User talk:Morris the Mata Nui Cow

Early August 2014
July 2015
August 2017

GitHub

Hey, I was just revisiting the place and see the splash page, Refreshed skin, and quite a few other things have come a long way since I last saw. Looks great! I had previously had my first splash page hosted on my personal GitHub, and since I can see you've put a lot of work into it I went ahead and updated the Git repository for it to reflect the newest revisions. I also went ahead and took it off of my personal GitHub and made a BIONICLEsector01 organization, https://github.com/BIONICLEsector01, which I believe I sent you an invite to so you can contribute to that. I also made an update script to keep the Git in sync with the production server, which can be run from SSH by simply running ~/update.sh (from Swert's SSH account, I don't know if you might have a separate SSH account on this server, if so let me know and I'll fix that). Hopefully using Git will be a convenience and a "safety" feature, so none of your work gets irreversibly broken or lost because of server issues (*cough* HS01). If there's any questions or you need anything related to the GitHub account let me know. I'll probably set you to have full access to everything on it once you join the organization, that way you can mess with it on your own and have full control. Keep up the good work though, loving what you've done with the stuff here. :) --Meiko (talk) 01:24, 14 August 2017 (CET)

Hey what's up, it's been a while! Thanks for setting this all up, I just joined. I use Swert's SSH account, yep. Glad you like it! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 02:21, 14 August 2017 (CET)

Era... again

So, the original Era template had an icon for non-canon and semi canon media, but the neither of the separated G1-G2 Eras have these. They're just floating on the left corner under the title on the pages, which sometimes a bit irritating (for me), can't you just fix it somehow? Such as merging with the separated categories or adding the NC-SC for both, or I don't really know. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 08:43, 21 August 2017 (CET)

Replace those with Template:NCSC. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 18:00, 21 August 2017 (CET)

The Era/NCSC templates don't seem to appear on small screens. Is this intentional or just a problem with small screens? I've just noticed it with the Rapid Shooter and Shadow Horde redirects.--Surel (Talk) 22:08, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

That wasn't intentional! They should appear on small screens now. Thanks for letting me know. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 07:11, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Videos

The <videoflash> doesn't work. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 22:21, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

It's being phased out in favor of EmbedVideo. A cheap way to use it now is like so:

<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[VIDEO ID]</youtube>

Perhaps that's the next step is to fix that? :P Also, to adjust videos, see here -- ^{Owner (talk|contribs)}

I've just noticed that the <videoflash> doesn't work when I edited the BIONICLE Battle Videos page. How about the video's size? I've tried to change the videoflash to youtube, but the result is too large, I don't want to save it, please try it. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 22:57, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

User:Meiko removed VideoFlash as it is very out of date. Swert's method works, but I think the format mentioned here allows more customization:

{{#evt:
service=youtube
|id=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
|dimensions=350
}}

Gives you this:

-- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 02:14, 23 August 2017 (CET)

... Why, Morris? ;_; -- ^{Owner (talk|contribs)}

Can we upload the videos to or wiki? Such as the commercials and character videos. It would be safer if the videos would be native like the Building Instructions, not linked from YouTube, where (as y'all know) can be deleted over the time. From BMP I could download some of the videos, but I don't really know if I can upload them here and they would work or not. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 12:04, 16 September 2017 (CET)

i think we should. but we have to make sure we're getting the original videos, not stuff that people uploaded to youtube that may have been altered in any way. Intelligence4 (talk) 21:53, 16 September 2017 (CET)

From BioMedia Project, I could download some of the original videos, and there are at east 2 YouTube channels which have the original videos, I have checked them. But I don't know what format the video should be uploaded (mp4, avi etc.) what the wiki can use, and if the video did even work as a native one, not an external link. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 22:04, 16 September 2017 (CET)

mah-TOW - mah-TAOW

Doesn't the same rule what you said go to the "Hau," "Komau," and the other pronunciations ending with "OW" in the BEU? WE could change it like how it's in the Garai's page and include the BEU page number. But I think the old pronunciations may came from the Official Guide. I'll buy the Hungarian edition, but it won't match with the English one. The pronunciations are the same, but how they're written is not. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 15:06, 29 August 2017 (CET)

Only for ones like TOW, ROW, or MOW where the "ow" sound in those words actually makes the OH sound rather than the desired OW sound. HOW is fine since the word "how" is pronounced like "hau," as desired. Citations work, sure. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 21:18, 30 August 2017 (CET)

log out timer... again

in reference to the section that was archived... it's still happening a few weeks later. i'm getting logged out after some time on the site for no immediately apparent reason. Intelligence4 (talk) 20:32, 29 August 2017 (CET)

