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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #150 on: 04 Aug 2013, 20:12 »

Actually, it's the desktop interface that I can't stand. I can't increase the viewing size.
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« Reply #151 on: 04 Aug 2013, 20:39 »

Ctrl + scroll
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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #152 on: 05 Aug 2013, 02:51 »

Which would suck for those of us without a mouse.
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« Reply #153 on: 05 Aug 2013, 08:01 »

Oh, I'm sure there's a keyboard work-around. 
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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #154 on: 05 Aug 2013, 10:48 »

If you don't have a mouse, Ctrl + or Ctrl -, or you can just pinch zoom
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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #155 on: 05 Aug 2013, 13:37 »

Wow, they just offer keyboard shortcuts? Without telling you they exist?

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« Reply #156 on: 05 Aug 2013, 13:55 »

I though CTRL-scroll was pretty universal in browsers for zooming.
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« Reply #157 on: 05 Aug 2013, 14:01 »

It's pretty universal for anything with a mouse/keyboard, Masterpiece.
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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #158 on: 05 Aug 2013, 19:43 »

Wow, they just offer keyboard shortcuts? Without telling you they exist?
Ctrl-Plus and Ctrl-Minus may be Firefox-specific, Masterpiece, but that browser at least does tell you they exist. On the top menu, go to View->Zoom and look at the choices. Both "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" show you their keyboard shortcuts.

If you're using any other browser, who knows?
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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #159 on: 05 Aug 2013, 21:23 »

Ctrl+, Crtl-, and Ctrl Scroll, are pretty universal - i use them all throughout Windows 7
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« Reply #160 on: 05 Aug 2013, 22:35 »

It's not a very transparent way of informing you about a shortcut. Usually shortcuts are meant for power users, people who have acquainted themselves with a program and will want to perform quicker and more efficiently.

Burying a function into a keyboard shortcut only will cause novice users to not see that function at all. Which is why I was surprised that there was no visual alternative to a keyboard shortcut at all. Storel does mention that most browsers do indeed show these functions in some menu point, so I'll proceed with caution in saying that I'd have put a more obvious button somewhere where it's easily recognizable (especially considering that it's a button used frequently).

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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #161 on: 19 Sep 2013, 09:33 »

A character named "Andy" is mentioned on http://questionablecontent.wikia.com/wiki/Sweet-Tits but their name is a red link so they do not have an article yet.

If anyone perhaps could link to a comic with him (her?) in it, supply a picture, etc to get it started that'd be cool.

http://questionablecontent.wikia.com/wiki/Andy?action=edit&redlink=1 allows it to start.
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« Reply #162 on: 19 Sep 2013, 09:57 »

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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #163 on: 22 Oct 2013, 14:02 »

Marten Reed is one of the main characters of Questionable Content. In fact, as the first person to speak in the comic, it could be argued that he is the main character. When the comic started, he was working in an office job which he detested. He now works at the Smith College Library, with Tai as his boss.

Marten works at Smif College. Not Smith.
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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #164 on: 22 Oct 2013, 15:38 »

The wiki is open-access; you can correct it.
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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #165 on: 22 Oct 2013, 20:14 »

I fixed another reference in Marten's entry - linking to "Smif College".
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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #166 on: 06 Dec 2013, 21:57 »

I really have to try to sit down and update the SxS list. I'm almost 90 strips behind.  :psyduck:
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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #167 on: 01 Feb 2014, 08:49 »

Obviously, I'm more than 90 behind now... yeesh.
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« Reply #168 on: 01 Feb 2014, 16:49 »

Binge time! 
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« Reply #169 on: 01 Feb 2014, 23:09 »

Hey, I know it gets said rarely enough, so here goes:

Thank you, dear masters of history, for archiving the contents of the strip for us, both on Scribd and in the wiki. It makes it easier to do what we do best - obsessing over minutiae and how they relate to a strip in the late 400s that even Jeph probably forgot about :)
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« Reply #170 on: 02 Feb 2014, 05:51 »

I second that, and confer on jwh et al an MA in QC History.
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« Reply #171 on: 02 Feb 2014, 18:14 »

Oh, no - it's a doctorate in my book. 
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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #172 on: 07 May 2014, 17:05 »

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« Reply #173 on: 13 Nov 2014, 23:50 »

Hm. I tried to do an inclusion of the "Clarke Station - Ellicott-Chatham Technologies" reference in the Space Station entry, but the "living quarters" map seems to be hiding itself. Anyone want to give a stab as to why?
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« Reply #174 on: 30 Nov 2014, 19:09 »

And over the past year, I've been a bit busy.
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« Reply #175 on: 26 Jan 2015, 18:09 »

*** IMPORTANT PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ***

The lead character of the comic strip, Questionable Content, the son of Henry Reed and Veronica Vance, spells his name:

M-A-R-T-E-N.

He has no "I" in his name - since, as his mother points out, his father was "such a stick in the mud" and refused to name him "Marten Tiberius".

THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.

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« Reply #176 on: 02 Feb 2015, 17:29 »

So, uh, I made this thing... it lists which characters appeared in which comics. Click one of the names and it'll go to a list of comics that character is in. You can search multiple names by separating them with "_", and you can exclude a character by using "&exclude=name". For example, if you want comics with Marten and Pintsize, but excluding guest comics, you would use this URL. It's updated whenever I remember to update it.

(I don't think Jeph would have a problem with it since the comic links go to his site (i.e. nothing is hotlinked or anything like that), but if he does, I'll take it down.)
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« Reply #177 on: 06 May 2015, 12:16 »

I've tracked this down and added a link to the wiki article. It's at
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9AJYQpA8CKFU0FkT2dhZUo4RVk/edit?pli=1
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« Reply #178 on: 17 May 2015, 10:13 »

Every year Jeph has a week of guest strips in QC.  But there don't seem to be many by him for other web comics.  I tried googling and these were the only ones I could find, and they seem to be mostly very old.

