Talk:The Vault Fallout Wiki/Archive 1

Article of the day
Does the "Article of the day" box ever change? :-/ --Martin von Wittich 08:56, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

FYI FALLOUT POSTER AT E3 2006 It might use the oblivion engine !!!!!! --Nuts monk 21:17, 21 July 2006 (EDT)


 * And so? Very impressive news. --Winterheart 11:15, 22 July 2006 (EDT)

it was in PC Gamer Bethesda softworks is tight liped about it --Nuts monk 22:54, 22 July 2006 (EDT)

I thought you guys might like to see this, whilst looking through the Gamestation website for the new games - I came across this :-

http://gamestation.co.uk/Games/PC-Games/Fallout-New-Vegas/~r419489/

By - Tunnel Rat

New "anon" main page
Goddammit, man, it nearly gave me a heart attack D: MikaelGrizzly 09:52, 9 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, that skin is the wikia default for non-logged in users. Ausir 10:00, 9 June 2007 (UTC)


 * pant* Are they trying to kill people or something? MikaelGrizzly 10:12, 9 June 2007 (UTC)


 * It's supposedly more n00b-friendly. Ausir 10:15, 9 June 2007 (UTC)


 * It's as noob friendly as Roshambo. MikaelGrizzly 10:18, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Main page redesign
I've been working on a main page redesign on User:Kirkburn/Dev - I'd love to get some feedback on it. You can find out more about why it's there on User talk:Kirkburn/Dev. Thanks! Kirkburn (talk) 13:28, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, but I prefer the current one, without the content area ads (with only a banner that doesn't break the main page layout). Ausir 00:59, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Ausir, I'm afraid the new ads are coming. They are needed to support the free hosting we offer and will be shown on all wikis. We have tried to minimise the impact of this by removing ads on all other pages for logged in users - not a perfect solution of course, but we hope it will help. What's needed on the main page is a 300px column on the right. That will prevent the main page content being pushed down by the second ad when it shows. I've adjusted Kirkburn's draft to be as much like the current main page as possible. Hopefully that will help in the transition. -- sannse (talk) 20:19, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Is it just me, or do we have a redundant link with the menu on the side? we have the menu>fallout3 tab and also the menu>fallout games>fallout3 tab, surely we only need one of them? I vote for the menu>fallout3 one, because with the generational gap between the old games and the new one it helps partition areas of the site, and stopping pages becoming cluttered with stuff from different games, like the Age of Empires wiki --Frostedfire 02:00, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It is the same universe, so some mixing will occur anyway, but I agree that the games should be used as main groups for the articles. - Redmess 23:07, October 29, 2009 (UTC)

Primary statistics link
Why is the primary statistics link red? --Macros 09:02, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Logo Fix
No one reads the MediaWiki talk pages, so I thought I'd add a link here. Just a small suggestion to change the background behind the logo to transparent instead of white. MediaWiki_talk:Monaco.css --Odie5533 12:25, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Timeline and Contents
I think the timeline should only be linked to from the main page and the box containing the contents be moved to the spot where the timeline was. --Odie5533 05:15, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * What would be the point of that? That Furry Bastard 09:13, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

News
Alright, so how does one go about adding news to that box on the main page? It says somewhere to add it to the "News" section, but I don't know how to do that and I don't want to go screwing something up by trying to figure out through trial and error. I already have the article up on my blog. That's at this location. Mister President 01:34, October 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * First of all, you add it by adding " to the post. Second, I don't really think the marriage proposal thing qualifies as news. It's funny, but I think it should stay as a regular newspost. Ausir(talk) 01:39, October 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * I was thinking of it along the lines of that laser rifle thing that I saw up a while ago. Something interesting to throw out there. So that brings up the question, what makes something real news? Mister President 00:49, October 19, 2009 (UTC)
 * Thing is, this is not really something new, as it's been posted months ago already in our forum, IIRC. How about you modify your post or post again, but this time include info about the interview with the people behind the mod from BethBlog, which is actually something new? Ausir(talk) 01:03, October 19, 2009 (UTC)
 * That's what I saw and planned on posting. I just couldn't figure out how. And I put up the wrong URL. Mister President 00:43, October 20, 2009 (UTC)
 * How about having several gaming sites feed articles into the news section? It would be a good way to connect the wiki to the outer world. - Redmess 23:10, October 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Are you familiar with the term 'copyright'? http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/4/4a/Naglowaa_se.gif/11px-Naglowaa_se.gif Tagaziel (call!) 10:22, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

