User talk:WindPower

RE: The IRC

Unban me. Once again, I've fallen victim to Lagg's bad judgement. As a good friend on Steam just said to me: "regardless of the video, all you did was post a youtube link. I fail to see how that warrants a ban". I am also calling for the de-adminning of Lagg. Of course, that's a decision that'd be best left to the higher ups. Look at his contribs though. Look at his screwups. Read my userpage if need be. But all I'm saying right now is unban me from the IRC and do something about Lagg. I'm getting sick of the guy. 404: User Not Found ^(talk) 21:25, 21 January 2012 (PST)

Oh, and in defense, yes, I may have accidentally started a Canada/America discussion, but I tried to leave it, and was pulled back in, hence why I posted that video and left. The Cult of Personality ^(talk) 21:28, 21 January 2012 (PST)

Looks like the matter has been handled — Wind 10:47, 22 January 2012 (PST)

Cheers, mates!

Just wanted to say a big thank you to all the mods - I've put a lot of time into the wiki (nothing compared to you of course!) and it's great for my work to be rewarded. I don't need to say how awesome you guys all are! » Cooper Kid (blether) • (contreebs) 17:11, 22 January 2012 (PST)

Yay~ — Wind 15:01, 23 January 2012 (PST)

group of translatores

Hi i've created a group were the italian translators can chat and solve any concern regarding the translation in italian of some terms. Is it possible to promote it here in the wiki? where exactly i can do this? the group is here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Italiantf2wikitranslators thank you, Ironmask 03:37, 23 January 2012 (PST)

The best place is on the translation progress page, which you have already done~ The second best place is replacing the "Steam group" link on the italian main page by this one, which I have done just now. The third best place would probably be to post an announcement on the main (english) Steam group itself, which I can do if you want me to — Wind 15:01, 23 January 2012 (PST)

Thank you for the help, you don't even know how happy i am about it. I've already made a small post on the english Steam Group. As of now, i think we've done everything possible to let the people know our group. Thanks again! Ironmask 02:06, 25 January 2012 (PST)

Russian TF2 fonts on this wiki

Hello. Some people from IRC channel advised me to ask you about problem. The problem is that current TF2 fonts on this wiki didnt support russian simbols. We wants to add this. Maybe you can help with this? ps: sorry for bad English if it was so. --Askarmuk 08:28, 5 February 2012 (PST)

 Done — Wind 14:17, 5 February 2012 (PST)

Thank you! :) --Askarmuk 21:50, 5 February 2012 (PST)

Thanks for the edit

I undid my edit but it was never accepted by the wiki, or my firefox is a jerk. I wanted to undid it because i made it wrong. I just wanted to say to you that this isn't my normal way of doing things, because i clean behind myself. Not that my pure and clean profile get's dirty by this edit. TheDoctor 14:11, 6 February 2012 (PST)

Sorry

Sorry, for all the trouble which has been caused by RectrumZone, but I cannot do much outta it then just warn him on my own language. I don't want to take any actions then just removing unapprovable edits which has been added on both the /en and /no. It seems he hasn't actually understood the rules I have already explained to him almost TWICE on our native language. So I will ask you to keep a close look on the /en while Lockon and me takes care of /no (which Lockon has been doing so kindly for me in the last couple of days). Also, if this user does not show any improvement. I would just have to go with a huge warning about doing these so called "grammar corrections". Recently, he has been editing non existing article link-ups, which kind of bugs me. As you have seen yourself, he adds useless names on things too. I just wanna mark it clearly that i have doubts about him. TheNobleScout 06:23, 23 February 2012 (PST)

Quick Draw

When i delete and edit the bad edits of RectrumZone does it count as quick draw wikichievements?

Lockon 11:51, 23 February 2012 (PST)

Yes I guess it does, but I seriously hope you're not doing it for that — Wind 12:00, 23 February 2012 (PST)

The user is banned now. Was not a very good contributor due to his actions. TheNobleScout 12:10, 23 February 2012 (PST)

Wind, don't worry im doing it because to help noble scout to have less stress and im doing it for the TF2 Wiki community :D Lockon 13:36, 23 February 2012 (PST)

Got a problem about Template:Patch layout

Hello, Wind. I have seen a problem inside the {{Template:Patch layout}}: the part of the "day, month, year". I know that this part is modified by WindBOT, however when it was operating, the patch title of zh-hant became "2012年february月23日更新", not "2012年2月23日更新" (The Patch page). The latter form of date is the correct one, so it seemed that WindBOT's setting is wrong or something? I don't know how to tell WindBOT not to do this, so I left a message about it for you. 07:43, 25 February 2012 (PST

Edit patch-fmt and patch-fmt-beta to match; the {{{1}}} is the month name. You can wrap it in {{lang date}} to have it translated; look at the other languages for inspiration — Wind 10:55, 25 February 2012 (PST)

