User talk:Ifaigios

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A friend's new account
I have a real life friend who just started up a new account so i was wondering whether its possible to move his Town closer to myself and other friends?

I'm sure i've read it some where.

New template
I have created a new template called Talk. It should (if I created it correctly) link to the page of whatever page group (Template, Category, User, etc ...) you are on. -- I know we do not use this too much, but if you need it it is shorter than trying to remember and using the different ways to access the different talk pages. -- 18:46, July 4, 2010 (UTC)

Italian Ikariam Wiki
Hi! I would like to create a Ikariam Wiki in Italian (I didn't find any by searching the site so I suppose it hasn't been created yet). I'm new to wiki and don't know exactly how to create pages, templates and links...So I'm reading your MOS and the General Wiki Help Guide.

I was wondering if you help me in this process...even with general suggestions...

Thank you

Minerva Titani

Ikariam:Templates vs Category:Templates
Should we merge Ikariam:Templates with Category:Templates leaving a redirect, so that the templates are on one page and they can see all the templates (in the lower section) ?? -- 22:56, July 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for doing it for me - I was going to do it - but I guess I missed your message saying you agree until you posted that you did it ( and for that I apologize ). -- 02:34, July 12, 2010 (UTC)

Training Times
I found how they make the times for the training times of the units.

If i calculated correctly, at any level,the time is reduced by 5%.

Example: For the Spearmen.

The first level is 5 minutes(or 300 seconds)

5% of 300=15 seconds.

The second level is 5 minutes -15.

The second level is 4 minutes and 45 seconds.(or 285 seconds)

5% of 285=14.25 seconds.

The third level is 4 minutes and 45 seconds -14.

The third level is 4 minutes and 31 seconds.(or 271 seconds)

And so on...

So if my formula is corect,we could calculate the times of the units for levels 41,42,43 and etc. of the barracks, without making a barrack of that level.SWATVlad 09:37, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

Vacation
Good luck, be safe and mainly have FUN while on vacation. -- 10:58, July 14, 2010 (UTC)

Welcome back
Welcome back! -- I finished the Flag template as well as the list of flags section of the Category:Flag images and am working on the servers now

Africa, North America, South America are all checked (for new servers that were added), changed over from the code to use flag. I am currently working on the Asia servers. -- 00:40, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

Asia servers and the Oceania servers are all checked (for new servers that were added), changed over from the code to use flag. All that left is the European servers and all should be updated, unless they add new servers before I finish. -- 22:08, August 1, 2010 (UTC)

CT and TT sub-pages
I personally did not want to have the Training Times / Construction Times on the unit / ship pages because we already have that information on the Barracks/Training Times and Shipyard/Construction Times pages - but Phasma ExMachina convinced me they should be on the individual pages as well so I made the TT (Training Times) and CT (Construction Times) sub-pages and will be using those sub-pages to on the Barracks/Training Times and Shipyard/Construction Times pages so that you change 1 page and ALL pages will change at same time.

On the Add Image thing, I hope I did not come across harshly, as I sometimes do and do not mean to, but yeah that was the only reason I re-added that link, because there were times when I needed it and the MediaWiki:Monaco-toolbox section would not be there (otherwise I would not re-add it because I hate duplication's if they are not needed). -- 23:15, August 2, 2010 (UTC)

I agree - I do not like the way the New look of the Barracks/Training Times is going to look, but I am at a dilemma:
 * 1) I do not want 2 separate pages with the same information because people will update 1 and not remember the other (hence the use of sub-pages.
 * 2) The information should be in the Barracks thus the Barracks/Training Times
 * 3) As User:Phasma ExMachina mentioned they should be on the individual unit pages as well

I originally had Barracks/Training Times, but Phasma Exmachina did not like the idea of having to look for each unit in with the group of all of the units, so I then created the sub-pages so that both pages will update with just 1 edit change (so they can not forget the other page). -- 11:58, August 3, 2010 (UTC)

New direction on the Training times pages
I found a way to NOT have to renter all of the Training Times again and we can still use the old page that has all of the Training Times on them. I made it so that the Barracks/Training Times page will display but will have the NAME of the unit listed under its picture (if you are on the Hoplite page - you will only see the name Hoplite under the Hoplite picture - no other unit's name will be displayed - thus you can find your training times easily. -- 23:08, August 3, 2010 (UTC)

Arrow
I like the arrow and will add it to all of the units - but to make the Barracks/Training Times page appear correctly in the TOC of each units page, it has to be in the 3rd heading aka === Training Times === -- 23:36, August 3, 2010 (UTC)

Indenture
I stand corrected - we had it indented and I did not realize it was indented in the in-correct spot. -- 23:45, August 3, 2010 (UTC)

CT / TT column coloring
I like the idea of doing what you did for Unit-Ship:Ram-Ship on the Shipyard/Construction Times but I think the pictures should be title2 and the column data should be title3 and the super bad thing is you have to do those updates to every ship column, and I think that is too much work - I think the arrow works just fine for identifying the columns - unless you just want to add the } to every data cell -- 23:10, August 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * I just read User:Phasma ExMachina comments - so she wants to leave the Picture as white, so no title code there and just make the columns darker (so title 3 there) -- 23:20, August 4, 2010 (UTC)

