User talk:MoltonMontro

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User merge

Since the spam bots wont budge with gibberish in user pages anymore do I merge them like the ones you did recently.

Posting here cause my phone right now is dead :]

Yarrrr (talk) 03:25, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, you can merge them into Anonymous. Try to not accidentally merge actual user accounts. You can check the AbuseFilter logs on individual protocols and check the content edits they tried making, or if you see them actually make the spam page in RecentChanges, to ensure that.

Small tip

You can use {{PAGENAME}} so you don't have to rewrite the same word over again. Decreases effort for long titles and chance of spelling error ;)

Also in case the page name gets a rename. The said thing will also change according to the page name

Yarrrr (talk) 00:49, 3 May 2018 (PDT)

I'm cool with this. Generally hate the magic word PAGENAME, but afaik I don't think there's anything on this wiki that's going to make it a major hindrance, at least not for most item/vehicle pages. --MoltonMontro (talk) 03:29, 3 May 2018 (PDT)

Inquiry - Item Icons

First off, I want to say that I'm quite impressed with your skills in wiki management. The formatting and everything looks very solid, and I presume you're going to be dedicated on improving it in the foreseeable future. Congratulations in that regard.

That said I have a minor question - I've noticed that in pages like the Item List, you have icons of certain items. I'm curious as to how you got those icons (e.g. from Nelson, from Github, extracting from files, etc.) and was wondering if you'd share how you got them. Thanks!

--Great Hero J (talk) 22:20, 26 February 2018 (PST)

The item images are currently just being made/edited manually be myself from media references, with a 2 px width 253 px softness black outline added afterwards. When creating icons for smaller inventory-size items, ie: the belt and dogtags, I typically first clean-up the larger sources of it available from when they're equipped on a character, and then scale it down. There are a few issues with the wiki's file database though (in regards to re-uploads, renames, moving, deleting, etc.), so they might all end up being wiped at some point in the future. (Also in the future, I'll likely just talk to Nelson about exporting the HD images again whenever the game is in a more solid state.) —MoltonMontro (talk)

Notifications

I don't know if it's intentional, but the text in the notification tab has a shadow behind it. I think it makes the informations difficult to read, and I suggest to remove it. I don't know if it's the place to make such request, but there isn't an admin noticeboard page such as gamepedia's one.

Ceans (talk) 14:00, 17 November 2018 (CET)

It's already been noted on the trello. Thanks though!—MoltonMontro (talk) 06:12, 17 November 2018 (PST)
The issue is now resolved (as of yesterday)!—MoltonMontro (talk) 12:58, 21 December 2018 (PST)

Translations

Hi MoltonMontro, I have been looking into doing stuff on wiki's lately, by asking if they need translations on their wiki. It would be an honor to translate articles on this wiki to the language Danish. -You can write back to me if you feel this sounds interesting or you feel "The Wiki" doesn't need translations at this moment.

Regards, BelCalm.

Hey, BelCalm! That's a nice thing for you to do. Right now, "The Wiki" is not in a place where translations would be the most effective. This is in part due to the limited access to the main content the Wiki is for, and also due to there being many "foundational issues" that should be worked out first, before we should be focused on facilitating projects like localization. —MoltonMontro (talk) 03:02, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

-Hi MoltonMontro, Thanks for response. <3 — BelCalm

Map Objects

Hi, MoltonMontro. I found an interesting information regarding Map Editor Objects, if you try to search objects regarding houses or prisons on the Wikia; the only objects you can find is "O'Leary Prison", and was wondering if I should add article regarding the other prisons while adding pictures or objects that was part of the game.

Kind regards: Bel (talk) 20:29, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Hey, BelCam. You are not currently on the Unturned Bunker Wikia (which is located under the FANDOM domain of sites). That being said, the equivalent wiki under the FANDOM domain isn't meant to have pages for objects. There's certain locations that still have pages, but most locations are actually a part of the map's page instead.—MoltonMontro (talk) 02:43, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi MoltonMontro, thanks for the feedback by the objects. I'm still wondering if should add that kind of information on this wiki or leave it, and I rather have your approval before adding the article regarding objects in Unturned. Write back to me if I should leave it be or make new articles about Map Objects.—Bel (talk) 23:07, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Several Questions

Howdy, I've noticed that this wiki has existed for a while but it is now the "Official" wiki, I have several questions though regarding certain decisions made for this wiki,

  • Why is Template:Documentation being used as a notice template on pages rather than as intended as a documentation template to explain how certain template are used, displayed or configured?
  • Why do I have to answer ridiculous questions to create a new page, I don't want to keep answering "How many toes does a normal foot have".
  • Why can't I post external links on my userpage.
  • Why are using the legacy version of Vector?
  • Why is the max upload limit only 2MB.
  • Why is the patches page comprised of hundreds of separate pages for each update.
  • What's going to happen in regards to the Unturned Bunker Wiki?

