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| - | == | + | == Asterisk? == |
| + | Maybe this should be moved to [[HSR.com updates]], since asterisks in URLs are ugly. - [[User:furrykef|furrykef]] 17:38, 11 Oct 2004 (MST) | ||
| + | :H*R seems to be the standard abbreviation you see around the net when referring to Homestar Runner. I don't really care what the URL looks like, frankly. I say to leave it as is. [[User:Render|Render]] | ||
| + | ::I kind of agree with Render. "HSR.com" doesn't mean anything to me; I think it's confusing. Note that you can still type "H*R.com updates" into your Address bar and you'll still get to the correct page, even though the browser will encode your URL. [o[User:InterruptorJones|<nowiki></nowiki>]]<small>— [[User:InterruptorJones|InterruptorJones]]</small>[[<nowiki></nowiki>]] | ||
| + | :::I've never used the "HSR" abbreviation. Who uses that anyway? And since we're talking about typing stuff in address bars, here's a fun fact: typing "Homestar Runner updates" into Google's "I'm feeling lucky" search (or just typing it into Firefox's location bar) will land you on our [[Main Page]].[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 12:03, 12 Oct 2004 (MST) | ||
| - | + | ::::We could change it to "Official Site Updates". Would that remedy the confusion between abbreviations? — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 12:29, 12 Oct 2004 (MST) | |
| + | :::::Just make a redirect or something, like the one for my profile (which will link you to [[Wikipedia: User:Shadow Hog|my Wikipedia profile]]). There's no reason that there shouldn't be a redirect. In fact, I think I'll go do one right now, save people some time. | ||
| - | : | + | :::::And for the record, '''I''' use the "HSR" abbreviation. Both are acceptable abbreviations from what I can tell; whichever one you use is entirely up to personal preference. I just happen to prefer "HSR" since I think the asterisk looks kinda funky used in an abbreviation like that. [[User:Shadow Hog|Shadow Hog]] 15:07, 12 Oct 2004 (MST) |
| - | :: | + | :::: I use "HSR" exclusively... Mainly because using an asterisk takes an extra keystroke, plus I think it looks weird. Perhaps that just comes from working with wildcards in computer systems for so long, "H*R.com" to me just means anything that starts with "H" and ends with "R.com". But there seems to be a lot of pro-* sentiment here and it really doesn't bug me, so whatever really. [[User:sekhmet|sekhmet]] 09:30, 15 Dec 2004 (MST) |
| - | + | :::::: What about using <nowiki>[[updates]]</nowiki>? | |
| - | + | :::::::What about it? It's a redirect you just created now.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 16:42, 25 Dec 2004 (MST) | |
| - | : | + | :I had assumed the H*R abbreviation used here came directly from the Homestar Runner logo, since '*' is often read as 'star', and it resembles the logo. Unless your shift keys are broken, it shouldn't take any more keystrokes than HSR (I'd personally use HR before HSR, as in hrwiki.org). I'm used to seeing *'s as wildcards too, but H*R immediately reads 'Homestar Runner' to me :) (I hate coming accross these discussions late...) --[[User:BaconSandwich|BaconSandwich]] 23:09, 15 Feb 2005 (MST) |
| - | + | == RSS == | |
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| - | + | Could we get an RSS feed for this page like the one in recent changes? That would be '''very''' handy :) | |
| + | -Southpaw018 | ||
| - | + | :What is an RSS feed? [[User:Hobophobic|<nowiki>~</nowiki>Hobo]] | |
| - | : | + | ::There's some good information on RSS in [http://forum.hrwiki.org/viewtopic.php?t=563 this forum topic] and on the [[HRWiki:Feeds]] page.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 15:09, 15 Oct 2004 (MST) |
| + | :::Sad to say, a feed for this page does not look like it's gonna happen anytime soon. In the meantime, you can use this feed. http://interglacial.com/rss/homestar.rss --[[User:James|James]] 16:46, 19 Oct 2004 (MST) | ||
| + | ::::Thank you! | ||
| - | + | == Parsing Error == | |
| - | + | The [[H*R.com updates]] article has been throwing an error since a recent upgrade. Has anyone else seen other pages doing this? I think it has something to do with the template. Other pages are loading templates just fine, and, in fact, <nowiki>[[Template:updates]]</nowiki> is viewable. So why would the program have problems inserting that template onto this page? — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 12:49, 24 Nov 2004 (MST) | |
| + | :'''Update''': there seem to be problems loading the updates template onto any page (I just tried in the [[HRWiki:Sandbox|sandbox]]). Any ideas? — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 12:55, 24 Nov 2004 (MST) | ||
