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Collector's Location Map

Ooh, this is a nifty page! i have lots of questions, but I don't want to start spamming with them just yet. I'll ask what I'm working on right now.

Well, the question is, I've been taking screen shots of collectors as I go along. I know we don't have to take screen shots of the placement of where the collectors are, but I did anyway, but since i was mapping at the same time, it doesn't show a direct path to the collectors, should I still put it up anyway? Or should I just give a description of where the collector are at?--Zemmy 12:31, 23 April 2007 (EDT)

According to the formatting guidelines for NPCs, all that is required is a description in the body of the article; however, if you have the map, I'd suggest you add it! There's a section in there that talks about "NPCs of high interest" and maps; I personally always find maps to be helpful (I even get lost IRL =P) Hope that helps! MisterPepe talk 12:38, 23 April 2007 (EDT)

Go ahead and upload the versions with the messy paths, Zemmy, I'll rework your screenies to have direct routes in the same style as I did for the artisans maps. If artisans get maps, so should collectors. :) --Dirigible 12:42, 23 April 2007 (EDT)

Will do. Thanks for replying. Uploading I go ;)--Zemmy 12:46, 23 April 2007 (EDT)

Hard Mode

what... are we going to do about hard mode, it means every creature in the game has 2 levels, 2 sets of skills, and drops, i think various formatting guides need re-working, the monster infobox should probably have a separate field for hard mode level. Also for missions and for explorable areas we need some sort of formatting set out for hard mode information --Lemming64 12:51, 23 April 2007 (EDT)

That's really a discussion for Guild Wars Wiki:Formatting/Locations - rather than a policy discussion page, this is really just meant for questions about "How do I do this" I'll update the header to make that a little more clear. MisterPepe talk 12:59, 23 April 2007 (EDT)

Discussions have already started, but they are a bit spread out. Discussion for missions, for NPCs, and for the NPC infobox changes. And as Pepe said, this is probably a question for GWW:CP, I guess. Boh, as long as questions get an answer, I don't really mind where they're asked. :) --Dirigible 13:03, 23 April 2007 (EDT)

Cleaning up unncessary capitalizations

It's me again! yep... anyway, I've came across a few of the pages I've been a bit "shift key" happy, if you know what i mean. I didn't know it was supposed to "Cane male Mesmer" rather than "Cane Male Mesmer". I've done a lot of this on armor as well with the links and it's been screwing up a few people who have been uploading pictures to the right name without using the links. anyway, real question is, should I just leave it as it is since there has been people who already uploaded the stuff over it the wrongly named links, or should I correct the links, put a delete tag on the old picture, and replace the new link with a new picture?--Zemmy 12:42, 26 April 2007 (EDT)

For pictures that have already been uploaded under the miscapitalised name, there's no need to reupload them with the correct case, I'd say, just leave them as they are. Uniformity and consistency in filenames is a good thing, but it's not all that important. Eventually it will all become chaotic anyways. :) --Dirigible 13:11, 26 April 2007 (EDT)

Remove empty pages in userspace

When I was testing how to create and edit pages in the wiki, I created some subpages in my userspace. After testing, I removed the content, but could not delete the pages completely. Should I leave them just blank or is there a tag to mark them as "to be deleted"? Der moon 11:34, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

You can add the tag {{delete|at user's request}} if you nno longer require them :) Fox (talk|contribs) 11:36, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

Hidden info

How do I create hidden information? For example, if I were to list information that may be a spoiler on a talk page and want the information to be hidden but still be viewable by clicking a link what would I need to use - wiki-code wise? I've tried in the past but found it to only work for IE or Firefox but not both. Thanks. --File:VallenIconwhitesmall.JPG Vallen Frostweaver 15:03, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

We can't do it here on the GWW, NavFrame isn't installed. Try bringing it up in Requests for technical administration maybe, to see how the others feel about installing that here. --Dirigible 18:43, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

Get my template working

I no longer want to "spam" recent changes to test my template... but I think I don't get it working right now...

• the template
• the location the template is used

My problem: I want to have the first param striked out if third param is omitted. The second part (</s>) seems to work, but first part (<s>) not. Any idea how to fix it? Thanks for your help. MSorglos 15:44, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

Try replacing:

!{{#if:{{{3|}}}||<s>}}[[{{{1}}}]]{{#if:{{{3|}}}||</s>}}<br>

with:

!{{#if:{{{3|}}}|[[{{{1}}}]]|<s>[[{{{1}}}]]</s>}}<br>

It should work, I think. --Dirigible 18:31, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

Thanks a lot - it is working! - MSorglos 03:38, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Whitespace is stripped out of templates and parameters, so you can add spaces to most of that to make it clear where one template ends and another parameter begins. It makes things a lot easier when you're counting braces. LordBiro 04:45, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Thanks for your advice. I still don't know why my version did not work with that two ifs... combined version works. Is this some wiki-autofixing of code? (I noticed that the generated sourcecode had <s></s> generated for first part instead of only <s>) - MSorglos 04:51, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

It's hard to say for certain, but it sounds like it. LordBiro 04:52, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Nevermind... my template works now. Thanks for your help and advices. - MSorglos 05:00, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

I created a web based utility that accomplishes everything you are trying to do. You could check it out at http://gwtrack.roharsroughnecks.com. It lets you track all of your characters all at once, and review all the information in a single summary page. I've been working with Anet to get the thing listed "officially". -- Rohar (talk|contribs) 08:19, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Thanks for that link... but I think I got enough logins for now (and won't track my other characters)... and my work is already almost done ;-)... I just don't get the 3 inner tables to start at same line (valign=top)... anybody that knows how to fix it? - MSorglos 11:54, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Try putting valign=top directly after "|-" for the new line. As I see in your table, you dont start with a "new line code". Put |- valign=top (new line) directly after the first {| (table starter), solved :) - Anja (talk) 12:01, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Thanks Anja - now that tables are ready. Thanks to all who helped. - MSorglos 12:30, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Personal navbar below/above "toolbox"

Is it possible for me to create a page in my userspace in such a way that I can get a custom navbar below or above the toolbox? Currently I'm using my userpage for shortcuts, but somehow it strikes me as odd that I am not able to get myself a custom navbar on the left of my screen... --  (CoRrRan / talk) 17:50, 7 May 2007 (EDT)

Ok, this might be messy. Normally, you can just add something like this to your Special:Mypage/monobook.js:

addOnloadHook(function () {
 addPortletLink("p-navigation", 'http://google.com', "Google"); 
});

Which would result in a new link to google popping up in the Navigation box. ("p-navigation" can be changed for "p-tb" if you want it in the toolbox, "p-personal", if you want it at the top near the My Preferences/logout links, or p-cactions if you want it to appear as a tab, next to the article/discussion/edit/history tabs).