Thanks, Aeywoo (talk) 02:02, February 12, 2022 (UTC)

The Unturned Bunker Wiki is no longer the official wiki. Nothing will happen to it, because there's nothing we can officially do with it. It's owned by FANDOM -- not its administrators, and not Smartly Dressed Games. It will continue to exist.
You can enable Vector 2022 from your user preferences, just like you can on Wikipedia's sites. (It's only been rolled out as the default to a handful of Wikipedia communities thus far. If you're an active editor on a Wikipedia community, you may have already been using Vector 2022 for a while now.) Note that Vector 2022 is still in beta, and as such this site's stylesheet does not fully support it at this time.
It looks like you created your account a few hours ago, and as such it hadn't been autoconfirmed yet. Thus, you were likely triggering several of the abuse filters and captchas. It shouldn't happen that often afterwards.
Each patch is separate because patches are, while lower-priority pages, within the scope of the site. Game history is important, and individual patches contain useful information such as balance changes (which are linked to from other page's history sections). Much patch information is not available through the Steam announcements. But if someone wanted to see most of the patches on a single page, they should consider just using the Steam announcements feed. Otherwise, the Patches page would be ~700 kB in size (700,000 bytes).
MoltonMontro (talk) 02:19, February 12, 2022 (UTC)
I know you don't own the Bunker Wiki, I'm asking what's going to happen to it in terms of are you not going to stop editing on it anymore, if you are going to stop having any involvement in the wiki, I would be interested in being a bureaucrat on it and continue supporting it as it has quite a lot of issues that require fixing.
I'm also still wanting to know why I have to answer ridiculous questions to create a page, why the file size.limit is so low and why Template:Documentation is being used the way it is. Thanks. Aeywoo (talk) 02:32, February 12, 2022 (UTC)
As said in my initial message, it sounds like you're triggering captchas because your account was created today. I'll double-check that this has been configured properly though.
The max upload size is intended to be higher than the standard 2MB, thank you for the report. Although, most of the images used by the site realistically won't be hitting over 2-3MB to begin with. Even at 1920x1080 resolution, an uncropped PNG should be around 2MB. Even less when JPG compressed (or some other compression method), and most of the time images will end up cropped anyways as a 16:9 aspect ratio isn't particularly useful for most on-site images.
{{Documentation}} precedes most templates (being created in 2018), and was never intended to be used on Template pages. In hindsight this isn't ideal, but reflected a time where all official modding documentation (and other such information) would have been present on the site. This plan has since been replaced with the likes of the U3-Docs GitHub repository. https://github.com/SmartlyDressedGames/U3-Docs/ As such, there's not too many pages still using it right now. Regardless, on Wikipedia sites a "Documentation" template primarily exists for formatting/CSS styling, as opposed to providing critical information. Actual documentation is stored on a transcluded subpage (typically at /doc) or in a TemplateData table. This is true for the SDG Wiki as well (for the templates that do have documentation and/or TemplateData).
I will personally still be contributing to the FANDOM domain from time to time, in some capacity. Generally speaking, I am not knowledgeable enough to determine who should/shouldn't be made new administrators/bureaucrats on the FANDOM community, given most of my time being committed towards other projects. I suggest contacting the wiki representative, as they are likely more in-the-know about the best way to proceed with elevated rights. You can view the current wiki representative from this page: https://unturned.fandom.com/wiki/Special:CommunityMoltonMontro (talk) 03:00, February 12, 2022 (UTC)

Recent Changes not working

Recent changes isn't working for me and just shows a 504 Gateway Time-out. also some other parts of the wiki are being weird such as pages ive recently created still showing up as red links. --LittleCatKing2 (talk) 14:27, January 10, 2023 (UTC)

Are you still having an issue with this? I've taken a brief look into it (including your recently-created pages), and I don't have this issue. It may just be an issue with your browser cache. You could try using Ctrl+F5 to forcefully reload the page, or the "Purge" button available on articles from the top-right dropdown menu.—MoltonMontro (talk) 02:30, January 11, 2023 (UTC)

Ctrl+f5 worked! thank you! --LittleCatKing2 (talk) 14:44, January 11, 2023 (UTC)