Huh. I'll bring this up with other staff, but I'm afraid I don't know what the cause is or what the solution would be (and I doubt I'll have time to look into it in the near future). -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 21:18, 30 August 2017 (CET)

sounds good. just wanted to make sure someone knows about it :) Intelligence4 (talk) 02:10, 5 September 2017 (CET)

i know you guys probably haven't had much time to look into this, but i just wanted to provide an update and say that the logout timer issue is still happening from time to time. Intelligence4 (talk) 22:55, 23 September 2017 (CET)

Afraid not, but thanks for keeping us updated. Actually are you being completely logged out, or is it just saying you waited too long to edit and need to reload? -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 07:46, 24 September 2017 (CET)

it makes me type in my password again, but not my username. that said, i think i have the "remember me" thing checked; it looks like i'm being totally logged out. i only use this site in an incognito window, if that means anything.

anyway, there isn't any sort of message that i waited too long and need to log in again, the page simply displays as though i'm logged out, and i have to go click on the log in thing and reenter my password. if this is, on the back-end, a waited-too-long issue, then it's not working as intended, since it happens well within a few minutes of the last time i edited something else or entered my password. Intelligence4 (talk) 00:20, 28 September 2017 (CET)

It's the Incognito browser. That one doesn't store cookies, so every time you close the browser it doesn't save the fact that you log in. -- Dorek _Talk 06:50, 28 September 2017 (CET)

@Intelligence4 did you get this warning when you get logged out?

"Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data.

You might have been logged out. Please verify that you're still logged in and try again. If it still does not work, try logging out and logging back in, and check that your browser allows cookies from this site."

-- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 21:50, 1 October 2017 (CET)

Sometimes I get this message. But the system does not log me out, only this script indicates that. I've been logged in on my computer for months and got this message 3 times I guess, but haven't been logged out, nor did the system logged me out. It just appeared. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 22:00, 1 October 2017 (CET)

Just tried fixing this, but I don't know if the fix worked. @anyone Are you still being logged out? -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 08:25, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

I've never actually got logged out. I've got the message sometimes, after I made changes on 10+ pages, but I was till logged in. For me it wasn't a problem, because I never got to log in. :D But haven't got this message for a while. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 09:32, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

sorry i've been away for so long... @dorek the issue actually isn't when i close my browswer - it's when i still have an active session running. @mtmnc i don't think i've gotten that message. it simply shows the page as though i was never logged in in the first place. since this is my first edit after being back, i'll come back to this and let you know if i get anything as i work my way though my watchlist. Intelligence4 (talk) 21:27, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Uploads... no uploads.

After spending an embarrassingly long time looking for the upload button that I knew was there before, I realized that uploads were restricted so the button has disappeared. Do you know why, and more importantly when they will be working again?--Harsulin's Ghost (talk) 01:16, 1 September 2017 (CET)

Fixed. Sorry about that. We disabled uploads it to prepare for some backend work, but people's schedules haven't synced up to finish it yet. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 09:23, 2 September 2017 (CET)

No problem. Thanks.--Harsulin's Ghost (talk) 22:32, 2 September 2017 (CET)

Instructions

So I made a typo in Kirop's instructions... I've uploaded the same file with the corrected name, so would you be so kind to delete File:8949 Instructions.pdf file? Thanks! — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 12:26, 2 September 2017 (CET)

Okay I accidentally inserted the good file without typo for deletion. My bad, I'm so sorry. So could you rename this file : File:8949 Insturctions.pdf into 8949 Instructions.pdf, please? — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 07:33, 3 September 2017 (CET)

All good, I should have caught that myself haha. Done. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 08:29, 3 September 2017 (CET)

Thanks! By the way, how could I re-size the external images? I usually upload large images to Brickshelf and it would take too many space on my User-page, but the 'thumbs' are just too small. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 00:09, 9 September 2017 (CET)

Unfortunately I'm not sure you can. BS01's home-built extension may have that functionality, but I'm not sure it does, and the extension is quite out-of-date anyway. You should upload a copy that's the right size and embed that instead. (Haha by the way I hope you don't think BS01 is BS--look it up :P) -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 05:55, 9 September 2017 (CET)

I don't think I ever uploaded anything to BS01 what I wanted to upload to BS or vica-versa. :D — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 12:09, 9 September 2017 (CET)

what...what's bs? looking that one up only sends me to urban dictionary. Intelligence4 (talk) 07:40, 16 September 2017 (CET)

Urban Dictionary's right. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 08:48, 16 September 2017 (CET)

It was meant to be "Brickshelf." — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 09:28, 16 September 2017 (CET)

Set-shortcut

My last edit's summary is wrong, not the whole page name is the shortcut, only the script after the "Set:", so I think I did it correctly... or didn't I? — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 19:07, 16 September 2017 (CET)

