User talk:Yoda8myhead/Archive

Gamemaster Complete Encounters

Was it ever decided whether or not these should be considered canon? I remember some discussion on the Paizo boards that these were sort of proto-canon, but I wasn't sure if they should be referenced on the wiki or not.——This unsigned post was made by Alfred. Please sign all posts with ~~~~.

They are not listed among canon sources in our Canon policy and should not be considered canon. We might want to clarify that they are specifically not allowed, but in discussions with Paizo editors, they have said not to consider them canon or even pseudo-canon.—yoda8myhead 22:55, January 29, 2010 (UTC)

Character Sheets

Hello, Is there a section where an Automated Character Sheet that supports PF RPG can be mentioned? - RiTz21 17:22, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

At this point, listing and/or cataloging fan-created material or even non-canon PRPG support material is not within the scope of the project for PathfinderWiki. If a product is official canon produced by Paizo or a licensed contributor to the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting it belongs here, as would any OGL sources used in official products, such as the Tome of Horrors or Plot & Poison. Sorry that this isn't the place for that, but I know a lot of PRPG support sites are popping up all over the place and those might be better suited for your product. -- yoda8myhead 14:41, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Plagiarism

I was just wanting to know exactly how much info we are allowed to post. For example can I post the entire article covering Lamashtu (except the crunch) or would Paizo prefer we not do that?? - Khellendros 21:23, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Posting anything verbatim from any copyright source is not only against the wiki's policies, but illegal. Paizo has been very generous with us to allow for the inclusion of their IP, and as such it is the wiki's stance that we should do our best not to plagiarize. Take a look at the articles for Abadar and Zon-Kuthon, both of which are quite extensive, but don't copy anything from the articles directly. To ensure that things aren't plagiarized, write your own article using the Campaign Setting, Gazetteer, Gods & Magic and Pathfinder 5 or whatever sources you want and be sure to cite them as you would an academic paper so that anyone reading the wiki will be directed to the actual source and hopefully even buy some stuff from Paizo. If you have questions about anything more specific, feel free to post them here, in the Wiki Forum or email me at yoda8myhead@pathfinderwiki.com [1]. I look forward to seeing whatever contributions you feel like making! Welcome. - Yoda8myhead 04:00, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi

Hey Yoda8myhead. I'm Richard1990. I'm a helper who helps out gaming wikis. I help out by creating new content, expanding current content, attracting more users, helping admins with customizing the appearance of their wiki, and other things related to the wiki. I'm currently focusing on a number of other wikis right now though, so I'm not really able to do large community attraction or create articles for this specific wiki, though I can still help out with coding problems or other problems. Also, welcome to Wikia!--Richard^talk 20:48, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Categories

I think the only easy way to do this would be to use a bot, such as one that uses the pwyikipedia framwork. otherwise you'll have to do it manually.--Richard^talk 18:02, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

A bot certainly sounds more appealing than manually editing all the pages. How do I go about installing/creating this and then setting it loose on the wiki? -- Yoda8myhead 18:04, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Subcategories and the Project

Well, I've finally started running a campaign again, which means it's time for me to start contributing once more despite my work load at other projects. Before I throw myself at the task, I wanted to ask how the process of building the category/subcategory structure was faring. -- Heaven's Agent 15:50, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

It's not, really. I went way overboard with it at the time, and then went and undid about 200 edits. I've got a lot of real life stuff taking up most of my mental space at the moment and don't know when I'll really have the time to invest the energy and planning into this project, so I sort of left it on hold for the time being. -- yoda8myhead 16:04, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough; I understand completely how it can draw away your free time, and then some. And given my other projects, and looking for work, I don't have time to spearhead the task, either. Still, I'd like to impliment subcategories as I find places to put them. If you don't mind, of course. -- Heaven's Agent 17:09, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Using Info from Pathfinder Wiki For Pathfinder Society Support page

Hey Yoda8myhead, I am making a Page to support The Pathfinder Society, Do you mind if I use info you guys wrote up for Article on your page for articles on my page?

Any article I write on my page will be in direct support of the Pathfinder Society and not Pathfinder game as a whole, but you guys have written some good stuff over here, and I wanted to ask your permission for I 'steal' some of it. --Dragnmoon 23:54, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Everything on the wiki is released under the GNU Free Documentation License, so it can be used anywhere that also operates under the same license (similar to the OGL). Since we use Paizo-owned copyright in most of our articles, your site would also need to be registered under the Community Use Policy. Beyond that, I say use whatever you need. I think our goals are the same in supporting Paizo and Pathfinder. I just ask that you direct users to the wiki, encourage them to contribute to the project, and do so yourself if any of the pages you make for your site would be relevant and/or useful here. If you have other questions, just ask. -- yoda8myhead 21:34, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

thanks!, my site is already registered, and I was planning on directing people to this site, was going to ask permission first, but now I don't have to -- Dragnmoon 22:09, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

translating your job

hello i'm making an italian website for helping my people wich not have companion or gazzeetteer to discover the world of golarion, in basis in order to not make too much confusion i'd like to translate some of your articles in this way: http://golarion.altervista.org/index.php?page=4&virtual=0&dynamic_block=47 as you can see i've citated you as source on bottom of article, i want to know if this can be ok or if you will need something different. thankyou for your time and for your job

Retrieved from Forum:Translating your job

Responded to on the forum.