Our wikibits.js sucks though, and it doesn't have addPortletLink(), so you might want to grab that from my monobook, User:Dirigible/monobook.js, and add it to yours, (I have it there in order to be able to add some similar tabs at the top of each user page).

If you want to do anything fancier than that, maybe it's worth using the Navigation shortcuts script. --Dirigible 19:01, 7 May 2007 (EDT)

Images

There's probably a page that will answer this question, but i haven't found it yet. anyway, the question is, what if I uploaded a picture for a bug example or maybe something to say "See, this type of whatever does exist." like i did for Vabbian Defender. Should I have still put it under User Name Blah and the user image template?-- Zemmy»talk 16:45, 14 May 2007 (EDT)

Yes, pretty much: that image is only going to be used by you to exemplify something; it's not going to have its own page. Bit of a grey area though :D --Snograt 16:49, 14 May 2007 (EDT)

Actually, I don't think it applies. The {{user image}} specifically mentions it being in the user namespace. The signature icon is already an exception. So I think either the template needs some rewording, or the guideline needs to clarify things. -- ab.er.rant 01:42, 16 May 2007 (EDT)

Duh, of course you are right! Maybe there's a need for either {{temporary}} or {{example}} - for things that are posted to prove something drops something, or armor aberrations and suchlike. --Snograt 23:37, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

{{Pipe}} and |

Does anyone know why wiki's tablecode handles {{pipe}} as a real pipe ( | ), but functions like #if, #ifeq and #expr does not? (No need to change it, as it makes most of our table based infoboxes work :P) - anja (contribs) 13:40, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

When a template or parser function is called, the very first step in the process is identifying the separators between the different arguments/definitions. This separator is explicitly the pipe "|" symbol. This excludes the HTML entity &#124; "|" and any pipes that may appear only after the content between the {{curly braces}} has been expanded, which is the case with {{pipe}} template. {{#if: a {{pipe}} A {{pipe}} not A}} gives (that is, nothing).

Note that if you use {{subst:pipe}}, it will recognize it as a true separator pipe; thus {{#if: a {{subst:pipe}} A {{subst:pipe}} not A}} gives A.

This is by design, and I think the reason is exactly the one you mentioned, it gives more flexibility. For the same reason it ignores even true "|" pipes if they are in piped links/image links, or if they are part of a contained template or parser function call. --Dirigible 20:05, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

Thanks alot, I've always wondered why. - anja (contribs) 01:46, 16 May 2007 (EDT)

Site now "Games" tagged?

I do the majority of my editing from work (yeah, I know) but as of last night, I can no longer access this site as my company's nanny software blocks it as "Games related." It never did that before - what happened? And can it be undone? I had the same problem some months ago with gw.gamewikis.org, but discovered through random googling that it can be accessed via secretgw.gamewikis.org - any chance of a similar "backdoor" for this site? --Snograt 02:02, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Have you tried using TOR or something similar? --Rainith 03:16, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Installing software on their system would get me in far more trouble than illicit browsing :( --Snograt 03:26, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

You could try to use this wikis ip instead of url (ping wiki.guildwars.com to get ip). - MSorglos 03:28, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Indeed. It's 206.127.153.172, btw. Try this: [1]. MisterPepe talk 04:18, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Already tried - http://206.127.153.172/wiki/Main_Page - still no dice. Looks like I'm screwed :( --Snograt 04:23, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Proxy? -FireFox File:Firefoxav.png 04:24, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Heh, we tried that a while back: [2] Stupid auto-sensing filter software... MisterPepe talk 04:30, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

Actually, brilliant idea: [3] - it's a portable edition of Firefox preconfigured to use Tor - portable meaning that it runs off of a thumbdrive and you don't have to install anything. It's the link on the right. MisterPepe talk 04:33, 20 May 2007 (EDT)

kekeke - thumbdrive? I may have neglected to mention that the work computer runs NT4 - so no USB :) --Snograt 10:45, 23 May 2007 (EDT)

Some editing error I keep getting.

Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in. This is the error I keep getting. And all I wanted to do was add Lore to one of my pages... whats up with this? -- File:Blackgeneralstar.png (General | Talk) 02:06, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

I remember this happening on the other wiki once... it's not you... I think it was something to do with the software. You're fortunate enough to have been able to post your note at all ;) — kyrasantae 22:30, 22 May 2007 (EDT)

Actually, that's not luck. Apparently, if you keep clicking on "Save page" after a session error failure, you'll get your edit in eventually.-- ab.er.rant 02:53, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

I also had this error yesterday - not tried today yet. After several times of trying the page was saved - or after I added a summary; can't determine exactly what caused the save.

Well - as it also happened just here and now, it has propably nothing to do with the summary... Der moon 03:03, 23 May 2007 (EDT)

Quite a few people have been having this problem: Guild Wars Wiki:Reporting wiki bugs. MisterPepe talk 14:05, 23 May 2007 (EDT)

How to make my own Wiki (with the same coding as this and others i have seen)

Sorry to ask this question here, but I've been wanting to make a wiki for some time now, for my guild- and alliance mates to put in event info and stuff and just share things, but everything i tried didn't work like this one (and i kinda got used to these codings and stuff) so yeah, i'm only 15 so i guess if there's a free alternative to this, i'd really like to know, and if there isn't, oh well too bad, i guess i'll just go learn html and css xD. But yeah, i'd appreciate any reaction/help on this, thx in advance. -Marvellanius 14:09, 23 May 2007 (CDT)

See MediaWiki download page. There are links to installation and other documentation from there. -- ab.er.rant 02:09, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

The software is free for use, but you'll need to get it hosted somewhere, which is the tricky part. Some webhosts also support simplified installs (Dreamhost has one-click wiki installs, and it's rather cheap because of the shared bandwidth) which can be nice. Another option is using an ad-supported wiki host - free, but public and you have to deal with ads. If your guild/alliance has their own site/domain, the mediawiki software can be installed on that without too much trouble (php and an SQL database required, but it's pretty simple =P). MisterPepe talk 10:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks guys, I'll see if i can get anything hosted somewhere, but thanks again for your help :) -Marvellanius 17:01, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

