ARK Survival Evolved Wiki:Admin noticeboard

Wooden Tree Platform
Ello, it seems that the wooden tree platform wiki page is bugged, and is mostly unreadable. https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Wooden_Tree_Platform


 * It has been fixed. Report this immediately if you see it again. The Wayward Wolf (talk) 21:06, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Siege of Ragnarok
Yo wiki amigos i tried to publish my article about the Siege of Ragnarok 25 but i get an error saying "Vandalism" Mr Pie 5

Huursa (talk) 20:19, 29 May 2018 (UTC)


 * I completely missed this message, and apparently had my mentions turned off for some reason. The false positive was from a couple patterns in the urls that it didn't like. As for the content at a glance, I'm not sure if that's appropriate mainspace content, and I've created the page at User:Huursa/Siege of Ragnarok 25 for now while it's considered. -- Mr Pie 5  (talk) 05:58, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Sarver Admin IGBluEz
Admin IGBluEz has kicked us and and destroyed our base because we were going to raid his ally! Server name: 50xBoosted247 .He was also using god and creative mode. This is on the ps4 console.


 * Hello there, we are sorry to hear of your troubles. Unfortunately, because it concerns a private server nobody here nor the official game support can help you in this case. --Flachdachs (talk) 07:35, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Addition to Tek Cave flagged as vandalism in error
Added tribute spawn commands to the Tek Cave page, but the edit was automatically blocked and flagged as vandalism. The message linked to this page and said to contact admin here to have the edit permitted. Full text of added section below tribute requirements table can be found at the following gist: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1727574 --SporkWitch (talk) 21:48, 23 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that. It caught because of a few instances of ...left;word..., and I don't see a way to write that in as an exception without compromising its purpose -- css is good at creating those situations. However, it seems like User:The Wayward Wolf read the noticeboard and added it in. -- Mr Pie 5  (talk) 05:48, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Addition to Console_Commands flagged as vandalism in error
I added console compatibility to all known admin commands and was flagged as vandalism in error. Nahpalm (talk) 19:53, 27 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Fixed, thanks for letting us know. If you saved your edit text somewhere, you should try to add it now. If not, I'll take a look at adding it myself later. -- Mr Pie 5  (talk) 05:38, 28 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you, all set. Nahpalm (talk) 20:42, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Issues Creating the Potent Dust Page
The filter for creating a page has flagged my attempts as Vandalism, Gibberish, etc. I would appreciate it if you would correct that, so my page can be created properly. SteelKraken (talk) 13:45, 28 June 2018 (UTC)


 * It was because you used a lot of  to separate sections rather than proper wikitext, so it read that as symbol spam. Nothing to fix there and it looks like the page has been sorted out. --  Mr Pie 5  (talk) 19:51, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

New formatting breaks carryable creatures list mostly
https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Carryable_Creatures

Can't see the critter name and get a good idea what can pick it up, no scroll bars, but the info is there. Looks like a result of the new formatting? And I have *no idea* how to fix it.

I liked the old formatting better. :/ The new stuff mostly works, at least. EvilSmoo (talk) 03:03, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Dear Administrators
I am an experienced wiki editor and have created a well-formatted, referenced page, but when I want to add it, it is automatically rejected with the "reason": "Gibberish". Clearly it is not gibberish at all, as I use the proper formatting, links to existing content and useful new information without typos or other errors. I even cannot add the content to my own user or talk page? Is there an admin around to help me out here? Many thanks in advance, Tisquesusa1537 (talk) 23:53, 29 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Looks like it's from your Google doc and Youtube links. I thought I fixed that issue but I guess not. I'll work on a tweak and in the meantime, try saving without those links for now. -- Mr Pie 5  (talk) 00:28, 30 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Alternatively, I could copy-paste your edit from the log for you if you didn't save a copy or just don't want to, but I want to give you the chance to get your rightful credit for the contribution. -- Mr Pie 5  (talk) 00:54, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Hesperornis
The Hesperornis page does not state how to tame it (passive tame, drag dead fish) and, the passive tame page also does not have the hesperornis listed.


 * The Hesperornis page has already a Taming section. However the Taming page didn't mention both Hesperornis and Otter until now. --Flachdachs (talk) 06:16, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Corrupted Creature list
The entire list on the Corrupted Creatures page has bugged out, not sure how to fix it... Edit for more info: The Enraged Creatures list works correctly, but the Corrupt list shows all the links. 216.54.120.82 16:11, 20 November 2018 (UTC)


 * This is an error that the Cargo extension produces. Can be fixed with Purge or an edit without any change. Fixed, for now. --Flachdachs (talk) 17:34, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

NewPage about my server Experience/settings
I had the experience of renting a couple servers for over a year from Nitrado to run for PS4 console. I doubt I would ever have the money to do that again. But I don't like the idea of my Game.ini file and server settings collecting dust in my pc.