Hi!

Hi Yoda! I hope I don't cause more trouble than help. :)

Dmeta 15:05, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

You're not causing any problems. Until you start vandalizing the site (don't do that, by the way) it's all help. There's a learning curve involved in getting used to how things work, but if you pay attention to changes made to your edits by other chroniclers and ask questions you'll pick it up real fast. Thanks for being a part of the wiki and contributing. Add yourself to the Chroniclers list. -- yoda8myhead 15:16, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Update?

So what's with the new icon and the "add thread" links on people's talk pages? I kinda liked the yellow "W" more...--Canifis 17:57, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

I don't remember what used to be there before as I generally start new threads manually by double clicking a page and editing. But wikia updates the mediawiki software on a constant bases, adding new plugins and apps and such. If you want to stay on top of it, I suggest checkout out the maintenance threads on the central wikia. --yoda8myhead 18:16, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Pathfinder SRD

Hey Yoda - I created a new topic on the forum but maybe I should just ask here instead. I'm unclear on if you guys intend this wiki to include all pathfinder rules info such that it servers as a replacement for d20srd.org, or, is the intended focus on "fluff" only? If its fluff only I think we could have a relationship between this site and www.d20pfsrd.com, a Pathfinder SRD site I've been working on (with help from a few other Paizo posters and other rpg blogger folks). Let me know what you think! -- Jreyst 19:21, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Welcome Jreyst, and thanks for all your work on the PFRPG online SRD. As I mentioned in my forum response, we have a no crunch policy so you'll never see any of that here. Our goal is to be a comprehensive resource for canon of the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting. That said, I have no problem directing people to your site from the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game page, and perhaps even the No Crunch policy and Scope of the project. We'd also appreciate you directing users who want to add Golarion-specific flavor to your resource here. I think we can help one another the most by herding helpful people to where they need to be so that people aren't adding crunch here and flavor there. -- yoda8myhead 19:29, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Yoda - Ok, I think we are in perfect agreement. I'm going to add verbiage describing the different roles of our two sites as well as linkage here. If anyone contacts me about fluff content I'll direct them here. What a beautiful relationship <3 lol -- Jreyst 19:54, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Sounds good. -- yoda8myhead 19:56, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Verbiage added to main page :) -- Jreyst 20:50, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Despite the fact that rules are not something that is on this wiki, there are factual articles about the Pathfinder product line (including the ones containing the core rules). I think the existence of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Reference Document comes under a similar situation. It is an important part of the history of these rules (and the campaign setting they were set up to support). The PRD was set up to get 3rd party publishers to create content that could be used in games set in the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting. I've taken the liberty of throwing up an article. Feel free to edit it, if there is anything there that needs fixing.

I would especially be grateful for anyone who could replace the 'future additions' section with a detailed schedule of the dates when each part of the PRD was (or will be) added. David Shepheard 06:23, February 21, 2010 (UTC)

Indulging in some necromancy to note that I've just updated the PRD page. --Oznogon (talk) 01:11, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Userboxes

For the record, I think these are a great idea. They give people a way to "pretty up" their user pages, which could really help keep this a fun place to be (not that it isn't already). --Aeakett 11:57, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Addition to Feats Portal?

There's a new feat in Pathfinder® Character Traits Web Enhancement. I was going to add it to the Wikia here but noticed on the portal for Feats that it was not already linked there. Not only that there was no category for Feats that come from Web Enhancements. Could you please add a Feat cetegory called Web Enhancements and then a link to a book mark for the 'Additional Traits' feat? I can then add the new feat.

I'm pretty new at this stuff so I don't want to go mucking around in the portals pages and end up breaking stuff =)

Thanks! --Lord British 09:45, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

That particular feat first appeared in the Second Darkness (Pathfinder Companion) and is already listed under that supplement. You should be able to add the feat there and when I have a chance I'll edit the portal to show the web supplement as an additional source. That said, that particular feat is almost 100% crunch, since it simply allows you to pick and choose the more flavorful elements, so I don't know how to add it without it being too crunchy. But I'll leave that up to you.

Also, welcome! Don't worry too much about breaking stuff—it's all part of the learning curve. Let me know if you have any questions. -- yoda8myhead 15:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

This does bring to mind a question I had forgotten before posting some time ago. After returning from the project I noticed a fair number of feat articles had been created and subsequently removed; I thought this was most likely due to both the fact of our no-crunch policy and the fact that they have no role in the mind of a chronicler in Golarion (later to become the Point of View policy). But things like character traits have no place in the project based on PoV, either. Was it decided to distinguish these instances from the rest of the project, or is it something else we'll need to cover in our policy discussions? -- Heaven's Agent 15:27, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

It's still something we need to discuss. I am of the mind that the flavor of a regional feat or background trait should be incorporated into the relevant article (such as "many hunters in Andoran have honed their sense of sight to be able to shoot arrows farther and with more accuracy than those untrained" for the Hunter's Eye PFS feat). I think it would also help if we more clearly direct people to one of the many wikis or pages that have crunchy elements as either part of a Golarion SRD or a PFRPG SRD. But these discussions should take place in a more public forum. Add this to the list of policies to revisit. --yoda8myhead 15:31, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Contrib scores?

