User talk:Mason11987

Removing/Editing Pages with "&" in the title
This is in regards to your post on the MediaWiki Users Forums.

Here's how to access the pages:

Replace the & in the URL with %26

See the following URLs


 * http://www.sporewiki.com/index.php?title=Operation_UNEARTH_%26_INFILTER
 * http://www.sporewiki.com/index.php?title=Operation_UNEARTH_%26_INFILTER_(Serberos)

I think I'll write a tutorial for this on OpenTutorial ;)

I hope this helps --Hapa 23:08, 3 June 2006 (PDT) BTW you have a very nice Wiki
 * VERY much appreciated. I like uncategorized pages, and those two were bugging me, THANKS! -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 23:45, 3 June 2006 (PDT)

Conduct
what do you think of the conduct rules i wrote in the conduct policies section? --Trex1117 13:47, 1 June 2006 (PDT)
 * I updated them a bit to make them more workable and a little more in line with Wikipedia. --Daxx (T C) 15:32, 1 June 2006 (PDT)


 * Nice initiative, I like the start and how it turned out. That page needed something and thanks for doing something about it :-P. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 21:30, 1 June 2006 (PDT)

SOC, Plants, and You
What do you think of the ideas I had about plant creation?

The original idea is here,but I'll reproduce it here with lots of unnecessary bullets and some new stuff:
 * Plant creations would be classified something like this (capitalization included, as the planet name is a proper noun):
 * Flora of Thenvij'bix (Game)
 * (this would contain various plants that are on Thenvij'bix, and would inevitably contain the equivalent of lots of very short articles on grass or something)
 * with longer creations then being classified like this:
 * Flora of Thenvij'bix (Game)/A tree that I wrote a lot about
 * (this would be a long-ish article about a tree that I wrote a lot about, and probably linked to like this:)
 * ==A tree that I wrote a lot about==
 * ''Main article: Flora of Thenvij'bix (Game)/A tree that I wrote a lot about
 * (a summary of what's so great about the tree that I wrote a lot about)
 * Plants that don't go on a creature's planet or a different important planet would then go in an article something like this:
 * $AUTHOR's plants
 * $AUTHOR's plants/$PLANT
 * and then it would all go in the Flora Database, which would then truly be a database of florae.
 * Samog 21:22, 1 June 2006 (PDT)


 * Very cool, I like the idea, if you want to explain it so users can understand it and adapt to it then I'm all for it. This is good because it will go along with the idea of doing something like the Sporepedia with our content here. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 21:26, 1 June 2006 (PDT)
 * Will this still allow people to make individual plants, and if so how will these be categorised? --Daxx (T C) 04:29, 2 June 2006 (PDT)


 * I believe it would like a Planets plants page with sections for each plant (because most would be minor, like grass and bushes and stuff), and if there was a plant in particular that you wanted to be larger you could have a small sectiona bout it and use Template:main to link to a full article of the form Planets plants/Plant name which would also be categorized as a plant concept or something like that, just like the main page. If there is no "planet" that is thought up you can just use your name and the plants you made because both methods of finding plants will probably be available in game (find a planet, and then a plant, then find the creator and find more plants by him).  I think this will prove extremly organized, and since you can't write A LOT about a tree it is compressed and useful.  We have to work out the specifics though, so I'm going to copy this to Talk:Flora database do continue the discussion. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 07:14, 2 June 2006 (PDT)

Welcomes
Um... do you check people's contribs before you Template:Welcome them? --Daxx (T C) 16:34, 3 June 2006 (PDT)

hmmm...I probably should, but normally I just welcome everyone who has a red talk page, since if I always do that I'll only get relativly new people. There may be some people who have red talk pages and edited before I started doing that and now I'm welcoming them, but normally it's easier to just welcome everyone with a red talk. Why, did I do something stupid? lol -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 21:26, 3 June 2006 (PDT)


 * Ah, you are referring to User:Pie. Eh, I missed something, sue me :).  That's why I made you admin, to catch that stuff lol. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 21:47, 3 June 2006 (PDT)


 * It's okay. No problem; at least I caught it. :) --Daxx (T C) 04:09, 4 June 2006 (PDT)

can you help me with user box on my user page?
can you help it doesn't look right. --Trex1117 17:44, 9 June 2006 (PDT)


 * Fixed :). -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 22:32, 9 June 2006 (PDT)

editor awards
i think we should have awards such as most contributions, best contribution award ect. like the the gold star daxx gave you, what do you think? --Trex1117 17:56, 9 June 2006 (PDT)
 * Well, there is a list I have access too...


