Talk: Jspoelstra

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More Dialogue

Sorry, I fell a little behind after finishing up that group this morning. You know which dialogues I should do now? Paladin117^{>>iff bored;} 23:45, February 3, 2014 (UTC)

I probably should've asked first, but should I have Broken Steel loaded at the same time as the base game? Since the add-on adds dialogue to existing characters, such as Three Dog. Paladin117^{>>iff bored;} 00:40, February 4, 2014 (UTC)

Vanilla FNV should be all done now, assuming I didn't miss any. I aimed to do all the unique characters, even if they didn't have proper names (like the Freeside criers, for example). I am also back to stripping out the unused characters, as I decided to automate adding the few lines of formatting text to the files and just added a grep-style filter to pick out the matching dialogues. Will the next step in the process be the FNV DLCs? --FFIX (talk) 00:15, February 4, 2014 (UTC)

I see all these dialogue files on the RC, and I'm wondering, "Are they meant to be readable?" Is there some formatting conversion necessary? --Skire (talk) 00:44, February 4, 2014 (UTC)

That's honestly amazing. So Theo's back with us? --Skire (talk) 00:53, February 4, 2014 (UTC)

Re:Dialogues

It sounds very interesting and ambitious. I'm going to lie low for the next week or two, but once I return to active editing, I will join in the effort. 69.l25 (talk) 01:22, February 4, 2014 (UTC)

Chat

Hey, I was wondering if you could hop in chat for a minute. - ^Greets Peace'n Hugs (talk) (blog) 14:06, February 4, 2014 (UTC)

Bot run

Thanks Js! But you guys did a great job too: making all those pages in like 3 days - Bravo! Summary: Damn, we're good! :)
FNV: Mostly done. Couple of pages got stuck, so I'll have to give them some time to come back to normal.
- DLC's are on my schedule.
- VHDNCREngineerTemplate.txt and VFortBennyCrucified.txt doesn't have any unique topics, so you could delete them both.
- I haven't seen any pages for creatures: Lily, Marcus, EDE, e.t.c. Hey, they want to speak too!
FO3: Can't answer right now. All I can see is that they are different. I'll take a look and come back with details. Just in case: do not create new FO3 pages for now. There might be a need to adjust my bot and/or page format.

--Теодорико (talk) 14:49, February 4, 2014 (UTC)

OK, I believe the FNV creatures are all done. Is there anything else needing done for FNV? Just looking through the GECK, I didn't see any other categories of talkers with dialogue. If not, I will just wait for the go-ahead to do FO3 before uploading any more dialogues. --FFIX (talk) 17:47, February 4, 2014 (UTC)

.45 Auto pistol images

Hey, I was just working on the .45 Auto pistol gallery, when I noticed the name of the pictures contradicts the caption when it comes down to the iron sights. Also the main article picture has according to the file name the unplayable mod installed... Could you verify either the filename or the caption is correct? - ^Greets Peace'n Hugs (talk) (blog) 01:03, February 5, 2014 (UTC)

FO3 Dialogues.

OK, we are officially screwed. "GetIsID == 1" means nothing at all. I need to find another way to filter generic topics. I have an idea, but don't get your hopes up. If everything fails, we'll have to fallback to publishing unfiltered files. --Теодорико (talk) 14:21, February 5, 2014 (UTC)

There's nothing in exported files that we can use. It just doesn't exist. I'll try to hook them with low-level dumps to get to actual conditions used by the game. But I can't promise anything, as usual. ;) --Теодорико (talk) 14:32, February 5, 2014 (UTC)

Strange Happenings

Hey Jspoel, sorry to bother you. I'm sure you're aware of the weird expression errors going around, but I think I may have found a weirder glitch. I seem to have a special rights interface when going into blogs... What's even odder is that you're WALL-E avi is next to the comment box. I checked to make sure I don't have any rights by trying to delete my comment, gives me a permission error... so, no big deal. Just letting you know. --MountHail (talk) 15:03, February 5, 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I guess so. Well, I now have Veteran Legionary's user picture and the delete comment option is gone. No need to message me back... Happy editing. --MountHail (talk) 15:20, February 5, 2014 (UTC)

On another related topic, transclusions seem to be broken as well. See Fallout: New Vegas skill books. Not sure what's going on there, but I thought you might want to know.

A Follower Talk 16:36, February 5, 2014 (UTC)

Hey, Jspoelstra, can you take a look at the .45 submachine gun page? it is messed up real bad, and I have no clue how to fix it.