Achievements, do we want them ?
The new MediaWiki update now allows for Achievements - do we want to activate this? Read here and give me your opinion. -- 01:28, August 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Tank Master does not want them, thus leaving me to be the swing vote of the active administrators, so I have decided to have them turned on for now, if things get bad we can turn them off, but have to try them at least 1 time ( my opinion ). Tank Master does not want them because of the increase in FLUFF edits and with the new patch changes from the last patch feels that would detract us from the patch info, so I said that you and I will mainly deal with them so that he can mainly deal with the new patch info. -- 20:08, August 7, 2010 (UTC)

Achievements are now live
We can modify their name and picture as well as add new tracts by using Special:AchievementsCustomize. -- 13:25, August 8, 2010 (UTC)

Servers are completed
Unless I goofed, which is highly likely, then all of there servers have been updated with new worlds and have had their image tags changed over to the Flag template, which can have more flags added as we want and with ease, I hope. -- 21:35, August 8, 2010 (UTC)

Dump
Please contact Tank Master via the Email this user link for information on this page. He Sysop protected it to keep vandals out. -- 23:24, August 12, 2010 (UTC)

Lucky edit badge
Congratulations on getting the 1,000th edit badge. -- 18:35, August 15, 2010 (UTC)

Flag vs Flags
I would normaly agree but in this case Flag has many meanings / uses such as the template Flag the Category:Flag images and a List of flags so I made Flag a Dis-ambiguous page with links to the different pages and that left Flags to be the List of flags page.

P.S. I un-did your Redirect made to the Flag page so that is is back to being the Dis-ambiguous page again. -- 21:00, August 15, 2010 (UTC)

Template servers and Category:Pages containing omitted template arguments
Thanks for adding the info to the Category:Pages containing omitted template arguments because I thought I was going crazy trying to find the MISSING argument on the template and could not figure out why I was having a hard time editing the template and no problems editing the rest of the wiki in general.

I fixed the problem by not calling the template 3 times to show the 3 forms, World Region and Language, of the template on its Documentation page and that seems to have fixed my editing problems and the appearance of the Category.

I think we should keep the category so that if any other template exceeds its limit it will have a category and the info will be there to help fix the problem (like it did me). -- 00:04, August 16, 2010 (UTC)

Why remove Alt-Lang template from categories?
Those categories are the same on the other language servers that is why I put the template there. If you do not want the loopish effect of category being inside a category pointing back to the main category then I have re-added the template but added the doc= setting to the template so that it does not place those categories into the Category:From Wikimedia thus no looping effect, but the template should be on those categories. -- 00:19, August 16, 2010 (UTC)

0.4.0
Ive added http://ikariam.wikia.com/wiki/Patch_0.4.0 and will leave it to you or other admins to mod the front page as appropriate. I will also begin adding some info on dump once it is available on the live test server. (I have the info, I just can't add it until then)

RE: Dump
is a new building in 0.4.0. I will add info when im allowed. :)

Ambrosia
I cant seem to find the page if we have one of how to use ambrosia, just how to buy it. (i.e. use it to increase resource production, protect more goods in the warehouse, ect)

Also, how should we go about labeling the maximum storage with ambrosia on 0.4.0? We have the hardcap now that displays "true cap" or "warehouse cap", but seems there needs to be one for "storage cap with ambrosia" as well. I might propose modding the current hardcap to be for just the "true max" and make a new template for "storage cap" that would reflect both with and without ambrosia. I have already started on this elsewhere, however this would mean editing all the building pages (which is something I am willing to do). -- 17:24, 17 August 2010

Can we transfer Ambrosia from one player to another? --203.81.166.10 05:38, December 27, 2010 (UTC)

Changing categories in a template
When you change a category on a template ( where the template places the page into a category )  then the pages with that template will not change categories until you edit the page and then save the page (with or without edit changes to the page) then the page will change categories but not before then. This is the only Main drawback to using templates to place pages into any category, if the category is changed on the template then basically every page with the template on it has to be Edited / Saved to reflect the new category. -- 22:53, August 17, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Template:DumpLvl
your right, its to early in the morning :P Im not sure if i even want the template to be honest, I added it on request from Jrooksjr. Perhaps this needs more discussion between us.


 * I have unprotected it now. I just didn't want a bunch of edits while I was in the process of making it. (had enough as it was with your fingers in there :P)

Man Units should have the stats to compare units, that's what we want!


