User:Galbus

If you have a comment about anything I do on the wiki then you should comment on my user talk page or through discord. DMs through any other medium will be ignored, and reported.

General Rules of Life

1. Blame Elda for everything... it's worked for me for all these YEARS!
2. Do things because you should, not because you can
3. If something nags you enough to rephrase it later, then make sure that you're not doing the same thing you thought you were in the beginning
4. No matter how much something looks off to you, the normal practice is to duplicate information in game on the wiki. (This is a daily struggle for myself as well)
5. When all else fails refer to Rule 1

About Me

Real Life Stuff:

Programmer focusing in: Java, PHP, Python, SQL
Databases: Oracle, Postgres
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows/Windows Server

LotRO Stuff:

LotRO player since 2011 with a few hiatus times in between. Originally on World:Dwarrowdelf, and migrated to World:Gladden when it closed. I was introduced to LotRO by my partner who actively raided at the time. I used to listen to their voice chats and could run various raids, etc., before I had ever set foot in them. Sadly, he no longer plays LotRO. As a homage, most of my characters run barefoot. My old LM, also still runs around in the cosmetic outfit I had at the time that he played.

Characters

Click here to view in-game characters.

Notes

Labeled Section Transclusion

A lot of trial and error with these, but here are the important bits to remember.

Transclusion by header (excludes the header):

1. {{#lsth:page_name|header_name}}

Transclusion by section tag (NOTE: You must remove onlyinclude tags from the page you're transcluding.):

1. Mark sections that you wish to transclude into other pages

   Add a begin and end section tag around the section in a page you would like to transclude by using:

   <section begin="section_name" />...<section end="section_name" />

2. Include the section in other pages by using:

   Call the parser function #lst to transclude the section called section_name.

   {{#lst:page_name|section_name}}

3. Include the page, but not the section by using:

   Call the parser function #lstx to transclude the page without the section called section_name.

   {{#lstx:page_name|section_name}}

Projects

Note: Most of these projects are on pause, as most of them take too much of my time to focus on.

Camp Site Fire page revamp

Camp Site Fire -- Primarily just cleaning up this page so that it is easier to find a location. I really hate having to scroll a lot.

Tasks

In-progress

1. Working on the first round of data clean up.

Not Started

1. Going through areas to verify that all of the camp site fires are listed.

Done

1. Created tooltip and updated blurb at the top of the page.
2. Converted the original page into nested collapsible tables.

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Tooltip Template Tinkering

Template Tinkering - Tooltip -- Primarily just tinkering around with a template, don't look for too much here.

Tasks

In-progress

1. Nothing

Not Started

1. Everything

Done

1. Duplicated template to my sandbox

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Potential LocationList Template changes

LocationList Template Changes (Proof of Concept) -- Goal was to make Anniversary Year Tasks easier to follow (really allow any display of a location list inside an indented list, etc.). It allows editors to add style and class options to the LocationList to apply css styling to the table. For example, padding-left to indent the table to look better with an indented list, and clickable sorting.

Current plan is to continue working on the "local" copy, and only using it in pages one at a time.

Done

1. Basic template work, doc, etc.

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Template: Infobox Instances changes

Infobox Instances template changes -- Goal was to fix an error that was thrown if an editor forgot or neglected to enter a group size in the size field for the infobox.

Example page

Done

1. Basic template work, doc, etc.

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Ordered Lists idea for Quest Chains

Ordered List idea -- Goal is to get quest chains that need an ordered list to indicate that quests need to be done in a specific order due to phasing, etc. Existing documentation on the wiki is pretty much non-existent at this time.

Done

1. Basic work, etc.

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Missions: Repeatable Missions Table Format Changes

Repeatable Missions Table Format Changes -- Goal is to make the BtS repeatable missions tables easier to read and follow.

Done

1. Table changes.

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LootBox format change to true Table layout

LootBox Table Format Changes -- Goal is to make the LootBox Template viewed as a table instead of it's present problematic presentation using spans.

Done

1. Recreated template and subtemplates.
2. Created new subtemplates.

To Do

1. Updated documentation
2. Attempt dynamic tables to maximise space usage and the number of items included
3. Look at side by side tables (probably wrap each table in a div layout)

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