Job done!
Just brushed off the ol’ thumbnail template. Haven’t used that thing since the dawn of time 
I was reading the Nihilanth article and The suggestion, even if don’t bother at all, but would make things clear:
On the start of the article
Could be like:
or, instead of “alien world”, Xen, which would be more familiar with the players.
I am asking this because if there’s a new player (which hadn’t played the original Half-Life) and he sees the article, there could be a confusion about which troops Nihilanth in fact lead, if only Vortigaunts or all the aliens (considering the intelligent ones, like the Alien Grunt too). He could think the agrunts are lead by someone else, and there’s another powerful leader of them.
Didn’t the Nihilanth controlled the Controllers which controlled the Vortigaunts anyway?
Yes, but you already played the game. I’m thinking of people who hasn’t and could get confused.
Oh, yeah.
So I heard you like fuckloads of bots:
I know about the issue. I don’t like the idea of massive number of bots registering but at least they are contained. The wiki has a X day + X edits policy before a user can create a new page (what 99% of these bots are attempting) or edit any page that is semi protected (like the main page or some templates). There is nothing I can do from this end as all I have access to is CSS and JS and most bots just keep these disabled.
Last time I checked stats 1252 total wiki accounts and only 231 are editors. Not all of these are bots as we get a few people who register accounts and never contribute. Even with generous estimates that places about 75% of users as bots.
God. What do they want from us (advertisements, etc etc obviously but this is a rhetorical question)? I mean, the wiki is most of the time outdated. I expected more bots on forums than the wiki.
spam bots are not educated and pick low hanging fruit to spam. I had a wiki on a private server that had 0 visitors yet it was still spammed. They just check for new for application that either has security loopholes they can exploit or web applications that they have automated scripts to spam. This should be apparent as they are running a spamming script on the bm wiki. THey can create user accounts like normal but when it comes time to create a new spam page they get hit with a user permission errors. The bot is poorly coded and keeps hounding he server even tho it is a fruitless endeavor.
Maybe the Wiki should be set up so that there has to be an administrator approve registration requests… if the bots are “hounding the server” to a point where it becomes disruptive to normal users.
Has any thought been given to that kind of thing?
I think another reason why I want BM released is the wiki. It’s out of date (at least image wise) and that annoys me to no end. I know Ram said something like he’d update it leading up to release (or after the fact) but I hate waiting. >.<
wiki’s are not like forums at all. There is no admin area(apart fro a few extra qwery pages in the special pages list) and everything requires modifying the localsettings.php (FTP access) And the last time we played grapevine plugin install the wiki decided it would stop rendering pages. As the spam isn’t having much of an adverse affect on the wiki I doubt much is going to happen at least for a while.
Me too, my friend… Me too.
Well, our only choice now is just to wait for the game release and work with the few bits of [outdated] info and the [not-so-recent] medias they release.
But when the game is released, of course tons of fresh info/media/etc will be uploaded in the wiki in a steady pace by the community (I hope so! ). Until there… we just need to be patient and work with what we have…
At least they’re only spamming their own user pages, but they’re really annoying the fuck outta me. Is there a possible way to block people who link to external sites (excluding the forums) automatically?
they shoud update the wiki 2 days before relesease because every BM fan would like to look at XEN screenshots while downloading BM
No
I actually never really liked Xen, so no, looking at Xen screenshots while downloading wouldn’t be ideal.
No.
That would totally ruin the surprise. That’s the last thing I’m going to look at before playing Black Mesa. The brief bull squid scene following the resonance cascade would be a really nice tease, filling you with anticipation up until that faithful moment when you arrive on Xen.