| + | ::Check your comp. I see the template just fine and dandy, I don't know why you wouldn't be. (Unless, of course, it was fixed in the last three hours, which isn't impossible.) --[[User:Shadow Hog|Shadow Hog]] 13:23, 24 Nov 2004 (MST) | ||
| + | :::It wasn't the template that was the problem. As I mentioned above, the template was viewable, it was just throwing errors when used on pages. Actually, everything '''''is''''' fixed now. I re-uploaded all the files for MediaWiki and that seems to have fixed things up nicely. — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 13:43, 24 Nov 2004 (MST) | ||
| - | == | + | == Lock? == |
| - | + | I've noticed that some pages on [[Wikipedia:Main_Page|Wikipedia]] happen to be lockable if people keep on editing in nasty things. Like, say, [[Wikipedia:George W. Bush|George W. Bush]]. Would that be possible on here? It'd sure-as-heck prevent all those people from trying to post updates here or vandalizing it, and frankly, what editing does this page really '''need'''? It's a page with a call to a template and maybe an introductory paragraph, but that's it. What's to edit? I say, if it's possible, this get protected from editing to make our lives a little easier. --[[User:Shadow Hog|Shadow Hog]] 23:09, 24 Nov 2004 (MST) | |
| - | + | :Thanks for the tip, but this page is [[HRWiki:Protection_log|already protected]].[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 05:52, 25 Nov 2004 (MST) | |
| + | ::Must've happened when I wasn't looking. Thanks anyway.--[[User:Shadow Hog|Shadow Hog]] 10:23, 25 Nov 2004 (MST) | ||
| - | + | == So Long... == | |
| - | + | Why does it take so long for edits to the template to take effect here? I press reload over and over and nothing happens... --[[User:Nerdular Nerdence|Nerdular Nerdence]] 00:56, 30 Nov 2004 (MST) | |
| - | + | :Still broken here, too. Maybe the lock is messing it up for some reason. - [[User:furrykef|[[User:furrykef|furrykef]] ([[User_talk:furrykef|Talk at me]])]] 03:01, 30 Nov 2004 (MST) | |
| - | + | Still nothing. Will admins look at please? --[[User:Nerdular Nerdence|Nerdular Nerdence]] 22:31, 30 Nov 2004 (MST) | |
| - | : | + | :Were you doing a normal Refresh or a Ctrl+Refresh? Ctrl+Refresh forces your browser to load from the site rather than pulling the page from your temporary internet files. See if that makes a difference. I haven't confirmed this yet, but I'm starting to think MediaWiki actually caches pages somewhere on the server so that it doesn't get overloaded with PHP/SQL requests. Smart thinking if you ask me, and I think that's what makes it run smoother than 'Tavi. Anyway, try the Ctrl+Refresh and if that doesn't work try clearing your temp internet files. Reply back here if you can't figure it out. [[User:JoeyDay|<nowiki></nowiki>]] —[[User:JoeyDay|JoeyDay]] [[User talk:JoeyDay|(Talk)]] 23:10, 30 Nov 2004 (MST) |
| + | ::Actually, as far as I know, a regular refresh checks if your cache is correct, and then loads the newest version. But I'll have to look it up. | ||
| - | + | ::MediaWiki does cache pages, images in particular. Quite nicely I might add, considering our bandwidth draw. Anyway, this page has worked fine for me since the first time I viewed it on Monday. Nerdular Nerdence, Joey's instructions are exactly what I would recommend. Does it work now?[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 10:10, 1 Dec 2004 (MST) | |
| - | + | :::I'm puzzled. It got it right earlier in the week, and now it's wrong again. ctrl+refresh does nothing to help. - [[User:furrykef|[[User:furrykef|furrykef]] ([[User_talk:furrykef|Talk at me]])]] 13:35, 3 Dec 2004 (MST) | |
| - | + | I'd tried that before and nothing, but now it is coming up ok. Maybe ISP or something stupid like that is caching on the way... oh well. | |
| + | Also, use FireFox, and it doesn't seem to be quite as dumb about loading from cache instead of internet... --[[User:Nerdular Nerdence|Nerdular Nerdence]] 18:10, 1 Dec 2004 (MST) | ||
| - | + | This sounds similar to how Wikipedia behaves with respect to the Main Page. [http://www.hrwiki.rg/index.php?title=H%2AR.com_updates&action=purge This link] should force the page to update the cache for [[H*R.com_updates]]. | |
| - | + | Of course, it assumes the Purge function works in the version of MediaWiki used here. --[[User:83.88.139.108|83.88.139.108]] 12:07, 6 Dec 2004 (MST) | |
| - | + | == 'Not sure when?' section? == | |
| - | + | Should there be one? Because you may never know when a page is updated and you don't know when. Like Coach Z's quote in 'The House That Gave Sucky Treats', or the new pop up in the museum for 'The Isle of Pom'. | |
| - | + | :1)Sign your posts. | |
| - | : | + | :2)When you discover it, post it on the template with the date. (At least, I think.) →[[User:FireBird|''<small><tt>[[User:FireBird|<font color=green>FireBird</font>]]</tt></small>'']] |