What do the red and green contrib scores mean?-- Basilforth 04:16, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure I know what you mean. Where are you seeing these and in what context? -- yoda8myhead 04:39, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Featured article

Hi there! I saw your post on the main Wikia forums about a different featured article for a week. I have found out a way, but you need to make sure to customize it with the featured article wanted. Just copy the coding withing the box below, and customise it.

{{#switch:{{#time: W}}
  |1 =
  |2 =
  |3 =
  |4 =
  |5 =
  |6 =
  |7 =
  |8 =
  |9 =
  |10 =
}}

You will have to continue the number to how many weeks are in a year, and add the featured article text into the empty space after the number week it is. Oh, and by the way, the current week is week number 51, just to get you started. It may be a good idea to place the text into a separate page for each week (like Template:Featured article/1 for the first week of the year), as it will make it neater. If you need anymore help, feel free to contact me anywhere! Muzzy34 ^Talk 16:34, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, you can place it directly into the main page coding. I suggest using the templates, as it would make it more organized looking on the coding. In the template, just place what you want the main page to say about the article, and place it into what week you want it to be in. Muzzy34 ^Talk 16:56, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm not totally sure myself. My guess is that it either rolls over at Midnight on Saturday (going into Sunday) or the roll over from Sunday to Monday. I would guess the Saturday -> Sunday, but it's best to wait to see. Muzzy34 ^Talk 17:15, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Re: Admin policy

I'm alright with it, but it does leave me with a problem; I only have two emails, one for junk, the other for business. The junk email I only check sporadically at best, and the business email I can't make freely available online. I've considered setting up a new email for this, but in all honesty I doubt I'd remember to check it regularly, either. -- Heaven's Agent 15:17, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Loose Cog

Have you used the add_text.py script? I tried mine to add deletion templates to the conversions, but it just failed silently:

vincent:pywikipedia aeakett$ python add_text.py -cat:Conversions -summary:"Marking for deletion" -text:"{{Delete|it is beyond the [[PathfinderWiki:Scope of the project|Scope of the project]] and its presence is misleading}}"
Getting [[Category:Conversions]]...
vincent:pywikipedia aeakett$

Any thoughts?--Aeakett 04:15, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't think I've tried that one. I'll give it a whirl tomorrow and see what I can do. It may be a simple syntax issue. -- yoda8myhead 09:05, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Re:CSII

Cool I wasn't aware of this its a really good Idea to keep it all in one easy to track place. I've crossed out all the countries that I've written up using the Campaign Setting, my only worry is that I have not take all the information on the different cities from those sections of the campaign setting but I do intend to do write ups for all the major settlements once all the countries have been written up.

The Alkenstar article is looking great! I was wondering as the Admin do you have any preference for what order the sub-heading (geography, history etc) go in. I always do it the same way but I can't remember where I got the order from and I was wondering if there is any preferred format?--Cheddar bearer 21:21, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Community Use images

Hey Yoda - I'm confused about something. I noticed that the Chupacabra jpg image has, in its description, text that says it was released as part of the community use package, but I don't see it (or any other monster pics) in any of the packages. Am I not looking in the right spot? I wanted to consider including open versions of artwork on d20pfsrd.com for monster pages but didn't find very many "open" versions of monster pics. -- —This unsigned post was made by ?. Please sign all posts with ~~~~.

In addition to those images released in the downloadable packages, all images which appear in the Paizo Blog are available under the CUP. -- yoda8myhead 14:40, September 7, 2009 (UTC)

PFRPG design decisions etc.

Hi,

Can you, or another viewer of this, help me out finding some resources? I have been trying to track down discussions of the rationale for the main changes to the the mechanics of the game between 3.5 and (final, published version of) Paizo's Pathfinder. The useful hits I've made searching the Paizo website and here (Wiki) have been extremely rare. Has anyone collected this kind of discussion from the designers and, of secondary interest (to me,...right now,...no offense to anyone intended), the playtesters? Is it available on some threads that I could try to read through?

I am particularly interested in the aggregation of skills (why these and not others?) and in the changes to effectiveness of some of the combat maneuvers (did the designer's character in some past 3.5 game, or his pet NPC in his own campaign, get grappled and given repeated pink-bellies and/or wedgies?) -- I did see one place where the lead designer (not M. Cook, the other guy who did the real work) said "the old grapple rules were broken," but he did not elaborate and I never found anything else.

Thanks for any assistance, folks.

Oh, also, is there any kind of bulletin board for connecting with Pathfinder players and games in one's geographic vicinity?

Thanks.

-- Old School Guy 96.240.136.59 22:33, November 22, 2009 (UTC)

Hey there, Old School Guy. It sounds like the things you're looking for can be found on the Paizo Messageboards. There's a huge section from the PFRPG playtest, though weeding through it could take a long time. To my knowledge no one has compiled a rationale for each and every design change, though I didn't follow the playtest that closely. Searching on the Paizo Messageboards can be tough since it only searched the first post in a thread, but that's the place I'd look. There's also a Gamer Connection forum on the same boards where you could hopefully find some local gamers or people interested in online PFRPG play. In the case of both things you're looking for, they fall outside the Scope of the project for this wiki. Best of luck in your search! — yoda8myhead 22:47, November 22, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the assistance on the Ardis page.

