User talk:Mason11987

your crazy signature
I have been thinking about this for some while now... but how did you change your signature to have different colors like that? is it in some sort of settings? St. Fenix 12:13, 30 April 2006 (PDT)
 * HTML fading program I have, then I threw it into my signature. The program is on my now broken computer though, so I won't be able to do anything with it for you.  I can give you a link to it though on my geocities site.  play around with the sliders and stuff, and eventually you should be able to come out with something cool.  If you need help in actually putting it into your signature, let me know. -- M a s o n 1 1 9 8 7  (Talk - Contributions) 17:16, 30 April 2006 (PDT)

Other language wiki?
I have been curious for awhile wondering if we are ever going to make articles in other languages. I myself am not fluent in any of my languages save english so I would'nt be able to do any of them, but the question has been on my mind. is it going to happen? St. Fenix 20:36, 5 May 2006 (PDT)
 * I don't believe there has even been any intent to do anythign like that. But if someone who is fluent wants to translate some/a lot of the pages, I don't see the harm in that.  -- M a s o n 1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7  (Talk - Contributions) 21:20, 5 May 2006 (PDT)

GameSpot Heads Up
Hey! I didn't know where to put this information, so I'm goinna let you figure it out. There's some new screenshots at GameSpot from Spore. I just woke up, so I haven't even checked to see if anyone else here has picked up on it. But I read the Recent Changes constantly, and didn't see anything. There's some new building, transport, and plant life... no... my bad, Buildings that look like plants. --Navenfaux 01:31, 16 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Cool, thanks, and check the SporeWiki:Information Repository for stuff like that, you can find it via the community portal :). Feel free to upload all of them, and just let us know about them if you can't find a place. -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7  (Talk - Contributions) 07:24, 16 May 2006 (PDT)

XSpore Posts

 * See User talk:Mason11987/xSpore Posts

can you help me get my thing on the contributor board right?
Trex1117


 * seems to be fine, what's the problem? -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7 (Talk - Contributions) 16:44, 16 May 2006 (PDT)

Clock suggestion
If I found a countdown clock, would it work here at Spore Wiki? I'd love to be able to see my agony tick by in seconds, and see how close I am to the game's release. For now, I'd set it to around some date in mid April until the actual date was announced. Can it be done? --Navenfaux 11:22, 17 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Most work by just having an image that updates, but if it's javascript, it might not. Go find a couple places and make one, and if it's just an image code we'll be able to do it.  Otherwise I'll have to ask some people I know who are better at some of this stuff then I am to see if it'd work. -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7  (Talk - Contributions) 12:05, 17 May 2006 (PDT)

I have a link on my user page... I'm not sure how to annouce that to everyone. Can we put the link on the main page? --Navenfaux 12:47, 17 May 2006 (PDT)


 * I might, but if you can find a graphical countdown creating site (most of the "countdowns" I've seen have been made on other sites, then linked to in forum signatures), that would be better. -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7 (Talk - Contributions) 13:11, 17 May 2006 (PDT)

New Article
Hey. I made a new article, but I don't undertand how or where it goes. It's a conceptual article I'm writing about Spore, but it encompasses all six phases, and recaps them in a cool way. If there is any existing category for this, let me know! --Navenfaux 22:13, 18 May 2006 (PDT)

Creature of the day
I think it's a really good idea! I think using a template for each day would also be a good idea in order to avoid having to mass change pages if we decide to change the layout.
 * Yup, I think so too, I don't know how to get the "last day" and "next day" parts to work automatically. But it's not required.  It could just link to a page with a list of all of them. -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7  (Talk - Contributions) 09:08, 19 May 2006 (PDT)


 * A more readable format that could be used for the date is  (Which results in: August 27, 2024). I don't think a previous and next day feature is required. A category or two could be used, such as   and   (Category:Creature of the day archive - 2024 and Category:Creature of the day archive - August, 2024)
 * Check out what I set up, with a template. Feel free to make what changes you think would be useful. -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7  (Talk - Contributions) 09:28, 19 May 2006 (PDT)

The popup
Did you get it to work for yourself? I tried adding it to the main template and no go. Zorlac
 * I sent you an IM about it. "Lupin (the guy who made the popups) said we need to turn on user php. Check it out, if you find that option and turn it on it should work." -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7  (Talk - Contributions) 09:50, 21 May 2006 (PDT)

WikiIndex
Here, just use http://www.sporewiki.com/images/wiki.png That's a direct link to the logo image. Zorlac