What made my servers unique was my dino placements, regardless of map. e.g. When I found out that the Turtles don't lose oxygen underwater, I added the Aberration Turtle to spawn underwater 'as a sea turtle. Sorry for this long rant. I was wondering if I could make a page that gives away my server settings and experience? Terronscibe (talk) 02:11, 3 December 2018 (UTC)


 * You could put them on your user page if you want, but I don't think they would really be appropriate for a mainspace article. Maybe some of the information could be generalized or used as examples on Server configuration. -- Mr Pie 5  (talk) 02:17, 3 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Well we can treat it as a suggestion but I really didn't want to clutter the suggestion page with another section. Maybe if it's ok, I could make a test page to see how it would look?Terronscibe (talk) 02:41, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Error code on edit
I'm trying to move my suggestion on the main page to a more suitable place but every time i try to remove it I get an error once I save it, is it refusing to let me remove it or is it actually an error? 216.54.120.82 16:10, 4 December 2018 (UTC) (aka ScrubbaNubNub's alt)
 * What's the text of the error message? --Flachdachs (talk) 16:16, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * It says: Internal error

[03001d48335f6c403d1aeb6c] 2018-12-04 16:18:48: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBError"
 * 216.54.120.82 16:20, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * For clarification, I was trying to move it to the Community Portal talk section. 216.54.120.82 16:42, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

How to edit white bar on left
on the simple bed page https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Simple_Bed I wanted to add health = 1000 in the white bar on the right like the bunk bed has but can't see how to edit that section Recentlyafish (talk) 20:03, 6 December 2018 (UTC) raf
 * Done. --Flachdachs (talk) 20:13, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

S+ Tek Replicator
I tried to make a page but received this instead.

'''Error: This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: Editing of a redirect page by an anonymous user'''

I appreciate the filter and all, but sometimes it gets in the way... Help? 216.54.120.82 13:12, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The message said basically two things: anonymous user and redirect page. So, you have an account, just use it. And edit the right page. The redirect redirects you to the actual page. For mod things we have the "Mod:" namespace. --Flachdachs (talk) 13:51, 10 December 2018 (UTC)


 * I understand that its not your fault and that you're just doing your job, but we can't just leave a link in the Navbox that goes right back to the main mod page; and about the account... This account is for use on the school issued chromebooks because Twitch is blocked by the filter, meaning I can't sign in. All I'm trying to do is turn the unnecessary redirect in the navbox into an actual page. Template:Nav Structures Plus
 * should not loop you back to Mod:Structures Plus
 * 216.54.120.82 15:44, 10 December 2018 (UTC) (UserProfile:Scrubbanubnub)


 * Deleted the redirect. Next time please don't redirect pages this way. Better a red link than a bad link. --Flachdachs (talk) 16:13, 10 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the help, although I never changed the Navbox,I only made the redirect (with my main) and recently saw it in the navbox. I'll respect the advice regardless. 216.54.120.82 16:18, 10 December 2018 (UTC) (UserProfile:Scrubbanubnub)

Mesopithecus page regarding kibble
The section regarding the kibble that the likes is bugged and is currently only showing the links, it's a small issue, but something that could use fixing regardless 216.54.120.82 13:33, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Trigger of auto language filter in talk page
I tried answering a question submitted in the Procedurally Generated Maps talk section, however upon hitting Save Changes I was greeting with a block message stating I triggered the automatic word filter and the edit was immediately flagged as vandalism. 216.54.120.82 12:30, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Roll Rat genus name in the infobox
I want to fix the genus name in Roll Rat's infobox since it's misspelled (the Dossier image is my evidence), but I have no idea how to do it since said infobox does not show any relevant field in the editing page. Marqfja87 (talk) 17:11, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Use the source editor. You should be able to correct it with that, source editor is easier to use anyway, no lag and fast page loading. 216.54.120.82 17:14, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Already tried that, actually. Same result: there's no relevant field at all. Marqfja87 (talk) 17:16, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Try it now, see if it gets overridden 216.54.120.82 17:20, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * It worked! Thank you. I really could have benefited from a layout guide that teaches inexperienced editors not only what lines they should add to modify particular fields, but where they should put them in the page source so that the layout doesn't get messed up. Marqfja87 (talk) 17:24, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Going to be completely honest, I just went to the Rex page and copied that bit of table from its infobox, infact, half of my s+ infobox edits are from doing that. Just experiment with what you think could work; glad I could help. 216.54.120.82 17:27, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Triggered filter on a discussion page again
Pretty much exactly what the header says, this time it was on Mod_talk:Mods. What triggered the filter this time? 216.54.120.82 13:40, 16 January 2019 (UTC) was inserted instead), so a double was almost never used by a human and was comfortably filtered. I don't know when this was changed, but I may need to do a performance review of this rule now. As for what you were trying to communicate to the guy, you're a helpful soul but I don't think it's worth the time of trying to get in contact with him in that way, and it's not really an appropriate place for that sort of discussion anyways. -- Mr Pie 5  (talk) 08:10, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * is something that spambots love. At the time this rule was created,  was also not the syntax used when adding a line break from the editing toolbar (

"Cookingcalc" Widget edit permissions
I'd like to request permissions to edit the widget "Cookingcalc" https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/index.php?title=Widget:Cookingcalc to update values for raw meat and add in new consumables.