 * 1) Mason11987 (1950 Edits on 695 pages)
 * 2) AdminBot (774 Edits on 554 pages)
 * 3) Hydromancerx (428 Edits on 53 pages)
 * 4) Yossitaru (355 Edits on 193 pages)
 * 5) Jaleho (298 Edits on 174 pages)
 * 6) Daxx (286 Edits on 159 pages)
 * 7) Samog (268 Edits on 127 pages)
 * 8) Zorlac (190 Edits on 112 pages)
 * 9) The Arbiter (156 Edits on 33 pages)
 * 10) Huggkruka (154 Edits on 1 pages)
 * 11) Kmr (143 Edits on 58 pages)
 * 12) Oozemaster (103 Edits on 67 pages)
 * 13) Luminar (78 Edits on 35 pages)
 * 14) AndreasBlixt (78 Edits on 37 pages)

But I really don't think I deserve some kind of award. Especially something that was "official" or anything like that. The best contribution thing is extremly subjective and I think Daxx's idea of a star (like how wikipedia has barnstars) was very nice of him and would be a nice way of honoring some of the many people here who have made useful as well as informative contributions. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 22:32, 9 June 2006 (PDT)


 * There is also the chance that someone could end up spamming minor changes just to look good, which wuldnt be a bad thing as long as all the changes were useful, but if someone went around changing the gramatical structure of sentances back and forth that wouldt be all that productive, still, vandalism seams to be kept in check round these parts


 * Also true, and I am trying my damndest to keep it under control, and the site owner user:zorlac has changed some setttings to make vandalism harder. We have also promoted user:daxx, user:kmr, user:Yossitaru and user:samog to do clean up as well when they can. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 08:53, 16 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Cant just anyone clean things up by comparing the history and reverting it to what it used to be? -- Jmaci 21:24, 16 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Yes, but when 15 seperate IPs vandalize more then 50 different articles/templates/categories in the span of an hour or so, it is still a task to clean up the mess. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 21:30, 16 July 2006 (PDT)

New sig
New sig -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 07:41, 12 June 2006 (PDT)

Unused images
What should be done about the unused images? Deleted if older than 2 weeks? Any policy that should be set down here? Zorlac 16:04, 19 June 2006 (PDT)
 * That's a sketchy issue, on one hand unused images aren't very useful to people browsing sporewiki, while they are having some amount of impact on the available storage of the wiki. On the other hand the pages very well MIGHT be used offsite...


 * There are a lot of ones that were uploaded by others that are worthless, and a lot that I uploaded that may be useful. It all comes down to how problamatic they are.  If removing them would change nothing, then I'd say we shouldn't worry about it for now.  If removing them would make a nice impact on our storage, then lets set a time limit and then start deleting. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 19:23, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

Thanks!
thx for the creature box help on my creature! --Trex1117 17:19, 19 June 2006 (PDT)
 * no problem :). -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 19:23, 19 June 2006 (PDT)

Slow News
With there being no news or hype from Spore, I'm kinda bored. So I guess I'm just saying hi. I'm playing RCT to fill my time. So umm... ya. Catch ya later. --Navenfaux 02:25, 23 June 2006 (PDT)

The spam
Any idea whats up with this number spam? Doesn't seem to make any sense to me.
 * No idea, it's very strange. They are all new IPs too.  We'll just keep up the blocking and see what happens. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 08:44, 23 June 2006 (PDT)

Whatever happened to...
The creature of the day/week thing?

By the way, i'm looking to get more involved with this site, so is there something that I can do that needs to be done?

JediMutant 13:31, 25 June 2006 (PDT)
 * I realized that it was a little too much to try to get something every day, so I'm planning on rehauling all the pages I made to make it a creature of the week thing. I should be able to do that sometime soon, perhaps tonight.


 * If you are looking for something to do, click the [Show] link in my todo list, then click the [Show] links on one of the two bars that show up, those are always useful, or you could just click the [Show] link on the large bar below the to-do list.


 * I think the articles requiring work category is most important, because it's about pages that are directly related to spore and I'd like us to get all of those up to a much higher quality then they are. If they look pretty good (decent style, and as good content as possible based on current info), then feel free to remove the work tags.


