DRW To Do List

Please edit this list as you wish, adding problems you find. Please strike out  items as they are fixed.

merging articles by replacing templates
All the deadrising.wikia.com pages, which do not have a same named item in two games: ...need their templates replaced.
 * 1) items,
 * 2) psychos,
 * 3) survivors,
 * 4) weapons,
 * 5) locations

Dead Rising items, psychos, survivors, weapons

At the top, remove the old template and replace it with this:

Dead Rising 2 items, psychos, survivors, weapons, locations

At the top, remove the old template and replace it with this:

I will give instructions for dead rising locations shortly. Every page has a panorama which needs to be imported.

If you get a huge template error, don't dwell. simply revert, and put at the top of the page. Someone will come after you and fix this.

(The pages which are in both games have a sophisticated tabber tag, and need to be replaced individually, example: chainsaw)

blog comments/blogs
There is a vast amount of blog comments and blogs from the other wikis. There aren't blogs here so those need to be deleted or archived on user extension pages. Preferably archived as many of the blogs are news posts.

technical issues

 * 1) Background change slightly the background of the wiki to a darker gray color.
 * 2) Background Picture add background picture
 * 3) Currently internet explorer has problems with search box.
 * 4) Upload change upload limit of only 2 mb to higher. (major issue to fix with php).
 * 5) User permission add uploader class.
 * 6) Gallery On Wikia, you could add images to a gallery without or without the File: next to the image name in the gallery tags. However, here it seems you need the File: in order for the images to upload. Many of the pages' galleries do not have the File: and need them added in order for the picture to appear. Attempted to use Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser to fix this, will attempt again.
 * 7) Mediawiki:Sitenotice where is it?
 * 8) Sidebar remove community  arrow in toolbar, as this javascript button does not work. Sidebar does not work for some reason.
 * 9) remove "community" and "random page" from sidebar. http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Help:Sidebar Change to something better.
 * 10) Instructions for template use create instructions with screenshots and maybe video on day to day use of templates.
 * 11) Total Number of articles why only 260 articles listed? Attempted to fix with Maintenance script "rebuildall" did not work.
 * 12) Slider find a decent slider program for front page. possible Extension:Widgets? -- uploaded but does not work.
 * 13) Suggesting as you type
 * 14) Edit localsettings.php so that suggestions pop up as you type on search bar
 * 15) (future) completes wikilinks like wikia.
 * 16) External links spacing issue with external links.
 * 17) Favicon Favicon (icon next to web address)
 * 18) Template:Endspoiler - message from Mistertrouble189 - Hello, won't make the changes, but a current template interferes with this one. The coding for this template (from deadrising.wikia.com) uses a Template:A, which is different than the one used here . This will need to be tweaked (either make a new template, etc.) But this is a low priority issue right now, but is something to be fixed later on. As a result of this template's current code, some pages that uses spoiler tags has the A button where it's supposed to mark the end of spoilers. Response from anno1404 --sure I would love to fix it, it probably will be fairly easy to me, if I get stuck on one of the problems above, I will jump to this one!

AWC Forum

 * Fix toolbar so that you can see other buttons at MediaWiki:Monaco-toolbox possibly conflicting with forum bar, as you can see the changed messages on the forum redirect page. See answer here
 * change forum name, subsection names Editing tab names -- also removing
 * change forum to look better, like examples at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AWC%27s_Forum, instructions here: http://childrenofstarclan.com/index.php?title=Special:AWCforum/st/id1274/#post_11778 change buttons: http://wiki.anotherwebcom.com/Special:AWCforum/st/id1363/#post_6284
 * embedding forum does not work:
 * http://deadrisingwiki.com/wiki/Special:AWCforum/st/id25/%3Ca%20target=%27blank%27%20href= follow up here?:


 * Color of text in thumbnails is too dark to read. http://gyazo.com/48add6fa2de66ef2148f8ce5d40889d2.png

wish list, extensions to add

 * IRC chat extension. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebChat, done: Special:WebChat, now need to format tomorrow.
 * rollback?
 * finish as you type on wikilinks. (also above)
 * edit toolbar with redirect button, etc.
 * last three images, last 5 edits, like wikia, see User:Anno1404
 * extension to dismiss Mediawiki:Sitenotice
 * CAPTCHA extension for new accounts and IP addresses.
 * html :)  Embed http://www.msxbox-world.com/features/Dead-Rising-2/index.php ?

fixed

 * Add wikitags into forum so full pages can be shown, see example: http://deadrisingwiki.com/wiki/Special:AWCforum/st/id25
 * fix collapsible tables
 * add "my contributions" and "my preferences" button.
 * FIXED $wgUseImageMagick = false; pictures, problem with imagemagik on images which are made smaller:
 * Error creating thumbnail: convert: unable to open image `/home/trav/public_html/deadrisingwiki.com/public/w/images/thumb/9/98/53_Jack_Hall.jpg/80px-53_Jack_Hall.jpg': Permission denied @ blob.c/OpenBlob/2480.
 * Example: Jack Hall
 *  Internet Explorer make sure internet explorer settings look okay working on now.

Item Pages
User:Chester1994 wrote:


 * Hi, there are articles that are duplicated, for example the 2" x 4" in DR2 (I dont know if this is the only one), I wanted to know if there is something to delete one of them, this (http://deadrisingwiki.com/wiki/2%22_x_4%22_%28Dead_Rising_2%29) should be deleted as it is very incomplete...


 * BTW, both weapons from DR1 and DR2 should be named the same I think, not 2x4 for DR1 and 2" x 4" for DR2 ...

See above. Anno1404 19:03, 19 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree with removing the Weapon (Dead Rising) and Weapon (Dead Rising 2). Should be incorporated into one page, in my opinion. --Mistertrouble189 23:02, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree with Mister. If we can get a freakin' infobox tabber to work then we could use that with the infoboxes, but we were never able to on the oldwiki. Jax-Kenobi 00:53, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * tabber works, see chainsaw. Anno1404 01:54, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

DR Survivor Pictures
I'd like to see some fullbody/chest up photos of survivors in the infoboxes instead of notebook images? We have the ability to take screenshots, so we can improve character articles by using better infobox images of survivors, yes? --Mistertrouble189 06:53, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * that is planned, but it won't be from me for at least a month. Let me use one of the hacks right now, and see how it goes. I would suggest leaving the dr pics alone, but i am unhappy with the dr2 pics also. Anno1404 01:52, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Internet explorer is fixed
After several hours over several days, you internet explorer users will probably notice internet explorer is now fixed! Details of how this was done. Now onto changing the background color darker. Anno1404 04:43, 22 December 2010 (UTC)