Background is wrong
Why the fuck does the home page have a background of a game ENTIRELY different from the game this site is dedicated to? I say whoever did it... must die--206.75.130.250 01:21, November 2, 2009 (UTC)
 * Huh? I get the normal background myself. Ausir(talk) 01:24, November 2, 2009 (UTC)
 * It seems to only appear on my Mac laptop but not on my PC
 * Sounds like some browser settings on your Mac. Have you changed some settings for the wiki, or perhaps the browser itself? Did it appear normally before on the Mac, and if so, what changed thereafter? - Redmess 00:36, November 3, 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm almost positive it's the site. It's happening to my PC now. The background is of a game called Dragon Age Origins. I think it's just an add to select various skins for your wiki and that the whole page's background is like that as an example. Other than that, I have no idea. --174.3.9.125 22:19, November 3, 2009 (UTC)
 * I've noticed it, too. It only appears when you aren't logged in. --FawkesGamer360 22:27, November 3, 2009 (UTC)
 * I dont have this problem. Maybe its actually an ad? - Redmess 11:55, November 4, 2009 (UTC)
 * Me neither. Tried logging out too, looked the same then. -=KAG=-Discussion - the VaultNO 20:33, November 4, 2009 (UTC)
 * This is very strange... --174.3.9.125 22:28, November 5, 2009 (UTC)
 * im not logged in Normal Vault Design for me :/ --217.227.191.164 20:54, December 31, 2009 (UTC)

Malware?
Every time I visit an article, google tells me that the site contains malware and that i should leave the site. WTF? This has never happened to me before
 * Eh, maybe Google's paranoid. Nitty Tok. 22:27, February 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * It seems Google flagged one of Wikia's ad networks as "potentially serving bad content" which caused the users of some browsers such as Chrome getting that warning. Wikia has disabled the ad network in question - if you run into it again, please leave a message in the thread on Community Central. -- Porter21 (talk) 01:54, February 5, 2010 (UTC)

I'm 100% sure this problem still hasn't been resolved. The malware problems are real and present within the ad network. This problem has been present on most wikia pages for the past few weeks, but from what I understand the Fallout wiki has it worse than most. At first I thought the ads were a result of a java vulnerability exploit, but even without java plugins enabled you probably have about a 1-3% chance of getting redirected to a fake malware removal website if you open ANY page on the Fallout wiki. The blog post acknowledging the problem can be found here: http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:KyleH/Malware_warnings_on_Wikia. You can see I already complained on there, but it looks like someone else has had problems on this particular wiki.

They recommend using the http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contact page to report these problems, and I've already turned in about 4 URLs over the past week.

For anyone just browsing the Fallout wiki, I'd recommend having some sort of active anti-malware software running while browsing, such as AVG, Norton Internet Security, or Windows Security Essentials. The fake malware websites seem to try to use the SHeur2 trojan to run an executable 'av.exe' which runs as a background process. Check task manager to see if this process is running if you think you've been infected, stop the process, and then run your anti-malware software to remove the trojan and undo any damage it may have caused.

Sorry for the long rant, but I hope this helps anyone with concerns about this topic!

Socash11 08:59, February 25, 2010 (UTC)

Haven't noticed this (as of March 3) has it been fixed yet ?

Main page
On the main page it says "with over 8194 articles" and we've only got 8194 articles. It always says we've got over something articles when we haven't. Should'nt we get rid of the word "Over" at the top?Tezzla Cannon 12:19, April 16, 2010 (UTC)

μLaw format?
Before I go on on, I love Safari. Anyways, why is there a μLaw file on here? That's puzzling. Also, I hang around a lot of smart people (i.e. CSS programmers who are only 12) so I have some concept of it. Only person who might be able to explain might be Porter or Gothe. – 01:20, May 29, 2010 (UTC)

What are you talking about? (I may not understand what youre talking becuase im no coder) Im lost, please explain :D Mah Laser Rifle goes PEW PEW PEW! Does Yours? 18:45, October 27, 2010 (UTC)

Timer
Would there be enough room on the the page for a timer showing how long til NV release, I saw Bulbapedia had one for Black & White, so it might be nice to add. - RASICTalk 08:47, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

I like the way you think--Radraider 23:58, September 21, 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. Insane! 00:00, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

October 19 2010 00:01 EST

Ding. Nitty Tok. 18:20, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

Wow. Nice one Nitty! Chaos ian7 05:39, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Did you know
The did you know section has a broken link involving Wasteland, the game. It says,  Wasteland (game) . 75.56.243.247 17:50, October 1, 2010 (UTC)