I had no idea how to do the category/ population display thing for the Wiki. Also thanks for putting in the links and reference. I was coming back a bit later to do that. --MattPittard 06:41, December 16, 2009 (UTC)

WikiStickies

Hi there -- You asked on the Central blog for a way to take pages out of the "Add a picture" feed on WikiStickies. We just created one -- MediaWiki:Nowantedimages. You can make a list there of all the pages where you don't want a picture, and they'll be taken out of the feed. Let me know if you need anything else! -- Danny<staff /> (talk) 02:36, December 18, 2009 (UTC)

Image Info Template

Greets, Mark, and happy New Year! I'm glad to see things haven't really slowed down here; I can't afford to buy any of the new source material at the moment, so this is my only real resource to keep in touch with Golarion's goings on. Maybe I can start buying some more books, and contributing again, once the new school semester begins and I find a job on campus. Champions Online Wiki is starting to get some reliable contributors as well, so hopefully I can start coming back more often; we're reaching that critical mass where folks start recognizing the project's potential. :D

Anyway, I'm visiting to see if you have any problems with me bringing the Image Info template you designed to the Champions Online project. A new contributor is interested in adding images from the source books, and I want to have something in place for him to use in order to properly credit the artists and holders of the IP. I could create my own, but ultimately I doubt I could come up with anything better than what you've already built here. Take care, and I look forward to hearing back from you. -- Heaven's Agent 19:48, January 2, 2010 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Mark and greetings from sunny old England where it is off course raining. Also congratulations on getting the Pallid Plague published, I look forward to reading it!--Cheddar bearer 13:10, January 15, 2010 (UTC)

Happy birthday !Dmeta 14:45, January 15, 2010 (UTC)

Happy Birthday! --brandingopportunity 16:33, January 15, 2010 (UTC)

Happy Birthday! Shemeska 00:31, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

Happy birthday Mark. Hope you're having a good one. —aeakett 01:11, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks guys! —yoda8myhead 19:44, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

Spotlight Request

Pathfinder Wiki looks great and I've added you to the spotlight list. I love the skin you have! -- Wendy (talk) 01:54, January 18, 2010 (UTC)

Hello - I am here now. ;)

Good seeing you, Mark. I am here now and I think I am ready to get to business pretty soon. It looks like a lot of this wiki is pre-formatted for text stuff - something I am not used to... But I think I can handle getting used to it. I will be here - see you around. ;) Xidoraven 06:24, January 29, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Calling all admins

By all means, if you ever notice anything you'd like to have implemented here, fire me a message. And don't feel too jealous about the CO wiki's rapid growth; many of the articles over there are extremely small, covering only a single subject in a single subset of a single group. They add up quick, but there's really not much to them. If you were to pull aside the articles pertaining to the Champions RPG, rather than Champions Online, you'd see a much slower rate of expansion.

I'll do what I can to help monitor things given the upcoming spotlight. It's great to hear, by the way, and well deserved. A lot of work's been put into this project, and the continued dedication shows. I look forward to returning here as my primary online home. Someday. Maybe sooner than later, unfortunately, as my computer has begun experiencing problems running CO; overheating, video card shutdowns, just a general mess of things. I hate the thought of leaving right now, especially considering that it will essentially spell the end of that project, but I'm not going to try to run a game wiki without having access to the game it's about.

I just finished this week's homework (I'm determined not to fall behind this time through college), so my mind's a tad frazzled, but I'll give the discussion some thought tomorrow and add some input. I'm not on any social networks other than Wikia, primarily because I feel I don't have enough time to devote to the projects I work on as it is; add additional networks and I think brain cells would begin jumping ship. -- Heaven's Agent 07:54, January 29, 2010 (UTC)

My apologies for not following through with this yet. My financial aide was only half of what I was told I would be receiving, and had planned my budget around. As a result this weekend has left me scrambling to figure out how I'll be making ends meet this semester; I've been to stressed to put too much deep thought into anything. In any event, I'll be meeting with the financial aid office tomorrow and hopefully I can get something resolved in short order. I'll try to make the time to take a look at things somewhere in the midst of everything that's going on. -- Heaven's Agent 02:04, February 1, 2010 (UTC)

Erinyes art

In the Bestiary in stores the Erinyes picture shows an angelic character firing a flaming bow. Yet this picture is nowhere that I can find online. It appears in none of the galleries here on this website. Can you possibly locate this picture? ——This unsigned post was made by 64.12.116.132‎. Please sign all posts with ~~~~.

