Zelda Wiki:News 2006

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TP to Work With Rev Controller
A recent issue of NGC has told us that Twilight Princes will use the revolution controller...

While also still set for release on GameCube, the new Zelda adventure will contain special features enabling players to make use of Revolution's controller, so when the disc is inserted into Revolution it will give the player the option to use the next-gen console's radical device. ~Gamesradar

What's on people's minds are all of the possibilities this will bring to the field of Zelda - from fishing games to wielding two swords at once, all the way to conducting a baton. If we're lucky, we might just get to see the bow and arrow idea that our Bobslob had in effect. It all boils down to some good patience and hope that Nintendo, like it seemingly always does, has more tricks up their sleeves just for Zelda. --Posted by Jason, 19:00, 12 Jan 2006 (GMT)

Another year's end approaches
A happy New Year to you all, out there in Internet-land. In celebration of the close of a successful year, we bring to you thoughts from our BtR team about this past year. A year in review, if you will.

Pipking, Lord-of-Shadow, Bobslob, and Jason all contributed to this small collection of thoughts and opinions of things in the world of entertainment (movies, books, video games), and of course some Zelda.

This new year will, at Zelda Universe, bring to you more features, content, and design: look forward to what is to come!

Once again, Happy New Year everyone; may this coming year bring us all good fortune, and more Zelda! --Scott 19:02, 12 Jan 2006 (GMT)

The Little Things
Not much to say today, I just wanted to point out some little updates here and there.

Specifically, the text of the Creation of Hyrule, Lands of Hyrule, and Races of Hyrule pages has been reworded to be less clunky and awkward. I am also working on fixing up the game information pages, but that is no where near done.

In other news, I should inform you all that my fellow webmaster Jason has resigned from his position and left ZU for personal reasons. This came as quite a shock to our forum community, who learned of this a couple of days ago. Not to worry, though. Site updates will continue on a more regular basis than they have for a while.

Also, the Gods of the Internet saw fit to mock me as I created this page, so some of you may have noticed an inexplicable black newspost, or a lack of links in this newspost. Well, such is life. --Scott 19:02, 12 Jan 2006 (GMT)

Shock and Awe
As incredible as it may be, I felt the need to make two newsposts. This one having no bearing on the earlier one from today. You may be interested/excited to know that we have a new poll available for your voting pleasure.

Nothing groundbreaking, just a simple opinion. Expect the next poll much faster than the time interval since the last poll update. If you havent found it yet, it's on the right side, down a little ways. Also, a little fun tip for future/current webmasters and newsposty people: always double-check you have everything before releasing things to the public.

I also feel the need to say "Oh, looky there! 100 site updates since we switched to Mambo." That's right. This is newspost #100 in our "Site updates" catagory since we started using a CMS. Though, it is newspost #144. --Scott 19:02, 12 Jan 2006 (GMT)

Update on Updating
The forums will be down for no more than a couple of hours today, because we're upgrading to vBulletin 3.5.

UPDATE: Forum upgrades have been completed. Some info within.

vB3.5 is a vast improvement over the current version, I think. Although the forums won't really look all that much different at first, those of you active there will certainly notice some changes. A side-effect of upgrading the forums renders the main site login, and the comments system, temporarily inaccessible. Please be patient with that, and we will have that all working again soon.

To ensure that your browser catches all the new features of the forums once they return, I suggest clearing your temporary internet files. Besides, deleting those now and then is always a good thing. --Scott 19:02, 12 Jan 2006 (GMT)

TP Controller Rumors Dispelled
Shortly before New Year's, we reported on a rumor which said that Twilight Princess would have the option to be controlled by the Revolution's unique controller. Nintendo has since dismissed this claim.

NGC last month reported "that Twilight Princess will be playable on the forthcoming Revolution using the upcoming console's unique controller..." And that if played on the revolution, it would give you the choice. 1UP.com has reported, however, that NGC's claim was pure speculation, according to Nintendo:

"The article in the January edition of NGC Magazine is pure speculation. Nintendo have made no new announcements regarding The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. We can however confirm that the game is still in development and that it will launch on Nintendo GameCube in 2006."

