User talk:Game widow/Archive2014

Hi again!
Hi, I know it's been a long time. I have a big university exam this year, so I have been kind of offline. But I just wanted to say hi and keep up with the latest news and if the wiki needs anything. So what's up? :) — JPulowski (talk) 01:42, 15 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Sure, why not? I'd love to see it. Recently I also started writing on PCGamingWiki, I don't know if you heard about them but simply it is a big troubleshooting/tweaking wiki for PC games. I don't know when The Witcher 3 will be released exactly but I'd like to write an article and a technical report about it. Do you think we might have a chance to get a review copy or an early access to the game just before it gets released? It seems like a fat chance and I don't really know if the developers embraced us as the official wiki for the series. But it would be really cool to see a Witcher Wiki and PCGW collaboration. And also I think it would really help both wikis in a promotional way, if you know what I mean. ;) I also heard that recently GOG.com partnered with Curse, considering GOG.com is CD Projekt RED's sister company... So yeah. — JPulowski (talk) 15:35, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
 * We are the official wiki, however, i'm inclined to agree with your assessment of our chances of getting an early review copy of the game, though i will try. — Game widow (talk) 17:12, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

The new wiki skin
The new skin will look amazing and I'm very happy, that you found a nice place and senseful job for the tabber function ^^

There are still some points I'd like to talk about with you:
 * 1) Would it be useful to add to main page a tabber "more/further/other adaptions" to put there the comics, as well as the card+handy+board game(s) etc.? For this we would need some new icons, of course...
 * 2) The light blue links are hardly to recognize, although this color fits to the skin quite good. Do you have an idea how to improve this? EDIT: I suggest changing #B5DEF2 to the little bit darker #7AB1CC :)
 * 3) The background image of the sidebar (left, "Nav_bg.png") must be edited, because the first letters of the white text lines aren't very good visible.

I hope the others will like this new design as I already do - together we can make it look like better than ever. :) »»Dove«« (talk) 09:37, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, i've made a few changes (the font, the extra tab and the bg for the navigator, as well as the editor section and a few new test content icons), let me know if you approve :) — Game widow (talk) 13:35, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Weird page numbers
Okay, so I've been making a ms word document of as many good quotes as I can find and I have some thoughts. Firstly, there's an introduction quote from Tales & Legends that comes before CH1 - but has no page attached to it - P1 actually comes 'after' that quote - do you want me to use a P'0'? Also, with the impending US edition in the next few months there's a chance that the page count might be different - it might be an idea to add into the BookQuote template which country and edition it is, eg: Bookname/countryname/editionnumber etc etc

In the meantime, I'll start organising them and I'll see if I can do a chapter a day or so, IchibanOfXintra (talk) 11:45, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I actually added that quote on friday ;) and ran into the same conundrum. I think i'll amend the template to allow for a few phrases to deal with strangeness of that sort. For now, i put it as page "i". Also, the template already deals with UK/US differences, see the quote on the Vampire page — Game widow (talk) 22:46, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Adding technical section for bugs and workarounds
Hi Game Widow!

Recently Witcher 2 was released for Linux, and the version is quite rough around the edges. Various people are collecting bugs and fixes, which are submitted to the unofficial community repository at https://github.com/KillaW0lf04/The-Witcher-2-Issues/issues Some thought about an idea to create a Wiki for common HOWTOs and technical tips for new users. I thought that Witcher Wiki is a good candidate for such (may be with creating a section in addition to "Game" (or subsection in it). Do you think it's a good idea? I didn't find similar pages on the Witcher Wiki yet, so that might be something new for the site. Regards. — Gilrond (talk) 00:50, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * That sounds great! I'm all for it. The Witcher 2 bugs should be a good place to start. — Game widow (talk) 01:12, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Do you mind if it will be called "The Witcher 2 bugs and workarounds"? It's probably good to make one page for bugs, and another for HOWTOs (which aren't necessarily about bugs, but are general technical guides about configuring the game and so on). Something like "The Witcher 2 HOWTOs and technical tips" Gilrond (talk) 01:21, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * sure, no problem ... here — Game widow (talk) 01:22, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Game boxes and other files
Hi! :) There are new visualisations of game boxes in many countries on CD Projekt folder for media. I think that Wiki also is kind of media, so we can use it :)

