User talk:Mattshu

A general tip for taking pictures is that a white background works much better than a black one, because it blends in with the rest of the page. (I believe there's a texture simply called "light" or "white" that I used when I took the physical entity pictures you see in the wiki, that's even self-illuminating in-game.) --MossyBucket (formerly Andreasen) 03:38, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Actually, I was planning on using a white background, however you couldn't really see "ground node" appear on the actual entity. It personally bothered me so I just went with a black background, knowing it wouldn't really blend well with the page :P --Mattshu 03:47, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

After taking another picture of it with a white background, I realized it must have just been my old monitor that hindered its looks. I updated the picture with a white background, looks a little better. --Mattshu 19:07, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Improvement drive?

With the release of Portal 2 less than two months away, I suspect we're headed for a surge in wiki use in a few months. I think Msleeper already expressed his desire to launch a Portal 2 mapping article collaboration sometime soon. I was thinking, before we get that surge of new users, it might be good to try and launch an "improvement drive" and attempt to get active users to put a lot of effort into a wiki-wide cleanup.

My idea is that a few of us draft up a project page which highlights some major goals for the project, such as taking care of articles in the stub/cleanup/merge categories. Another big problem is the high number of orphan articles which are only categorized and will vary rarely be clicked on. I think we could use some "list" articles (a good example list would be a page listing all the third party tools sorted into groups, with a brief summary of each tool. This would be infinitely more useful than Category:Third Party Tools). Maybe we could even get the admins to delete some of the articles in the deletion backlog!

One we finished the draft, we could create an official page for it, perhaps get an admin to put it at the top of the main page. Everyone would be free to contribute ideas to the improvement drive and hopefully everyone would be willing to put some hard work in.

Thoughts? Would you be interested in this? Thelonesoldier 08:28, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

I like the idea, but something like a mass VDC cleanup would require more than a handful of people, and having an active administrator wouldn't hurt either to really justify the speedy in speedy deletion. I'll do what I can to help out, but my dedication to the wiki can only go so far when it comes as a job, I have other things going on at the moment. But like I said, I'll do what I can to help out. --Mattshu 17:47, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Award!

For your tireless work on Otherlang which I'm pretty sure exceeds 500 edits, I award you... the Koala award!

Koala Award!

The Koala! Isn't he cute?

The Koala! Isn't he cute?

This newly and arbitrarily created award features a cuddly marsupial, uploaded for no discernable reason by a Valve employee! This makes it almost like an official award, except not at all really! Thanks for your hard work, and remember: The animals of Australia are always watching!

Thelonesoldier 08:36, 10 March 2011 (UTC)