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My TodoList: User:Tjoneslo/todo

Version differences

What is the policy for handling clear and distinct rules differences between editions? The affected content is on https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Imperial_Currency the section labeled Imperial Banking, and the content differs sharply from what is given on page 91 of the MG2 Core Rules.

Thank you,

DonaldMcLean (talk) 23:58, 11 February 2021 (EST)

Edit Watchlist

The "Edit Your List of Watched pages" button on my Watchlist Page simply takes me to a blank web page (https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Special:EditWatchlist). Is there any way to restore this functionality? --WHULorigan (talk) 11:55, 24 February 2021 (EST)

It does for me too. I'll take a look --Tjoneslo (talk) 15:30, 24 February 2021 (EST)

I guess there is no work-around for this? --WHULorigan (talk) 13:18, 26 April 2021 (EDT)

If you go to Special:Watchlist, it displays your current watchlist. How many pages are currently there? Mine shows "11,781 pages are on your Watchlist (plus talk pages)". When I went to Special:EditWatchlist I saw the blank page. I checked the server logs and saw the page generating an out of memory error. Apparently the EditWatchlist is trying to generate the whole list of 11,781 pages to remove them from the watchlist. I can increase the memory limit of the server, but don't want to leave it at an increased value to avoid causing other problems on the server. Trying to generate a full list of 11,781 pages is insane and stupid, and we should file reports to fix this problem. In any case, I know what the problem is, and if you want to edit your full watchlist, let me know and I'll up the memory on the server for a few days. Tjoneslo (talk) 23:13, 26 April 2021 (EDT)

Mine says: "6,196 pages are on your Watchlist (plus talk pages). " Is there an upper limit of pages (e.g. 5000 ?) that it needs to be under? Many of the pages on my list were auto-added because of minor edits I have made that I probably do not want to track anyway. If you up the memeroy of the server, let me know and I will edit my watchlist; I just need to know what number of entries is the maximum. --WHULorigan (talk) 06:00, 27 April 2021 (EDT)

To be clear, the memory requirement is for the "EditWatchlist" page only. Pages on the watchlist is simply pointer records in the database and has little or no other effect on the wiki. I really don't have an idea of how many articles are the upper limit on using the EditWatchlist before the memory for that one page runs out. I have found if you go to Special:Preferences, then under watchlist tab, select the "Edit raw watchlist" (or go to Special:EditWatchlist/raw), this presents the entire list as a edit box. You can remove (or add) article titles to the list and press save. Tjoneslo (talk) 06:47, 27 April 2021 (EDT)

That worked - I got it down to 2885 pages. Thanks. --WHULorigan (talk) 08:50, 27 April 2021 (EDT)

Page to delete

Campaign:NHNE/PageList

There are too many pages now for the Special:PrefixIndex to list them all, and when used it doesn't page through the results.

BackworldTraveller (talk) 11:56, 18 March 2021 (EDT)

Oops

File:Starships Book II0I0 Cargo Barque.pdf has been uploaded instead of the fronticepiece...Please delete this file ASAP!

T5 Artwork / Copyright

Thomas, what is the policy on uploading pictures/art found in the T5.10 core rules? Is that acceptable on the wiki, or would it be a copyright violation? I was thinking about adding some of the pictures of medals and badges to their respective articles.

--WHULorigan (talk) 15:22, 26 July 2021 (EDT)

Thanks for the welcome!

Looking forward to exploring the Forum threads, and helping out with some of the projects as well as articles requiring work. Cheers!

9uantum5carab (talk) 16:59, 20 January 2022 (EST)

/data, /sector etc

Yeah, I was hoping against hope that that would cause Dhughre (world) to display properly - it appears it isn't in the Cargo table.

Patrick Morris Miller (talk) 13:10, 25 February 2022 (EST)

Pages Moves

Thanks, still fairly new to this, and will ensure next time move in done.

I do have a couple of page delete requests from previous inexperience at page naming.

Sturray(Pesek 0314)(world) Sturray(Pr 0314)(world)

are both errors on my part, and I've done all that is required to redirect the pages, I just find it's annoying when I search :-)

And you are on the Traveller RPG discord, yes?

Add a {{delete}} template to the articles that need to be deleted. It will allow others to find them and remove them. I am on Discord, come ping me some time. Tjoneslo (talk) 22:34, 9 March 2022 (EST)

Looking for admin with sysop privileges

Hello, i wasn't sure whom to ask, but i'm looking for any admin with sysop privileges who would be able to perform a Page Deletion. The article in question is Nishant Taliyan which was probably created in some kind of spamming activity. I wasn't sure who would be able to Delete Pages, so i thought i'd ask you because you seem to perform so many useful tasks involving cleanup mechanisms behind the wiki. Thank you kindly for your time.

KevinHutchins (talk) 11:58, 7 September 2022 (EDT)

Thank you for your kind welcome

I have never really contributed to or edited wikis in the past, so I was very thoughtful with the change that I made, and was sure to document it. I did search my collection of reference material for Traveller and did not find specific mentions of the vargr having any human politics :P

Has a template broken?

