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I'm not sure where a suitable place to discuss general things that aren't specific to a particular article might be, so I'll just write something here for now. I just wanted to say that I plan to use the extra material released for the CIC's birthday to upload some nicer images from WC3, if they happen to be better quality than the digital PC video (still in the process of downloading, servers are understandably burdened immediately after the party). Hopefully, they're not too blurry or fuzzy or heavily compressed. I just wanted to let everyone know in case someone else thought to do the same, to avoid duplication of effort. - Wedge
: All done, for pre-existing WC3 FMV images. - Wedge


'''Question About Time-Stamps'''
Timeline using year/no month/no day


Do you know who controls the formatting of time-stamps in signatures? Did it change with the recent upgrade? The reason I ask is that the time-zone seems to have changed from UTC as used previously to United States Central Time + Daylight Savings. This really is uncomfortable to work for anyone outside the United States and will even change when moving between Standard and Summer Times. There are [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla/local_timezone_conversion,_time_formatting,_and_signature_time_expansion proposals to make this a user parameter], but they aren't implemented yet and may never be. Would it be possible to revert to the UTC time-zone, please, in the interests of international co-operation and standardisation? - Wedge
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:You misunderstand me. I know about the time settings in the Preferences section: those affect what you see on article history logs, etc. But the time-stamps given in signatures seem to be fixed by the system - case in point, your last message to me was signed with a time-stamp of United States Central Time, Daylight Savings. What's the best way to contact Kris, if he's the only one who can control this? - Wedge
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: Mmm, I'm not sure about that. When I preview using my 4-tilde signature, it comes out to United States Central Time as well. I suppose I can use the history logs as a work-around for now, but if you want to know why I make such a fuss about this, here's what I wrote while you were updating my Talk Page:
:: Your earlier comment (on my Talk Page) before the upgrade uses UTC, which is standard and useful because I can mentally say, 'Ah, Dund posted that at 08:13+1000, my local time.' Whereas after the upgrade, United States Central Daylight Savings Time is meaningless to me. Time-zone abbreviations aren't even standard and can have multiple ambiguous meanings. I'm just rather annoyed with the Internet not being the international-friendly place that it should be: the sooner people are aware of these sort of issues, the sooner people can adopt standards designed to be equitable for everyone. - Wedge


In some ways, it's a shame that article titles are case-sensitive. Do we have a standard or convention with regards to capitalisation of article/category/etc title names? Is it worth having a discussion on this? I know it's probably quite trivial, but it can cause problems with linking to articles when the only difference is a capital letter or two. - Wedge
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Colors =
  id:gray value:gray(0.6)
BackgroundColors = canvas:gray
 
DateFormat = yyyy
Period    = from:2634 till:2669
TimeAxis  = orientation:vertical
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:2634
 
# there is no automatic collision detection,
# so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap
 
Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar
 
PlotData=
  bar:Leaders color:red width:25 textcolor:white mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S
 
  from:2634 till:2634 shift:($dx,5)  text:[[McAuliffe Ambush]]
  from:2654  till:2654 shift:($dx,5)    text:[[Wing Commander 1]]
  from:2655  till:2655 shift:($dx,5)    text:[[Secret Missions 1]]
  from:2656  till:2658 shift:($dx,5)    text:Leonid~[[Brezhnev]]
  from:2660  till:2664 shift:($dx,5)  text:Yuri~[[Andropov]]
  from:2665  till:2667 shift:($dx,5)    text:Konstantin~[[Chernenko]]
  from:2668  till:2669  shift:($dx,5)  text:Mikhail~[[Gorbachev]]
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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Hello, Dundradal. Yup, trying to get back into the game a bit. I got your message, when's the next Wingnut meeting? I'll try my best to be there if I can make the time. I can see most of the most recent updates are from Privateer 2 and whatnot; I'm afraid I won't be much good to you guys in that department, I never did play Privateer. But if there's anything else major in the works, I'm wide open to lend a hand if I can.
 
-Aeronautico
 
== Posted ==
 
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
 
OK, I've posted two pages in battles but I don't think I did it right as the content is not showing up under the battles Subcategories page, what am I doing wrong? "cheers in advance"
Magnus :)
 
== Ships ==
 
I believe the page to which you were referring regarding the novel/manual texts is the Hornet page (of course, the example page) http://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/F-36_Hornet - Iceblade

Latest revision as of 17:53, 26 July 2012

Timeline using year/no month/no day

<toggledisplay> BLAH BLAH BLAH </toggledisplay> Hello, Dundradal. Yup, trying to get back into the game a bit. I got your message, when's the next Wingnut meeting? I'll try my best to be there if I can make the time. I can see most of the most recent updates are from Privateer 2 and whatnot; I'm afraid I won't be much good to you guys in that department, I never did play Privateer. But if there's anything else major in the works, I'm wide open to lend a hand if I can. -Aeronautico

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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

OK, I've posted two pages in battles but I don't think I did it right as the content is not showing up under the battles Subcategories page, what am I doing wrong? "cheers in advance" Magnus :)

Ships

I believe the page to which you were referring regarding the novel/manual texts is the Hornet page (of course, the example page) http://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/F-36_Hornet - Iceblade

<timeline> ImageSize = width:200 height:550 PlotArea = width:50 height:530 left:50 bottom:10

Colors = 

  id:gray value:gray(0.6)

BackgroundColors = canvas:gray

DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:2634 till:2669 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:2634

  1. there is no automatic collision detection,
  2. so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap

Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar

PlotData= 

 bar:Leaders color:red width:25 textcolor:white mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S

 from:2634 till:2634 shift:($dx,5)   text:McAuliffe Ambush
 from:2654  till:2654 shift:($dx,5)    text:Wing Commander 1
 from:2655  till:2655 shift:($dx,5)    text:Secret Missions 1
 from:2656  till:2658 shift:($dx,5)    text:Leonid~Brezhnev
 from:2660  till:2664 shift:($dx,5)  text:Yuri~Andropov
 from:2665  till:2667 shift:($dx,5)    text:Konstantin~Chernenko 
 from:2668  till:2669  shift:($dx,5)   text:Mikhail~Gorbachev

</timeline>

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