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Welcome to all users! This page is where you can ask StrategyWiki-related questions to the staff and senior community figures, and they will do their best to answer. If you want to raise a topic for discussion (rather than just ask about it), please use the community issues forum instead. New issues are entered here, with the most recent at the bottom of the page. If your question does not pertain to editing StrategyWiki (e.g. asking for hints or game-specific information), please ask on the guide's talk page or on the forums.

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Caching
We've started to notice that SW starts to slow down on weekends when we hit our usage peaks. To help keep things snappy, I would like to add caching in front of our web server. However, this has one major downside: MediaWiki won't be able to keep track of how many pageviews each page actually gets. There's a sentence at the bottom of each page "This page has been accessed 1,304,179 times." That will no longer be accurate. This means the view count on Special:Statistics and the "Most popular" list won't be updated as much (maybe 10% of our total views will be reflected there). What do you guys think, are these view counts that important? -- Prod (talk) 16:32, 30 April 2013 (UTC)


 * It's kind of hard to notice, being off the content area. At worst, the cache system might cause some pages to be undercounted on Special:PopularPages, most of which is already dominated by MMOs or well-known classic games.  --Sigma 7 (talk) 07:28, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Yea, those numbers would be completely off if I made the change, as 90% of page hits wouldn't hit the actual mediawiki software. -- Prod (talk) 14:08, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Patrolling
I've developed a script to help making patrolling recent changes a bit easier. It's still alpha-level so it isn't a Gadget (yet), but I'd appreciate early adopters giving feedback and whatnot on it. Currently it adds a tab called "Patrol" to Special:RecentChanges and Special:BlankPage (the latter so you don't have to load the normal RC in the event it takes a long time). More details are at User:Skizzerz/Scripts. Thanks! -- 19:16, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Controler selecting for Wii/Gamecube shared games
Hey sorry to bother you guys but i have been trying for awhile now to figure out how to select the GameCube controller under the Zelda: Twilight Princess walk-through. kinda important because its default on Wii controller and everything is opposite in the GameCube version so west in Wii is east on GameCube and i saw under edit that there's 2 answers depending on what controller you picked but i pick GameCube on the picture but nothing changes and when i go to the next page it says Wii is selected again so i'm not sure how to save the setting or even work that in editing. Thanks for anyone who takes time to help me get the proper walk-through information to show up :)


 * First, remember to sign your posts by putting ~ at the end (hit preview before submitting to make sure it appeared if you're not confident). Secondly, feel free to add information outside of the tags if you are confused/not comfortable with the formatting. It is easy to just add something like: "Gamecube note: go west here." and someone can clean it up later. However, since that adds more work for people down the line it is better to try and figure this out, so thank you for your interest.


 * I apologize if this gets confusing, but just ask questions and play around with the pages to figure it out. The control selector at the top of the will display anything in the control template tags depending on which parameter is selected. control is used in conjunction by putting in as many different types of content (e.g. controllers) as separate parameters, but the number of parameters should match the number of parameters in control selector. So, in this case we have GameCube and Wii so the syntax is like Wii content (for Twilight Princess, Wii content comes first because the Wii game was released before the GC game). Now, make sure you can visualize this template use. Think about it like Parameter 1. Since we made Wii content come first, if Wii is selected, then Parameter 1 content will appear. If GameCube is selected, Parameter 2 will appear (again, this is just because we put Wii before GameCube in control selector; the order is specific to how control selector is set up on a given page).


 * Now, the main reason you may not see alternate content is this: it doesn't exist! control may not even be used where you would expect GameCube content to be, thus, guide pages with control selector are much more difficult to fact check. Please add control and alternate content if necessary! -- 18:15, 8 June 2013 (UTC)