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Forums

You don't need to move all the forums yet. :3 There might be a database wipe before/after open beta. Dunno yet. --ToaMeiko (talk) 23:13, 20 September 2013 (EDT)

SEO

Would this extension be useful in for news? It would make news articles appear better in search engines. --ToaMeiko (talk) 17:45, 7 October 2013 (EDT)

Do you think it should be globally installed or just on en? --ToaMeiko (talk) 20:09, 7 October 2013 (EDT)

StringFunctions

Hey, stringfunctions are already installed :P UltrasonicNXT (talk)

No, sorry. (GitHub it and it'll be added to my todo list :P ) Ah, is is installed as part of ParserFunctions, so that's why it didn't show up. UltrasonicNXT (talk)

Re:Why...

I don't know why the artists or LEGO decided on it (since he has had white eyes with the red logo too) but I think that they used this image. :P Berrybrick (talk) 11:41, 12 October 2013 (EDT)

CM4S

Do you think I should give him global betatest rights? Currently he only has it on the customs wiki. I think he might have decent input on some of the recent forums popping up. --ToaMeiko (talk) 11:17, 14 October 2013 (EDT)

Logos

In case you ever need, I have SVG/PNG/AI logos of pretty much every Brickipedia/Brickimedia-related thing there is. --ToaMeiko (talk) 15:04, 17 October 2013 (EDT)

Re:RfA

As soon as mostly everyone is fairly active here, I will. :P BrickfilmNut (talk) 16:22, 18 October 2013 (EDT)

News idea

Should we add information on a news report's author on each report at the top, like how many news sites have, and how blog posts currently have? --ToaMeiko (talk) 18:26, 1 November 2013 (EDT)

Re:WikiActivity

Hey Nova. Berry answered the question for the most part. It looks a little prettier/neater, new users may be a little more used to it, and sometimes seeing what photos are added to a page can be quite useful. :P BrickfilmNut (talk) 17:01, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Import

So I went for the import, but as you can see, it didn't go too well. The dump from wikia seems to be partially broken, and to make it worse the backup of en I made was also corrupted, meaning I had to use this backup. I'm sorry.

UltrasonicNXT (talk)

No, it will be possible. I should have done the whole of en onto dev first, which is what I will do before anything else now, and I need to ensure the bricki dumps are good. Other than that, there shouldn't be too many problems, I just need to test it all on dev first. UltrasonicNXT (talk)

Rights

User:NBP3.0 needs sysop rights. :) --ToaMeiko (talk) 02:16, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

• Done :) NovaHawk 02:24, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Re: News Reporters

Sorry for the epicly-late reply. I'm not logging in here all too often until all the imports are done. Anyway, just want to confirm that I received the message. BrickfilmNut (talk) 05:47, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Award!

	Award
	testing, don't mind me :P CJC95 (talk) 17:19, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Rating conversion

Now we've got some pages, I've been thinking about how to convert all of our articles to using the Article Ratings extension. My current plan involves various stages of bot replacing, which I'm pretty sure would work, but I just wondered if you had anything on your mind about ratings? Cheers, UltrasonicNXT (talk)

• That's great to hear it can be botted this time around :) The only thing I can think of right now is can a semantic property be attached to the rating? I've noticed CJC doing some calls to get all ratings in Ninjago, and I think there is some smw stuff around the place with calls to the rating property. If not, no worries, ARE still easily beats the system we've got NovaHawk 18:56, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
  • I was talking with CJC earlier, and I thought of this too. I'll look into it. I'm going to start doing that botting now. UltrasonicNXT (talk)

SMW

There's also a load of SMW stuff that we need to sort out. See review pages, but there's also the stuff I did with themeTable. I think we may be running a different version of SMW to wikia, things are looking very different. Everything seems to want to be a link... :/

Lots more to be said here I think, :), UltrasonicNXT (talk)

• Hi NXT, having a quick look at all the pages in the property namespace, I think there are a few missing, so their type would be defaulting to Page, and most of them should be String. Hope that helps, I'll be back in action in a few days and will be able to take a good look at it then. NovaHawk 18:56, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Hiya

BobaFett2 (talk) 04:13, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

I'm great. How are you?BobaFett2 (talk) 13:49, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, me too.BobaFett2 (talk) 16:42, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Re:Great Video Game Overhaul

Is it coincidence or did you see my feedback on LEGO LoTR? :P

Re:Interwiki Contests

They'll be head exclusively on Brickimedia for Brickipedia and the CUUSOO wiki and on wikia for the others. BrickfilmNut (talk) 01:20, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

SMW

For some reason, only one of those properties seems to be registering as a string. All the others are still titles, and so we still get the annoying links... I defined a load as 'text', but I checked the docs, and string is just an alias for text, so that shouldn't make a difference. None of the text ones are showing up on Special:Types either. Do you think we're defining them wronly somehow?

Cheers, UltrasonicNXT (talk)

That string one is in the news ns, rather than all the others in main, perhaps that's something to do with it.. UltrasonicNXT (talk)

When I installed SMW with the 1.22 update, I had to use a slightly older version, becuase the new one required loads of dependencies, and I couldn't be bothered to install them. I'll try updating to the new version sometime soon, see if that makes any difference. UltrasonicNXT (talk)

I've updated SMW to 1.9, lets see if that makes any difference. UltrasonicNXT (talk)

I've just changed the default data type to text, and so far it looks to be working. However, it does mean all the data has to be refreshed again, so I've got the server doing that in the background, though it may take a while before everything is back to normal. (Better than having to wait for days like we did on wikia though ;) ) UltrasonicNXT (talk)

