User talk:Buddy13

"I built this place. Down here, I make the rules. Down here... I'm God." -- Not really, but it sounds cool. Doesn't it? -Buddy

Adding collaborative videos to your Wiki Hello,

My name is Avigail Perl and I work with all our Wiki partners here at Kaltura.

As you may have heard, through a partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, Kaltura has developed a collaborative video extension to the MediaWiki software. (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Collaborative_Video)

What this means is that ANY site using MediaWiki software can add the Kaltura collaborative video extension to its wiki easily and quickly today, by adding the software extension that is available for download.

Looking at your Wiki I thought you might be interested in adding our new collaborative video extension. With this capability, any of your users can add images, videos and sounds to the collaborative videos created, or edit them using the full-featured online video editor (with full history and versioning similar to the text-wiki).

In order to add this collaborative video extension to you site, all you need to do is:

1.      Apply for a Partner ID here:  http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/cms/signup

2.     Download the Kaltura MediaWiki extension here: sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/

3.     Add the extension to your site

I’d love to discuss this in more detail, answer any questions and help move this forward.

Thank you,

Avigail

Featured Article
I was wondering what if the featured article was every two weeks instead of each month. By the time we run out of long articles the new series will have started - Humerbot 0.4 11:09, 5 February 2007 (PST)
 * When the featured articles were reactivated, I considered either monthly or fortnightly. Monthy won out because there isn't any system variable that counts fortnights, week and month are closest. Not sure if you have looked at the main page's source, but this is what the featured code looks like: . I just found this which would allow for fortnights, however we have neither the extension nor the right version of MediaWiki. - Quolnok 17:51, 5 February 2007 (PST)
 * Now I feel bad for being too retarded to upgrade! I wish I had more PHP knowledge. Anyone here know about it and want access to the database to upgrade? -- 08:42, 6 February 2007 (PST)
 * Well, unfortunately I've never used PHP. I think I will be late this year at uni though, not that that helps in the short term. - Quolnok 01:36, 7 February 2007 (PST)
 * The actual upgrade is easy, I've done it twice. But I always have to revert to the old version, because you have to run some scripts from the server, and the help files are un-helpfully vague on how exactly you do such a thing. One other option is to install the new version in a new directory, copy all pages over, then delete the old directory and move the new one. Downside is that all history and user accounts are lost... So I'm obviously reluctant to do that. --Buddy 18:20, 8 February 2007 (PST)
 * Do you have access to a command line interface? - Quolnok 00:35, 9 February 2007 (PST)
 * Yes, I do. I think. --Buddy 13:34, 10 March 2007 (PST)

DreamHost or 1and1?
Was this wiki created by DreamHost ?
 * Dreamhost, via the one-click install.

Pasting images on Microsoft Paint, Black Plain Images.
I have pasted the images onto Paint, but they appear as a dull, black image when saved. Why? --Electricbolt 14:28, 10 February 2007 (PST)
 * It means you are unable to get screenshots of DVD's. It's part of the movie industry (in partnership with the RIAA) telling you what you can and can't do with the things you own. If you have a secondary movie player (other than Media Player) try opening them both at once. It sometimes tricks one into allowing screenshots. --Buddy 17:42, 11 February 2007 (PST)

A note for the future: Windows Vista doesn't give you the weird black things upon pasting. I'm able to take screenshots without cheating at all. Hooray for simplicity! --Buddy 14:49, 17 February 2007 (PST)
 * Hm... reminds me that Totem has a "take a screenshot" feature, which is quite nice. Also, are you available online? --Svip 13:59, 10 March 2007 (PST)
 * What do you mean "am I available online"? --Electricbolt 15:57, 29 May 2007 (PDT)

Number 1.0 image?
Why does the Number 1.0 image not conform to the quality standards? I took the image from the DVD. I finally learned how to. --Electricbolt 18:44, 2 March 2007 (PST)
 * Look at the picture it mentions on the replace template that the dimensions should be 720x540 - Humorbot 0.4 09:41, 3 March 2007 (PST)
 * Also, why would you put a link directly to the image instead of the image page? Anyway, yeah. 720x540 is standard. Turn off Media Player's (or any other player's) "fit to player" option (or equivalent) so you can get the regular size. That's one thing I liked a lot about Intervideo WinDVD: It played it in a window fit to the movie size. Quite nice. --Buddy 15:51, 4 March 2007 (PST)
 * Alas, WinDVD works for crap on Vista!!! --Buddy 13:32, 10 March 2007 (PST)

