User talk:Roxxannae

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Lost initial quests for crafting now what
Yes, I know what a fool. Well that's what I did. Now I'm trying to craft some armour and can't. I've been back to the start and nothing..I've hit pretty much all of the Elders and nothing. Any advice would be greatly welcomed. TOUCHJKlemmer
 * Okay so you should still be able to get the quests at level 34. Elder Star in Tellus City will have quests available (Blacksmith, Craftsman, Apothecary, Tailor) if you haven't learned the crafting skills yet. Once you finish those you should get some skill books and can learn those at the Elder under "Learn Skills" option or something similar. If there's no quests there then you should check if you have crafting skills already by pressing the R key to open your skill window. If you do need more help with this I recommend posting on the Arc Forums. I'm the only one who really checks the wiki and might be a bit slow to respond. Roxxannae   (Talk Page)  03:14, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Sidebar links
Hello. One of my backlog projects has been to go through the wikis I manage and add links to important pages to the sidebar. It's helpful for SEO to have important links linked from there because those links appear on every page. In most cases, I've just copied the links from the main page over, but since there are a whole lot on the main page here, I was wondering if you'd be willing to help point out any pages that really aren't important enough to add to MediaWiki:Sidebar? OOeyes (talk) 23:30, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I can definitely look to see which ones I'd consider important and not important. Do you have any wikis that have important pages in their sidebar already that I can use as a reference? Roxxannae   (Talk Page)  00:54, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid that in most cases, the wikis are for games of simpler genres, and I could just blindly copy over all the links to mainspace articles from the main page, excluding some obviously less vital pages like just the general game page and the pages for the developer/publisher and so on. Here, though, there's seven boxes of links, which is why I'm thinking some should probably be omitted in the sidebar. So, I'd be thinking about what pages may contain frequently viewed lists in particular. For most MMOs I'm familiar with, the class pages are important enough to include, but links to individual races wouldn't necessary be because they have less effect on gameplay. Regions, too, probably aren't important enough to individually list. Beginner's Guide and System Requirements are a couple of obvious pages to include as well. For the others, I would suggest thinking about what pages you may look at frequently. Also, I don't see anything on the main page for upcoming content, but if there are any pages for that, they would probably be good for the sidebar too (as well as the main page). Honestly, the focus is just to leave out pages that are obviously secondary. If in doubt, we should probably just include it. OOeyes (talk) 03:33, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * We do have a generic classes page that can be included, or each individual class page is fine too (the classes page needs to be fixed up anyway). Races aren't as important since each class can only be 1 race anyway. I agree that regions aren't really too important either, though we do have a World Map page which covers most of them to reduce on links. I agree on adding Beginner's Guide, though I think most people ignore System Requirements since PWI's list is incorrect, especially because they're gradually upgrading the game engine at the moment. I'd suggest adding Community Tools as well. Some other generic pages that would be important enough to add would be things like Crafting, Title System, Events, Equipment, Rank and Reputation, Homestead, Quests, Dungeons, Aerogear, Mount, Fashion, and Pet. There's a couple of pages not on the front page that are used more than most which are Arc Codes and Spiritual Cultivation. For upcoming content, we get 0 information on this (PWI just released a massive expansion 2 weeks ago with no notice whatsoever), but we do have an Expansions page which covers the major updates whenever we become aware of them. I'm not sure if things like List of Aerogear or List of Pets would be important enough, but the former has been highly-requested and the latter is a frequently-viewed page...the only issue is that there would be an additional 3-5 pages like those that will be eventually created, which might make the sidebar a little too long. Roxxannae   (Talk Page)  06:40, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've added those for now. It might not be the best order for them, but that's easy enough to play around with now that they are all there. OOeyes (talk) 10:47, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Rewards program
Hello. In recognition of your dedication and hard work on this wiki, I would like to offer you a free game through Fandom's reward program. This would be a game of your choice, provided it's one we can gift. If you're interested, please join the Fandom Discord at http://discordapp.com/invite/Fandom if you haven't already and message me (gp_oOeyes#4570). And thank you again for all your hard work. OOeyes (talk) 21:49, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

UCX implementation
Hi! I’m Héctor, one of the Fandom Community Managers. I’m here to talk with you about the upcoming changes we will experiment on the wikis when the new UCX will be released. As a result, we’ll have to adapt the current content - mainly the design and implemented code - to ensure they’re compatible and operational.

Specifically talking, the UCX will mainly affect the Frontpage, the design (logo, background, favicon, themes), the CSS/JS used and some templates that should adapt their look to it. While the wiki will still be migrated some weeks later, I’m here to work alongside you to anticipate all the work regarding review, improvements and adaptation to the new skin.

If you agree, I’ll start soon, reviewing the mentioned elements and describing to you what work should be done. For the case of the design, I can work with the future version, that will be working once the wiki will be migrated. Regarding the frontpage, templates and the code, I can work and implement the changes now, to have them properly working both in the present and the future, but having all the changes done in advance.

Let me know if you have any comments about it and we can explore together the upcoming changes. Thanks! --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 18:28, 10 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Héctor! My apologies for the delayed response; PWI is due for a major content update soon so I've been preparing for that. Sure, you can start working on the wiki as needed. For the frontpage/templates/code, you're okay to start implementing the changes now - it shouldn't affect our content update. For the code, there's a chance there may be some existing design issues due to missing elements because this wiki was previously on a different host and was missing a lot of essential things back then. If you need to reach me in the meantime, the easiest way to contact me is on Discord at Roxxannae#3187. Roxxannae (talk) 15:55, 27 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi! Now I'm who has to be sorry for the delay... haha The new skin is now available to you, and you can experiment the new look and also work to adapt the wiki. Anyway, as you mentioned I'll be working on the wiki to do this work of adaptation, and once I'll finish it we can continue the conversation to finish some probable other stuff. Thanks a lot! (BTW: We can also continue talking on Discord). --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 17:20, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Opt-in release
Hello again! As we have announced in our last blog, the opt-in exploration is available to you now! You can basically take a look at the main areas of the wiki, but as I explained the main things you should keep into account are the frontpage, the tables and their style, and other templates like infoboxes and navboxes. All of this, always thinking about the option of switching between the light and dark theme and all the content should be readable and adapted to both at the same time. In addition, all the wikis have to create a combination of colors for the light and dark theme, using the ThemeDesigner tool, and also re-upload the logo and favicon, and optionally the background (but it will work differently as header background, so it’s up to you what we’ll do with it on your wiki).

I already adapted the content and code to be compatible with FandomDesktop (the new skin), and also created the 2 themes and re-uploaded the assets. You can perfectly make any change to the ThemeDesigner and/or the Mediawiki pages, but I really encourage you to talk with me first. I’ve been adapting it, and I put some concrete stuff (colors in the ThemeDesigner, code in the MW pages and in one page but not another) for concrete reasons (basically to have all compatible with both themes), so to be more practical I think it’s better if we discuss about any proposal/issue/preference you could find/want before make changes.

Use some days to explore the new skin and how your wiki looks, especially if it's properly shown with both themes. If you think it's 100% ready, feel free to go to the Admin Dashboard and click on the Mark as Ready button. It implies your confirmation the wiki is ready and can be migrated when its turn will come. Thanks for everything! --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 15:02, 16 June 2021 (UTC)