Someone registered my guild

Someone has registered my guild Second To Nothing. How to I take control of it? Thanks!Gwjunkie

If you're talking about the wiki page (Guild:Second To Nothing), there is no registering. Anyone can create and edit pages. -Smurf 00:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

And you can't "take control" of any page. -- ab.er.rant 02:22, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Recent changes

Is there a way to sort out certain namespaces from recent changes by default? Atm I'd really like to keep away from the guild namespace, but it would be nice if I could do that by default, without having to select it from the menu each time. - anja (contribs) 14:19, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Put this link: http://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?limit=500&title=Special%3ARecentchanges&namespace=100&invert=1 somewhere (e.g. your userpage) and use that one instead of the normal recent changes. --Xeeron 16:53, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Ok, if that's the only way, I guess I have to. Thanks for answering :) - anja (contribs) 17:05, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Report a page

how can i report a page? i noticed vandalism on Guild:Jonas_Heeft_Een_Kutje62.59.45.16 17:33, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

The best way to do that would be to drop a line at one of the admins talkpage. Also, using the {{delete}}-template and providing the argument "vandalism" will get it noticed by the admins. --  (CoRrRan / talk) 17:35, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I'd actually suggest posting at Guild Wars Wiki:Admin noticeboard (shortcut: GWW:NOTICE) instead of any particular admin's talk page. It's just more likely that another admin will notice it early if it's on the noticeboard. It's there exactly for this purpose. :) --Dirigible 18:20, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I think the simplest thing to do is just to edit the offending page and replacing everything with this: "{{delete|Vandalism}}". -- ab.er.rant 08:42, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Add a Guild in the guild pve list

Hi, I just want to add my guild on the guild pve list ... I dont know how to do it ! Thanks

If you mean the category, you add [[Category:PvE guilds]] to your guilds page, and it will be listed there :) - anja

(contribs) 10:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you , it works :)

How can it be that a guild - added like above - with starting Letter "I" is shown in the Part for "G" in PvE Guilds? How can i fix my guild entry there? Thanks

It is sorted with it's full name, which really is "Guild:<your guild name here>". To make it sort under your guild name instead, you type [[Category:PvE guilds|<your guild name here>]]. I don't know if this is allowed, but I can see nothing talking against it in our policy or formatting. - anja (contribs) 15:15, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

You are great! Thank you very much!!!
Denor Do Urden 15:22, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Page Title

Is there a way to set a page title? I'm looking for a way to show a title of my character, rather than my wiki username/character name. - Tarun 20:03, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

AFAIK, no, as the page title is intended to display the name of the page as referenced by the wiki. You could add a section immediately after it that was solely your character's name. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 20:06, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

No, there is not. The closest thing you can get to it is either doing a subsection (Like Aiiane mentioned) or a subpage (i.e. User:Tarun/Teh_Character). MisterPepe talk 00:57, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I think Tarun was talking about a subpage. :P (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 01:07, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I think it sounds more like a homepage. -- ab.er.rant 03:08, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Given "rather than my wiki username/character name" from Tarun, plus looking at his User page he already has a subpage created for his character (which was created before this question), I'm inclined to believe that he was talking about changing the page title of the subpage. :) But anywho, doesn't really matter. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 03:10, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

username

How do I change my username from "jyanga" to "Ah Poh Lo" so the the heading will read "User:Ah Poh Lo"? Ah Poh Lo 04:37, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

You'll need to register a new account and specify "Ah Poh Lo" as the username. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 04:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

If this is the case, can you delete the Guild "Ah Poh Lo" and the username "jyanga" so that I can correct my mistakes? You can delete everything that I have created using the "jyanga" username except the Guild "Oooh Aaah Ouch". Thank you in advance. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Jyanga on {{{2}}}.

If you want something deleted, add the following to the top of the page: {{delete|Your reason for deleting.}} -- ab.er.rant 01:25, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

monobook.css and other users...

Is there any way to make css accessible to others without them having to add snippets to their own monospace.css?

I created a template that I would like my guildies to be able to use, and it works fine.

But one of the things I added used some CSS to add a background image (since url() isn't allowed in wiki text) which I placed in my monobook.css page. Works great. Until I'm not logged in.

I can see that this could potentially be abused and would understand why the answer might be no, but would still like to know how to do what I'm trying to achieve. How do people approve design changes and such if they can't see subtle differences? They add stuff to their own monobook just to view another user's page?

Thanks! Thulsey 05:57, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

It's probably too much of a frivolous change to be approved for the site-wide CSS. While that would be the way to do it, it's pretty unlikely that that'll happen. If I were you, I'd put that particular bit of code on another css page, and do a {{subst:User:Thulsey/mypage.css}} - any user that puts that line of code in their css file will get the changes.

The other option is to re-write your template. If you've noticed on the skill pages, there's a background image built in. Take a look at Template:Skill infobox and you'll see that it uses the code:

<div class="skill-image"> [[Image:{{{name}}}.jpg]] </div>

Using a similar bit of code should give you the effect you're looking for without having to make a css change. MisterPepe talk 06:13, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

To kinda "publish" your css to other users, I think you can have them add something like the following to each of their css file:

@import url("/index.php?title=User:Thulsey/mypage.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css");

--The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Ab.er.rant .

Gonna try the above suggestions, thanks. As for Template:Skill infobox, that's the skill image, not the background profession image I was going for, so not quite the effect I wanted, but thanks. Much appreciate the suggestions and this gives me new areas to go explore. Thulsey 06:22, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

While it uses the css class "skill-image," there's nothing to prevent you from using it with a profession icon. That's why I suggested it =P MisterPepe talk 06:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh. Nvm, I copied over the wrong bit of code. My bad. I know it's in there somewhere, I'm just horrible with templating =P MisterPepe talk 06:37, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Ugh. Finally found what I was looking for: [4] MisterPepe talk 06:43, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I actually referenced that page quite a bit which led me to the CSS idea in the first place. However, since it works for everyone, and it's the exact same image, I think it's gotta be in there somewhere. I'll keep looking! Ah, I see you found it. THANKS! I'll get on it ASAP. :D Thulsey 06:46, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

You could have just asked :P LordBiro 20:39, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Public domain

I just saw Template:User PD and Category:Users/Guild Wars Wiki/PD for users to declare their contributions to be public domain. Can someone more enlightened in all those licensing stuff explain to me whether the public domain declaration makes any difference in light of GFDL? -- ab.er.rant 03:23, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

By declaring your content to be released into the public domain, you relinquish all claim to the material. You're saying, "Everyone in the world now owns this material and can use it freely." Public domain content can be posted on the wiki as everyone automatically has the rights to do so. Further, this means that someone could take your public domain content, extend it however they wish, and use it in any manner they see fit, including under their own restricted-use license agreement. This is why many contributors prefer the GFDL -- with the GFDL, others can take and extend your content, but their extensions must also be released under the GFDL.

