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Rquotes
I added Template:Rquote from Wikipedia, where it is deprecated and use is discouraged, but I personally like the style of it and think it would be a good way to do quotes on this wiki where we have slightly less formality. Opinions? --Quasar 00:28, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I suppose it'd fit for things like the level descriptions lifted from Hexen 64 (e.g., "In these frozen caverns, relentless ice [etc.]" in Guardian of Ice) and maybe for NPC pages (like Jack Campbell), though they're already using Template:Quote. --Gez 08:07, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I prefer the Template:Quote style for those top-of-the-article quotes. This was an idea for extended quotations from literary sources or people that are within the article text itself. --Quasar 17:57, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Stubs
I am finding more and more articles that are marked as stub status but contain more or less all the information that can be said on the subject. I am starting to remove stub status from some of them, but it's way more than I can handle. I'd request that if you come across any articles which have been substantially fleshed out but still have an ugly stub header at the top, take the time to remove it. A perfect example and one I just fixed was the Delta Complex map article. All of its sections are filled out with information and I don't know much else that could be added to it but it was still marked as a level stub. --Quasar 19:30, 29 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Did some shoveling. I think "more or less all the information" is often subjective, especially for a non-technical topic like a person.


 * Quasar, given your post above, what do you think of these articles? I created them years ago, then tagged them as stubs after some people complained that they were very sparse.


 * Ledges series
 * E3M2: Doom - The Movie (Serenity)
 * E3M8: Church of the Poisened Minds (Serenity)


 * Ryan W 02:56, 3 February 2014 (UTC)


 * The first looks significantly complete. The other two have empty sections. Those sections should either be filled out with info, or removed if the sections are irrelevant. Until such happens I'd consider them to still be level stubs. --Quasar 17:35, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Captchas broken again
Somebody sold us out through Mechanical Turk again more than likely. As I don't feel like spending the next year blocking the entire Indian subcontinent, I've switched over to some randomized QuestyCaptcha code I found on the Internet. Let's see if it performs any better. --Quasar 15:27, 6 February 2014 (UTC)


 * A recent series of registrations by users with regex-pattern-matching user names who subsequently make no edits has made me suspicious that the new code, which included a random "Please tell what the current day of the week is in GMT" option (with link to Google) is susceptible to a dictionary attack or possibly even bots with AI coded to be able to answer that particular question. I have modified the code in LocalSettings again to remove that option, so we are currently only using questions that ask for a random character from an MD5 substring that's calculated on a GUID seeded with output from mt_rand. I will continue to tweak and strengthen the code if it proves necessary. --Quasar 17:12, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Moving pages
I just noticed I can move some pages but not other ones for no reason I can notice. For example, I can move Mancubus fireball clipping but not Blood. Why so? --Kyano 10:12, 3 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Good question. It appears to be a result of FlaggedRevs configuration.  By default, after a page has been reviewed (at any level of quality), only admins can move it.    Ryan W 01:42, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Images with an incorrect aspect ratio
In the following days, I will fix most if not all of the images in the "Screenshots using an incorrect aspect ratio" category. Speak now or forever hold your peace. --Kyano 22:17, 5 March 2014 (UTC)


 * One thing to watch out for would be any that are actually widescreen shots and are correctly rendered. I know the shot of Eternity on the Eternity Engine page had been mistagged as being incorrect aspect ratio at one point (it is in 16:10 widescreen IIRC). How many shots are we talking about? If I have time, I can help by reviewing them for issues like this. --Quasar 01:38, 6 March 2014 (UTC)


 * (edit conflict) There are 199 images in the category.  It's true that the tagging was probably done based only on the dimensions of each uploaded file.  That said, I see a bunch of my ancient E1/E2 walkthrough snaps in there, which are probably safe to batch up.    Ryan W 01:59, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Source extension
I guess we need to have a debate on whether we want to keep/use the source extension. It seemed like something that would be very useful on an often highly technical wiki like this during the install process, so it was one I specifically selected for addition. I didn't know it had compatibility problems with wiki markup though. That's a bit discouraging. I have also run into problems with finding any method of imposing a right-hand margin on the code it produces in the past. --Quasar 01:50, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The incompatibility is easy to understand as instead of merely telling MediaWiki the text block should use monospaced font (and respect whitespace), it tells it it is raw code. So interpreting markup elements would generally be undesirable. For a pseudocode example:

string $foo = '\''. $bar. '\'';
 * I don't think we're using a lot of markup in preformatted blocks, though (contrarily to the ZDoom wiki). The edit I reverted just happened to be on one of the few. --Gez 03:02, 6 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Makes sense, thanks for the input. Would you say you're in favor of keeping the extension around though? --Quasar 03:11, 6 March 2014 (UTC)