Unfortunately this image is not available online. We are only permitted by Paizo's Community Use Policy to include images which have been released either on their store blog or the Community Use Package. Since the erinyes art in question has not been released in either, we can not legally use it here. I would suggest looking in the Bestiary to find the artist who did that particular piece and search for their personal gallery or deviantArt account. Many of Paizo's contributing artists put up samples from their work for Pathfinder on their own sites. Best of luck.—yoda8myhead 23:46, February 13, 2010 (UTC)

I think that you're talking about the art used on that cover of Our Lady of Silver, that is the closest we have in the community use policy -- Cpt kirstov 23:21, February 23, 2010 (UTC)

Getting my sea legs back

Thanks for keeping an eye on my edits; it's good to be back, but it'll take me a little bit to caught up on changes since I've been away. -- Heaven's Agent 21:49, February 23, 2010 (UTC)

refactoring the lodge pages

question: I filled out the Pathfinder lodge page, and put in stubs to various pathfinder lodges in the article. There already exists a few other pathfinder lodge articles -- the Grand Lodge for example, the Sueda Lodge, and the Pathfinder Society Lodge (Katapesh). Would you prefer that I 1) just link the Pathfinder lodge page to these other pages, or 2) take the content of the other pages, push them into the Pathfinder lodge page? I prefer option 1), which allows us to use the Pathfinder lodge page as a "master index" of lodges, and, lets the other pages be children of that page. Let me know. thx! Nizos 20:37, February 28, 2010 (UTC)

Contest

Painting is a go! His page (which is a little out of date) is http://www.runelordsminis.com/ if you want to add it to the prize information (it's only costing me another dragon for him to keep :P) -- Cpt kirstov 04:51, March 9, 2010 (UTC)

HI!!!

Hi there, I'm yugijak, creator ofthe everShift wiki. I was wondering why you picked the username you have. I know it's funny, but is that your only real reason. Answer me on evershift.wikia.com, and don't forget to post your original game ideas on there to! Bye!

Yugijak 15:42, March 12, 2010 (UTC)

So your the guy who made this website, huh? Cool! I seriously want to talk more with you on this, bye!

Conflict in dateline

Hi,

I just made an article called 4029 AR in which Qadira invades southern Taldor. thus beginning the 'Grand Campaign' This is correct according to the book 'Taldor: Echoes of Glory'. Yet, this conflicts with other information from other sources. Apparently, that war started in 4079 AR, according to the Campaign Setting. Just thought I'd let you know, perhaps there's some info I'm missing. Cheers - Pirhana1

It looks like the 4079 AR date from the Campaign Setting is the correct one, which means that the date from TEoG must be a misprint. The reason I believe this, is because the dates for the Even-Tongued Conquest are fairly well set, and Qadir's invasion of Taldor is what precipitated this conflict. --brandingopportunity 01:47, March 29, 2010 (UTC)

Looking for Input

Good morning, Mark. I've long disliked writing articles about places/events that involve adventure modules and the like, and purposely neglecting the events of the adventure; its something we've never required, but I think we've all done it at some point for a multitude of reasons. So I tried to include a brief overview of Crypt of the Everflame in the history portion of the article for the town of Kassen. My goal was to stick to basic knowledge of the event, what those living in the village would know as per the policies we've established, without including too much information that's not detailed in the module description or by its cover art, yet still adequately documenting a major event in the settlement's history.

I'd appreciate input on this small section; I think I succeeded, but as the author I could easily be looking at it from a different perspective than everyone else. -- Heaven's Agent 18:17, March 28, 2010 (UTC)

Policy on use of images?

Hi, I'm a bit confused on the policy of what images we can use. Is there a section in the policy section of what we can use? Aquafris 04:31, April 1, 2010 (UTC)

No worries. Check out Help:Copyright on images. Basically, we can include fan-made images, photographs in the public domain, and any Paizo-owned artwork that they have released for reproduction under the terms of the Community Use Policy. Let me know if anything is unclear, as I want to make sure all our editors understand wiki policy and also that our documentation is clear and easy to find. —yoda8myhead 04:38, April 1, 2010 (UTC)

Question re Monster Entries

I would like to try my hand at entering and expanding some of the data re the monsters; would likely be pulling from the Bestiary to start with. Is there an "example" of a "complete" entry that I can refer to? Given that the majority of the content in the Bestiary is Open (I think), how much effort would you like in rephrasing fluff? AJCarrington 13:02, April 7, 2010 (UTC)

Darklands Sentinel Image - Apologies

Apologies re posting the image - my bad.

Question

How would I associate my anonymous posts with this one? For example replace their current status as being authored by this one. Thank you. 16:05, April 24, 2010 (UTC)LD~

Thank you for the answer. 19:28, April 24, 2010 (UTC)LD~

Symbol image credit

Hey Yoda8myhead. Thanks for updating a number of the pages to correctly list me as the artist of the various God Symbols/Flags/etc. I designed. Now, we have the opposite problem! Now there are images atrributed to me that I didn't do... Always the way, isn't it?

Jeff

Blog Text

I'd like to email you an .rtf file. What's the best way to send it to you? Dave

I would send it to yoda8myhead at gmail dot com. --brandingopportunity 19:07, June 8, 2010 (UTC)

Text imbedding extension

Do you know how to embed text from another site?

Bassically, I want to insert this into a page: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AjXlyDncWvnZdFhFTnpTcmF5Z2dQU0k4MkI4LXpDWEE&single=true&gid=0&output=html as content. Like an iframe without scroll bars. I know about the google docs embedding option but I want it plainer than that, something that just looks seemlessly like an html table in the page..

So far I am trying to use this http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Anysite but I am unsure how to "First, you have to make file called 'anywebsite.php' containing the following code, and place it in your extensions folder."