 * After seeing how WhLvl and DumpLvl look on the other wiki I agree that it does not look right, and we need to find a way to combine the two or find another way to show the minimum levels required in order to store the amount of resources needed, especially for the higher levels of buildings that will require a level 40 Dump and 4 level 40 warehouses in order to build. -- 22:58, August 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * The only problem I can for see with combining them is that it may require a lot of if expressions to give a correct output
 * if the resources are greater than 128,000 (32,000 items x level 40 Dump]] to make the output "1 dump and x warehouses" if under 128,000 to say " 1 dump or x warehouses"  - so I do not know how we can show this information and still look good and not have a too complicated template in case it needs to be edited later. --  00:36, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Dump vs Depot
The building list and I am guessing the building itself says Dump but the research and the text about the building in the building list calls it a Depot. -- 14:30, August 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * For now I already renamed the Research to Depot (research) and made a disambiguous page called Depot that calls it Depot (building) that redirects to Dump and for now will leave Dump and the File:Dump.gif as they are - as you say to see how Gameforge calls it - but I am renaming Patch 0.4.0 to Patch 0.4.0.1 since that is what is said on the link to the patch at the top of the page, since it is named that it will be released to the game servers as that so 0.4.0 no longer exists anymore per say. --  14:46, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

Master Builders Score on buildings
I know I modified the template MBScore to allow for the Accumulated score because someone asked for it or wanted it, BUT, do we really need it on our pages? I can see a point where someone adds wrongly and the whole page is wrong - and to fix it they would have to edit every cell, to maintain the correctness all the way down the column.

I do not see that happening, and to be frank, I would not want to do that to fix a small mistake at the top of the column.

So my question is this: Do we want to keep the (Accumulated) score on all buildings, thus remove the option now, before every building is updated to used that parameter of the template? or do we leave it as it is and let them slowly add it to every building and hope it is kept (maintained) up to date? -- 21:56, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

New functions added

 * Purge:At the top of the page, where it says Edit . . . Following we have a new function "Purge" added via Java-script, it should appear on all pages, templates, categories and images and should help cause them to refresh if you click it.


 * AjaxRC:On the Recent changes screen at the top ( you should see a Ajax box) - if you put a check mark by it then proximately every 1 minute (if you remain on the page) it will refresh thus showing any new changes as they occur.

-- 19:27, August 22, 2010 (UTC)

Category:Images vs Category:Client images vs. Category:WikIkariam images
The only problem, is Every single image on this wiki would belong in Category:Client images because the Client is a web page. We have no pictures in the Category:Images and really there should be. Actually, the Client images should be Category:Images with Category:Flag images, Category:Unit images, tegory:Ship images, 'Category:Screenshots and the ones used more specifically by the wiki in the Category:WikIkariam images.

This is my opinion. -- 11:45, August 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree with your suggestions of removing Category:WikIkariam images and re-organizing the others under Category:Client images. -- 13:06, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

Does the wiki look off?
Is it me or is the colors wrong for the wiki? Yesterday evening the wiki went off-line (could not access main database) for a bit and then later all of the pages went back to the original white color, as if it is not reading the MediaWiki:Common.css page for the settings anymore.

Do you have the same problem or is it just me? -- 11:48, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

Never mind, the wiki Skin setting got reset itself from Beach to Forest in Special:Preferences, somehow, I changed it back to Beach and now it appears ok. -- 11:58, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

Even on "Beach" the top part of the page (The Header) was wrong, so I am only changing those settings - they look much better (may need some more tweaking) in my opinion than before but I can not seem to find the settings for the "Tabs" on the "User", "Talk", "Blog" and "Contributions" pages. -- 13:05, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

I reverted all of my changes and NOW it looks fine and I seen where you changed it to "Beach" as well but for some reason when I did it it was wrong in the Header, but now is fine? Go figure. -- 14:11, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

Beta of new Wiki version (skin)
I do not know if you have been reading the w:Blog:Wikia Staff Blogs about the new Version and skin associated with it that went to beta test on Monday (you can sign up to be a beta-tester here.

You can read all of the blog posts here and here as well as read the FAQ.

I did sign up to be one but apparently did not get picked in the 1st round that stared on Monday.

When you do become one, you get a cookie that allows you to use the new Oasis skin, that will eventually replace the Monaco and Monobrook skins currently on Wikia, on all Wikis (so you can see how each wiki will look under the new skin as well as report problems (bugs) seen as a result.

The new skin settings will be MediaWiki:Oasis.css and MediaWiki:Oasis.js for now from what I can tell and I do not know if MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js will work in the future for compatibility issues.

I think we need to be beta-testers so we can see how the wiki will look under the new skin and can adjust accordingly, in my opinion. -- 03:03, August 26, 2010 (UTC)

Edit notices
I am sure you seen I made a change a few days ago to a page MediaWiki:Editnotice-0 and if you EDIT any main namespace page ( ie no talk page, no category page, no template page, etc ) such as the Unit, Ship, Building, etc ... pages you will se a tabbed table at the top of the page (in the header section )

We can use this space to put help pages when editing any type of namespaces (see Help:Namespaces for what each namespace number is  also (if we want ) we can also add specific help to specific pages too with MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-Pagename but that would be only used for  SPECIFIC pages that really need it if we do any of this. --  22:50, August 26, 2010 (UTC)