Public domain is the most free of all information status, but somewhat perversely, it is also the easiest to incorporate into non-free publication. The GNU licenses are "viral," in a sense -- they make their subjects mostly free, while requiring that anything based off them is also mostly free.

I am not a lawyer, and in fact am just a random guy on the Internet. :)

—Tanaric 03:52, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I see. That means I can actually copy those users' contributions back to GuildWiki. -- ab.er.rant 03:59, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Correct. If you wanted. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 04:00, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Yup. PD allows anyone anywhere to use that content in any way they want. Someone on GuildWiki can just copy/paste anything I've done here without any limitations, without needing to give any credit, without needing to bother with any license incompatibilities, without needing to worry about any conditions imposed upon them by the license. Which is one of the two main reasons why I personally favour PD over any copyright license. The second important reason is that I personally couldn't care less if someone makes a profit by modifying something I've contributed and doesn't also make those modifications freely available to the public. The way I see it, those modifications are their work, they have all rights to release it under any terms they see fit, who am I to force them adopt any particular license? If someone isn't interested in those modifications, the original contributions are still free in the public domain. (Basically, copyleft ftl!) --Dirigible 04:40, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

"You have a new message"

Is there a way to modify the looks of the "you have a new message" notice, that appear if someone writes on your talk page? If so, what parameters should I use, or where can I read more? Tried to search meta-wiki, but it's a bit messy. - anja (contribs) 15:41, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

If you know CSS, you can apply properties to the 'sitenotice' id using your personal monobook.css file, assuming it's enabled on this wiki. —Tanaric 17:12, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Ah, ok. So sitenotice is the name of the talk page notifier? I thought that was the thing conatining the bcrat election atm. :P And I still need to find the page on how to set the properties, but I guess that's just about basic css? - anja (contribs) 17:55, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Special:Mypage/monobook.css - and when you need help with css: Tell me want you want and I tell you what to write :D poke | talk 17:57, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok, read what I wrote above and tell me what to write ;) I know where my monobook.css is, I know where to look for some basic css teaching, but I don't know of the preset properties of the notice, and I don't know it's name. :) Something tells me it isn't sitenotice.. - anja (contribs) 18:01, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh, ok ^^ Just logged me out to force a message on my talk page. .siteNotice is used for the election. You need to change .usermessage. Standard properties:

.usermessage
{
  background-color: #FFCE7B;
  border: 1px solid #FFA500;
  color: black;
  font-weight: bold;
  margin: 2em 0pt 1em;
  padding: 0.5em 1em;
  vertical-align: middle;
}
/* Inherited from div#content */
#content { line-height: 1.5em; }
/* Inherited from div#globalWrapper */
#globalWrapper { font-size: 127%; }

Here :) poke | talk 18:11, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks alot! With so many people imitating the colors of the talk page notice, I really need to change it :P - anja (contribs) 18:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Re-uploading an image

Help! :)

I am trying to re-upload a file for someone. It's a jpg image and when I upload it to a new, cropped size all it does is change the display width and height, but the image is not cropped on the file page, the actual image, and the page that links to it.

It's not a cache issue, since I cleared my cache in Firefox and checked it in two browsers, one of which didn't have that image cached. It did the same thing. When I revert to the old image and then view my now 'older' version via file history, it displays correctly cropped and re-sized.

Is this a known issue, am I overlooking something, or am I doing something wrong? Though I'm doing this to a user image, I can see this happening to stuff in the main namespace since we're lacking many screenshots around here... - Thulsey - talk 02:53, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

If you're referring to Image:User Arcane Guardian Legendary guardian.jpg I can see two different versions, a large one and a cropped one. If it's the server's cache not yours that's the problem, you can get the server to update any images/inclusions by forcing it to purge its cache. The easiest way to do this is to make a small edit to the page (which you can then revert).

Yes, that's the image in question. Thanks for the reply, that solution seems logical. Will give it a go! - Thulsey - talk 04:11, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

How Do I renounce my guild?

I have created a guild and now have decided to end it. No one has joined, please help.

cthatcher5@hotmail.com

If you are the original contributor to the article of a guild page, then I think a {{delete}} tag will be enough to delete the page like any other page. --Jamie 22:30, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

If you're talking about an actual in-game guild, this isn't really the place to ask (it's for questions about the Wiki itself), but to disband a guild, open the Guild window ingame, then click on the small portrait icon to the left of your name in the Guild Roster and choose to Disband your guild. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 04:12, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Guild page

Hi, I'm really new to this whole wiki thing, and I noticed that some gulds have their own page, how can I create my on guild page?

Thanks in advance,

Sari 15:09, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Guild Wars Wiki:Formatting/Guilds should help you get started. Another way is to choose a guild page you like, choose to EDIT it and copy/paste it into your own making all the necessary changes to reflect your guild information. The format is generally the same on all guild pages with a few exceptions. In those cases you may want to ask before you copy something that looks different from the norm. If you need more info on how to use the wiki I suggest using the FAQ's or the formatting pages you can find listed in the Wiki Community box on the main page. --File:VallenIconwhitesmall.JPG Vallen Frostweaver 15:18, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Revert

Whenever I want to revert a page, I fail to find the links that will give me the standard text saying Undo revision 198xxx by yyy (Talk). Is this something that is added through scripts, like poke's GWWT or Ale_jrb's GuildWatch, or is there an actual link for it? I hate to always have to think of stuff as a reason for reverting when all I want to do is go on a revert-frenzy... --  (CoRrRan / talk) 00:25, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

When doing an "undo" you will get the standard message: "Undo revision 12345 by User (Talk)". When doing a revert you do not get a default message. It's just not implemented. See also Help:Reverting poke | talk 00:37, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Btw. I'm already thinking of implementing a nice revert feature to GWWT ;) poke | talk 00:38, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

