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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* [http://psupedia.info/phpBB3/ phpBB], [http://psupedia.info/MyBB/ MyBB]. Gonna try and look for all desirable mods to allow for a real comparison. (Sorry, don't intend to push this, just thinking that both are to be considered.) - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 22:12, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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** You also may wana check out SMF. also a PHP based forum that i have had great luck with. strong feature set and extreamly configurable yet very simplistic configuration and visuals if wanted. i have setup 3-4 forums using it for random cases. low overhead  and low maintanace. [[User:Tigerbyte|Tigerbyte]] 23:45, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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*** I looked at it briefly, but much like myBB, I just didn't see anything significantly different from phpBB, with which I'm just more familiar and comfortable. Even when it comes to silly things, like the links at the bottom of a topic: I'd rather have phpBB's "return to X forum" than myBB's "previous/next thread" links. :\ I dunno, just seems to me like phpBB would be the most common and therefore familiar package for our potential users, compared to less familiar things that, in my eyes, don't seem to offer any particular advantages. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 23:57, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
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**** I yield, phpBB looks less bloated. - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 01:38, 28 May 2008 (CDT)
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: Edit: Oh, I can do this stuff. [http://forum.psupedia.info/ New URL].
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: Another Edit: Okay, I'm tired of playing around with this; since this is still a temp phase, if anyone else wants to check out the options (I already tried everything, attempted to make a few mods and added some skins), go ahead. User: admin, pass: admintest. No vandalizing jokes please, thanks. XP - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 03:43, 28 May 2008 (CDT)
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** You do realize that the forums (for me at least) have been broken all day, right? Lots of parser and syntax PHP errors. - [[User:Sekani|Sekani]] 19:56, 29 May 2008 (CDT)
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*** I had some issues when trying to view topics with the phpBB default theme (prosilver), but all the other ones seem to be working fine, and I've been mucking around in the admin CP for a good hour or so without issue. Are you even able to register? --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 20:56, 29 May 2008 (CDT)
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*** We're aware there's some problems, yeah. I don't know how to sort them out so maybe Tycho can. I dunno. Might be the RSS plugin we installed. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 03:33, 30 May 2008 (CDT)
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**** Yeah, I'm fairly certain it's the plugin. I'd look into it, but I'm very strapped for time this week. :\ --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 07:28, 30 May 2008 (CDT)
  
*I think it's a good thing that it has offline info - I can't play online and use PSUPedia a lot.Granted, it's lack of info about offline drops annoys me, but.. eh. I think I will try and correct that on my next playthrough (I plan to slow down then) [[User:Tokorona|Tokorona]] 02:50, 6 July 2007 (BST)
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* Sorry I haven’t been able to contribute to this discussion until now.
  
*I agree with Tokorona, the offline info is necessary for people like me who prefer to try out various gaming strategies in the Extra mode, where meseta is plentiful and level-ups come quickly. [[User:Trooper1023|Trooper1023]] 05:27, 25 July 2007 (BST)
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And Mewn darling, you haven’t changed one bit, I don’t know where you get these hostile thoughts from, Tycho was already in touch with me, with my connection that currently runs off a cell phone with lower speeds than 33.6k dial-up. Tried to make edits to the wiki before, but you can imagine the time-outs I was receiving.
  
=== Question on Style ===
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So! I haven’t had much luck with time lately. I would have thought PSOW, and the official boards would have been enough of a discussion place, and agree it will affect the neutrality of the wiki, but a test can’t hurt I guess.
I was discussing with someone about some edits to a certain article. I was told that my edits required dumbing down because my use of speech was far too elaborate.  It kind of caught me off guard, but it now strikes me as a more sweeping issue then something limited to a singular article.  So, I am going to pose the question here.  Is my use of speech far too elaborate to be used in these articles of PSUpedia?  Or shall I try to stick to a more simplistic array of words?  It is not like I am intentionally trying to pull fancy words out of my rear, I just normally write like this, I blame my father.  In either case, I'm going to leave the question of style here, how elaborate is too elaborate? --[[User:Ccelizic|Ccelizic]] 20:05, 13 June 2007 (BST)
 
* I have a somewhat similarly elaborate style of writing too, which is natural for me. I'd say it doesn't really matter, so long as you are getting the message across. People don't necessarily have to write like you to understand what you write, so I see no need to dumb down. I'd just make a general point, not aimed at anyone in particular, to avoid obvious things such as slang, internet terms or phrases (even popular ones), irrelevant and/or esoteric jargon, and words which will likely confuse people or send them scuttering to dictionary.com. I suppose also it's worth noting that this is supposed to be a resource for any and all players (even Japanese ones, if we ever trump their sites), and obviously not everyone has such a good grasp of English as native speakers do. [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 02:32, 14 June 2007 (BST)
 
* What Mewn said. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 03:30, 14 June 2007 (BST)
 
*It would also be a good point that not everyone that uses this site is on the same education level. Gamers of all ages use this site so some reservation on using large words need to be taken. Remember a twenty-seven year old English major can write using words that a twelve year old middle school student wouldn't even know where to begin translating into understandable, useful language. Don’t consider this to be dumbing down as much as it is making anything you write understandable to a wide audience. [[User:Lillostxsoul|LillostXSoul]] 04:47, July 23, 2007 (CST)
 
  
=== Project:Copyrights ===
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I highly recommend you re-consider however, if the forums are for the purposes you describe before, you can go with smaller forum packages out there, and ones which have decent mediawiki integration plug-ins, it’s better to decide it now, than later, because some changes made to the db can’t be reversed nicely nor easily. (Gogo Backups of course). http://bbpress.org is an example of something really light, plug-ins and mods aren’t hard to create for it, styles can also be created, and integration can be easily achieved.
Look at that block of text below your editor window.  It goes on saying how this is released under the GNU Free Documentation Liscense 1.2.  And then, as you can see it directs the user to look at [[Project:Copyrights]] for more information.  Now, that link spits over to something nonexisitant.  Is that intentional?  Do we need someone to get that legal information in there?  Did ninja kidnap it?  Or is that some link that needs to be removed from the editor page?  Maybe I'm obssessing over something asinine, but it seemed to strike me as something worth bringing up. --[[User:Ccelizic|Ccelizic]] 06:39, 13 June 2007 (BST)
 
* It's something the wiki system kinda automatically generates whether or not people are going to use it, IIRC. Looks like Hitomi is the last one that changed it, and a quick search for 'tsukimono' reveals that it probably isn't going to be editable from the wiki itself. I'd get to the file and change it, but then again, I just never bothered to find out what file/directory it's in anyway. >_> - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 10:35, 11 October 2007 (BST)
 
  
=== Massive edits ===
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As for the syntax errors whoever edited the template
To those who edit/add to this site, can I ask you to PLEASE use the preview button? It's not that far away from the submit button. It lowers the ammount of posts listed in the Recent Changes page. It just gets in the way and makes it harder to keep track of what's been updated. Thank you for reading this.[[User:Rydia|Rydia]] 08:17, 30 March 2007 (BST)
 
* Not to mock you, but while this is a talk page, the "Raffon Field Base" project means to leave comments in the article itself! - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 17:37, 30 March 2007 (BST)
 
** Oops ^_^'' My appologies. Wasn't totaly sure where I was supposed to place this.[[User:Rydia|Rydia]] 18:27, 30 March 2007 (BST)
 
** I'll take the liberty of moving it. For the record: I agree with you, 2 or maybe even 3 edits to correct mistakes made is acceptable... but when you start seeing six or more consecutive edits on the same article, it starts to seem like a piss-take. I would urge people to use the Preview function, and better yet, to check and double check what they have put. [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 20:07, 30 March 2007 (BST)
 
** Even failing that, the least people could do would be to use the "Summary" box to detail the cause of so many edits. - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 04:05, 31 March 2007 (BST)
 
** Well, people don't seem to have taken much notice of this, and the same sections of articles are repeatedly being edited over a small period of time by the same person. Is there anything anyone can think of to stop this, without being ridiculously harsh? [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 21:14, 1 April 2007 (BST)
 
** Is it possible to put a timer on how quickly a single account can edit one page? If you could put this on then people would be forced to either use the preview effectively or wait an incredibly long time to complete a page, I'm not sure on the limitations of this Wiki, so it's just an idea. [[User:Wormania|Wormania]] 23:55, 1 April 2007 (BST)
 
  
=== Planet Maps ===
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'''Located at:''' forum/cache/tpl_prosilver_viewtopic_body.html.php
Can someone get/compile a map of the planets, with locations? The small cut of the maps on the mission screen, is not really helpful for an overview. <sub>- The preceeding unsigned comment was added by [[User:Mixilli|Mixilli]].</sub>
 
* Before I lost the net I was working on some maps. I made only 1 map so far, Linear Line "A" path(I call it A, not the A from Rare Monster's Page). Maybe I sould do that again. It was a challange, but fun. [[User:Rydia|Rydia]] 04:58, 31 March 2007 (BST)
 
** I thought Mixilli meant the planets themselves, with "the mission screen" being referred to as the overhead "map" screen you get when at the mission counters. - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 05:12, 31 March 2007 (BST)
 
*** Huh. beats me really. hough I wouldn't mind maping as much of he game as I can and is needed of me. Maybe I could do "box" locaions better then my original map. [[User:Rydia|Rydia]] 07:33, 31 March 2007 (BST)
 
** I've been maintaining a map of all the missions for each planet, just for my own use. It shows how they link up, and what level enemies there are. I could make an image of these if that would be helpful. [[User:Pob|Pob]] 11:08, 4 April 2007 (BST)
 
* Quite late, but here you are; [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v406/Tycho01/PSU/parum_map.jpg Parum], [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v406/Tycho01/PSU/neudaiz_map.jpg Neudaiz], [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v406/Tycho01/PSU/moatoob_map.jpg Moatoob]; stolen straight from PSU-Wiki's image board (originals [http://www.psu-wiki.info/upbbs/lib/printimage.php?id=00002777.jpeg]~9.jpeg; ugly filled-up versions I can't seem to get to Photobucket [http://www.psu-wiki.info/upbbs/lib/printimage.php?id=00002785.jpeg]~7.jpeg). Sorry, no Colony one. :< - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 10:59, 11 October 2007 (BST)
 
  
=== Rappy Paska ===
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'''I’ve changed:''' [ <a href="{postrow.U_POSTS_VIEWTOPIC}">{L_POSTS_VIEWTOPIC}</a> ]
* Isn't easter rappies called Rappy Baska not Rappy Paska? i changed it to baska but sum1 changed it to Paska. <sub> - The preceeding unsigned comment was added by [[User:Wild Goose|Wild Goose]].</sub>
 
** In-game they are called Rappy Paska. Yes, this does mean that the English website preview is wrong. - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 03:09, 25 March 2007 (BST)
 
*** Most likely a mistranslation on SoA's part. Rappy Paska in katakana is ラッピー・パスカ (''Rappii Pasuka'') whereas Baska would be バスカ. Kinda easy to mistranslate the first kana due to the similar symbols. Paska is correct, however, as it probably refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paska_%28bread%29 Paska bread]. [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 12:27, 25 March 2007 (BST)
 
**** Interesting, I always figured it was a bastardization of the word "paschal," but I guess the bread makes sense too. SoA was probably thinking Baska as in Easter Basket. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 17:30, 25 March 2007 (BST)
 
***** Could be. I guess they were trying to americanize it? but yea easter basket= Baska.--[[User:Wild Goose|Wild Goose]] 19:56, 25 March 2007 (BST)
 
****** lol, multi-lingualism. Actually I think the chance SoJ knows about Ukranian easter bread is pretty slim. Check [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Easter this]; half of the article names in other languages it refers to are similar to this. Really, the English term is the odd one out. - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 18:01, 27 March 2007 (BST)
 
*******it really is an odd one. it is basically the only one that does not sound like the hebrew wording. i guess we hav to be unique :)--[[User:Wild Goose|Wild Goose]] 21:42, 27 March 2007 (BST)
 
****** Heh, I didn't notice that, Tych. Admittedly, I only know Easter in three languages (English, French - Pâques, and German - Ostern) and thought the whole Paska thing too much the same to be mere coincidence. A shame if it was just a reference to Pascha or whatever, at least a reference to Ukranian bread would be far more interesting than just 'hay guyz we bastardized Easter in a foreign language lol'. [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 01:19, 28 March 2007 (BST)
 
  
===New item container===
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'''To:'''  [ ‘L_POSTS_VIEWTOPIC’ ]
[[Image:newitembox.jpg|thumb|200px|right|New Item Box]]
 
  
* I found this on easter peril i have some pics of it. the wierd part was its on the ceiling. i dont know if it has any better droprate than normal. [[User:Loki|Loki]] 16:11, 14 April 2007 (CST)
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** Not sure if they have any particular higher droprate. I've heard they can drop Something Sweet but I don't really know, maybe someone else here knows more than me. [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 23:25, 14 April 2007 (BST)
 
*** That has been known about since the day Eastern Peril came out. They just seem to have a slightly different drop list than the other containers, often dropping Something Sweet, buff items, and Scape Dolls. They also drop assorted berries. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 03:43, 15 April 2007 (BST)
 
* Yeah, unfortunately, different kinds of containers do have different drops, but the PSU guide book thing never elaborated on this much. D: - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 10:24, 11 October 2007 (BST)
 
  
===Main page linking===
 
I understand the use of the search box, but i do feel that the site could use some bettermain page linking to other pages. For example AoI is in hot discussion right now, but there is no way to get there unless you do a search or go to categories. Im not trying to put this job off on anyone else, but im not very good with wiki editing and parts or the main page are restricted to normal users. Tell me what you think. And on a side note, what happened to the pick of the day idea, or even pick of the week, that would be cool. [[User:Loki|Loki]] 21:41, 17 April 2007 (CST)
 
* I think I was the only person who's really been pushing for additions of this nature - for example, I've done a small amount of fiddling with [[User:Miraglyth/Sandbox#Test_Navigation|a possible new Navigation section]]. The trouble IMO is that almost nobody else seems to care. For similar reasons our Photon Fortune situation is awful, our Rare Monsters tables are still inconsistent and ugleh despite [[User:Miraglyth/Sandbox#Rare_Spawn_Mockup|work to]] [[User:Qwerty/Sandbox|improve it]] and the "new logos" work has amounted to nothing. - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 18:56, 18 April 2007 (BST)
 
** I see the work you do around here, and I for one really apreciate it. I not entirely wiki knowlegable, in fact this is the first one ive worked on, but an online game of this nature can not have its guides created by a single person. It is way to massive, and there is way to much data to be compiled to rest on the shoulders of one. Im trying my best here and if there is anything you want help with im game. The PSU community needs to help each other out. [[User:Loki|Loki]] 15:38, 18 April 2007 (CST)
 
** I really do like [[User:Miraglyth/Sandbox#Rare_Spawn_Mockup|your work]] on Rare Monsters tables better than the current one. What refrain you from adding it? (Beside the hard work). Also, that would be better with links to monsters pages. The really good thing with yours is that everything fit on the screen. Anyway if you need help adding this design, please ask. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 15:54, 25 April 2007 (BST)
 
*** It's that nobody else in the discussion pages for Qwerty or myself have lent any support or criticism. There's no point mass-implementing something of this scale only to have people '''then''' turn around and say "Oh no let's go back to the old one." so I'm stuck doing nothing until people - regulars and sysops - actually say something ¬_¬ - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 23:48, 25 April 2007 (BST)
 
*** I believe I [[User Talk:Miraglyth/Sandbox|lent my support for it]]... [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 09:04, 26 April 2007 (BST)
 
* I agree that we need a better sort of "site-map" or directory of some sort, or at least we need to reorganize which links are in the main menu, because otherwise entire articles can get overlooked (sort of like the two I worked out today, there's no real good place from which to link them in the current setup). While I am not terribly familiar with the functioning of categories, templates, or table coding, I can try to work on something now that schoolwork is finally letting up. I'd also like to see us reorganize the [[Rare Monsters]] page to make it fit with the template Miraglyth has worked out. These are all things I've wanted to do for a while, but thus far I've been too preoccupied with shoolwork and pestering Mira on the forums to work them out. Hopefully we can make some headway on this stuff in the coming weeks. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]]
 
** Just another comment: I think expandable/collapsible menus might help a lot with organizing things, either in the sidebar or on the main page. However, it seems that can only be done with javascript, and I sure as hell don't know any java, nor do I even know if it would work in the wiki context. Either way, it's something to consider. I may also try to draw up a rough sitemap later tonight if I have time. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 19:10, 9 May 2007 (BST)
 
*** Me yet again. I found some [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree wiki extension] that allows for the creation of collapsible menus and such. I'm assuming Tycho or HitmonCHAN would have to install this then, yes? It does seem like something that would be very helpful for organizing menus in a compact fashion, allowing the linking to many articles from the main page. Thoughts? --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 22:06, 9 May 2007 (BST)
 