OK, I will try to find out where the problem is. 00:23, 26 February 2012 (PST)

Paint

Hey Wind, i think we should do a video on paint, which is similar to the video of uncrating. Lockon 14:57, 25 February 2012 (PST)

That's the domain of the Team Fortress Wiki:Technical Demonstration project — Wind 14:58, 25 February 2012 (PST)

Missing image

Hey Wind - I wonder if you could take a quick look at this image - there's something pretty messed up about it, it's throwing all sorts of error messages at me. I'm not even sure if it's only showing up like this for me, or if it's server-side. I'm hoping it's just a cache problem, but it's unlike anything I've seen before so I thought it would be best to ask. » Cooper Kid (blether) • (contreebs) 14:09, 28 February 2012 (PST)

Trying to name a file with characters that are not allowed in file names is bound to cause trouble. Moved to File:Dangeresque, Too.png — Wind 15:28, 28 February 2012 (PST)

Ah, right - so it was just the question mark. I did think about that, but then the exclamation is allowed in MONOCULUS! and Flair! so I thought it would be alright. Well, as long as the redirect works, I'm happy. Thanks! » Cooper Kid (blether) • (contreebs) 15:46, 28 February 2012 (PST)

try creating a text file called "Dangeresque, Too?.png" and you'll see that it won't let you, while "MONOCULUS!" will work — Wind 15:54, 28 February 2012 (PST)

Superpower request.

If at all possible, can I get added to pageScripts.pagesJS and pageScripts.pagesCSS? I want to do some testing of pulling in and using Google's chart tools for various 'stuff'. --Org 12:35, 29 February 2012 (PST)

CSS yes, JS no (I think you know why though) — Wind 13:09, 29 February 2012 (PST)

Yep, because I could break the entire world :D. Anyway I'll see what I can come up with locally, and if it works, then show you afterwords, see if it would be useful for inclusion. Thank you sir.--Org 14:15, 29 February 2012 (PST)

TF2.me

Hey Wind. I saw that you now have wiki.tf, and it seems it serves the same function. Will you still be using it or am I free to point it elsewhere? (don't need to if it's still useful!) Thanks, -iRook 20:39, 1 March 2012 (PST)

It's still used on a bunch of tweets on the Twitter account so would be nice if it kept working for a few months until they get buried — Wind 20:40, 1 March 2012 (PST)

Request

Hello. I just accidently overwrote the editor and topic at http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Talk:Frontier and I tried to add a topic but I was unaware of typing in the headline.

Could you reset it and repaste the topic as a new topic which I wrote?

Please?

Excuse my grammar and spelling.

iDromlexer 14:58, 2 March 2012 (PST)

One note: I cut my topic off to a new topic. If my topic accidently overwrote the author's name so just fix it. iDromlexer 15:01, 2 March 2012 (PST)

I'm not exactly sure what you are/were trying to do, but you can use the history to retrieve old versions or revert to them by yourself — Wind 15:03, 2 March 2012 (PST)

Thanks for the professional tips. =) iDromlexer 15:06, 2 March 2012 (PST)

Nice

Hey windpower nice profiel 2 things tho the engi how does that work and also the item list i cant see verry well --Iaindude 07:45, 12 March 2012 (PDT)

Brazilian Items Filters

So we're going to indivually use filters for each class? Or do you think there is abetter way to do (or not to do) this?

And also, since that list of filters is very long, I'm still fixing any mistakes I found, so it may take some time before we can do anything with it.  –  Epic Eric (T | C) 09:33, 12 March 2012 (PDT)

Okay, the filters have been reviewed and are good to go.  –  Epic Eric (T | C) 14:19, 12 March 2012 (PDT)

I still think the best solution is to do it manually, but if you accept to take all responsibility for edits to /pt-br caused by these filters then moov — Wind 14:35, 14 March 2012 (PDT)

dat bot

It hasn't updated zis for over an hour. Something is wrong and it must be fixed. rZ 09:54, 23 March 2012 (PDT)

dun — Wind 09:56, 23 March 2012 (PDT)

> post on talk page
> bot updates pages
Still, it did take a rather long time. rZ 10:01, 23 March 2012 (PDT)

Once again it's been over an hour and the bot hasn't updated the dictionaries. rZ 11:38, 23 March 2012 (PDT)

And again... The third day without updating new dictionary tokens. It only updates 'missing translations'. — Stormbird ^T│C 03:19, 28 March 2012 (PDT)

Many thanks

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Helping Hand Help other users to improve the Team Fortress Wiki with constant tips and coordination.	Rebmcr	Wikichievement unlocked! Massive assistance in getting Python image scripts up and running on my Windows box

