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00:58.07morgoth1145Ose: What?
01:06.23Oseoh, there you are
01:06.37Oseumm, is the reverted template working now?
01:08.31morgoth1145iunno, I'll check it out
01:08.44morgoth1145Can't you check?
01:08.49Osemeh
01:08.57Oseim on a mac
01:09.09Oseincredible for movie watching and music
01:09.15Osehopeless for anything else
01:09.29Osethe keyboard is like 30x10cm
01:09.37Oseand the mouse has one button!
01:10.01Osebtw, I want input on the ose.wikia skin
01:10.12morgoth1145Wait, there's an or field?
01:10.16morgoth1145What the crap!
01:10.21Oseyep
01:10.22morgoth1145I could have used that a billion times by now
01:10.27Oserofl
01:10.29morgoth1145And that really should be in the form
01:10.35Oseit isnt?
01:10.36morgoth1145Now I have to go through all my edits...
01:10.38morgoth1145it isn't
01:10.44morgoth1145If it were then I'd have known
01:10.45Osecant that be fixed by a bot later?
01:10.49morgoth1145no
01:10.50Oseregex?
01:11.08morgoth1145Can it check a page's history?
01:11.16morgoth1145and if so, it'd still require somebody who knows what they're doing
01:11.34Osehmm, did you completely remove the or, or include it in the description or something?
01:12.09morgoth1145completely remove it
01:12.13Oseoh
01:12.22morgoth1145that's why I'll need to go through all my edits now
01:12.27Osewell, if you feel its necessary, go back
01:12.33morgoth1145I'm a perfectionist
01:12.35Oseif not, fuhgeddaboudit
01:12.46morgoth1145and no, it didn't fix it
01:15.31morgoth1145Woah, did wikia upgrade the admin's view on user pages?
01:15.57Osehuh?
01:16.00morgoth1145Oh, that has something to do with blogs
01:16.01Osethe masthead?
01:16.07Oseyup
01:21.42Osemorgoth1145: did you see what I did with [[template:taxon]]?
01:21.42morgothBotPyOse meant: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/template:taxon
01:21.58Ose(I cant find out how to make curly brackets on this keyboard)
01:22.38morgoth1145no, I didn't
01:22.59morgoth1145And I don't see any change in the ose.wikia skin.  Was there any?
01:23.11Osefind a page where its used and links to a converted taxon, purge, then mouseover the link
01:23.16Osenot much
01:23.24OseI want suggestions
01:23.54Osefor example, try animalia and mouseover amorphia or any other converted phylum
01:23.57morgoth1145Oh, that's where you made the mouseover change?
01:24.04Oseoui
01:24.09morgoth1145I didn't realize that you made it in {{taxon}}
01:24.09morgothBotPymorgoth1145 meant: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Template:taxon
01:25.11morgoth1145Anyway
01:25.19morgoth1145Making the links not blue would be a good start, still
01:25.58morgoth1145That background basically makes blue, white, and black all bad for text
01:26.12OseI know
01:26.30Oseive tried different colors, but not decided on nything
01:26.35Osehence no change
01:26.38morgoth1145I doubt that there's any cool way to get text to be, say, white with black borders?
01:26.55morgoth1145not highlighted, but edged
01:26.59Osepurple works well on the backgroud, but... its purple...
01:27.06Osedontthink so
01:27.38Osenot without images anyway
01:27.59morgoth1145That would be sweet
01:29.42morgoth1145Well, if we're on at the same time tomorrow, would you mind cycling through the different colors?  That could help
01:30.02Osedoubt it
01:30.05morgoth1145(And also actually fixing the children thing.  But I'm not doing anything tonight, so no rush)
01:30.06morgoth1145boo
01:30.17OseI think im going for a hikey thingy in two days
01:30.37Osemay check things on dial up, but not be very active
01:31.17Osehttp://www.webdevout.net/test?01N&raw
01:32.39morgoth1145Okay, then admin on OseWiki so that I can edit that page and see for myself?
01:32.49morgoth1145I promise not to make actual changes
01:32.59Oseedit which page?