*** That extension sounds good, but Tych currently doesn't have FTP access and I don't expect Hitomi to bother with this site, as he works on PSUTopia now. Once it is installed I'll play around with it and see what I can come up with. [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 14:36, 10 May 2007 (BST)
 
*** [[Special:Version|Here]] you go. One CategoryTree extension, yo. - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 18:30, 10 May 2007 (BST)
 
**** Doesn't look like this is necessarily what is needed as it is an automated tree generator.  The only way this will work is with a lot of clean up of associated categories.  At that point it would work (possibly quite nicely), but everyone would need to be very vigilant about keeping their entries properly maintained or they would never make it into the tree.  --[[User:JustTrio|JustTrio]] 15:45, 2 August 2007 (BST)
 
**** BTW, was AJAX enabled ($wgUseAjax = true;)?  Clicking the + doesn't do anything other than say "loading"  -- In any case, a lot of work will be needed to make this work in a useful manner, given that there would be multiple paths all leading back to the same thing.  Weapons has Rifles underneath it along with Two Handed Weapons -> Rifles and Ranged Weapons -> Rifles. --[[User:JustTrio|JustTrio]] 16:04, 2 August 2007 (BST)
 
**** I guess this is no longer being looked at.  I have to guess that AJAX wasn't enabled based on the things I'm seeing when using the CategoryTree extension. --[[User:JustTrio|JustTrio]] 16:48, 15 August 2007 (BST)
 
*****This would be very useful, especially if we're planning on cleaning up the categories anyway.  So, who might be able to enable AJAX to get these working proper?  [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 16:54, 15 August 2007 (BST)
 
****** Tycho and Hitomichan are the only ones who can do it. Tycho is allegedly in Mexico, and Hitmonchan...yeah. Uh, anyway, I'm actually now thinking list pages might be better than this, simply because they would be easier to implement. And no, we haven't forgotten about this, we're simply too busy with other things at the moment. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 19:10, 15 August 2007 (BST)
 
****** Monthly checkin on the AJAX question :) Category cleanup + CategoryTree might be a good thing... Is anyone back from the wild? --[[User:JustTrio|JustTrio]] 14:34, 21 September 2007 (BST)
 
******* I'd suggest leaving a note for Tycho on his user page, since he and Hitmonchan are the only ones with FTP access. I personally have no idea how to fix that stuff. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 05:02, 22 September 2007 (BST)
 
******** Some others - self included - do, but I don't think it's to the level of being able to add stuff like that. - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 21:04, 10 October 2007 (BST)
 
********* Yet I don't? DDDD: --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 21:08, 10 October 2007 (BST)
 
* Not going to count asterisks, but in any case, your interface proposals are awesome, Mira. I tried giving the Main Page a bit of an overhaul (at least swapping navigation and the introduction around), but whenever I did the code just seemed to mess up big. As for Ajax, I just checked the FTP, and actually it was included at the same time as the CategoreeTree extension, so I have no clue what went wrong. Currently, the part in question is as follows (omitting breaklines and surrounded by quotes): "require_once("$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php" ); $wgUseAjax = true; require_once('extensions/CategoryTree/CategoryTree.php' ); $wgCategoryTreeOmitNamespace = true;". The two wiki extensions it seems to have installed [http://psupedia.info/Special:Version properly], and the Ajax line was just a c-p as well, so then I have no clue what went wrong, unless they were supposed to be in completely different places in the files. In any case, I'll apologize for the delay -- I actually wasn't aware of this issue until now either. Anyway, looks like the new staff is going to need the FTP details as well. - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 11:39, 11 October 2007 (BST)
 
  
===monsters have 2 pages each===
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That’s a temp fix for whatever you were trying to do, please try to make backups before making changes! I’ve noticed the wiki slow down a bit after phpBB was installed, I try and take a look into it, after work, when and if I find some time. --[[User:DreamXG|dreamXG]] 08:15, 30 May 2008 (CDT)
*There is a double page for monster data one at http://www.psupedia.info/index.php?title=Monsters and one at http://psupedia.info/index.php?title=Category:Monsters. These links should for each monster should all link tothe same monster page. [[User:Loki|Loki]] 16:04, 17 April 2007 (CST)
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* Ah, good, Hitomi, you're here. Thanks for your help with the forums, but would you please elaborate on the one opinion I know you have that you haven't deigned to share with us, please? I'm referring, of course, to this: 'and I def dont think it should be the same power system as irc.' I'm sure there's an innocent explanation, and that my 'hostile thoughts' are just playing up again, but I'd like an answer. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 09:06, 30 May 2008 (CDT)
* [[:Category:Monsters]] is an auto-generated page created by placing individual articles into the Monster category, hence it just serves as a listing of all the monster articles in the game. The purpose for this is different than the standard Monsters page, which to me would seem rather data-heavy when I just wanted to look through the Monsters category. In addition, there are further subcategories (Colony Monsters, S-Rank Monsters, Rare Monsters etc.) that would be pointless if the Category was made to redirect to the [[Monsters]] article. I don't like the idea of making them the same article anyway - the whole purpose of the Category: articles is merely to provide perhaps a bit of text and a listing of the articles within that category and little else. My $0.02. [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 23:10, 18 April 2007 (BST)
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* No prob, also the wiki might grind a little bit later tonight, I think I have identified what is slowing it down but need to lock the database to look into it. Mewn, no need to use the word innocent, as nothing has been said/done wrong from what I see. Just because I said it shouldn’t be the same power system, should bring about no hostility at all, the IRC community just seems unstable, and I’m sure you must agree to some degree. If we actually want these forums to work, at least try to eliminate potential elements of drama before hand. I’m not saying for you not to administer in the forums, if that is what you interpreted it as, I’m saying fewer admins, and mods; preferably that of people who actually work on the wiki, (which already includes yourself, doesn't t?). I’ve set the page for watch, so hopefully when I get my own connection fixed, I will try to keep updated with what’s happening, and help with installs, mods, etc... Please again, everyone, make backups of everything!! I haven’t made any in awhile, and will do when I get the next chance to.--[[User:DreamXG|dreamXG]] 10:00, 30 May 2008 (CDT)
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** If you're telling the truth here, I apologize for misinterpreting you. I do agree that only wiki staffers should moderate on the forums, but I don't see why that was ever an issue as this was always the plan. I don't think Scythe explained it very well to you, but that's my fault, I should have told him to link you to here, rather than ask you to talk to me - I suppose that made it sound like my idea alone, rather than the cautious optimism of people who posted their comments here. IRC is not connected to anything (certainly not here - I made sure of that) and it should be obvious that it doesn't work on the same system as this wiki, so the comparison isn't needed. But, thanks for your understanding of the forum situation. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 10:28, 30 May 2008 (CDT)
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* Removed the old and modded in the new RSS plugin. The forum keeps erroring again though, even though I've cleared the cache and the file in question seems to be fine. I hate this crap. D: - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 04:29, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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** Did you change the password? I wanted to lookup the problem to fix it but I can't connect via FTP. Or did I miss something? [[User:Essen|Essen]] 11:19, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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* This is what happens when too many plugins/mods are installed at once, it becomes a LOT harder to see what's broken to so that it can be fixed. Is it too late to scrap everything and go for a reinstall? Then just add one plugin at a time, leave everything up for a day or so get the bugs (if any) out, then install the next one. My time is a bit more permitting at the moment so I can help fix up any errors you get the next time around. - [[User:Sekani|Sekani]] 11:36, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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* Edit: Got rid of old post. FTP details haven't changed. I finally realized I should just fix exactly what the error stated the problem was. They keep coming though, what the hell. D: - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 02:06, 3 June 2008 (CDT)
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** Update: Fixed all, and got the hang of this stuff now. Took me long enough. - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 03:10, 3 June 2008 (CDT)
  
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=== Area articles ===
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* I want to try and get articles for each of the individual PSU areas set up sometime, however I know that, for better or worse, people here enjoy academic debates on what name to use. So in order to save time I want us all to agree on names BEFORE I start any articles. See below table:
  
===Fourth-Stage Alternate PMs===
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I've started work on a table for the specifics of the alternate battle-capable PM models. It's in the [[Sandbox]] at the moment; I figured I should make it easy for other people to contribute as well.
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! PSUP names !! Alternative names<br>(i.e. redirects) !! Example mission
*Once I got my main character's PM to lvl 80 (410), I took 'her' into a couple of free missions, and did fairly well. A few days later, I bought the 411 upgrade on a whim (an expensive, 50k whim but oh well ^_^; ).
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*Turns out, I much prefer the 411 to the 410. My main's FT, and I Strike-leveled his PM with the intent of using 'her' as a defensive wall. The 411's sword PA is Tornado Break (level 21+, with all three hits!), which is much better for my purposes than the 410's Spinning Break.
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| [[Linear Line]] || LL || [[Unsafe Passage]]
*I'm bringing this up here because I think players should have the detailed information about the alternate PM models WITHOUT having to blow the 50k and test one out themselves. I lucked out and got exactly what I wanted, but I could have gone with the 412 and ended up very dissatisfied AND out 50,000 precious meseta (for the character's level, he perpetually broke!).
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Anyway, on with life. Players in the know, please help your fellows who aren't, and assist me in completing this table? Thanks. [[User:Trooper1023|Trooper1023]] 05:41, 25 July 2007 (BST)
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| [[HIVE]] || || [[Dark Satellite]]
**Well, the table has been moved to [[Partner_Machinery#Alternate_PM_Details|Alternate PM Details]], and officially adopted by PSUPedia! Thanks to everyone who helped! This little article can be archived now. [[User:Trooper1023|Trooper1023]] 16:30, 31 October 2007 (CDT)
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|-
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| [[Raffon Meadow]] || Meadow, Raffon Plains || [[Plains Overlord]]
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|-
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| [[Raffon Lakeshore]] || Lakeshore || [[The Mad Beasts]]
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|-
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| [[Train]] || Rozenom Milate 04, Parum Linear Line, Milate 04 || [[Train Rescue]]
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|-
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| [[Seabed Plant]] || Plant, Seabed || [[Lab Recovery]]
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| [[Mizuraki C.D.]] || Mizuraki || [[Mizuraki Defense]]
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|-
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| [[Islands]] || Islands, Shikon || [[Rainbow Beast]]
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|-
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| [[Temple]] || Hakura Temple || [[Grove of Fanatics]]
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| [[Kugu Desert]] || Kugu, Desert || [[Desert Terror]]
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| [[Galenigare Canyon]] || Canyon || [[Valley of Carnage]]
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| [[Galenigare Mine]] || || [[Tunnel Recapture]]
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|-
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| [[RELICS]] || || [[Sleeping Warriors]]
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|-
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| [[AMF Metro Linear]] || Metrolinear, Metro Linear || [[Military Subway]]
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|-
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| [[Old Rozenom City]] || Rozenom, Rozenom City || [[Lightning Beasts]]
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|-
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| [[AMF HQ]] || AMF Central Command, Dark Plant || [[Electronic Brain]]
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| [[AMF Train]] || Dark Train || [[SEED Express]]
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| [[Saguraki C.D.]] || Saguraki || [[Sakura Blast]]
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| [[Pavilion of Air]] || Pavilion, POA || [[White Beast]]
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| [[Habirao F.D.]] || Habirao || [[Hill of Spores]]
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| [[Granigs Mine]] || Granigs || [[Awoken Serpent]]
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| [[Il Cabo Base]] || Il Cabo, Illuminus Lab || [[Bladed Legacy]]
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| [[Rykros RELICS]] || Rykros || [[The Black Nest]]
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| Rykros? || || N/A
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| [[Moatoob RELICS]] || || N/A
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| [[Forest]] || PSO Forest, Lupus Silva || [[Forest of Illusion]]
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| [[Caves]] || PSO Cave || [[Phantom Fissure]]
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| [[Mines]] || PSO Mines, No Man's Mines || [[Illusionary Shaft]]
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| [[Ruins]] || PSO Ruins || [[Maximum Attack G']]
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=== Luck Table/Log Error ===
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* 'My name' is my suggested names for the areas, the 'PSUP names' are what we shall eventually agree on, and the alternative names can be made redirects. Feel free to edit the table or post comments here, I'd like to get a consensus before I make any templates or articles. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 13:39, 24 May 2008 (CDT)
I usually check this table to see which of my characters have luck on a daily basisToday there seems to be something wrong with the code.  I have no idea how to even try to fix it.  Maybe someone does? It was fine yesterday but when I went to check it today it was all messed up. --[[User:Renderingdragon|Renderingdragon]] 22:42, 10 August 2007 (BST)
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* Great idea.  Here are my thoughts.  Any that I don't mention from the list are identical to what you have.
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** Rozenom Milate 04 - The game refers to the field of [[Train Rescue]] as "aboard train," so I'd be happy calling this field "train."  "Milate 04" would be cool, too, since the jukebox disc that has this song calls it that.
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** Shikon Islands - Actually, I'm cool with the name, but I'd like to suggest adding an entry for Agata Islands.  Just like Raffon Meadow and Lakeshore, both have the same drop charts, but they technically are different areas... kind of.
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** Dark Plant - I think this one should be called AMF HQ or AMF Headquarters.  AMF HQ CenCom is another name it's called in-game, I think.
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** Illuminus Lab - I prefer [[Il Cabo Base]] for this one.  (Actually, I set up an article at that link a while back to play around with some ideas for field articles.)
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** Dark RELICS - Rykros RELICS
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** Dark Planet Ryucross - I'd like to say simply Rykros, but the game is inconsistent there, stating that a few missions which take place in Rykros' RELICS site are on Rykros.  Hopefully the mission that takes place on the planet's surface will come out in Japan soon and maybe shed a little light on how we can sort that out.
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* I think that pretty much covers it. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 15:15, 24 May 2008 (CDT)
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** Not sure why I used Ryucross instead of Rykros, must be too used to the former.
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*** Rozenom Milate 04 can be renamed 'Train' or 'Milate 04', we'll see what others think.
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*** Are Shikon and Agata really different like Raffon Meadow and Lakeshore are? The actual map layouts of Meadow and Lakeshore differ, since Lakeshore has the water and everything whereas Meadow doesn't, so I guess that's why they're considered different areas. If it poses a problem 'Islands' will suffice.
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*** AMF HQ is fine for Dark Plant, I just went off the name that appeared on Shougai PSO all that time ago.
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*** Ditto for Illuminus Lab.
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*** Rykros RELICS is fine and more precise than Dark RELICS.
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*** Rykros will have to do for now, I guess. Maybe it'll be something like 'Rykros surface' or 'Rykros depths', something that qualifies it as being different from Rykros RELICS, since Sega have done a nice job of blurring Rykros RELICS and Rykros itself.
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*** Added Moatoob RELICS as I had forgotten that one. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 15:34, 24 May 2008 (CDT)
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* I guess visually Agata and Shikon are the same.  Thinking back, it's only their mission box image that's different.  (Only slightly so, of course.)  "Islands" works for me.  :) - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 16:22, 24 May 2008 (CDT)
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** Changed my suggested names after considering Espio's suggestions, if no-one else raises any objections in the next, ooh, 10 hours (by 9:30pm BST), these will become the names we use here. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 05:33, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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** Time's up, the names we have now will be the PSUP names. As with everything else they're not set in stone and can be changed, but it seems no-one is making a fuss right now. I've altered the table to reflect all this.- [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 16:00, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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* Cool.  Now, what all information should we include in these articles?  I figure drop charts for box and area drops are a must.  Perhaps a list of missions which take place in each field and pictures of the area to pretty things up. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 17:26, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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** Yeah, I definately agree on the dropcharts, the list of missions that take place in the area and images (maybe both of the areas in-game and the little images you get when selecting a mission). Maybe some flavour text as well, since some of the areas are described either somewhere on the official site or in-game (like lobby descriptions or just general chatter, i.e. we know that HIVEs are A-Photon Satellites taken over by the SEED). Some kind of template at the bottom with links to the other areas might be good too. One thing to consider with the dropcharts is that some drops appear to be only in AoI missions (like, say, [B] Daiga-Misakic in Her Secret Mission S), should they just be listed with the AoI icon ({{AOTI version}}) next to them? - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 17:34, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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*** With ''AOTI'' stuff in ''PSU'' fields, we might be able to get away with reference tags stating that you've got to be in an ''AOTI'' mission for a chance of getting that particular drop.  On the other hand, I don't think there any cases of ''AOTI''-exclusive drops crossing into ''PSU'' missions (in this example, the only mission that takes place in the temple area at a high enough level for [B] Daiga-Misakic to drop is an ''AOTI'' mission)Really, I guess it kind of depends on the style of drop chart we go for.  If it lists missions like what I've got in the [[Il Cabo Base]] article, there wouldn't be much of a need to ID ''AOTI'' stuff since the mission article would take care of that. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 17:57, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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*** There's a couple, if we assume that the 10* boards start dropping at level 100+ as with the AoI area drops. Daiga-Misakic and Fuka-Misakic both drop in the Islands area, the same area as Rainbow Beast, Halarodoc drops in Temple, same area as Grove of Fanatics. Some lower level drops too, like Aksuc in lower-level Galenigare Mine AoI missions (which, at the moment, is pretty much Restorations 1). It's not a major issue right now, but it might become one if Sega release more AoI missions in old areas. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 18:10, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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*** <i>Some kind of template at the bottom with links to the other areas might be good too.</i> [[Template:Areas|Done.]] --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 18:12, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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* Very nice, Qwerty!  Colors might need some work, but the design is perfect.  On the Aksuc dropping in Galenigare (and the other examples), I think I've got it covered.  I'd been considering making alterations to the drop templates to allow us to specify drop chart listings as ''PSU'' or ''AOTI'' should occasions like this arise.  (The first thing that got me thinking about it was Her Secret Mission S and when we found out the stuff that it drops.  But after making a specific drop template just for that mission, I put the previous idea on the back burner.  Now I see that may now have been the best solution.)  Anyway, what I was thinking was we can add something to our ''PSU'' area drop templates that will allow them to be used in both ''PSU'' and ''AOTI'' mission articles at the same time, yet display the correct drops depending on what version of the game the mission is from.  Basically, let's say we have two mission in Galenigare Mine; the first in ''PSU'', the other in ''AOTI''.  When filling in the drop chart for the ''PSU'' article, the templates would be typed as <code><nowiki>{{Tunnels area | 50}}</nowiki></code>, but for the ''AOTI'' article it would be something like <code><nowiki>{{Tunnels area | 50 AOTI}}</nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>{{Tunnels area | AOTI 50}}</nowiki></code>.  This way, all we have to do is add ''AOTI'' drop values to ''PSU'' templatesAnd really, the same thing can apply to enemies, as I think the ''AOTI Perfect Bible'' mentions one boss from ''PSU'' that will have an ''AOTI'' drop item only when it appears in an ''AOTI'' mission. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 19:20, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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* That template change sounds like a good idea if it can be implemented. Out of interest, what's the v1 boss with the AoI drop? Sounds interesting. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 19:46, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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** Just looked it up, but I seem to have remembered it a little incorrectly.  The items actually are ''PSU'' weapons and unit that drop either exclusively in ''PSU'' missions or ''AOTI'' missionsAlso, there are a few more than I recalled:
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*** Adahna Degahna LV100-149 - Sori / Mind - ''PSU'' only
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*** Zoal Goug LV100-149 - Sori / TECH Charge - ''PSU'' only
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*** Dulk Fakis LV100-149 - Buccaneer - ''PSU'' only
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*** De Ragnus LV100-149 - [B] Thunder Cannon - ''AOTI'' only
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*** De Ragnus LV100-149 - [B] Deathmaker - ''PSU'' only
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*** Dimmagolus LV100-149 - [B] Shigga Bines - ''AOTI'' only
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*** Magas Maggahna LV100-149 - [B] Rabol Asted - ''PSU'' only
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** Interestingly enough, I checked the old drop charts at the Japanese wiki, and it seems that the stuff the ''PB'' lists as ''AOTI'' mission exclusive does (or at least did) drop from these enemies in normal ''PSU'' missions.  So, this could be another case of the ''PB'' having incorrect data or future drop chart changes to come if/when we get missions with version 1 bosses in version 2 missions.  Anyway, the template change will be a very quick one.  I'll see if I can make some of the changes after while. (I'd like to sort out the HSM article since I have the area drops clumped together when they should be separated by the two areas the mission takes place in.) - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 20:10, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
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* I'm just going to make a quick change:  "Hakura Temple" to "Temple."  Even though Hakura is the only one that's named in online mode, we know from story mode that there is also Kokura Temple.  (I think it was the one that was infected with ice SEED.)  Also, the missions that take place in this area are in different sections of Neudaiz - Cost of Research is in the Mizuraki area while Grove of Fanatics is in Shikon (this is where Hakura Temple is located), meaning we've got different temple locations. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 09:11, 29 May 2008 (CDT)
  