Beta
Are you using the new Beta skin yet? According to Special:Statistics we have a new Special:ListUsers group called beta and per Special:ListUsers/beta we have 0 users at the moment. -- 15:01, August 28, 2010 (UTC)

Ah, so you are in the same situation as me. We both filled out the beta application, both were accepted but neither have been selected to be in the 1st group of people that started testing on Monday. From what I read on the blogs we will get a email or a message or something that will direct us to a page to get a cookie that will allow us to turn on / off the skin on any wiki so we can see the problems with the new skin or something along those lines. -- 17:26, August 28, 2010 (UTC)

Greece World My
When is Greece getting the My (Server 12)? -- 18:32, August 28, 2010 (UTC)

Problem with main page
I think the problem is on Wikia's end because I have had the same problem on 2 separate occasions when I made changes to the page or one of the templates that show on the page - and thought I messed up the page - but when I shut down my browser and re started it back up the page was fine again. At least now I know it is not the Laptop (Temp computer) that I am using as I had feared. -- 17:22, August 29, 2010 (UTC)

Last week I had a problem with the common.css page not loading ( all settings like the color of the Darktables and the page colors etc were all wrong ) that is why  I was messing with that page for a while to no avail and then the pages and tables were back to normal again. -- 17:30, August 29, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Bloglist
That is odd - I have the paramaters tags on my User:Jrooksjr page and I have no problem's there just on the Main Page odd. -- 18:22, August 29, 2010 (UTC)

WHOA!!! I removed the bloglist tags and the Activity feed says I added all (pre-existing categories and images) to the page and I got credit for them via the Achievements counter for adding them to a normal page, so yes the bloglist tags is buggy at the moment. -- 18:32, August 29, 2010 (UTC)

Question
Hi, I put a question here, could you see? Thanks.

Re: File:Doctor-old-1.png
I agree, but the only reason why I have not deleted it yet is because I am using it at the bottom of the Doctor page here Doctor.

We can remove it, and that section, but I though for it good to show the old and new versions of him. -- 16:24, August 31, 2010 (UTC)

To my knowledge, the ingame images have never changed, except for the Doctor. As I mentioned above we can get rid of the section and the Image but I thought for (ingame images) that can not be retrieved via Changelogs etc it would be nice to keep, but it is not a We must keep item. -- 16:38, August 31, 2010 (UTC)

We do not really need to keep the older category:Patches but we do so we can see the progression of the game. Once a image is changed in-game it can not be retrieved unless someone like a wiki ( us ) keeps it. That is the only reason why I thought we should. -- 16:40, August 31, 2010 (UTC)

Actually, now that I think about it we removed the OLD wonders, when they removed / replaced them with the new ones. So yeah we do need to remove the doctor's old self. But, we need to keep the old Changelogs (that I will insist on - I know I was the one that mentioned them above - but do not want anyone to get ideas to remove them as well). -- 16:53, August 31, 2010 (UTC)

I think I can get you the image from one of the other language wiki's. -- 17:11, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * Nope, she erased the old image. -- 17:15, August 31, 2010 (UTC)

Grid map and Islands
Do we plan on doing anything with the Grid map and Island page? They were originally created for when we had planned on having 'Alliance pages here. -- 16:53, August 31, 2010 (UTC)

Accumulated build times
hey guy I put just time don't put the english! what the problem?
 * I think this is in reference to my reversion of the changes he made to Palace/Expansion, if so then the building times he put as being pre-patch 0.4.0 were incorrect, hence the reversion. -- 22:03, September 2, 2010 (UTC)

Beta
And the use of AWB (AutoWiki Browser) as well I see. -- 12:33, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

It appears all but me are being allowed in the beta at the moment -- 18:56, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

I am now a Beta user. -- 16:21, September 14, 2010 (UTC)

Αλάνα
Καλησπέρα. Έχω μετατρέψει μία απόθηκη σε αλάνα. Πάτησα εκέι που λέει ΜΕΤΑΤΡΕΨΤΕ ΣΕ ΚΑΘΕ ΠΟΛΗ ΜΙΑ ΑΠΟΘΗΚΗ ΣΕ ΑΛΑΝΑ ΓΙΑ ΣΥΝΤΟΜΟ ΧΡΟΝΙΚΟ ΔΙΑΣΤΗΜΑ Μήπως γνωρίζεις αυτό το ΣΥΝΤΟΜΟ ΧΡΟΝΙΚΟ ΔΙΑΣΤΗΜΑ πόσες μέρες είναι;

62.228.105.154 22:44, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Battle
I think we can ditch the first sea battle picture and keep the second. it falls more in line with the flow of the page. i have put the info up there and will let you tweak it into place. looks good so far! Flyinj3x 02:09, September 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * I am glad you did a little formatting. it looks good.  i had the interference with the sidebar with my 19" ws display.  i think the images do look better left justified though.  i am happy to add content and have you and jrooks do all the tweaking.  i am playing monkey see, monkey do, and watching you two masters at work.  i'll get the hang of editing by watching the pros.. :)  Flyinj3x 02:27, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

