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User talk:Mona Lisa/Being Tanda

2008-01-03T05:54:29Z

75.41.120.83: New page: This story presents realistic questions if reality DIDN'T change if someone got TFed into their furry persona and didn't get mental changed either. And how you can have a functional life. ...

This story presents realistic questions if reality DIDN'T change if someone got TFed into their furry persona and didn't get mental changed either. And how you can have a functional life.

I figured that it would have been blood from the pet cat's claws ambush that would tip off her sister.

Her sister seems a bit too excited at her brother having changed genders. And her sister also appears to have some natural bias against males. Any chance of that being why they drifted apart, or was it something else?

Any real reason why Jaz hasn't worn that skirt before?

I'm sadly dissapointed in silvercat, given how he acted like a perfect gentleman from the moment they met to when Tanda woke up on the couch, and it wasn't even his idea for her to visit his house, I'm wonder what the heck happened to cause his personality to turn 180 degrees like that!! (There's also the fact he knows where she lives.)

Looking foreword to reading more. The story so far has been amazing. In particular how in spite of the singular strangeness of what happened to Tim, the rest of the story appear to be going pretty realistically, with Tanda the stranger in a strange land.

--Alex Warlorn 2008 Eight day of Christ Mass.

Talk:Fertile Ground

2007-12-28T17:27:11Z

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Brilliant. Positively brilliant. Even if I was slightly confused some details of the new form, that of course wasn't the point. And I was left wonder if the AI got down the details that people don't think about but actually -matter-. Can the new forms see in the full visible light spectrum? Do they still processing air in lungs? Do they have four fingers and an opposable thumb on each hand? Do they have a sense of touch all around their bodies? Is their sense of taste still able to pick of salt, sugar, acids, and basis? Can the sense of hearing pick up all the same octives?
The AI suggested that these new forms would have the same base instincts (hardwired programming) that humans do, which of course you'd need for the software (human mind) to work properly, so that's one thing no one has to worry about.

So many questions, the AI made a point to say he was trying for compatability with the human mind, not human vanity. I supposed it's only rational he gave each person a preview of forms so no one would panic.

In short. A fantastic sequel. A wonderful story. Even if I'm surprised the man didn't react more to learning he was just an AI himself born out of people's INTERPRETATION of him. (reminds me of a spoiler for the second Digital Devil Saga game.) -- Alex Warlorn Dec 2007 28

Talk:Behjopiray

2007-12-28T17:26:54Z

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And he remains incredibly enjoyable for me to read. -- Alex Warlorn Dec 2007 28

Talk:Behjopiray

2007-12-28T17:25:13Z

75.41.120.83: New page: And he remains incredibly enjoyable for me to read.

And he remains incredibly enjoyable for me to read.

Talk:Fertile Ground

2007-12-28T17:22:10Z

75.41.120.83: New page: Brilliant. Positively brilliant. Even if I was slightly confused some details of the new form, that of course wasn't the point. And I was left wonder if the AI got down the details that pe...

User talk:Bryan

2007-12-25T05:35:00Z

75.41.120.83: Comment provided by Alex Warlorn - via ArticleComments extension

==Searching==

After the chat we had about the limitations of the internal search system of MediaWiki I took a look at wikimedia for search extensions. "Lucene Search" seemed to be the best bet, but after fighting to get the backend for it built and installed I learned it wasn't any better than the built-in system. (In truth, its worse. No ability to select additional namespaces to search in, requires manual dumping of the database and importing into the backend for indexing, etc...) All the code is there to support it, though. However I've shut down the search daemon and disabled the extension. I'm going to go back to poking at the MediaWiki internals to see if I can change the default search to include the User namespace. [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 21:22, 21 July 2007 (EDT)

:When Wikipedia's under extreme load it shuts down the internal search engine to conserve resources and instead present a wrapper for a Google search limited to the wikipedia.org server, perhaps you could use something like that? Wouldn't work until Google started spidering us, which I don't know if they've done yet, but with MediaWiki's search as poor as it is it may be an improvement. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 02:42, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

::There are several extensions on MetaWiki for Google searches. As far as I can tell from the [http://www.keil-draco.com/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=shifti stats page] Google has started the indexing process. (look down under the "bots" section). I'll get to work doing the reorg so Category:Author points to author homepages and Category:Stories By Author is the stories themselves. (It's better if we stay ahead of the curve, no?) [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 13:13, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