=== Format comparison ===
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=== User page edits===
I've been thinking of compiling a page on comparing each copy of psu. A page for users unsure of which version suits them, where they can see what effects them and makes life easier. For instance; PS2 version being poor, but better than nothing or 360 having a larger community and so on.
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Is there no way to prevent user page edits from appearing under recent changes? rather than complaining people make too many edits, just fix the problem like this altogether? [[User:Battlestar|Battlestar]] 11:17, 16 May 2008 (CDT)
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* Preventing user page edits from showing up would be more trouble than it's worth to be honest. Also, the sysops more or less have to keep track of all edits to prevent spam, vandalism, and other stuff. However, I did find a simple solution that will be of some use. Go here: [[Special:Preferences]]. Click on the "Recent changes" tab and check the box for "Enhanced recent changes (Javascript)." This actually collapses all the edits made on a page each day to one line. Makes a ''big'' difference. -- [[User:Sekani|Sekani]] 15:08, 16 May 2008 (CDT)
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** I tried using the enhanced setting, but I find it to also be more trouble than it is worth. The real solution is for people to read the notice on the front page before doing anything. If you can't do that, then I'm more than happy to warn people. As someone mentioned earlier, it may be worthwhile creating a templatized notice to post when people spam their user page with edits. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 15:13, 16 May 2008 (CDT)
  
Was thinking of starting the page here; http://psupedia.info/index.php?title=Format_Comparison&action=edit
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=== Neutral synth rates===
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As far as I'm aware, none of the armor or weapon pages and templates show or account for the success rates when making them with no element. Since going green is apparently becoming more popular with the playerbase, especially with armor, seemed like something to bring up. - [[User:Sekani|Sekani]] 16:59, 29 April 2008 (CDT)
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* Far as I'm concerned, only an idiot would make something neutral, especially an armor. Anyway, there's no space in the tables really, so I think we can just leave it up to people to figure out on their own. It's higher than the listed numbers, we'll just leave it at that. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 17:06, 29 April 2008 (CDT)
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** Only an idiot would waste time synthing a two-star saber, but we've got stuff on that too. Just saying. - [[User:Sekani|Sekani]] 17:18, 29 April 2008 (CDT)
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*** Touche (I'M TOO LAZY TO FIND THE PROPERLY ACCENTED E OK GOD). But yeah, there's just not room for it in the template, and it would only confuse people further. Least that's my opinion. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 17:19, 29 April 2008 (CDT)
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**** Do non-elemental weapons have a standard synth rate bonus over elementals, or does it vary from weapon to weapon? If it varies between weapon type, it might be worth adding a footnote, e.g. 'All sabers gain a 5% synth rate boost when plain photons are used instead of elemental photons'. I feel this stuff is worth having in, but especially for armours -  while some of you feel that neutral armours are an idiot's game, a lot of us can't afford a set of elementals and especially with the appearance of Paradis Cataract, CASTs wanting an S-rank are going to increasingly look towards making themselves a neutral armour what with the rising price of S-rank armour with an extra slot. [[User:Strawdonkey|Strawdonkey]] 09:14, 14 May 2008 (CDT)
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***** At the very least I'm thinking of adding a special note to some S-rank armors, since I've lost count of the number of people asking about neutral Serafi-senbas on PSOW. If no one feels like reworking the template though, I'm not going to press the issue. - [[User:Sekani|Sekani]] 13:05, 14 May 2008 (CDT)
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****** If it comes to it, I've got nothing against revising the templates to include neutral synth data.  Thankfully implementation would be no problem since the success rates would be based on existing parameters (rarity for line shields and category-rarity for weapons). Only problem is finding a way to squeeze the info into the table.  It can be done, I'm certain, but it'll likely require a lot of cell rearrangement. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 13:34, 14 May 2008 (CDT)
  
I'll need help with information of what version has what pros and cons. Also, a style guide if possible, as i've been away from here in some time. - [[User:JubeiSaotome|JubeiSaotome]]
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=== Crea+ weapons ===
* Remember to sign your comments. ;) I can see the use of an article detailing these things, but if it's created, it must remain objective.  No favoritism or bias toward a particular platform can be displayed in the writing, for example.  See the [[The PSUPedia:Manual of style|manual of style]] for formatting pointers and the like. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 11:48, 27 November 2007 (CST)
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* The wiki has real trouble with articles with a + in them, as we've seen with [[User:Aurly|someone here]]. It tends to just remove them, so Creasabra+ will be [[Creasabra]]. I suppose when the time comes to make articles about them we'll just have to rename them to something like [[Creasabra (plus)]] and put a note in the article saying something like 'Due to the technical limitations of the wiki, this item's name cannot be displayed properly. It is supposed to be ''Creasabra+''.' - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 14:20, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
* If we do this, we have to proceed with extreme caution. This unfortunately neuters part of the article, since we really cannot make generalizations on the communities. I'm not actually sure it's necessary, but if done properly, it can't hurt. I will be watching the article intently though, and if at any point it appears it will be used to further platform elitism it will be deleted, whether that comes from the initial writing or by vandalism/further edits from other people. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 12:12, 27 November 2007 (CST)
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** Well, it clearly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++ can be done], it's just a matter of figuring out how. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 14:26, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
** Was totally going to have it unbiased, however, how would you go about mentioning slowdown and other problems? As for community, I'd really only be going as far as listing the average server star ratings for PC/PS2 and 360. --[[User:JubeiSaotome|JubeiSaotome]] 00:39, 28 November 2007 (CST)
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** The only way I can get it to work is [http://psupedia.info/index.php?title=Creasabra%2B this way]. Everything else just seems to remove it and act as though it's the Creasabra article. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 14:58, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
*** Unbiased as in avoiding jabs at particular platforms that would promote favoritism. Of course, I don't think you have any intent of writing anything like that, but as Mewn said, we'll have to keep a close eye on the article as I imagine it would eventually fall victim to vandalism by someone wishing to stir up platform elitism and such. ;)  We'll of course want to state the facts in the article, both the good and the bad, as long as it's not done in a way that shows obvious bias by a contributor toward a particular platform. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 13:11, 28 November 2007 (CST)
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*** I see. This must be what MediaWiki help meant when they said that using a root.com/articletitle URL format is not recommended due to certain conflicts. We may need to change everything over to the root.com/index.php?title=articletitle format (or root.com/wiki/articletitle, maybe). However, that probably involves messing with the code on levels that I am not at all comfortable with until other options have been ruled out. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 15:03, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
I've written the first version of the article, please go through and correct any biased information. Also, my table absolutly sucks. [[Platform_Comparison]] --[[User:JubeiSaotome|JubeiSaotome]] 06:21, 29 November 2007 (CST)
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**** Well, depends on how ready you are to deal with more "OMG WUT HAPIND 2 PSU PEE DIAD?" stuff. - [[User:Sekani|Sekani]] 15:15, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
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***** That would be quite a mess. I say we just go with [[Creasabra Plus]] or [[Crea Wand Plus]] until we can get Creasabra+, etc. to work properly.  Then we could just redirect the Plus articles to the + articles. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 15:46, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
  
=== Site overhaul ===
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* On a slightly different note, Wormania, why did you change the Creasabra+ page to a redirect to Creasabra (plus)? It won't do anything because the problem is not so much with the article, but the URL. No matter the content of the Creasabra+ page, unless you do it as I stated above the URL changes to Creasabra and you go to that article. Unless you're doing something I'm missing, in which case I'd like you to explain it. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 15:47, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
Correct me if I'm out of line. But I think the site is getting ready for an overhaul. May aswell, it's a new version of the game. Here's some things / projects I have in mind to improve the place;
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** Just testing, needed to see in which order the + was processed in the grand scheme of things. Also my second test didn't work, apparently you cannot redirect to "outside" pages.<br>As I'm sure everyone else has been using, http://psupedia.info/index.php?title=Creasabra%2B is the page which it will accept, however the [[Creasabra+]] directs to /Creasabra+.<br>As it stands, I see two possible options. You could use [http://psupedia.info/index.php?title=Creasabra%2B Creasabra+], which is slightly messy, but does the job, or you can do the whole root directory swap, which I can see being messy. This is all ofcourse assuming there's nothing we've missed so far. -- [[User:Wormania|Wormania]]
* Mission center - A hub page for missions; Online, Offline, Story mode, Extra mode & ETC.
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* Aha, holy shit, that was so stupidly obvious that it actually worked. For the sake of simplicity, let's just do it this way for now: make [[Creasabra plus]] with the content of <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Creasabra+]]</nowiki>, and it actually will redirect to the correct page. For linking to it, we can just use <nowiki>[[Creasabra plus | Creasabra+]]</nowiki> (yields [[Creasabra plus | Creasabra+]]). --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 16:10, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
** Mission strategies - Not for online free missions, because they are a sinch. Moreover for Network Story Missions, which seem to annoy people to no end. These pages could include mission data, points and rewards. I don't see a point in having 2 pages for one mission. That would be giving the users an extra step (Or more finding the page).
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** Ah, excellent, that should be a decent way of getting round it then. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 16:28, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
* Main Page / Navigation - Self explanitory, the navigation is out of date and needs links to AoI related changes, story missions, monster pokedex and ETC.
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** And when you click the article tab, it sends you to the regular Creasabra :< --[[User:Beatrixkiddo|Beatrixkiddo]] 17:32, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
** Main Page / Picture of the day/week - Wasn't this going to be implimented at some point? I don't see why it shouldn't be done, it will keep people coming back to see new images. This could even allow for image contests, improving site hits.
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*** Solution: don't click the article tab. This clearly isn't the perfect solution, but it's clearly about as close as we can get without majorly changing URLs and shit. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 17:36, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
* Guides section - There's a category for guides, this MAY overlap with strategies within the mission center idea, but all it would need in that case would be links to each story mission. Aside from that, guides could range from; PM builds, Synth guides, Strategies for fast leveling and so forth.
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* Don't know if this is still being considered, but I'm 99% sure that a URL change won't affect any internal links. Only links to articles here from other sites like PSOW or the official forums would be affected. Also, the main page URL can stay the same. The process should only involve changing the URL prefix in a configuration file somewhere, not too complicated. - [[User:Sekani|Sekani]] 12:03, 11 April 2008 (CDT)
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** Not really up to me, but I guess it's at least worth a shot.  If we don't like the results, we can just change it back. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 13:00, 11 April 2008 (CDT)
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** According to [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#Other_how-to_mini-guides this], I think  either MediaWiki is installed into the root folder (which is a bad thing, apparently), or whoever set up the wiki software redirected links to the "short" version, which is just .info/Article_Name. So, I think we need some intervention from Hitmonchan either way. --[[User:Beatrixkiddo|Beatrixkiddo]] 01:32, 12 April 2008 (CDT)
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*** Tried [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Ampersand_solution_with_root_access#Another_option this], but seemingly to no avail (unless it's slow). Anyway, someone shoulda tried this / called for help earlier. D: - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 12:39, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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* Just wanted to chime in on this issue.  It would seem that the least troubling way to solve the problem is to avoid using the '+' symbol in the page/image names at all.  It seems that Media wiki/Wikipedia also avoided using the '+' symbol in the page names.  We can still use the '+' in the links as illustrated by Qwerty on April 10th.  As far as benefits: there wouldn't be duplicate pages to redirect to the one with the '+' in the name, the pages would be accessible from the recent changes page, you can use the article tab at the top, it would take you back to the correct page after editing, and you could view the full sized images. The only disadvantage, as far as I can tell, is that the page name wouldn't be the same as the game data. Additionally, we're not yet sure how they will be localized, it may end up not being an issue at all. -[[User:Propagandist|Propagandist]] 01:48, 28 May 2008 (CDT)
  
Comments? --[[User:JubeiSaotome|JubeiSaotome]] 04:03, 4 December 2007 (CST)
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=== [Edit] Text too large ===
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I think the [edit] text / link on all pages is in the wrong position, and far too large. It makes the page look messy and untidy. Compare this page http://psupedia.info/Events to this page on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast the [Edit] text is on the far right, out of view of readers, and smaller in font size so it's non obtrusive, i've set up a wiki before and this is usually default, I don't know the history of this wiki or why you've changed this, but I just had to say something and I think it looks terrible / you should fix it.. --[[User:Battlestar|Battlestar]]
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* Strange that someone with so much wiki experience doesn't know how to sign their comments.<br/>That aside, I agree with you that the text does look more intrusive than it should. I'm not aware at the moment of any quick fix for it though. - [[User:Sekani|Sekani]] 09:50, 20 April 2008 (CDT)
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** Setting up a wiki doesn't automagically imbue the person with the knowledge on how to sign their comments. Thanks for the troll, but anyway, trolls aside, it says below ([[User:Battlestar|Battlestar]] 10:03, 20 April 2008 (CDT)) I guess I just forgot, huh?
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*** I think it's because we're using a different version of MediaWiki than WikiPedia is. It may not look great, but this isn't a big concern for us at the moment. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 10:42, 20 April 2008 (CDT)
  
* I'll go through the points one-by-one:
 
** Mission center - we could use one, certainly, all we have right now are temporary pages. We could use pages for lobbies as well, though they might be a bit sparse.
 