Yay. Congrats~--FreeXMan Talk | Cont 17:23, 25 March 2012 (PDT)

Split-screen

Hey, Wind, can you explaing me how to use the split-screen? You have to put it in resource folder? I didn't try it yet. If you could explain me, I would do the Equalizer weapon demonstration. Slicezorr 11:13, 26 March 2012 (PDT)

You've already asked this on the weapon demonstration page, where I have answered; no need to ask twice — Wind 16:12, 26 March 2012 (PDT)

Help

I may be annoying, Wind, but, it says on weapon demonstration page that you can edit game files to give yourself an item (for offline testing). Can you tell me how to do that? I'll appreciate if you would help me, cuz I wanna help making demos. Slicezorr 11:20, 29 March 2012 (PDT)

That question has also already been answered on the talk page, but this being said, I should probably remove the note on the project page about it because it has now become too hard to do to really recommend that method. Is easier to earn the weapon through regular methods, or borrow it from someone temporarily — Wind 15:23, 29 March 2012 (PDT)

Running a bot

Can you show me the link to the git repo again? Also, I don't know the first step of running a bot, so could you help me through it? rZ 09:16, 30 March 2012 (PDT)

• Repo: https://github.com/EtiennePerot/mrgusty
• How to set it up: User:WindBOT/Source
• Create all the pages mentioned in the botConfig.py file (use the WindBOT subpages as reference)
• Run bot.py

— Wind 09:34, 30 March 2012 (PDT)

Wat-chievement Unlocked!

Wat-chievement	Awarded by	Reason
What Just Happen'd? Help pranking users during the April Fools' Day Event 2012!	Dispenser (GianAwesome)	Wat-chievement unlocked! Namely: For deceiving Linux users; feigning a Valve sequel; Google Translating to Arabic; logging a fake file change; pranking Steam Workshop creators; adding ladders to Gullywash; copying a Steam page; recording a fake video demonstration; modeling a new weapon; not-adding strings to items_game.txt and linking to a video about candies.

Yay, I also get an achievement, thanks ^^ Dispenser (GianAwesome) 15:03, 2 April 2012 (PDT)

New template

Hey, Wind. May I make a user template (like "This user is a spy") for bronies? I'm asking, just because I'm bored and I still wanna contribute the wiki. I have copied the source code from a template, put the hex code for color and now I'm waiting for you to approve it. The template says: "This user is watches My Little Pony and enjoys it." Tell me if you wan't me to change something. Slicezorr 12:53, 4 April 2012 (PDT)

Here's it:

42px	This user is watches My Little Pony and enjoys it.

Slicezorr 12:59, 4 April 2012 (PDT)

Yes you can make such things and you don't need approval for them, but if I were you I'd make more productive edits :P — Wind 13:36, 4 April 2012 (PDT)

Sorry for filling your talk page, but, I'm wondering how to do something. I want to put a YouTube video with no video, just sound on a page. I also want it to autoplay and loop. I saw an example on this page. EncyclopediaDramatica seems to have different coding, even though it and OfficialTF2 wiki are powered by MediaWiki. Can you help me, please? Slicezorr 03:47, 5 April 2012 (PDT)

Just add audio=true to turn it into an audio player. Looping can be done on the youtube side with annotations, there is no way for the template to do this. As for autoplay, we generally don't have strict rules for userpages but autoplaying audio definitely crosses that line of annoyingness, so I'm sorry but no autoplay. — Wind 16:11, 5 April 2012 (PDT)

Current Events template

Hi! There are a couple of small errors on the currents events of Template:Current_Events: "Alladin's Private Reserve" should be "Aladdin's Private Reserve" (spelled right on the blog), and there's a period after "uniquely". It's pedantic, but these appear on the home page, and it should be beautiful. :) Tabs 22:29, 5 April 2012 (PDT)

 Done — Wind 22:57, 5 April 2012 (PDT)

WindBOT patch note filter issues

It's recently been removing line breaks and appears to be doing it to every page that uses the {{Update history}} template. Tabs 01:39, 9 April 2012 (PDT)

User talk:WindBOT#Patch issues — Wind 11:01, 9 April 2012 (PDT)

Ah ha ha, my bad. - Tabs 13:03, 9 April 2012 (PDT)

about your post on my talk

@Wind i did use the model viewer to take the screenie Epic Dude 17:50, 20 April 2012 (PDT)

Balloon Race

Do you think the mod, Balloon Race deserves its own article or not since it is kind of like Payload and CP. TFPlayer™ 21:30, 24 April 2012 (PDT)

The article was already deleted once so probably not, but you can still ask in Team Fortress Wiki:Discussion. It is better to ask there so that you get everyone's opinion and not just mine — Wind 21:34, 24 April 2012 (PDT)