User talk:Bob the Hamster

Grady: Hey Bob, i thought this would be an inappropriate question to ask on the HOWTO & FAQ so i decided to ask it here, can i please have some help on how to use MediaWiki or whatever it is on my website, if you don't mind? Thanks :)

Bob: Sure! I reccomend installing it on a Linux box. Trying to do it on a Windows box is possible, but a huge pain.

1. Download the latest Mediawiki 1.4.x from http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/
2. Follow the instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Installation
3. If you have problems, mail me, or ask questions here, but I will answer your questions (if I can) by editing and improving http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Installation

Grady: Okay, Hmm.. the reccomended ram is a bit high, i only have 128 MB, and alot of that is used by Windows XP :P Oh well i'll give it a shot anyway, dosen't hurt to try, thing is i have to find a decent server that gives free MySQL and PHP and whatever the hell else it needs :P

Mike: http://swifthost.net - Best. Hosts. Evar.

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Bob: Spam filtering still works just fine in Mediawiki 1.5 ... I just forgot that logged-in users are allowed to say "viagra" without getting filtered.

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Mike: Surely there's a way to get an IP address attached to a username. But, I looked, and couldn't find anything. Or, is that just a 'Bureaucrat' feature?

Bob: I would have to check the server logs to get that spammer's IP. Bereaucrat just means you can grant Sysop to other users.

James Paige Hey! I really object to the editorial slant of this article! And I especially don't like that bit about encouraging people to bug me about finishing wandering hamster. I have a big enough backlog of e-mail already!

Bob the Hamster Oh, what? Were you just sitting there hitting "reload" on the recent changes page, or what? I thought you were busy!?

James Paige Oh, much better. Now you make me sound both lazy and crass. Seriously, buying me books is not a good way to get me to work on WH. it is a good way to get me to spend hours and hours of my free time reading books, and specificly not working on Wandering Hamster. And it is my lunch break right now. I am aloud to spend my lunch break obsessively reloading and web page I please, aren't I?

The Geek: I could be really cheeky here and say "what lunch break, oh you mean the one that +never ends?", but I won't :)

Bob the Hamster The Geek, when you posted that, it was blocked by the spam filter because James hates you because you were not logged in, and this page contains the word "viagra". (unfortunately, the spam filter currently uses the full-text of the page, not just the changed parts)

Mike C. You know you have problems when you have fake arguments with yourself in public places...

James Paige I am perfectly sane. Bob is the one with problems.

The Geek: There, I am a user now. I didn't realize you didn't need to give an +e-mail address. Thanks for restoring the post. And I agree with Mike :)

Bob the Hamster Actually, the above post was blocked too, because I had not yet added you to the not evil list. Now you can post without fear of accadentalluy triggering the filter. I really need to fix the filter so it only filters changes. Any page where someone has ever spoken a blocked word like the v-word is practically locked down. :(

The Geek: Hey, it works most of the time! And thanks again for restoring the post.

Wiki issue

FyreWulff Can you fix the Mediawiki namespace so that we can actually make use of the Special:Wantedpages ?

Bob the Hamster: I'm not sure what I need to do to fix it, but I can certainly try.... I guess I just need to create all those missing pages...?

Slanderous lies!

Nintendork: Hey, in your user page, it says "I take care of this wiki for my good friend James Paige, who is too busy sculpting naked women to spend any time maintaining his own silly wiki," but I thought James was dead! Are you saying my thought that he was dead for over six years was all a lie?

Bob the Hamster: He died six years ago, but has spent the last 5 years as a zombie. (Handy cooking tip: Strawberry rice-krispy & marshmallow squares make an excellent murder-free brain substitute)

Mike C. Hmm, strawberry, eh? I was trying to use peanut butter in my own necromancy project... thanks for the tip!

OHRRPGCE Gamelist

The Geek: Totally off-topic here, but how did you do the multiple-page bit of the OHRRPGCE gamelist? Did you use a database for it and then call for entries x to x or what?

Inferior Minion: It looks like that's exactly what he did. The gamelist page is set to display 8 games and it uses the offset passed through the URL to determine where to start.

Bob the Hamster: My gamelist is written in php, but that particular bit of work is done in my SQL SELECT statement, using a LIMIT clause.

$query=sprintf('select * from linklist order by %s %s limit %s,%s',$sort,$sortdir,$offset,$limit);

I have imported the gamelist source code to subversion under svn://gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/web/ohrrpgce-static/

bobs!

did you get shooted!? [User:James Paige|James Paige]]: Bob is still in the hospital. He is recovering well from his gunshot wound, but he is still in a coma. He has not spoken, nor given any indication of waking up since the "incident". When somebody has figured out who did it I will take the RPG file on a laptop to him and play it in his hospital room, in the hopes that it will wake him up.

bugs

--Dorumagesu 16:29, 27 November 2007 (PST) Bob, I lost my bug partially, just I lose sound effects.

--Dorumagesu 17:28, 12 December 2007 (PST) Bob, I can't seem to access bat when the page exists.

Uh bob?

--Dorumagesu 17:41, 19 December 2007 (PST) I thought main page was read only. I could edit it...

--Dorumagesu 13:56, 20 December 2007 (PST) The change came up..... don't worry, I erased all the changes I made. That is sooooo weird....

--Dorumagesu 13:02, 26 December 2007 (PST) New topic Bob. Why was the wiki down for the last three days? I couldn't update anything!

--Dorumagesu 10:19, 31 December 2007 (PST) Uh bob, I can't look at the info boxes on game pages. Why?

Castle Paradox

--Dorumagesu 08:07, 22 December 2007 (PST) Do you know any reason why Castle Paradox is unavailable? I tried it on 2 computers but it still doesn't work for 2 days.

--The Mad Cacti 18:12, 22 December 2007 (PST) CP worked for me yesterday, and it works right now too. But it's no use asking James about it, he doesn't run it, User:Inferior Minion does. See Why does Castle Paradox's server go down so often?

Calehay

--Dorumagesu 18:54, 1 January 2008 (PST) Bob, an annoying person called Calehay is accusing me and being sarcastic about my game, when I am sure it is very nice and it has no mistakes, but bugs in it! He says they aren't bugs! Please help me!

Bob the Hamster: Help you with what? If you and Calehay have an disagreement about something, that is between you and him. It isn't my place to resolve this sort of dispute. I would suggest talking it over with him via e-mail or forums or IRC. The wiki isn't really a chat board.

--TwinHamster 16:04, 4 January 2008 (PST) It might be best for you two to carry on whatever dispute you're having through Castle Paradox's private messaging system, so that it's none of this wiki's business. It might also be a good idea to take advantage of Castle Paradox's journal system and talk about your game there so that you won't have to add fifty updates to your game's wiki page every day; instead, you could post your daily edits on said journal and then update your game's wiki page after big updates are made. By doing so, you can single-handedly reduce the clutter of the recent changes page, allowing the rest of us wiki-editing folk (Well, me at the least) to easily spot the other changes that have been made. Thank you.

Questions

--Dorumagesu 15:22, 4 January 2008 (PST) Bob, who exactlly is aloowed to edit on locked pages?