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| - | :: | + | ::You could always post something that you aren't sure about on the discussion page.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 20:17, 2 Jan 2005 (MST) |
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| - | == | + | == Updating this page for 2005 == |
| - | + | This page could do with a link to [[H*R.com updates 2005]] some time soon. -- [[User:Mithent|Mithent]] 06:59, 7 Jan 2005 (MST) | |
| - | : | + | :Done.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 21:38, 7 Jan 2005 (MST) |
| - | :: | + | And shouldn't it say "since January 3, 2005" instead of "since January 5, 2005"? --[[User:TuqueeLukee|Tuquee]] 07:41, 10 Jan 2005 (MST) |
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| + | :Fixed.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 10:32, 10 Jan 2005 (MST) | ||
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| + | == Experimental Film 'Official' TMBG video == | ||
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| + | On January 10th, They Might Be Giants released the official video of Experimental Film. It's quite a bit different than the one on H*R.com. While it's not directly on the site, it probably deserves mention on the updates page. | ||
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| + | The video can be viewed (iTunes required) at: | ||
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| + | http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/com.apple.jingle.app.store.DirectAction/viewVideo?b=a&videoId=41146400 | ||
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| + | :Sweet. I've added it to the list.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 16:54, 12 Jan 2005 (MST) | ||
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| + | == Updates and 2005 updates page template == | ||
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| + | Wouldn't it make it a little cleaner between the 2005 updates page and the main updates page (which is updated more regularly than the 2005 page) to have a template for the 2005 updates, and also put that on the main updates page? Then you could just stick what's left of 2004 below the template. --[[User:AndrewNeo|AndrewNeo]] 18:29, 7 Mar 2005 (MST) | ||
| + | * Looking at that, I guess it wouldn't work considering we only keep half a year's worth of updates. --[[User:AndrewNeo|AndrewNeo]] 18:31, 7 Mar 2005 (MST) | ||
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| + | ==Stinkoman 20X6 Music== | ||
| + | It says that on April 2, Stinkoman 20X6 music was added to the Videlectrix site. I thought it had been there before then, but I don't know the exact date. {{User:Rainer/sig}} | ||
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| + | == Man! No update! == | ||
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| + | It's been, like, 4 days without anything! What is taking them so long? --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 17:13, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | :It's probable that they consider [[HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!]] to be this week's update. <small><tt>[[User:Homestar Coder|<font color=#8B0000>Aurora the Homestar Coder</font>]]</tt></small> 17:31, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | Well, we got that on Sunday, last week. Making the trip to getting to PAY PLUS about 30 seconds longer is no update. --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 20:01, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | :Wow. I hope you're just kidding, Volatile, because we got [[long pants]] ''and'' PAY PLUS last week. That makes ''two'' updates in ''one'' week. For ''free'', even. I think people forget that they don't owe us anything. In fact, if they ever ''did'' want to charge for the website (perish the thought!), they could easily be millionaires. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:12, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | :Indeed, indeed, but I've seen two updates in one week and then a new one next Monday before. But it keeps me going thinking that chances are they're just working on something that takes a long time to do. [[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 11:23, 9 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | ::True that. