User talk:Timeoin

Re: Speculation?
Wow, you are on fire! I haven't looked below that IP's edit when I reverted it, but now that I have, I think you are just what this wiki needs to become great.

I don't edit here much &mdash; other then fixing vandalism every once in a while, so I don't know if there's anything specific that needs to be worked on. But I don't think you need to look for extra work, the work you're doing now is just what the wiki needs, so you should just keep 'doing your own thing' :)

Cheers --Anon talk 18:45, March 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm not good at referencing stuff, but I think the easies way to reference something is to put   after the info. Also remember to make a references section at the bottom of the article.


 * Like this:

Greetings from America
Hey, i'm jon, and yes glad to be a actve memeber:)


 * hehe. That code works over here too! :) But yeah - I added you on msn, since I saw the email addy. lol. Ive been making a fair few link corrections and things since I started. Welcome aboard (again), and remember - let me know if I can help at all! Timeoin 03:02, March 26, 2011 (UTC)

Merger proposal
While you're not an admin here, since you're the most active user nowadays, I'm asking you as well.

What do you think about the idea of merging Wikia's Elder Scrolls wikis into one big wiki (at least those where the community agrees, that is)? I think this would allow them to better compete with UESP. The Skyrim Wiki is actually doing a great job at that currently, and has quite an active community now, but I think it would be best if there was one big wiki for the whole franchise, especially in the long term.

This bit might seem controversial, but for search engine optimization purposes it would be best for the merged wiki to have Skyrim as its primary focus on the main page and have the "Skyrim Wiki" name for now (maybe with something like "Skyrim Wiki - All about Elder Scrolls series" as the title), at least until the game is released, but have the content based on all the games, so it's the best way of attracting new users at the moment. The reason Skyrim Wiki is getting lots of traffic now is because losts of people are searching for that very phrase in Google. In the long term, after the game's release, and after we've re-established an active community, we could rename it back to "Elder Scrolls Wiki" and shift the focus to the whole series.

Please tell me what your thoughts on that would be. Ausir(talk) 21:02, March 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * You can find the list of admins at Special:Listusers/sysop. Looks like none of them have been active recently on this wiki, though. Given your level of contribution, I suggest you ask Michaeldsuarez to make you an administrator, as he is the only bureaucrat on the wiki. Alternately, if no admins are active for 60 days (which hasn't happened yet), you'll be able to adopt the wiki. Ausir(talk) 20:48, March 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, I certainly think you're the best admin candidate of the current contributors to this wiki. Ausir(talk) 23:46, March 29, 2011 (UTC)

Looks like all active admins of this wiki (which means you) and the Skyrim wiki agree with the merge, so we can proceed with preparations for it. By the way, do you mind article comments (like at current Skyrim Wiki) being used instead of traditional article talk pages (like here so far)? They might be hard to get used to at first, but they pretty much work as community forums, and encourage game discussions and speculation, which, while not a traditional part of wikis, can be one of the things that differentiates us from UESP. Ausir(talk) 19:17, April 11, 2011 (UTC)

That Guy
Indeed I think yor right :D

Administrator
You do now. :) Ausir(talk) 17:26, April 10, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Nice work!
Thanks for the fishy stick, but I think you deserve it much more than me :)

Also, congrats on becoming an admin. Now you can clean up these pages :)

P.S. Your "insane wiki spree" will never get annoying. --Anon talk 23:45, April 10, 2011 (UTC)

Countdown timer
To activate the countdown timer, you'll need to put the following script on MediaWiki:Common.js.

// ************************************************** // Experimental javascript countdown timer (Splarka) // Version 0.0.3 // ************************************************** // // Usage example: // //  Only January 01 2007 00:00:00 PST until New years. // //  Javascript disabled.

function updatetimer(i) { var now = new Date; var then = timers[i].eventdate; var diff = count=Math.floor((then.getTime-now.getTime)/1000);

// catch bad date strings if(isNaN(diff)) { timers[i].firstChild.nodeValue = '** ' + timers[i].eventdate + ' **' ; return; }

// determine plus/minus if(diff<0) { diff = -diff; var tpm = 'T plus '; } else { var tpm = ' '; }

// calcuate the diff var left = (diff%60) + ' seconds'; diff=Math.floor(diff/60); if(diff > 0) left = (diff%60) + ' minutes ' + left; diff=Math.floor(diff/60); if(diff > 0) left = (diff%24) + ' hours ' + left; diff=Math.floor(diff/24); if(diff > 0) left = diff + ' days ' + left timers[i].firstChild.nodeValue = tpm + left;

// a setInterval is more efficient, but calling setTimeout // makes errors break the script rather than infinitely recurse timeouts[i] = setTimeout('updatetimer(' + i + ')',1000); }

function checktimers { //hide 'nocountdown' and show 'countdown' var nocountdowns = getElementsByClassName(document, 'span', 'nocountdown'); for(var i in nocountdowns) nocountdowns[i].style.display = 'none' var countdowns = getElementsByClassName(document, 'span', 'countdown'); for(var i in countdowns) countdowns[i].style.display = 'inline'

//set up global objects timers and timeouts. timers = getElementsByClassName(document, 'span', 'countdowndate'); //global timeouts = new Array; // generic holder for the timeouts, global if(timers.length == 0) return; for(var i in timers) { timers[i].eventdate = new Date(timers[i].firstChild.nodeValue); updatetimer(i); //start it up  } } addOnloadHook(checktimers);

// ************************************************** // - end -  Experimental javascript countdown timer // **************************************************

Than you can use this:

There are November 11 2011 00:00:00 EST left before Skyrim's release.

To display it wherever you want it :)

Note: The script is already posted on the MediaWiki:Common.js page (at the very bottom of the page), but it doesn't appear to work properly. You can try to remove the one that's already there and post the one above but a little higher, maybe somewhere above this:

// ============================================================ // BEGIN JavaScript title rewrite

Also, I left a comment on this. Cheers --Anon talk 14:35, April 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm glad it finally works :)
 * I'm not sure which naming practice would work best, but from the technical point of view it's always better to have as little redirects as possible. But if we go with full name titles than we can always create redirects to ease our work (like this) --Anon talk 15:06, April 12, 2011 (UTC)

Elder Scrolls books
Can you delete those pages. UESP has permission to reuse that content, but we don't. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 20:05, April 14, 2011 (UTC)