Also, there will be some edits on the set pages after all, I had to edit the BI links on some pages, and have to add the EraG1 to them, I've added the EraG2 to the Generation 2 sets, so some massive edits cannot be avoided, unfortunately. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 19:21, 16 September 2017 (CET)

Maybe we should make every "number-pages" as redirects/shortcuts for the sets, and after add the shortcut to the template. I added it, made the "8689" page as the shortcut for "Set:8689", but the shortcut (8689) appeared to be a red-link after the creation of the page (8689) on the "Set:8689" page. So I had to remove the shortcut from the Template:Set and re-add it to make this correct. Would I remove the shortcut parameter from the Template:Set until every "number" page will be made and after this re-add the parameter or what should I do? (Hope, you understand, this might be confusing even from me) — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 21:59, 16 September 2017 (CET)

BS01's MediaWiki "Images" extension

Hey MtMNC! I wasn't sure who to best talk to about this (it said the author was User:Swert, and User:Meiko imported the files), but I'm asking you since you're the only public member on the BS01 GitHub group. Would you mind if I opened a pull request to the extension along with a code+review? I have some improvements I'd like to share the codebase, which would be:

• Updating extension registry (use extension.json, provide a very-temporary back-compatible PHP entry point, then have someone load the extension via wfLoadExension( 'Images' ); in this wiki's local setting so that the PHP entry point can be deleted in a follow-up patch)
• Avoiding global using the ParserFirstCallInit hook
• Code styling to adhere to conventions

I also have some ideas on how to improve the arguments logic, although I need to do some thinking first on how to make the new logic backward-compatible since it'd allow those attributes written just like how HTML5 attributes are written, so stuff doesn't break. That would be in a patch separate from the other patch- if you think that the new sytnax proposal is more suited for the community portal or something, let me know and I'll put it there instead. Thanks!

SamanthaNguyen (talk) 20:35, 18 September 2017 (CET)

Yeah that'd be fine. Thanks for being willing to take that on! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 15:55, 19 September 2017 (CET)

Separated by series

I made an edit on the Toa Seal page, separating the books by their series in the Appearances subsection's Books' column. I think it would work on that way, it's much shorter, but their collective names redirects you to the series' main article,(e.g. the "Adventures" to the "BIONICLE Adventures" page) and the "#[number in the series] [book's main title]" redirects you to the book's article.(e.g. the "#2 Trial by Fire" to the "BIONICLE Adventures 2: Trial by Fire" page). My question is that may I edit the other pages too, or re-edit this page again, because it's not a good idea? — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 19:31, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Although the question is for Morris, I thought I'd give my opinion on the new format, if it doesn't bother you. I'd say that, while it certainly doesn't look bad, I feel like it's a bit impractical to always have to rewrite the hyperlink instead of just typing in the title of the book. Maybe we could still divide the novels by series and keep the original titles of the individual books, but that might be a little redundant. Either way, I also think that we should specify the fact that they are novels, so either we could keep the usual subdivision and use the book series as a further subsubdivision, or we could separate novels from guide books in a column of their own. That's just my two cents on this. ~OnionShark 19:54, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Interesting ideas. I see the appeal, but I'm not sure they're worth hundreds of edits. Maybe if/when we ever need to make other changes to the appearances, we could also change the way we handle book titles? (Also Dorek and Swert may want to weigh in on this one.) -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 08:19, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

Don't we still have a bot for that kind of thing? =P

I'm not a huge fan, personally. I like the way it looks now a lot better, since we already have to make a number of subdivisions as it is. -- Dorek _Talk 18:34, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

The Wayback Machine script

Hello there! I remember you had a script which can massively save URLs to the Wayback Machine. It would be great if you could save the entire BS01 and maybe even the Greg Farshtey Archives. -- 17:39, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi! The script relies on incrementing page numbers in the URL, so I'm afraid it wouldn't work for BS01. (Scripts that can crawl BS01 do exist though, it'll just take some searching to find one.) That said I think I can easily modify the current script to archive the Greg archives since those URLs have page numbers. I'll hop on that. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 06:33, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

All the Greg archives should be backed up on archive.org now. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 03:10, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Little help on HS01

So, I tried to update the site with the infoboxes at first, And there were no problem with them, but I met with the HeroInfo Template, what I want to replace with an updated Hero Template. But the latest version fot he Hero Template does this. I only wanted to make subtabs for the 1.0, the 3.0 and the Brain Attack tabs, what I managed to do - or I hope so - but the infobox doesn't look like Hahli's or Jaller's, as you can see. What did I miss in the template? The other templates what I updated are working nicely, except that they don't wanna use the "infoLight" or "infoDark" classes, except that, they're working well. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 20:19, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