XKCD https://xkcd.com/822/
Sam and Fuzzy: http://www.samandfuzzy.com/366
Reprographics: http://chrisyates.net/reprographics/index.php?page=152
Diesel Sweeties: http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1046
Dinosaur comics: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1771
Wondermark: http://wondermark.com/210/
Weregeek: http://www.weregeek.com/2012/03/21/
Johnny Wander: http://www.johnnywander.com/comics/75

Does anyone know of any others? Should we have a page in the wiki for this?
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« Reply #179 on: 17 May 2015, 13:24 »

That's a great thing to have in the wiki.
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« Reply #180 on: 20 May 2015, 04:40 »

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« Reply #181 on: 20 May 2015, 13:02 »

Thanks!
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« Reply #182 on: 22 May 2015, 06:48 »

You're welcome.

But it raises an interesting question -- why so many more guest comics in QC than by JJ in other comics? Have I just not found them? Or is JJ such a popular person that other artists will do guest strips for him without reciprocation? Or is QC so popular that a mention in it enough reward?
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« Reply #183 on: 22 Jun 2015, 12:47 »

Guest Strips entry now complete & up-to-date.  It's remarkable how many of them involve Pintsize.
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« Reply #184 on: 22 Jun 2015, 20:20 »

Thank you!
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Re: There is a live QC wiki!
« Reply #185 on: 25 Jun 2015, 19:40 »

Did you go through the Guest Appearances thread?
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« Reply #186 on: 15 Aug 2015, 17:54 »

Whoever Ylimegirl is on the Wiki, she is just cranking out the reformatting of all the entries like it was water.
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« Reply #187 on: 04 Oct 2015, 09:28 »

There's a vandal repeatedly attacking the pages for Marten and Claire. I could use a quick education about tactics from someone who knows the wiki software(*). Meantime, everyone here is welcome to watch and fix them -- doesn't even require a login.

(*) The vandal has some kind of trick to prevent revert from working, for example.
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« Reply #188 on: 04 Oct 2015, 09:40 »

It looks like they're using the same IP address multiple times. Should be fairly easy to ban them. They're on Comcast in Florida, by the looks of it.

edit -- Also I'm not sure about the Wikia software, but on Mediawiki there's an option to "semi-protect" a page, which allows most logged-in editors to edit it, but disallows IP addresses and newly-created accounts.

edit2 -- Looks like you can do the same thing on Wikia.
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« Reply #189 on: 08 Oct 2015, 23:28 »

It looks like they're using the same IP address multiple times. Should be fairly easy to ban them. They're on Comcast in Florida, by the looks of it.

edit -- Also I'm not sure about the Wikia software, but on Mediawiki there's an option to "semi-protect" a page, which allows most logged-in editors to edit it, but disallows IP addresses and newly-created accounts.

edit2 -- Looks like you can do the same thing on Wikia.

As far as I can tell, the only person on the QC wiki with Admin or even Bureaucrat privilege is someone called Rbfskywalker, who has made zero edits and has not logged in since 2010. Sounds like we need to ask Wikia to appoint a new Admin so we can control vandalism better.
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« Reply #190 on: 09 Oct 2015, 09:43 »

I've asked YLimegirl to apply. She's got experience with other wikis and a good grasp of wiki software.
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« Reply #191 on: 09 Oct 2015, 10:08 »

It looks like they're using the same IP address multiple times. Should be fairly easy to ban them. They're on Comcast in Florida, by the looks of it.

edit -- Also I'm not sure about the Wikia software, but on Mediawiki there's an option to "semi-protect" a page, which allows most logged-in editors to edit it, but disallows IP addresses and newly-created accounts.

edit2 -- Looks like you can do the same thing on Wikia.

As far as I can tell, the only person on the QC wiki with Admin or even Bureaucrat privilege is someone called Rbfskywalker, who has made zero edits and has not logged in since 2010. Sounds like we need to ask Wikia to appoint a new Admin so we can control vandalism better.

I'm just going to share that when I see that username my brain reads it as "Rubidium Fluoride Skywalker."  :psyduck:
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« Reply #192 on: 09 Oct 2015, 13:56 »

I have no problem with rubidium fluoride as long as I'm not there when they mix the rubidium and the fluorine.
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« Reply #193 on: 09 Oct 2015, 14:58 »

How do you feel about FOOF?
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« Reply #194 on: 10 Oct 2015, 12:01 »

It's a self-correcting problem.
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« Reply #195 on: 19 Oct 2015, 18:03 »

All of a sudden I got about five requests for access to the Cast List on my Google Drive...
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« Reply #196 on: 19 Dec 2015, 18:19 »

Will somebody please correct the Robots/Gary entry? 

They're talking about an appearance of Gordon on that page.  It was mislabeled using the name Gary, but Gary is the mysterious bot from strip 2070.

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« Reply #197 on: 16 Jan 2016, 01:35 »

The robot on page 2430 is named Gary. Jeph names it in his comment just below the comic.
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« Reply #198 on: 21 Jan 2016, 10:48 »

After the Maurice/Marcel fracas, I just tend to thing Jeph's bad with names (at least for minor characters). 

We'll know for sure when Angus comes back as "Andy".   :psyduck:
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« Reply #199 on: 01 Apr 2016, 00:25 »

I have an entry in the wiki and none of you do. That should be a lesson to you all about your uselessness.
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