01:33.07morgoth1145ose.wikia
01:33.13Oseuse firebug to test css changes, its instant
01:33.46morgoth1145Oh, right...text color is .css
01:33.59morgoth1145that'd mean that I'd have to figure out some semblance of .css
01:34.02morgoth1145and get firebug
01:46.16Osemorgoth1145: check it now
01:46.23Ose(cache refresh)
01:48.07Oseshould I try black with white outline?
01:50.01Osetries
01:52.20morgoth1145Oh...I've not been paying attention
01:52.22morgoth1145*checks*
01:52.27Osethis could work...
01:52.49morgoth1145And I thought that an outline wasn't possible
01:52.58Oseme neither
01:53.04Oseluckily theres #css
01:53.56Oseyou know what looked pretty cool? black text with a purple "aura"
01:54.03Ose(shadow right behind)
01:54.17OseI want to use that somewhere :P
01:54.36morgoth1145Um, I don't see a difference
01:54.56Osewhite text is more readable if you ask me
01:54.59Oselinks, not so much
01:55.30morgoth1145Put some text right in the glow
01:55.34morgoth1145see if it's readable there
01:55.46morgoth1145If not, then it couldn't work
01:56.23Osebah
01:56.33Osefor some reason, firebug doesnt like text-shadow
01:56.39OseI need to add it manually
02:09.18Osemorgoth1145: upload an avatar
02:09.22Osein preferences
02:09.38Osemakes blog comments look better
03:18.50morgoth1145[[]]
03:18.50morgothBotPymorgoth1145 meant: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/
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13:11.05Ose.msg morgoth1145 [[project:Taxon database]] can probably help with the converting. dunno why the redinks appear though
14:57.40morgoth1145.say hi
14:57.41morgothBotPyhi
14:57.48morgoth1145oh...
14:57.54morgoth1145right
14:57.57morgoth1145it was in a .msg
14:58.01morgoth1145No wonder it didn't fire
14:58.01morgoth1145.back
14:58.01morgothBotPyWelcome back, morgoth1145.
14:58.18morgoth1145[[project:Taxon database]]
14:58.18morgothBotPymorgoth1145 meant: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/project:Taxon_database
14:58.25morgoth1145just got a good idea for a bot upgrade
14:58.36morgoth1145converting those to links in the messages
14:59.25Osegod idea
14:59.29Osegood even
15:01.42morgoth1145I take it that you fixed {{classification}}, since you're talking about converting taxon pages?
15:01.43morgothBotPymorgoth1145 meant: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Template:classification
15:06.42morgoth1145Ah, thanks for adding the or field to my template thing on my page, I'd forgotten to add that
15:07.11OseI think its fixed
15:07.45Oseive tested it on different ranks, seems to work proeprly now
15:08.49morgoth1145indeed
15:10.10Osedo you think I should contnue converting creature taxa, or start on cell taxa?
15:10.24Oseill need to change the infobox and such there too
15:13.23morgoth1145creature
15:13.35morgoth1145Let's just do this one at a time
15:14.01Osegrr
15:14.12Oseplantae is just stupid
15:14.28Oseits all dead end taxa and a few flora pages  without any images
15:14.49Oseimo it hsouldnt exist until the flora editor is reintroduced
15:15.48morgoth1145What annoys me most, actually, is the cell one
15:15.56morgoth1145'cause that doesn't even have everything down to families
16:44.32morgoth1145.msg Ose Is there any way to make [[Form:Creature]] so that it can be translucated onto pages?  So that {{Form:Creature}} comes up as the box on the form page instead of what it does now?
16:45.34morgoth1145.msg Ose Also, I just found out that [[Taxon:Arthropoda]] hasn't been fully converted.  If I don't finish Chordata before you can get to it, could you do it please?  Thanks.
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17:21.16Osemorgoth1145: I was thinking i'd finish arthropda last
17:23.17morgoth1145Why?
17:23.49Osesimpler
17:24.06morgoth1145How so?
17:24.07Osemuch easier to see which pages have not been converted then
17:24.25Osefor example with that DB list thingy
17:26.43morgoth1145eh
17:27.20morgoth1145I'm just gonna check which pages still have {{tax}} translucated on them.  I ran into at least one taxonomy page that was on the content namespace, though that was a genus.
