User talk:Gahoo/Archive 2/14/06

I think we need to look at something I see far too often occuring in the Wikipedia. A sometimes acceptance of false information and many articles that are made with 'filler' type data.

I will confess, im somewhat to blame on a few, on my Warrior guide for a few items I put merely the stats of the item with no further information so someone if looking at the guide would know what the item does. However, I did this on the concept long ago that someone would fix this.

We need to take a new approach for awhile, I love the mass of new data poping up, and most of it is constructed with all the information a person could ask for. However, we have alot of older articles filled with false information or information that is far outdated.

What I believe we should do is advocate a 'improve the quality' concept for a month or so. Advocating people to do something such as merely click on random page, and if seeing that the article lacks good or valid information, to ask them to improve what exists. Or another example, to just search the wikipedia be clicking on link after link and seeing whats there.

We must immagine the Wiki as a rope of knowledge, its wonderful that the rope at this end is shiny and new, but the rope we started with is beginning to become unravled and old. We need to reenforce the foundation to keep moving forward.

I can change all those typos, but I'll have to re-teach myself how to do it. It's not hard, just going to require 5 minutes of googling. If I don't have it done by the end of the holidays, bug me about it. Ganiman 08:02, 23 Dec 2005 (PST)

A problem I noticed: 2 Articles exist for damage over time (search for Damage in the search area and you will see them)

I suppose they need to be incorperated, or one deleted. However, I don't know how; if you could do it I would appreciate it.

Thanks ~Andres

P.S: I dunno about this, but would putting up parsers/data that proves something be allowed on the Wiki?

I've been checking each transaction I've recieved so far for notes like that, and I haven't seen anyone request that yet other than Rickshaw. I'll add a note. Ganiman 16:28, 25 Jan 2006 (PST)

I completed research on a few dozen monsters and have generated a "Historical Background" section for them, but I noticed the FFXI Wiki was down a day or 2 ago and there's the fundraising effort. If website space is a concern, I can hold off on editing the sections into the articles until after the extra space is acquired. Please post on my talk page whether I should wait to add these sections or if I can do that now. --zoogelio-forgot-his-password 22:08, 25 Jan 2006 (PST)

Sweet my man... picking up on the new expansion stuff I started adding. Good work ^^b I'm also thinking about adding a "Featured Article" section/category. Kind of like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles . Maybe we can get some of the other big editors on this site to participate. Ganiman 08:17, 26 Jan 2006 (PST)

Sorry about that. It's not that I'm afraid to edit Beastmaster. I just forget to because you always are on top of it.

--Mierin 13:58, 31 Jan 2006 (PST)

Maybe February should be designated "Quality Improvement Month" :D. --zoogelio-forgot-his-password 14:02, 31 Jan 2006 (PST)

Ok. I always thought that the OP vendors/conquest people were always the same but with different uniforms. I have been XPing there and they were always the same - but I guess Bastok was always in control? Sorry M. My bad. --Gahoo 08:36, 5 Dec 2005 (PST)

Oh, while I'm thinking about it. I've recently discovered that we were both right, sort of. The Conquest Guard switches based upon the nation. The Outpost Vendor remains the same. --Mierin 14:14, 31 Jan 2006 (PST)

I will add a link to the forums on the side when they are ready for the public. I've only given the link to LS members in Avengers and Dynamis to get things started. Once I modify some features of the forums, integrate the blogs and create a skin for the forums, I will post a link on the left and make a wiki-wide message announcing the new features. Ganiman 15:32, 10 Feb 2006 (PST)

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Try it now. I think the images folder on the server wasn't permissioned properly. I reset them so it should work now. --Ganiman 10:01, 11 Feb 2006 (PST)

I made a guide template that you might have noticed. What you do is put {{guide}} at the top/bottom/middle of a page and it will display the contents of Template:Guide. We can make more templates like this, and they would be inserted into pages the same way. A stub template might be a good idea too, I don't know if it would work for the purpose of this wiki though. If you think of any other templates like this that could be useful, just create the template by going to Templates:My_Template and then insert it into a page by doing {{My_Template}}. Ganiman 10:03, 14 Feb 2006 (PST)