Talk:Make a Wiki page

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Began fixing things to remove wikipedia internal links and redirect to appropriate kolwiki pages where applicable. If this isn't what you meant, I apologize. --Shady McLain 15:11, 4 May 2006 (CDT)

• Looking good. This has needed to be done since the wiki was started... Keep at it. --jin 16:52, 4 May 2006 (CDT)

Phew! That was a mouthful. There are a few more minor things I need to touch up, but I'm running some models at work and it's sucking the RAM right out of me, not that there's much there to begin with. Hopefully this will be more helpful to everyone! It does strike me that a simplified version might be beneficial as well, just a straight listing of what provides what type of wiki formatting. Thoughts? Shady McLain 13:50, 5 May 2006 (CDT)

• Any help pages you feel up to putting together are more than welcome. That's a HUGE area we are lacking in. --jin 22:21, 5 May 2006 (CDT)

Should the sections for diacritical marks, punctuation, and other various symbols even be in here? The "&foo;" syntax is only a means of entering characters that do not exist in the page's native character set (and for escaping characters that have special meaning in HTML) - with UTF-8, this is deprecated, as all characters exist in the page's native character set. --Quietust 21:06, 12 May 2006 (CDT)

• Yeah but when the wiki db was moved to a different operating system (at least twice), all special characters fudged up. So we were using html entities to be safe. For example after the server switches, æ became æ and all pages with special character in them screwed up with Ã's leading them. They all had to be renamed/moved/redirected/changed.... twice. I'd be nice if you try and discuss these things with other poeple before making mass changes on your own, because as it stands right now, if the "special characters" on pages get messed up after something like a db server upgrade, you can be the one to go through every page looking for spanish/trademark to fix. Sorry for seeming, well irritated, but it's not fun to make mass changes when you have 100 new-wikians complaining why the canned air, pepper, saucephere, terrarium pages and all links to them suddenly look funny. --JRSiebz (☎|§|‡) 21:25, 12 May 2006 (CDT)

• Just to clarify the problem was not with the character set used by the generated html pages, but the default character set used by mySQL in which the text/pages were stored, which happened to be different depending what OS it was on for some reason, and special characters becomming corrupted when the db was backup and restored to a new db. I think it was a db charset problem rather than a html one. --JRSiebz (☎|§|‡) 21:35, 12 May 2006 (CDT)

• I did not realize it had to do with the server software as opposed to the Wiki code setting. If something does go wrong I will be the first one to change them all back...--SomeStranger (Talk | Contribs) 22:10, 12 May 2006 (CDT)
• It'd be really nice just to bot change it if we had to. I mean as long and it looks right and works for all OSs/Browsers, It doesn't really matter. I just always expect things to go wrong (again?) and tend to always think about and watch out for the what-ifs ;-). Just don't get me started on <center> and <font> tags, heh-heh. --JRSiebz (☎|§|‡) 22:19, 12 May 2006 (CDT)

I'm taking a crack at rewriting this page. I did the first section, as well as fixing some of that obnoxious page stretching. I'll work on more later. --TechSmurf 16:41, 3 July 2007 (CDT)