17:27.20morgothBotPymorgoth1145 meant: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Template:tax
17:27.37morgoth1145After everything's converted {{tax}} can just be put into the Classification template
17:27.38morgothBotPymorgoth1145 meant: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Template:tax
17:30.25Oseaha
17:30.57morgoth1145Which I've noticed you've been leaving on the pages, whereas I've just been deleting them
17:31.31Oseactually what i was hoping was that we could install an extension that would show {{tax/dev}} on all taxon  pages
17:31.32morgothBotPyOse meant: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Template:tax/dev
17:32.40morgoth1145Either way, I plan to use {{tax}} to find the missing tax pages
17:32.40morgothBotPymorgoth1145 meant: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Template:tax
17:34.32Osesure
17:49.32morgoth1145So I've noticed that a couple of the "or's" aren't actually clearly displayed in the old taxons, but in those little descriptions of their children
17:49.36morgoth1145in case you were ignoring those
17:51.53Osehuh?
18:01.09morgoth1145Um...example...
18:02.02morgoth1145http://spore.wikia.com/index.php?title=Taxon:Ixodida&oldid=114373
18:02.12morgoth1145The plural is ixodidates
18:02.23morgoth1145but in the description of the old page it didn't say "or ixodidates"
18:02.35morgoth1145However, it did say
18:02.35morgoth1145Gigantidae, giant ixodidates
18:02.35morgoth1145Microdidae, small ixodidates
18:02.41morgoth1145those being the children
18:02.46morgoth1145Does that make sense?
18:09.04morgoth1145pokes Ose
18:19.11Osedo what you want :P
18:21.28morgoth1145I was pointing it out to you
18:21.39morgoth1145so that when you convert future taxons you can keep that in mind
18:45.08Oseokidoki
18:53.42morgoth1145Also, might it be wise to include a field in the form for the alternate for are?
18:55.39Oselike, say, |are=is?
18:55.52morgoth1145yeah
18:56.01Osehave you... tried that?
18:56.44morgoth1145You aren't understanding me
18:56.47morgoth1145in the form
18:56.50morgoth1145[[Form:Taxon]]
18:56.51morgothBotPymorgoth1145 meant: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Form:Taxon
18:56.58Oseaha
18:57.08Osemeh, I want them to use are for new ones
18:57.17morgoth1145fair enough
18:57.32Osethe parameter is for backwards-compatibility
19:08.57morgoth11454 phylums left in Chordata to check for the or field
19:17.02Oseuh, chordata is a phylum
19:17.22Osealso, one phylum, two phyla
19:17.59Oseor perhaps even phylae
19:18.35morgoth1145er, classes
19:18.36morgoth1145shut up
19:18.54Osenope, phyla
19:19.05Osein the same way as taxa
20:33.53Osehmm
20:35.41morgoth1145What?
20:35.53morgoth1145And finally done going through all the taxon pages, making sure that they have the right (if any) or
20:36.05Oseawesome
20:36.11OseI was just thinking
20:36.35Osethe genus parameter seems kind of redundant
20:37.01Osesince the information is in {{{species}}}
20:37.02morgothBotPyOse meant: http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Template:species
20:37.25morgoth1145Eh
20:37.44morgoth1145One problem at a time, shall we?
20:37.49morgoth1145We can go back through the infoboxes later
20:39.09morgoth1145And not to be a bummer, but I don't have time to convert any taxons today, that took all my free time.
20:39.25morgoth1145(And took a few hours, so I'm not sure that I'd want to do more no matter)
20:40.04OseI hear you
20:40.13Oseit's incredibly dull after all
20:40.35morgoth1145This was a lot easier, though
20:40.40OseI wish I knew regex, it could probably be done with a regex script
20:41.01morgoth1145Well, every single edit would need to be checked over afterward
20:41.27morgoth1145This probably is the easiest, even if one of us knew regex
21:22.14morgoth1145.away Out
21:22.14morgothBotPyGoodbye, morgoth1145.
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