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Contents 1 Trinket templates 2 how? 3 Portrait 4 Edit Article Name 5 Please delete image:pirates-shalimar-cobalt.jpg 6 Crews 7 Links to Forum 8 Chachapoya-Matariki route 9 checking for article existance 10 I NE INSTRUCTIONS ON How to make a YPPedia Pirate page 11 P.S. HELP ME 12 Portraits 13 New Panel 14 help 15 Editing a wiki page 16 Failed move weirdness 17 Images 18 Karkinos 19 How to make a plain table with borders? 20 Delete mis-named images 21 Monarch icon for rank box

Trinket templates

Is it just me, or is there no templates for Pins? If there is, could someone point me in the right direction?

There are some trinkets that do not yet have templates. Especially the ones that have a lot of variables for colors/metal colors because making the color charts for these things is extremely tedious detail work. Plus I'm not sure anyone has devised a method for handling more than two variables in a graceful manner. For a list of the trinket templates that are currently available, see Howto:Use the My trinkets template where you can find a link to the listing. --Guppymomma 19:38, 10 January 2008 (PST)

how?

How can i do crew portrait?

To insert a crew portrait on the YPPedia, simply find a person in the crew. Enter the web address http://OCEAN.puzzlepirates.com/yoweb/pirate.wm?target=NAME replacing the OCEAN and NAME with the ocean and pirate name respectively. On their pirate page, click the crew name in the top left corner of the page. Now click the portrait on the right on the page, and on the next page, right click the portrait and click "Save Image As..." and save a copy to your desktop. Now return to the YPPedia and click the "Upload file" link in the toolbox (bottom left of the screen). Select the portrait, give it the name Crews-YOURCREWNAMEHERE.jpg, and insert the {{portrait image}} ^(Usage) template in the summary field. --Nicksterv ^(t/c) 04:00, 12 January 2008 (PST)

I think the Bludgeons, Hammer, Skull Rings and Blackjack should have an added notation regarding them being the best bludgeons to use vs bots. These Bludgeons include Bruises in their strike pattern which are much like the combos of SF. The Hammer being best and justifying it's high cost, followed by Skull Rings, and then Blackjack. Likewise vs Bots the Fish could be considered the worst as it gives the bots a precharged ball.

Portrait

I wish to change my portrait in my pirate's article (Wiffred.)

Click on the portrait in the pirate article and then on the next page which appears, click "Upload a new version of this file". -- Faulkston 20:43, 22 January 2008 (PST)

Edit Article Name

Is there any way to change an articles name because I entered the name in with the words begining in capital letters but unfortunatly the article is in lower case.

It's possible to move an article to a new name. Be sure to change any existing links to point to the renamed article. -- Faulkston 20:30, 24 January 2008 (PST)

Please delete image:pirates-shalimar-cobalt.jpg

My apologies, as I goofed on the filename and didn't realize that the pirate template looked for pirates-piratename.jpg exclusively. I've uploaded a duplicate with the correct filename. --Dobdobbodpa 18:22, 2 February 2008 (PST)

Deleted. -- Cedarwings ^(talk) 19:02, 2 February 2008 (PST)

Crews

How do you get your crew fame up? aspiring ---- rumored ----- ect..

Puzzle more. -- Faulkston 18:00, 7 February 2008 (PST)

Links to Forum

Would be giving sources in form of links into the forum be a good idea ? And if yes, how to link nicely to an individual article. The example link here gets me onto the correct page, but not to the article intended. But once I go to the url bar in my browser and press enter I'm at the correct article. I get the same behaviour both with Mozilla and IE. --Alfwyn 15:19, 10 February 2008 (PST)

Links like these have been placed in YPPedia articles before. The post within a thread is scrolled to correctly in Firefox, perhaps there is a problem in IE where it's not possible to scroll to an HTML anchor before the entire page is loaded. Also I've found in Firefox (and likely IE too) that the scroll offset may be rather incorrect if the images in any posts in the thread's current page haven't finished loading. -- Faulkston 16:16, 10 February 2008 (PST)

Seems to be indeed a browser problem, thanks (I've tested some more now). --Alfwyn 15:20, 12 February 2008 (PST)

Chachapoya-Matariki route

• The maps on the Chachapoya and Matariki pages conflict with the full map and what I can find in game in terms of the number of league points. I'd fix this myself, but I don't know how the map templates work. --Masterbratac 16:18, 18 February 2008 (PST)

They aren't that hard to edit. Is the full map the correct one? If so I could update the islands charts using that info. -- Vorky 16:27, 18 February 2008 (PST)

The full map matches the in-game map, so I assume it's the correct one. Thanks. --Masterbratac 16:30, 18 February 2008 (PST)

Done. Also updated the route colors on those and the archipelago charts as well. -- Vorky 17:50, 18 February 2008 (PST)

checking for article existance

Is it possible to check for the existance of an article/template inside a template. There is a '#ifexist' feature in newer Mediawikis, but is there a trick to emulate it here ? --Alfwyn 14:03, 20 February 2008 (PST)

I NE INSTRUCTIONS ON How to make a YPPedia Pirate page

I would love it if some old salt could tell me how to make me a personal pirate page on YPPedia!

