Cabal Wiki:Site discussion

Please use this page to discuss site-wide issues. Use the appropriate discussion page for article-specific issues.

Armor names
List of sets should be corrected. I mean that there is Armour Suit and should be armour set, there is Battlesuit Set and should be Battle Set, same with martial.
 * Ok I'll change that, I just wrote like that because those are the names used in the website

PK servers
There should be a section at PvP about PK servers and the PK system where we can make a clear list of the penalties and such. --StarSoft 23:53, 6 September 2007 (EDT)
 * You can do that if you wish Im busy making some new sections so if you wish to do you are free. I will start a page then, and when it is done you can add the link to the mainpage.--StarSoft 08:28, 7 September 2007 (EDT)

the editor issue is being resolved ^^
 * Yeah i noticed there was a problem... Sorry for the bad undo, for some reason the images got messed up. I disabled the WYSIWYG-editor, that helps also with the speed of the page and errors. --StarSoft 23:48, 7 September 2007 (EDT)
 * Yes ^^ I'm going to see what's happening and once I find the problem I'll announce it. By the way have you ever worked with a wiki before? --Origin2 06:51, 8 September 2007 (EDT)
 * Yeah i'm active on a few and had a wiki setup for cabal myself, unfortunatly i never manages to fill it --StarSoft 07:41, 8 September 2007 (EDT)

Mailing problems
There seems to be a problem with the mailing system. I changed my email in my preferences and am waiting for an email to confirm my address. But i never get it. Can you look into this, since i kinda forgot my password :-/ Luckely my laptop stored the cookie so i am still logged in on that. --StarSoft 08:12, 9 September 2007 (EDT)
 * actually there is an option to confirm the new e-mail that you have entered ^^ Click here to access the confirmation page. --Origin2 12:32, 9 September 2007 (EDT)
 * I know, but thats the problem, i never receive the email... so cant confirm it, and thats why i dotn receive a new password :-( --StarSoft 15:03, 9 September 2007 (EDT)
 * but you use hotmail? --Origin2 06:27, 10 September 2007 (EDT)
 * Gmail, but it doesnt show up in the spam folder either. Do you normally receive emails? --StarSoft 07:48, 10 September 2007 (EDT)

Yes I receive always the e-mails o.O Try to create a e-mail on htomail and check before if you wrote the e-mail correctly
 * I have tried 3 different email adresses and waited 2 days for each to receive the confirmation mail. And nothing :-( Or all 3 the email providers are having problems receiving mails from the wiki, or there is something wrong with the wiki... I'm glad at least my laptop is logged in, but as soon as for some reason i get logged out, i have a problem. --StarSoft 01:14, 17 September 2007 (EDT)

Hmmm what mail systems did you use? --Origin2 08:52, 17 September 2007 (EDT)

my website mail system xD hotmail should work o.O --Origin2 11:24, 17 September 2007 (EDT)
 * I tried gmail, hotmail and the mail of my isp and none of them receive any mail :-( The only reason i can think of is that i'm maybe using firefox for the wiki. But i cant change that since i am not logged in on internet explorer. I will try more things, and if that doesnt work i will have to make a new account on the wiki :-( --StarSoft 12:43, 17 September 2007 (EDT)
 * Ok, the problem is solved... It was indeed Firefox making it unable to get the confirmation mail send. Luckely i also was still logged in under IE which made it possible to get the mail send. Seems like a bug in the Wiki. --StarSoft 01:20, 20 September 2007 (EDT)

WYSIWYG editor vs WIKI format
Some might have noticed that the WYSIWYG-editor makes changes to pages an user was not intend to make. It sometimes even breaks complete pages (in the case of the items/cores page). I recently found out that is not the only problem it has with it. It seems the editor rather uses html format then wiki formatting... It add no-breakable-spaces (nbsp) instead of a normal space, and html-line-breaks (br) where a normal enter would go. Yes, it looks the same, but it makes the articles not easier to read for users who use the real wiki-code. Sure, i might be the only one around right now who uses the wiki code and not the editor, but keep an eye on the future. These are not the only unnwanted changes the editor makes. It seems to add additional links to a page where a link is visible allready. Every time someone edits an article there are unwanted changes. And probably if everyone would use the editor they wouldn't be there. But this is a wiki, not an html page. It uses wiki-code to display articles and sure it can read html code, it is not meant for it.

It is not a good thing to have pages around with stupid errors created by the editor. As soon as the userbase grows more of those problems become visible and complete pages can be wrecked. I think it is best to remove the editor from the wiki and force all the users to use the normal wiki editor (this is afterall a wiki). The format is not that hard to understand, and it will prevent further damage to the existing pages. The page Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page will explain it all. Till now (with as far as I know only 3 active members working on articles, and 2 of them using the editor) I can keep fixing those edits, but as soon as there are more it wont be possible anymore. So please as long as there is not a 100% working editor out there which works on all users properly (also all browsers) it is best to disable it. It will make the quality of the articles better in the future. --StarSoft 04:31, 7 October 2007 (EDT)

Ok I think your are right ^^ I'll delete the WYSIWYG editor and I'll also upgrade the wiki to the latest version

Faster server
Hi guys, I have updated some server configs and installed some new stuff. So now Cabalwiki.com and Diablo3wiki.org sould be a bit faster. Hope you will notice :) Gcardinal 08:34, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

yay faster servers xD -Origin2 12:44, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

CSS
any chance you can fix the css on this site to be more table friendly? class=wikitable from wikipedia would work, maybe you could make it better? -Zojj1 02:58, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


 * ok! once I have the time I'll edit it :] -Origin2
 * I put the code from wikipedia here: User:Zojj1/monobook.css. These personalized css's aren't included on your wiki.Zojj1 21:43, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Awesome tysm! Zojj1 00:31, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Namespaces
Do you have a long-term plan for how you want the namespaces to work? There are a few oddities - Lemme know! -Zojj1 07:16, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Cabal_Online:Wikipedia: isn't usable because it has a colon in it
 * CabalWiki: isn't a namespace, it is all in (Main)
 * Help: has only 1 article.