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 12:10, 9 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | :::Folks, this is not the place to whine about the lack of updates. We have a forum for that. Though even there, it's obnoxious. There were no updates, let's move on with our lives. [[User:InterruptorJones|<nowiki></nowiki>]]<small>— [[User:InterruptorJones|InterruptorJones]]</small>[[<nowiki></nowiki>]] 12:16, 9 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | ::::Hey man, I agree with you 100 percent. That's what I was trying to say with my first post up there. I think we're ''lucky'' to get any updates, ''ever.'' — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 12:42, 9 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | :::::In response to Monsieur Jones, you may have a forum, but I was kicked off b/w frozen from it. So now, to me, it is now just a useless bunch of webpages with a prefix of "forum.hrwiki.org". And also, I've never seen a whole week without an update. So this is probably gonna be wither one really big thing, or like, ten little things. You know who I am. I'm just too lazy to log in. | ||
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| + | ::::::<nowiki>*</nowiki>checks update log* The last time they went a week without an update was.... the week of February 28, 2005. So either you haven't been here very long or you have a very short memory... <small><tt>[[User:Homestar Coder|<font color=#8B0000>Aurora the Homestar Coder</font>]]</tt></small> 11:28, 10 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | :::::::Strange. I just checked. It seems that on February 10th, a new Quote of the Week, Fanstuff and Sketchbook drawing was put up, and on the 14th, [[secret recipes]] was put up. Unless you're talking about a different February 8, 2005. --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 15:21, 10 Apr 2005 (MTD) | ||
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| + | ::::::::My message says the '''28th''' of February. That week, the only updates were the weekly stuff and the message about the talk. I guess that it's strange that the quote hasn't changed, but I consider that a minor detail rather than an update...<small><tt>[[User:Homestar Coder|<font color=#8B0000>Aurora the Homestar Coder</font>]]</tt></small> 14:45, 10 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | :::::::::Oh, oh, oh! The ''2''8th! Well, I was on Spring Break then. This is the first time this has happened to me, so I'll stay annoyed, thank you very much. --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 14:49, 10 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | ::::::::::At the risk of prolonging this discussion, I must point out that since the beginning of 2004 the length of time between updates has been two weeks on at least a '''dozen''' different occasions. (I'm not counting minor updates like Quotes of the Week. And I say ''at least'' a dozen because that number is higher if you don't count certain games like Racewalker or a couple of the Puppet Jams, which I don't.) We'll get an update when we get an update. The bottom line is, as Strong Bad would say: [[HR:sbemail100.html|Keep your pants on. For real.]] — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:49, 10 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | == rampage == | ||
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| + | Your update page links to the Edit tab of the current StrongBad e-mail, not to its main thing. I would've fixed it (that's the virtue of a wiki), but it's not editable. [[User:24.148.19.210|24.148.19.210]] 06:12, 11 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | The link to [[rampage]] is set to edit the page, not view it, for some reason. This needs to be fixed. | ||
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| + | :Maybe you need to refresh your cache. Maybe you were trying to see the page as it was being created. Either way, it works now. If you still don't see it, press CTRL+F5 to do a hard refresh. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 08:40, 11 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | ::I had fixed it. I think... I expierenced the same problem, but then when tried to edit it, the link looked fine. I deleted the link and then reentered it, and that worked. --[[User:Joshua|Joshua]] 08:41, 11 Apr 2005 (MDT) | ||
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| + | == Edit on Lil Brudder == | ||
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| + | The link to the lil brudder page goes straight to edit mode for me. | ||
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| + | Me too | ||
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| + | Too bad this page is locked!-The Cheat Is Not Dead | ||
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| + | :Just do a hard refresh (Ctrl+F5). That should fix it up. →''<small><tt>[[User:FireBird|<font color=green>FireBird</font>]]</tt></small>'' | ||
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| + | == Screenshot == | ||