:::Sure, though staying behind the curve also has its advantages (we'll know more about what the organization of Shifti actually looks like :). I'd advise lowercase titles for pages and categories where possible, BTW, it makes them more natural to link to. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 13:18, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

::::Now you tell me. I've already gone and finished the reorg. How about I put together a few templates to somewhat automate the categorization and linking process? [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 13:39, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

:::::If you like, though I don't really see the point of turning <nowiki>[[Category:Author]]</nowiki> into <nowiki>{{Category author}}</nowiki> and such. I'll convert over the category to lower case, I'm used to doing that sort of thing over on Wikipedia. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 13:49, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

::::::I was thinking more along the lines of <nowiki>{{AuthorPage}}</nowiki> adding <nowiki>[[Category:(Author Name)]]</nowiki> to the <nowiki>{{Title}}</nowiki> template. No need to go crazy with stuff like that. [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 14:04, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

:::::::<s>A potential gotcha you might run into: If you put <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> on a template, it resolves as the ''template's'' page name. So every author page could wind up categorized in [[:Category:AuthorPage]]. You'd probably need to take the category name as a parameter, or ask that every user substitute the template rather than transclude it (if you use "<nowiki>{{subst:template name}}</nowiki>" instead of just "<nowiki>{{template name}}</nowiki>" the text of the template page is inserted directly into the article the moment you click "save").</s> Huh. I see now that you already use this in [[Template:Title]] and it works the other way. I'm going to have to double-check my Wikipedia experience on this one. :) [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 14:28, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

::::::: I'm also not a fan of categories in templates because it makes it impossible to use the template elsewhere (such as on a help page describing its usage) without incorrectly categorizing the other pages it appears in. I really think we're not a big enough wiki yet to be worrying much about this, I'm capable of cleaning everything up manually. It only took me two minutes to switch everything over from Stories By Author to stories by author. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 14:21, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

::::::::Not a problem. But look at the hoops I had to jump through for the <nowiki>{{part}}</nowiki> template, which refused to resolve inside the table on the help page. [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 14:31, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

==Searching and redirects==

I think we might be able to sidestep the whole "search upgrade" thing by adding redirects - put on at [[Companion (Bob Stein)]], have it redirect to [[User:Posti/Companion]] and it should work, no? [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 14:48, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

:Yup. Wikipedia uses redirects of common misspellings in the same manner. No need for the parenthetical (Bob Stein) unless there's some other page already called "Companion", though. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 15:06, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

:Actually, I guess the parenthetical might be useful for people who are searching for "Bob Stein". The category would be a more useful place to find that but I guess people might not know to look there initially. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 15:47, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

:: That was my thought on it. It would allow for a search for Bob Stein to turn it up. Though you are correct, the category page would be the better spot. [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 16:29, 22 July 2007 (EDT)

==Dragons of Histh organization==

About the "Dragons of Histh" stuff... I'm not to comfortable with "Book the One", "Book the Two" and such being main namespace entries. I'm asking before I do anything, but I'd feel better if they were moved to, say, "Dragons of Histh: Book the One" or "Book the One (Dragons of Histh)". As well, does this "Kinglake Film Partnership" actually exist or is it just some fluff name that 'Loathesome Dragon' created to make the setting seem more important/famous than it really is? (And if it is just a fluff name then I think it should be moved to User:Loathesomedragon/Kinglake_Film_Partnership. If it isn't it seems like rampant advertisement and I will delete it with that being the reason.) -- [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 00:03, 5 August 2007 (EDT)

:I was thinking of moving those stories myself, actually. The names seemed overly generic and could be confusing. But as for the Kinglake thing, I don't see any reason not to leave it be; it's not likely that anyone's going to name a story that and it's not going to be in any story categories, so nobody will see it unless they're actively searching for it. So there's no clutter. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 00:30, 5 August 2007 (EDT)

== New Templates ==

I've noticed that you've been adding some new templates lately. However, the [[Help:Templates]] page still needs updating with the howtos and examples. Or are they still in the rough? --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] 19:38, 2 September 2007 (EDT)

:Not really, I just haven't got to updating it yet (and the external image template is covered in the image help page, which IMO is a more approriate place for it). I'll update tonight after I've done more work on ''Against Type'', my creativity is tied up at the moment. :) [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 19:50, 2 September 2007 (EDT)

