User talk:TheSatanicSanta

First contact
Hi, Santa.

I saw you made some changes in my favorite wiki - Craft the World. I was looking for someone to give me admin rights in this wiki as it seems kind of abandoned. Most people made edition 1 year (or more) ago. Our main page is outdated, missing links for some important articles. Also I'd like to insert a background image in a Template, but I need permission to access the CSS file. I asked someone for this 1 or 2 weeks ago, but I got no answer. I don't know if this is the better way to ask for this, as this is the first wiki I'm editing.

I'm organized. I know CSS and HTML. And I don't mess with what I don't understand, like java and php.

So, if you could give some instructions about this (admin permit), some articles on this subject I should read, for example, I'd be glad.

Thank you. SapadorCastelo (talk) 15:12, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hey SapadorCastelo. Please read the admins guide and fill out the ClaimWiki form. TheSatanicSanta (talk) 18:55, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Little issues
Hey, Santa, thank you for the admin rights. I'm having two little issues here. Thank you in advance. SapadorCastelo (talk) 11:54, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Is there a way to make the magic word NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS display correctly on the main page? It's stucked at zero (test:  ), although the Special:ActiveUsers page shows some people there. If it's too complicated, maybe I could just remove this info from the main page?
 * 2) My alerts (Special:Notifications) are not working, although all boxes are checked at "Notify me about these events" on Special:Preferences. It never notified me of anything, except about new achievements. Only Special:RecentChanges page is helping me :(
 * I believe both of these are known issues (searching the Gamepedia slack server I found messages over the past couple months about both of these issues). For the active users thing, I would just put it on the main page anyway so once the issue is resolved you don't have to remember to add it. It gets the number from Special:Statistics, which seems to be showing the wrong numbers for some other stuff too. For the notifications, I'm not sure. I don't really use echo notifications much because I have over a dozen that I can't get rid of lol. What are you wanting to use notifications for specifically? Watchlist? If so, you can view pages in your watchlist that have been edited recently at Special:Watchlist. TheSatanicSanta (talk) 17:31, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Reverted edits
Hello, Mr. Santa

I didn't understand the reversion on the Skeleton article. Did I do something wrong? I'm sure I can do it better, but only if I know what was my mistake.

Good weekend. SapadorCastelo (talk) 10:49, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I believe that was a mistake on my part. Recently when I look at diffs, sometimes it will just revert the edit I'm looking at without letting me know. In fact, this happened just now when I reverted my revert edit on that article. TheSatanicSanta (talk) 00:20, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Image files disappearing after being moved
It's the 2nd or 3rd time it happens after this big migration of Gamepedia servers. Here, I moved  to. I wait for the image to render on pages, and nothing. I tried to upload another file on "Longbow" place, and it said there were already a file there. And now, It says: "No file by this name exists, but you can upload it." It's very confuse. Nothing this happed before the migration. :( SapadorCastelo (talk) 02:22, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Fast edit. Now, while trying to upload an image file, I'm receiving this message:

"500 Internal Server Error nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu)" — SapadorCastelo (talk) 16:11, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah this was a known issue. It appears to have been resolved earlier today, and looking at File:Longbow.png it looks correct. Let me know if there are any other issues :) TheSatanicSanta (talk) 22:34, 30 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it's fixed! I could finally upload the mana storage image and edit the Goblin Shop. Both were locked to me :D — SapadorCastelo (talk) 01:15, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey, Santa

Sad to say, but I'm still receiving this message when trying to up images or to edit articles: "500 Internal Server Error". And it's totally randomic when it happens, but since it has blocked one path, it won't open it at all. Like, I can't upload this file. — SapadorCastelo (talk) 11:35, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * We're just going to have to be patient as the devs and folks iron out all the instability issues and such that have arisen from the AWS migration. If you're having consistent issues but still want to work on the wiki, something I did when we were moving the FTB wiki over from its old server to Gamepedia, and while it was unstable from bugs in our extensions, was to create articles and save them locally and simply copypaste them onto the wiki once it became stable enough to be used. It's not a perfect solution, of course, but if it helps you feel productive :)
 * Also, are you aware of the Gamepedia slack community? You should consider joining; you can find info for it here. TheSatanicSanta (talk) 18:38, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * These are nice ideas. SapadorCastelo (talk) 19:13, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Category with weird gathering
Happy new year, Santa!