Regards

SMiki5five (talk) 18:04, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, i have that information ... but i've deleted it from your message because i feel it's fine for us to use, but not for the general public, all of whom can read this page. — Game widow (talk) 19:20, 6 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm on the run to upload all useful files to the right wiki (yesterday I started already with some new monster artworks from gog.com), included the game box covers. »»Dove«« (talk) 21:25, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks a million! — Game widow (talk) 00:33, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
 * The files should be now on every wiki. If I missed some (hopefully not ;)), please add :) »»Dove«« (talk) 19:53, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Once again, thank-you so much! — Game widow (talk) 20:27, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia link alias
Hi!

I noticed that Wikipedia link when shortened like this, produces http rather than https version of the page. Can it be somehow configured, or may be there is an additional alias? Even Wikipedia itself recommends using their secure pages. Thanks. -- Gilrond (talk) 15:06, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Yep i can fix that :) (and have) — Game widow (talk) 16:03, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! -- Gilrond (talk) 16:30, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

New minor edit symbol?
Why is new minor edit now marked as three exclamation marks? It looks like some screaming alert. If some symbol is needed, using ♭ for example is more contextual, since it denotes "making it minor" (the note normally). Just an idea of course, may be simply using m like before is also fine. At least it doesn't scream at you :) -- Gilrond (talk) 22:54, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I had not noticed but i'll have a look ... also, Gamepedia will be upgrading to mediawiki 1.23 shortly, so i'll wait until after that upgrade before doing much investigation — Game widow (talk) 22:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Also, could you let me know which browser you use, sometimes that affects what you see — Game widow (talk) 13:14, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm using Firefox (on Linux). To me it looks like this. -- Gilrond (talk) 19:11, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * That's what i see as well, that's a small "m" for minor, not three exclamation points — Game widow (talk) 19:41, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I zoomed it in, and it's indeed a small "m" :) However with small font and dotted underline it does look like 3 exclamation marks to me without zooming. I guess the font can make a difference in this case. Or may be removing the underlying dots (not sure why they are needed). If that requires some highlighting, you can for example use a slightly different color. -- Gilrond (talk) 20:43, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll definitely see about making it more generally acceptable :) — Game widow (talk) 20:55, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Does Witcher 1 need anything?
Doing a new W1 playthrough and looked around for categories about this, but couldn't find much. Obviously, that doesn't mean there isn't stuff needed, and so I ask. Didymos1120 (talk) 01:33, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Not off the top of my head, but i will have a look and get back to you, and certainly don't be shy about adding anything you feel is missing — Game widow (talk) 22:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

thx from CDPR
Just have a look at the Cursed Gamepedians Group "Welcome!" on the thewitcher.com's forums: Hi guys! And DiamondDove - thanks for hot welcome. I'm one of the developers of The Witcher 3 and I'd like to thank You for doing excellent job. We work with Witcher Wiki on a daily basis, quickly checking facts and informations and Your contribution is very important for us. Developing the Wiki, You help to develop the game. Thank You''
 * ''theta77 - Yesterday, 07:37 PM

Nice, isn't it? Even nicer than nice ^^ »»Dove«« (talk) 21:54, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Extremely — Game widow (talk) 22:25, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