I have created the following pages but I have the feeling I am completely on the wrong track.

http://kingmaker.wikia.com/wiki/Extensions/anywebsite.php

http://kingmaker.wikia.com/wiki/Extensions:anywebsite.php

I am not married to this method though and I would take any suggestions you have. Buddhafool 22:55, June 10, 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations!

It's great to see this wiki has been nominated for an ENnie! Have you thought about encouraging people to vote using the Sitenotice (see help)? Angela<staff /> (talk | help forum) 12:14, July 17, 2010 (UTC)

Renaming the Main Page

Hey there!

I wanted to draw your attention to a quick note I posted here: Talk:Main Page.

Cheers! TOR<staff /> 17:44, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

Adding a post to a forum

Hi,

I tried to add a forum post but failed miserably. How does one do that?

Thanks,

Mike

Noozoo 19:59, August 27, 2010 (UTC)

Campaign Setting Inclusion Initiative

Is the a current country page or two that is considered to be "state of the art" that others should be edited toward. I would be happy to work toward this as I work on the Cheliax page(s) if indeed this is such a convenient example. —This unsigned post was made by Takeyabue. Please sign all posts with ~~~~.

See User talk:Takeyabue for response.

Missing character in Citation

Could you look at the Order of the Rack page and see what can be done with the second citation?

↑ F. Wesley Schneider. (2009). Hellknighs. What Lies in Dust, p. 64. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-197-8

It is missing the 't' in Hellknights and I am not sufficiently experienced to fix it. I would be happy to do so, if I have the proper rights and can be pointed in the correct direction.

Thanks!

Takeyabue 20:15, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

Done —yoda8myhead 20:17, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

double-click to edit

Mark, you mentioned here, something about double-clicking to edit. That's a new one to me. Were you able to double-click a link to edit it? Somewhere on the page to edit the current page? Aeakett 16:53, October 10, 2010 (UTC)

OK, I think I have a tiny javascript snippet that should do what you want. Now I just need to find where we're supposed to put our user-specific javascript. When I find that out, I'll let you know. For the record, the .js snippet is: $("body").bind("dblclick", function(){window.location=window.location+'?action=edit';});

-Aeakett 01:39, October 11, 2010 (UTC)

Just wanted to apologize for messing up so much over the past week. Legal text almost invites one to skim over the tough bits, and, unfortunately, that's what happened, causing me to miss some of the important parts. If there's anything I can do to help clean up, just send me a message, and I'll put it at the top of my to-do list. TheEldritchMrShiny 17:45, October 10, 2010 (UTC)

Easier on the eyes?

Mark, copy the contents of User:Aeakett/wikia.css to User:Yoda8myhead/wikia.css and see if that helps your eye strain any. -Aeakett 14:06, October 15, 2010 (UTC)

Did it help at all? —Aeakett 14:54, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey there,

Alrite I understand alittle bit better now about how the wiki actually works. Do you have to delete my new information now cause I don't really know how? I'll start working on actually citing references for what I write but I do understand I can't just be filling in things that the books say isn't true.

Thanks for clearing me up on this and if you have any advice on how to start integrating new topics into the wiki then please let me know. I'm a much more creative person who likes to use the box as a starting block for the rest of my ideas.

Have a good one,

Seero

Just checking in

Hello. I got your automatic welcome and thought I'd let you know that I'm not editing the substance of any articles yet, just caving in to my compulsion to correct improper spelling and grammar. (And despite being American, I know enough to leave British variations alone.) Also, I should note that I'm not very tech savvy, and this is the first time I've done this much on a wiki. Veltalcora 04:32, October 27, 2010 (UTC)

The wiki move

I'm really sorry I missed the discussion at http://pathfinder.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Moving%3F since I have been hosting a mediawiki based site for many years, and definitely would have had some input. From reading over the discussion, I'd like to bring up some concerns that, hopefully, it's not too late to address.

If you want to host your own wiki, no matter the topic, I'd recommend that you ask the following questions:

Why does your wiki exist? Is it just an ephemeral reference? Do you want there to be a community around your topic? Are you looking to make the pages into permanent records of the topic?
If you want permanency, you need to think long-term, so you have to answer some hard questions:
- What happens when the person who owns the domain name dies / gets hit by a bus / decides to go on a walking tour of China for 3 years?
  - Can anyone else take over paying for the domain?
  - Will the registrar even talk to anyone else or will the domain lapse and be scooped up by someone who wants the click count?
- Is there a hosting provider involved?
  - What happens when they go out of business?
  - Can you back up your data outside of their service?
  - Who owns the account with the provider (see concerns, above for domain)
Have you considered what kind of traffic this could generate?
- What would the costs become if your topic became the subject of a major motion picture? What if the next U.S. presidential debate featured the question, "would you be bothered if your child was interested in ..." relating to your topic?
  - If costs went sharply up, how would you mobilize the community to pay for it?
Conversely, what happens in 10 years if the topic becomes obsolete (the next big thing eclipses it)? Will a very small number of interested people still be able to pay for it?
What happens in 50 years? Does the site just go away?

Most of these questions center around the problem that I have struggled with: how do I achieve permanence on the Web? I don't have a single set of answers, but moving away from Wikia seems to put all of those problems squarely in your lap, rather than in theirs. I am concerned by the forum discussion that I saw that long-term solutions to these problems were not clearly discussed before the move. Then again, perhaps the forum discussion wasn't the only thread of communication.