** Mission strategies - agree, but I feel they should be links to another article (specifically marked as a guide) or an external link to another site.
 
** Main Page Navigation - yes, this does need an overhaul, and that's been the general consensus for some time. No-one has really designed anything satisfactory though. Design isn't my forte, so if you have any ideas I'll leave it to you.
 
** PotD/W - I think it's unnecessary, it's frivolous and nowhere near being objective information. If it gets support it can be done, but I'm just going to flat-out state that I will not be involved with it, since I have more important things to do on the site.
 
** Guides - I wouldn't be opposed to having more guides as I did make special provision for them, but they have to be written, we can't just pull these things out of our asses (or from other sites). See above comment about more important things. - [[User:Mewn|Mewn]] 10:38, 4 December 2007 (CST)
 
* My thoughts:
 
** I'd like to come up with a more effective way of displaying all of the game's missions on one index page to have linked out to the individual articles.  Ultimately, this would replace our current mission page.
 
** Strategies could be put in pages such as ''Illuminus Ambition 2 (guide)'' and similarly indexed in the guides section.
 
** I've been trying to think of a new main page navigation system, but can't seem to come up with something I like.  One idea I had completely replaces the sidebar with our navigation links.  Of course, all of our categories would have to be thinned down from what we have now.  Wouldn't be a problem, as far as I see it.  (It could use it, to be honest.)
 
** Picture of the day/week.  Like Mewn said, it'd be an unnecessary addition.  I'd only see it as something else for us to try to keep up with updating, taking away from valuable time we could put to use for more important features.
 
** Guides and strategies would do well lumped together. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 11:30, 4 December 2007 (CST)
 
  
Another main page idea I had was;
 
* New missions & Locations - The recent hill of spores set has been a bitch for common players to find, why not have something like this on the main page?--[[User:JubeiSaotome|JubeiSaotome]] 00:14, 15 December 2007 (CST)
 
** The details on things like where to find new missions used to go in the [[Updates]] page, but then I fell behind on that and the slack never got picked up. - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 01:22, 15 December 2007 (CST)
 
*** I picked up where you left off; only, I haven't been making the tables like you used to that show where to go to get to each mission.  (The only thing I haven't added is yesterday's update, which I'm going to get to soon.)  Of course, now with individual mission articles linked to in the updates, these tell you exactly where to go.  But, I suppose for the sake of the lazy people who don't want to click an extra link, I can use the table format in my next update. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 09:43, 15 December 2007 (CST)
 
**** Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like nobody had updated the page because that's clearly not the case :P - I'd just meant that the quick-find "Where to go" wasn't being done anymore. But like you say, it shouldn't be much of an issue, especially once navigation with missions becomes simpler. - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 15:46, 15 December 2007 (CST)
 
***** It's no problem.  :)  Actually, this brings up something that you've mentioned many times before: an overhaul of the updates section.  It's gotten huge (like Xbox).  I'd like to go back over each update and redo everything to pretty things up some.  I was thinking we could either make a page for each content update (Update_002, Update_034, etc.) or sort them out by months.  Of course, we'd still keep everything cataloged on one page; perhaps sorted by months there.  Ah, just some ideas to toss about for a later project. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 17:15, 15 December 2007 (CST)
 
****** That's a decent idea, provided it had a navigation table template to go with it. Maybe a "to be released" list or a list of japanese updates also? --[[User:JubeiSaotome|JubeiSaotome]] 02:28, 16 December 2007 (CST)
 
******* JP updates would require much digging through their official site's now-messy log of updates, maintenances, events and notices. That said, a long-overdue re-standardisation of our updates page would be much desired. As for splitting the article... by month would be my preferred of the suggestion because per update results in many small articles. Perhaps take it a step further and split them by quarter? - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 08:37, 22 December 2007 (CST)
 
* With a new sidebar navigation list in place, would it be out of place to have more social data on the front page? Like new missions OR most populated lobbies? --[[User:JubeiSaotome|JubeiSaotome]] 21:43, 25 December 2007 (CST)
 
** I like the idea.  I think it'd be nice to have a little more detailed info directly on the front page stating what new missions have just been released or what special events are going on or will be happening in the near future.  More than what we've got with the news box thinger, at least. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 22:21, 25 December 2007 (CST)
 
* Might as well post a few suggestions here for the sake of putting them into this discussion.  Here are some [[User:EspioKaos/Sandbox/Main_page|front page]] and [[Site_map_(temp)|navigation]] ideas I came up with and here's a new [[User:Propagandist/Sandbox|front page]] layout by Propagandist. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 19:00, 26 December 2007 (CST)<br>
 
* So, I finally found something good for a logo. The image could use a little touching up still, but I don't have time at the moment. Leave feedback/complaints here. Oh, and 5 points to whoever can tell me where I got that design. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 23:23, 8 January 2008 (CST)
 
** I'll guess Episode 3, since it's the game I never played and I don't recognize the logo at all! Or is it some evil community-harming reference I don't get? D: --[[User:Beatrixkiddo|Beatrixkiddo]] 00:51, 9 January 2008 (CST)
 
*** No points for you. I never played PSO Ep. 3 either; this is from PSU. But really, looks good? Terrible? Horrendous? Spectacular? Shitacular? --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 00:53, 9 January 2008 (CST)
 
**** Tell me what it's from and I'll tell you what I think :D --[[User:Beatrixkiddo|Beatrixkiddo]] 01:01, 9 January 2008 (CST)
 
***** It's from PSU. Now tell me how shitty it is. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 01:11, 9 January 2008 (CST)
 
****** Only think I dislike is it's a little pixelly, but I'm sure that's due to the source image and nothing you could have avoided. --[[User:Beatrixkiddo|Beatrixkiddo]] 01:24, 9 January 2008 (CST)
 
  
=== Backpacker girl??! ===
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=== Offline ===
[[Image:0012_female_student.jpg|thumb|Backpacker girl is lost.]]* So, when we gonna get backpacker girl back on the main page? --[[User:JubeiSaotome|JubeiSaotome]] 20:41, 22 December 2007 (CST)
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OK you might have seen me doing some offline work [[User:Essen/Sandbox|in my sandbox]]. I'll explain my thoughts about it here.
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* Break offline in "Episode 1" and "Episode 2". There's too much different things to make them the same section. Example: drops are fixed per enemy in ep1, and per level in ep2. Missions are totally differents. Might have some balancing done between the two, etc.
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* Offline doesn't need a page per item/weapon/mission/whatever. People will mostly want to know where to get their stuff and how it works, but won't worry about the descriptions much. A page [[User:Essen/Sandbox/Crossbows_(Episode_1)|like this]] is enough, imho. Plus there isn't that much weapons/stuff anyway.
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* No need for an offline.psupedia imho. As you can see [[User:Essen/Sandbox|in my sandbox]] there's about 30 pages for ep1, without counting the more generic pages like save marker, photon charger etc, which are most of the time valid for both online and offline. We just need to stick with this slick format and remove all the old pages and clean-up the online page from everything offline-related. Also if we have an offline.psupedia, where do the scripts for episode 2 go? They're about the same for online and offline.
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* Add a template to each Ep1 pages indicating that this is info for Episode 1 and that it is offline, on the top of the page. Same with other offline games.
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* Once Episode 1 is done we could:
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** Add a category to the left menu, "story mode" with links to "Episode 1" and "Episode 2" for example. Can also put a link to [[Phantasy Star Portable]].
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** Clean-up all the online pages from offline stuff.
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** Deprecate (mark for deletion) all the offline pages available and remove them a while later instead of having tons of redirections about offline. Of course before that they'll become redirections.
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** Start Episode 2 (yeah i probably will) using the same structure than for Episode 1
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** Also use the same structure for PSP.
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** Once that is done (or before) I'll probably proceed to clean-up other stuff on the wiki.
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Comments, thoughts, suggestions? [[User:Essen|Essen]] 21:01, 13 March 2008 (CDT)
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* Very impressive work, Essen!  It's greatly appreciated since our offline section (as near non-existent as it was) was in bad need of help.  There are a few minor standardization things that should be taken care of (de-capitalization of subsection titles in a few spots is all I've seen), but I love the look. :D - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 22:34, 13 March 2008 (CDT)
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** Yeah I'm trying to stick to the manual of style but might forgot stuff ^^; I'll change that on the next edits and will check a last time before putting it live. Thanks for the comment [[User:Essen|Essen]] 22:48, 13 March 2008 (CDT)
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* Okay so I almost finished that as you can see, but I still have a good bunch of work to do: add availability (what items appear with what chapter); grinds (can wait tho i'll do it); a few pages like the bullets, technics and common items like mates; and read again to check everything is ok, maybe add some more links etc. Then I'll start rolling it out.
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* I have a few questions however, more general because they are also about episode 2 and psp.
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** Do we want individual item pages like for online? My guess is no and I made the episode 1 stuff without. But there's a few existing pages so I rather ask. Too much pages about something most people don't bother with is no good tho.
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** Do we want individual pages for missions? Yes for aoi and psp, no for the first episode (since the drops don't change with level, there's no rare map, etc).
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** I made a template for v1 offline contents, shown on top of all pages, and I also put "(Episode 1)" in the title. I think instead of putting that in the title we could use namespaces. [http://www.uesp.net/wiki/All_Games See here for an example]. All Oblivion stuff are in the Oblivion namespace, all Morrowing stuff in Morrowing namespace, etc. So for us that'd be something like "Offline:" or "Episode1:" or "OfflineEp1:" or "PSP:" or something. Like "OfflineEp1:Missions" instead of "Missions (Episode 1)" or "Offline:Partner characters" instead "Partner characters (offline)". Lots of stuff to consider and discuss about that.
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** I probably said it but I also separated completely the games to make it easier to check stuff and also because stats are not necessarily the same. And if you compare ep1, ep2 and psp the games are indeed all very different. I also had some troubles cleaning up the aoi stuff from the v1 ones for my project sometimes.
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** When I'm finished I will do one test before we can roll it out, to make sure I didn't make mistakes. I intend to speedrun the whole game (in 12 segments) and I'll use the work I did for that. It won't be a perfect check, but at least that's something, and I doubt I'll want to touch the v1 game again after that anyway.
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** Once everything is good there'll be a good number of pages to move and/or delete, I'll request your help about it. Then I'll start with aoi offline, and psp when it gets out in japan. I doubt much people will be interested by aoi offline but it'd be good if we could prepare the work on psp before it comes out, see who can work on it etc.
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** Well that was long enough. I stop talking now. ^^; [[User:Essen|Essen]] 12:34, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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***I was actually going to mention UESPwiki soon myself. Their namespace system seems to work out quite well for them, and I think it would be a good idea, though it might confuse some unless we leave online in the default namespace and merely make namespaces for the other (PSP, Ep1) things. --[[User:Beatrixkiddo|Beatrixkiddo]] 12:57, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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**** That's what I would advise to do. The main purpose of this wiki is the online game, so it can stay in the main namespace, and other stuff can fall into separate namespaces without having to do too much changes to the current pages. If I'm not mistaken you can also make it so that the search do not include these other namespaces by default, so we would only have online contents as a result unless we specify the namespace manually. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 13:05, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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* The unique namespace idea is great for these sections.  You've got my support with that.  As far as existing articles for offline units and weapons, those likely can be done away with since there's really little need for them, as you said. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 14:07, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
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** OK so what namespace do we use? "Offline" for general offline content is obvious, but for the 3 other games? "Episode1", "Episode2" and "PSP"? [[User:Essen|Essen]] 02:20, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
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**** Hello, everyone. Oh, something I've noticed: Bel Pannon drop Dagger of Serafi offline. So...I thought that might be useful. Later! [[User:Gespenst MK II|Gespenst MK II]] 03:01 PM, 9 Dec 2008 (CDT)
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* New Drop in PSP, did not notice that I had picked it up until after mission Dessert Terror B was over. Found GUARDIANS Formal in my inventory...wiki says its AOTI Only, can someone add that PSP has it too, I would but being new  wiki editing, not sure how to add stuff, only been adding descriptions to un-edited weapons, will add in-game pics as soon i figure a way how.<adds more proof ;) [[User:HyeVltg3|HyeVltg3]] 04:26, 8 March 2009 (CDT)
  
=== Spoiler hide / unhide plugin ===
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=== Categories? ===
Are there any MediaWiki plugins for hiding and unhiding information with a button or switch? This would be useful for character and story related pages. This way we could have spoilers and they could only be revealed if the reader wanted it spoiled or if they already knew what happened. --[[User:JubeiSaotome|JubeiSaotome]] 21:43, 25 December 2007 (CST)
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* I've been noticing lately the lack of categories for most pages. For example all the *_(Offline) pages are left alone without category. Same with the scripts, and various others. There is a [http://psupedia.info/index.php?title=Special:Categories&limit=500 good bunch of categories] already, but a lot of pages [http://psupedia.info/index.php?title=Special:Uncategorizedpages&limit=500&offset=0 still haven't any]. I don't think I have to explain the benefits of doing this: easy navigation to pages with similar contents. Is there recommandations for categorization, and do you mind if I have fun categorizing when I happen to stumble on one of these numerous lost pages? Same sort of question with [http://psupedia.info/Special:Lonelypages orphaned pages]. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 22:00, 9 March 2008 (CDT)
* The one time I've needed to hide a spoiler (which wasn't really, but doesn't hurt to play it safe with this many whiners about) I've used <nowiki><font color="white"></nowiki> to hide the relevant text. It wouldn't be a plugin or clickable element, but if there was any significant need for regular spoiler hiding, a simple quick solution would be to use <nowiki>{{Spoiler}}</nowiki> and <nowiki>{{EndSpoiler}}</nowiki> templates to repeat the above, the latter of course being <nowiki></font></nowiki>. - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 08:29, 26 December 2007 (CST)
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** Go to town if you want :P First of all though, it might help to explain the blurred line that some categories would provide. For example, what separates [[Swords]] from [http://psupedia.info/Category:Swords Category:Swords] when the former should already provide a comprehensive list? - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 22:07, 9 March 2008 (CDT)
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*** It's mostly not needed for online items as long as they link back to the [[Swords]]-like page. Unfortunately that's not always the case. It's also possible to process everything with a script if you are using categories. For example, generating a list of drops for all the items by running through the category and its childrens. If you change the template for the items, there's only one change needed to the script. If you change the pretty page, 0 needed. Without category, you need to change the script each time you change any pretty page. (And I might do that for various reasons, not only for psutools but also for making reports on what's missing in psupedia for example.) Anyway right now I was more thinking of that poor [[Units (Offline)]] page that gets linked only from [[Units]]. Meaning if you search for infos about offline, you need to go through online pages first. And if you need something else about offline (like, a weapon), you need to go back through online. Also worth noting that for the scripts, for example, there isn't really a place in the page where you can add a link back to the index (except the bottom, like categories do). Finally, and that's probably the solution to the difference between category and pretty page: you can probably make the category redirect to the pretty page. That way all users will get redirected to the page you want, you'll get links at the bottom automatically, and automated scripts can still parse the categories by adding "&redirect=no" to the URLs. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 23:05, 9 March 2008 (CDT) (and sorry for the lengthy comment lol I wrote as I thought about it)
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*** Most of that actually makes sense, heh. On the offline thing though: Once upon a time it was suggested that we try something like offline.psupedia.info to create a distinction between Network Mode and Story/Extra Mode. Nobody really responded to the idea, indicating a general lack of interest in offline modes. If one/some people took an interest to the offline modes then that'd be another idea on top of this, though the offline modes are a confusing mix themselves - Story Mode "v1" is different to Extra Mode "v1" is different to Story Mode AOTI. The latter two of course aren't even available to the 360. - [[User:Miraglyth|Miraglyth]] 07:48, 10 March 2008 (CDT)
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**** Yep I remember when that suggestion popped up. I'm not really interested in offline, it's just I did ep1 again to remember the story and I needed ep1 informations. What I suggest is to separate Episode 1 and 2 since they don't work the same way for everything (like for drops, shops, etc). This would prevent some confusion if an item is in PSU and not in AoI for example. However I wouldn't advise in separating story from extra (it's only a few SUV different, and story missions not available), and don't think offline.psupedia would be good either, since stuff like NPC or scripts are not only for offline. Pics of items too. Finally, it's pretty easy to find everything in offline mode, and there's no need for editing once it's considered finished. I might try and get the complete list of drops for Ep1, wouldn't take too long since the drops don't depend on the enemy level. And clean up all this in 2 different categories, Ep1 and Ep2. Sounds like fun. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 09:00, 10 March 2008 (CDT)
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**** I've made an example of redirection of category on the [http://psupedia.info/Category:Swords Category:Swords] category. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 09:09, 10 March 2008 (CDT)
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***** I tried a similar category redirection a while back, for some reason it didn't go over well. Never bothered to ask why. - [[User:Sekani|Sekani]] 12:59, 13 March 2008 (CDT)
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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BreadCrumbs2 This extension] could make categories much more useful. Also, please comment that old example I made on the sword category. I think the redirection paired with this extension could make for a much better navigation. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 09:39, 31 March 2008 (CDT)
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** Originally, I was under the impression that categories should not redirect to an actual article as that seemed to defeat the purpose of a standalone category. However, I'm seeing now that it really would serve a great purpose, especially with something like this.  I'd love to see how well this would work here, especially if if would make site navigation easier. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 10:07, 31 March 2008 (CDT)
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*** [http://www.pooshlmer.com/touhouwiki/index.php/Embodiment_of_Scarlet_Devil:_Gameplay A real life example of the extension] (see at bottom) [[User:Essen|Essen]] 12:45, 31 March 2008 (CDT)
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**** Now that looks great!  Clean, easy to read; it'd be perfect for us. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 12:49, 31 March 2008 (CDT)
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***** This really does look cool, but apparently it requires a fairly rigid existing structure already in place. Most of the pages that aren't weapons or missions are somewhat unorganized, and I have to wonder how useful this extension would be in that context. - [[User:Sekani|Sekani]] 18:31, 31 March 2008 (CDT)
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****** Categorized categories and all of that, right?  I figure if we spend some time getting things put in their proper categories, we can get that extension working very nicely.  When I have more time, I'll look more into it to see just how rigid it needs to be. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 19:41, 31 March 2008 (CDT)
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*** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_that_should_be_in_SVG_format Category containing images]: this would allow automatic creation of image galleries by just adding an image to one (or more) category. This might be more or less configurable, I didn't look seriously yet. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 19:04, 14 April 2008 (CDT)
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* .. Okay. *breathes*
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: So, I like categories. A lot, cause I like to have things organized.
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: This could be seen over one year ago when I started making loads of [[Special:Categories|unnecessary categories]] such as '3* Weapons by GRM'. What did I think was the use of this? Trying to replicate db-like complex-parameter search functions, because I felt frustrated with the seeming limits of the wiki system. How did I believe it was possible to implement something like this? By using complex templates ([http://psupedia.info/index.php?title=Aldaga_Steg&action=edit behold]) to automatically assign all of these categories; for example including a '3*' category whenever the template used for the 3* image is called.
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: Yes, my old approach sucked. However, I have now added the (albeit slightly gimpy) [[Special:MultiCategorySearch|Multi-category search]] extension (along with the [[Special:Version|Breadcrumbs2]] one for good measure). My old system sucked, but I believe that by embededding new categories a la '1*' 'GRM' 'Sabers' in existing (relevant icon) templates, getting a functional version of that off the ground should be relatively easy.
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: Not like I could do stuff without destroying existing standards or whatever, so, thoughts?
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: Also, I feel like the image category thing would be pretty interesting, perhaps especially combined with this (even though the search function still does feel kind of old-fashioned with all this manual copy-pasting or typing out of names..). Blah, end comment, sleep. - [[User:Tycho|Tycho]] 14:44, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
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=== Drop information ===
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* I think it would be benefitial if item pages of materials had a section of where or from what it can drop, besides of where it is used or can be exchanged. Now I don't know how this pedia works, whether there's cross-referencing (the information is only kept in one place). If it's just editing the pages themselves, I can contribute. [[User:SabZero|Sab]] 09:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
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* Maybe, but for many of them the list will be kind of huge. See [[Area drops]]. So for those they should be noted as area drops and linked to that page, plus the boxes drop if any. [[User:Essen|Essen]] 09:46, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
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** Yeah, we really should have more details on where to get certain items.  And in the cases of stuff like gemstones where the lists will be huge, we can probably get away with spreading them out horizontally.  That'll help take up some space that normally wouldn't be filled since there isn't much else to include.  I'll make some changes to the item drop template so that other icons like gemstones, hard materials and wood can be added. - [[User:EspioKaos|EspioKaos]] 14:00, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
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*** Also, area drops would only list the aera and enemy level, that's not that many, I think. The usage cases can be alot, but at least the trade-in possibilities would be nice to have. [[User:SabZero|Sab]] 15:57, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
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*** Saw your additions, EspioKaos. Looks good :) [[User:SabZero|Sab]] 15:58, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
  