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| + | Much like [[User:JoeyDay/Main Page Mock-up|JoeyDay's Mock Up]], should we add a small screenshot every week of the newest update, then delete it when there's another update? I think it would look good. →''<small><tt>[[User:FireBird|<font color=green>FireBird</font>]]</tt></small>'' | ||
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| + | :Tha'd be easy. Since we always put one pic on the top right of every toon page to best describe it, we'd just use that one. That way we don't have to upload a bunch of useless ones. Right? ''<tt>[[Special:Contributions/Thunderbird L17|<font color=gold>⇔</font>]][[User:Thunderbird L17|<font color=gold>Thunderbird</font>]][[User talk:Thunderbird L17|<font color=gold>⇔</font>]]</tt>'' 03:25, 10 May 2005 (UTC) | ||
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| + | == To <nowiki><pre></nowiki> or not to <nowiki><pre></nowiki>? == | ||
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| + | I noticed that the new comic con note has been put it blockquotes instead of <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tages, yet the NYU talk a couple of months ago is in <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tags. Which one do we use for these types of things? →''<small><tt>[[User:FireBird|<font color=green>FireBird</font>]]</tt></small>''</pre> | ||
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| + | :The NYU thing was done that way (by someone, not me) in an attempt to preserve the formatting from the Flash. Since the comic con thing was just plain ol' text in plain ol' paragraphs, I didn't see any reason to use <nowiki><pre></pre></nowiki>, especially since that made it widen the page and was generally ugly. <small>— [[User:InterruptorJones|InterruptorJones]]</small> 13:01, 11 May 2005 (UTC) | ||
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| + | ==Template?== | ||
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| + | Now that we have the new main page updates template, can't we just get rid of this template, and direct Wikiers directly to [[H*R.com updates 2005]]? I think it would clean up the whole updates system, make it simpler. Any objections? {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 19:03, 23 May 2005 (UTC) | ||
Revision as of 15:22, 31 December 2005
Asterisk?
Maybe this should be moved to HSR.com updates, since asterisks in URLs are ugly. - furrykef 17:38, 11 Oct 2004 (MST)
- H*R seems to be the standard abbreviation you see around the net when referring to Homestar Runner. I don't really care what the URL looks like, frankly. I say to leave it as is. Render
- I kind of agree with Render. "HSR.com" doesn't mean anything to me; I think it's confusing. Note that you can still type "H*R.com updates" into your Address bar and you'll still get to the correct page, even though the browser will encode your URL. [o[User:InterruptorJones|]]— InterruptorJones[[]]
- I've never used the "HSR" abbreviation. Who uses that anyway? And since we're talking about typing stuff in address bars, here's a fun fact: typing "Homestar Runner updates" into Google's "I'm feeling lucky" search (or just typing it into Firefox's location bar) will land you on our Main Page. -- Tom 12:03, 12 Oct 2004 (MST)
- I kind of agree with Render. "HSR.com" doesn't mean anything to me; I think it's confusing. Note that you can still type "H*R.com updates" into your Address bar and you'll still get to the correct page, even though the browser will encode your URL. [o[User:InterruptorJones|]]— InterruptorJones[[]]
- We could change it to "Official Site Updates". Would that remedy the confusion between abbreviations? —
Joey (talk·edits) 12:29, 12 Oct 2004 (MST)
- Just make a redirect or something, like the one for my profile (which will link you to my Wikipedia profile). There's no reason that there shouldn't be a redirect. In fact, I think I'll go do one right now, save people some time.
- We could change it to "Official Site Updates". Would that remedy the confusion between abbreviations? —
- And for the record, I use the "HSR" abbreviation. Both are acceptable abbreviations from what I can tell; whichever one you use is entirely up to personal preference. I just happen to prefer "HSR" since I think the asterisk looks kinda funky used in an abbreviation like that. Shadow Hog 15:07, 12 Oct 2004 (MST)
- I use "HSR" exclusively... Mainly because using an asterisk takes an extra keystroke, plus I think it looks weird. Perhaps that just comes from working with wildcards in computer systems for so long, "H*R.com" to me just means anything that starts with "H" and ends with "R.com". But there seems to be a lot of pro-* sentiment here and it really doesn't bug me, so whatever really. sekhmet 09:30, 15 Dec 2004 (MST)
- What about using [[updates]]?