I hope my input helps. Good luck with the Pathfinder Wiki (I'll update my links wherever I can confirm that the pages exist here that I was linking to before). -Ajs 15:21, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

I think you took my questions a bit more specifically than I intended them. This is sort of a "checklist" that I think anyone considering hosting a Wiki should review. When I asked things like, "Why does your wiki exist," I wasn't asking why the Pathfinder Wiki exists, since I know that. It's more a prompt to think about why it exists in the long-term.

A few other random points:

"Anything can happen, but thus far Alfred's had the domain for over 3 years and renewed it even when we were on wikia. If it became an issue the community would come together to purchase the domain from him and cooperate on paying for it, the same we are with the host we now use."

From experience, I can tell you that, when it "becomes an issue," it's far, far too late. At that point, you find that you don't have the authority to deal with it, and the domain is either "part of the estate" if he's dead or it's controlled through a registrar account that you have no control over, should he simply go missing. I know you want to be trusting, but it's not really a matter of trust. It's just the reality that people go away eventually. Sometimes it's because they have somewhere else to be, but eventually it's going to be permanent for all of us. If you want your Wiki to hang around for a couple of years or maybe even a decade or two, then you'll probably be OK, but eventually things will change.

Your options, here, are bounded by the resources at your disposal and Alfred's willingness to cooperate. I'd suggest that he retain administrative access / ownership to the domain, but list two other active people (like yourself and someone else) as the "billing" and "technical" contacts (this is standard DNS jargon, and will apply no matter which registrar he uses). In this way, you can make changes if they are required, even if he is on a long vacation when/if your hosting provider tanks or you come under some massive DDoS attack and need to re-point the IP to save your hosting provider from melting down. Beyond that, he should probably also have a will that lists the other admins as beneficiaries of the domain name.

"maybe Paizo will want to make the wiki official and buy the domain themselves"

Doubtful (though you work for them, and I don't, so maybe you know more than I do). There's a big benefit they get from having a Wiki that's controlled externally by the community: they can police it to some extent for compliance with Community Use, but failure to comply isn't their problem directly, and Wizards/Hasbro can't come after them for the community's mistakes.

"if they go out of business we move the wiki somewhere else"

Yes, this becomes a sub-set of the domain concerns if you look at it in that light.

"If they went under because people stopped clicking their ads, what would have happened to the site then?"

Yep, I understand your reasons for not wanting to play ball with Wikia. I'm not really arguing them, since that ship seems to have sailed. I'm more arguing for thinking out the consequences and planning ahead for the long road.

"if people stop playing or reading Pathfinder, who cares if there's a wiki for it?"

If that's the way you see it, then that's fine. My view of the things I've put up on the Web is that they are, to some extent, the legacy of my interaction with the world, and I'd hate to think they'll just go away for lack of interest. You don't have to think like me, though ;-) -Ajs 18:47, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Might want to make sure your co-workers have their bookmarks updated. Sean linked to the wikia Karzoug article yesterday... :) -- 24.177.4.193 18:21, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

A New User

Bodhisattva 22:24, 13 November 2010 (UTC): Hello! I am new to the Pathfinder Wiki. Is there any way that I can help you to contribute? I have a fair amount of experience with wikis and am well-versed in wiki-code, so I may be able to help out with templates and such. Just wondering where to get started, since there doesn't seem to be anything in the Wanted Pages. Thanks!1

Hello Bodhisattva, and welcome to PathfinderWiki. There are always tens of thousands of things to do around here, especially right at this moment. We have just moved to this site from a different server. Please excuse our rough look at the moment, as we're still getting our bearings in our new home. If you are interested in helping with coding, I would recommend that you post your interest on the Talk page of the admin Aeakett who spearheads most of these issues. In terms of adding content, I would recommend that you pick up any Golarion canon source you might have (AP material, PFS scenario, Campaign Setting, etc) and simply start writing about a topic that interests you and which has not been fully documented on the wiki. Also, we are always in need of spelling, grammar, and punctuation proofreading, so that is NEVER turned down. Let us know if you have any further questions. Best, --Brandingopportunity 23:10, 13 November 2010 (UTC) (a fellow admin)

Re: Category restructuring

I'll keep that in mind, and I'm glad to hear they're functioning once more. I'll filter what I can through our automated helpers. Unfortunately, I'm starting to realize that a fair number or articles are going to need a more human eye before this task is done; I'm finding many articles that have been miscategorized, while others in the same category have not. It's going to be a fair amount of work, but in the long run it'll be worth it.

I'll try to remember to flag what category edits I have to make by hand as minor edits, at the very least. If it gets too out of hand, I could possibly create a not-quite-a-bot account specifically for this purpose as well. We can address that as things move forward, though. -- Heaven's Agent 05:55, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Bodhisattva 03:31, 17 November 2010 (UTC): The use of existing templates can help solve a lot of category issues if you encode them properly. :)

Yeah, that's another agenda item. —Yoda8myhead 03:36, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Bodhisattva 03:40, 17 November 2010 (UTC): Is that something I can help you with?