=== Video embeds ===
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=== Original Soundtrack Pages ===
Wow, this is coming off as IDEA after IDEA. But Video could be pretty useful, especially on pages such as; Individual Photon Arts pages, Rare monster sightings, Guides and other pages with demonstrations. All you'd need is to allow for the embed tag for video or whatever. Anyway, thought I'd throw the idea out there. --[[User:JubeiSaotome|JubeiSaotome]] 22:25, 28 December 2007 (CST)
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I've completed a discography for Phantasy Star Universe, but I was wondering...how will we create the tables for track listing? Should we use Wikipedia's template, or something else? I'm open to suggestions here. --[[User:Zhane Masaki|Zhane Masaki]] 20:31, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
* I'm almost completely certain that the wiki system doesn't allow for such tags to function, lest they be used maliciously by unscrupulous editors. But, I may be wrong. --[[User:Qwerty|Qwerty]] 23:23, 8 January 2008 (CST)
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* Nice. Do you have an example of Wikipedia's template use? [[User:Essen|Essen]] 20:46, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
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** Not handy, Essen. I'd probably have to use their Music of the Final Fantasy VII series for examples or something. --[[User:Zhane Masaki|Zhane Masaki]] 22:30, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

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Current Discussions

Editing The Portable Versions

I've been searching around for a while to create an account to help out editing the entries of Phantasy Star Portable 2... From what i saw, only Admins can create an account there... If possible....could i have some help about it... I would like to update the Room decoration section, update the Remodelling Ticket section and help around in it... Terminera 01:41, 15 March 2012 (EDT)

  • Yeah, sorry about that. The wiki had pretty much died as far as community support went, and all we were getting was spambot registrations and edits, so we had to turn off the ability to make new accounts. Anyway, I've had essen re-enable registration, so you'll be able to set up an account. Sorry for the inconvenience, but thank you for your help! - EspioKaos 08:30, 15 March 2012 (EDT)
    • No Problem ^^ Terminera 11:49, 15 March 2012 (EDT)

Dynamic Page Lister Extension?

I recall talking about it before but I now have found exactly how it is done. There's an extension, DPL, which can take data directly from various articles (example: all the shotgun individual pages) and pull everything into a nice table (example: the Shotguns page). That means only the individual pages need to be updated, everything is pulled from there. That also mean that adding or removing columns becomes easy since all you have to do is say what data to take. I'd like to add it to the wiki. Discuss. Essen 21:33, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

  • Doo eet!  :> It sounds very promising and extremely useful. Any potential negative side effects that you know about, though? - EspioKaos 00:19, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
    • Not that I know, so it's worth a try. Essen 09:08, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Main page server status

I had a consideration today about some data to display on the main page. Commonly we post PF values, but how about modifiers? It would probably be appropriate to have a box for event rewards/compensation/MAG+/etc. to show the server is in a different state from the norm. It seems there's even a bit of space left for it too (on the right). --S-T-H 06:55, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

  • I'm curious about this. Work up an example of what you mean when you get a chance. If we need to (it's been mentioned before, anyway) we can cut the news feed down to three posts instead of four to free up a bit more room. - EspioKaos 14:16, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Server Migration

Please use this section to list the problems remaining relating to the server migration (or changes that could be applied at the same time).

  • calc.psupedia.info needs to put calc.psupedia.info in the DNS? host unknown - someone forward this to kplayer
  • special pages to re-enable
  • URL rewrite to improve
  • URL rewrite to accept + and & (if possible) (probably not, it looks complicated and might hang the server...)
  • References not working in Seasonal events
  • On the PSP line at the beginning of this page, replace {{!}} by |
  • Article names with slashes in them lead to a 404 error. (For example, the individual update articles, units like Cati / Stamina, etc.)

Feel free to append. Essen 19:35, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

I lost internet connection for awhile, should be back on irc, also congrats on the SysOp :) I'll have it added to DNS later today, I can't login to forums, because of the captcha, if someone with admin access would like to fix that later, would be much appreciated.--kplayer 17:15, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

  • I turned down the difficulty on the CAPTCHA by a considerable amount. I assume that's what you were talking about, yeah? It was set so difficult before because of all those robot registrations, but that problem's taken care of, so a nice simple CAPTCHA should work fine. --Qwerty 19:25, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Forum status?

Just curious if anyone knows when the forums might be back up? For the past day or so I've just been getting a blank screen. D: - EspioKaos 21:29, 24 August 2008 (CDT)

  • I've let Hitomi know about both this and the fact that newly uploaded images don't seem to be working properly due to a 'disk quota exceeded' error, so hopefully it should be fixed soon. - Mewn 04:44, 25 August 2008 (CDT)
  • There's a bug with at least one of the templates. I get this: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/psupedia/public_html/forum/cache/tpl_prosilver_overall_header.html.php on line 90 Essen 05:40, 29 August 2008 (CDT)
    • Still can't access the forums, is anyone here? If you can't fix the bug can you at least change my theme? I can't login because of this. Thanks. Essen 16:08, 4 September 2008 (CDT)
      • I've passed it up the ladder since I can't offer any assistance in that department. Hopefully we'll have something worked out soon. - EspioKaos 18:35, 4 September 2008 (CDT)
        • Found a temporary fix by forcing the default style for now. Dunno how to edit the themes, or I'd try that. But then, which theme(s) was the culprit anyway? --Qwerty 21:36, 4 September 2008 (CDT)
          • I'd guess its name is prosilver, but can't say for sure. Anyway thanks. Essen 15:29, 5 September 2008 (CDT)

Part 2

Anyone else not able to view the forum? When I delete my cookie, I can view it and log back in, but as soon as I'm in, everything loads as a blank page. I think it's another skin error, since the default I see before I log in is...whatever the default one is, but I have the whitish one for my account. Anyway, if someone could log into the admin panel and set it to force the default style, that might work again. --Qwerty 14:29, 12 December 2008 (CST)

Loads nothing but blanks for me, even post clearing cookies. As far as I know I'm on the default theme, too, not sure. I never changed themes, anyway. Raujinn 17:16, 12 December 2008 (CST)

  • I did something about forcing the default style on the admin panel and it seems to have messed up the forum for everyone. My bad, I'll have to get Hitomi to fix it next time I see him (hopefully tomorrow). In the meantime, consider the forum down. - Mewn 17:21, 12 December 2008 (CST)
    • Bad mew mew, bad! /flee - Essen 03:45, 13 December 2008 (CST)
    • Ok, the forum is fixed, I got Tycho to clear the cache and it seems to be back to normal. Sorry for any inconvienience caused by my nubishness. Qwerty, let me know if you still can't log in. - Mewn 05:29, 13 December 2008 (CST)
  • For future reference, pretty much any error like this really just means "go delete the cache on the FTP" (or just replace the files it mentions with their .BAK versions that should still be there in the same folder). - Tycho 09:36, 28 March 2009 (CDT)

Dual enemy drops

You guys may recall the recent discovery of YG-01Z BUG dropping an item that not only didn't match its current drop chart, but also one that is exclusive to AOTI, a strange occurrence for a non-AOTI-exclusive enemy. Well, this made me think back to the Ollakas when there was some confusion about what they're supposed to drop at LV100. In White Beast they dropped [B] Nokoku-zashi, while in Moonlight Beast they dropped [B] Katsuno-zashi. I looked further into this and it seems that the division is between PSU and AOTI missions; I haven't found a case yet where they get mixed up. Another example to keep in mind is Volfu. At LV100 in Scarred Planet they drop [B] Ga-Misaki while at LV100 in The Dual Sentinel they drop [B] Giza-Misaki. (Note that at LV125, AOTI Volfus drops [B] Giza-Misaki, which can be noted in The Egg Thieves and Forest of Illusion.) Pretty soon I'm going to start adjusting drop charts to include these AOTI drops. Questions, comments, concerns? - EspioKaos 16:25, 1 June 2008 (CDT)

  • Looking further into this, it seems that the dual drops always occur at LV100-124. I haven't come across any instances that do otherwise, but I won't let my guard down just yet. As far as new drop tables to display these changes, I was working on something, but it needs a little rethinking since it's just plain massive as it is now. I'm actually leaning more toward simply doing two tables, just like with the area articles; one for PSU drops and the other for AOTI drops. And from something else I've noticed, we can likely get away with removing the LV125+ rows from the PSU table (if we do it this way) since there are no PSU-accessible missions that have enemies within that range (and I seriously doubt we'll ever see such a mission). One last thing: considering this new type of drop, we may have to rethink our current weapon article drop tables to help differentiate between dual drops. If nothing else, we should be able to use reference tags to say which is which. - EspioKaos 20:21, 1 June 2008 (CDT)
    • If the difference is only at lv100-124 then do a double row with different drops only for these levels. That's enough for now, isn't it? About the weapons table we can also put an icon showing the version next to the enemy name. Essen 01:46, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
    • There's also Rappys and Jaggos, on psu v1 missions they just drop giga / skill or bullet, on aoi they drop both (giga and cati), right? - Ezodagrom 05:52, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
  • I completely forgot that the one enemy that drew my attention back toward the possibility of dual drops has one that's below LV100. YG-01Z BUG's LV80 drop in AOTI missions differs from its PSU drop. But yeah, we could do it where only the rows which have dual drops are split and the others that drop the same item remain together. I'll probably throw together a few examples a little later so we can get some feedback on different designs. On the Rappy and Jaggo drops, I looked into it and it seems that they can drop both units from LV100-149 in either PSU or AOTI missions, no thing to really worry about there. - EspioKaos 08:28, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
    • Hmm...but aren't cati skill and bullet aoti only units? If they are aoti only, then they wouldn't drop in psu missions, right? :/ - Ezodagrom 08:35, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
      • Ah, I see we've got them labeled as AOTI-only; we might have to change that. The data I'm going by is from the Japanese wiki. Their drop charts for Desert Terror and Plains Overlord list the Cati units dropping from their respective rare enemy while the other PSU missions list the Giga unit. Also, I'm fairly certain there was a discussion at PSOW a few months back about this very thing. I'll have to look for the thread, but I think at least one person was able to provide proof that Cati units drop in PSU missions. - EspioKaos 08:50, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
      • Here's the thread I was thinking of at PSOW. Multiple people (starting with a shop owner) confirm Cati / Bullet PP Save dropping from Jaggos in Duel in the Ruins. - EspioKaos 09:01, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
    • Yeah but the seasonal rappies have items that only drops in aoi missions, like van brella and madam brella. So the point is still valid. Essen 11:09, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
      • AOTI-specific special drops (they were specials, right?). Easy enough. :) - EspioKaos 11:53, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
  • Here are some examples of possible drop chart styles. I may add some more variations later. - EspioKaos 10:21, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
  • Second one looks really nice, Espio. And this sounds like it'll become pretty complicated, having to check not only whether stuff counts as special/level drops but also for what versions they apply. Jeez. D: - Tycho 01:48, 3 June 2008 (CDT)
    • I guess it shouldn't be too too hard to keep up with. When drops are discovered in-game, just note which version the mission is from and that will tell you to which drop chart the item applies. We just have to remember that when we create new AOTI mission articles, all PSU enemies must have the AOTI tag in their drop template to pull up the correct items. I just went through and added this tag to all applicable mission articles (yay for slow days at work, right?) and filled in what I could with new enemy drops. Unfortunately, we now have a few more question marks in our drop charts than I would like since I haven't been able to confirm some level drops (and I don't want to assume too much). Though it seems that most enemies have the same drops, a few have changes at even lower levels than encountered before (AMF Heavy Infantry) and some seem to have completely new charts (Bul Buna). - EspioKaos 13:21, 3 June 2008 (CDT)

