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Some of the GTAMissions walkthroughs on YouTube omit that dialogue that I bolded. I know this because I watched them myself.--[[User:MrLanceVanceDance|MrLanceVanceDance]] 05:51, 19 October 2011 (BST) | Some of the GTAMissions walkthroughs on YouTube omit that dialogue that I bolded. I know this because I watched them myself.--[[User:MrLanceVanceDance|MrLanceVanceDance]] 05:51, 19 October 2011 (BST) | ||
:R* released a Haitian-friendly version of the game. You can check out the videos by Teleemahn on YouTube and see changes in the subtitles and hear audio being cut. For complete information on this, look [http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/561545-grand-theft-auto-vice-city/faqs/28209 here].--'''[[User:Spaceeinstein|spaceeinstein]]''' 06:54, 19 October 2011 (BST) | |||
== Trusted Users & Patrolling == | |||
Hi Andreaz. We've made a few changes to Grand Theft Wiki, our staff structure and the way we monitor edits. As you're a Trusted User, we've given you the right to [[Grand Theft Wiki:Patrolling|patrol]] other users' edits. This means you can check out the edits that haven't been checked yet, and either endorse them, fix them or revert them. It would be a great help if you could patrol a few edits from [[Special:Patrol]] each time you visit GTW, and it would look good if you were nominated for promotion too! See [[Grand Theft Wiki:Patrolling]] for help and more info, and [[Special:Patrol|give it a go]]! Let me know if you have any questions - [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 00:35, 8 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
:Thanks for getting back to me. The reason staff still show up is because I deliberately de-patrolled the past day's worth of edits, just so that you guys had something to practice on after I told you. As for the other things, I missed out one of the rights I needed to give you! That should all be working now - thanks for pointing that out. [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 14:17, 8 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Nomination for Promotion == | |||
Hi. I've started a discussion to decide whether you will be promoted to [[Administrator]]. Please edit your [[Community:Promotion/Andreaz1|promotion discussion page]] with whether you're up for it, why you want to do it, and your answers to the questions. I'm not making any promises at this stage, but I think you're worth considering. Good luck! [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 18:22, 14 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
:Congratulations - you have been promoted to [[Administrator]]! Your responses to the promotion discussion questions were probably the best I've seen - you absolutely seem to have the right attitude towards this role. Administrators are just regular users 99% of the time, sometimes they need to use their extra tools (delete, move, block, protect etc), and occasionally they need to put their foot down and make a decision. Don't forget - any bad edit can be reversed, but upsetting or scaring off loads of users can't be. | |||
:Just to clarify the new rights, responsibilities and limitations of your new role: admins are responsible for keeping the wiki running smoothly, which is why we give you the extra tools. It's not that admins are 'in charge' of other users, but they have the responsibility to make sure everything runs smoothly. Think of it how a Police Officer is not ''in charge'' of the citizens, but in an emergency they can put their foot down and make sure everything runs smoothly. | |||
:The rights you have are listed on [[Special:ListGroupRights]] (just ask me if you need any of them explaining). The ones you'll use most are move, delete and block. Have a browse through [[Special:SpecialPages]] as you might find some interesting things in there. I really don't mean to scare you though - it's great fun being staff here, and I'm really proud to have started this site and helped it grow. I look forward to you being able to stamp your mark on the site and help make it even better than you could as a normal user. | |||
:The administrator position is subject to a 4-week probation period. This just means in 4 weeks I'll speak to the rest of the staff and decide whether to make your promotion permanent, or whether we need to think again. It shouldn't be a problem but it gives us an opportunity to see you at work (because good users don't always make good admins). Also, please could you sign up for an account at [http://www.thegtaplace.com/forums The GTA Place Forums] and let me know your username, so that you can access our private GTA staff forum? | |||
:And don't forget - if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me or another staff member. It's my personal responsibility to make sure you get up to speed and become an awesome member of staff and help make this wiki even better! Good luck! [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 22:10, 16 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