About images
Good to know that now images will be uploaded just for the Eng Wiki! I'm sure that all of them are already on this Wiki, because when I searched for a image I found it here and I uploaded the same image on the italian wiki... I'll check however! Synvael (talk) 09:22, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Spammers influx
Hi. There have been quite a number of spammy posts recently. (See recent history). Is there a way to mark some page as spam to indicate it to admins? I think only admins can actually delete pages. — Gilrond (talk) 02:41, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I've given you rights to delete pages and block users. For IP addresses, we don't block indefinitely as it's counter-productive. — Game widow (talk) 14:45, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Featured articles templates
Hi ho :) As you can see I made some new templates for creating missing Featured articles (week 49 ff.). It works, but I'm not quite satisfied with my solution (see Template:FAcode). If you find a solution how to code the Template:FA in a way that FAcode won't be necessary I'd be thankful ;) »»Dove«« (talk) 14:08, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll try to find a solution :) — Game widow (talk) 15:18, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Me again, with some questions
Firstly, I'd like ask about Detmold, shouldn't the page be named Dethmold? Secondly, I'd like to point out that the name Tower of Swallows is incorrect. The correct name would be Tower of Swallow (singular) or as wikipedia "says" Swallow's Tower. In polish it's "Wieża Jaskółki" which would be best, closest to original translated as Tower of Swallow. Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 18:32, 28 November 2014 (UTC) Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 19:23, 28 November 2014 (UTC) Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 20:15, 28 November 2014 (UTC) Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 21:06, 28 November 2014 (UTC) Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 00:42, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Given that there is no official translation, i say we wait, there are several redirections in place. I am absolutely certain it will never be translated as "Tower of Swallow" as that is a very awkward phrasing in English. Given that they used Gull's Tower, i would be more inclined to think they'll use "Swallow's Tower", but the translator has changed, so until the book comes out in english, i'll leave things as they are. — Game widow (talk) 19:19, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Alrighty, and as for mister Det- or Dethmold?
 * Likewise the Detmold/Dethmold. In the English translation of the book his name is "Detmold" (without the h). He is only Dethmold in the game, so there is a redirection in place for that and the variant spelling is noted in the game section on his page. — Game widow (talk) 19:19, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm agree with Gw - rather use the book spelling for the leading article and redirections for other spellings of a name. For "Wieża Jaskółki" - in German it is also "Schwalbenturm" (plural), not "Turm der Schwalbe" or "Der Schwalbe Turm", maybe for the same reason as in English: it would sound awkward ;) But never mind, you should make a note in the Tower of Swallows article, I'd be glad to be notified about this fact :D »»Dove«« (talk) 19:45, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I added a note to the article, hopefully it's not too messy and clearly conveys what I wanted to say.
 * The note is fine, wordy, but fine :) .. Clearly this a more important issue to you than it is to me. I've struggled with the wording for years so I am curious to see what the english translator chooses — Game widow (talk) 20:34, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh it's not really an "issue". Since we don't have too many polish things widely known in the world and especially successful games based on books. I just wanted to make some clarification since I know that translations can suck hard. I don't want be or sound like a smart-ass, just trying help and share some minor... details. For example the polish voices of dwarves don't sound scottish at all ;P
 * Ha ha! I was quite sure the dwarves didn't sound scottish in the Polish game :D but i'd be curious to know if they have any sort of unqiue accent :) and i appreciate your contributions, you don't sound like a smart-ass at all, you seem interested and informed. — Game widow (talk) 13:32, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you, always motivating to hear a good word every once in a while. As for the dwarves they do not have a particular accent. For example many of the townspeople in TW1 sounded very, very rural; kind of dialect with an accent, strongly points out that those are simple people, peasants. They are using some archaic, basically dead words in polish which I sometimes didn't know, had to look those up. This also is characteristic for other things, they often don't just say straight "brothel" with a modern word they use a specific 'ye olden' word ;p for it which is never used in modern language and was last used in the middle ages ("zamtuz" from german "samt-hūs" meaning public house, as wikipedia says). Gives the world even more medieval tone.
 * As for he dwarves themselves, I could only point out that they especially polite and gentle for women in the company (like Triss at the table), changing their manner of speech quite heavily. But on other occasions they use very interesting swear combos, which match particularly well with their swearing capabilities mentioned in the books. In TW1 in CH2 & 3 you could hear dwarven pedestrians on a rainy day "It pours like a motherfuck!" or "Stop raining, you fucker!" (don't remember if it's that vulgar in english too). So the original dwarven speech is a very harsh one, loaded with kinda 'exotic' vulgarisms (and oh boy old polish was rich in those). Remember what was the inscription on the sword Geralt got from Zoltan? The ancient dwarven "wisdom" iirc, I am no translator but it would be something like this in english: "To the gallows all ye whoresons!". That pretty much nails their original speech in the games. Here I am yappin again *sigh*... it just pains me that so much of the world's character is lost in the translation. While playing TW2 in english I can't recall feeling it using any old english... maybe apart from the "ploughing" word which kinda does it's job well. Anyway I hope you have a least tiny bit of fun reading those scribbles of mine ;).
 * You'll be pleased to know that the official English translation of the title has been announced and it is The Swallow's Tower. All references have been updated to reflect this. — Game widow (talk) 18:56, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