- What about it? It's a redirect you just created now. -- Tom 16:42, 25 Dec 2004 (MST)
- I had assumed the H*R abbreviation used here came directly from the Homestar Runner logo, since '*' is often read as 'star', and it resembles the logo. Unless your shift keys are broken, it shouldn't take any more keystrokes than HSR (I'd personally use HR before HSR, as in hrwiki.org). I'm used to seeing *'s as wildcards too, but H*R immediately reads 'Homestar Runner' to me :) (I hate coming accross these discussions late...) --BaconSandwich 23:09, 15 Feb 2005 (MST)
RSS
Could we get an RSS feed for this page like the one in recent changes? That would be very handy :) -Southpaw018
- What is an RSS feed? ~Hobo
- There's some good information on RSS in this forum topic and on the HRWiki:Feeds page. -- Tom 15:09, 15 Oct 2004 (MST)
- Sad to say, a feed for this page does not look like it's gonna happen anytime soon. In the meantime, you can use this feed. http://interglacial.com/rss/homestar.rss --James 16:46, 19 Oct 2004 (MST)
- Thank you!
- Sad to say, a feed for this page does not look like it's gonna happen anytime soon. In the meantime, you can use this feed. http://interglacial.com/rss/homestar.rss --James 16:46, 19 Oct 2004 (MST)
- There's some good information on RSS in this forum topic and on the HRWiki:Feeds page. -- Tom 15:09, 15 Oct 2004 (MST)
Parsing Error
The H*R.com updates article has been throwing an error since a recent upgrade. Has anyone else seen other pages doing this? I think it has something to do with the template. Other pages are loading templates just fine, and, in fact, [[Template:updates]] is viewable. So why would the program have problems inserting that template onto this page? — Joey (talk·edits) 12:49, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)
- Update: there seem to be problems loading the updates template onto any page (I just tried in the sandbox). Any ideas? — Joey (talk·edits) 12:55, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)
- Check your comp. I see the template just fine and dandy, I don't know why you wouldn't be. (Unless, of course, it was fixed in the last three hours, which isn't impossible.) --Shadow Hog 13:23, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)
- It wasn't the template that was the problem. As I mentioned above, the template was viewable, it was just throwing errors when used on pages. Actually, everything is fixed now. I re-uploaded all the files for MediaWiki and that seems to have fixed things up nicely. — Joey (talk·edits) 13:43, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)
- It wasn't the template that was the problem. As I mentioned above, the template was viewable, it was just throwing errors when used on pages. Actually, everything is fixed now. I re-uploaded all the files for MediaWiki and that seems to have fixed things up nicely. —
- Check your comp. I see the template just fine and dandy, I don't know why you wouldn't be. (Unless, of course, it was fixed in the last three hours, which isn't impossible.) --Shadow Hog 13:23, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)
Lock?
I've noticed that some pages on Wikipedia happen to be lockable if people keep on editing in nasty things. Like, say, George W. Bush. Would that be possible on here? It'd sure-as-heck prevent all those people from trying to post updates here or vandalizing it, and frankly, what editing does this page really need? It's a page with a call to a template and maybe an introductory paragraph, but that's it. What's to edit? I say, if it's possible, this get protected from editing to make our lives a little easier. --Shadow Hog 23:09, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)
- Thanks for the tip, but this page is already protected. -- Tom 05:52, 25 Nov 2004 (MST)
- Must've happened when I wasn't looking. Thanks anyway.--Shadow Hog 10:23, 25 Nov 2004 (MST)
So Long...
Why does it take so long for edits to the template to take effect here? I press reload over and over and nothing happens... --Nerdular Nerdence 00:56, 30 Nov 2004 (MST)
- Still broken here, too. Maybe the lock is messing it up for some reason. - [[User:furrykef|furrykef (Talk at me)]] 03:01, 30 Nov 2004 (MST)
Still nothing. Will admins look at please? --Nerdular Nerdence 22:31, 30 Nov 2004 (MST)
- Were you doing a normal Refresh or a Ctrl+Refresh? Ctrl+Refresh forces your browser to load from the site rather than pulling the page from your temporary internet files. See if that makes a difference. I haven't confirmed this yet, but I'm starting to think MediaWiki actually caches pages somewhere on the server so that it doesn't get overloaded with PHP/SQL requests. Smart thinking if you ask me, and I think that's what makes it run smoother than 'Tavi. Anyway, try the Ctrl+Refresh and if that doesn't work try clearing your temp internet files. Reply back here if you can't figure it out. —JoeyDay (Talk) 23:10, 30 Nov 2004 (MST)
- Actually, as far as I know, a regular refresh checks if your cache is correct, and then loads the newest version. But I'll have to look it up.