 * In the large bar it also lists stubs and speculation articles, you can take a look on those and see if you can expand/verify those if you like. There should be something you'll like to do somewhere in all of that  -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 14:09, 25 June 2006 (PDT)

"Creatures" Category
Your decision to change the "In-game Creatures" category to simply "Creatures" has resulted in concept creatures being put in there. Because of this I am changing the category back to "Ingame Creatures" to eliminate the ambiguity. Thanks for the thought anyway. If you want to change it to something else, you can of course, but I'd suggest more specific in the future. (Sorry if the comment sounds snooty.)
 * Well, the basic idea is that the majority of creatures that will be submitted when the game comes out will be in game creatures, and I think creatures are by default "in game". I actually changed the "Creature creations" category to "creatures" as the "creature creation images" cat was changed to "creature images".  This coincides with my idea to change "Creature creation concepts" to "creature concepts" and "creature creation concept images" to "creature concept images".  The reason creature concepts were going in the wrong category was because of the problem in MediaWiki:Content base/creature (concept) which is used on the creature database, but I fixed that and I don't believe there will be any mix-ups with that in the future.  I think that creatures makes a lot more sense for that, but I'll wait until you comment on this before I go to change things. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 21:52, 26 June 2006 (PDT)

Spore at NeoPets
I'll let you put this where ever it goes, but there is now a NeoPet Guild about Spore. However, you do have to join NeoPets, or allready be a member. Neopets Spore Space Neopian Guild --Navenfaux 18:48, 27 June 2006 (PDT)
 * I had a name at one point, but it's not letting me log on. I might check it out if I get a chance sometime, thanks. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 19:36, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

I'm also thinking about making one myself. I think the one I found is nice, but I'd like to give making a guild a try. --Navenfaux 20:51, 27 June 2006 (PDT)

I joined --Trex1117 16:47, 3 July 2006 (PDT)

New Creature
I'm new the whole wiki-editing thing, so I would like to know what order I should go in for making a page for a new creature. Should I make the Concept page first? Portal? Add it to the Index? Please tell me, as I am anxious to unveil my creations. Thanks.


 * Did you take a look at the creature database - How to add your creature section? That is basically how you should do it.  You can create a portal the portal page using the first textbox.  Then the concept page using the second inputbox.  There is also instructions on how to add it to the list on the creature database.  If you have any problems with anything just let me know.  Also, when you post on a talk page, end with your signature with for tildes (~). -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 15:12, 28 June 2006 (PDT)

Yeah, I found that after I posted this. Thanks for the help though! And the patience! I hope my creations are a benefit to this site. --Azikio 09:10, 29 June 2006 (PDT)
 * No problem, hope they turn out pretty cool. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 09:37, 29 June 2006 (PDT)

Re; Summary for the naucean
"I want to put up the naucean for a Creation of the week but I need a good summary (couple sentences maybe, up to a paragraph) to be put in here If you could do that, that'd be great, thanks. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) ∞ 05:26, 5 July 2006 (PDT)"

I filled it in. It is ready now.

Hydro ~
 * Sweet, thanks, it will be week 32 I believe :). Which is in about a month. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 14:47, 5 July 2006 (PDT)

Lego Quandry
Hey there. I've discovered something very fun, but almost does not have anything to do with Spore. Other than building. Return To Blocklandis this great game, where you basically build with Lego's. It gives you a lot to work with, diffrent environments, and you can either build yourself or play with others. I know this isin't Lego Wiki, but I'd like to share the link. Just as a keep-occupied game.

OH! I'll have to get the link, but someone made a Creature Editor by themselves. And there's a new photo that has surfaced. Dare I be the first at Spore Wiki to know these things?!? lol --Navenfaux 03:10, 11 July 2006 (PDT)


 * I do know of the creature editor although I haven't been able to get it to work or I would have put it as a news story. But what is this new photo? -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 07:03, 11 July 2006 (PDT)


 * And I'm downloading RTB now.

Here is the direct link to the new photo
 * Image:Hammerback.jpg
 * Thanks, RTB is pretty cool, hard to be new at though. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 11:19, 11 July 2006 (PDT)

Just a heads up... you can change peices in each category by pressing the numbers agan... ctrl a and you can put more base plates down...  Once you get the hang of it it's fun. I'm building IN the volcano. Ok... since this is NOT Lego Wiki, I'll stop talking about it. Email (or NeoMail) me if you have any questions. --Navenfaux 12:30, 11 July 2006 (PDT)
 * lol, I will. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 06:37, 12 July 2006 (PDT)

YouTube Spore Challenge
Here's my Challenge! Soon, I will be putting up a Spore music video on YouTube (as soon as I get it done). I'd like to challenge all of you to make one yourself. I don't have any rules. You don't win anything but time filled. As Soon as I put up the video, I will let you know the link, so that you can make a video reply. I use Windows media maker. You can use anything you want. --Navenfaux 00:39, 13 July 2006 (PDT)


 * That's pretty cool, when the video is done I'll put it up as a news story if it's pretty cool :). -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 08:38, 13 July 2006 (PDT)

If I can download the Jump on it song, I'll make a video :) That was the song that went perfictly with the Spore video. --Navenfaux 11:14, 13 July 2006 (PDT)

Thanks for the Welcome!
Thank you for the welcome, I appreciate it. I look forward to collaborating with you.
 * no problem :). It's kind of my thing, hope to see you stick around.  O, and to sign your talk page messages, use four tildes ~ . -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 19:52, 14 July 2006 (PDT)

Standards
I've noticed that all the various pages that link or make reference to the phases of developement use different capitalisations. As a rule I've been going with capitalising the first letter of the stage (as it is a noun), but not the "P" on phase. Is there some sort of preference here or what? If there is, I'll start changing them whenever I come across them.


