User talk:Cipriano

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Zelda Wiki Problem
Well, hi. For the last few days, I'm having problems working with this wiki, and I thought you'd be someone good to ask.

Now, I know very little about what is wrong with this wiki lately, so I was hoping you would help me get clear on the subject.

Moreover, there's a problem that I think only I am having, and that problem is that pages aren't updating for me from the last time I was here making edits. Edits that I made to pages like River Zora don't seem to be appearing normally, unless I look at it from the history option.

This is worrisome, and I waited for two days before starting to feel that this problem may be exclusive to me. Hoping for some help... 12:57, 4 July 2011 (EDT)


 * Don't fret! It's not just you, everyone's been having some issues using ZW for the past week or so, we've been experiencing some server issues and such which is making the site look funky-- for some people it's been completely inaccessible, and for others they just keep getting cached page errors and such. I'd recommend clearing your browser cache, and possibly clearing your cookies and see if that improves your problem. 19:33, July 4, 2011 (UTC) (yea, I'm not Cipriano but I answered anyhow)
 * Hey Max, Mandi seems to have explained it sufficiently - server change-overs, integration of the new skin to various pages/templates, larger viewership, etc. could all be contributing to the problems you are experiencing. I know that the downtimes and crashes seem to be effecting browsers differently as well - I run Opera on my laptop, but Safari on the Mac... to test, I brought up ZW at the same time yesterday on both: it was down on Safari, but I could at least get to the page on Opera (though the wiki was a mess of background and code). We hope to have these problems solved within the decade (ha!), but seriously, hopefully soon. 01:15, 5 July 2011 (EDT)


 * Thanks. I was just worried because I thought that the Wiki is looking okay for the last few days again, and that made me think that the problem with pages not updating was just for me. At least now I know the truth. And I clear my browser cache at least once everyday, so that's already done.


 * I'm using Firefox 5, but I have Opera, so I may use that if things seem better there.
 * Just being curious - the skin change and server change happened some good time back, and back then there was no problem, right? So I wonder what suddenly caused it now. I've seen the same problem at Kirby Wiki when randomly passing over.
 * Well, anyways, good to know that the problem is being worked on. Once again, just curious - who's working on these? And how many days or months (years?) might it take? And in the mean time that it is being fixed, can I keep making edits in the wiki?


 * Anyways, hope I didn't come off as annoying. I was just curious, and a little worried. Thanks Mandi and Cipriano. 22:14, 5 July 2011 (EDT)
 * Don't worry, you're not being annoying! These are all very good questions likely on the minds of other editors; you were just the first to ask! Zelda Wiki is on a joint server with Zelda Universe, the largest Zelda fansite on the Internet, and its owner, Jason, initiated a server move to accommodate the growing viewership between the two sites (and his other projects on the same server). At around 1:30 EST, the wiki begins to slow and sometimes even crashes thanks to the nightly backup done to safeguard the content on Zelda Universe and Zelda Wiki in case of spammer wars or other circumstances. Yes, during the downtime, you are of course allowed to continue editing - just keep in mind when these backups occur, and be sure to save everything often (off-wiki as well, especially if the edits are larger) just in case the wiki goes down unexpectedly. 22:59, 5 July 2011 (EDT)


 * I liked your signature coding so much, I made mine using the same coding but tweaked it a bit to make it unique. Hope you don't mind! :P 23:58, 5 July 2011 (EDT)


 * I think a short message should be posted and made pretty visible on the front page, telling how the problems are still there, and what it might cause.
 * If the backup process is what makes the wiki do some of such things like showing error messages and telling how a page is cached, and pretty much making the wiki inaccessible, then how come backup never seemed to be a bother in the past until now?