== Against Type ==

Your ISP is blocking my emails again. I can't send you the current file. It's almost done, too. :P --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] 22:39, 7 September 2007 (EDT)

== Blacklists ==

In addition to the Captcha there are now two blacklists, one for certain username patterns and one for certain URL's.
Username Blacklist can be found at [http://shifti.org/MediaWiki:usernameblacklist MediaWiki:usernameblacklist] and the URL blacklist is at [http://shifti.org/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist] -- [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 21:00, 12 October 2007 (EDT)

== Code Update ==

You asked for it, you got it. A list of random pages is available via <randompages/> – it currently understands "style" and "class" as standard HTML parameters and can take a "count" parameter, which determines the length of the list generated. It is currently completely undecorated, so I think I'll set it up so it you can do <randompages>title text</randompages>

I also fixed up Special:Random to search NS_MAIN and NS_USER by default while not interfering with the operation of Special:Random/<namespace>
—[[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 23:40, 20 October 2007 (EDT)

'''Update''' — added the title bar stuff. Two new paramters to go with it, "titlestyle" and "titleclass" – these control the look of the displayed title text. — [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 00:00, 21 October 2007 (EDT)

More news. I've added the requested "Total Number Of Articles" bit to the categories page. Unfortunately it only covers articles and not subcategories. Doing subcategories is going to take another chunk of patching. — [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 19:57, 23 October 2007 (EDT)

:Unfortunately it's borked at this point and combining sub-categories and articles in one lump. I'm going to disable it for now and go back to the poking. — [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 20:00, 23 October 2007 (EDT)

::And I've fixed it. Problem is that this would never fly for MediaWiki - it's making a massive database query and iterating over the results to count the articles. On Wikipedia, for example, this would require getting millions of results and iterating over them - quite intensive. — [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 20:35, 23 October 2007 (EDT)

== другие языки / International ==

How to correctly add to the Shifti pages on Russian? I have some translation of your stories and some my own stories.
[[User:217.21.43.222|217.21.43.222]] 04:00, 20 December 2007 (EST)

:Neat! Shifti runs on MediaWiki software, which is fully Unicode-compliant. It should be possible to just copy and paste Cyrillic text straight into the edit window and save it as-is, and you should be able to use Cyrillic in page titles and user names and such as well. Give it a try and let me know if any specific problems crop up.

:Also, I'd be happy to see Russian translations of my stories posted here. It's something I'd never have imagined would ever happen :) Just make sure you ask other authors for permission before posting translations of any of theirs, though - copyright remains with the original authors and if they don't want translations posted they get the final say on that. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 04:13, 20 December 2007 (EST)

::Same here. BD's stories are excellent and if they have been translated into another language, it'd be nice to see them here so his international fans can read them.

::As a side note, it's wonderful that the non-english-speaking furs and TF fans have found Shifti and are interested in participating. This is the kind of thing I was hoping for when I decided to host the site. [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 04:24, 20 December 2007 (EST)
== Alex Warlorn said ... ==

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I just want to say, I'm sorry that my comment offended you. That was not my intention. I have been a fan of your writing for YEARS.

--Alex Warlorn 00:35, 25 December 2007 (EST)
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User talk:Michael Bard

2007-12-24T18:17:15Z

75.41.120.83: /* Ylourgne Expanse */

==Ylourgne Expanse==
I notice you've blanked [[User:Michael Bard/From the Ylourgne Expanse]]. Would you like me to delete the page? (Also, since I keep running into this ambiguity, I've created the template <nowiki>{{request deletion}}</nowiki> that you can add to a page when you want it to be deleted. Just for future reference. :) [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 19:43, 30 November 2007 (EST)

Dude, you should see if anyone wants to buy this story.

It does need a bit of tweaking but its still a really good quality short.

--[[User:Devin|Devin]] 21:25, 30 November 2007 (EST)

On Finding Himself.
An honest to goodness twist on Xanadu and costume TF in general.
But wouldn't the fur suit have been effected by the curse when he put it on? And would the fur suit have -kept- the changes in quailty after he took it off? I can think of about a thousand other possible endings for this story, I know however that is not my place.

-Alex Warlorn, 2007 Dec 24

User talk:Michael Bard

2007-12-24T18:16:40Z

75.41.120.83: /* Ylourgne Expanse */