User talk:Mr. Flay

CamelCase

I saw you camelcased the comingsoon template for readability. You don't need to do that. The new wiki software allows for spaces in names so we can write articles with regular capitalization of links. Also, even if an article is titled Mason, mason will link to it just fine. We probably should encourage people to quit camelcasing now the software no longer needs it. - Mgm 04:55, 30 January 2007 (MST)

• Thanks for the sysopping Mr. Flay. If you need any MediaWiki expertise, just shout. - Mgm 10:59, 30 January 2007 (MST)

Template:Role

Hi Flay, I've just dropped in a new template for pages on roles. I'll work on including the neccesary coding to cut display for template parameters that aren't used later when I figure out what coding is required for that in wikipedia. - Mgm 02:00, 31 January 2007 (MST)

Essentially it's {{{param|default value}}} or {{{param|}}} to leave it blank. Works pretty good, though we'll have to enable the #if ParserFunction to do things like hide entire lines/change label text. -- Mr. Flay 06:54, 1 February 2007 (MST)

Well gee, that explains why #if wasn't working earlier when I was trying to make it work like that...--Ac1983fan 09:45, 1 February 2007 (MST)

Yeah, there are a few things that have to be enabled by the site admin... sorry about that! Took me a while to be sure of what was going on, too... -- Mr. Flay 14:11, 1 February 2007 (MST)

Failed ideas

Why are there not enough pro-town roles in The Usual Suspects? Why can'tr the baddies be pro-town, as in (to give just one example amongst many) Mini 250: Villains of Gotham City? Stoofer 09:34, 31 January 2007 (MST)

Stoofer's random thoughts about the new Wiki

For want of a better place, I thought this would be a good spot to note down some of the thoughts I've had about the new wiki, now that I've been playing with it for a couple of hours

• It seems to me to be pretty far advanced - what's stopping you from making it go live and freezing the old wiki completely
• Will [wiki] tags on the forum point here?
• Is the picture set in stone? Why not have the forum logo?
• Why can't we upload (not complaining as such, I'd just be interested in the reasons)
• Who are the sysops and what are their powers (I know what a sysop is)?
• Is it OK to pester you with these sorts of questions?

Stoofer 10:06, 31 January 2007 (MST)

In answer to six: yes, but the rest answered/moved to MafiaWiki_talk:To-do so everybody can see them. -- Mr. Flay 07:06, 1 February 2007 (MST)

Redirection

Thanks for the help with User:Mokina! I forgot about redirection...

i have a question

why do you have Mr. Flay redirecting to User:Mr. Flay?.. shouldn't it be the other way around, since Mr. Flay is your name on the forum boards?.. i'm sure you have a reason for the rhyme, i just haven't noodled it yet...

LyingBrian 14:26, 11 August 2007 (MDT)

i think i figured it out

ok, one reason i think you may have it set up this way is so that when people want to leave you a message like this one, they just edit your discussion page... but you could have your Talk:Mr. Flay page redirect to your User talk:Mr. Flay page... (that's how i set mine up)... the only reason this bugs me is when someone is browsing through the Category:Scummers page (and other similar pages), your name appears under 'M', but it's listed as User:Mr. Flay... it just bugs me, b/c everything under 'M', should start w/ 'M', not 'U', but that's just me... i didn't want to edit your page in case you had a reason, so yeah...

LyingBrian 15:45, 11 August 2007 (MDT)

huh?

Mainly, it's because I cut my teeth on MediaWiki/Wikipedia, where userpages are strictly separated from "articles". But I also think it makes sense

And, you may have noticed, but you get a screaming orange bar when someone leaves you a message at user_talk:LyingBrian. Not so much for LyingBrian. I like your italic hack for this, but ideally I'd like to see people move their userpages to the user namespace. I don't expect this to happen anytime before JEEP implements a unified login, though... :/ -- Mr. Flay 10:05, 13 August 2007 (MDT)

i'm confused... the word "userpages" seems to have two different meanings in the 1st & 2nd paragraphs... in the first paragraph you use the word "userpages", which i interpreted for me would be User:LyingBrian, which makes sense in context, but in the second paragraph you said "I'd like to see people move their userpages to the user namespace.", in context, i would read that as moving LyingBrian to User:LyingBrian, but based on the usage of the word in the 1st paragraph it reads as User:LyingBrian to LyingBrian, so i'm not sure which you meant... i'm really not trying to be picky, but i can't figure out which you meant, and my reply will change based on what you meant, so... lol, i'm sorry i can be so technical sometimes, i hope i'm not frustrating you...

LyingBrian 12:58, 13 August 2007 (MDT)