Update 20-22 December 2015 - Wasn't that great.
So, continued to live on mobile data, except well I have stuff in real life, so didn't have a computer for a whole 24+ hours. I tried some mobile editing and such, was clunky as the VisualEditor would misbehave and such. I got internet back today (22 December) finally, and I checked the images that Bob the P.R. Bot had sent me to compare with the ones I had extracted. Well there is a quality difference. It's not that noticable at 100%, but if you zoom in on the images, Bob's are of better quality.
Damn and I was so excited too about extracting images back then! I fiddled around, trying to figure out what was making my extracted images lose quality, it could be something with the C# methods of getting a Stream and writing it to an image file…
Update 18-19 December - Content, Talk and more plans!
Ok, I've just been editing some Items pages and added some content + the standard templates on some Items pages that were created before I had the templates. Fiddling around with templates (mobile version appearance perhaps) and fixed more pages in categories.
We have more activity from other users now, namely TWDFan630 and Lakeside, so just some general talk and editing.
I have problems though, my house has lost access to the internet (ugh), am living on limited mobile data so my edits will be limited too until I get internet back. Meanwhile offline I did some work on those images of the keyboard keys and mouse buttons, they are nearly ready to be uploaded and used once I double check the templates I have.
While going through some of the Su…
Update 16-17 December 2015 - I am really messing around...
Ok, there was some more I did on 16 December but it's dragged on to 17 December, so let's put it here. I wasted a lot of time getting a Questbox template up. And, well after lots of formatting and CSS issues, I finally got a Questbox that looks very similar to the one in-game! Check this out:
(Of course it's F2 but I used W image as an example)
The next thing was to try and get those lovely Key and Mouse images from in-game onto the Wiki, as I may have mentioned before. Well I had the asset files for those. keys.xnb contained a grid of just the white label on each of the keyboard keys, 2048 x 2048 px, in a 16x16 grid, resulting in 128 x 128 squares. keybackground.xnb was a 160 x 160 black key background, however the top 20 pixels were trans…
Update 16 December 2015 - More of the same
Ok, so here it continues, working through it slowly. I've decided to leave most of the CSS stuff until when I become an admin because if I try to show it now, I'll be making workarounds which I won't need once I have admin permissions. The CSS I want to implement is already complicated enough as is without having restrictions.
Renamed all articles in Structure category to Structures, a new article on Hunger, and well I did do some Template customisation on my user page: a possible Header Title for the main page. It's based on the Terraria Wiki one, just reskinned a bit. There's also the need to change the font to Open Sans (the one in-game), for that authentic feel.
Update 14-15 December - A lot I can do, A lot I have to wait
Well, I've stopped the 150+ edits a day thing, toning it down a bit. I might have burned out if I continued. Also life is holding up, so less Wiki editing time. There is still a heck of a lot ot do, I may have standardised pages with Infoboxes and Quoteboxes, but I still feel like I could add in more templates, the pages aren't tidy per se. Of course, slowly filling in all the item pages, but categories, well that's another thing I'll have to sort out, easier as admin to do it. Also some files I misspelled, and well can't rename those at the moment.
I've been thinking also about what to do to improve the Main Page, of course, since it's the one most people will see first. If I really want it to be at the standard we expect from a wiki, I'm…