- MediaWiki does cache pages, images in particular. Quite nicely I might add, considering our bandwidth draw. Anyway, this page has worked fine for me since the first time I viewed it on Monday. Nerdular Nerdence, Joey's instructions are exactly what I would recommend. Does it work now? -- Tom 10:10, 1 Dec 2004 (MST)
- I'm puzzled. It got it right earlier in the week, and now it's wrong again. ctrl+refresh does nothing to help. - [[User:furrykef|furrykef (Talk at me)]] 13:35, 3 Dec 2004 (MST)
I'd tried that before and nothing, but now it is coming up ok. Maybe ISP or something stupid like that is caching on the way... oh well. Also, use FireFox, and it doesn't seem to be quite as dumb about loading from cache instead of internet... --Nerdular Nerdence 18:10, 1 Dec 2004 (MST)
This sounds similar to how Wikipedia behaves with respect to the Main Page. This link should force the page to update the cache for H*R.com_updates.
Of course, it assumes the Purge function works in the version of MediaWiki used here. --83.88.139.108 12:07, 6 Dec 2004 (MST)
'Not sure when?' section?
Should there be one? Because you may never know when a page is updated and you don't know when. Like Coach Z's quote in 'The House That Gave Sucky Treats', or the new pop up in the museum for 'The Isle of Pom'.
- 1)Sign your posts.
- 2)When you discover it, post it on the template with the date. (At least, I think.) →[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]
- You could always post something that you aren't sure about on the discussion page. -- Tom 20:17, 2 Jan 2005 (MST)
Updating this page for 2005
This page could do with a link to H*R.com updates 2005 some time soon. -- Mithent 06:59, 7 Jan 2005 (MST)
- Done. -- Tom 21:38, 7 Jan 2005 (MST)
And shouldn't it say "since January 3, 2005" instead of "since January 5, 2005"? --Tuquee 07:41, 10 Jan 2005 (MST)
- Fixed. -- Tom 10:32, 10 Jan 2005 (MST)
Experimental Film 'Official' TMBG video
On January 10th, They Might Be Giants released the official video of Experimental Film. It's quite a bit different than the one on H*R.com. While it's not directly on the site, it probably deserves mention on the updates page.
The video can be viewed (iTunes required) at:
- Sweet. I've added it to the list. -- Tom 16:54, 12 Jan 2005 (MST)
Updates and 2005 updates page template
Wouldn't it make it a little cleaner between the 2005 updates page and the main updates page (which is updated more regularly than the 2005 page) to have a template for the 2005 updates, and also put that on the main updates page? Then you could just stick what's left of 2004 below the template. --AndrewNeo 18:29, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)
- Looking at that, I guess it wouldn't work considering we only keep half a year's worth of updates. --AndrewNeo 18:31, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)
Stinkoman 20X6 Music
It says that on April 2, Stinkoman 20X6 music was added to the Videlectrix site. I thought it had been there before then, but I don't know the exact date. «Rob»
Man! No update!