Todgins9694 (talk) 01:27, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Editing widgets is reserved to admins, because one can insert arbitrary unchecked code to widgets. Please write what you want to change in the Discussion/Talk page of the widget. --Flachdachs (talk) 06:34, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Added code snippets to https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Widget_talk:Cookingcalc# Todgins (talk) 10:16, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

gunpowder
64.37.19.84 22:56, 18 January 2019 (UTC)Gunpowder is blocking some spawn points all Obie and killing all Chinese in a pvp server they will not stop and think there right if u know this is bannable rise up and go talk to the people of gp
 * This is not relevant for the wiki. For game support see the beginning of this page. --Flachdachs (talk) 00:08, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Review
Hey I would like it very much if someone would look at Getting Started and Tips and Tricks, and give me their opinions. I've been transferring some information from the 'Tips&Tricks' page to 'Getting Started'. There's a lot of copied knowledge with very lengthy descriptions. I'm trying my best to organize and simplify the information. P.S. I'm thinking about moving Obelisks and Beacons under 'General tips section to Getting Started.Terronscibe (talk) 03:46, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Not able to transmit
Type in map, hit transfer and nothing happens.


 * What? You need to be more specific, also, this is an ingame issue, we don't deal with those... 216.54.120.82 17:44, 31 January 2019 (UTC)


 * You're talking about transferring your character from one map to another? This isn't the Official Ark website. But as one player to another, it could be an update error. Some players had to delete then reinstall Ark to fix the transfer issue in Beacons/Loot Drops. The server you are playing is unofficial and the settings might not allow transfers.Terronscibe (talk) 17:45, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Non-user Trolls
Why does the website allow non-users to edit? I think it encourages trolls, people thinks they can't be tracked because they don't have any connection by means of registering their email to gamepedia.Terronscibe (talk) 17:38, 31 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Not all anonymous users are trolls, sometimes this is all we can do, look at my contribution log, and also check out ScrubbaNubNub's aswell, while I'm at school I can't sign into my account... It's better then not allowing them to edit at all, but I would like to some limitations to these. 216.54.120.82 17:42, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * My argument is that the majority of non-users are trolls and there needs to be limitations each day it's becoming more frequent of finding troll edits. Terronscibe (talk)


 * But you have to remember, without these troublemakers the admins will have nothing to do as the community would moderate itself... 216.54.120.82 17:56, 31 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Perhaps there can be an option users can register their I.P. address which would still allow edits only for Registered I.P. Addresses
 * This would discourage troublemakers and lessen the troll attacks
 * Terronscibe (talk) 03:29, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * The current system is fine. We don't see the need to change it. The number of malicious edits is quite low. --Flachdachs (talk) 07:20, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Disabling anon edits is a common question I hear from people who are new to wikis. On paper, one would think a system like this where anyone could edit invites a ton of vandalism. In actuality, only a very small percentage of editors are malicious, and between our filters, active users, and passerby who notice a problem, they are easily kept in check. We get plenty of legitimate contribution from anons, and removing their ability to contribute would result in a higher barrier to entry and the net result would just be less contribution overall with a minimal effect on vandalism. -- Mr Pie 5  (talk) 20:23, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Yes but what's the point of all this work to counter or revert troll edits? None of us that I know gets paid. Anonymous vandalism is a nuisance. Simply make it where Non-users has to register their emails with verification. Being obliged to submit atleast that information would discourage or atleast slow the rate of vandalism.Terronscibe (talk) 21:55, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * It's not that much work, actually, and it happens relatively infrequently. Far more anonymous edits are legitimate than are vandalism, and being forced to make an account is going to discourage legitimate contribution as much as it will vandalism. And restricting people from editing is antithetical to the idea of a wiki, a resource that anyone can contribute to, and so restrictions are best minimized. -- Mr Pie 5  (talk) 04:17, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Title change for: Getting Started
I'm requesting a title change for the page Getting Started->recommended names: Terronscibe (talk) 03:02, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * 'Beginner's Guide'
 * 'Starter's Guide'

GamePedia Pro Email
I've received an automatic email from the Gamepedia community offering me a Free Subscription for GamepediaPro? And that after 3 month it will then renew the subscription. What is this exactly? A spam letter?Terronscibe (talk) 21:23, 8 February 2019 (UTC)


 * You automatically have the subscription, it is not spam. Read the email. The Wayward Wolf (talk) 22:12, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I did read the email. I just wanted to be sure.Terronscibe (talk) 02:29, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
 * To be clear, it's 3 months of Gamepedia Pro, which is ad-free browsing and a little badge by your name. It is automatically applied and the email was just letting you know. The only cost associated with it is you being an active editor, and every month that you are still active it will be re-applied for 3 months from then. -- Mr Pie 5  (talk) 20:36, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Floating Content menu for Mobile
Is it possible to create a button for the bottom right of the screen in Mobile view? On my Samsung S7 smartphone, in the Chrome Browser. The Content menu does not display on the screen. However if I switch to Desktop view I see it.