Forums - a consultation

  • This is a controversial topic and I'm by no means for them (nor am I totally against, either), but I feel as though we should explore any avenue that could help the site even if we take no action on it. I can see both pros and cons for forums, the pros being that it might enable people unfamiliar or unwilling to use a wiki to leave feedback, give us information or corrections in a forum environment that they might be more familiar with. It might also let the staff have a place where they can discuss sensitive matters in private (not sure if this can be done on the wiki, but if it can, it might be something to look at). The cons though are that bad forums may reflect badly on the site (might endanger our neutrality too, if we have such a major community element), and that effort has to be expended to moderate any forums which may prove not to be worth it in the end. The last time PSUPedia had forums they became a terrible circlejerk - the main reason why I'm personally skeptical about them. Still, feel free to discuss and debate - this is a consultation, not a vote, and nothing is binding. But if particularly compelling arguments are made and enough support to make it worthwhile comes up, it may be possible to trial forums as an experiment. At this stage though, this is just a discussion and nothing is planned. - Mewn 16:00, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
    • I think it's good if it's used to talk about facts (not opinions), submit information, talk about the various projects and make polls. Other talks belong to another forum. Essen 16:38, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
    • This is a touchy subject. While the ancient PSUP forum was indeed a massive circlejerk, very unique circumstances brought that about (very few people used PSUP at that time, we had very little information about PSU since virtually nothing specific was known, and only like 5 people used the forum anyway). I highly doubt that a new forum would have even remotely similar results. However, I am somewhat skeptical, as I do not quite see the need for forums here. For information submission or questions, people can simply use the talk page. I do understand that many people are confused by the wiki system, but I just don't know how much of a help the forums would be. For things other than info submission and article questions, I'm not quite sure what else would be discussed that isn't also covered on the official forum, PSOW, or hell, even Diadu. It would facilitate communication between staff members here, yes, and that is probably one of the biggest positives a forum could have. As far as the community aspect, I feel it would likely be a double-edged sword. While I'm sure having forums would give a more community feel and get (potential) users more enthusiastic about PSUPedia, it is unavoidable that certain individuals would think poorly of either the general forum content or the moderation, and therefore it would leave a bad taste in their collective mouths regarding PSUPedia in general (I know some feel this way concerning PSOW). Anyway, I'm willing to hear more discussion on this topic, and I'd be open to trying forums if users seem to want them. --Qwerty 17:01, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
    • I remember the mess that was the forums here a few years back. After a few visits, I made sure to steer clear of them from then on. But, I think it's worth a try again since the site has improved remarkably over the years. Maintaining community neutrality is a must, but with the moderation we've carried out on the wiki, I doubt it'd be much of a problem to continue at a forum. If we can set up and stick to guidelines that state "information only" and "no trades, no guilds, no console wars, no drama, no shit," things could work out. On the other hand, strict moderation tends to piss people off or simply scare them away. The bad side of this could be giving the site a bad name with the people who want to use it to sell Meseta or their rarz or recruit guild members. Conversely, in the case of strict moderation scaring people away, it would lead to a smaller community of only the people who genuinely want to use the board for its intended purpose. All in all, I think it's worth a shot. If we decide to try it and things start going down the drain, we just pull the plug. ;) - EspioKaos 17:43, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
    • @ Essen - that would be mostly the point, for discussion of objective info that will help the wiki as a site, and to encourage people to participate. The community niches are taken up by the official boards and PSOW, while Diadu has the drama niche, so I'd like to see if we can do something different.
    • @ Qwerty - It's true that unique circumstances, not least the immaturity of Ahzi, Asim and Internets brought that about, but I think the danger remains of it potentially not being popular enough to be worth it. As for people thinking badly of the site because of the forums, I think that's a danger, yes, but I'm not sure that anyone who currently contributes right now will be turned off helping the site because of forums, especially if we can run them well. If people who have never contributed before do not use the site as a result of the forums, that is really not an issue for me - in my view we ought to be considering how to improve the site as a whole, not necessarily to see how many people we can get using us without contributing (whether by editing the wiki or submitting info via other means). In short, if we get, say, 10 new regular contributors helping out via forums (or even on here) and 5 people decide to not use the site because of the forums, I still think that may be worth it.
    • @ Espio - The biggest problem with setting up forums is to establish a balance between helping the site and establishing a community that can help the site. I think that if the only thing we ever concentrate on is site information, no-one outside the wiki contributors will probably bother with forums. But at the same time, too much community stuff might bring in people, but would possibly make us partisan. I've no interest in this site being rivals with anyone, and I don't want 'official board sux' or 'posw sux' mentalities running through anyone who posts on PSUP (of course, people can hold private opinions, I just don't want PSUP being a staging ground for closed-minded attacks). With that in mind, should we trial forums, I would want to start with 3 public forums: 'General PSU discussion' for discussion of the game, 'PSUP discussion' for discussion about projects, corrections, help on the site etc. and 'Off-topic discussion' just to give other people something to talk about. That's all I can see us needing, at least at the start. I don't like the idea of trade forums and anything remotely like Player Matchup forums will open a guilded can of worms. I suppose the general thing we should be aiming for is 'Come for the talk, stay for the site.' As for moderation, a degree of strictness is required, so yeah, no console wars, no drama bullshit, limited flaming/trolling at the very most, and maybe a pointer that if people want to flame and troll the official boards and Diadu are far better for that. - Mewn 07:16, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
      • I'm assuming there probably isn't going to be many more replies, with only the regulars checking this area for stuff other people brought up. As for the image thing I believe this will only cripple the immature that somehow end up being banned. Jokes I'm fine with personally, and I believe other people here have trolled ridiculous topics elsewhere before too. Active moderation I don't really feel up to myself, but I feel like modding attitudes would be a more important issue. Either way, circumstances have indeed changed since back then. Would it be worth it? A trial period (although that probably means little more than "we're starting it but might or might not dump it again") most certainly would seem to be, since there isn't much to lose. Other than time, and personal stains of creating another potential failure (or to be arrogant and blind enough to have believed in it for that matter). I think I voted against this ages ago when the discussion came up at one point shortly after the original forums, but I don't mind anymore per se. - Tycho 14:07, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
      • OK then add a section specifically for data submission (for easier use) and make sure you can subscribe to an RSS on each sections separately. If there's all that I don't see why not try. Essen 15:28, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Ok then, since the general feeling is that we should at least try, what steps do we need to take now to set up a "trial"? I presume we will need Dream_XG's help on this, no? If for nothing else, then at least to set up a subdomain (e.g. forums.psupedia.info; I fear that failing to place it in a subdomain could cause some nasty wiki-URL side effects). When it comes to forum software, it seems to me that phpBB3 would be the obvious choice, considering it's free and other comparable packages are ridiculously priced. However, I'm open to hearing other suggestions. --Qwerty 16:18, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
    • I'll speak to DreamXG, since I imagine he's an expert (there are forums on some of his other projects that I assume he set up). I'm not technically very good at setting up forums, although I should be fine with an administrator control panel once all the groundwork has been done. A subdomain will probably be a good idea. I noticed that the other projects use vBulletin for their forums, so I'll see what he thinks. - Mewn 16:48, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
      • Ah, I see. What other projects do you mean, though? I can't seem to find any of them linked on tsukimono.net. Anyway, I'm most familiar with phpBB, and I've dabbled in Invision Free, but I reckon vBulletin would be simple enough to figure out, if that's what we will use. I didn't really consider it or Invision since both seem ostentatiously priced, but if DreamXG already has a license, then I guess it could work, though I personally prefer the more simplistic look of phpBB. --Qwerty 16:59, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
      • http://fantatennis.org/forums/ (don't mind the rather bad colour scheme) - Mewn 17:04, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
      • You might also want to take a look at this one. It is a very different concept than most forums but, having used it mostly for work-related stuff, I find it very useful. Especially if you don't have that many sections. Otherwise I'm more for a sucky phpbb3 than a bloated vbulletin. Essen 17:45, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
        • Eh, that looks ok, and I guess it could work. However, part of our reasoning for a forum would be for the community aspects, and I think this would be better achieved with a more traditional forum. I agree that vB is bloated, and that's really why I'd prefer phpBB3. I mean, vB is fine for PSOW's new forum system, but I don't think anything as fancy as that would fit with PSUPedia. Also, I did a little looking into it, and it seems that there are much fewer freely available styles for vB, compared to phpBB. Anyway, just my two cents. (In case it isn't obvious yet, I like phpBB. :>) --Qwerty 18:02, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Regardless of which forum software we pick, it may be worthwhile looking into a user integration plugin. I'm actually ambivalent about this, since I don't think it would be particularly necessary, but I just wanted throw it out so you know it's available. --Qwerty 18:23, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
    • Right, so for forum choices we seem to have Vanilla, phpBB3 and vBulletin. I agree with Qwerty that a more traditional forum might be better but Vanilla would work in a pinch. As for a user integration plugin, sounds like an unnecessary hassle and it has the potential to be more trouble than it's worth, especially if we're only trialing forums. - Mewn 18:42, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
  • I have nothing against 2ch, but Vanilla isn't very appealing visually. Essen, could you elaborate on your criticism against phpBB3? Cause otherwise this seems like a pretty clear-cut case to me. - Tycho 10:37, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
Edit: What about MyBB? - Tycho 11:25, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
    • The vanilla forum after the first installation is what it is: vanilla. Then you can install addons. There's addons for adding functionality or for changing the look of the forums. Or you can make your own look, the CSS isn't complicated. When you install an adddon, you just have to unzip the files in the correct folder. Then you activate the addon in the admin panel. Updating the forum is done entirely via the admin panel, vanilla itself is gonna ask you to check updates and will download and install everything.
    • The difference with traditional western forums software is the organization. In other forums you have categories and posts in these categories. In vanilla you tag your post and then everyone can filter the posts like they want. This is the sort of nice things you can do with vanilla: get everything except off-topic on my index page for example. Not having to enter a section, go read the posts, go out the section, go in another section, repeat. Less clics with vanilla since you have all posts by default.
    • You can probably make a media-wiki style without much trouble either since vanilla is very simple by default.
    • Anyway if it's not vanilla I'm for phpbb but be ready for updating it every month because of all the security problems. Essen 15:16, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
    • Vanilla seems like an interesting concept, but from a purely subjective point of view I have to say I prefer the idea of having seperate subforums than tagging posts. I like to go into an individual subforum and know that the majority of what I see will be about that particular topic - it's what I'm used to, after all. Also, from a non-personal point of view, this alternative system seems a little too avant-garde, I think people in general might prefer something more traditional. I think myBB might not be bad, but realistically I am not an expert on different forum software so I will leave that up to others. - Mewn 15:38, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Just throwing my opinion in on this. I'll be good with whatever is selected. I've used phpBB, vB, Invision and others, so I've adapted to pretty much everything. As far as setup goes, couldn't help there since I've never tried; but as a member, I'd know my way around. - EspioKaos 12:01, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
  • I agree with Mewn; I'm sure Vanilla would be fun to use for a different sort of experience, but I have serious doubts about it's usefulness in achieving our desired ends. Concerning myBB, that summary makes it look like it is almost exactly like phpBB, but (I reckon) probably with much fewer extensions, plug-ins, and styles. I just don't see any real reason to use it over phpBB. Anyway, just my two cents. In other news, I looked into the setup for phpBB, and it looks very straightforward, only requiring FTP of the software to the server, and subsequent installation through a built-in wizard you run in your browser. Assuming whichever package we pick is just as easy (phpBB is one of the easier to install according to some reviews I read), I reckon we may only need DreamXG to set up the subdomain, and then we can handle the rest on our own. Probably. --Qwerty 18:56, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Well, I think DreamXG is talking to Tycho - I didn't count on the fact that, after all this time, he is still unwilling to talk to me. But no matter, so long as his help is secured it's no big deal. I think that if we go with phpBB we will need to install a plugin for RSS feeds - that way we can have a subforum dedicated solely to data submissions as Essen requested. - Mewn 19:11, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
    • Just posting a link to such a plugin for future reference. It seems to be capable of exactly what we want, generating RSS or ATOM feeds for either selected forum sections, topics, posts, PMs, or the entire forum. --Qwerty 20:06, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
  • 'Looks easy/hard to install'? I've already prepared all three, and only still need to do the configuration/add-on stuff, so I'm basically waiting for a decision. XP - Tycho 19:54, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
    • Well, I can only speak for myself, but it looks to me like phpBB would be a good compromise, since no one seems to have any major objections to it. --Qwerty 20:06, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Actually phpBB3 appears to have 100+ mods, MyBB 200+. Looking for styles for phpBB3 on their own site sucks (even if you try to search differently), but they are around anyway. Why doesn't have phpBB3 that many? Because it's not phpBB2, which is like 15 times as old. Skins for MyBB are easier to get, although they don't seem to be easy to find elsewhere (I love this one, but can't find the source). Also, the MyBB site sucks for getting an idea of what the skins look like. So I dunno, it's not like only one of the two has third-party support or anything. - Tycho 20:35, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
    • I see, I figured that phpBB would be more known and therefore more supported, but it was just an assumption. Anyway, this page is a nice place to preview styles for phpBB3. Personally, I think Serenity has a nice, minimalistic appearance and would generally mesh with the site as a whole in terms of colors. Other ones I liked are AeroBlue (although possibly to dark), Milky Way (except the orange, but we can change that), and even the default alternate theme, subsilver2. Serenity, Milky Way, and subsilver2 (and a few others) can be recolorized via this handy tool that even generates all the necessary files for you. anyway, just something to think about --Qwerty 21:01, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
  • phpBB, MyBB. Gonna try and look for all desirable mods to allow for a real comparison. (Sorry, don't intend to push this, just thinking that both are to be considered.) - Tycho 22:12, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
    • You also may wana check out SMF. also a PHP based forum that i have had great luck with. strong feature set and extreamly configurable yet very simplistic configuration and visuals if wanted. i have setup 3-4 forums using it for random cases. low overhead and low maintanace. Tigerbyte 23:45, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
      • I looked at it briefly, but much like myBB, I just didn't see anything significantly different from phpBB, with which I'm just more familiar and comfortable. Even when it comes to silly things, like the links at the bottom of a topic: I'd rather have phpBB's "return to X forum" than myBB's "previous/next thread" links. :\ I dunno, just seems to me like phpBB would be the most common and therefore familiar package for our potential users, compared to less familiar things that, in my eyes, don't seem to offer any particular advantages. --Qwerty 23:57, 27 May 2008 (CDT)
        • I yield, phpBB looks less bloated. - Tycho 01:38, 28 May 2008 (CDT)
Edit: Oh, I can do this stuff. New URL.
Another Edit: Okay, I'm tired of playing around with this; since this is still a temp phase, if anyone else wants to check out the options (I already tried everything, attempted to make a few mods and added some skins), go ahead. User: admin, pass: admintest. No vandalizing jokes please, thanks. XP - Tycho 03:43, 28 May 2008 (CDT)
    • You do realize that the forums (for me at least) have been broken all day, right? Lots of parser and syntax PHP errors. - Sekani 19:56, 29 May 2008 (CDT)
      • I had some issues when trying to view topics with the phpBB default theme (prosilver), but all the other ones seem to be working fine, and I've been mucking around in the admin CP for a good hour or so without issue. Are you even able to register? --Qwerty 20:56, 29 May 2008 (CDT)
      • We're aware there's some problems, yeah. I don't know how to sort them out so maybe Tycho can. I dunno. Might be the RSS plugin we installed. - Mewn 03:33, 30 May 2008 (CDT)
        • Yeah, I'm fairly certain it's the plugin. I'd look into it, but I'm very strapped for time this week. :\ --Qwerty 07:28, 30 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Sorry I haven’t been able to contribute to this discussion until now.

And Mewn darling, you haven’t changed one bit, I don’t know where you get these hostile thoughts from, Tycho was already in touch with me, with my connection that currently runs off a cell phone with lower speeds than 33.6k dial-up. Tried to make edits to the wiki before, but you can imagine the time-outs I was receiving.

So! I haven’t had much luck with time lately. I would have thought PSOW, and the official boards would have been enough of a discussion place, and agree it will affect the neutrality of the wiki, but a test can’t hurt I guess.

I highly recommend you re-consider however, if the forums are for the purposes you describe before, you can go with smaller forum packages out there, and ones which have decent mediawiki integration plug-ins, it’s better to decide it now, than later, because some changes made to the db can’t be reversed nicely nor easily. (Gogo Backups of course). http://bbpress.org is an example of something really light, plug-ins and mods aren’t hard to create for it, styles can also be created, and integration can be easily achieved.