It's been, like, 4 days without anything! What is taking them so long? --VolatileChemical 17:13, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- It's probable that they consider HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS! to be this week's update. Aurora the Homestar Coder 17:31, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT)
Well, we got that on Sunday, last week. Making the trip to getting to PAY PLUS about 30 seconds longer is no update. --VolatileChemical 20:01, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- Wow. I hope you're just kidding, Volatile, because we got long pants and PAY PLUS last week. That makes two updates in one week. For free, even. I think people forget that they don't owe us anything. In fact, if they ever did want to charge for the website (perish the thought!), they could easily be millionaires. — It's dot com 19:12, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- Indeed, indeed, but I've seen two updates in one week and then a new one next Monday before. But it keeps me going thinking that chances are they're just working on something that takes a long time to do. VolatileChemical 11:23, 9 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- True that. — It's dot com 12:10, 9 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- Folks, this is not the place to whine about the lack of updates. We have a forum for that. Though even there, it's obnoxious. There were no updates, let's move on with our lives. — InterruptorJones[[]] 12:16, 9 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- Hey man, I agree with you 100 percent. That's what I was trying to say with my first post up there. I think we're lucky to get any updates, ever. — It's dot com 12:42, 9 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- In response to Monsieur Jones, you may have a forum, but I was kicked off b/w frozen from it. So now, to me, it is now just a useless bunch of webpages with a prefix of "forum.hrwiki.org". And also, I've never seen a whole week without an update. So this is probably gonna be wither one really big thing, or like, ten little things. You know who I am. I'm just too lazy to log in.
- *checks update log* The last time they went a week without an update was.... the week of February 28, 2005. So either you haven't been here very long or you have a very short memory... Aurora the Homestar Coder 11:28, 10 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- Strange. I just checked. It seems that on February 10th, a new Quote of the Week, Fanstuff and Sketchbook drawing was put up, and on the 14th, secret recipes was put up. Unless you're talking about a different February 8, 2005. --VolatileChemical 15:21, 10 Apr 2005 (MTD)
- My message says the 28th of February. That week, the only updates were the weekly stuff and the message about the talk. I guess that it's strange that the quote hasn't changed, but I consider that a minor detail rather than an update...Aurora the Homestar Coder 14:45, 10 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- Oh, oh, oh! The 28th! Well, I was on Spring Break then. This is the first time this has happened to me, so I'll stay annoyed, thank you very much. --VolatileChemical 14:49, 10 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- At the risk of prolonging this discussion, I must point out that since the beginning of 2004 the length of time between updates has been two weeks on at least a dozen different occasions. (I'm not counting minor updates like Quotes of the Week. And I say at least a dozen because that number is higher if you don't count certain games like Racewalker or a couple of the Puppet Jams, which I don't.) We'll get an update when we get an update. The bottom line is, as Strong Bad would say: Keep your pants on. For real. — It's dot com 23:49, 10 Apr 2005 (MDT)
rampage
Your update page links to the Edit tab of the current StrongBad e-mail, not to its main thing. I would've fixed it (that's the virtue of a wiki), but it's not editable. 24.148.19.210 06:12, 11 Apr 2005 (MDT)
The link to rampage is set to edit the page, not view it, for some reason. This needs to be fixed.
- Maybe you need to refresh your cache. Maybe you were trying to see the page as it was being created. Either way, it works now. If you still don't see it, press CTRL+F5 to do a hard refresh. — It's dot com 08:40, 11 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- I had fixed it. I think... I expierenced the same problem, but then when tried to edit it, the link looked fine. I deleted the link and then reentered it, and that worked. --Joshua 08:41, 11 Apr 2005 (MDT)
Edit on Lil Brudder
The link to the lil brudder page goes straight to edit mode for me.
Me too
Too bad this page is locked!-The Cheat Is Not Dead
- Just do a hard refresh (Ctrl+F5). That should fix it up. →FireBird
Screenshot
Much like JoeyDay's Mock Up, should we add a small screenshot every week of the newest update, then delete it when there's another update? I think it would look good. →FireBird
- Tha'd be easy. Since we always put one pic on the top right of every toon page to best describe it, we'd just use that one. That way we don't have to upload a bunch of useless ones. Right? ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 03:25, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
To <pre> or not to <pre>?
I noticed that the new comic con note has been put it blockquotes instead of <pre> tages, yet the NYU talk a couple of months ago is in <pre> tags. Which one do we use for these types of things? →FireBird</pre>
- The NYU thing was done that way (by someone, not me) in an attempt to preserve the formatting from the Flash. Since the comic con thing was just plain ol' text in plain ol' paragraphs, I didn't see any reason to use <pre></pre>, especially since that made it widen the page and was generally ugly. — InterruptorJones 13:01, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Template?
Now that we have the new main page updates template, can't we just get rid of this template, and direct Wikiers directly to H*R.com updates 2005? I think it would clean up the whole updates system, make it simpler. Any objections? ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 19:03, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