::No problem at all. I just needed you to tell me the username on here because ''anyone'' could create an account with that name, particularly if they saw I'd asked you to it. As you've confirmed it's you, I've given you access to the [http://www.thegtaplace.com/forums/forum/136-grand-theft-wiki-staff-discussion/ GTW Staff Forum] - feel free to have a browse, reply to anything you see, and create topics/replies if there's anything that needs discussing. I'd suggest you hit 'follow' so you get an email if we post anything in there. You can still talk to me on here, but if there's anything private then the forum is better. [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 20:15, 17 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
Well it's been a month, and I'm happy with your progress, so I'm very pleased to confirm you as a full, permanent staff member! Do you have any comments or questions from your first month? [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 21:48, 17 February 2012 (UTC) | |||
== age == | |||
are you able to change a users age because i need change my age 13 years old may you please change it[[User:Nameless assasin|Nameless assasin]] ([[User talk:Nameless assasin|talk]]) 15:14, 28 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
Oh sorry i thought must have put in a wrong age maybe i must have been comfused with another website.[[User:Nameless assasin|Nameless assasin]] ([[User talk:Nameless assasin|talk]]) 16:01, 28 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
My userbox is showing that i am 10 years old.[[User:Nameless assasin|Nameless assasin]] ([[User talk:Nameless assasin|talk]]) 15:15, 30 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
==Recent edits== | |||
How do you make coments on your edits for example like this (fix spelling) or mabye writing (big gallery) i have been regonising this.so how do you do it? | |||
== Re:Images == | |||
Hi, I use Paint.NET to save my screenshots, and the default format is .png. I always preferred it to .jpg because .jpg tends to "feather" colours (don't know if there's a proper term, but it's when two colours are side by side and they kinda blur into each other), although with Paint.NET I've compared the two formats in the same image and I don't see a difference. When I zoom it out, however, .png looks a bit better because as gboyers said, it's good for icons and/or thumbnails and compresses the image into a smaller size better than .jpg does. I didn't know some image formats could be slower to load on some computers than others, the only time I've had that issue with images taking too long to load is if they're really massive or something. In any case, I try to keep all the images as .png for the sake of consistency when naming images in order on mission articles; since they also go into the "list of missions" page as thumbnails, it works better than .jpg does. | |||
And thanks, I'm currently on the probationary period, but I hope the staff decide to keep me on the team :) <span style="font-family:calibri; text-shadow: black 0 4px 4px; color:080808;">''[[User:Silver Infernus|It makes sense]] [[User talk:Silver Infernus|if you don't]] [[Special:Contributions/Silver Infernus|think about it...]]''</span> 20:05, 3 February 2012 (UTC) | |||
==Discussion== | |||
We're planning to have another discussion about our plans for GTA V in the IRC chat again tonight, starting in half an hour (9pm GMT/10pm in Stockholm). Hope to see you there if you can make it. A-Dust 20:30, 3 March 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Character Infoboxes == | |||
Nice to see you editing again! Check out [http://secret.grandtheftwiki.com/index.php?/topic/16-character-infoboxes/ this] to see what changes need to be made to character pages, if you fancy helping out! [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 22:08, 2 June 2012 (UTC) | |||
:That's no problem - we all have lives (well, [[Special:ContributionScores|most of us]]!). Just glad to see you around again! [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 23:04, 2 June 2012 (UTC) | |||
For dual nationalities, we need to be 100% sure what we actually mean. Does he actually have 'dual nationality' with both Irish and American citizenships, or was he born in Ireland but is now American, or is he just of Irish descent? I think it would probably be better to change Nationality into being where they originated from, so Niko would still be Serbian and the McReary's would be Irish, as calling them 'American' just because they're in the US now would apply to every character and wouldn't be that useful. [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 17:43, 8 June 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Re: Mission special vehicle tables == | |||