 * Well.. the pages for the phases are actually categories, and these are them and the code that makes them:


 * Game phases <- Game phases
 * Tide pool phase <- Tide pool phase
 * Creature phase <- Creature phase
 * Tribal phase <- Tribal phase
 * City phase <- City phase
 * Civilization phase <- Civilization phase
 * Space phase <- Space phase

-- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 19:52, 14 July 2006 (PDT)
 * This seems to be displaying strange...you can just edit this page to check out the code for it then [[Image:Smile.png]].
 * Na, I mean when one page references one of the game phase pages, say if you were reading something about the tide pool phase, and it linked to the creature phase it might say something like "Creature Phase", where as in other places it might be see nas "creature phase" or "Creature phase". I'll go off the links you set out -- Jmaci 21:56, 15 July 2006 (PDT)
 * O, well in general they shouldn't be capitalized, except when regular writing would demand it (beginning of sentences, ect.) . -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 08:53, 16 July 2006 (PDT)

61.125.75.208 spamming Porn
I found today in my Naucean (In Game) which was not even made yet the page full of Porn. I made it into a blank page again but then foudn that it did it to one of Daxx's post too See link below for all the one he added porn to.

61.125.75.208 Spamming Porn http://www.sporewiki.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=61.125.75.208

Hydro ~
 * It's been another round of vandalism that we've gotten, I've mopped it up, thanks for the notice though. Too bad I have to work and I can't be here to check the RC all the time... -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 14:45, 15 July 2006 (PDT)

Sheer Excitement!
I found something! Dude! There's a new bar! Go to Spore's website, and there's a picture of a planet. The thumbnail image doesn't show it, but there's a bar in the lower left hand corner. It looks like the condition of your ship, the sporeapedia thingy, and some other stuff. Check it out, and dissect it. I'm sure everyone will :P. I can't even finish my own article about Maslow's Needs. How lame is that. But at least I gave a heads up to something you all didn't know. If you did, just let me have this one. Let me think I'm the first lol.
 * Do you mean this image which we've had here since june 2nd? And also dissected on the statusbars page? [[Image:Wink.png]]-- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 08:46, 16 July 2006 (PDT)

Nope... The other planet in Spore's gallery. I'll stlle for new picture credit, if it is new. --Navenfaux 11:10, 16 July 2006 (PDT) Nawy. The planet allready shown in a gallery.,,,, blah. You have a picture to delete in Category:Space phase images, I swear... on of these days I'm going to have hot info. Oh well. WAIT! Ha! Mine takes up less bytes! Sweeet.


 * Smaller isnt always better; Im sick of never being able to find a decent quality spore video to download, I swear it'd be easier to get my hands on the game itself. Think quality over size
 * Definitly, space isn't an issue really here, so if there is a better quality version, we want it, even if it's big. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 20:13, 16 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Im curious about that, is there some sort of max limit we have to upload things? I dont actually HAVE anything to upload, but the nerd in me keep pestering me to ask -- Jmaci 21:20, 16 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Max filesize? I know I get a warning when I upload stuff above a certain size, but I can just ignore that.  You may or may not be able to ignore the size limit.  I'm not sure.  If you can, then you aren't really limited at all, except by common sense. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 21:30, 16 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Ty. But I guess that means that no one will upload a beta of the game here for us. Common sence tells us that would take too long to be bothered with it, not to mention the rest -- Jmaci 21:34, 16 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Well, we have the 2005 GDC video, so I if there is a beta, I can assure you it will be here for download. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 22:00, 16 July 2006 (PDT)

"Game" pages
I'm sorry to bother you, but what are the pages that have (game) for and why is this person http://www.sporewiki.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=202.234.131.166 writing numbers in some of them? --Lualmoba 21:01, 17 July 2006 (PDT)
 * The reason they exist is explained here and that person is a now banned vandal. Give me about 15 minutes and let me know if I missed any, thanks. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E) &infin; 21:08, 17 July 2006 (PDT)
 * Thank you. I think you should remove the template of the hut editor from the to do list. Unless you think it needs more work. Lualmoba 21:51, 17 July 2006 (PDT)