Categorizing Pages
How are you able to categorize pages? I want to put the Comics Crew under the Comics category but I can't find how :P I'm probably just not looking hard enough. -- Ivan
 * Category:Bongo Comics Staff is now in the comics category, individuals shouldn't be in there for the same reason commentary articles aren't in the episode category - Quolnok 17:59, 9 March 2007 (PST)

Our Discussion
I'm not trying to be rude, and you probably have a First Life (or perhaps only a Second one), but I don't. So I have plenty of time, I keep refreshing Recent Changes all the time, I check my mail all the time, and I check my IM client all the time, for some indication that you have turned up online, so we could debate, or at the very least, you give me some indication that you are still alive. In any case, I still wish to discuss, and I am looking forward to it, despite the delays... --Svip 18:23, 15 March 2007 (PDT)
 * Yes, I'm online, but I don't have internet at home, so I don't have the ability to sign in to MSN. What are we debating? This is as appropriate a place as any. --Buddy 15:16, 18 March 2007 (PDT)
 * That be true. But a live debate would be nicer in my opinion!  I suggest IRC though, cause that is usually a great way to get people together from a community and talk together.  I would suggest #infosphere on freenode.org  As it is not used, I will register that channel. --Svip 15:32, 18 March 2007 (PDT)
 * Well... I might as well add this. Since I assume you have ftp (and ssh access) to the server of this wiki, I can easily tell you what you need to do to make it without the "index.php" part in the URL! (aka pretty URLs).  First, create a file in the root directory of the domain, same directory where the index.php file is, called .htaccess, the period at the beginning is important.  Then write this into it:

Options FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]
 * Now, we must make the Wiki too understand this, so save the file, and open LocalSettings.php, which is in the same directory. Add this line at the end:

$wgArticlePath     = "$wgScriptPath/$1";
 * This will make the Wiki link correctly. O_O Yay! --Svip 17:29, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

I shall consider "Pretty URL's" to be step 1. And it is done. What is step 2? --Buddy 12:46, 27 March 2007 (PDT)
 * Making me a sysop... /me rins.
 * Seriously though, I suggest read 73 in Conference Table. Add the move protection.  Next step would be the CSS and styling the site, but that would also require you to add permissions for users to use their own CSS style, so I can mess around and make it better.  Uuuh, I could also do with a picture of the Infosphere for the new logo.  --Svip 13:09, 27 March 2007 (PDT)
 * Oh, and get that parse extension for the Wiki, it will make writing templates a dream. Well, if you are like me and dream very geeky dreams. :| --SvipTalk 13:57, 22 April 2007 (PDT)

Not been on wiki.

 * I haven't been actually around for awhile. I have been watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force now and started ATHF Encyclopedia and I don't hardly even watch Futurama any more, but I'M still a fan. I won't be editing much here anymore. --Electricbolt
 * I just saw A Pharaoh to Remember the other night, one of two episodes I need to see to see every episode of Futurama. I've already seen all ATHF episodes. My ATHF wiki is now located here.

Uh, rawr?
o_o Seriously, check out this page and its discussion. Go go go! --SvipTalk 13:26, 3 June 2007 (PDT)
 * OMG Hax reminder. I added the link you wanted to the discussion.  BAM! --SvipTalk 15:26, 9 June 2007 (PDT)

Say...
I know this question makes me feel silly. But when you revert you seem to use some sort of feature in the system, how do you use it? It would good for my anti-spam bot. --SvipTalk 06:08, 12 June 2007 (PDT)
 * At the sysop (and beurucrat) userlevels, and possbily the bot userlevel, we have this slightly different line on the recent changes
 * (diff) (hist) . . ! Category:Organizations; 20:29 . . 77.69.65.15 (Talk | block)
 * the revert is done through (diff), over to the right is a [rollback] link if the change was the last done to the page, that may be available to other registered users too. There's an "undo" option on the most recent version of MediaWiki (used at wikipedia) that does the same. - Quolnok 06:21, 12 June 2007 (PDT)
 * Also on the user contribution page;
 * 23:21, 12 June 2007 (hist) (diff) User talk:Quolnok (→Say...) (top) [rollback]
 * wherever the user made the last edit to the page the label "top" is there and "rollback" is accessable. There is no confirmation page, clicking the link instantly triggers a rollback. If the page is new, you have to access the page and use the delete tab at the top of the page. - Quolnok 06:35, 12 June 2007 (PDT)
 * Speaking of which, can you add SvipBot as a bot user? --SvipTalk 08:11, 12 June 2007 (PDT)
 * In theory, yes. But that seems to beone of the things Bureaucrats can do and sysops can't, I'm the only sysop that isn't also a Bureaucrat. Buddy is probably the one to go to, I'll copy this there. - Quolnok 18:16, 12 June 2007 (PDT)
 * I changed the user group to Bot. Hope it works. Spam is getting retarded. I wish I had internet at home so I could really get deep into it and help you guys out... --Buddy 14:53, 13 June 2007 (PDT)