Those look pretty good. I'm a huge fan of adding tables and templates to explain things better - I hate having paragraph after paragraph of mindless text that nobody's going to read. I think our mission pages are brilliant, as they feature pictures, videos, scripts etc. | |||
The 2nd variant is definitely better, as it doesn't have that huge blank space. I think saying ''"Black [[Admiral]]"'' or ''"Fireproof [[Rumpo]]"'' is quite clear that's what's special. Perhaps you could change the header of the table to something like 'Special Vehicles in this Mission' to make it super-clear? Make sure you're 100% happy with it before putting it on every mission page. I'd also suggest thinking if there are any missions that feature LOTS of special vehicles, and what the table might look like then. | |||
I'd normally suggest making a template like [[Template:Infobox]], but this is quite a simple table so we may as well leave it at that. Probably best that you mention it on [[Talk:Special Vehicles]] to make sure everyone knows and that everyone does it the same. Nice work. [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 07:35, 11 July 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Re: Image naming conventions == | |||
''Edit: You're right - I completely forgot it was subject-game-variant rather than game-subject-variant. My bad. The below explanation is fixed, and feel free to correct any wrongly-named images.'' | |||
You are right that the convention is subject-game-variant. Other than that, there is some confusion, disagreement, indecision and as a result some inconsistency throughout the site. | |||
The [[Grand Theft Wiki:Games|game name format]] should be the 'condensed' format (eg GTA1, GTAIII, GTAV) just to be consistent with the rest of the site. However, ZS disagrees and believes it should be the old GTA4 format, although this is not used anywhere else on the site and doesn't match the other naming conventions (Grand Theft Auto V, GTA V etc). That said, using the condensed format is now officially policy so feel free to rename any that use the old GTA4 format. | |||
The variant field is an optional extra field to add when we have more than one image that would fit under that name. For example, if we have two images of a GTA IV Infernus, add -front and -back. If we have a different type of Infernus, such as a special bulletproof one, add -bulletproof instead. If we have a pre-release screenshot (that might be different from the final game) add -prerelease instead. Other examples of this variant field could be screenshots of a city, they would be Dockyard-GTAV-North etc or even Dockyard-GTAV-Night - using the variant field to differentiate between them. | |||
If there is only one image that would fit under that name, then I don't see any reason to add a variant item at all. For example a GTA V map or a GTA 1 vehicle - the name and subject would be enough. | |||
Technically, image names should be in Title Case like the rest of the wiki (eg Infernus-GTAV-Front), however I know A-Dust and ZS disagree and use the variant field in lowercase (although I can see why). So there is a lot of discrepancy here too. This specific thing hasn't been decided on yet, so I wouldn't go round moving them until we've had that discussion and reached a consensus. | |||
So in short, I would use these example formats: | |||
*Map-GTAV.jpg (If there is only one image of the thing, like a GTA 1 vehicle, then just use this) | |||
*Infernus-GTAV-Front.jpg | |||
*Infernus-GTAV-Rear.jpg | |||
*Infernus-GTAV-Night.jpg (Might have a separate screenshot taken at night?) | |||
*Infernus-GTAV-Pink.jpg (This might be a rare/specific variation we'd have a separate screenshot of) | |||
*Infernus-GTAV-Rear-Night.jpg (can add extra bits of data where there is more than one image, but keep it as simple as possible) | |||
*Infernus-GTAV-Side.jpg | |||
*Infernus-GTAV-Prerelease.jpg | |||
*Infernus-GTAV-Prerelease-Front.jpg (Only use if there is more than one pre-release image of the subject) | |||
And as a side note - really the images need to link to each other. Perhaps under a vehicle page there could be a subpage linking to all the images for that vehicle, and this can be transcluded as a template onto each image's page - might even be able to do this automatically using a [[pf]]! | |||
Hope that makes sense. I should really put this into an updated image policy. Let me know if you have any questions, and let me know your views on the namings. [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 02:54, 25 August 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Re: Slow wiki == | |||
For the past week or two, we've had a new system which was designed to cache the often-used files (like the styles and scripts) outside the wiki, to speed up the site. Unfortunately, it didn't work properly all the time, which is why you saw it as you did. I disabled it earlier this evening, so I'm glad it's now running better for you. I'll continue looking into ways to speed up the site, but there's not that much we can do for free (this site isn't here for profit, so it doesn't earn money). [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 00:33, 14 October 2012 (UTC) | |||