I'm afraid I'm probably not going to have time to work on this for a while. Either way, the code that makes infobox tabs work is outdated on HS01, but I can't update it since I'm not a staff member there, so it's best not to change HS01's infoboxes yet. I'd recommend bringing up redesign ideas with Dorek. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 06:31, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Okay, thanks! I'll copy this section to Dorek's talkpage. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 23:42, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

HTTPS

Given some of the recent news surrounding digital security, i really think we need to accelerate our move to https. having a non-secure connection simply isn't good enough anymore. Intelligence4 (talk) 23:10, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for the very late response! This is something we've been talking a good deal about behind-the-scenes. We know what steps are needed, we just need to do them. Personally I'd like it done by the new year (hopefully just saying that will get the ball rolling...). -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 22:16, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

I mean, I'm in for it, but my opinion never matters :( -- Dorek _Talk 04:40, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

given my own response-latency, yours isn't a problem at all morris. :) Nice work to whoever btw, i was very happy to see the notice at the top of the site about https when i logged in. i wish i could be of more help around here, but alas, it's not meant to be. I agree with your timeline - https by 2018 is a good goal to shoot for! Intelligence4 (talk) 23:26, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

logged in and WE'RE ON HTTPS! nice work peoplewhowereresponsibleforthat! i wish i could have been more helpful, but alas it's done. yay! Intelligence4 (talk) 22:33, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

What’s an Idly?

What is and idly? User:Kota9999 Kota9999 (talk) 21:52, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

"Idly" is the adverb form of "idle." Specifically, in the original quote Greg said that the idea of making Ahkmou a shadow Toa was "thrown out idly in a story meeting." There "idly" means somebody proposed the idea casually without putting too much thought into it. We know the idea was never explored very seriously because by Greg's own admission, "It never went far enough to be a 'plan.'" -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 22:03, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Oh Kota9999 (talk) 05:41, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Little help... again

Umm, could you help me? How can I insert my images from flickr to BS01? — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 17:44, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

First go to the image you want to use. Below the image on the right-hand side of the page there should be a button with a down arrow pointing to a horizontal line. (It's to the left of the enlarge button.) Click that button. That should open a dropdown. Click the last option in the dropdown, "View all sizes." That will take you to a page where you can pick the size of the image that you want to embed. Once you've picked a size, right click on the image and get its URL. Then use that URL to embed the image. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 18:39, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so much! — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 19:18, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

My Brickshelf pictures/thumbnails remained intact after the site's transfer to HTTPS. Should I replace them? — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 08:28, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes please. We want to be able to load all images, etc. securely, but we can't load Brickshelf images securely. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 22:34, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Right/Left hand Matoran

I'm not sure if it has been mentioned in any book, I doubt it. It originates from MNOG. The first to be mentioned to be a "special aide" was Onepu, when first encountered in MNOG. When first encountered, Tamaru states himself to be "Matau's best!" not sure if this is the tree-speak version... When you start to assemble the Chronicler's Company, Vakama says "Of my left and right hands, Jala should remain here to command his Guard and defend Ta-Koro. My left hand is Kapura, who is with you now." Kopeke and Hafu are stated to be the left hand of their respective Turaga, while Maku is stated to be the right hand of Nokama. Though not explicitely stated, one can assume Matoro, Huki, Onepu and Kongu to be the right hand of their respective Turaga, while Kotu, Tamaru and Taipu would be the left. With the exception of Matau, because you don't speak to him, and Nuju, because he is talking through Matoro, all the Turaga suggest both of their supposed aides. Not sure if this was to any help to answer up your question ~ Wolk (talk) 23:58, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

On the original website Kapura's bios section mentions that "Vakama has great confidence in the odd little Matoran and has appointed him to stand at his left side." and Jaller's, Hewkii's too. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 07:58, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Now that you bring it up, it also states Onepu and Matoro to be the right hand of their Turaga. ~ Wolk (talk) 20:03, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Nice, thanks for the info! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 20:13, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

what brought this up? Intelligence4 (talk) 22:34, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

IIRC I was rewriting the Mahri pages and noticed some of the infoboxes didn't mention they were left/right hands. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 08:15, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

I wouldn't have even thought of that haha. I totally forgot about that aspect of the earlier years. I just clicked on matoro's bio thingie that was linked above, and it says he has a deep and booming voice. I definitely didn't imagine him sounding like that lol. Intelligence4 (talk) 06:57, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Piraka "Kaita" Instructions

So now, I presumably completed my Piraka sets enough to made up the instructions for both of the Korean Piraka Kaita models. May I make a pair of "Building steps" for them on the same way as I did for Krahka and upload them here as their respective Building Instructions? (I say presumably for there are some missing pieces from them, but judging by the models/pictures, I have every pieces to build them up) — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 08:29, 22 January 2018 (UTC) — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 08:29, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