Some articles are long and some people are not patient readers. I think having a Floating Collapsed Content button on the lower right of the screen would be handy, in the middle of the page the reader could hit the [+] open up the Content Floating menu, hit the section they want and move right to it at an instant. Terronscibe (talk) 05:23, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Strange Rules About Replying
I have issues with how the Replies are on here. If users continue to replying adding colons : it eventually squishes their messages on the right of the screen. Why can't we Simplify it as example:

This is main message. Terronscibe (talk) 02:12, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * User replies Terronscibe (talk) 02:12, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * 2nd User Replies Terronscibe (talk) 02:12, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * User replies with a subject changer.
 * replies are redirected to a different subject.Terronscibe (talk) 02:12, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Whereas replies currently:


 * This is a test reply that is pushed against the side. A ridiculous messaging rule.Terronscibe (talk) 02:13, 24 February 2019 (UTC)


 * That's the standard for all of Gamepedia's 2000+ wikis. The replies aren't meant to go that far. The Wayward Wolf (talk) 02:18, 24 February 2019 (UTC)


 * As far as I can tell MineCraft and Moonlighter Gamepedias doesn't carry on replies like that.Terronscibe (talk) 02:27, 24 February 2019 (UTC)


 * I thought it was on every wiki. Anyways, that's the standard for the ARK Wiki. The Wayward Wolf (talk) 02:41, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Another example is your profile comments. Which the majority is not including additional colons. Terronscibe (talk) 02:53, 24 February 2019 (UTC)


 * I remember seeing a template that brought back the replies after a certain point, though i’ve never tested it nor seen it be used somewhere Scrubbanubnub (talk) 03:02, 24 February 2019 (UTC)


 * The wiki standard is, when there are two or more responses to the same posting they are indented the same. Every answer gets plus 1 indentation to the posting it is referring to, and this is not necessarily the last posting with the furthest indentation. So in this case my answer is a reply to the starting posting and hence has one indentation. --Flachdachs (talk) 08:06, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Kibble
The new kibble recipes are not balanced well. It uses more resources and thereby costs more to make a basic Dodo egg kibble than one from a Scorpion or Teri. It would be as bad if it only took 5 each of the berries, but 10 each for 2 different berries plus Mejo and meat is too expensive. I can’t cook all my Dodo eggs now. Please recalculate the crafting for the most Basic Kibble.


 * --Flachdachs (talk) 07:32, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Gardening & Greenhouses
Are there any articles about Gardening and Greenhouses?Terronscibe (talk) 05:24, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Greenhouse Structures and Buildings --Flachdachs (talk) 07:32, 16 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks, so I guess it would be okay to start a Gardening page that also includes Primitive+ plants?Terronscibe (talk) 07:45, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

errors on page shotgun ammo page
the gunpowder should be 18 not 9 6x3=18 I reported this a long time ago, I actually talked to someone about it but lost that account and it's still not fixed. ‎


 * Fixed. The Wayward Wolf (talk) 21:49, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Why was my picture considered spam? Was it because is showed point blank the problem? It wasn't spam!

I don't know anything about editing pages or what signing a post means.

Don't expect that people know what you are talking about.

I'm just a player, all I know is that the wiki is wrong, and no one seems to care. DELETE MY WHOLE POST AND MY ACCOUNT IF YOU WANT, I don't really care. This is your wiki fix it....


 * Keep calm, the image is no longer needed, the error is already fixed (and the image wasn't needed to understand the problem). --Flachdachs (talk) 07:28, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

feeding trough dung beetles was flagged
I was flagged with a popup saying some violation. Dung beetles do not eat feces from any Feeding Trough. Trying to correct this in wiki and was shown a link telling me to explain myself here and sign it with squiggly marks.

What I mean to say is that I got flagged before I finished my entire editing. Just go ahead and revert it back. I was going to rewrite the Dung Beetle thingy and word it so people understood DB does not eat poop but is a meat eating dino. Was going to place the explain elsewheres but no longer wish to. I've lost interest in the two dung beetle edits I made tonight. Killed my steam, no offense; like ice water in the face.

That violation popup scared me to death. Might try wording it in a way that doesn't make editors feel like criminals caught in a bank vault having a smoke. Maybe not so THREATENING. Maybe something more like, "Hello, we enjoy your improvements and consideration to take time out of your busy schedule to improve our wiki. But to keep things as accurate as possible we need to do some checks and balances ourselves.  If you would please follow this link we can improve this wiki together as a team." Or something that doesn't scream VIOLATOR VIOLATOR VIOLATOR YOU WILL BE PUNISHED to hard working people trying their best.

Will be editing the Feeding Trough and Tek Trough pages in the future, if I'm allowed to, with a list of every item that DOES go in them. Cause this is needed.

Though mentioning poop doesn't go in the trough as if this is offensive messup by WC devs was silly. Mindset is the thing does not EAT poop. It's tamed with poop. Not a poop eater. No reason to expect poop in the trough. Does not eat poop. Converts it. Not eats it.

Would have explained that in my future edit with the list of everything that does go in trough. But I get it. Don't delete. Just add add add to the wiki.

If you wish to contribute to my knowledge base it is being gather here atm. I on purpose left off a few items to see if people will help me. If not I may go to reddit or steam.