Greek Speed Server
Did they delete the forum to the Speed server or just turn off the Speed server? Normally, when they stop the Speed servers, the Forum for it is still there and the link should still work, I just can not see on the Greek server, as I do not have permission to do so, on that board. -- 18:41, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Battle FAQ
i can assume by the addition of the 'stubs' that you think the page is worth pursuing. later today i will continue to scan the forums in search of more articles. looking forward to a new little project! i would like to add it to the GUIDES section once i have finished. do you think it fits in that section? Flyinj3x 12:09, September 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * i just looked at the bottom and see it is bound for the GUIDES section already. thank you. Flyinj3x 12:12, September 10, 2010 (UTC)

Beta skin
Yeah, I did register on the forums for the beta and I already sent in a bug that shows up on the new skin only ( dealing with and ! If you look on my user page the Bloglist shows on the left ( not floating on the right ) and the activity feed is in the same narrow box as well - but if you switch to Monaco the bloglist floats on the right and the activity feed is not in the same box, etc. --  12:29, September 15, 2010 (UTC)

Skin
Hi! I know you're changing something in the wiki skin and want to let you know that now I see a general blue frame instead of the previous brownish and moreover all the tables/charts (for example in the building pages) are shown with an awful white background... --Minerva Titani 13:56, September 15, 2010 (UTC)

My wiki
I knew the existence of an empty wiki called it.ikariam.wikia.com but didn't know I could even adopt it (as an inactive wiki); so I created my own wiki and had to call it it.ikariamitalia.wikia.com which I know is harder to remember.

I can ask the wikia staff to move my wiki to it.ikariam.wikia.com and make it.ikariamitalia.wikia.com a wiki redirect, but I fear I have to make changes in the CSS or similar difficult and long changes I don't want to make...

Do you know if I have to edit the CSS or the "movement and redirection" work simply like with the pages of the wiki? Minerva Titani 18:46, September 15, 2010 (UTC)

new skin
ok, i like this ikariam skin. much better. but, i cannot for the life of me find the history button to see the history of edits for a page.... Tank Master 22:37, September 15, 2010 (UTC)

No Access
Can you please take care of the No Accesses little thingy? We all know he only wanted to help but maybe we should teach him about the templates and everything. By the way, maybe I could make a better technology tree. We shall see... rmedic 17:06, September 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * What was that? Maybe it was a bot. So sad... On the other hand, how do you undo so many pages at once? rmedic 19:09, September 24, 2010 (UTC)

Issue With Scripting Guide
There is a script on the Scripting Guide page that is not in the us.ikariam.com Board, listed as approved. The IkArt script is not on the approved list, therefore, it is technically not approved. I really don't know how to delete it without messing everything up, so I decided to contact an Admin with the information. Plus, I might be mistaken, so I didn't want to mess up the entire page for one mistake.

Thanks

Drachemeister 01:37, October 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * even though it is not listed on the Approved page, it is listed under Ikariam US » Game Edification » Tools and Scripts » Approved. the forum link listed should take you to the corresponding page.  Flyinj3x 04:24, October 8, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Training Times
Hi Ifaigios,

According to the formula of SWATVlad (or you, I didn't understand very well who it belongs to), the one that at any level the time is reduced by 5%, I've been taking care of that subject in the last couple of days, and still I'm on it. I hope to finish it tomorrow or maybe the day after it, I don't know yet. Anyway, please advice me if I'm doing something wrong or check it if I'm right.

Regards

Larpskendya 22:33, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Blocking Larpskendya
Look at his edit count and badges! How long does it take to calculate those numbers (multiply with 5%)? He spent over a week on that doing it every day which earned him "Key to the Wiki!" badge. He made almost 150 edits to that page which earned him 6 (six!!!) badges on that page alone!!! Please tell me he didn't notice the badge pop-up and didn't do all that for the badges. He made exactly 3 comments to blogs what is exactly enough to earn the "Opiononator" badge. Some of his early edits show that he knew how to add more than one time to that page but he stopped doing that. You tell me why. I'm telling you it's because you don't earn all those badges by doing that all at once. rmedic 11:06, October 20, 2010 (UTC)

RE: RE: Blocking Larpskendya (me)
Ifaigios, I couldn't write before because of my ban. I just wanted to say thanks for back me up with my blocking. I've already left a message in Rmedic's Talk Page explaing what happened. I assure you that it would never occur again.

Regards

Larpskendya 14:25, October 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * I just want to make things clear. Larpskendya could still write on his talk page while under the ban, but you lifted it right away anyway. I'm not an evil mastermind who is trying to control this wiki. I'm trying to keep it clean and help as much as I can. If that means I have to ban someone with 170 edits, so be it. rmedic 22:53, October 21, 2010 (UTC)

Oasis
Do you mind if I change the Oasis skin a bit to make it stretch over the whole screen and not just 1000px wide? rmedic 12:43, October 23, 2010 (UTC)

No more History pages?
I just noticed that history pages seem to have been removed, and I am wondering whether this is entirely true, as I can still find some old versions of pages I have edited by going to my own page, which makes me think maybe the history pages (which link all the versions of a page in chronological order and allow the comparing of differences) are still around somewhere, too, and just the links have been removed.