I think that'd be fine so long as we can't find the real instructions and we make it clear they're not official. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 08:15, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Little Help

Hey Morris! I could use a little help with the Destral Cycle set page. Name is Set:8942 (Alternate Model), however, all other alternate model pages are titled set:# (Alternate). Couldyou move it to the correct name? Thanks. :) --~ Wolk (talk) 23:16, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

No, he can't the Set:8942 (Alternate) is the limited edition Jetrax T6's page :) — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 23:32, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Oh... Is it possible we can find an alternative name for the special edition (the reason to the exception)? Like set:8942 (Limited Edition). --~ Wolk (talk) 01:27, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Question

Hey, I was kinda wondering this but do you know what happened to the user, Bold Clone? (user: Kota9999) Kota9999 (talk) 18:13, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Documentation of CwGF

I noticed on the in your sandbox page for documentation that there is no method for citing the LEGO Message Boards Chat with Greg Farshtey topic. Is it possible that this could be added? ~ Wolk (talk) 05:46, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Oops, should be working now on Template:GregCitation. Thanks for catching that! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 16:46, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

new site appearance

it looks pretty good! was that a decision the staff made, or was it a change based on some upstream changes? Intelligence4 (talk) 20:05, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! We've been working on and off (mostly off :P) on it for over a year now. Swert decided it was time to make the switch. Actually, one of the nice things about Refreshed is that BS01 will drive upstream changes (in part), rather than the other way around, since unlike MonoBook, Refreshed is mostly developed by members of the Lego community. Also, the layout isn't done yet. You can copy/paste the CSS from User:Morris the Mata Nui Cow/refreshed.css into User:Intelligence4/refreshed.css so see what's in the pipeline. Any feedback is much appreciated! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 20:37, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

You can also add mw.loader.load( '/w/index.php?title=User:Morris_the_Mata_Nui_Cow/refreshed.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css', 'text/css' ); to your user JS page so that MtMNC's changes stay up to date for you and ensure that the current code doesn't cause any conflict down the road once these changes are implemented into the local skin customization. :) --Meiko (talk) 20:54, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

Kraatu

Is the Kraatu a rahi? if so I really think it should be canonized by Greg. It has a uniqueness to it's look, especially the tail which is a Tohunga throwing arm.User:Kota9999

Looks like Greg was hesitant to canonize it because he wasn't sure the name was approved. (See here and here.) That first quote mentions that the model is a non-canon puppet, not sure where that info came from though. I'm with you, it'd make a good Rahi. Maybe he could canonize it as a nameless Rahi? -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 04:07, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

It would be a good stone rat :D — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 08:14, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

I'm not sure if it looks like a rat honestly User:Kota9999

I think the idea is that they resemble Kinloka. ~ Wolk (talk) 00:32, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

they kinda do User:Kota9999

Well, the Kavinika are wolves, but they don't resemble to any wolf. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 16:11, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, they just resemble a two legged creature with a weird face User:Kota9999

Certain Krahka Instructions changes

So I noticed that I attached incirrectly the plus weapons on her arms (the long metru-arm things with Nokama's blades). They meant to be attached one unit lower. Also I figured out that the arms can be attached in a different way, with some minor changes what makes them to be closer to her body, but retains the ger function. The overall look of the model nearly the same, and the pose of the picture from the book looks the same in either ways. So both ways are possible if you pose them on the same way as on the picture. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 17:01, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Sorry forgot to respond to this. Maybe make a note on the combiner page explaining the correction? -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 00:40, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

I though I remake the instructions, and reupload them. But shall the new one include both of the options how someone could attach the arms to the body? One way you use the technic pins to have a hard friction and you can pose the arms independently (to each other, but you can use the gear function), and the other way that with the 4 digit long axles make a "large gearbox," which requires the 4 gears which were left behind in the first way. This unables Krahka to pose her arms independently, but the overall look doesn't change. For with both construction you can pose the figure on the same way as the Rahi Guide picture, and the second one seems legit because of the gear function, I think we could show there both? — Surel—Nuva _(Talk)

Yeah that sounds good. Thank you for doing this! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 04:15, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

85%/15%

Hey, you're right about the 85%/15% quote, but Greg has said it on his own before. I just can't find it anymore. Someone once said it was on his BZP blog (aka GregF's blog), but I haven't found it again yet on there. It 's also possible it was just a thread, maybe on the archives, and it got deleted. I will keep digging! --Lukas Exemplar (talk) 05:59, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

I found the right source and added it. --Lukas Exemplar (talk) 07:41, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for doing that. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 19:30, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Removal of references on Agori page