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-- SKUNKBEARD on the Cobalt Ocean Febuary 20, 2OO8

Ye can refer here if yer wating information on how to create an artice or here if ye want to create yer User Page. --Instantflash 13:22, 24 February 2008 (PST)

P.S. HELP ME

Portraits

On my page, the portrait there is just blank, because i didnt have a portrait at the time of creation Now i DO have a portrait, and im afraid that if i revise the blank portrait the blakc portrait on EVERYONES page who doesnt have a portrait will have my portrait.

Basically, how do I put a different portrait on my page without screwing everything up?

Simply add "|portrait=yes" to the pirate infobox on your page, and then upload a portrait file using the link that then comes up (Image:Pirates-Chickenfist.jpg) -- Vorky 15:54, 24 February 2008 (PST)

New Panel

I want to put a new panel in a page. How do I do this?

What do you mean exactly by a new panel? A new paragraph? A new section? -- Faulkston 18:51, 1 March 2008 (PST)

help

need pictures deleted but i dont know how to do it myself

Please delete Image:Mousqueek-zombie popcicles.png, Image:Spring08-Portrait-mousqueek-zombie popcicles.png, Image:Art-mousqueek-zombie popcicles.png, I just realized their not the right theme thanks, mousqueek

I've deleted all 3 images, as you requested. --Barrister 17:03, 7 March 2008 (PST)

Editing a wiki page

Is there a way to break an automatic link created in an article?

Beta Island (Midnight) has an estate "Altered Estates". There is a wiki article about Altered Estates, referring to an Estate Agent on Sage. I do not wish to link to this article, as they are two completely different entities.

You can specify the name as Altered Estates (Midnight){{!}}Altered Estates to link it to the (right now non-existing) Midnight article for the building. Disclaimer: I did only rudimentary tests with the {{!}} template so far --Alfwyn 07:09, 9 March 2008 (PDT)

Links to pages requiring an ocean disambiguation should be in the form of {{Oceanname|Name_to_be_disambiguated}}. So for page in question, it would be entered as {{Midnight|Altered Estates}}. Please do not use the above recommendation. -- Cedarwings ^(talk) 09:41, 9 March 2008 (PDT)

Failed move weirdness

Half of the page history of Vypra can be found at what seems to be a move failed in the middle of the process. The broken other half has some references cropping up now and then and can be edited and previewed (I didn't want to try a save), but not viewed or moved (Edit link). Any chance of integrating the edit history and then getting rid of the weirdness ? --Alfwyn 14:30, 12 March 2008 (PDT)

Images

i was wondering why i can not have images with my pirate info page when i can see that peperox has the same sort of pictures i had and now i have to stick with writing? is there any way i could have atleast some pictures of swords and bludgeons?

Well, try to find the name of the images that are already here, instead of uploading duplicates of them under a different name. They are named quite consistenly, so if you know for example that the distillery icon is named Image:Icon_distillery.png, you can guess that the one for the iron monger is Image:Icon_iron_monger.png. The fish would be Image:Icon Fish.png. If you really need a specific colored image of the fish, leave me a message at User_talk:Alfwyn and we can find a way to extract the desired one from Image:Fish_colors.png. --Alfwyn 08:47, 16 March 2008 (PDT)

Karkinos

Info Box for Karkinos Crab pet? What is the code for it as images seem to be missing when attempting.

It will be Karkinos I guess. A first step for the implementation is to find out the color range (see Karkinos) and after that getting at least one image for each body color and each highlight color. --Alfwyn 11:39, 25 March 2008 (PDT)

I've got a Blue/Grey one if someone wants to snag the image for it then, can also start to trackdown other owners and list them to be contacted for images also if a contact list can be established to add to. --Everclearboy

Finding owners would be useful indeed. With the new /print command making useful screenshots (how they look in the inventory/trade window) shouldn't be too hard, although some may want to cut out additional information like PoE held. If they PM me I can give them an email address to send the screenshots too. Alternatively I try to catch you/them in game and take a screenshot of the Karkinos in the trade window. --Alfwyn 06:15, 28 March 2008 (PDT)

How to make a plain table with borders?

I found the basic "how to make a table" in the Wikipedia help, but it comes out with no borders. Is there a class I can use that will give me a plain simple border with cellspacing=0 and cellpadding of about 3-5?

Go look at ship. --Guppymomma 05:11, 26 March 2008 (PDT)

Thanks! --Lesleywalker 13:04, 26 March 2008 (PDT)

Delete mis-named images

I didn't realize the naming structure of the file name for Avatar images. I've uploaded new versions of these so the old ones can be deleted, but I wasn't sure how or if I could do that myself. - Thanks

Image:Arrgarethaavv.jpg Image:Arrgy1.jpg Image:Arrgycopy-1.png Image:Arrgycopy.png Image:Aargavpw3.jpg

I've deleted those images for you. If you wish to have an image deleted in future, you can use the {{delete}} ^(Usage) template to flag the image for an administrator to delete. Just edit the page and insert the tag. Thanks. --Nicksterv 11:41, 28 March 2008 (PDT)

Monarch icon for rank box

There is no picture for monarch. I know there are a few Monarchs that use the princess one I think it's only fair that they make a monarch one and if there is please tell me :D

It does exist - use king and queen in the rankbox template: . -- Faulkston 21:12, 18 April 2008 (PDT)