User talk:Starlightblunder

User Account Migration
Hi there, I'm Adam, one of the staff at NIWA and admin at Zelda Wiki and WiKirby. WiKirby is hoping to merge with the Kirby Wikia and I was looking around Wowpedia to see how you guys managed to migrate users. I noticed you have a custom extension "User Account Migration" that seems to be credited to you, which I'm guessing adds Special:UserMigration. Have you published this extension anywhere? I'd be very interested in discussing how the process has worked for you guys, and potentially getting access to this extension (if you'd be willing to share it). Adam (talk) 08:53, 23 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Adam. I have not published the extension yet, mostly because I didn't think it would be particularly interesting to anyone. Keep in mind that is is part of a two-part process: it expects the user account to already exist in the MediaWiki user table (there is a collection of perl scripts that we've used to get that in place, but you'd have to ask pcj about it).
 * Overall, it seems to work out fine — some fraction of users are unfamiliar with the concept of an edit summary (or that null edits aren't saved), but that's about the only problem we've experienced. If you're interested, I can look into cleaning it up for publishing; let me know if that's the case. -- foxlit (talk) 20:46, 23 October 2010 (UTC)


 * OK, so it just requires that an account with a matching user_name value exists, or does the user_id number have to be identical? Anyway, I'd be very grateful if you could release a generic version of the extension; I know there are a number of communities leaving Wikia at the moment, many of which NIWA is involved in helping make the transition. This seems like a great tool to help ease the moving process and relieve a common concern of users. Thanks again Adam (talk) 11:20, 24 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Cleaned up: http://go-hero.net/mw/usermigration -- foxlit (talk) 17:33, 6 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Awesome, thanks! Adam (talk) 18:19, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Bug messages somewhat hidden


Hi, I've noticed due to the background colour some bug messages are very easy to miss. I highlighted as much as I could up top, then used GIMP to make the bottom left bug text easier to read.

Cheers! A F K When Needed 16:30, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

17:09 	(Deletion log)‎ . . [Starlightblunder‎ (2×)]
tyvm. A F K When Needed 17:10, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

DEFAULTLINK
Сan we get ext. DEFAULTLINK for Russian Wowpedia? Strizh (talk) 10:23, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes; however, only when it's ready. Still tracking down the occasional issues, so it's probably best to wait a bit for it to stabilize. &mdash; foxlit (talk) 17:05, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! Strizh (talk) 19:14, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Please, when it will be stable, send it to admin@wowpedia.ru. Thx. Strizh (talk) 07:47, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * We are waiting... waiting... waiting... for this fantastic extension. *cry Strizh (talk) 11:32, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Sent; apologies for the delay. &mdash; foxlit (talk) 22:20, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Identity crisis
I clicked on the 'Recent changes' button and saw User:Starlightblunder make an edit, but clicking on the name redirected to User:Foxlit. Then I clicked on User talk:Foxlit and it redirected to User talk:Starlightblunder. Make up your mind! Pontoon (talk) 17:10, 9 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Never! (in the same tone as "Make up your mind!") &mdash; foxlit (talk) 03:53, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Freedom of information on reasons for policies / DNP policy in specific
Hi, found you via Special:Listusers/sysop, I am new here but not new to wikis :)

I would be interested in hearing any feedback admins have to this: Wowpedia_talk:DNP_policy (figured it's probably not a page that is read/used much so I'm messaging you all, I couldn't find a noticeboard page though I found what looks like a rather out-of-date list of admins hehe) --Kittymew (talk) 14:39, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Admin redirects
Hi, I saw you deleted the admin redirects, sure they are 'unused' as in not linked to, but I bet if you did a search of the site's 404 error logs you'd probably get a few people trying to find the admins by typing that. It's a bit unreasonable to expect new people trying to get hold of an admin to know that they need to put "WoWpedia:" in front of the page name. ;) But yeah if you want it deleted fine by me, I was just trying to help others. --Kittymew (talk) 15:05, 31 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I do not expect new people to go looking for admins, but it's trivial to find them anyway: Wowpedia community portal, linked off the main page, has the relevant links. The "noticeboard" you couldn't find is Forum:Index, linked to on the sidebar as Wowpedia forums. &mdash; foxlit (talk) 15:10, 31 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Down at the very bottom of the page, sure. I bet people do look for admins by typing in 'admins', it's a pretty reasonable thing to do and you'd expect it to work really, I bet people have done it if you check your site error logs, but I bet you can't anyway because you're only an admin on the wiki. So you can't make an informed decision, but you still removed it on sight as soon as you saw it, simply on a kneejerk reaction to something new with a possibility of being 'unnecessary' even if it helps others while using a miniscule amount of resources... *sigh* Nevermind. I have had the misfortune of dealing with a lot of techy people, seen the attitude a lot.


 * You know you still appear in the history as 'Starlightblunder' leaving that message right, so to all intents and purposes there is no 'foxlit' other than that user page? If you want your account renamed it is possible you know you can rename wiki accounts right? Googling for 'rename wiki account', Forum:Account_rename_requests on here is actually only the 3rd result. It's not hard. But being an admin I bet you knew you could just ask anyway, so it must just be being obstructive on purpose. :P


 * --Kittymew (talk) 15:26, 31 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Guess I struck a nerve. &mdash; foxlit (talk) 17:25, 31 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Project:Admins (notice how it says "Project:Admins" and relinks to "Wowpedia:Admins") is the standard admin page for all MediaWiki wikis. — EGingell TC 20:28, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

'Foxbot' coming up short?
There is no DPS value in the bot to correct, and I've figured out that the Armory is inaccurate in all DPS values (srsly, WTH), and so the bot is getting the wrong value. I've also happened to notice that most opal flavor text is missing from jewels, perhaps others. When I tried adding "orange", it gives the text that it's yellow or red, not red or yellow as the text says.--Mondoblasto (talk) 06:21, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * DPS should really be a function of swing damage and swing speed; I'd argue that the client (and not the armory) gets it wrong. Noted the gems problems. &mdash; foxlit (talk) 21:25, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It's only by a one-tenth difference (low every time, oddly), but it really does bring up the question of which side we should refer to in such a situation: is the live content right, or is the offical Armory right? Also of how the value is calculated.  It could probably be surmised on till the cows come home.  I wonder if the devs already know...--Mondoblasto (talk) 21:29, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

exportinterfacefiles
If you think it's in error feel free to revert it. Maybe Blizzard finally realized that their code and documentation didn't match. Also I have no idea if this is how to respond to stuff appearing on the talk page, because I don't use wikis for conversation. Hope this reaches you. -farm

Would like to interview you
Hi Foxlit,

I’m continuing my research (on WoWWiki and WoWPedia) this summer and hope to interview several of the core contributors about their experiences. Would you be available at some point this summer for an interview?

I also wanted to share an article of mine about WoWWiki that was recently published; you can find it linked to from my user page (happy to send you pdf, if you like). For the most part it talks about the writing processes of the community and how members work well together because of shared attitudes and beliefs about writing on a wiki. If you have any questions or feedback, I’d love to hear it.

Thanks for considering this. If you're interested in participating, you can contact me here via email . Dakhma (talk) 14:28, 13 June 2011 (UTC)