A disagreement
Hi, We kinda have a dispute that we can't solve ourselves, here. I would really like to have 2 things included: The other user, Mnethm really insists on having both removed due his opinion.
 * 1) In the phrase "Having spent there a few joyful hours, they [...]" I'd really like to have "oh so joyful" not plain "joyful". I made that article and I see no valid reason for those 2 words bothering anyone.
 * 2) In the notes section I'd like to have the info: "It is unclear as to what is the nature of this "transformation" or how is it done by the succubi nor is it ever stated if all of them are able to do it." added. Basically I wanna point out that one succubus looks nearly always human while the other never does and it was never explained why that is, both are the same race behave differently in terms of appearance. Maybe moving this to the main succubus page would be a good idea? I really object skipping this small fact altogether (plz take a look on history, on the last 2 revisions.)

P.S

Here is a new one for me. Is there a way to make short link for the comparison of 2 revisions?

Thx in advance for taking a look at all that :) Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 03:19, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't know of any shorter version to link to revision comparisons — Game widow (talk) 15:50, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Extension request
As the "Stammtisch" users suggested, the "BoilerRoom-Extension" would be a nice feature I'd like to use. What do you think? »»Dove«« (talk) 08:29, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * It's not an extension that i can just activate, so at best I could try for early next week. I'm happy to activate it on hexer wiki for you to test out. I'm less certain of its use, but if you can show me what you mean to do with it there, then i might go for activating it on all the witcher wikis. Sound fair ? — Game widow (talk) 13:36, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Sounds great for me :D »»Dove«« (talk) 13:44, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Great, then I will get things rolling first thing monday morning (CST :D ) — Game widow (talk) 13:45, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I can wait :) Have a nice weekend, my dear *toodles* »»Dove«« (talk) 14:00, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay, but the extension is (likely, give or take some adjustment!) live. Let me know if it is working properly — Game widow (talk) 17:30, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Date format
I am having quite some problems figuring out what is the most used exact date format. Is it american with full names of months? Or maybe some short format: like dd.mm.yyyy? Shall I use "." or "-" or "/" as date separators? I've seen all and for instance, some pages use two formats in their content. Such a mixup and inconsistency makes it confusing when there are dates involving values below 12, like (from the top of my head) 10.05.2014., which value would be the month? With no format set it's basically a wild guess.

All in all, I'm just trying to say that this indecision and inconsistency in date formatting makes things unnecessarily complicated at times. If the question is up for a discussion I am not a fan of the american format: mm.dd.yyyy, it's typical nearly only for the US and since it's not US typical content that is described here... well I would go with what most of world uses: dd.mm.yyyy. Also, not using month's name makes it more "fool proof" whether to use ordinals or not. Ofc it is only my opinion and I can use whatever is decided to be best, anything that is consistent across the board is better than no date consistency at all. So how would you like to handle this matter :) ? Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 20:37, 13 December 2014 (UTC) Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ  00:01, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I usually use verbose form how it's found here in the signatures, and UTC time as well. For short form that is not confusing to anyone you can use ISO 8601 format. — Gilrond (talk) 23:18, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I also prefer this verbose form with its month's name. ISO 8601, i.e. yyyy-mm-dd? »»Dove«« (talk) 23:38, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yep, ISO date format is YYYY-MM-DD. Not as pretty as DD.MM.YYYY but at least it avoids ambiguity. — Gilrond (talk) 23:40, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Either is fine with me really, I'd just like to see some decision like "From now on, for real world dates like releases and such we use this only". I am used to our polish dd.mm.yyyy but that isn't a problem. But you know, so that next time I see a date I can correct it (if needed) and be sure that the correction is... well correct in itself :P and that the date is clear in its meaning. I got motivated to ask after seeing 12-13-2014 in Dove's The Witcher: Killing Monsters (ref section). I was like "'old on a min'te... there's no 13th month, that is one bizarre format" :D. I wanted to correct it and it hit me, what exactly is the "correct" format here?
 * My preference in english is dd Month, yyyy when the date is part of a paragraph of text. If the date is simply a field in a table or an infobox, then a shorter format is fine with me, and i don't really have a preference. I agree that we should stick with a single style though. (and i changed the strangely formatted dates on the killing monsters page) — Game widow (talk) 13:23, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd like to suggest to make a note for other users as a decision for this wiki: DD Month, YYYY for parts of a paragraph of text, because it is easy to read and understand even for non-native speaker; and iso YYYY-MM-DD for tables, because of several advantages like sorting capability etc.? Could we write it down in the Community portal for instance?
 * And: I think the whole discussion of this subject should also be transfered to the Community portal talkpage. What do you all think about it? »»Dove«« (talk) 15:55, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 16:51, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * "I agree that we should stick with a single style though", single as is the same date format regardless of the type of field the date is in and consistent across our gamepedia? Or single as the dual date format mentioned by you and consistent across our gamepedia? Again, if it's voting imho the first option would be most easy to use for all - one date format regardless of the type of field, this verbose format (like in signatures, seems optimal as a all purpose format). As for sorting, I am still digging through enormous amounts of pages here but I don't think there are too many pages (if any?) that have sortable tables with dates. Am I wrong?
 * Moving this discussion is fine by me :)