That's good to hear poke. And thanks for the explanation. I'm still green as grass regarding wiki's. --  (CoRrRan / talk) 00:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I use the Popups script that's also popular over on Wikipedia - it has a number of features that like. Also also have guildwatch around for the few specialized features it provides. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 05:27, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

lost account info

hi, signed up awhile ago and recently formatted pc, cant seem to find an option retreave lost account details, could someone point me in the right direction plz?22:16, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

When you know your nick, go to login, type in your nickname and click "email password" - otherwise you have to register a new account. poke | talk 22:19, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Gallery tag

I've been trying to create a gallery using the following wiki-code:

<gallery>
Image:User AT UI Screenshot.jpg|The UI in-game
Image:User AT New Icons.jpg|Profession icons
Image:User AT UIScreenshot small.jpg|New login screen
</gallery>

However, the third image refuses to show up. It's probably something simple, but I can't work out where I'm going wrong on this one :( -- AT(talk | contribs) 23:54, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

I tried putting that exact code in a sandbox page - all 3 images work for me. Sure it's not something on your browser's end? (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 00:07, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Just tested it in Firefox, IE, and Opera, after clearing my browser cache - same result every time, no third image. I can view the image outside the gallery, as well. At a complete loss now :/ -- AT(talk | contribs) 00:16, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

It works for me as well. Could it be your firewall? -- ab.er.rant 03:27, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

No problems here either. Definitely something at your end AT. --  (CoRrRan / talk) 07:53, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Guild articles

Sry ur formatting standards 4 the Guild-Entries are too strong and complicated. we wont use ur service again

The Bomb of Chaos Guild --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:84.63.56.231 .

If you would like to propose a formatting change, you can bring up the issue at Guild Wars Wiki talk:Formatting/Guilds. If the issue is that the guidelines don't translate easily, it might be easier to copy the formatting from Guild:Example Guild. -- Gordon Ecker 08:18, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Since you care about this enough to post your comment, could you at least explain to us what you found too complicated? Some feedback will help us refine things to make it easier to understand. -- ab.er.rant 08:38, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

I am frustrated, i made a wiki site for my guild and got a message its about to be deleted. So I carefully looked at other sites & the example page u have provided & rules. After carefully editing its still marked for deletion: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild:Christian_Guild_Church. Why? Nokkien 17:19, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

You have to use the {{guild}} template on top and the {{Guild infobox}} template for general information about the guild. Please see also the Example Guild (which is noticed in the cleanup notice) for a perfect example. See also Guild Wars Wiki:Formatting/Guilds for more information. poke | talk 17:34, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

(edit) btw. I recommend you to just copy the example guild and change the details to fit your guild. poke | talk 17:35, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I would say that {{guild}} is required, but {{guild infobox}} is not. The infobox is part of the guidelines, so as long as the necessary information are presented in the article, I would say it should be acceptable. -- ab.er.rant 01:43, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Log In Issue

→ moved from Help:Ask a game question

I'm trying to log into my guild wars wiki account: Guild Wars and my password doesnt work I tried the email password thing but im not getting the email. I think a moderator stole my account. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:72.224.7.44 .

Accounts on this wiki are separate from Guild Wars accounts. You can sign up for a wiki account at the signup page. -- Gordon Ecker 00:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Hidden Text

How do you put in hidden text? Like it will be there when you click edit but it wont be there when you're just looking at the page.--§ Eloc § 19:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

You can put it as a comment, which is done like this <!-- text here -->. Everything inside it will not show in thre article, but in the edit box. - anja 19:49, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

As a comment?--§ Eloc § 05:11, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

It refers to the process of commenting out a section of code, marking it so that it will be ignored by a program and will only show up in editing. -- Gordon Ecker 06:08, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Guild Pages

I'm a bit confussed on the guild pages themselves. I manage my alliance's pages and yet I still get the same error of: Warning: Key elements of this guild-related article are incomplete. You can help the Guild Wars Wiki by expanding it. So what is missing if someone could look it over that would probably help because I've compared with about 100 of guilds and my page is hte most complete of them all so I can only assume its a small error I'm missing. Here is the link to the page [[5]]

Thx T D 08:54, 8 July 2007 (UTC)TD

How do I indicate that I would like text struck through? Thanks in advance Tasha Darke 15:16, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Simply thus: <s>your text</s> --Snograt 17:41, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

The message that says that key elements are your article are missing is caused by the {{guild-stub}} template. Simply remove it and the message will dissapear ;) --Santax (talk · contribs) 09:05, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Monster Icon

When I put in {{Skill infobox | special = Monster }}, how do I get the picture in the background to something I could use in my user page? --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Eloc Jcg .

It's Image:Monster-faded-large.png. -- Gordon Ecker 09:30, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Is this possible?

I have been working on a little something in my spare time...

I am done most things for it other then making it pretty.

However I would like to know is it possible to have a php function added?

If so how do I go about requesting it to be added. Chik En 23:02, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Details are available at Guild Wars Wiki:Requests for technical administration. -- Gordon Ecker 23:21, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Access-protected pages

I guess this is the most approppriate place to ask even though this question is not related to this wiki, but to another wiki project that I'm going to srart.

Is there a MediaWiki extension that allows for protecting pages from viewing/access of certain user groups, for example all regular users or all non-registered users? My wiki project would be greatly improved by this possibility. -- (gem / talk) 15:52, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

There are a few options. For example, [6].

Unfortunately, there are some pretty big drawbacks associated with these extensions, such as:

• Security issues
• Caching must be disabled (which slows down the entire site)
• Excerpts can still be seen in search results
• Even if a page is restricted to, say, just the BCrats, sysops can still view any page on the wiki

Of all of the options, that one seems to be the least intrusive/have the fewest drawbacks, but there are some other extensions that work in a similar fashion: [7], [8].

Personally, I think the drawbacks outweigh the potential advantages, but (depending on the project) I guess there might be some uses where it would be worthwhile. MisterPepe talk 18:05, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. What a shame that it doesn't work fully. I'll need to think about it. -- (gem / talk) 19:11, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Transfer character(s) to new account

Is there any way you can transfer characters from one account to another? My girlfriend and I have been playing together on the same account, but were thinking about getting another GW game so we may have seperate accounts. We have our own characters, so was just wondering if we can transfer her current character to another account without losing it.