 * Sigh... Okay... I guess that's how it goes...
 * Your signature looks great. Personally, I see no point in giving a link to contributions and sandbox from a signature, since it is much more unlikely for people to visit these pages before they visit the other person's user page or talk page. So, people are much more likely to visit them from your user page or talk page.
 * Well, see you around anyways! 21:51, 6 July 2011 (EDT)
 * That's a good idea! In regards to your question about the backups, I don't actually know... on my computer, the backups have always knocked out the wiki for me, so this is really nothing new. The backup's always been a bother, since both sites have so much content, but the server changeover may have upped the crash frequency. Then again, I don't have server access, so I only know so much! :) 22:28, 6 July 2011 (EDT)


 * Yeah, good thing. That seems helpful and informative enough.
 * I guess that is the case - the frequency of crash increasing tenfold. But all is well now, because I haven't been facing any new problem for the last two days.


 * While I'm here, I'll ask another unrelated question or two. In the page Stamp Station, is there really any need to keep the number column in the table with the stamps?
 * Also, wouldn't it be better if the images of the stamp were in their original sizes from the game instead of stretched to be made bigger? And while transparency can help in making things look better a lot of the times, I think a white background, or maybe the background being the page of the book the seals are in would be better, because they are otherwise tough to see. In this stamp picture for example, look at the previous revision that was uploaded by me. I think the white background makes the picture much more clear in this case, while in the transparent one things are unclear, blurry, and the eyes are pretty invisible.
 * Just wanted your opinion before I made a move, that's all. 11:17, 7 July 2011 (EDT)
 * I hope you don't mind answering the Stamp part, I was the one who added the stamp field to the table. Each stamp is different in shape, color and motif, so the table now shows how each of them look like. The images were cropped from the Stamp Book page, where they were always transparent. It would be nice to show the book's pages where they're placed, if only someone could upload them,....-- 11:26, 7 July 2011 (EDT)
 * I think you got me wrong K2L. By adding the images of the stamps in the table, you've done a great thing. What I was wondering was that, among the five columns in the table, what is the first column titled Number needed for?
 * Once again, you got a wrong sense out of my sentence. I know the images are from that page. I was just telling Cipriano how I thought non-transparent pictures would be better in this case. If I get some agreement to my suggestion, I will upload them myself. 12:35, 7 July 2011 (EDT)
 * Most tables number the listed items, so I thought it would be ideal to do the same thing there. Sorry for the misreading, I stopped being the same after watching a two-episode anomaly of a show on Internet, and my focus is a bit affected, so I'll let Cip reply you for now =P. -- 13:13, 7 July 2011 (EDT)
 * Sorry, Max12, I've been out for awhile. You bring up very valid ideas. I'd support taking out the number column in the Stamp Station table; if anything, it was implemented to help any editor working on it know how many stamps there were left to upload. It also gives off the impression that the stamps are achieved in a certain order - obviously false. And by keeping the images the same size as they are in-game is cool to me as well; they'd be easier to recognize for one, and the quality would be better as smaller images anyway. 01:20, 30 October 2011 (EDT)

Preview Categories
You recently wrote this: "I'm still waiting until we can see category code in the Preview..." If you scroll down to the very bottom of the screen, you should see which categories the page is in. 09:18, 4 October 2011 (EDT)
 * Thanks Abdul, I overlooked that, again! Reminders are always nice. :) 23:51, 9 October 2011 (EDT)

WikiExclusive is back
Hello, it's me, back again. I just wanted to see if you would check over my heavily edited WikiExclusive. The link is on my NavBox.

Thanks, -- Purlo's Grandfather  { Talk 16:05, 7 October 2011 (EDT)

Zelda merch links
Excuse me, are you in charge of the Merchandise section of the wiki? If so, I have a link dump for you:
 * http://www.ebay.com/itm/400244674186
 * http://www.ebay.com/itm/220872533808
 * http://www.ebay.com/itm/130581941028
 * http://www.ebay.com/itm/160659730296
 * http://www.ebay.com/itm/160650420928

My apologies if some of them are already covered in the wiki. I'm busy saving data when it comes to Nintendo goodies at the moment for NintendoWiki! --RAP 14:01, 29 October 2011 (EDT)


 * Thanks again, RAP. You've got the eye for this sort of thing. And wow, some of those items are highly unique (i.e. the Wind Waker statue!). 23:55, 29 October 2011 (EDT)