Drow (talk) 04:28, 29 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Such a long complaint... for a single additional s after the word as. The filter is a stupid machine that can't differentiate between a typo and a real abuse. Please try again, try to avoid this typo. --Flachdachs (talk) 07:58, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Citronal is a Fruit
The Vegetables list is misleading. However, I vote that these crops that are involved in special cases like taming recipes be called something specific like: 'Taming Resource'.

Then as for the Plants page needs to be renamed to 'Crops, Rare Flower and Mushrooms'.. Actually, I'm working on revising the 'Farming page to include both Farming practices and Gardening. See my Test Page. Perhaps, I could include a section that acts as both an disambiguation and a description about the various harvest. Because the subject of  Ark plants  would include each object of berry bushes, flowers, grape vine, grassy foliage and more.


 * Technically all of them are fruits, as they all have seeds. I think the Vegetables pages should be renamed to Advanced Crops and the Plants page be renamed to Basic Plants. <font style="color:white; text-shadow: 1px 1px 4px black, 0 0 1em purple, 0 0 0.2em blue;">The Wayward Wolf (talk) 12:14, 31 March 2019 (UTC)


 * 'Advance Crops' I like that, but I was being technical. Because you cannot grow nor reproduce Rare Flowers and Mushrooms. As for the plant page, I was going to make it similar to the Tree page. Likewise I was planning to upload pictures of the common plants and move the current info over to future Gardening section under Farming. Even for the rename for referring to taming resources like the vegetables, I don't think we need a disambiguation for Vegetables alone when we already got a collection of 'fruits' or 'harvests'.Terronscibe (talk) 13:46, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Oh I know this probably improper to reply twice, but I want to simplify what I'm trying to indicate:
 * Is it okay to move Plants info and disambiguation to a future section in the Farming page?
 * Then can we redirect Vegetables to the disambiguation section that was originally from the (if the transfer was permitted) Plants page? Terronscibe (talk) 13:59, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Missing Image
Desert Cave (Extinction) page is missing a main picture.


 * Most of the region pages for Extinction and Ragnarok are, no one really has the time to work on that right now. <font style="color:white; text-shadow: 1px 1px 4px black, 0 0 1em purple, 0 0 0.2em blue;">The Wayward Wolf (talk) 21:56, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Updating Color Ids
I was adding more color ids that were identified in the Extinction update & it was flagged for gibberish. YarbySauce (talk) 02:51, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

If anyone has free time and doesn't mind to.
The Biomes page needs a few pictures which I can't get myself due to me only playing on console. 160.3.234.202 17:45, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Cmonty417 (talk) 03:05, 20 August 2019 (UTC)Ark Ragnarok PS4 Server 469 High Ping
Good Evening. I am writing to notify anyone who can do anything to help. I transferred from one server of Ragnarok to Another Specifically 469 and I am unable to get into that server to move my character off. server Ping is Currently 308 and I would like to continue playing. Is it possible for someone to possibly move my character to another server?
 * --Flachdachs (talk) 06:34, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Lots of missing data for Valguero
As far as I can tell, no dinos have spawn data on Valguero. How do we go about getting this information filled in?

Tdue21 (talk) 13:19, 22 September 2019 (UTC)


 * The spawn maps are being worked on right now, not sure when they will be here though. <font style="color:white; text-shadow: 1px 1px 4px black, 0 0 1em purple, 0 0 0.2em blue;">The Wayward Wolf (talk) 14:22, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Valguero map
The Valguero map doesn’t seem to work properly to show where to find dinos. On all the other maps I can see shaded areas ( green for an example) but nothing shows on Valguero.

It's being worked on right now, not sure when it will be here though. <font style="color:white; text-shadow: 1px 1px 4px black, 0 0 1em purple, 0 0 0.2em blue;">The Wayward Wolf (talk) 01:48, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Web page issue with ads.
76.26.177.175 12:12, 1 November 2019 (UTC) Hello, the ads on the right side keep blocking the search box on my laptop. Refreshing the page resets it, but it happens often and is starting to get annoying. The ads also take about 1/4 of my screen on my tablet so its good for quick info but its hard to read when no matter what I do 1/4 the screen is a ad. Love the web site btw. Thank you for all the work you guys do.


 * Sorry for the late response. Could you provide your resolution, browser, and any extensions you have? And if it happens again, a screenshot would be great. I've never seen the ads overlap the search box before. -- Mr Pie 5  02:42, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

(the island) Redirect "The western coast" to "western coast"
If you click the zone on the map you get redirected to The Western Coast, which does not exist, i tried to redirect it to Western Coast which exists. It didn't work since anonymous users apparently don't seem to be allowed to do so, maybe someone else can fix it, thanks.

Added CKFR to Unofficial Mods section. Denied due "gibberish"
While attempting to add CKFR to the lost of unoficial mods I was denied due to "Gibberish" no idea why.

Exileacid (talk) 22:21, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Flagged for potential vandalism
Wanting to clarify the DestroyTribeDinos command to let people know this is the only way to fix a player or tribe that has left tamed dinos to breed on a server with very high breeding speeds.

