User talk:RAP

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 * Is it me or did you just cut and paste a welcome message? Checking your wiki contributions, you just did. Huh. By the way, I respond people's comments here, not in their talk pages for the sake of efficient organization. --RAP (talk) 20:48, 20 July 2013 (UTC)


 * It's our Welcome template. We put it on any contributing member's talk page, regardless of apparent wiki expertise.  Few registered users are as adept at editing as you are.   Pro  cyon  04:24, 21 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Ah, that explains that. Didn't know there was a template too. Alrighty then. If you have time, can you take a look at StrategyWiki_talk:Achievements_project? Thanks. --RAP (talk) 04:32, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

No 'You'
I don't think we have the same 'You' policy here. I don't remember the exact discussion, but I think the discussion was towards, "let people personalize it". As long as it reads fairly well, there's no point restricting the authors too much. -- Prod (talk) 17:42, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah... I forgot to mention in the list on adding depersonalization (or having an informative tone); I was more on restricting myself from doing those and be creative about it. Those are more like my opinions that I wanted guides to be like than something that should be enforced on StrategyWiki. Will clarify that in the page. --RAP (talk) 21:14, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

PNG
I use PNGGauntlet to compressing PNG-files. Do you know of it? I will check out PNGMonster. Paco (talk) 06:57, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I tried using that one, but I didn't know how to run it. It was complicated if I remember correctly (or was it something else?). That's why I still use PNG Monster. It uses all the PNG compression techniques all in one program. The only bad thing is the lack of differences between each file individually, it's the whole package. I'm sure there's a comparison chart somewhere for comparing programs on how effective the compression is, just like the many file compression techniques from various programs like 7-Zip. --RAP (talk) 07:06, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * really? PNGGauntlet is quite easy to use for me. Drag&Drop some images into it and choose a category (from light to heavy compressing) and then start running it. Paco (talk) 07:30, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Bullet
There is another method that i know of: listcol Check Ultima 7 TOC to see how it works. Paco (talk) 06:57, 22 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I implemented it to the Acno ' s Energizer ' s Level Codes section page. There's one problem however: there's a small amount of empty space before the first entry. It's noticeable upon highlighting the text. It looks crooked. It doesn't apply only to the page I just edited, it applies to everything else that has this template, like the one you linked me. --RAP (talk) 07:23, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

DPL
Hi RAP. Please feel free to experiment with DPL as you wish, but do understand that they come at a heavy hit to the CPU of our servers, so don't go crazy with them. We optimized the site run certain DPLs once every so often and cache the result so that we wouldn't have to worry about people refreshing pages that contain them. Just an FYI.  Pro cyon  03:29, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Eeeeh, I just want the results because I'm curious on the Top 100 Most Popular games users have looked, both the original and with guide completion 0 and 1 categories removed.
 * I couldn't get the Most Wanted stuff because it's set up differently; I wanted data of a Top 100.
 * I can just save the list manually so I don't have to use DPL again.
 * I could potentially use this data to help the wiki start, polish, or finish up walkthroughs.
 * I'm a bit surprised that you guys are using DPL in the main page, I can imagine a bunch of people going to the main page with DPL loading up.
 * I thought it would've been used in a maintenance page where less people would see it.
 * Since you said you made it sure the website is optimized, that explains why I can't get the Most Wanted data; why not apply it to the Most Popular?
 * --RAP (talk) 07:55, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Image categorization
Usually every Image have at last 2 category. One Game Category and one subcategory like Screenshots, Sprites, Maps, etc. Paco (talk) 07:30, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Nevermind that, i see you got that figured out. Paco (talk) 07:32, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Speaking of stuff having to do with images, do you have any idea what's happening with these images? File:EmeraldMine Keys.png, File:EmeraldMine_Bug.png (especially check this one), and File:EmeraldMine_Spaceship.png. I rearranged them and even though the new image is rendered in the correct resolution of 32 by 32, the visual rendered incorrectly. --RAP (talk) 07:38, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I see them all in 32x32 instead of 64x16 which you previous uploaded. Especially the Bug last 3 images are all the same. I think it's a cache problem, but don't worry i had it too. Paco (talk) 07:45, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Last three images? After uploading the same thing, one is the same, one was reworked (the one with a slightly higher filesize, uncompressed), two of them I'm seeing are the correct images. Anyway, I tried purging all three of the images from MediaWiki link. Is it the end wiki server's problem? --RAP (talk) 07:51, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Ah, right. First of three is 361 KB, then 782 KB and the last is again 361 KB. But all three look the same to me. Either that or it's a browser problem. After some time the images should show properly to you. Paco (talk) 07:56, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I tested two of the other browsers and confirmed that it's not a browser-specific problem. It shows the same four images with two images being the original size in that orientation. It's definitely server specific, yet it's weird that it displayed in that manner to my end instead of yours. --RAP (talk) 08:01, 2 August 2013 (UTC)