User talk:Wynthyst

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I solved my bots not working
I had all my python bots set to use, but the server configuration enforces the use of the   prefix and returns a HTTP 301 when my scripts tried to use the  -less URL - so I changed the api variable in my couple of scripts to include the   and bam, all works fine now. - RJ 22:09, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Cool. I'm glad you figured it out, our tech team has not yet gotten back to me, as they are in mad prep for Minecon :D -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  02:49, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Guides and Ratings Extension
Hey, I've been working on implementing a Community Guides section for a while now, and needed a ratings extension to help filter out the guides. Could you install Extension:Ratings so that I can finish implementation and hopefully get some guides working? Thanks. -Lancey 22:50, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Being that it's still listed as an experimental extension, it will have to be reviewed by our tech team to make sure it is not going to cause any instability/insecurity for our network. If they find it safe, we can probably get it installed. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  22:55, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Errrr... the Ratings extension has not yet been released for use on production wikis. Would this be an exceptable alternative? -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  22:59, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, shoot. Didn't notice. Yeah, that would work fine as a replacement. Sorry about that and thanks again! -Lancey 23:12, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * K, our team is just all settling back in after a 2 week holiday vacation. I have submitted the request but it might take a couple days for it to hit the top of their backlog :D -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  23:19, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Technical Requests
We usually place our technical requests in the Technical requests page and there is a TitleKey extension among others pending to be added, you might want to respond on the page and place it on your watchlist. Thank you. Redefining history 23:31, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * It would have been great had anyone bothered to let me know about that page much sooner.... your requests would have been submitted in a much more timely fashion. I believe I have now addressed them all (the remaining extension requests have been submitted). -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  07:51, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Is there a reason on why is it taking so long? Redefining history 07:03, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Probably because of the amount of backlog work they have waiting after coming back from a 2 week vacation? -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  07:14, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Ads are unnecessarily 'reloading' themselves.
Hey there, a user came in IRC reporting this the other day and I've just had it occur myself - the ads on the site, both top and bottom, are refreshing themselves after so long and loading new ads. This is adding new entries to the browser history of the page - making the back button a pain to use (have to spam it to get out of a page). Furthermore, my Google Chrome has been lagging my PC the past couple of days and crashing; I just had this happen right now as I was writing this message - and it occured as the ads attempted to reload themselves, so I believe their maybe a connection there (particularly as I often have a lot of Wiki tabs open, having them all reload ads is unnecessary extra load on my PC which could be causing this). I wonder if you could look into the ads behaviour and try stop them reloading themselves, thanks. - RJ 13:18, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I will bring this to the attention of the powers that be :D -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  13:48, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Auto-refreshing is a tactic used to artificially inflate ad views. This practice, as well as placing ads inside IFRAMEs, contravene the policies of most contextual ad platforms. It's hard to figure out who's at fault, because there are several different advertising platforms on this wiki, each of which calls another. I brought this to Google's attention two days ago, since they appear to be serving several of the actual ads. Hopefully they can track down and punish the irresponsible parties. :-) --Kroocsiogsi 19:55, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * We do refresh ads with different partners within our ad network cascade, we have been doing this for quite a few months. In regards to it crashing browsers, typically this is more to do with flash player erroring out as there are some issues with the flash player not dumping cache and getting so big that it crashes, but this is a known major issue with the player crashing browsers over the past 6 months and it is a fundamental problem within flash itself. As far as history entries, in past experiences we had to move from only JS calls in page to iframe only calls in page to solve this problem, unfortunately this is not an option for us. The tech and ad ops team is looking into possible workarounds for this. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  20:30, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
 * It's really annoying to not be able to use my back button when making edits. I end up having to open up many more tabs which slows down everything because then I have multiple tabs refreshing flash content at the same time. Is it possible to not refresh the ads? -Lancey 04:21, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I think my explanation above says not at this time. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  05:20, 19 January 2012 (UTC)