Why did you do this exactly? I really believe that if something does not have a proper source, it shouldn't be in the encyclopedia. It's a basic principle of encyclopedias that you should supply sources, so people know you aren't making things up. A lot of references/sources are missing on BS01, but I don't see why we shouldn't add them now. --Lukas Exemplar (talk) 07:33, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Agreed about refs. My thinking at first was that the Greg quote about the Element Lord chambers wasn’t really relevant to the paragraph, and the other quote (the “Yes, yes, and yes” one) and AOSR contain all the info in the paragraph. But rereading that first quote, I guess it confirms the GBs made the Element Lord of Earth, so it’s still good to include. I’ll undo that in a sec. (As for why I switched to the archive.org link instead of the Great Archives one, I lazily copied that ref from the Element Lord of Earth page. Not that that’s a good reason, but it is the reason. :P) Speaking of which refs to use, it’ll probably make things easier on your end to add refs using citation templates rather than ref tags. We have Template:MediaCitation, Template:GregCitation, Template:ComicCitation, etc. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 19:29, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

I am used to using citations templates that goes <ref>{{Cite|Book title}}</ref> so I wasn't sure how you did citations. --Lukas Exemplar (talk) 21:43, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

External Images with the Fun Image Box Thing?

Hey Morris, I asked Swert about it and he's pointed me in your direction;
How do I get the image format (below) working with externally hosted images? I've tried img tags and using the Image: prefix but to no avail.

Pictured: Onua

[[|centre|thumb|150px|Pictured: Not Onua]]

File:Http://image.png Pictured: Not Onua

Many thanks, --MightBeAlon (talk) 20:50, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Good question! Try using Template:MultiThumb like this:

{{MultiThumb
|https://i.imgur.com/g5YVgqX.png
|align=center
|caption=🤔
}}

-- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 21:05, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

I forgot to say last night - Thank you!

Also, sorry if anything I've changed is a pain; I'm trying to pick up the correct usage of things but if I get annoying feel free to yell at me on my talk page --MightBeAlon (talk) 19:07, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Sure thing! And not to worry, your edits are helpful and it's not a pain to review them. I guess one piece of feedback is that (unlike git, which it looks like you're used to) if users want to make multiple changes to a page, we encourage them to make one large edit rather than multiple small ones, since that encourages proofreading and makes reviewing edits a bit easier for the staff. So if you could condense your edits so to speak that'd be helpful. (The show preview button helps with that, it's next to the save changes button and shows what the page will look like once you save.) Keep it up! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 22:13, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Yay, thanks :D

Ah, that makes sense! You're not wrong with the git thing though; I'm used to being told push often when you feel an atomic unit of work is complete, and it's kinda hard to get out of that mindset sometimes ^^'

I have been using the preview feature, it's super useful tbh, but oftentimes I'll look back over the page half an hour later and go "hm. i could add this". --MightBeAlon (talk) 22:21, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Book Citations

We used to use book citations as references, iirc, but is took a lot of references space, and I hated it. I personally think the format we're using is much more clear than having tons of numbers in the texts and a long list of references on the bottom of the pages. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 10:36, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

I'm not inherently opposed to having story sources as separate, but the Greg citations are what's too much for me. Having three different systems doesn't really work, I'd much prefer to streamline it as much as possible. -- Dorek _Talk 16:08, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

What do you think about setting up references at the bottom of the page, but showing the full citation when users hover over the number in the text? I've enabled that feature on the mainspace--see Chirox for an example. Is that an agreeable compromise between citation consistency/legibility and not having to jump around the page a lot? -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 17:25, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

That would totally work for me, personally. -- Dorek _Talk 04:31, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Lightfish

I think, chronologically, the Lightfish were first mentioned in the Rahi Beast Guide, that was, what the sentence, you removed from the Lightfish page, referred to. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 06:30, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Ah I see. I'm still not sure that info belongs on the page though. If we knew that the Rahaga were the first ones to discover lightfish, then that would be useful info to include, but the book doesn't say that.

Also, thank you so much for updating all those citations! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 07:49, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Well, I do what I can, and when I have spare time for it, but it takes a lot of time to search in the books for the exact quotes/paragraphs. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 09:46, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Hey sorry to bother you

Would like to know how to mark something for deletion thanks.

Also how can i change the name of existing images. spelt rahkshi wrong in two of them or doesn't it matter (The preceding unsigned comment was made by PlamzDoom)

Not a problem! If you want a page or file deleted or renamed, just let me or another staff member know and we'll take care of it. I deleted the two files that you mentioned. Are there any others you want deleted?

Also, in the future, please end your messages with ~~~~. (To type ~ you press the ` key while holding shift. The ` key is typically by the escape key.) It leaves a signature (username, talk page link, and timestamp) so readers can tell who said what. Thank you! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 18:48, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Ok, also another question, how long does it take for a file to update. I updated an image but it instead it looks exactly the same to the previous, maybe stretched if the width or height is different. Is it just on my side? Does it take time to change? how long or is something wrong. DooM (talk) 19:04, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Yeah that's an issue on your side. Try clearing your browser's cache. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 19:52, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks DooM (talk) 20:56, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

I've got some free time.