The paragraph I tried to add:

Unclaimed dinos are in their own separate tribe, so using this command while targeting an unclaimed dino will destroy all unclaimed dinos and leave the tamed and wild dinos alone. This can be useful if config settings for breeding are very fast and a tribe or player leaves a pair of dinos to breed unchecked, crippling the performance of the singleplayer game or server by causing endlessly increasing lag/stutter from thousands of unclaimed dinos walking around freely.

Gregarious (talk) 22:30, 16 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Do you remember what your edit summary was? If you do, you can probably guess what got caught. If not, just try the edit again with a new summary, keeping in mind that is is checked. -- Mr Pie 5  02:20, 17 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Oh. Oops. I'll switch it to the PG version.
 * Gregarious (talk) 02:40, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Edit denied due to vandalism/gibberish
Attempted to fix the link on the Genesis page for the Xbox version of the season pass. It currently links to the desktop version, not the Xbox version. Got a couple different errors, first stating it was flagged as potential vandalism, then one about gibberish when I changed the edit summary.--Absurdlyobfuscated (talk) 21:06, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Flagged for potential vandalism (commands)
was cross posting a link to index of note ID'sSumta (talk) 23:07, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

The delete all data button
So the problem is for some people they accidentally click on the delete all data button on console or pc and then they can’t ever get the data back because there is no like warning or way to stop it from doing it it doesn’t say are you sure you want do delete all your data Like it really should


 * Alexrmski (talk) 16:33, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Auto Decay Section in Server configuration
I attempted to write a new section on on the server configuration page to clarify and bring together all the info on Auto Decay. Unfortunately when I tired to save it was flagged for vandalism. Lewimaron (talk) 01:44, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Edit has been flagged as potential vandalism
I was getting frustrated at having to trawl around looking for info on S+ items and figured that while I was looking for the info I may as well update and fill in the wiki pages as I went; I expanded the S+ Vivarium page a bit last night on my phone without trying to log in and everything went fine. Today I decided to continue on with my computer, and properly log in as a user... and upon filling in all the information I could find, as well as adding in reference links and in general doing my best to make the page as complete as possible, I clicked save and got

"Your edit has been flagged as potential vandalism by the automated language filter and has been prevented. If you believe this to be in error, please contact an admin so they can recover your edit and improve the filter. "

I'm hoping this is the correct place to put this?? I've never tried to edit anything in the wiki before and I'm rather put out that I finally decided "might as well ensure other people can also reap the benefits of my info gathering" only to have it rejected


 * update: I clicked the "watch this page" checkbox and then hit save again hoping that even if the save didn't take it would still notify me of further changes to the page... and the save went through...?? So confused now


 * According to the person who manages the filters, this was caused by a double break-line tag. Alexrmski (talk) 05:25, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Fertilized Egg
When I put the code in for the fertilized egg in the cheat box, it gives me it and when I drop the egg down it disappears.


 * The egg disappears as it's missing parent information. There's nothing that can be done to change that. Alexrmski (talk) 22:57, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Your edit has been flagged ...
Dear admins. I attempted to add a small guide on a page, where it threw up that my comment was considered vandalism. I figured it might be because adding video content was restricted, however had seen nice helpful guides on a bunch of pages so wanted to help make the wiki better (much as I have on multiple other wikis, as I normally specialize in making game guides). The page I attempted to edit was https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Tusoteuthis.

Apologies if (new) video content is considered forbidden, as I made sure to verify that other pages had some which made me conclude it was acceptable.

Vedui42 (talk) 06:49, 28 November 2020 (UTC)


 * According to our wiki manager, the video ID got misinterpreted, but you should be fine now as you're over the edit threshold. Please try to do the edit again. Alexrmski (talk) 23:39, 28 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for the reply. I wanted to make sure I wasn't in-advertently breaching any rules :) However, I am still getting the error message. "Your edit has been flagged as potential vandalism by the automated language filter and has been prevented" ... any idea what could be triggering it? Vedui42 (talk) 08:04, 29 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Nevermind, I guess edits are counted differently by the filters since the platform update, and site-wide contributions no longer count towards the threshold. I added the video to the article (''normally your contribution would have to be signed on the history page but this isn't exactly a piece of writing) so you don't have to work the filters around. Thank you and sorry for the issues. Alexrmski (talk) 09:47, 29 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Understood. No problem for me, more trouble for you which is not my intent :) I did try a normal textual edit which seemed fine. Maybe I'll do some updates on some other pages if I see something, that might help give site-contributions over the threshold, though I'm not sure how many are needed. Maybe that'll work the problem out in the end :) Vedui42 (talk) 10:31, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Translating to Dutch
Hi! I am Joris, a Dutch guy who has played ARK for a couple of years now. I can speak and write English quite well and i would love to translate a couple of pages to Dutch. I will do a few pages a day, just so that people in the Netherlands who cant speak English that well can understand this WIKI. Hit me up if you want to let me do my job!


 * Hi, you can start by following the Translation guidelines. Thank you. Alexrmski (talk) 14:51, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Adding obelisks to Aberration maps
I would like to add the 3 obelisks to the Aberration Resource Map, Explorer Map, and Spawn Map; but I cannot because they are protected.

