User talk:Kolano

Regions and Games
1. Should we add regional names to the Gamecube game list if there are differences? (English, Japanese, French...)


 * Generally yes, though we may want avoid doing so in the case of exact translations to avoid listing 5+ EU translations of each name. Kolano (talk) 17:13, 8 August 2018 (CEST)


 * Okay (talk) 19:28, 8 August 2018 (CEST)

2. Should we all regional names to the wiki pages if there are differences?


 * Again, generally yes, but be cautious of listing exact translations. Kolano (talk) 17:13, 8 August 2018 (CEST)


 * Alright (talk) 19:28, 8 August 2018 (CEST)

3. Should we add regions like French (FR), Spanish(SP) etc. to the 'vgrelease' list for possible different release dates and country exclusive releases?


 * Generally we just list the earliest EU release date, but may want to consider listing more dates when there are differences. Would be good to understand how frequently such comes up. Such would also likely require rewriting how some of the vgrelease template logic works. Kolano (talk) 17:13, 8 August 2018 (CEST)


 * I will contact you when I have a complete list of dates. (talk) 19:28, 8 August 2018 (CEST)


 * It's really easy to add/remove regions from vgrelease so I added SP/FR for you. It doesn't affect any current pages to add them either. You can see it in the infobox on Dummy Page if you want. We might also want to do a generic year (and month) under "EU" alongside those and NL with more regions but idk it seems kind of pointless. That requires knowing separate release dates for French and Spanish releases though and I think only GameTDB has dates for particular regions in Europe? GameFAQS just says EU as far as I remember. - Xerxes (talk) 09:57, 11 August 2018 (CEST)


 * Aren't there also German specific releases (and perhaps a few others)? Kolano (talk) 09:59, 11 August 2018 (CEST)


 * Yeah we could match the regions in GameIDs with the regions in vgrelease, but that would take a long time to sort through all the IDs again and I'm lazy. - Xerxes (talk) 10:05, 11 August 2018 (CEST)
 * I added Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, and Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau too. - Xerxes (talk) 10:29, 11 August 2018 (CEST)


 * Thank you for the effort! There are lots of old gaming magazines out there with release dates of the Gamecube era. I know some German websites I can search on. I can figure out other countries thanks to google translator. I figured some Korean and Japanese dates out with that method. One '2 in 1 Games' collection for the Gamecube is a German exclusive (The one with only one GID). Kimishima (talk) 15:49, 11 August 2018 (CEST)


 * It should be possible to use some dpl rules to quickly generate lists of titles with region specific GameIDs (refer the "Samples" column on the GameIDs page), which should allow titles needing edits to be quickly identified; though finding all the appropriate dates may still be a pain. 18:00, 11 August 2018 (CEST)

D Germany
(Good source for dates: https://www.gamepro.de/nintendo/spiele/gc/hulk/33230.html <= Hulk is the example)

I have a small question. I saw you changed my GE edits to DE, which I am personally all for. Why do GE and DE redirect you to the German page? As on the Dummy Page. Seems funny to me. EDIT: DE made problems on 2 Games in 1: The Incredibles / Finding Nemo: maximum number of loops has been performed.


 * Looks like I had missed a few GE references that needed to be revised to DE. Kolano (talk) 00:37, 14 August 2018 (CEST)


 * Thanks for fixing it. Kimishima (talk) 20:01, 14 August 2018 (CEST)


 * Could you delete Template:Ratings/All-Star Baseball 2003 (it's now Template:Ratings/All-Star Baseball 2003 featuring Derek Jeter) and Template:Ratings/All-Star Baseball 2004 (it's now Template:Ratings/All-Star Baseball 2004 featuring Derek Jeter), thanks in advance. Kimishima (talk) 10:50, 18 August 2018 (CEST)

F France
(Good source for dates: http://www.jeuxvideo.com/jeux/gamecube-ngc/00010773-hulk.htm <= Hulk is the example)

S Spain
(Good source: http://www.meristation.com.mx/gamecube/the-hulk/juego/1512176 and https://as.com/meristation/plataformas/gamecube/juegos/)

W Taiwan / Hong Kong / Macau

 * Perfect! Thank you! Kimishima (talk) 10:29, 12 August 2018 (CEST)

4. Should we alter the 'CompatListHeader' to include French (FR), Spanish (SP), Swedish (SW), Netherlandish (NE), Italian (IT) and German (GE)?


 * I think there are likely a few others to include, refer GameIDs, but I also think Dolphin generally lumps many of those under it's EU label (i.e. I believe they get an EU flag banner in the UI). This wouldn't just be about updating that template as we'd also need to break things out differently in the Region column of each title list, which will be significant effort that we may want to avoid. Kolano (talk) 17:13, 8 August 2018 (CEST)


 * Dolphin separates them. A German game will show a German flag, French games the French flag etc. (with [these] codes. Here a picture (Uploaded to Twitter) Kimishima (talk) 19:28, 8 August 2018 (CEST)

Kimishima (talk) 10:51, 8 August 2018 (CEST)

Editing Error
Don't know if you're aware but I tried making two (now three with this message) edits today and both of them returned an error and are not appearing on the Recent Changes page, though the edits are being saved. See here and here for my recent edits. I don't know if you'll need to rollback or what but I thought I should tell you. - Xerxes (talk) 22:00, 23 October 2019 (CEST)


 * I fixed the issue, it was caused by enabling HTTP caching support in Mediawiki yesterday and missing that it needs the PHP sockets extension also enabled. Let me know (via IRC or email preferably) if there are any other new issues of the kind. --delroth (talk) 11:51, 24 October 2019 (CEST)


 * Thanks! Trying it now. - Xerxes (talk) 20:12, 24 October 2019 (CEST)