Hey Morris,

I've recently acquired some free time where I can't sleep because of the pandemic and oh boy golly is it awful. I hope you're all keeping okay over there, by the way. England is under a slight lockdown. Is there a current and up-to-date list of work that needs to be done? I'm in a Wiki mood recently.

Cheers,

MightBeAlon (talk) 23:23, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

I'm sure I could find something for you! What do you prefer, simple tasks like what's on the front page maintenance section, or something a little more complex, like tracking down some sources for our articles in need of citations? -- Dorek _Talk 01:31, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Test

Check check, one two... -- Dorek _Talk 22:08, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Infobox display issue

I recently noticed, that on the mobile site, when a picture/infobox in directly above or below a headline, the "headline (edit)" doesn't appear, only a blank space below the picture and the headline's paragraphs. Like on my userpage, the infobox basically overwrites the first headline and the text appears without the headline, directly next to my infobox, instead of appearing below correctly. Shall I take some screenshots to make it clearer? — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 05:43, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this issue out. It should be fixed now. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 18:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

May I take some screenshots about the image overlapping issue? I mean on small screens, when an image/picture is directly below or above a headline the pic overlaps, and the headline doesn't show up.— Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 12:00, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I thought I had resolved the issue. Yes screenshots would be good, thanks! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 00:42, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

I took 2 screenshots, the first how it appears during the edits, and the second is how it appears on the page on small screens. Oh and the infobox display issue was fixed, yes, I forgot to thank you for that, this is another bug I think. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 09:12, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 03:28, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Yes, it is now, thanks! — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 07:16, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Citation system

Hi, the Template:ComicCitation and the Template:OnlineCitation don't use the same reference based system ad the BookCitation, could you give a hand to update them, and maybe check if I didn't notice another one maybe? (I totally forgot how many different citations we have on the wiki tbh) I don't want to mess them up myself.— Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 12:00, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

You're totally right. I was all ready to update ComicCitation a few weeks ago, but then I realized that I wanted to change how we name comic articles, and then I got off track. I should be able to carve out time to handle the remaining templates in the next few days. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 00:42, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Changing Characters to Personer, sorry!

Sorry about changing "Characters" to "Personer." I thought I was editing the Danish BIONICLE wiki for a moment there, haha. It was so late, I was almost passing out from being sleepy, so I did not notice my mistake. --Lukas Exemplar (talk) 16:10, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

All good! I figured it was something like that. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 18:19, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

References/Appearances

Maybe it would be better, if both the "appearances" and the "references" sections were collapsible/retractable? Maybe it's just me, but I think they break the flow of certain pages. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 07:10, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

I'm not staff or anything, but this would sort of ruin my experience on the wiki as I like to quickly (immediately) use CTRL+F when I get to a page to check whether someone or something appeared in media. --Lukas Exemplar (talk) 14:51, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

I agree that they shouldn't be collapsible. From my experience with other wikis, collapsible sections usually present more issues than they solve. However, I think it'd be fine to make Appearances scrollable like references are. ~ Wolk (talk) 23:06, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Yeah scrollable references and appearances seem like a suitable compromise. They'll be searchable and use less screen real estate. That said, I think we should keep the appearances table as-is for a while. I want to change the appearances table in several ways (such as making it mobile and dark mode friendly), and it'll be easier to make those changes all at once by creating an appearance template. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 03:17, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

We sometimes use this on the Deltora Quest Wik when a character has appeared in many of a series' books, although I am actually not the biggest fan of it on there. Here is an example: https://deltoraquest.fandom.com/wiki/Lief#Appearances Here is the template that we use for it: https://deltoraquest.fandom.com/wiki/Template%3AScroll I don't know if I see a big use for it on BS01, though. The appearances section seems to be ordered so nicely. Why do we need to put it inside a scroll box? To me, it could wind up making it seem cramped somehow. --Lukas Exemplar (talk) 14:25, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Sonics

Hi, I just wanted to be exact that the element can be used to break concentration. A recent question on the TTV boards was that are the Arthron and the Shelek dorect opposites, which are not, and a fellow user asked wheter a Shelel-wearer could defeat a Toa of Sonics only by using the mask. But as far as I'm concered, a powerful sound blast/barrier could shatter the kanohi's user concentration, even if the Toa cannot hear or speak. — Surel—Nuva _(Talk) 20:19, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