Spam filter
It appears that the spam filter treats short youtube links aka youtu.be as spam which obviously is not true. Could you perhaps whitelist the short url for youtube? Thx in advance :) Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 01:02, 18 December 2014 (UTC) Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ  01:52, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Not really answering that request directly, but it's better to avoid such links since they redirect to the full ones anyway. So why waste user's time with redirection? I think they were introduced mostly for platforms with limited length of posts (Twitter and the like). There is no reason to use them where that isn't an issue really. — Gilrond (talk) 01:26, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Imho there is. I wanted to use the short link due the time stamp functionality they provide. Example: I wanted to use, in my recent Ciri edit, a short and clean http://youtu.be/xx8kQ4s5hCY?t=35m45s but had to use a workaround and use spammy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx8kQ4s5hCY&feature=youtu.be&t=35m45s and to get to somewhat optimal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx8kQ4s5hCY&t=35m45s each time part of the url has to be removed manually. I am not saying it is a problem with like 2 links but with more... maybe. And to answer why waste user's time... well, it also saves editor's time used to get to the long link. I won't argue here, if it's not a problem please whitelist the thingy, but if it really is better the way it is now and the cons outweigh the pros, it's fine too, I'll just use the long links if the need arises again. I agree it's not necessary but might prove handy, thats all. Is there a trick to get to the timestamp functionality with avoiding both youtu.be and manual editing the links, force youtube to generate regular links with timestams?
 * You can also omit www. to shorten it. I always added timestamp parameter by hand when I needed it, but now I see that UI supports it (at least when you enable HTML5 player, since that's what I use: https://www.youtube.com/html5). You just right click on the progress bar and select "Get video URL at current time", then it shows a text box which contains a link directly to that place. I got this for example using that method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNAsFBjP_7w#t=76 — Gilrond (talk) 02:03, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * If you feel a video is worth including on the wiki, why hide it behind a url ? just use the regular syntax :, and for more options, read: the extension documentation — Game widow (talk) 02:17, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * It still can be useful to reference a specific place in a video in some contexts. For example as source and etc. It looks neater than posting the full video on the page and writing see at xx:yy. — Gilrond (talk) 02:20, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * For example:


 * ok I expected this to be more triumpant :D — Game widow (talk) 02:24, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Nope, that didn't work :) I also tried using urlargs parameter from that help page, it didn't work either :) — Gilrond (talk) 02:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * but you can still simply mention the timestamp. However, Curse staff are now the keepers of that extension, so i will request a feature upgrade/update — Game widow (talk) 02:27, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up, good to know that they contribute to Mediawiki. — Gilrond (talk) 02:42, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

@Gilrond: Opera is my browser of choice (i hate chrome) and all browsers BUT chrome don't do too well with YT at 1080p in html5. That's due to this "new" buffering YT's been using for a while now. That why, for safety, I dont use html5 playback, to be sure I am able to view things in 1080p if available. But yeah assuming I use it the way you suggest it works fine, in flash the timestamped links are terribad, even more spammy. Thx for the tip, I'll keep it in mind!