I am curious as to the reason for this, or whether I am just missing something. I think there are many times where it is useful to see the editing history of a page.

I do think it would be foolish to entirely remove the old versions, which sensibly does not seem to have been done. But restricting access to them does not seem to serve any purpose that I can see, either.

There are some pages which are not very useful without the history page, e.g. If you want to look up building costs for the Shipyard you can't get that information in the current version, you have to look at an old version, or else you would have to turn on java script and reload the page which would be quite time consuming.

My current curiosity is that someone has added loading times for levels 43 through 48 of the Trading Port, indicating that they actually have access to buildings of these levels, but no building cost information for the levels following, and I was wondering why.

Automeris 13:19, October 26, 2010 (UTC)

Re: History pages
Thank you for the information. I did managed to figure out how to access the pages manually after finding some links to some random history pages. I only turn Java script on when I am actually editing a page (in fact, I just use the browser I play Ikariam in which has Java script enabled already), because normally when I am surfing the web I will load a page in the background while doing other things, then come back and look at it later. Most web sites (including this one) don't work very well with Java script on. They tend to be much slower and often will do things you don't want done, so it isn't practical (nor safe) to leave on when surfing.

4.249.12.114 19:42, October 26, 2010 (UTC)

Spotlight Request
Hi. WikIkariam generally looks good and meets the spotlight criteria. However there are a few places where the wiki is not meeting Wikia's terms of use. The biggest problem is the suppression of the createpage feature in your wikia.js; this is currently not allowed, and would need to be removed. The createpage is intended to make life easier for new editors. Although we realize that it may be more cumbersome for experienced editors, the idea is that if you know enough not to need it you can also deal with what it does. In addition, the skin appears to have been built based on the oasis appearance during the beta period. There were some small final tweaks before it went live -- notably your skin is a bit too wide (maybe 5-10 pixels) and the padding in the header areas is off slightly, which pushes down the Wikia bar. Could you please adjust the spacing all over to match the current layout? I would actually recommend that you try out the Special:ThemeDesigner; it looks to me like your skin could be easily re-created through that and then you won't have to adjust again if/when the wikia layout gets tweaked the next time.

Finally, the link to monobook in your header bar is very cool but it seems like it would be confusing for people. It has to be clicked on every page they go to -- as soon as they click a new link the site reverts to the new skin. So it has limited functionality except as a way of saying "monobook is an option"; it doesn't even explain to anybody how to switch to monobook, and people that know how probably already realize monobook exists. That aside, we don't really want everybody who visits this wiki to copy that link onto their own wiki as the idea is to encourage people to use the new skin. So from the point of view of a spotlight and potential extra traffic, I would ask you to remove it.

Let me know if you have any questions about these issues and I will try to clarify further. Also let me know when you have had a chance to address the changes (preferably on my talk page). -- Wendy (talk ) 03:32, November 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi. Thanks for taking care of the "big issues".  I've added WikIkariam to the approved spotlights list.  In terms of the width/header issues -- it's just a few pixels and only really noticeable if you flip between this wiki and another in tabs.  I personally do not know enough about css for the new skin to tell you what is causing it, although I'd guess it has to do with padding on the various elements.  I probably would not have brought it up except while i was mentioning the other issues I figured I'd be thorough :).  Good luck with the spotlight. -- Wendy  (talk ) 03:26, November 25, 2010 (UTC)

New Wikia Look and problem with tables
Hi! I have created the new wikia.css for my wiki but I can't make the tables work properly: I can't see the background colours as they were before the switch! Can you help me? You can find the source code at http://it.ikariamitalia.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikia.css. Can you have a look at it? Thank you! --Minerva Titani 11:28, November 17, 2010 (UTC)

Babel template
Hi again. Can you make the Babel template for the Italian language? I don' t want to mess it up doing it by myself.

Thank you very much! Minerva Titani 11:29, November 17, 2010 (UTC)

Warehouses
Before, I get to far along in a few of the changes I was planning, I need to ask this question. With the new patch changes and the addition of the Dump, I forget if we are allowed 1 or 4 warehouses in addition to the dump? If we are allowed 4 then I need to re-think one or two of the changes. -- 00:09, December 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * I think I found my answer on the Warehouse page. -- 16:54, December 27, 2010 (UTC)

Ambrosia
Can we transfer Ambrosia from one player to another?
 * As far as I remember, there is no way to transfer from 1 account to another. You can send the other player a coupon, you have to buy it separately, but not transfer it from your account to theirs. --  16:25, December 27, 2010 (UTC)

Wikia's (link) colors
I placed the colors there because both then Internal and External links were colored the same and I want them to be different from each other. As to the exact colors - I have no problems if either are changed - so long as they differentiate the 2 types. -- 18:51, January 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * Currently the Internal links are Blue (unvisited pages such as [Special:Contributions/Melissa_Phillips), Brown (visited pages such as User:Ifaigios), Red (non-existent pages such as No such page).
 * Currently the External links that are not in Wikias system are Green (unvisited pages such as br.ikariam.com) and the (visited pages) are supposed to be Aqua but this option is not working it seems.
 * Currently the External links that are in Wikias system are Brown (visited pages such as w:c:el.ikariam:User:Ifaigios) and Goldenrod (unvisited pages such as Wikipedia:User:Melissa Phillips).