Also, could you add this at the end of the LocalSettings.php file? It will allow us to use SVG images, they are awesome for some type of image: $wgUseImageMagick = true; $wgUseImageResize = true; $wgFileExtensions[] = 'svg'; $wgSVGConverters = array( 'ImageMagick' => '$path/convert -background white -geometry $width $input $output', ); --SvipTalk 03:36, 27 June 2007 (PDT)
 * Is that really all it takes? Sweet. All the images I made (the PE logo, Slurm logo, Earth flag, etc) are SVG's that I converted to PNG's. Perhaps now I can upload the original SVG's! --Buddy 13:59, 28 June 2007 (PDT)
 * Changes made. Give it a test run, if you wish. --Buddy 14:09, 28 June 2007 (PDT)
 * I uploaded all the flags for Template:Airings, but for some reason the US, Australian and New Zealand flag got ****ed up in the progress. However, when I click the link (to the real svg) it is perfectly fine.  Remember, MediaWiki uses convert to convert them into PNG for viewing usual pages.  Such as the small articles.  Why they are ****ed up could either be because of version of the MediaWiki or the convert command or both.  But I have tested the convert function on my own dreamhost server, and it works perfectly fine.  So I'd go for the MediaWiki being a little too old.  It shouldn't be hard to upgrade.  But you are never able to.  So I guess we'll be stuck in this 1.5.6 hell forever. --SvipTalk 15:30, 28 June 2007 (PDT)
 * Not to be nitpicking here, Buddy, but I think you did it wrong. Can you copy paste in here what the code you have.  Look at Image:Focus.svg to see what I mean. --SvipTalk 18:07, 5 July 2007 (PDT)
 * I used copy/paste, so I doubt there was an error. I'll get the code up here for inspection in a day or two, though. --Buddy 15:44, 8 July 2007 (PDT)

Your Internet!
When are you getting it?! We (by which I mean I, and possible also later the rest of the crew) need those extensions for this wiki! We need to compete with Wikipedia on new content! This wiki has not been around with this much new information exploding about Futurama at once! We need the right extensions to make our edits neat and fast, without stupid "surgery" to make it work. When do you get your Internet, so you can these fine extensions I have been speaking of, so I can start editing like mad man? I may seem pushy, but I have been patient so far! Whoop whoop whoop whoop! --SvipTalk 16:03, 22 November 2007 (PST)
 * Loading... --Buddy 16:05, 22 November 2007 (PST)