If I'm understanding correctly, Sonics users don't have the specific power to disrupt concentration. Instead, they have the power to create a really loud noise, and that noise may then distract their opponents. In that sense, saying Sonics can distract opponents is like saying a blast of water can make an opponent wet. Both statements are true, but those aren't inherent powers so much as applications of powers. But now that I've written that out, breaking concentration does seem like a noteworthy application of Sonics, so let's add it back in. :P Thanks for following up about that edit! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk)

Recent Interview

So, in the most recent interview with Greg, he said that the TTV contests are just purely a fan thing and he doesn't actually care about the winners, as well as that he admints that he don't even know how the serials of 2007-2010 fits into the timeline, which explaines all the Karda Nui timeline issues, mainly "the 2 days of the Toa Nuva and Takanuva in karda nui equals to the same events happened through weeks according to the serials" issue. My main question is that if Greg admits that he doesn't really care about the TTV contest winners, and it has no , should we still count them as the part of the official canon as the Lego Company has literally nothing to do with it?--Surel-Nuva (Talk) 14:09, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate the concern. Don't worry though, the contest results are firmly canon. As Mr. Farshtey said in the interview, "Actually, since the company is not doing anything with BIONICLE, I believe it is considered canon if I okay it." We've learned indisputably canon info outside of official Lego channels before: for example, iirc the identify of the secret GB and the Red Star's true nature were revealed in interviews/emails with BS01 after G1 ended. Since Mr. Farshtey has approved the contest results in a similar way, we should similarly treat them as canon. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 17:24, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Flickr images

I don't know where or who to ask, but has something changed with the outside source image "hosting"? My pictures from flickr doesn't appear anymore on my page as they did before.--Surel-Nuva (Talk) 15:48, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Nevermind, they work with the "<img>" tags, but they weren't needed before that's why I'm surprised.--Surel-Nuva (Talk) 15:51, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Sorry about the lack of heads up there. I made that change at Swert's request, so I recommend discussing it up with him. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 18:46, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't meant to be rude or something, I was just surprised that my images have turned into links, and didn't know which one I wanted to update, and I wasn't sure if it was an intentional change, or just a bug with an update.--Surel-Nuva (Talk) 00:38, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

All good, don't worry about it! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 03:28, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Quest for the Toa trivia

So, I'm not sure how to phrase it in a good way, but when starting up the game, the first of the four Matoran on the tutorial level will always wear a Hau, the second one will wear a Huna, the third will wear an Akaku, and the fourth will also wear a Huna. This is because the RNG only advances when used, so for instance when initializing one of those Matoran, or when you speak to a Matoran with random dialogue.

In regards to "Jaller," the character does say he must stay at Ta-Koro to guard it, which further implies it is Jaller. However, I've also realized Jala is also mentioned in random dialogue...

As for a citation, this is all from the code of the game, thanks to joint-Dogg666. ~ Wolk (talk) 13:11, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, I think I understand now. Just out of curiosity, do you have a link to somewhere where joint-Dogg666 talks about all this stuff? I'd be interested to read about it. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 03:08, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Makuta Kanohi

Makuta (Species)#Abilities and Traits says, "The one weakness to [their] evolution is that if the shell is broken, then the essence of the Makuta will slowly leak out, and eventually dissipate, killing them. If a Makuta's Kanohi is removed, Antidermis will also leak out," which is where I got the info for the Kanohi page, but no citation is offered there either. I'll add a CN. -- Toa Jala ^Converse 19:55, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Gotcha. Thanks! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 20:08, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Hook Blades

The Skull Creatures are Skull Scorpios, not Skull Skorpios :D --Surel (Talk) 22:48, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Ha my bad. Don't worry about fixing any more links rn, I'll handle it. Also I will switch all (Generation _) links to use Template:G later. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 22:54, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Ah, okay, Thanks! Also, I can confirm that the era/NCSC templates are visible on small screens again, I just forgot to react when you've done it.--Surel (Talk) 23:03, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Cool. I won't have much time to edit the next few days, but at some point I'll use the bot to finish removing disambig links. Then after that I'll run a find/replace to use Template:G. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 06:09, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Is it possible to modify the Template:G to accomodate the "#section" links too? It would be easier than linking those with a different method.(like find a way to link, e.g. the abilities ans traits for g1 Tahu with the template rather than "Tahu (Generation 1)#Abilities and Traits" as a link)--Surel (Talk) 09:53, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Done. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 17:38, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Wow, thanks! It'll make linking the G2 elements much more easier for me.--Surel (Talk) 21:40, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Tracker-Spiriah connection

I searched on the Greg archives and found these quotes. I think if Tracker wasn't searching for Spiriah, then Greg would have corrected them in his answer. Also Tracker's entry refers to the Makuta as a "renegade" exactly how Spiriah is refered to the Lego Magazine.--Surel (Talk) 19:53, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Got it. I'll add the Greg quotes. Thanks! -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 23:46, 27 August 2021 (UTC)