Forums
Okay, the forums issue. If we are going to make SporeWiki forums, I want a general consensus among users that they A) want it and B) will use it. I don't mean every day use, but I hate to have dead forums lying about. You suggesed IPB, but I am anti-IPB. The only FREE forums that allow wiki intigration are SMF and PHPBB, of which PHPBB is probably the best. But of course, if I could I would GREATLY prever using VBulletin just becuase it is the best forum around. Hands down. Tottaly worth the money. It is possible to intigrate VB with MediaWiki, as described here. It costs 85 dollars for 1 year use of VB, and 160 for a lifetime of use. Pricey, but VB > IPB. So in summary, I want the wiki members to vote on this, and will only do it if they want to. Zorlac
 * I totally agree. I don't think IPB is that bad, and we could get a free version (which was the bonus).  I would DEFINITLY prefer vB, it is definitly the best.  I did not know it could be integrated, so that's good.  I also did not know phpBB could be too.  If they decide they want it, then we can think up what would be the best option.  Since phpBB also has integration with mediawiki I'd say that or vB, but of course there is that cost issue.  But first lets find out if they want it or not eh? :) -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7  (Talk - Contributions) 10:49, 22 May 2006 (PDT)

can you help?
i have a question in the question department for a week and nobody has answered it can you help? --Trex1117 16:26, 22 May 2006 (PDT)


 * What question was it? And sometimes a question isn't answered because we have no answer.  But I'll help if I can. -- <font color="#00dd89">M <font color="#003d5d">a <font color="#000050">s <font color="#007980">o <font color="#00c87d">n <font color="#00004e">1 <font color="#000061">1 <font color="#00cb8a">9 <font color="#007468">8 <font color="#00004b">7  (Talk - Contributions) 18:48, 22 May 2006 (PDT)

Gold Star
Thought you of all people deserved one. --Daxx (T C) 10:22, 24 May 2006 (PDT)

ARGGGH!
I swear you all sent a spy to steal all the information I find. I leave this morning to get the pre-release at GameSpot... No knowledge that you all were talking about it. Come home, confident that I did something that you guys haven't even talked about. But NOOOO.... You guys beat me to it! LOL That's all right though. I'm not sharing my creature and building ideas until I get my hands on the game. Unless your spy develops mind reading technology :P --Navenfaux 12:41, 26 May 2006 (PDT)
 * It was actually listed on gamespy because they made a big deal about it being listed as June, but gamespot isn't really a reliable source for this kind of thing (no game retailer really is), I'll trust the official word from Will over gamespot and EB which is April or early May. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 12:46, 26 May 2006 (PDT)

New Sig
I noticed that you've changed your signature, but that it now breaks/splits when it hits the end of a line. I've recently updated my sig to include non-breaking spaces (you'll have to check the page code to find out how to use them because I can't get the code to appear on the page without actually converting to a space) in place of normal spaces so the sig stays intact without splitting over a line. --Daxx (T C) 14:35, 26 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Thanks, I changed it because it started to annoy even me. And I'm making that change to my sig, thanks. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 14:40, 26 May 2006 (PDT)

Sysop
Thanks very much for the promotion. I promise to do as well as I can. --Daxx (T C) 06:21, 29 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Yup, Zorlac said it'd be funnier to not mention it at all and wait til you realized you had a delete button :). -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 09:16, 29 May 2006 (PDT)
 * I sat there looking at the Recent changes page for a few minutes trying to work out what was different. Then I noticed the "block" tabs after everyone's name and I twigged. :) --Daxx (T C) 11:24, 29 May 2006 (PDT)

Creation categories
I noticed the creation categories and was pretty confused over what they actually meant when just looking at their names. Right now they're named X Creation Concepts and X Creations (And alternatively in links, Concept X category listing and Game X category listing). If there'd been only one of them (which I guess there was from the start) it wouldn't be so hard to guess what they stand for, but together they might seem ambiguous. Practically this is just a minor nuisance I guess, since it's easy to figure out what they mean by going to their page. But if we're renaming them, I'd suggest the names In-game Xs and X concepts.

So for creatures, the change would be:
 * Category:Creature Creation Concepts to Category:Creature concepts
 * Category:Creature Creations to Category:In-game creatures

Just a thought for the future.

-- Andreas Blixt 12:40, 30 May 2006 (PDT)


 * The whole idea of dividing the creatures into in game and concept ones came about quite a while ago, and it was done through a chat room with the 5 admins at the time. We came up with Creature creation concepts and creature creations, but once again I think you've came up with a simpler naming scheme.  The only current obstacle that would hold me back in agreeing with the switch is the mass of things currently in those two categories (specifically the top), if you want to resort them, then go for it :).  For now they work well enough to be put on my personal back burner, good idea though. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions - E-mail) 12:43, 30 May 2006 (PDT)

The template
Aren't you going to try the possible fix I put on Template talk:Dynamic navigation small? I'm curious to see if it works, hehe.

-- Andreas Blixt 13:18, 30 May 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)