ParserFunction Extension
The MediaWiki's Meta wiki has a good installation guide right here; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions#Installation, just follow the guide until where it says Troubleshooting. When successful, it should appear in Special:Version. So, good luck. If you need any help, just say so. The guide is very clear I am afraid though, so much need for me when it comes to it. --SvipTalk 05:18, 25 November 2007 (PST)
 * Oh dip! I forgot I was having trouble with my FTP client... It'll take me a few extra minutes to get that sorted out... It should be fairly easy (assuming I can remember my password after I reinstall...), so I'll get right on it (in a thousand years, yes yes... I've even started working random Futurama nonsense into real world conversations. I laugh my ass off while everyone stares blankly.) -- Buddy 10:56, 25 November 2007 (PST)
 * I bet I am more lucky than you are, when I do the Futurama references in Real Life, everybody understands. Mainly because I do it when I am at Uni, and we are Computer Scientists... o_o See?  Ergo, all Futurama fans!  But get that FTP thingie sorted out, mister! :D --SvipTalk 11:02, 25 November 2007 (PST)
 * Hmm, for once a non-perfect, unclean uninstall worked in my favor. The connection information was still there, even after I uninstalled and reinstalled the program. I guess if I ever truly want to get rid of it (like when I have internet at home) I'll have to deep-clean. Well, whatever. On to the installation dealy! --Buddy 11:18, 25 November 2007 (PST)
 * All done! Tell me if it does what you want now. --Buddy 11:25, 25 November 2007 (PST)
 * YES! ARCHIMEDES ON A STICK! O_O! YUS YUS, also, Cite would be a nice addition.  Right now though, I cannot think of more extensions. --SvipTalk 11:28, 25 November 2007 (PST)
 * What'd I do wrong?! --Buddy 11:40, 25 November 2007 (PST)
 * I dunno, you have all the files in extension/Cite, yes? And you added the thing in LocalSettings.php?  Anyway, I say, disable for it for now.  It is not critical to us, and it is annoying us really much right now! --SvipTalk 11:47, 25 November 2007 (PST)
 * I got all the one's that were .php and one that was .txt -- I tried to download the rest, but I don't think they were meant to be downloaded. They just saved as .htm and seemed to be development notes or something... And then I copied the thingy into the localsettings.php, and it went all nutzo! -- Buddy 11:50, 25 November 2007 (PST)
 * Oh, I read that you need at least the file called text_cite in order for it to work, it has no file extension. But you should be able to get it here. --SvipTalk 11:55, 25 November 2007 (PST)
 * Well, I think I figured it out... sort of. The reason it didn't work is because the files aren't files at all. They all link to revision histories. So I just uploaded a bunch of nonsense. *pokes around a bit* Wow, whoever designed that site was a retarded chimp at best. How do you actually get at the files themselves? I can get at the text of the files, but the best I can manage from that is manually copying that into a text editor and saving with the proper filename. WTF? Are there links directly to the files? Not even "Download" seems to be anything useful, least of all for downloading. Oh, wait... this time "download" did something. By jove, I think I've got it. Who's Jove, anyway?
 * Hooray, it be done! Turns out, I'm smarter than the average rock. I'm somewhere between mud and grass. --Buddy 12:08, 25 November 2007 (PST)
 * That's all you need! :D --SvipTalk 12:16, 25 November 2007 (PST)

Working together
Hi Buddy13. At the Futurama Wikia, we now have 511 articles, and you have 565 here. It's great to see so many people working on this content, but I'm wondering if it would be better to combine forces and merge these two projects. After all, 1076 articles would be better! What do you think? Could a merger work? Angela 21:39, 3 February 2008 (PST)
 * I think I speak for most of us, when I say that we wouldn't exactly like the project to continue on Wikia. But rather have it continuing here (as an off Wikia wiki), personally, I consider Wikia as the geocities of Wikis.  It is filled with ads, etc.  And it does not keep in style with well known wikis such as Wikipedia.  So if you were to move all the content over here, and "close" down the wiki on Wikia and rather link to here, then sure.  But I have a hint that this may not occur.  Also, you may claim you have 511 articles, but most of our articles are much longer than yours.  --SvipTalk 04:15, 4 February 2008 (PST)
 * Hi Svip. I'm sorry you think Wikia is full of ads. If you log in, there are no ads, and even for non-logged in users, there's just one ad in the top right corner when using the default skin. The wikipedia (monobook) skin is available as an option. See this example if you prefer that style. If that changes your mind, the offer of a merger with Wikia is always open. Angela 18:32, 6 February 2008 (PST)
 * I agree with Svip. I don't see such a thing happening unless we suffer a massive cash flow problem. Right now I'd say the benefit of a merge would be minimal to us. Also, with the two wikis covering the same topics the maths is closer to 511 + 565 <= 600 and a lot of headache for those merging articles. - Quolnok 20:29, 6 February 2008 (PST)
 * As the others before me have said, we're not likely to migrate to a wikia page. I appreciate your offer, though, and we always welcome people here. The benefits of migrating here are that the site is wholly owned by me, and totally paid out of my pocket (unless people donate ;), so there are literally zero ads (and there never will be). And this also gives us the freedom to do nearly anything we want with the wiki, including extensions and the like (I don't know if wikia allows extensions, so I may be off on that point). Merging articles from such disparate styles would indeed be tedious, but I'm sure we could work it out if combining forces was agreed upon. I've not personally been to the wikia wiki in a long while, so I don't even know how things look over there. But, as Quolnok said, since most of our articles are on the same thing, it wouldn't give either of us a thousand articles, but rather some lower number. My only concern is stolen text/images. If we do not merge, I hope that we can continue to respect each others' members by not copy/pasting text or images from the other's wiki. Please consider joining us here at the Infosphere. :D --Buddy 13:23, 7 February 2008 (PST)