:Not a problem. Although, next time don't leave it 10 days! Let me know if there's anything wrong - or even if you're unsure - and I can check it out. I rely on the staff to feed this stuff to me, as I can't be here 24/7 and don't see everything! Hope it's all running smoothly for you now! [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 20:57, 14 October 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Re: Patrolling == | |||
A-Dust has been having the same issue, but patrolling works fine for me both ways. I assume this is the Vector skin? Could you try clearing your cache, and try a different browser? Also, perhaps have a look through [[Special:Preferences]] and make sure there's nothing there that might disable javascript etc? If those don't work, try [[Special:Preferences/reset|resetting to default]], then clear your browser cache and try again? Let me know how that goes! Thanks - [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 00:01, 27 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
:Seems like a recent update has started using AJAX for patrolling. The concept is amazing if it actually worked, so that you don't have to leave the diff page (and can therefore go straight to the next/previous edit after clicking patrol). In the meantime, right-click on the [Mark as patrolled] link, and select ''open page in new tab'' (or however your browser words it). This will bypass the AJAX functionality (as if JavaScript was completely disabled in your browser), and trigger the old-style patrol, which works fine. Gerard, tested in all five major browsers on both Windows and Mac, doesn't work at all. '''[[User:JFletcher|JFletcher]]<sup>''[[User talk:JFletcher|Talk]]''</sup>''' <small>(formerly User:Biggest gta fan ever)</small> 06:42, 27 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
That's weird, works perfectly for me in Chrome and Safari. When I click on "Mark as Patrolled" a little window pops up on the right saying "This change to Perestroika has been marked as patrolled." and then the edit shows as being patrolled. I tried resetting all my settings to default, still works fine. I've got no custom JS or anything else that would affect it. Bit tricky to debug when I can't reproduce the bug! James - could you check for JavaScript [http://superuser.com/a/509924 errors] and let me know what you find? [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 10:44, 27 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
::Thanks for your suggestions, however none of them seemed to work. I cleared cache, reset my preferences and cleared cache again, tried it in IE9 (which, on another note, seems to be missing staff badges and the bold staff names) but that problem persisted in all cases. Yes by the way, I use the Vector skin. Usually though I do what JFletcher said and open the patrols in new tabs so I won't have to leave the diff page so this isn't a massive issue for me at least. [[User:Andreaz1|Andreaz1]] ([[User talk:Andreaz1|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Andreaz1|edits]]) 17:12, 27 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Detected as spam? == | |||
Hi Admin Andreaz1! | |||
When I added a new new message (Thank you! :) ) to Gboyers talk page, it said that my edit was detected as scam because of one of the external links I added. But I didn't add any external links. See Gboyers' talk page and scroll down to 'RE:Accounts merged' and you'll know what I mean. [[User:Thatpopularguy123|Thatpopularguy123]] ([[User talk:Thatpopularguy123|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Thatpopularguy123|edits]]) 16:23, 4 April 2013 (UTC) | |||
Ok thanks :) [[User:Thatpopularguy123|Thatpopularguy123]] ([[User talk:Thatpopularguy123|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Thatpopularguy123|edits]]) 06:26, 5 April 2013 (UTC) | |||
==Help== | |||
I don't know if you have GTA V and/or time to help out on here, but if you do could you help out with the mission pages? You've done good jobs on mission pages, which is why I'm asking. Thank you, and I hope you're enjoying GTA V and/or GTA Online if you have them. A-Dust 17:35, 25 October 2013 (BST) | |||
:I don't own any consoles so I don't have the game yet but through Youtube I can try and help with some more basic and repetitive tasks such as adding the scripts to missions, like [[Minisub|here]]. When the PC version eventually comes round I will be sure to take screenshots which I enjoy doing providing my PC can do so at decent quality. [[User:Andreaz1|Andreaz1]] ([[User talk:Andreaz1|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Andreaz1|edits]]) 14:31, 26 October 2013 (BST) | |||