Of course, that statement does not explicitly say that there won't be functionality to use the Revolution's controller... --Scott 19:02, 12 Jan 2006 (GMT)

MediaWiki 1.5.5
The Wiki has now been upgraded from 1.5.4 to 1.5.5. This is a security fix, and should prevent people from uploading malicious files. As always, please report bugs in the "Discussion" tab.

Known Bugs: --Jason 15:19, 14 January 2006 (GMT)
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MediaWiki 1.5.6
The Wiki has now been upgraded from 1.5.5 to 1.5.6. This is a code fix, preventing an infinite loop bug that occurred during some page edits. Bug report (Discussion tab) is here as usual, please say any if you find them.

Known Bugs: --Jason 00:29, 22 January 2006 (GMT)
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Media Wiki 1.5.7
The Wiki has now been upgraded from 1.5.6 to 1.5.7. This is a bug fix, with various random improvements to the Wiki software. There should be no change on the user side. Use the bug report as usual if anything comes up.

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MediaWiki 1.6.2
The Wiki has now gone through the major upgrade from 1.5.7 to 1.6.2. This is a bug fix, with various random improvements to the Wiki software. There are some spiffy changes listed inside which you may or may not find interesting. -- From mediawiki.org:

What's new in 1.6
User interface:
 * The account creation form has been separated from the user login form.
 * Page protection/unprotection uses a new, expanded form

Templates:
 * Categories and "what links here" now update as expected when adding or removing links in a template.
 * Template parameters can now have default values, as

Uploads:
 * Optional support for rasterizing SVG images to PNG for inline dislay

Feeds:
 * Feed generation upgraded to Atom 1.0
 * Diffs in RSS and Atom feeds are now colored for improved readability.

Database:
 * MySQL 3.23.x support dropped; 4.0 or later required
 * Experimental support for Unicode mode of MySQL 4.1/5.0 (moderately tested)
 * Experimental Oracle support (not well tested!)

Anti-spam extension support:
 * Spam Blacklist now has support for automated cleanup.
 * Support for a captcha extension to restrict automated spam edits.

Numerous bug fixes and other behind-the-scenes changes have been made; see the file HISTORY for a complete change list.

Compatibility
Older PHP 4.2 and 4.1 releases are no longer supported; PHP 4 users must upgrade to 4.3 or later.

MediaWiki 1.6 is the last major version to support PHP 4; future versions will require PHP 5.

MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade. At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.

As always, please report any bugs you find. This was a major update, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were some major bugs floating around. Thank you!

Oh, and we have the Spam Blacklisting program installed. This will automatically scan the Wiki for periodic spam and purge it! So look forward to a nice, spam free Wiki. --Jason 22:18, 8 April 2006 (GMT)

These Pages Are Wanted!
Down in the dumps because you can't think of an article you want to create? Never fear! There's a buildup of about 900 articles linked throughout this wiki that haven't been created yet.

Why haven't these pages been created? Who knows! The ZU Wiki has been sitting around in the 1000's and 1100's for the longest time, but look at this stunning list of articles that need creation here. If that doesn't get your attention, you can also click this entire part of the sentence to see the list!

If you STILL can't find the list, I've added it to the navigation now on the left side of the wiki. It's just under "Random Page," and it's called "Wanted Pages." Seems like the most wanted page right now is Tarm Ruins, so why leave it wanted?

It's not the most amazing pep rally, I know, but if we want this wiki to be the best and most active it can be then the thing we'd most love to see is the "Wanted Pages" section nearly totally empty! Who knows, maybe the person who makes article 2000 (or 10,000, dare we dream so high?) can get some prize or something. But we'll never know until we get there!

Why are you still reading this? Shoo and make some new articles from the list! --Jason 15:56, 9 April 2006 (GMT) }}