Looks good to me and thanks for the separation of the different types of links. -- 19:57, January 24, 2011 (UTC)

Quotes on Patch 0.4.2 phases
The 2 quotes are but are not about the same phase on Patch 0.4.2. Phase 1 had both the Larger battlefield sizes and the "Fleet Checks" system being tested (and they threw in Patch 0.4.2 at the same time) but if you read the dates of the posts on the boards (the one from the US site is dated Feb 12, 2011) you will see that they are now strictly concentrating on the "Fleet checks" and are asking all to join the [http:/'en.test.ikariam.com Test server] so as to get the different checks tested (phase 2 is really a continuation of phase 1 you could say).

That is why I am putting the EN quote as phase 1 and the US quote as phase 2 -- 21:05, February 15, 2011 (UTC)

Confused
Ok, now I am confused!!!! They are doing a phase 2 on patch 0.4.x and now a phase 2 on patch 0.4.2? Read " t h i s ", posted on en.ikariam.com. -- 03:57, February 19, 2011 (UTC)

But if you read the bottom of the posting for " this thread ", it says the larger battlefields will be added with patch 0.4.2, meaning it was not apart of the patch, the larger battlefields are / were from patch 0.4.x but I think I agree with you and will say that patch 0.4.x is the " Fleet checks " with the update being what is on it's changelog and battlefields are patch 0.4.2 and then the new changes will be Patch 0.4.2 (Phase 2) -- 17:27, February 19, 2011 (UTC)

Does this look correct? Patch 0.4.1, Patch 0.4.x, Patch 0.4.2 and Patch 0.4.2 (Phase 2) -- 00:55, February 21, 2011 (UTC)

Is there a page which gives help with the interface?
Okay, I just edited a page and wanted to send a comment to Jrooksjr, and it took me half an hour to figure out that the way you bring up a text box after you click on "leave message" from someone's talk page is to click on the little icon that says "Source".

This is highly non-intuitive. There should be instructions somewhere.

And yes, I have javascript on, and I had no problem at all editing the page I just edited. It is only on the talk pages and the blog that I was unable to bring up a text window.

Automeris 13:16, March 3, 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I found my preferences page even though there was no link to it visible on my profile by looking at the page source, and after I made the suggested change, I was able to get a window immediately upon clicking "leave message" on your talk page here.

I still think it is a shame that one must enable java script to edit pages. I would never browse this site with java script enabled because it often takes more than 5 minutes to download a page, as opposed to 15 or 30 seconds if java script is not enabled. It just isn't practical to use it. Luckily, the Ikariam content pages are fine either way, except a few pages that require java script to expand something, like the Barracks or Shipyard costs.

I also changed to the new skin, which seems to allow viewing of all the page content on my profile without having to read it in the page source. That was not visible in the old skin regardless of whether javascript was enabled or not.

Thanks again for your help and for keeping the wiki going.

Automeris 00:34, March 4, 2011 (UTC)

Community Corner is the replacement for Siteid messages
It looks like we are going to have to remove our projects from the Community corner page as this is now the place we are supposed to be putting the Site wide messages now. -- 01:50, March 15, 2011 (UTC)

Was there another update
Today, when I logged into the game, all 4 advisers were lit up!

This normally occurs when there was a patch applied, but so far I have not found any changes in-game and the in-game version still shows to be 0.4.2 and there is no mention of any changes so far on the US or EN boards.

Have you noticed anything on the GR boards or servers?

-- 17:20, March 24, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Buildings vs Buildings
Yeah, I forgot about the singular form of the link, I was doing several changes on this wiki and helping out a little on the w:c:bg.ikariam and the de:ikariam sites and was mainly using [[Buildingss]] so I made that change when I should have just made a [[Buildings]] page with a redirect to [[Buildings]]. Ohh well, after the 2 Moves/Renames, the new redirect is now made and most pages are still linked to Building. -- 21:49, April 5, 2011 (UTC)

Main Page
I do not know why the Main Page is the way that it is.

I have recently started 2 new wikis (my personal projects) at w:c:areacodes and w:c:zipcodes and and I (for the moment) have copied over our MediaWiki:Wikia.css and MediaWiki:Wikia.js files (excluding the Wikikariam Logo image). So all 3 wiki's are set up the same over all but the new wikis do not have the AD's that WikIkariam has.