As for the syntax errors whoever edited the template

Located at: forum/cache/tpl_prosilver_viewtopic_body.html.php

I’ve changed: [ <a href="{postrow.U_POSTS_VIEWTOPIC}">{L_POSTS_VIEWTOPIC}</a> ]

To: [ ‘L_POSTS_VIEWTOPIC’ ]

On: Line 149


That’s a temp fix for whatever you were trying to do, please try to make backups before making changes! I’ve noticed the wiki slow down a bit after phpBB was installed, I try and take a look into it, after work, when and if I find some time. --dreamXG 08:15, 30 May 2008 (CDT)

  • Ah, good, Hitomi, you're here. Thanks for your help with the forums, but would you please elaborate on the one opinion I know you have that you haven't deigned to share with us, please? I'm referring, of course, to this: 'and I def dont think it should be the same power system as irc.' I'm sure there's an innocent explanation, and that my 'hostile thoughts' are just playing up again, but I'd like an answer. - Mewn 09:06, 30 May 2008 (CDT)
  • No prob, also the wiki might grind a little bit later tonight, I think I have identified what is slowing it down but need to lock the database to look into it. Mewn, no need to use the word innocent, as nothing has been said/done wrong from what I see. Just because I said it shouldn’t be the same power system, should bring about no hostility at all, the IRC community just seems unstable, and I’m sure you must agree to some degree. If we actually want these forums to work, at least try to eliminate potential elements of drama before hand. I’m not saying for you not to administer in the forums, if that is what you interpreted it as, I’m saying fewer admins, and mods; preferably that of people who actually work on the wiki, (which already includes yourself, doesn't t?). I’ve set the page for watch, so hopefully when I get my own connection fixed, I will try to keep updated with what’s happening, and help with installs, mods, etc... Please again, everyone, make backups of everything!! I haven’t made any in awhile, and will do when I get the next chance to.--dreamXG 10:00, 30 May 2008 (CDT)
    • If you're telling the truth here, I apologize for misinterpreting you. I do agree that only wiki staffers should moderate on the forums, but I don't see why that was ever an issue as this was always the plan. I don't think Scythe explained it very well to you, but that's my fault, I should have told him to link you to here, rather than ask you to talk to me - I suppose that made it sound like my idea alone, rather than the cautious optimism of people who posted their comments here. IRC is not connected to anything (certainly not here - I made sure of that) and it should be obvious that it doesn't work on the same system as this wiki, so the comparison isn't needed. But, thanks for your understanding of the forum situation. - Mewn 10:28, 30 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Removed the old and modded in the new RSS plugin. The forum keeps erroring again though, even though I've cleared the cache and the file in question seems to be fine. I hate this crap. D: - Tycho 04:29, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
    • Did you change the password? I wanted to lookup the problem to fix it but I can't connect via FTP. Or did I miss something? Essen 11:19, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
  • This is what happens when too many plugins/mods are installed at once, it becomes a LOT harder to see what's broken to so that it can be fixed. Is it too late to scrap everything and go for a reinstall? Then just add one plugin at a time, leave everything up for a day or so get the bugs (if any) out, then install the next one. My time is a bit more permitting at the moment so I can help fix up any errors you get the next time around. - Sekani 11:36, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
  • Edit: Got rid of old post. FTP details haven't changed. I finally realized I should just fix exactly what the error stated the problem was. They keep coming though, what the hell. D: - Tycho 02:06, 3 June 2008 (CDT)
    • Update: Fixed all, and got the hang of this stuff now. Took me long enough. - Tycho 03:10, 3 June 2008 (CDT)

Area articles

  • I want to try and get articles for each of the individual PSU areas set up sometime, however I know that, for better or worse, people here enjoy academic debates on what name to use. So in order to save time I want us all to agree on names BEFORE I start any articles. See below table:
PSUP names Alternative names
(i.e. redirects)
Example mission
Linear Line LL Unsafe Passage
HIVE Dark Satellite
Raffon Meadow Meadow, Raffon Plains Plains Overlord
Raffon Lakeshore Lakeshore The Mad Beasts
Train Rozenom Milate 04, Parum Linear Line, Milate 04 Train Rescue
Seabed Plant Plant, Seabed Lab Recovery
Mizuraki C.D. Mizuraki Mizuraki Defense
Islands Islands, Shikon Rainbow Beast
Temple Hakura Temple Grove of Fanatics
Kugu Desert Kugu, Desert Desert Terror
Galenigare Canyon Canyon Valley of Carnage
Galenigare Mine Tunnel Recapture
RELICS Sleeping Warriors
AMF Metro Linear Metrolinear, Metro Linear Military Subway
Old Rozenom City Rozenom, Rozenom City Lightning Beasts
AMF HQ AMF Central Command, Dark Plant Electronic Brain
AMF Train Dark Train SEED Express
Saguraki C.D. Saguraki Sakura Blast
Pavilion of Air Pavilion, POA White Beast
Habirao F.D. Habirao Hill of Spores
Granigs Mine Granigs Awoken Serpent
Il Cabo Base Il Cabo, Illuminus Lab Bladed Legacy
Rykros RELICS Rykros The Black Nest
Rykros? N/A
Moatoob RELICS N/A
Forest PSO Forest, Lupus Silva Forest of Illusion
Caves PSO Cave Phantom Fissure
Mines PSO Mines, No Man's Mines Illusionary Shaft
Ruins PSO Ruins Maximum Attack G'
  • 'My name' is my suggested names for the areas, the 'PSUP names' are what we shall eventually agree on, and the alternative names can be made redirects. Feel free to edit the table or post comments here, I'd like to get a consensus before I make any templates or articles. - Mewn 13:39, 24 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Great idea. Here are my thoughts. Any that I don't mention from the list are identical to what you have.
    • Rozenom Milate 04 - The game refers to the field of Train Rescue as "aboard train," so I'd be happy calling this field "train." "Milate 04" would be cool, too, since the jukebox disc that has this song calls it that.
    • Shikon Islands - Actually, I'm cool with the name, but I'd like to suggest adding an entry for Agata Islands. Just like Raffon Meadow and Lakeshore, both have the same drop charts, but they technically are different areas... kind of.
    • Dark Plant - I think this one should be called AMF HQ or AMF Headquarters. AMF HQ CenCom is another name it's called in-game, I think.
    • Illuminus Lab - I prefer Il Cabo Base for this one. (Actually, I set up an article at that link a while back to play around with some ideas for field articles.)
    • Dark RELICS - Rykros RELICS
    • Dark Planet Ryucross - I'd like to say simply Rykros, but the game is inconsistent there, stating that a few missions which take place in Rykros' RELICS site are on Rykros. Hopefully the mission that takes place on the planet's surface will come out in Japan soon and maybe shed a little light on how we can sort that out.
  • I think that pretty much covers it. - EspioKaos 15:15, 24 May 2008 (CDT)
    • Not sure why I used Ryucross instead of Rykros, must be too used to the former.
      • Rozenom Milate 04 can be renamed 'Train' or 'Milate 04', we'll see what others think.
      • Are Shikon and Agata really different like Raffon Meadow and Lakeshore are? The actual map layouts of Meadow and Lakeshore differ, since Lakeshore has the water and everything whereas Meadow doesn't, so I guess that's why they're considered different areas. If it poses a problem 'Islands' will suffice.
      • AMF HQ is fine for Dark Plant, I just went off the name that appeared on Shougai PSO all that time ago.
      • Ditto for Illuminus Lab.
      • Rykros RELICS is fine and more precise than Dark RELICS.
      • Rykros will have to do for now, I guess. Maybe it'll be something like 'Rykros surface' or 'Rykros depths', something that qualifies it as being different from Rykros RELICS, since Sega have done a nice job of blurring Rykros RELICS and Rykros itself.
      • Added Moatoob RELICS as I had forgotten that one. - Mewn 15:34, 24 May 2008 (CDT)
  • I guess visually Agata and Shikon are the same. Thinking back, it's only their mission box image that's different. (Only slightly so, of course.) "Islands" works for me.  :) - EspioKaos 16:22, 24 May 2008 (CDT)
    • Changed my suggested names after considering Espio's suggestions, if no-one else raises any objections in the next, ooh, 10 hours (by 9:30pm BST), these will become the names we use here. - Mewn 05:33, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
    • Time's up, the names we have now will be the PSUP names. As with everything else they're not set in stone and can be changed, but it seems no-one is making a fuss right now. I've altered the table to reflect all this.- Mewn 16:00, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Cool. Now, what all information should we include in these articles? I figure drop charts for box and area drops are a must. Perhaps a list of missions which take place in each field and pictures of the area to pretty things up. - EspioKaos 17:26, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
    • Yeah, I definately agree on the dropcharts, the list of missions that take place in the area and images (maybe both of the areas in-game and the little images you get when selecting a mission). Maybe some flavour text as well, since some of the areas are described either somewhere on the official site or in-game (like lobby descriptions or just general chatter, i.e. we know that HIVEs are A-Photon Satellites taken over by the SEED). Some kind of template at the bottom with links to the other areas might be good too. One thing to consider with the dropcharts is that some drops appear to be only in AoI missions (like, say, [B] Daiga-Misakic in Her Secret Mission S), should they just be listed with the AoI icon (Ambition of the Illuminus) next to them? - Mewn 17:34, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
      • With AOTI stuff in PSU fields, we might be able to get away with reference tags stating that you've got to be in an AOTI mission for a chance of getting that particular drop. On the other hand, I don't think there any cases of AOTI-exclusive drops crossing into PSU missions (in this example, the only mission that takes place in the temple area at a high enough level for [B] Daiga-Misakic to drop is an AOTI mission). Really, I guess it kind of depends on the style of drop chart we go for. If it lists missions like what I've got in the Il Cabo Base article, there wouldn't be much of a need to ID AOTI stuff since the mission article would take care of that. - EspioKaos 17:57, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
      • There's a couple, if we assume that the 10* boards start dropping at level 100+ as with the AoI area drops. Daiga-Misakic and Fuka-Misakic both drop in the Islands area, the same area as Rainbow Beast, Halarodoc drops in Temple, same area as Grove of Fanatics. Some lower level drops too, like Aksuc in lower-level Galenigare Mine AoI missions (which, at the moment, is pretty much Restorations 1). It's not a major issue right now, but it might become one if Sega release more AoI missions in old areas. - Mewn 18:10, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
      • Some kind of template at the bottom with links to the other areas might be good too. Done. --Qwerty 18:12, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Very nice, Qwerty! Colors might need some work, but the design is perfect. On the Aksuc dropping in Galenigare (and the other examples), I think I've got it covered. I'd been considering making alterations to the drop templates to allow us to specify drop chart listings as PSU or AOTI should occasions like this arise. (The first thing that got me thinking about it was Her Secret Mission S and when we found out the stuff that it drops. But after making a specific drop template just for that mission, I put the previous idea on the back burner. Now I see that may now have been the best solution.) Anyway, what I was thinking was we can add something to our PSU area drop templates that will allow them to be used in both PSU and AOTI mission articles at the same time, yet display the correct drops depending on what version of the game the mission is from. Basically, let's say we have two mission in Galenigare Mine; the first in PSU, the other in AOTI. When filling in the drop chart for the PSU article, the templates would be typed as {{Tunnels area | 50}}, but for the AOTI article it would be something like {{Tunnels area | 50 AOTI}} or {{Tunnels area | AOTI 50}}. This way, all we have to do is add AOTI drop values to PSU templates. And really, the same thing can apply to enemies, as I think the AOTI Perfect Bible mentions one boss from PSU that will have an AOTI drop item only when it appears in an AOTI mission. - EspioKaos 19:20, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
  • That template change sounds like a good idea if it can be implemented. Out of interest, what's the v1 boss with the AoI drop? Sounds interesting. - Mewn 19:46, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
    • Just looked it up, but I seem to have remembered it a little incorrectly. The items actually are PSU weapons and unit that drop either exclusively in PSU missions or AOTI missions. Also, there are a few more than I recalled:
      • Adahna Degahna LV100-149 - Sori / Mind - PSU only
      • Zoal Goug LV100-149 - Sori / TECH Charge - PSU only
      • Dulk Fakis LV100-149 - Buccaneer - PSU only
      • De Ragnus LV100-149 - [B] Thunder Cannon - AOTI only
      • De Ragnus LV100-149 - [B] Deathmaker - PSU only
      • Dimmagolus LV100-149 - [B] Shigga Bines - AOTI only
      • Magas Maggahna LV100-149 - [B] Rabol Asted - PSU only
    • Interestingly enough, I checked the old drop charts at the Japanese wiki, and it seems that the stuff the PB lists as AOTI mission exclusive does (or at least did) drop from these enemies in normal PSU missions. So, this could be another case of the PB having incorrect data or future drop chart changes to come if/when we get missions with version 1 bosses in version 2 missions. Anyway, the template change will be a very quick one. I'll see if I can make some of the changes after while. (I'd like to sort out the HSM article since I have the area drops clumped together when they should be separated by the two areas the mission takes place in.) - EspioKaos 20:10, 25 May 2008 (CDT)
  • I'm just going to make a quick change: "Hakura Temple" to "Temple." Even though Hakura is the only one that's named in online mode, we know from story mode that there is also Kokura Temple. (I think it was the one that was infected with ice SEED.) Also, the missions that take place in this area are in different sections of Neudaiz - Cost of Research is in the Mizuraki area while Grove of Fanatics is in Shikon (this is where Hakura Temple is located), meaning we've got different temple locations. - EspioKaos 09:11, 29 May 2008 (CDT)

User page edits

Is there no way to prevent user page edits from appearing under recent changes? rather than complaining people make too many edits, just fix the problem like this altogether? Battlestar 11:17, 16 May 2008 (CDT)

  • Preventing user page edits from showing up would be more trouble than it's worth to be honest. Also, the sysops more or less have to keep track of all edits to prevent spam, vandalism, and other stuff. However, I did find a simple solution that will be of some use. Go here: Special:Preferences. Click on the "Recent changes" tab and check the box for "Enhanced recent changes (Javascript)." This actually collapses all the edits made on a page each day to one line. Makes a big difference. -- Sekani 15:08, 16 May 2008 (CDT)
    • I tried using the enhanced setting, but I find it to also be more trouble than it is worth. The real solution is for people to read the notice on the front page before doing anything. If you can't do that, then I'm more than happy to warn people. As someone mentioned earlier, it may be worthwhile creating a templatized notice to post when people spam their user page with edits. --Qwerty 15:13, 16 May 2008 (CDT)

Neutral synth rates

As far as I'm aware, none of the armor or weapon pages and templates show or account for the success rates when making them with no element. Since going green is apparently becoming more popular with the playerbase, especially with armor, seemed like something to bring up. - Sekani 16:59, 29 April 2008 (CDT)

  • Far as I'm concerned, only an idiot would make something neutral, especially an armor. Anyway, there's no space in the tables really, so I think we can just leave it up to people to figure out on their own. It's higher than the listed numbers, we'll just leave it at that. --Qwerty 17:06, 29 April 2008 (CDT)
    • Only an idiot would waste time synthing a two-star saber, but we've got stuff on that too. Just saying. - Sekani 17:18, 29 April 2008 (CDT)
      • Touche (I'M TOO LAZY TO FIND THE PROPERLY ACCENTED E OK GOD). But yeah, there's just not room for it in the template, and it would only confuse people further. Least that's my opinion. --Qwerty 17:19, 29 April 2008 (CDT)
        • Do non-elemental weapons have a standard synth rate bonus over elementals, or does it vary from weapon to weapon? If it varies between weapon type, it might be worth adding a footnote, e.g. 'All sabers gain a 5% synth rate boost when plain photons are used instead of elemental photons'. I feel this stuff is worth having in, but especially for armours - while some of you feel that neutral armours are an idiot's game, a lot of us can't afford a set of elementals and especially with the appearance of Paradis Cataract, CASTs wanting an S-rank are going to increasingly look towards making themselves a neutral armour what with the rising price of S-rank armour with an extra slot. Strawdonkey 09:14, 14 May 2008 (CDT)
          • At the very least I'm thinking of adding a special note to some S-rank armors, since I've lost count of the number of people asking about neutral Serafi-senbas on PSOW. If no one feels like reworking the template though, I'm not going to press the issue. - Sekani 13:05, 14 May 2008 (CDT)
            • If it comes to it, I've got nothing against revising the templates to include neutral synth data. Thankfully implementation would be no problem since the success rates would be based on existing parameters (rarity for line shields and category-rarity for weapons). Only problem is finding a way to squeeze the info into the table. It can be done, I'm certain, but it'll likely require a lot of cell rearrangement. - EspioKaos 13:34, 14 May 2008 (CDT)

