User talk:Torley Linden

Please add new stuff on top, thank-you!

2 weird articles

Heyas! Me again :-)
Just stumbled about these two articles which feature the exact same content and which titles are wacko o.O. Can you fix?

-- ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:31, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh yeah! Keep adding any more you find right here, I'll be refreshing my talk page later after I get through your first (email) list... THANXARAMA. - Torley on 2009-10-14 @ 10:35 AM PST

OK, am done Fixing all micro formatting flaws (that I could find) in main namespace KB articles.

Not much but here's what I found, noted and didn't correct on my own but here's what I remember right now:

What is an avatar key? is same as What is a UUID?. Should be "an" UUID anyway, or?

Three images in Tips and Tricks: Better Building with Primfficiency! aren't working (weren't working in Parature either).

Also, the Style Guide mentions that the first appearance of trademarked terms should have their related trademark symbols. Template:Seal contains the terms "Second Life" and "Linden Lab". Would be clever to add ® there, then we won't have to manually fix it in each article for the actual content.

Maybe a link to the Community Translation Project would be a good idea in there. We're having no obvious link where people are encouraged to translate articles (would be of great benefit for the CT Project.

^{(talk|contribs)} 18:28, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

What a journey it's been! Fixed those and added notes where necessary. "Would be clever..." is VERY CLEVER INDEED! I'll let the list know (for this and other localization tasks that are related to KB work but not in the Doc Team's direct responsibilities). Also, I want to promote CTP more but need to get Noelle & Team's approval. So let's wait on them. - Torley on 2009-10-14 @ 4:01 PM PST

Heyas :-)

Yeah, was an awesome editing rampage you had there! It pushed you up to #3 ^_^

Alerted by an edit of JamesG Comsys, I noticed that there are three articles currently linking to a non-existend Concierge Support contact information article. These are:

I guess Concierge Support contact information might be one of the articles that should still be in Parature, since LL only makes these available to people with the right account status. So the blank Wiki article would best be removed and the LLO article links updated to point back to parature.

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^{(talk|contribs)} 17:06, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Templates

Heyas :-)
To remarks about templates. One is related to the Template:Navbox subpages. I think, rather than using templates inside a navbox, it would be better to use a navbox inside a template. The advantages are: More freedom to change the appearance and less to type when you want to include it in an article.
So instead of

{{Navbox
|title={{Navbox/Adult-title}}
|content={{Navbox/Adult}}
}}

You'd create one Template:Adult Navbox and then use a {{Navbox|title=something|content=something else}} inside of it. You'd just have to add {{Adult Navbox}} to articles (looks cleaner) and you can style changes in the Adult Navbox without having to change the Navbox template (or all articles using it).

Another thing: some tags don't like wikicode as an argument. They don't interpret it as wikicode. <videoflash>, <lsl> and <pre> belong to these. They need to be treated with a {{#tag|parameter|argument1=value1|argument2=value2}} kind of setup, see the one on the bottom here. I changed it for Template:KBvideo.

cu :-) -- ^{(talk|contribs)} 18:47, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
P.S: After I realized that "greets" isn't a proper way to say "sincerly yours" in a less formal way in English, I'm in the dilemma of lacking a flowery phrase to end my mails and comments :-/ ^^

Hey Zai! I thought about "it would be better to use a navbox inside a template" too. But here's the problem: then what happens if I want to change the UNIVERSAL STYLE of all those navboxes? Or, what if I just want to include the article listing WITHOUT the box, as on Category:Adult? Anyway, we're still in the early stages here, so if this ends up being awkward, it surely will be replaced by a better way. That's evolution.

I'll check Template:KBvideo soon and appreciate your attention to detail.

"Greets" or "Cheers" is cool with me... heck, invent your unique own! - Torley on 2009-10-12 @ 11:57 AM PST

I thought this through some more (nested templates demand nested logic!) and now clearly understand the Template:Navbox benefits you're pointing out to me! I also misunderstood how styles get applied, so ignore my "UNIVERSAL STYLE" question. I'm going to make your suggested superior change to the "Adult" and "Xstreet" ones shortly. Good to catch this early! - Torley on 2009-10-12 @ 12:39 PM PST

Very welcome :-) btw: The {{#tag...etc markup workaround is attributed to Kuraiko. We had the same problem yesterday in another Wiki and he found the solution. Some documentation is really hidden away where you'd not expect it to be ^^

Cyas :-) --

^{(talk|contribs)} 00:14, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Flagged Revs

Heyas Torley! :-)
I'm pretty sure you'd be interested in reading Enable FlaggedRevs only on specific pages. I didn't test it yet... But the answer came from one of the two Flagged Revs developers.
Cheers =) -- ^{(talk|contribs)} 01:52, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

YO ZAI! I'm back from the weekend and ready to rock. YES, THANK YOU for the proactive research — I'll check this out and make sure our Migration Team sees it. - Torley on 2009-09-08 @ 7:49 AM PST

Kewl, thx and ROCK ON! ^^ --

^{(talk|contribs)} 19:18, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Funny

Just a short heads-up, that you pasted the wrong URL over here. I dunno which is the right one, or I would have corrected it... :-)
-- ^{(talk|contribs)} 05:59, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Can you fix a kinda embarassing word choice error of mine that got archived please?

a while ago, I was under the mistaken impression that the slang "bollocks" could be used in the same way as the slangs "damn" and "crap", though more recently I've read it is supposed to be used for a different meaning, would it be possible to replace the instance of that slang that got archived with the last version of my comment about my first link the Joss Stone video with your colortheme having become invalid, with "balls" please? (that one I'm sure I've seen british people using in the way I intended to)--TigroSpottystripes Katsu 12:53, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Sure, done. :) - Torley on 2009-07-20 @ 7:25 AM PST

Importing Wikipedia content - part 2

Torley, can you take a look at and chime in on Project:Editing_Discussion#Wikipedia_content_-_part_2? It's in regards to the steps that need to be taken on this end to implement Wikipedia content. Thanks. GW ^(T|C) -- 17:39, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

PNGs

	Note! OptiPNG FTW!
	A Resident has noticed you've been uploading PNG images lately. Please consider using a lossless recompression tool such as OptiPNG to reduce the file size without compromising on quality. Alternatively, consider uploading the PNG images as JPEGs!

A vidtut on how to use OptiPNG can be viewed on Template:OptiPNG FTW!

Please point me to any problematic images. I sometimes upload large screenshots but have them dynamically resized by MediaWiki into smaller JPGs, so the original PNG isn't shown in the page, anyway. - Torley on 2009-05-06 @ 6:00 AM PST

Hippos and Robots

Whoever is responsible for SL Knowledge Base: Hippo and SL Knowledge Base: Robots, please give them my kudos (^_^)
Greetz, Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 18:20, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

I'll be sure to salute them all HIPPOTRONIC. With extra Auto-Tune on top. - Torley on 2009-04-29 @ 12:05 PM PST

So ahhh how'd you find these? And are there any others that are hilarious but not "real" KB articles? - Torley on 2009-04-29 @ 12:20 PM PST

They're gone ;_;

I found em when I searched for ban (I'm trying to populate wiki articles with KB article links) and they showed up in the search although not related... Although they're from 2007, there were hardly people who looked at them (had 20 page views before I spread the link via twitter...). I then tried to find others by manually adding KB ID's at the end of the link but with no success so far.

Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 19:33, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, we removed them, they were used for testing the KB eons ago. But they'll live on in our memory. Very clever! Hehe. - Torley on 2009-04-29 @ 12:37 PM PST

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