User talk:Nicjansma/Archive2018

Fanon Book

Please, I found a fan-produced book that copies the entries of different factions. I'm not sure if this is acceptable or not. This is the thread at the OF, please contact Red Pins. https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=45897.90#lastPost

Thanks

Nic (and Red Pins): I addressed the concerns on the forum. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 20:41, 28 April 2018 (EDT)

Version 1.28.2

Morning, Nic. Thought I'd share this tidbit with you: MW 1.28.2 automatically lists cited references under a section called "references", without any need for the ref code (i.e., <references/>). Not a reason to update alone, but I discovered it by accident on one of my wikis. Cheers. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 11:38, 25 June 2017 (EDT)

Thanks Revanche! I plan on doing a full update to MW 1.30.0 soon. Nicjansma (talk) 21:41, 6 February 2018 (EST)

Today we were upgraded to MW 1.30.0! Nicjansma (talk) 20:21, 26 March 2018 (EDT)

Categories not populating

Hey Nic,

I have noticed that Categories do not appear to be populating anymore, the Clan Bloodnames, Noble Houses and Solaris Characters have all had a number of articles added in the last few weeks but do not show up in said category. Older articles seem fine, just newly added/created articles (I have not tried to see if this happens a new category just existing). This might also be effecting the search engine as an article I was working on this morning did not show up in the first few items of the search (I searched Hartford, and House Hartford was not in the first 3 pages, it was picking up the word within articles). Any chance you could look into this? Dmon (talk) 04:16, 22 February 2018 (EST)

It's apparently more than that. Categories don't seem to change/update at all anymore. See BattleTechWiki:Administrators#Category and What Link Here issues - February 2018 and User talk:Deadfire#Category Link Template. Frabby (talk) 13:03, 8 March 2018 (EST)

Indeed I saw Frabby. We have a major problem it seems. Dmon (talk) 14:24, 8 March 2018 (EST)

Looks like Nic fixed it. Thanks Nic! Frabby (talk) 15:22, 26 March 2018 (EDT)

Yep! Was able to roll out a MW 1.30.0 today, which I've confirmed fixed this (and other) issues. Hopefully it doesn't bring in any new issues! Nicjansma (talk) 20:21, 26 March 2018 (EDT)

Adding Fan Sourcebook

Hey Nick. I'm a member of the team working on the Death From Above Fan Sourcebook. I have a PDF file we would like to have added to the download section so we can link to it from a Wiki entry. Its a 65 MB PDF. We are hosting it on Box until we can get a permanent home for it here on Sarna. [1] Please give it a gander and let me know if there are any issues. Thanks for your assistance.

Awesome! Added http://www.sarna.net/files/info/docs/fan/dfa-sourcebook.pdf Nicjansma (talk) 20:21, 26 March 2018 (EDT)

MediaWiki 1.30.0

On March 26, 2018, sarna.net was upgraded to MediaWiki 1.30.0 (from 1.28.0). This fixes at least two known issues:

• Categories were not being updated after articles are saved. This was a known MW 1.28.0 bug that was fixed in 1.29. I've verified pages like Category:Pages with reference errors are now updated correctly.
• The BattleTechWiki:ToDo page was broken because of the DynamicPageList plugin being broken with 1.28.0. The plugin has been updated.

As with any upgrade, it brings fixes but also the potential for more issues. If anyone finds any issues, please list them here and I will look into them as soon as I can. Nicjansma (talk) 20:21, 26 March 2018 (EDT)