Crea+ weapons

  • The wiki has real trouble with articles with a + in them, as we've seen with someone here. It tends to just remove them, so Creasabra+ will be Creasabra. I suppose when the time comes to make articles about them we'll just have to rename them to something like Creasabra (plus) and put a note in the article saying something like 'Due to the technical limitations of the wiki, this item's name cannot be displayed properly. It is supposed to be Creasabra+.' - Mewn 14:20, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
    • Well, it clearly can be done, it's just a matter of figuring out how. --Qwerty 14:26, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
    • The only way I can get it to work is this way. Everything else just seems to remove it and act as though it's the Creasabra article. - Mewn 14:58, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
      • I see. This must be what MediaWiki help meant when they said that using a root.com/articletitle URL format is not recommended due to certain conflicts. We may need to change everything over to the root.com/index.php?title=articletitle format (or root.com/wiki/articletitle, maybe). However, that probably involves messing with the code on levels that I am not at all comfortable with until other options have been ruled out. --Qwerty 15:03, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
        • Well, depends on how ready you are to deal with more "OMG WUT HAPIND 2 PSU PEE DIAD?" stuff. - Sekani 15:15, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
          • That would be quite a mess. I say we just go with Creasabra Plus or Crea Wand Plus until we can get Creasabra+, etc. to work properly. Then we could just redirect the Plus articles to the + articles. - EspioKaos 15:46, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
  • On a slightly different note, Wormania, why did you change the Creasabra+ page to a redirect to Creasabra (plus)? It won't do anything because the problem is not so much with the article, but the URL. No matter the content of the Creasabra+ page, unless you do it as I stated above the URL changes to Creasabra and you go to that article. Unless you're doing something I'm missing, in which case I'd like you to explain it. - Mewn 15:47, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
    • Just testing, needed to see in which order the + was processed in the grand scheme of things. Also my second test didn't work, apparently you cannot redirect to "outside" pages.
      As I'm sure everyone else has been using, http://psupedia.info/index.php?title=Creasabra%2B is the page which it will accept, however the Creasabra+ directs to /Creasabra+.
      As it stands, I see two possible options. You could use Creasabra+, which is slightly messy, but does the job, or you can do the whole root directory swap, which I can see being messy. This is all ofcourse assuming there's nothing we've missed so far. -- Wormania
  • Aha, holy shit, that was so stupidly obvious that it actually worked. For the sake of simplicity, let's just do it this way for now: make Creasabra plus with the content of #REDIRECT [[Creasabra+]], and it actually will redirect to the correct page. For linking to it, we can just use [[Creasabra plus | Creasabra+]] (yields Creasabra+). --Qwerty 16:10, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
    • Ah, excellent, that should be a decent way of getting round it then. - Mewn 16:28, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
    • And when you click the article tab, it sends you to the regular Creasabra :< --Beatrixkiddo 17:32, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
      • Solution: don't click the article tab. This clearly isn't the perfect solution, but it's clearly about as close as we can get without majorly changing URLs and shit. --Qwerty 17:36, 10 April 2008 (CDT)
  • Don't know if this is still being considered, but I'm 99% sure that a URL change won't affect any internal links. Only links to articles here from other sites like PSOW or the official forums would be affected. Also, the main page URL can stay the same. The process should only involve changing the URL prefix in a configuration file somewhere, not too complicated. - Sekani 12:03, 11 April 2008 (CDT)
    • Not really up to me, but I guess it's at least worth a shot. If we don't like the results, we can just change it back. - EspioKaos 13:00, 11 April 2008 (CDT)
    • According to this, I think either MediaWiki is installed into the root folder (which is a bad thing, apparently), or whoever set up the wiki software redirected links to the "short" version, which is just .info/Article_Name. So, I think we need some intervention from Hitmonchan either way. --Beatrixkiddo 01:32, 12 April 2008 (CDT)
      • Tried this, but seemingly to no avail (unless it's slow). Anyway, someone shoulda tried this / called for help earlier. D: - Tycho 12:39, 26 May 2008 (CDT)
  • Just wanted to chime in on this issue. It would seem that the least troubling way to solve the problem is to avoid using the '+' symbol in the page/image names at all. It seems that Media wiki/Wikipedia also avoided using the '+' symbol in the page names. We can still use the '+' in the links as illustrated by Qwerty on April 10th. As far as benefits: there wouldn't be duplicate pages to redirect to the one with the '+' in the name, the pages would be accessible from the recent changes page, you can use the article tab at the top, it would take you back to the correct page after editing, and you could view the full sized images. The only disadvantage, as far as I can tell, is that the page name wouldn't be the same as the game data. Additionally, we're not yet sure how they will be localized, it may end up not being an issue at all. -Propagandist 01:48, 28 May 2008 (CDT)

[Edit] Text too large

I think the [edit] text / link on all pages is in the wrong position, and far too large. It makes the page look messy and untidy. Compare this page http://psupedia.info/Events to this page on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast the [Edit] text is on the far right, out of view of readers, and smaller in font size so it's non obtrusive, i've set up a wiki before and this is usually default, I don't know the history of this wiki or why you've changed this, but I just had to say something and I think it looks terrible / you should fix it.. --Battlestar

  • Strange that someone with so much wiki experience doesn't know how to sign their comments.
    That aside, I agree with you that the text does look more intrusive than it should. I'm not aware at the moment of any quick fix for it though. - Sekani 09:50, 20 April 2008 (CDT)
    • Setting up a wiki doesn't automagically imbue the person with the knowledge on how to sign their comments. Thanks for the troll, but anyway, trolls aside, it says below (Battlestar 10:03, 20 April 2008 (CDT)) I guess I just forgot, huh?
      • I think it's because we're using a different version of MediaWiki than WikiPedia is. It may not look great, but this isn't a big concern for us at the moment. --Qwerty 10:42, 20 April 2008 (CDT)


Offline

OK you might have seen me doing some offline work in my sandbox. I'll explain my thoughts about it here.

  • Break offline in "Episode 1" and "Episode 2". There's too much different things to make them the same section. Example: drops are fixed per enemy in ep1, and per level in ep2. Missions are totally differents. Might have some balancing done between the two, etc.
  • Offline doesn't need a page per item/weapon/mission/whatever. People will mostly want to know where to get their stuff and how it works, but won't worry about the descriptions much. A page like this is enough, imho. Plus there isn't that much weapons/stuff anyway.
  • No need for an offline.psupedia imho. As you can see in my sandbox there's about 30 pages for ep1, without counting the more generic pages like save marker, photon charger etc, which are most of the time valid for both online and offline. We just need to stick with this slick format and remove all the old pages and clean-up the online page from everything offline-related. Also if we have an offline.psupedia, where do the scripts for episode 2 go? They're about the same for online and offline.
  • Add a template to each Ep1 pages indicating that this is info for Episode 1 and that it is offline, on the top of the page. Same with other offline games.
  • Once Episode 1 is done we could:
    • Add a category to the left menu, "story mode" with links to "Episode 1" and "Episode 2" for example. Can also put a link to Phantasy Star Portable.
    • Clean-up all the online pages from offline stuff.
    • Deprecate (mark for deletion) all the offline pages available and remove them a while later instead of having tons of redirections about offline. Of course before that they'll become redirections.
    • Start Episode 2 (yeah i probably will) using the same structure than for Episode 1
    • Also use the same structure for PSP.
    • Once that is done (or before) I'll probably proceed to clean-up other stuff on the wiki.

Comments, thoughts, suggestions? Essen 21:01, 13 March 2008 (CDT)

  • Very impressive work, Essen! It's greatly appreciated since our offline section (as near non-existent as it was) was in bad need of help. There are a few minor standardization things that should be taken care of (de-capitalization of subsection titles in a few spots is all I've seen), but I love the look.  :D - EspioKaos 22:34, 13 March 2008 (CDT)
    • Yeah I'm trying to stick to the manual of style but might forgot stuff ^^; I'll change that on the next edits and will check a last time before putting it live. Thanks for the comment Essen 22:48, 13 March 2008 (CDT)
  • Okay so I almost finished that as you can see, but I still have a good bunch of work to do: add availability (what items appear with what chapter); grinds (can wait tho i'll do it); a few pages like the bullets, technics and common items like mates; and read again to check everything is ok, maybe add some more links etc. Then I'll start rolling it out.
  • I have a few questions however, more general because they are also about episode 2 and psp.
    • Do we want individual item pages like for online? My guess is no and I made the episode 1 stuff without. But there's a few existing pages so I rather ask. Too much pages about something most people don't bother with is no good tho.
    • Do we want individual pages for missions? Yes for aoi and psp, no for the first episode (since the drops don't change with level, there's no rare map, etc).
    • I made a template for v1 offline contents, shown on top of all pages, and I also put "(Episode 1)" in the title. I think instead of putting that in the title we could use namespaces. See here for an example. All Oblivion stuff are in the Oblivion namespace, all Morrowing stuff in Morrowing namespace, etc. So for us that'd be something like "Offline:" or "Episode1:" or "OfflineEp1:" or "PSP:" or something. Like "OfflineEp1:Missions" instead of "Missions (Episode 1)" or "Offline:Partner characters" instead "Partner characters (offline)". Lots of stuff to consider and discuss about that.
    • I probably said it but I also separated completely the games to make it easier to check stuff and also because stats are not necessarily the same. And if you compare ep1, ep2 and psp the games are indeed all very different. I also had some troubles cleaning up the aoi stuff from the v1 ones for my project sometimes.
    • When I'm finished I will do one test before we can roll it out, to make sure I didn't make mistakes. I intend to speedrun the whole game (in 12 segments) and I'll use the work I did for that. It won't be a perfect check, but at least that's something, and I doubt I'll want to touch the v1 game again after that anyway.
    • Once everything is good there'll be a good number of pages to move and/or delete, I'll request your help about it. Then I'll start with aoi offline, and psp when it gets out in japan. I doubt much people will be interested by aoi offline but it'd be good if we could prepare the work on psp before it comes out, see who can work on it etc.
    • Well that was long enough. I stop talking now. ^^; Essen 12:34, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
      • I was actually going to mention UESPwiki soon myself. Their namespace system seems to work out quite well for them, and I think it would be a good idea, though it might confuse some unless we leave online in the default namespace and merely make namespaces for the other (PSP, Ep1) things. --Beatrixkiddo 12:57, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
        • That's what I would advise to do. The main purpose of this wiki is the online game, so it can stay in the main namespace, and other stuff can fall into separate namespaces without having to do too much changes to the current pages. If I'm not mistaken you can also make it so that the search do not include these other namespaces by default, so we would only have online contents as a result unless we specify the namespace manually. Essen 13:05, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
  • The unique namespace idea is great for these sections. You've got my support with that. As far as existing articles for offline units and weapons, those likely can be done away with since there's really little need for them, as you said. - EspioKaos 14:07, 2 June 2008 (CDT)
    • OK so what namespace do we use? "Offline" for general offline content is obvious, but for the 3 other games? "Episode1", "Episode2" and "PSP"? Essen 02:20, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
        • Hello, everyone. Oh, something I've noticed: Bel Pannon drop Dagger of Serafi offline. So...I thought that might be useful. Later! Gespenst MK II 03:01 PM, 9 Dec 2008 (CDT)
  • New Drop in PSP, did not notice that I had picked it up until after mission Dessert Terror B was over. Found GUARDIANS Formal in my inventory...wiki says its AOTI Only, can someone add that PSP has it too, I would but being new wiki editing, not sure how to add stuff, only been adding descriptions to un-edited weapons, will add in-game pics as soon i figure a way how.<adds more proof ;) HyeVltg3 04:26, 8 March 2009 (CDT)

Categories?

  • I've been noticing lately the lack of categories for most pages. For example all the *_(Offline) pages are left alone without category. Same with the scripts, and various others. There is a good bunch of categories already, but a lot of pages still haven't any. I don't think I have to explain the benefits of doing this: easy navigation to pages with similar contents. Is there recommandations for categorization, and do you mind if I have fun categorizing when I happen to stumble on one of these numerous lost pages? Same sort of question with orphaned pages. Essen 22:00, 9 March 2008 (CDT)
    • Go to town if you want :P First of all though, it might help to explain the blurred line that some categories would provide. For example, what separates Swords from Category:Swords when the former should already provide a comprehensive list? - Miraglyth 22:07, 9 March 2008 (CDT)
      • It's mostly not needed for online items as long as they link back to the Swords-like page. Unfortunately that's not always the case. It's also possible to process everything with a script if you are using categories. For example, generating a list of drops for all the items by running through the category and its childrens. If you change the template for the items, there's only one change needed to the script. If you change the pretty page, 0 needed. Without category, you need to change the script each time you change any pretty page. (And I might do that for various reasons, not only for psutools but also for making reports on what's missing in psupedia for example.) Anyway right now I was more thinking of that poor Units (Offline) page that gets linked only from Units. Meaning if you search for infos about offline, you need to go through online pages first. And if you need something else about offline (like, a weapon), you need to go back through online. Also worth noting that for the scripts, for example, there isn't really a place in the page where you can add a link back to the index (except the bottom, like categories do). Finally, and that's probably the solution to the difference between category and pretty page: you can probably make the category redirect to the pretty page. That way all users will get redirected to the page you want, you'll get links at the bottom automatically, and automated scripts can still parse the categories by adding "&redirect=no" to the URLs. Essen 23:05, 9 March 2008 (CDT) (and sorry for the lengthy comment lol I wrote as I thought about it)
      • Most of that actually makes sense, heh. On the offline thing though: Once upon a time it was suggested that we try something like offline.psupedia.info to create a distinction between Network Mode and Story/Extra Mode. Nobody really responded to the idea, indicating a general lack of interest in offline modes. If one/some people took an interest to the offline modes then that'd be another idea on top of this, though the offline modes are a confusing mix themselves - Story Mode "v1" is different to Extra Mode "v1" is different to Story Mode AOTI. The latter two of course aren't even available to the 360. - Miraglyth 07:48, 10 March 2008 (CDT)
        • Yep I remember when that suggestion popped up. I'm not really interested in offline, it's just I did ep1 again to remember the story and I needed ep1 informations. What I suggest is to separate Episode 1 and 2 since they don't work the same way for everything (like for drops, shops, etc). This would prevent some confusion if an item is in PSU and not in AoI for example. However I wouldn't advise in separating story from extra (it's only a few SUV different, and story missions not available), and don't think offline.psupedia would be good either, since stuff like NPC or scripts are not only for offline. Pics of items too. Finally, it's pretty easy to find everything in offline mode, and there's no need for editing once it's considered finished. I might try and get the complete list of drops for Ep1, wouldn't take too long since the drops don't depend on the enemy level. And clean up all this in 2 different categories, Ep1 and Ep2. Sounds like fun. Essen 09:00, 10 March 2008 (CDT)
        • I've made an example of redirection of category on the Category:Swords category. Essen 09:09, 10 March 2008 (CDT)
          • I tried a similar category redirection a while back, for some reason it didn't go over well. Never bothered to ask why. - Sekani 12:59, 13 March 2008 (CDT)
  • This extension could make categories much more useful. Also, please comment that old example I made on the sword category. I think the redirection paired with this extension could make for a much better navigation. Essen 09:39, 31 March 2008 (CDT)
    • Originally, I was under the impression that categories should not redirect to an actual article as that seemed to defeat the purpose of a standalone category. However, I'm seeing now that it really would serve a great purpose, especially with something like this. I'd love to see how well this would work here, especially if if would make site navigation easier. - EspioKaos 10:07, 31 March 2008 (CDT)
      • A real life example of the extension (see at bottom) Essen 12:45, 31 March 2008 (CDT)
        • Now that looks great! Clean, easy to read; it'd be perfect for us. - EspioKaos 12:49, 31 March 2008 (CDT)
          • This really does look cool, but apparently it requires a fairly rigid existing structure already in place. Most of the pages that aren't weapons or missions are somewhat unorganized, and I have to wonder how useful this extension would be in that context. - Sekani 18:31, 31 March 2008 (CDT)
            • Categorized categories and all of that, right? I figure if we spend some time getting things put in their proper categories, we can get that extension working very nicely. When I have more time, I'll look more into it to see just how rigid it needs to be. - EspioKaos 19:41, 31 March 2008 (CDT)
      • Category containing images: this would allow automatic creation of image galleries by just adding an image to one (or more) category. This might be more or less configurable, I didn't look seriously yet. Essen 19:04, 14 April 2008 (CDT)
  • .. Okay. *breathes*
So, I like categories. A lot, cause I like to have things organized.
This could be seen over one year ago when I started making loads of unnecessary categories such as '3* Weapons by GRM'. What did I think was the use of this? Trying to replicate db-like complex-parameter search functions, because I felt frustrated with the seeming limits of the wiki system. How did I believe it was possible to implement something like this? By using complex templates (behold) to automatically assign all of these categories; for example including a '3*' category whenever the template used for the 3* image is called.
Yes, my old approach sucked. However, I have now added the (albeit slightly gimpy) Multi-category search extension (along with the Breadcrumbs2 one for good measure). My old system sucked, but I believe that by embededding new categories a la '1*' 'GRM' 'Sabers' in existing (relevant icon) templates, getting a functional version of that off the ground should be relatively easy.
Not like I could do stuff without destroying existing standards or whatever, so, thoughts?
Also, I feel like the image category thing would be pretty interesting, perhaps especially combined with this (even though the search function still does feel kind of old-fashioned with all this manual copy-pasting or typing out of names..). Blah, end comment, sleep. - Tycho 14:44, 26 May 2008 (CDT)

Drop information

  • I think it would be benefitial if item pages of materials had a section of where or from what it can drop, besides of where it is used or can be exchanged. Now I don't know how this pedia works, whether there's cross-referencing (the information is only kept in one place). If it's just editing the pages themselves, I can contribute. Sab 09:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
  • Maybe, but for many of them the list will be kind of huge. See Area drops. So for those they should be noted as area drops and linked to that page, plus the boxes drop if any. Essen 09:46, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
    • Yeah, we really should have more details on where to get certain items. And in the cases of stuff like gemstones where the lists will be huge, we can probably get away with spreading them out horizontally. That'll help take up some space that normally wouldn't be filled since there isn't much else to include. I'll make some changes to the item drop template so that other icons like gemstones, hard materials and wood can be added. - EspioKaos 14:00, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
      • Also, area drops would only list the aera and enemy level, that's not that many, I think. The usage cases can be alot, but at least the trade-in possibilities would be nice to have. Sab 15:57, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
      • Saw your additions, EspioKaos. Looks good :) Sab 15:58, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Original Soundtrack Pages

I've completed a discography for Phantasy Star Universe, but I was wondering...how will we create the tables for track listing? Should we use Wikipedia's template, or something else? I'm open to suggestions here. --Zhane Masaki 20:31, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

  • Nice. Do you have an example of Wikipedia's template use? Essen 20:46, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
    • Not handy, Essen. I'd probably have to use their Music of the Final Fantasy VII series for examples or something. --Zhane Masaki 22:30, 9 November 2009 (UTC)