Thanks 16:34, 13 July 2007 (UTC)~

I'm afraid there is currently no way to do this, sorry. --Santax (talk · contribs) 16:35, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Problem with wikicode

File:User Santax Talk Contents Problem.png

Click to enlarge.

Ok, so I've been trying to make the contents box on my talk page appear on the right, beneath my archive box. However, I can only get it to appear next to it, like in the image. How can I get it so it goes below the archive box, or at least looks like it? Is it even possible? Right now I'm having to use a compromise whereby the table of contents is placed within the archive box template, which looks quite ugly (but not as ugly as the image above!). Thanks! --Santax (talk · contribs) 10:38, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

I think that User:CoRrRan might be able to help you. He solved a similar problem with Gaile's talk page (though looking at the code for that may help too). You could always put both the template and the toc inside an additional div or table so that the toc isn't inside the template. Most of my successes with coding have been the result of trial and error but at times I've had to give up when things just don't seem to work for me. :S - BeX 10:49, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Hola. Add the {{clear}} tag between them. Like in: User:Karlos/Blah. The way you are doing it right now is you're putting the ToC inside he archive box. But I think it's doable if you put the div, then a clear then the TOCright thingie. --Karlos 10:49, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

The clear would push the content down the bottom of the archive box though wouldn't it? - BeX 10:52, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I've tried that already :P --Santax (talk · contribs) 12:40, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

What about using: <div style="clear:right; float:right;">__TOC__</div> right after your archivebox-template? It works for me. --  (CoRrRan / talk) 22:07, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

How do u do this.....

How do you make your own user page on the wiki with those signs that say things about you, I.E. "<insert name here> is a member of the luxon faction>"?--Raph 21:41, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Click on your name (your userpage is automatically linked to from your signature) and start filling info in. It'll probably be plain at first; when you see ideas on others' userpages, you can copy the wikicode and paste it to your page. Userboxes are a good start, try adding {{User Luxon}} to your page. -Auron 21:43, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

May i see an example of a userbox please? Sorry, it takes me alot of time to understand these kinds of things oh and thank you for the tip on using codes such as User Luxon, that helped ALOT--Raph 21:48, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Do you know that if you click on your username in the topright corner of your screen you'll be taken to your userpage? If you then click on "Edit", you can change your userpage. If you then add {{User Luxon}} to your page, you will see the userbox appear on it. (You can add that to your page by typing "{{User Luxon}}" (without the quotation marks) in the edit window. --  (CoRrRan / talk) 22:10, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

thanx i may ask further questions later. But for now, u can check out my page and leave comments and tips here

--Raph 23:31, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

If you put <div style="clear:both;">  under your userboxes, the next heading won't flow into them. Der moon 12:09, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Add. note: {{clear}} does the same and is much shorter and easier to remember :) Der moon 12:11, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Like this?--Raph 16:08, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

{{user Luxon}} {{user Am}}

Excactly. If you need a bigger space, <div style="clear:both;height:2em">  is more customizable, as you can specify the height exactly. If you have further questions, just continue on my or your talkpage. Writing here notifies quite a few people that don't need to get a ping every time we add something. Der moon 16:50, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Also, do take a look at Category:Users for some of the more commonly used userboxes. -- ab.er.rant 01:22, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Another question, how do you copy a person's idea for a userpage format? I know you use wikicode, but can you explain the process?

It only takes one man to skin a Charr...--Raph 23:26, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

The easiest way it to click the edit button on their page and copy all the text, then copy that to your own page in the edit box. After than you can go through deleting and modifying the sections to make it appropriate to you. and finally it is nice to include a credit at the bottom to say where you got the page layout from. However some users have exceptionally complicated pages with subpages and templates and all sorts. Those require a bit of background knowledge to manipulate correctly.--Lemming64 23:29, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

So I would most likely have to erase all my other parts of my page right?

It only takes one man to skin a charr...--Raph 12:57, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Pimp up my Special:Recentchanges

I wonder wether there is a way to pimp recent changes with these:

1. highlight new Guild articles
2. highlight other new articles
3. highlight anon edits (where IP is given instead of user name)

Also I wonder wether it is possible to "sort" recent changes by categories (pic upload, blocking, user+user talk edits, main namespace edits, guild edits). Another would-be-nice feature: set maximum entries to 1.000 instead of 500. Any suggestions? - MSorglos (talk|contrib) 16:36, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like a job for monobook.js - while I've not seen a particular script that does what you're doing, there's a script in mine (User:Aiiane/monobook.js) that sorts my Watchlist by category, you might be able to adapt it. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 20:34, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that hint, I'll look into it when I find some time. - MSorglos (talk|contrib) 16:34, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I think being able to highlight guild articles that wasn't created into the guild namespace would be more useful, although I can see how unlikely that would be to do. New articles is already "highlighted" by the "N" next to it isn't it? And for anon edits, I usually just hide registered users if I wanna check anon edits ;) :P -- ab.er.rant 01:39, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

It is possible, with the magic of CSS. See here. It makes new pages (but on Newpages, not Recentchanges) under 1000 characters long turn up light red and new pages under 100 characters long turn up a much darker red, to help with cleanup. --Santax (talk · contribs) 07:03, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

That's weird. It uses a class to do the highlighting, but that class doesn't exist on Special:NewPages at all... Is that getting added by monobook.js? - Thulsey - talk 07:22, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Adding quite a few files fast??

Is there a way to add many files to the wiki fast?

I am trying a different style for my project and it would require quite a few files

Example can I just use a html form GET url to create a page easily if I properly put all the text I want? Chik En 20:59, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

It's possible to interface with the wiki via an automation task (see GWW:BOTS), however that's usually reserved for maintenance tasks. Chances are, you're going to have to add them yourself. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 21:02, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Template problem

Does anyone know why {{Hero Skills}} is not displaying "There's Nothing to Fear!"? The other Sunspear skills are showing up fine. -- Gordon Ecker 00:58, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Example of the problem? (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 01:02, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

The Pikin, Shiloh and Libeh articles. -- Gordon Ecker 01:08, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Capitalization error in {{Hero Skills}}. Fixed. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 01:12, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Wow, I'm surprised I overlooked that, thanks. -- Gordon Ecker 02:06, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Reaper's Blade

It's some girl in a white dress. ._. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Than .