@GW: With my last edit for Ciri, where i wanted to point to a specific time in a 35min trailer I used it for the 1st time. When pointing to a part of a elder blood trailer where she blinks it also proved useful, and the whole trailer i linked as well with that syntax you mention. The timespan of the ability is very short, like 5 frames which is a fraction of a second so a screenshot wouldn't do it justice and making a gif, kinda no cos the file would be huge, I never liked making gifs as they are a pain to make for me. Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 02:30, 18 December 2014 (UTC) Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 02:47, 18 December 2014 (UTC) Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 03:05, 18 December 2014 (UTC) Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 03:27, 18 December 2014 (UTC) Peace, Ͽ †yræl pl Ͼ 00:32, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Rather than GIF better make a small video file (WebM for example, or MP4) and then may be upload it to the Wiki and reference through tag? It would be much smaller than GIF of the same length and as well higher quality. About browsers, you probably refer to DASH which requires support of MSE in the browser. I use Firefox myself, but I try to avoid Flash when possible, so I just stick with 720p for now. Support for MSE in Firefox is WIP and will arrive in a few versions (however you can already enable the beta version of it by setting media.mediasource.enabled to true in about config, though it's still buggy. — Gilrond (talk) 02:41, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yup, DASH is the freaking acronym I couldn't recall :D ! I knew you'd know! Yeah this is exactly what's bothering me (and no 60fps), since opera is based on chrome (chromium to be exact iirc) the support should arrive in time but for now... Flash doesn't bother me. I might just make a short clip, unless you or someone else makes it in the meantime, the current timed links have to suffice :|
 * I'll try to do it as an exercise. I have no idea yet if Wiki here supports it easily. Roughly the idea is 1. create a small video file (even with no sound). 2. Upload it to wiki as resource. 3. Figure out a way to insert a video tag on the page referencing that uploaded file. — Gilrond (talk) 02:55, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a plan :) Here is the best possible quality I've seen http://www.gamersyde.com/hqstream_the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_trailer_elder_blood_fixed_audio_-33756_en.html . But my guess is you already knew that :P
 * Thanks for the link, downloaded the 1080p version. I didn't even know the new trailer came out, haha :) I'm somewhat behind news on TW3, since I'm not anticipating the release much. The Linux version isn't coming anytime soon and my Windows installation is long time gone for good ;) But I'm of course waiting for some responses from CDPR on the community technical Q&A which should address this question. Feel free to participate by the way. If they'll respond anything substantial I'll add that to the general article about the game. — Gilrond (talk) 03:14, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Feels weird and good to provide you with something you haven't seen yet, so np, you're most welcome! I'll try to see what this whole post is about and post something constructive maybe. If you can, please update me with this short clip you'll be making. I certainly don't wanna miss that :)
 * I think I hit some roadblock for now (Wiki doesn't allow using video tag directly). In order not to spam Game Widow further I created a thread with details here. — Gilrond (talk) 05:45, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I did request the added feature for the EmbedVideo extension. — Game widow (talk) 01:47, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Do you mean to simply use tag? I'd like to have such option unless there are some security concerns (I'm not aware of such though). I described what I did so far here. I uploaded the video to File:Ciri_blink.webm and would like to embed it on the page using an html tag like this. Thanks! — Gilrond (talk) 02:12, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * We do have [mediawikiwiki:Extension:TimedMediaHandler|TimedMediaHandler]] installed, which uses hook tags. Can you work with that ? — Game widow (talk) 12:26, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Just tried that (see user_talk:Gilrond). It didn't work because it attempted to create a thumbnail and failed as I described before. One way to fix it could be installing the newest version of avconv on the Wiki server. Another is simply allowing using pure video tags, so users could work around backend limitations using direct HTML. — Gilrond (talk) 15:44, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Can you re-necode your video using VP8, we won't have libnav 10.* support until early next year — Game widow (talk) 16:22, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * When I was making this section I honestly didn't think it would come to this... I don't want you guys to think I no longer care, I do care. Lately though, I had less time plus I honestly have nothing constructive to say, and posting for posting's sake... well that's spam. It really feels nice to see a tiny spark of an idea taking roots and growing into something useful, moreover to be a (small) part of that. I'll focus what time I have on helping Dove in her endeavors regarding TWAG's images. I'll ofc keep one eye open on things happening here too but I really doubt I am able to help you at this point, so good luck guys - I'd be soooo cool to see this whole thing working :) !