@WalkingTall217

Feature box

I'm aware of the problem. It has to do with allowing enough room for images. When I wrote that I played with a few ways to resize the display based on the image height, but none of the easy ways worked the way I wanted them to. I'll have to look at the imagesize extension and try re-doing them using that. Remind me when I get back. The Gunny 20:43, February 5, 2014 (UTC)

Improper username

Ryan had already asked him to change the 3 inappropriate user names. I was going to allow him that 1 week during his block here to get that done. I'd rather he just change the name on his first account here, rather than having to open up yet another account because we permanently block this one. Give him a week. If he doesn't change it, reblock him please. The Gunny 00:35, February 6, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Dialogue Files

Hey, J, sorry for the late response. I've got some experience with the GECK so I'll take a look to see if I can find them. If you have any particular place you would like me to start so I don't collide with others, let me know. If this has already been started, do you think you could show me an example of a page? I'm not good at templates or anything and the chart on Theo's page looked pretty complicated at first glance. I'll take a look and see what I can do while I'm not too busy for the next few days and do my best to help out. - Chris 14:28, February 6, 2014 (UTC)

Notable loot and repeatable quest items

How in depth should this go? According to the policy page they are considered notable loot but looking through the quest items for repeatable FO3 quests, they include:

Blood pack
BoS holotags
Buffout
Energy weapons
Fire ant nectar
Flour
Mole rat meat
Nuka-cola
Power armor
Purified water/Aqua pura
Scrap metal
Sensor module
Strange meat
Sugar bombs
Vodka
Wonderglue

Thoughts? Great Mara (talk) 20:50, February 6, 2014 (UTC)

Alright. I'll try it that way. Great Mara (talk) 21:13, February 6, 2014 (UTC)

Ok, just one more silly question if you're able to answer it... How do I get the file to be organized so it's not a jumbled mess after exporting it? I decided to start with Abraham Washington just to see if I could get a hang of it and this seems to be my main problem. The dialogue file is really, really long and there doesn't seem to be any sort of way I can organized this. Am I overlooking something? - Chris 23:58, February 6, 2014 (UTC)

Redirects

That's fine, I did think that, that's why I didn't leap in. I only thought about it because of the Ronald move. Okay, well that's cleared up and I'll go about as usual. Thanks! -- ^Talk! 00:56, February 7, 2014 (UTC)

FO3 Dlg. progress

Hi! I'm doing some progress and decided to give you some heads up on what's going on: I've managed do get to low-level conditions and everything looks pretty much doable, but it's a trainload of work ahead of me, so don't expect any actions in the next few days. Best case scenario: We'll start on Monday. Worst case: We'll start on Monday... of unknown year. :) --Теодорико (talk) 14:45, February 7, 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia company naming and formatting

I was recently undertaking the task of altering the pre-War company articles and making them in line with Wikipedia's formatting. For example, "incorporated" or "inc" doesn't appear in page titles, only in the page itself, and it is written as "Google Inc." But I've now became stuck on Chryslus. The page now has a title which isn't correct due to the confusion over the naming. Basically, in FO2, it's called Chryslus Motors, but it's referred to as Chryslus Corporation in FO3 and since, and since dev opinions change, Corporation must be the true name.

But I can't find a clear policy on Wikipedia's rules on it, and Wikipedia's car manufacturer pages contradict each other. For example, Ford has its full name as the page title (Ford Motor Company), whilst others such as Porsche, Ferrari, and Toyota don't, so it's kind of unclear. Also, I can't figure out whether "Corporation" should appear in articles, since Wikipedia has some pages (e.g. Sony) where Corporation doesn't appear in the title. OfficialLolGuy Talk Blog 17:50, February 7, 2014 (UTC)

Admin rights

Yup, go for it. So, feel free to take them away. ट्रेलरपार्कप्रिमाते ^{टॉक पेज} 18:17, February 7, 2014 (UTC)

Bot null edits

I'll get right on that. _{Into the wild blue yonder...} 23:35, February 7, 2014 (UTC)

It won't seem to save null edits. It is instead opting to skip them, and I can't see what option is making it want to skip.

_{Into the wild blue yonder...} 23:46, February 7, 2014 (UTC)

That would work, actually. I'll let it finish this run and see if it worked or not (I can't tell). If not, I'll get on the spaces.

_{Into the wild blue yonder...} 23:54, February 7, 2014 (UTC)

I'm running two AWB programs at the same time. It's appending and removing at the same time. TociBot (talk) 00:48, February 8, 2014 (UTC)

Ahh. Yes, I can see the issue presented. Of course, I can set the bot to a wikiwide run simply fixing underscores, poor linking, spacing, "file:", and other formatting. I try to do that once in a while, and that's all it would fix. What do you think?

_{Into the wild blue yonder...} 01:32, February 8, 2014 (UTC)

By "file:" I meant that's what would be fixed. But I understand. Those kind of mistakes only happen when I'm running find + replace or reverting. The basic fix is spot on every time. I'll set it up tomorrow.

_{Into the wild blue yonder...} 01:48, February 8, 2014 (UTC)

If you'd like, I can have the bot run through the NV dialogue files category and prepend the {{Games|FNV}} template. This would also remove the text files from the dead-end pages list. _{Into the wild blue yonder...} 19:17, February 8, 2014 (UTC)

Concept art

I got them all from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47857688@N08/sets/72157629320774861/

Nearly all the images from there are uploaded to the wiki I think, but navigating the categories to find them is pretty much a maze, and it's hard to find the right image since they don't have the same names as the filenames on the Flickr. I managed to find some of them though on the wiki.

The images can't be saved from the Flickr either for some reason, since right-clicking on it doesn't come up with the usual options. OfficialLolGuy Talk Blog 13:16, February 8, 2014 (UTC)