If you were French, I should keep this post to be published on Feb. or March, to then tell you the wishes for the year; and it would still be great!

This Category:Pages_with_broken_file_links gather articles in it for no apparent reason. Is there something I can do with simple editing to remove them from there?

It's not a big of a deal though, as I'm sure nobody keeps scavenging this kind of page. Just to know (and to wish you a good year before March! ). — SapadorCastelo (talk) 20:15, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Is it actively accumulating articles, or is this basically just what it had accumulated during all the AWS fun? Performing a null edit on the page wrongly shown will remove it from the category. TheSatanicSanta (talk) 21:38, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Extensions
Hi, TSS

I'd like to use these extensions: But seems they're not installed. Am I right? Would it be possible? I mean, am I allowed to use something like this here? If yes, what should I have to do, because I saw on Special:Version that we have many extensions installed, but I have no idea on how and where to do it. Thanks. — SapadorCastelo (talk) 15:05, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Labeled Section Transclusion and
 * Tabber.

EDIT: Add 2nd extension. — SapadorCastelo (talk) 19:16, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
 * This is the correct way to do it; I have to enable the extensions so you just bring them to me. I've enabled these two, they should appear soon (it's not instant due to caching stuff). TheSatanicSanta (talk) 17:50, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Good to know! — SapadorCastelo (talk) 01:00, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Fandom
Hi, TSS

About this news, does it means that Fandom and Gamepedia will have their wikis on the same domain? If this is true, I have an account on Fandom.com; will I be able to merge my accounts? — SapadorCastelo (talk) 04:14, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * At the moment, in the early stages of this, Gamepedia does not have an answer for these. I'll let you know as soon as I have a solid answer to these questions. TheSatanicSanta (talk) 18:53, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! — SapadorCastelo (talk) 05:04, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Unnamed Parameters Limit
Hi, Santa

Is there a cap number for the unnamed parameters in a template? Is it less than 30? I was trying to create an items list template, but the software is capping it to 25 items per list. I read the "Parser profiling data" shown when we edit the article page, but none of them seem to be exceeded. I'm a noob and I can't write complex loop codes using lua templates, so took the idea from this basic Wikimedia template. Is there another way we can build a template for this purpose or any workaround for this cap?

Thanks. SapadorCastelo (talk) 06:15, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I think for this it might be best to use Cargo to automatically build the list from a central table of recipes, rather than manually inputting every item. What do you think? Cargo could possibly be useful for other things here, as well. TheSatanicSanta (talk) 21:53, 22 July 2019 (UTC)


 * This seems perfect. Although I might take some time to learn how to use it and then to organize the data. SapadorCastelo (talk) 15:35, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'll look into getting this set up sometime in the near future :) TheSatanicSanta (talk) 16:49, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I thought of another way to do it, without Cargo, and I'd like to know what you think. This is pretty much what the Minecraft Wiki does. Basically, in their crafting template, they add the page to hidden categories called "Recipes using [ingredient]" (see Recipes category), and then their crafting usages template uses DynamicPageList to list out and format all the page titles in the category. TheSatanicSanta (talk) 23:17, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
 * If you see the Minecraft way is simpler/easier, this is probably what we should do. And if it works for them, it should work for us, as our crafting system is very similar. We'll have to use module templates, if I understand correctly, isn't it? SapadorCastelo (talk) 10:19, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
 * We might, although I think it's possible without modules. I'll try without, and if it's really necessary I can port it over. We would have to use modules for the Cargo method, anyway. TheSatanicSanta (talk) 17:21, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I implemented it (without using modules). I had to enable the DynamicPageList3 extension, which is very useful in general. Made minor changes to Crafting recipe, created new template Crafting usages, and implemented it on Water as an example. Let me know if there's any issues :) TheSatanicSanta (talk) 19:35, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Holy moly, this extension is nice! I'd heard of it on other wikis, but never used it. And amazing bot creating all these categories! hahaha Well done! The only flaw I see now is the outputting order being apparently random, and not alphabetically sorted. EDIT: The  fixed it. It seems perfect now. Thank you, Santa! SapadorCastelo (talk) 12:45, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Great, glad it resolves the problem TheSatanicSanta (talk) 19:34, 12 August 2019 (UTC)