Yeah, the image has been tagged for deletion. -- Gordon Ecker 05:35, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

can't play

Is it obligational to purchase somthing from the Guild wars store to play? --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:24.138.213.161 .

No, you don't need to purchase anything apart from the game (which you can buy somewhere else) poke | talk 15:54, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

I get the feeling that just downloaded the game client without purchasing anything. In that case, yes, you can't play without obtaining access keys from either retail game boxes or buying the game through the store. -- ab.er.rant 16:11, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

code=058

I can't log onto GW any more it says connecting for a very long time then the error image comes up.

Last I played was yesterday and it ran just fine . Firewall is turnewd off so whats up? I need your help . --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:70.77.152.65 .

See Help:Ask a game question#cant connect. -- ab.er.rant 08:48, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Tables within tables?

I've been updating my User pages, and I'd like to show a normal style table within a table (ie a table with borders within a bordered, single cell table). I've seen this done on other users pages, but I can't see why theirs works and mine doesn't other than colours. I'd be grateful for pointers of how to address this problem. An example of what I mean can be seen here. Thanks Tasha Darke 17:31, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Do you have an example what you want? It's not clear for me, what your problem is. One thing that I noticed is that:

|- cellspacing="10px" valign="top" style="background:{{rt-color|light}}; border:1px solid {{rt-color|light}};" align="center"

|- starts a new row but because of the rest of the attributes I think you want to create a new table at this point. Tables start only with {| attributes... poke | talk 17:37, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

That code was me trying to force the border to display. :) I can't find the example directly, I found it while browing for images to use. I think the best way to describe it is using another one of my pages (linky) where I've managed to get the borders to display, but I'd like them as the same colour edging and width as used on other borders on the page (on the character page thats the rt-color|dark). Thanks in advance. Tasha Darke 18:00, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Ok, first for your sandbox. Use the following code for the inner table declarations:

{| style="background:{{r-color|light}}; border: 1px solid {{r-color|dark}};" rules="all"

Second, your Character page. I can't image what you want to do, sorry ^^ Do you want to have a border for each cell or what? poke | talk 19:35, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Yup, so that all the row and column lines show in a similar manner to those surrounding the outer cell. Can you also tell me what the second code you posted is meant to do. Thanks Tasha Darke 20:10, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

(Edit) Reread that and it still didn't make sense. I'd like the outline of the table including the rows and columns of that table to be 1px wide and the rt-colour|dark color while allowing that table to be housed inside a cell of another table with similar code. I hope this is clearer. Tasha Darke 20:20, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

My code just says that there is a 1px border and rules="all" says that the border applies to all cells of the table.

My problem is that I don't understand why you need a table in a cell.. I changed your page now, maybe this is what you want. poke | talk 20:39, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Some more fiddling and I've got it worked out. User:Tasha_Darke/Characters That was what I was looking for. I ended up colouring the table the darker colour and each cell the lighter colour. Thanks for your help. Tasha Darke 21:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

wwwdotwikidot

As per this discussion on my talk page, I have discovered that something like User:Thulsey is resulting in a link to www.wiki.guildwars.com on my User page. Any idea why that happens or how to prevent it? All my tabs across the top link to www as well (Edit, Discussion, etc). - Thulsey - talk 03:43, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

The links will use whatever full domain you initially used to visit the site with - so if you have http://www.wiki.guildwars.com bookmarked, if you use that you'll be browsing the entire wiki with the www. prefix, whereas if you have http://wiki.guildwars.com bookmarked and used, you'll be browsing without it, at least until you manually enter in a url with or without the prefix. When specifying full domains in page links (which should be avoided when possible), the preferred format seems to be without the www. prefix, as that's how all links to the wiki off of http://www.guildwars.com are formatted. The best alternative is to use the following as the url: {{SERVER}}{{localurl:PAGE NAME GOES HERE|action=edit}} which will automatically use the same full domain as what the user is browsing with - thus making the entire process transparent. You can see an example or two in {{delete}} of this link format. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 04:19, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much - that shed some light on it. I guess somewhere I grabbed and bookmarked the wrong url, not sure how as I always manually get here with no 'www' in the address. Weird, but fixable, so thanks for the info, Aiiane. - Thulsey - talk 04:24, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Lost Password, Kitteh sez halp!

So I logged out by accident and don't remember my password, I can't find any "Lost password, click here to reset" type pages - halp! --66.245.217.162 01:55, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Go to Special:Userlogin (the login page), enter your username, and click the Email Password button (instead of the usual button to log in). (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 01:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Doh! --Pork soldier 02:05, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

How do some pages appear in categories without a Category tag?

Runes all appear in both the "Armor bonus" and "Runes" categories, but none of the rune pages have Category tags in them. How are they being included in those categories?

MarkusErronius 00:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

The runes for example use the Rune infobox template which automatically adds pages into the correct categories. poke | talk 00:54, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I figured it was something like that, but I'm new to Wiki editing. I see the infobox template has these tags "[[Category:Armor bonus]] [[Category:Runes|{{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}}]]" so this explains why the "Dervish Rune of Minor Earth Prayers" sorts under "D" in the Armor bonus category and under "E" in the Runes category (name = Earth Prayers). What I don't understand is why runes on the Rune category page are grouped by name but the sort order between Minor, Major, and Superior is not consistent. I don't fully understand the "{{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}}" construct for the sort key. Specifically, I don't see what the "|{{PAGENAME}}" part does. Does it mean to use PAGENAME if name is blank? That would explain the sort order. MarkusErronius 21:48, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

correct :) In templates parameters included like this {{{paramname|default}}} use "default" if the parameter is not set. poke | talk 22:35, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

What I forgot to say: The inconsistent order of Superior, Major and Minor Runes is because the sort key for all runes of one type is the type itself. For example: Dervish Rune of Superior Earth Prayers, Dervish Rune of Major Earth Prayers and Dervish Rune of Minor Earth Prayers; their sort key for the Rune category is "Earth Prayers" - regardless of their types. So it's random (or maybe depending on last change time) which appears where. But it's good you noticed that, I'm going to change that. poke | talk 22:42, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

AddOn versions

What version of DPL is this wiki using, where can I find this, and is A.Net's IT department actively going to implement version updates of the installed addons? (Currently DPL has a version 1.3.1, and from 1.2.9, a fix has been introduced to a problem raised by myself.) --  (CoRrRan / talk) 20:50, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Special:Version and Guild Wars Wiki:Requests for technical administration for version update requests. poke | talk 21:03, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks poke. --  (CoRrRan / talk) 21:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

image

How can i, if i uploaded a picture, make it bigger or smaller in a page?