Is this because of how big the main pages are or is it because the new wiki's just have not have enough pages to put ad's on yet? -- 18:23, May 12, 2011 (UTC)

I do not have any ad-blocker (other than pop-up blockers) installed and I have "Show all ad's" setting set in my preferences and this is how the 3 wiki's look at the moment:


 * 1) This is the image of the Ikariam Main Page as it is set now Image:Morphs-Ikariam-Main Page.png
 * 2) This is the image of the Area Codes Main Page as it is set now Image:Morphs-AreaCodes-Main Page.png
 * 3) This is the image of the Zip Codes Main Page as it is set now Image:Morphs-ZipCodes-Main Page.png

You will notice that all 3 have a top banner add, but only Ikariam is the only wiki with the square add just below the "Search" section, which is making it difficult to make page adjustments properly. -- 16:27, May 14, 2011 (UTC)

Tab view settings
I would like to get rid of the White background, for the unselected tabs on the ... pages - I was able to change the selected color to not be Blue but have yet figured out how to make the unseletcted tabs not be white. I was using the recently updated Help:Tab view pages and still could not get the unselected to work correctly. -- 20:39, May 22, 2011 (UTC)

As of this posting you have changed the background of he Unselected ( I forgot to add the " !important " ) to the tags we had. Now you need to get the Selected changed (which I was able to do ) or is it we can change 1 or the other but not both?

If this is the case leave it as you have it with Unselcted the brown and the selected as blue ( I just do not want that white background at all for the unselected) -- 20:57, May 22, 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing the Tab view settings! -- 21:25, May 22, 2011 (UTC)

Page Headings
I have left heading 2 at a max of 2px for the underline and made the others 1px for headings 3 and 4 and made heading 5 and 6 be .5px, but each heading height (size) drops by 5px thus making each H# distinguishable from the other such as this:

h2 h3  h4  h5  h6 Is this a compromise we can make? -- 20:39, May 22, 2011 (UTC)

The reason I added the underline for H5 and H6 is on that, even though there are few articles with those sub-headings, I have a hard time finding where they begin or end. -- 20:52, May 22, 2011 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Wikia.css settings
I noticed today that now, like on Wikia, the MediaWiki:Wikia.css page is now color coded, finally.

I would like to (as you or I can) try to make the page a little more use friendly to others that view the page, by Grouping and labeling all of the similar setting together, like " Page headings ", " Darktable ", " Title " are grouped together and labeled as such. This would be on a when you have spare time, or in my case when I get tired of working on other things, type of project and not a mandatory type of anything. -- 21:23, May 22, 2011 (UTC)

URL changed
Hi! This is just to let you know that finally I've had my wiki URL changed to: http://it.ikariam.wikia.com. There's a redirect from the previous URL so your links still work. Cheers.--Minerva Titani 13:19, May 25, 2011 (UTC)

Please read and vote
Please read my blog at User_blog:Jrooksjr/New_experimental_features_(found_on_newer_wiki's) and vote/give your opinions. -- 21:25, June 6, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your response, the majority of our admins agreed to try the new layout and we now have it. The Wikia staff member did point out that (at the moment) no one can edit another persons profile page, but they agreed that the Admins should be able to do that and a fix should be released today that will allow admins to make edits to any user's profile page (should it be necessary). -- 06:03, June 8, 2011 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Wikia.css settings on your wiki
You might want to check your el:MediaWiki:Wikia.css settings to see if you did the same (small) mistake we did in our MediaWiki:Wikia.css settings. Read Here to see why the logo was messed up, showing as the background for each line in the top 5 Wiki's. -- 22:36, June 9, 2011 (UTC)

Custom namespaces
I found out we are allowed to have 3 custom namespaces on a wiki, so I have contacted Wikia and asked for the 3 following namespaces:
 * 1) Research - For researches
 * 2) Unit-ship - For units and ships
 * 3) Building - For buildings

If you disagrees or thinks we should use other names for namespaces please give your agreement, disagreement or other recommendations |here.

If these items are in a separate namespace we can modify their look separately from the main articles as well. Example - look at your category bar on your user page. You should see the icon in the lower right corner of the category bar. We can add a different Icon for each separate namespace as well as a separate one (if we decide to add any) to the talk pages for those namespaces --  01:52, July 12, 2011 (UTC)

Some new features coming to all Wiki's - soon
Here are some staff blogs about some new features that will be coming soon to all Wiki's:


 * 1) Expanded Wiki Navigation will expand the total number of links to 280, by adding 10 tier 3 links.
 * 2) Message Wall to replace the current User talk: pages.
 * 3) Customizable Emoticons in the chat

-- 23:04, September 29, 2011 (UTC)

Rule Exception
My brother and I( my acount username is rjd and his is srd) recently used ambrosia to relocate our capitol cities (we are using the tau world) near each other, but it is against the rules to have fleet contact with each other because we are using the same internet connection. I was wondering if there is anyway to have an exception made, or if there is a way to bypass this in any way. I would at least like to be able to trade resources with him. Thank you in advance! -- User:71.226.207.244 15:23, January 31, 2012


 * Question was answered by: -- 20:35, January 31, 2012 (UTC)