Please allow me to edit these, or add the information yourself.

The 3 obelisks are at 18.9, 16.1; 22.5, 77.7; 80.8, 20.3 (from The wiki page for Obelisk and This youtube video ). Cowlinator (talk) 04:13, 3 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Obelisks added to Resource Map and Spawn Map. They were already there on Explorer. Alexrmski (talk) 11:00, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Incorrectly named page
The wiki page "Exo-Mek" talking about the Exo-Suit vehicle which was recently announced is incorrectly named a fan-made name. All current reveals refer to it as the Exo-Suit. Though this is unreleased content and the name may change, there has been no official reveal referring to it as the "Exo-Mek".


 * The latest Community Crunch (263) refers to the Exo-Suit as "Exo-mek". This is so far the only source I know about, but please correct me if that's wrong. It's possible you confused it with the Federation Exo Suit, and these two are not the same: the Fed Suit is a wearable armor, and the Exo-mek is a vehicle. Alexrmski (talk) 21:06, 18 April 2021 (UTC)


 * When the Community Cruch was published they refered to it as "Exo-Suit" but they changed it few hours later to "Exo-Mek". Will130 (talk) 21:12, 18 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Original poster's note: You are correct, they did change the name a few hours later, I didn't think to check for this because I had never heard someone refer to it as the Exo-mek until that point. (I did double take by checking the file name of the image and it is indeed named Exo-Suit. I didn't go onto the crunch because the page takes 10 minutes to load.)

Translation to Thai language.
Hi, Wiki manager. I am a person from Thailand. Usually I'm a person who translate patchnotes and game information in my native language to unofficial Facebook group in my country. I just want to make it into public with Ark Official wikipedia in Thai language. Everyone can reach it on this page. If you agree with this. I happy to help. I'll prepare for Ark II.


 * Hello, please start by following the Translation guidelines. The code for Thai language is, so, for example, to translate patch notes for the Steam/Epic version 327.10 you'd like to create 327.10/th. Once the translation's big enough (...primarily as described in the guidelines) a dedicated wiki can be set up.
 * Thank you. Alexrmski (talk) 12:53, 23 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I got an error message. while trying to save page "Error: This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: Inappropriate language prevention" on https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/ARK_2/th


 * Oops, sorry about that! I modified the filter and it should no longer falsely detect Thai articles as inappropriate language. I also restored your edit. Alexrmski (talk) 14:35, 23 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Do I need to add my project on this page? MisterNobel (talk) 03:27, 24 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Feel free to, though I can also ask the person who manages these project pages to do so too. Thank you for translating by the way. Alexrmski (talk) 04:27, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I added your project to the page. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding the translation. Will130 (talk) 19:55, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Macro-Summoner addition is accounted as vandalism
hello, i am trying to add more about the macro-summoner in its page, but my additions are counted as vandalism, if this could be fixed that would be much appreciated 173.255.229.36 23:46, 6 June 2021 (UTC) TheHeadBangingSpino


 * Restored. Alexrmski (talk) 04:46, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Template:CreatureTableRow modification request/help
Hello! I made the following edit to fix a presentation issue when browsing Base Creature Statistics - I hope that's okay, and that I haven't broken anything anywhere else. I'm in a wiki-rabbit hole right now, I got to that page after reading "as strong as a plesiosaur" on Voidwyrms and thought that was the least useful comparison because "who uses a plesiosaur to know what this reference is suppose to mean" but turns out Plesis are hench AF but still who knows that. However, I do not know how to make an additional change that I think would improve the page: I think that should be but I do not know what to put in for  to validate the check. Thanks 📉 Emptylord (talk) 01:09, 23 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Added. Thanks! Alexrmski (talk) 19:46, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Aberration map notes stuck 'ON'
On all of the Explorer maps, when given the option to turn all points On or Off - once turned all Off, all the Notes are still visible onscreen. I've tried loading the maps in three different browsers to no avail. Notes appear to be permanent for some reason.

Thefoxtato (talk) 07:44, 26 June 2021 (UTC)thefoxtato


 * Fixed, thank you. Alexrmski (talk) 08:58, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Dark hex background pattern recently appeared on dino-specific pages which makes them hard to read.
Sometime in the past two days something changed that made the normal light hex background pattern very dark on dino-specific pages which makes reading these pages quite difficult. Other pages (items, maps, general info, etc.) still appear as usual without the dark hex pattern. I'm using Firefox (no updates to Firefox in this period) on Windows 10 (probably some updates but seems an unlikely culprit). I've included two sample screenshots to illustrate the problem I'm encountering.





