User talk:Nephele/Archive-2008-11

Speculating TESVEdit

I've heard rumors of TES: Empire. There's an alleged trailer of it on youtube.com (it's not a Rick Roll lol) and I thought you might want to look into it. I'm not sure why I'm telling you this... oh well :D

Glass

This has been mentioned at UESPWiki:News, dont have any more info than what it sais there currently but with any luck there will be soon. --Volanaro ^T•C•E 08:48, 2 November 2008 (EST)

Lost files due to wiki software changeEdit

I've been meaning to bring this up for a while, but a problem occurred a while back the last time we updated the wiki software. Evidently, the new software no longer allows the % character in the filenames for images. Since I used this to distinguish the unknown characters in the Dwemer Alphabet, these images will no longer display, and you can't access them by clicking the links either. I'd re-upload them with different names, but unfortunately, I've lost the original files. (I created them on my work computer, and I don't work there anymore.) I wonder if you could check, since you've got server access, to see if these files can be accessed directly? Or if maybe you can see if there's a way to make the % character work again - it used to work before the upgrade, so I don't see why it shouldn't be able to work now. Ultimately, it might be wise to recreate them all from scratch - complete with alpha so that the site's tan background shows through. But that's a bit of work, so if there's some quick-and-easy way to fix it in the meantime, it's worth trying. --TheRealLurlock ^Talk 11:09, 4 November 2008 (EST)

The short version is that I was able to get the files from the server and I re-uploaded them under new names (Image:DWEMER_UNK1.GIF, etc.)

The long version is that as far as I can tell, the problem isn't with the wiki software but with the apache web server. If the problem were just with the wiki software, then the file would still be accessible using a direct link to the file, e.g., [1] or [2]. But those links return apache error messages ("Bad Request. Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand."), even if you bypass the squid server (e.g., [3]). Part of the problem is that the % character is a special character in URLs (arguably even unique in URLs, since it's the escape character used to create special characters). So it's really not a good choice for an image name, especially for an arbitrary image name that has no real reason to try to use such a difficult character. Also, the original naming system was pretty awkward (for example, trying to distinguish between filenames DWEMER_%%%%%%%%.GIF and DWEMER_%%%%%%%%%.GIF is nearly impossible). Finally, these were the only images on the entire site that used the % character in their filenames. Based on all of that, it seemed far easier (not to mention possible immediately, without requesting a server configuration change and restart from Daveh) to just rename the files and get rid of the problem names. --Nephele^Talk 13:29, 5 November 2008 (EST)

I figured as much. The reasoning I had at the time was I needed to find a symbol which was not a letter (and thus wouldn't be recursively replaced by the old Dwemer templates), and yet could be used to create multiple distinct filenames. At the time, the % worked, so I didn't change anything. Of course, since those Dwemer templates are now only being used as subst's, it doesn't matter quite as much as it did at the time. Anyhow, thanks for the fix. I would've done basically what you did myself if I still had the files handy, but as it was, the only versions that still existed were on the server, and hidden in such a way that only you or Daveh could've accessed them, as you saw. --TheRealLurlock ^Talk 14:11, 5 November 2008 (EST)

ThanksEdit

thanks for correcting some of my mistakes on some pages theres always room for improvement =D-LuciusZelgius

Thanks for Mankar Camoran infoEdit

Sorry to trouble you. But thanks for the info. I'll try to delete my item on the discussion page. Again thanks, I really appreciate all that you do here. Kalevala 11:27, 21 November 2008 (EST) Kalevala

The Class For Your OrcEdit

hi im humansaw93 and i was just wandering what your custom class for your orc was because i love orcs and i wanted to know what the skills and stuff where Humansaw93 21:28, 23 November 2008 (EST)

Just wanted to sayEdit

I just wanted to say that you are ALL OVER this site. I don't know how, but it makes you're info. seem more credible!!Oblivion nerd 22:37, 25 November 2008 (EST)