Re: Username
Yes, I would like it to be changed to "Noddy", an already taken name that seems to be unused. mnethm 18:52, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Our list of usernames don't cover just the wikis, they are used across all of Curse.com, so even if that ID has never edited a wiki it may be a forum contributor, or an ArenaJunkies participant, so i'm afraid that's not possible. You may change your username, but you must choose one that is not used, or merge your ID with another ID that you own. — Game widow (talk) 21:04, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, I guess I'll just come up with another username then. (I don't have anything in mind right now, though.)


 * PS: Can Curse create an Uncharted Wiki? Wikia's Uncharted Wiki is in a state of mediocrity and very low activity, so the competition wouldn't be too big. To distinguish Curse's version from Wikia's, maybe the site could be named "Uncharted Archives" (assuming that you guys are up for creating such a wiki in the first place, of course). mnethm 21:48, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hmmm ... i think i may have misunderstood you initially. I have a rename credit issued for your account and you're welcome to try Noddy. I don't know that it's used, i thought you said it was, but inactive. If there isn't a Noddy account already, then it's yours. But if there is, then you will have to choose something else. — Game widow (talk) 23:15, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Here's what I meant: When attempting to log in as "Noddy" (as a test), I would get "Login error / Incorrect password entered. Please try again," indicating that the account was created on Curse's network somehow. However, this doesn't confirm whether or not the account is registered on Gamepedia or not, for it could also be registered on another Curse platform (since, like you said, they're all interconnected). If the account was exclusively made on Curse's Gamepedia network, then I would think that it could be usurped if inactive. If it was made on another Curse network, like the forums, for example, then I would understand why the name wouldn't be claimable. Regardless, I would like my name to be changed to "Nexus" - the name is currently already registered, however. If it is only registered on Gamepedia and inactive, then it should be able to be usurped, like on Wikipedia.
 * Can't you just make the username "Nexus" available again, if it's inactive, so that I can then use my rename credit to change my username to it? Is username usurpation not allowed on Gamepedia? mnethm 09:38, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

PS: Any new news on the Uncharted Archives proposal? Out of curiosity, how long do wiki proposals usually take here on Gamepedia? mnethm 23:59, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Nothing yet, but i don't think the chances are very good, unless you feel you can sway the community that contributes at wikia to come over here. I will follow up, though, just in case — Game widow (talk) 14:02, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm in the process of trying to convince BioShock Wiki to come over as well. Here's how that's going, if you want to check. I'll see what I can do with Uncharted Wiki. mnethm 15:38, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Nice :) .. one thing you could point out is that wikia does not own the word "wiki" and that wikis on the gamepedia network are not known as gamepedias :) They are wikis — Game widow (talk) 16:53, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Alright, will do. And I have went to gamepedia.com and saw my rename credit. However, everything I typed in is already taken (although I'm willing to bet that all of them are inactive accounts). I would like to use the name "Nexus" the most, but that too was taken and I don't want to waste my rename credit. mnethm 17:38, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Just curious, no rush. I know you are quite likely correct about the status of the "used" names but at the moment, there's nothing I can do about those. I have put in a formal request for the entire process to be reviewed, so perhaps in the not too distant future, situations like yours can be resolved more quickly. But if you can be patient, we may yet come to a favourable conclusion for your username. — Game widow (talk) 18:43, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Any idea how long it will take for the request to receive a response of some kind? mnethm 02:02, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I usually hear back relatively quickly, but being the holidays, things really won't be addressed for at least another 10 days — Game widow (talk) 14:32, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Eh... alright. Well, happy holidays! ^_^ mnethm 20:05, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I apologise for the delay, but i can't really force anyone to come in to address this — Game widow (talk) 03:45, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
 * If you are volunteering to be the admin for this new wiki, then the answer is yes — Game widow (talk) 00:52, 31 December 2014 (UTC)