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External Link Spam

As far as I can see, most of the current spam is external links. Seeing as that is the case, and there is almost no need for external links with this wiki, perhaps there could be bonus anti-spam features attached to them?-Smurfton 13:15, 4 February 2012 (PST)

Hmm. There are few enough of those that I was just able to nail some of the subtler inserts by scanning for pages with external links. It might be worth somehow flagging or reporting any edit that introduces a new one, but this is basically up to Cyber AEON. --Mental Mouse 08:51, 5 February 2012 (PST)

Spam wave defeated for now.

Cyber_AEON has updated the site and laid in more defenses. Most users will need to reregister, but it looks like the spam flood has been dammed. --Mental Mouse 12:33, 4 February 2012 (PST)

Spam wave continues

My current routine is: block the users for 1 year, including no E-mail. (Not using "infinite" anymore because this is using up a lot of usernames.) Then delete their pages, and from the "Action Complete" page for that, "protect" the deletion -- choose"Sysops Only" [can create the file] and Confirm. The protection is because the spammers otherwise tend to recreate the same pages. You know, we could really use some CAPTCHAs.... --Mental Mouse 12:23, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Spam wave

I think I've rooted out the offending accounts and (new) spam pages. (Well over 100 pages from a similar number of otherwise-virgin accounts!) If I've mistakenly blocked a real user or deleted a real page, give me a holler by E-mail. --Mental Mouse 22:47, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Update 115

See Talk:News for changelist.

Update 113!

Changelist copied below... looks like a bugfix release, yay! --Mental Mouse 11:18, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Fireball and Cloudkill always explode at the end of their trajectory.
When you gain permanent intrinsics by evolving or lichifying, relevant temporary intrinsics will be cleared, preventing you from having a silver-tolerant lich. (Nathan Bogue)
Timestamps on the final character dump and the description of how long you lived will now match. (Deozaan)
You can wish for bones and corpses without them instantly dissolving. (Garron)
You can no longer fetch items that have teleport fixed. (Eris Discordia)
When a creature (un)polys into a gargantuan creature, it will now also push away monsters in addition to crushing walls. (Nathan Bogue)
Lich-form creatures that are undead no longer report it being your evil that was useless. (garron Bailey)
When you name an item, the menu defaults to naming the type rather than the specific as this is the usual scenario.
The floor of the kiwi room is now the proper floor tile.
Controled teleport onto the square you are already standing no longer reports that you are blocked, but that you decide to stay put.
Mysterious mapping of rooms fixed. Thanks to Kender and Mental Mouse for tracking this down - it has been annoying me for six years or so! (David Damerell, Eilu, Kender, Mental Mouse)
buildall.sh should work with --use-home-dir again. (garron)
The option menu no longer has Load. Instead it has Quit, which prompts you if you meant this. Loading is now only done from the main menu.
No experience for killing your pets.
Confirmation prompt if starting New Game with active saved game as one can easily accidentally overwrite it.
Some spells when mistargeted no longer waste your mana. Not all, so remain vigilant.
Cancelling your choice in the Wish menu no longer costs a turn.
Fix potential crash when you are killed by splash damage from a thrown item.

General Goals!

I Understand a decent amount about Powder, not enough to make any life changing discoveries, but enough to fill in some articles. is there any General Goals, or some sort of To do list i can help with? Ursper 15:03, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

For Ursper and others: We're still looking for more tips on various monsters and spell use, typo fixing and other corrections are always appreciated, and new tricks and tips are welcome. Also, Kender could probably use some help with his Rooms project, there's almost 70 predefined rooms! [ETA: Rooms are done, other stuff still needed]] --Mental Mouse 23:52, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Older Discussion

"Armours" => "Armour"

Hi

I suggest we change "Armours" to "Armour" - this is correct usage. Google searches for each term, as well as dictionaries and thesauruses seem to back this up.

I would fix it myself but it seems I cannot edit the main page.

Cheers! Bunky 08:58, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Done and done. - CYBER Aeon 05:32, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

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It's 7356 bytes vs. the current 12793 bytes. - JoeB 04:33, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Food

It might be a good idea to add a link to the food page in the 'Items' area. Vodalian 00:24, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Shields

Shields information has been removed from Armour page. A link to the Shields page should be added in the 'Items' area. By the way, any admins alive? --quik 23:33, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Update

I've just reorganized the main page, sorting most of the lists, rearranging a few items, and merging a couple of undone or minimal pages into more appropriate ones. (Notably, "Body Armour" is now a proper subtype of "Armour".) I've also done Vodalian's suggestions, while Kendar did Quik's. Feel free to comment here or on my talk page.