By typing [[Image:image name here|100px]]. Change the 100px part to the width you desire. - anja 13:42, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

borders on images

Why does the |border tag in image markup not work here? for example [[Image:GWW-shield.png|border|right]] should display a light gray border around an image. It works on wikipedia, I am guessing it is a modification to the localsettings or something along those lines? --Lemming64 18:03, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Border? Do you have an example or do you mean that? poke | talk 18:19, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Images on mediawiki 5th example down --Lemming64 18:19, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Having some trouble with my character tables

Im having some problems with my character tables, I am currently working on my character page in my sandbox here. However I cant seem to get the character tables to sit neatly next to each other and have the text and navbar display above them (similar to my other pages layouts). Anyone have any suggestions? oh and I dont mind if you edit my sandbox after all that is what it is there for, messing around in. :) --Alien 18:17, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

How's that? -elviondale (tahlk) 18:25, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Can't edit while logged in

I've been trying to edit pages in the wiki for a quite a while, and only a small handful go through. Most of the time, my browser tries to download index.php instead of opening the edit box. I can't view the history on most pages either. Out of sheer boredom, I logged out, and was able to edit a page that moments before was blocked to me. When I logged back in, the page was messed up, and it tried to download index.php again, rather than edit. I've tried this with Firefox and IE, and both produce the same error.--12.107.231.89 05:04, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

How long has this been happening? Of particular note to me is your IP address. I don't want to ask your locale or ISP, but that might be the issue. -elviondale (tahlk) 05:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

It's been happening pretty much since day one. At first I thought it may have been just a glitch in the newly-coded wiki, but now it's apparent that it's something a bit more complex. As far as my locale, in in the southern half of the US.--12.107.231.89 11:55, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Do you have any Javascript in your monobook.js? poke | talk 11:55, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Don't think so. How would I check to be sure?--12.107.231.89 12:07, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Goto User:YourName/monobook.js - or just disable Javascript in your browser and try to login. poke | talk 12:10, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Use this link: Special:Mypage/monobook.js when logged in. Have you tried clearing your browser's cache? Switched to another browser? -- ab.er.rant 13:27, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

There's nothing in my monobook.js. I've cleared my cache on both browsers, and still no luck. My usual browser is Firefox, but I've tried this in IE as well, with the same result.--12.107.231.89 19:27, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

How is it you can edit now? Or is it because you're not logged in? I would try creating a second account and move your userspace over to it. If its still an issue, its either because of your ISP or your computer. Something about session handling seems to be an issue (imo) -elviondale (tahlk) 19:34, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

I just found the problem. Somehow the "Use external editor" preference was checked, and it tried loading the edit page into an external program. It's usually the simply stuff that gets me. Thanks for the help. (Formerly known as 12.107.231.89)--Pyron Sy 19:36, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

function #ifeq

For my Character page template, i'm trying to remove all code about mission with a function like {{#ifeq: {{{pvp|}}} | yes | | (mission information)}}. As i know that function, it should now display "(mission information)", because pvp is set to ' ', therefore activating the "unequal" string. But instead of that, only the first two headings and one { are shown. If pvp is set to "yes", the whole content gets removed as wanted. Does anyone have a clue what's wrong there? maybe the function has a 5th parameter? - Y0_ich_halt 14:24, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

I would use {{ #if: {{{pvp|}}} | with pvp | without pvp }} then you simply give pvp a value for "with pvp" and leave it out for "without pvp".. poke | talk 14:28, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

(edit) Ah, and btw. everything in "with pvp" and in "without pvp" cannot have a "|" in it. Use {{pipe}} instead. poke | talk 14:29, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

edit conflict: i wanted to add this to my comment. and the thing with {pipe} just came to my mind, too. i'm just to lazy right now to replace all those pipes. i'm gonna do it later using word... thanks anyways - Y0_ich_halt 14:32, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Guild Editing on Wiki

I just made a page for my Guild. Down at the bottom of the page is a space to show who is the leader and the current members. I have tried to find a way to edit it and can't find one. I'd just like to know how do I do that? TheShadowNinja 04:37, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

That's the alliance template, for alliances (the leader guild and member guilds). If you edit your guild's page, at the bottom you'll see...

 {{alliance nav
 | Guild1  =
 | Guild2  = 
 | Guild3  = 
 | Guild4  = 
 | Guild5  = 
 | Guild6  = 
 | Guild7  = 
 | Guild8  = 
 | Guild9  = 
 | Guild10 = 
 }}

Just fill in the alliance leader guild's name after the equals sign for Guild1, and so on ("| Guild1 = Example Guild", et cetera). Please note that the guild pages policy does not allow full lists of your guild's individual members on the guild page. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 04:43, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks TheShadowNinja 04:56, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

How to

How do I add my new guild to the Guild lists?Reedian 05:24, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Have you created a page for it on the wiki? And do you mean the category lists? - anja 08:08, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Just type in your guild name prefixed with "Guild:" on the url of your browser. For example, "/wiki/Guild:My Guild Name". Follow the instructions to create a guild page. -- ab.er.rant 01:30, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

IRC

• First: i'm for adding a +heading button at the top bar to these pages >.>
• Second: anja said something about a GWW irc. could anyone gimme the data? can't find it. - Y0_ich_halt 16:29, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Guild Wars Wiki:Community portal#IRC channel :) - anja 16:33, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

doh. - Y0_ich_halt 16:34, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

A "+" button is not possible as this is not a talk page. use the "click here to ask..." link. poke | talk 16:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

hrm... channel? the link doesn't work for me. - Y0_ich_halt 19:28, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Connect to gamesurge and join the #gww channel.. That's all I know. - anja 20:02, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

How can i delete a page i created ?

i Want to know how can i delete a page i created ... i not found the info maybe just not good search..

i renamed my page i want to delete : delete this page please

hehe if you can help me it was appreciated ...

sry for my english im french canadian

ty for help --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Warzy .

Check out {{delete}} and Guild Wars Wiki:Deletion policy. - BeX 06:28, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Blast. Edit conflict-- Sure, just add {{delete|reason for deletion|speedy}} at the top if its your own page and want it removed ASAP. -elviondale (tahlk) 06:30, 11 August 2007 (UTC)