All of a sudden, every page I look at that uses the StellarDataQuery template and has a value in the Sophonts field of its /data page is expanding it 'five' times, twice in Spanish (example: Regina (world). I can't for the life of me figure out why, and it doesn't look like anyone's edited a relevant template lately. Any ideas what's up? Patrick Morris Miller (talk) 15:28, 16 December 2022 (EST)

The problem is the underlying cargo tables have duplicated entries. I'll need to clean them up to fix the problem. Probably later today. Tjoneslo (talk) 00:28, 17 December 2022 (EST)

Gotcha and thanks. Patrick Morris Miller (talk) 10:02, 17 December 2022 (EST)

Message

Hi,

you had sent me a message. Did I something wrong? For now I'm just adding thing to add some more colour to traveller, I just prepare for some stories which should play in the Traveller Universe.

message

thank you very much. i was a little bit unsure about my idea to add content freely without talking to someone. as a german i'm a follow allways the the rule based guy. traveller i a game which i had played since first version of german translation from GDW book. If I could assist you, I would love to assist. I speak a little english (B-C Level), German native, and because we move next year to colombia, a little spanish. regards O.

Worldbuilding in Alpha Crucis

Hello Thomas, I'm back after an unintended hiatus. Now I'm wondering. I used to be, a long time ago, the HIWG coordinator/owner for Alpha Crucis Sector. What I'm wondering is, if I were to world build in the sector (or anywhere else for that matter) can I add things like world maps to the wiki? I'm not sure since that is a canon area whether that's allowed or not. I'm still interested in that area as it has low alien population (my personal bias) but intrigue with the Solomani Confederation along with some border 3I areas. Flyteach

Issue with World template (also can't add topics to help forum?)

Hi there! Sorry for piling directly into your talk page with a help request / bug report, but the instructions at Forum:Help_desk say to add the title of the help request into a box that doesn't exist...

My real issue is that I'm seeing weirdness with the way the world summary template works. If you look at Alexin (world) and Islent (world) the format of the summary is not at all similar. Additionally, the summary for Alexin describes it as a 'a high-population world with a billion or more sophonts in population size.' despite its UWP indicating a population in the tens of thousands.

If these are things a simple contributor can fix, I'm happy to help if you can point me in the right direction. Cheers!

BrainPunter (talk) 07:12, 25 January 2023 (EST)

"Next" link for "world listings" not working

Hi Thomas,

I noticed yesterday that on the Aslan page (but also on other pages too, it seems) the "next" link near the bottom of the page for "World listings" does not work when trying to step through the huge list of Aslan worlds. I've checked in both Firefox and Chrome, and while the page seems to refresh when the link is clicked, nothing actually changes and the newly presented page starts at the beginning of the world list again.

I have used the function successfully a while ago (months, I'd say) so whatever is preventing it from working must be a relatively new thing.

Regards, A AlexT (talk) 09:43, 27 May 2023 (EDT)

Article appearance problem since recent board maintenance / upgrade

Thomas,

Since the recent board upgrade, my "Lord Rhovanion" page looks massively different (and messed-up, actually) - See: Richard Elruinn Ilendrick Rhovanion.

• (ADDENDUM: It seems to specifically be a problem with Microsoft Edge - It looks normal in Firefox. I also cannot see any of the editing buttons normally at the top of this window in MS Edge now, either).

• -- WHULorigan (talk) 11:05, 27 September 2023 (EDT)

I had an issue like that (different browser, different OS, different page) that went away after I cleared the browser cache. My bet is that will fix it.

• Patrick Morris Miller (talk) 11:51, 27 September 2023 (EDT)

You are brilliant. That worked perfect.

• --WHULorigan (talk) 15:01, 27 September 2023 (EDT)

Source of Star data

I would like to know what the source was for the stellar data contained in the sub-pages of https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Star/data, e.g. https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Star/data/Class_III; in particular the Diameter value.

I noticed that it is not consistent with the Classic Traveller Book 6: Scouts, so I am trying find what the source was.

It appears from the https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/index.php?title=Star/data/Class_III&action=history, that you created them ~16 August 2020. If I have misinterpreted that, my apologies - but would you happedn to know who did?

Thank you, Ken Hooper sacrifice36@gmail.com

https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/User_talk:Tjoneslo/archive-2020#Stellar_Template_Upgrade - this is the discussion about generation of the star data. There was a spreadsheet with the original data used to generate the table in the wiki, generated from Wikipedia and other sources of real world data. You may need to ask either of the other users. 06:41, 17 October 2023 (EDT)

Cargo Commit

When you're free please https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/index.php?title=Template:InfoboxIMTU&action=recreatedata

Thanks! Korok (talk) 04:11, 29 November 2023 (EST)

Done! Tjoneslo (talk) 05:02, 29 November 2023 (EST)

Quick question; it might be me not seeing the obvious Special:CargoTables is there an action I should be seeing somewhere on the page to switch to the new table? Korok (talk) 06:08, 30 November 2023 (EST)