Re: Messages NS

Which are you looking for? If you have a few in mind, a plaintext list I can import from would save you the time of doing it manually. Otherwise I can try importing them all from wikia minus the CSS and JS, but we still might get lots of stuff we don't really need any more, I'm not too sure... UltrasonicNXT (talk)

Re:ImagePortalYear

I don't think so. It would certainly make life easier if I did. I'll look at it sometime. CJC95 (talk) 10:55, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Re:ExternalLink

I haven't read that series, so I'm not sure. It's on my list, but I have enough books I need to read for classes. :/ Berrybrick (talk) 23:43, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Re:Year portal thingy

Looks good - I'm gonna move it to template space if you don't mind, so I can quickly hash up a 2014 page before I likely go AWOL in the run up to launch. CJC95 (talk) 16:31, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Well, it didn;t work as well as it did in the examples, and half my stuff didn't save, so I doubt I'll get time to look at it again for another week or so, so no rush to do anything with it XD . CJC95 (talk) 20:53, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

• The lack of formatting is due to me not adding any formatting XD CJC95 (talk) 15:46, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
  • I'll have a think, though its outside my area of expertise really XD - sorry I can't be more help but I don't have that much time atm CJC95 (talk) 23:40, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
    • User:CJC95/2014 CJC95 (talk) 01:42, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Re:QCG

Thanks for the rights. And don't worry about the delay. Vasko (talk) 16:20, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I didn't really know about it... Vasko (talk) 19:04, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Re;2014

It always takes a really long time to save edits, even when the table is split into 3 parts. So my guess is you are correct :P CJC95 (talk) 11:22, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Reviews

Why no images? :( --ToaMeiko (talk) 04:59, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Re:

I was the only entrant? :P I thought there'd be more. Anyways, thanks :) -LFY1547 03:03, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me; I actually thought that C2's should be discussed first, but never mind then. And no, you're don't sound like an idiot. :P Vasko (talk) 17:35, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Re:Robin

• We already discussed what to do with Robin but only about three people actually participated, so if you want to re initiate it I think it would be fine. And yes, Barbara is the only Batgirl who has appeared in LEGO (she's easy to spot, as she is the only one who has red hair). Some of the other characters have appeared in the games, but in identities other as Batgirl. I guess that doesn't really matter though. :P Berrybrick (talk) 12:29, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Re:Import

• I guess that copying and pasting is better than nothing. :P Berrybrick (talk) 00:47, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Re:4496

• That's the pitchfork, right? Both moulds are on LDD, and then just the new one is on Brickset, so that's how I figured out which was which. :P (And I think it was Bricklink's numbers we were trying to get away from, though some of Peeron's are also wrong). Berrybrick (talk) 23:21, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Chat

get on chat nao --ToaMeiko (talk) 23:29, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Re:QCG

Sure. :) Vasko (talk) 08:20, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Reverting imported pages

Is it really necessary to do that? I mean, both wikis are under CC-BY-SA so we can technically take content from each other as we want. I know your intention, and it's fine. But the fact that we'd basically add the same information back to the page eventually seems to make the reverting a bit unnecessary. idk --ToaMeiko (talk) 03:35, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Re:Name

I thought prelim book was from toy fair? CJC95 (talk) 15:33, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Feeds

I just wanted to let you know that our Feed for Brickipedia News is invalid and has a lot of issues that render it non-functional. I don't know if this is an issue with how we have it set up on-wiki; if it isn't just an issue with how we set it up, then it should be reported as a bug with the software. --ToaMeiko (talk) 20:00, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

• Additionally to all the validator issues that we really need to fix, it's going to need a <updated> tag on each post, since basically every RSS reader/interpreter/bot works chronologically, and a <author> tag since that's required in RSS. --ToaMeiko (talk) 06:21, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

"71005 Minifigures Series S"

I am really sorry, but why use a name – that doesn't make any sense at all – because it was written on a post-it and seems simply cut off, when a press document states an actual name. I need a bit of convincing. (always forget that part ->) Figura (talk) 16:56, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Re:BOTM

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Chat

I have a story of massive AI stupidity :P CJC95 (talk) 23:07, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

• Russia have the Manhatten Project. It is six turns before I can get it, and my spy says they are building up their army...Do I preemptive now on the hope they can't build missiles yet, or wait until I have missiles to even the playing field? :O CJC95 (talk) 00:57, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

  Well, I am operating under the assumption they have Fission, as I am behind them in tech (Oxford Uni helped me catch up by giving me one free, but since I've just started researching Fission I can only assume they had - and as its Russia most of it is 10 squares away from my cities :P CJC95 (talk) 10:34, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

decided not to pre-empt, as it won't be very useful. Instead, just slowly building up defences and waiting (this is why my cities are always so small, and my social policy sucks :P) In the mean time, I'm going to attack a poor little city state so I can get their resources... CJC95 (talk) 00:11, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Falcon

lol, can't believe I missed that. XP I had copied and pasted the template from another page (having forgotten its exact name), and somehow, didn't see that part I missed removing. :P BrickfilmNut (talk) 03:18, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Re: LE INFOS

Hm. Unfortunate. On a completely unrelated note, is there anything around here that needs doing aside from "editing, in general"? If so, please tell me what it is so as I can do it. :P -Cligra

Yeah, I know the feeling. I'm just not getting motivation to do much here, even though it probably really needs it. It doesn't help that by my standards I'm also really busy irl, though... :/ -Cligra

Personal testing wiki

I set you up a personal testing wiki at http://nova.georgebarnick.com so just come on chat some time and I'll get you a server log in so you can test PHP. :) --ToaMeiko (talk) 03:35, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

About that edit

Ah, that's my bad - they looked very similar so I thought they were the same, thanks for the clarification though :-) -LFY1547 01:12, 25 March 2014 (UTC)