Bodhisattva talk · contribs · Pathfinder Wiki Contributor 03:49, 17 November 2010 (UTC): Re: My User Page—I'll get right on it! :)

Looks like it would be appropriate for me to join the conversation as well. First, because I haven't done so yet, I want to welcome you to the the project, Bodhisattva.

Over the next several months, I'll be looking to condense and unify the project's category structure. Now, in the past I've been wary of utilizing templates to automatically add articles to categories; personal experiences have been bad, and any attempt to do so always seemed to result in some unforeseen errors, and rarely functioned as intended in the first place. That said, I understand a lot of these issues have been resolved over the last couple of years. Once a basic category structure is defined, we can look into giving automatic categorization via templates a go, though I fear the structure of our template designs may not lend themselves well to this end. In any case, it is definitely something we should consider. -- Heaven's Agent 04:30, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Help Needed!

I created an article called Storm King, redirected it to Korramzadeh (to use name, not title) then realised I'd spelt the name wrong so did a further redirect to Khorramzadeh. Thinking this was way too convoluted, I reversed the redirects, but as Khorramzadeh now already "exists" it won't let me redirect there from Storm King! Is there any way of sorting this out? --Amethal2 19:24, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

You can manually redirect by adding the text #REDIRECT [[target page name]] on the first line of an existing page and it won't try to create the target page. —Yoda8myhead 20:50, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Cheers, there is always more to learn on this wiki.--Amethal2 22:44, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

New to Wiki

Hi Mark,

I had a few questions and was hoping you or someone else can help answer. 1. What is the difference between these 2 2 wiki sites wwww.pathfinderwiki.com and www.pathfinder.wikia.com? 2. I have been working on a campaign for my D&D group and have created a city in the river kingdoms as a setting to our game. I have spent a lot of time on it and would like to share it with the rest of the community. It is all my ideas. What kind of permission do I need to get, if any from Pathfinder? —This unsigned post was made by Vladikru. Please sign all posts with ~~~~.

Tweak to your template tests

Instead of doing:

{{ #if:{{{print|}}} | [[Category:Artwork from {{{print}}}]] | [[Category:Artwork from unknown sources]] }}

You should be able to do simply:

[[Category:Artwork from {{{print|unknown sources}}}]]

which uses the default value of the parameter if no value has been passed.

But, you've got the basics down perfectly - that's the start of auto-categorization.

--Morbus Iff 11:24, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Details on your bot?

What kind of bot is? I've used pywikipedia in the past, but I think it's getting old and crusty. --Morbus Iff 15:36, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm using pywikipediabot. My programming knowledge is limited, so while it's missing some scripts I'd like or has limited functionality with ones it does have, it's also something I can wrap my head around. If you know of another one that is more user-friendly and robust, I'd be interested in hearing about it. —Yoda8myhead 16:15, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Nope, I've no suggestion either. I've just "always" used pywikipediabot, and didn't know if there was anything better out there :) --Morbus Iff 16:25, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Another template example

Noticed you added keyword1, 2, etc. to the new File template. I've done the same thing for Books, only with trimmer code. In this approach, we have an unlimited number of entries (as long as they're sequential), and it will automatically stop when the next entry doesn't exist: {{ #foreach: author$n$ | [[Category:Works by {{{author$n$}}}]] }} --Morbus Iff 00:42, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Great suggestion. I wish I had understand that I didn't need to change anything on the pages transcluding the template to use it, though ;-/ Can you advise a good guide to some of the new terms, like $n$ and such, that one like myself who might want to learn how to make more robust templates could look over? Note that I am not a programmer and even some basic stuff can be difficult for me to grasp, so a "For Dummies" version would be preferred.—Yoda8myhead 22:01, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!

For both the welcome and fixing that template. Didn't seem right that he didn't exist as a page, but an error between chair and keyboard didn't occur to me. FoiledAgain (talk) 01:57, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Cite template deletion?

I just noticed the errors from AP#5 not having a citation page (see Lamashtu for example). When going to create, I saw it was recently deleted. I didn't want to recreate since I wasn't sure why you deleted it in the first place. --FoiledAgain (talk) 05:05, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. I don't know how it happened, but I've undeleted it.—

Yoda8myhead (talk) 02:10, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Ability to link to Paizo website

Is it possible to be given the ability to link to the Paizo website? Working on the ISWGII I have an update for Aluum that I can't make because it already has a link to the Paizo blog as a source. Alternately, I can email the edit to someone who has that ability to make the change. Thanks! --FoiledAgain (talk) 02:03, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Template Spring Clean (Navigational Templates)

Yoda8myhead, FoiledAgain has pulled together a solid list of all the templates now and I think we are ready to move on to the next steps in tidying them up. In the back of mind I am pretty sure, though, that you are personally on a mission to move the navbox type templates from an older format to the newer format. I think the old style ones are in Category:Content templates, whereas new format ones get to go in Category:Navboxes. Is this correct? FoiledAgain (Bill) is suggesting that all such templates be rehoused in a Category:Navigational templates, which seems a sensible idea but if this would mess up your 'to do list' then I want to check with you first. --Fleanetha (talk) 13:14, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Response on User talk:Fleanetha. —

Yoda8myhead (talk) 17:40, 19 December 2012 (UTC)