KADC &#34;Be unreasonable.&#34; (talk) 22:37, 4 July 2021 (UTC)


 * I haven't seen that behavior since the hex background was even added. It seems that something's messing with the Z/depth order of the hex overlay, and it isn't being done by standard Firefox.
 * Based off the screenshot not using any of the custom fonts and displaying a placeholder for the audio player, is there any chance you can say what extensions you use? If you have an extension that lets you


 * inject CSS, see if  does the trick;
 * block elements (like UBlock/AdBlock), target this selector  to delete the hex background.
 * Alexrmski (talk) 00:22, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestions, Alexrmski. They put me on the right track to solving the problem.
 * The current version of Firefox Quantum on Windows 10 seems to ignore user CSS even after enabling it in about:config and creating the chrome/userChrome.css so that didn't work when I tried it.
 * I disabled all the extensions I use (NoScript, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and Decentraleyes) with no luck.
 * In the end it turned out to be a script on nocookie.net (would never have guessed that was the culprit) that NoScript was blocking. Once I allowed that script, the hex pattern on Creatures pages went back to normal. (Weird that disabling NoScript didn't work ...maybe because I only reloaded the page instead of restarting Firefox?)


 * In any case, I can read dino info clearly again so (for me) the issue is resolved. Thanks again, Alexrmski, for your assistance.


 * Side note: Since the problem only appeared (for me) recently, and only on "Creatures" pages, is there any chance there was an inadvertent modification to the style code for that specific subcategory?
 * KADC &#34;Be unreasonable.&#34; (talk) 06:14, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

Santiago isn't the author of the Titan Dossiers!
Hello there stranger. I need to ask a favor from you. You see, I noticed that the Titan Dossiers say they were written by Santiago. But I know that isn't true, he only does tek manuals for those robots. Plus, he just doesn't talk like that at all. But The One Who Waits does. Can you change for me? I think is because their is a piece of code that is connected to the holograms. 5:31, 23 June 2021‎ (UTC)


 * Looks like a regression from recent dossiers upgrade. Will be fixed in a sec. Alexrmski (talk) 00:28, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks stranger. However those titan dossiers do have a author. It's The One Who Waits. You know, Helena Walker as Homo Deus? Could you change it to them? The reason is because this author refers to the King Titan as "The King of Shadows", and the only person who calls him that is The One Who Waits. 11:08, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

Adding the Hover Skiff to Template:CarryableTable
Would it be possible to add the Hover Skiff to Template:CarryableTable (or wherever it needs to be added) in order to have it appear on articles as a valid thing that can pick-up certain creatures? *I* know it can carry virtually everything, but as a server admin - there's a lot of players who can't work things out backwards.

I've never used Cargo so I am too anxious to make the change myself. Even looking at the existing code, I'm not confident that I can just extrapolate without breaking something. 📉 Emptylord (talk) 14:25, 23 August 2021 (UTC)


 * The Cargo table should now register whether things can be carried by the Hover Skiff as long as the  field lists the "TEK Hover Skiff (Genesis: Part 1)". The data table should be populated first before the carriability table is expanded (can't do it myself at this moment in time). Alexrmski (talk) 08:44, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Updating "Diet" to reflect gameplay rather than dossier
It is my understanding (in part from when I was an admin a couple years back) that a lot of our creature information is autogenerated from the game files. How feasible would it be to update "Diet" on the infobox to reflect what is true in game, in spite of what is claimed in the dossier? Would the bot overright userinput every time there's a patch? I genuinely cannot remember. The dossiers have become increasingly trivial over the years, and they are in large part treated as "ignorable lore" even on the articles - but some information granted in the dossiers is still the information reflected in the infobox, even when it's inaccurate. For example, claims it's an omnivore - but it's a herbivore in-game.

As with above, I'm mainly asking as a server owner who has to deal with people asking questions; as an editor who hates seeing people say "yeah, I don't trust the wiki". 📉 Emptylord (talk) 15:22, 24 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Since late June gameplay-based information is preferred over the dossiers in infoboxes, with an additional extension of the dossier template to allow for its info to be retained. Check Otter for example.
 * Having a bot auto-fill the diet is planned (if not already specified), but most likely not for ARK 1 (given that data extraction focus has been shifting towards updating its core). Alexrmski (talk) 08:30, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

automated language filter
On the page https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/-Space-_(Genesis:_Part_2) I tried to improve visibility by change the background color of the "Supply Crate color" table using a little of html-CSS code to make it but it flagged as "potential vandalism" and "prevent it" by not making the update, I dont know if is not allowed but I think is really really useful because it makes so much easy to read which kind of drop are by having the literal color right there

Finixian (talk) 00:15, 2 October 2021 (UTC)


 * The filter probably got triggered by the isolated word "black". I've reinstated the edit, thanks. Alexrmski (talk) 17:04, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Another False Vandalism Flag
Today I've added the page for the Crystal Unka for the Crystal Dinos Collection mod, and I worked on completing the page to an acceptable point for the past few hours. Once I finally tried to save, it flagged me for vandalism under the reason "Gibberish", despite it definitely being a comprehensible page. I'm still learning the ways of the wiki but after looking it over it just seems to be another error in the filter. Any way I could get help with this?

Aquonyx (talk) 03:47, 20 October 2021 (UTC)


 * I'll reinstate your edit in around 2 hours once back at home. In a few days the filter should not cause you any further issues. Alexrmski (talk) 11:17, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Restored. Sorry for the trouble. Alexrmski (talk) 13:07, 20 October 2021 (UTC)