on the striped dragon page here theres an issue with the "Breeding Results" heading that seems to contain. the rest of the page? When you click show more, it lists the breeding partners to produce a white, and then also shows breeding partners for blue - expanding that heading shows the issue I'm talking about.

I would try to fix it myself but I dont know the first thing about wiki editing so I'll leave it in someones capable hands. ^^

Hello friends, the 2019-2020 holiday season is over, so once the new Valentine articles are completed, I'm gonna be back on my reorganization nonsense. Here's some rambling notes:

Fandom forums have not migrated to Discussions yet. Seems there were still some features to hammer out to make the transition better for Fandom wikis that use their forums extensively. Haven't seen an updated ETA on when the migration will be comin'.

We're past the half way point for aligning Releases categories with the new naming convention of "[YYYY-MM-DD] - [Release Title]". Next on the docket will be aligning the rest of our categories to proper naming convention (mostly making sure they're sentence case and plural), and aligning them to on-site terminology. Further down the line is reorganizing the event categories and establishing some definitions for what they should include. Right now we've got a lot of stuff going on like Valentine's Day dragons that are double categorized as "Valentine's Day" and "Valentine Dragons", etc., etc.

On the article front, I'm gonna be getting back to fixing up the Dragon Types article, since it's currently organized vaguely by rarity. Since rarity's really subjective, I'd rather not rely on that for much. My current draft is organizing things by breeding groups (Standard dragons, two heads, pygmies, etc.), but I've seen talk that people would like a way to see things in the order they display in the on-site encyclopedia. Been considering just consolidating the tables to display like the encyclopedia would.

Finally, still thinking about what to do about the Dragon Rarity Guide. My intention was to use the market prices as a guideline during the restructuring, and then toss it to the userbase to fine-tune those where the market price doesn't really align to the end user value. So far, fairly few requests for specific changes, but many people have mentioned around the community that rarities are wrong in a general sense ? So, casting the net for feedback on this issue once again. If it's actually a metric that people would/do find useful, we can look at easier ways for people to give feedback since the talk page method isn't working. Maybe a survey, or a regular rarity review? Alternately, if it's just going to forever be inaccurate since it's so opinion based, we can look at possibly deprecating rarity rather than keep inaccurate and potentially confusing information around.

tl;dr/community feedback portion:

• Would you prefer: Dragon Types organized by type, or listing all dragons in Encyclopedia order without type divisions?
• Is rarity a useful metric to include on the wiki? Suggestions for improving the accuracy of the rarity guide?

Thanks!

RinasaurusRex (talk) 16:08, February 25, 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure if they'll decline so ye please tell me if they have a high chance of declining or a high chance of success 

i uploaded the sprite for the dead egg with the filename being "Halloween 2019 dead egg.png" but can't edit this page due to it being protected. honestly don't know who to contact about this so i'm just posting this here in case someone can see it ^_^"

The cooldown period for the Guardian of Nature appears to be about two turns, and on the third it will attack. It first appeared on the 114 turn and vanished on the 124, in my game. I'm unsure if it has a limited amount of health or not.

Upon arriving it gives the message: "The power of your Ice, Magma, and Thunder dragons summons a Guardian of Nature."
Upon leaving it leaves the message: "Guardian of Nature leaves to maintain the balance."

Hopefully this information is useful for the Wiki, have a good one.

- Cura

Hey folks,

The new Dragon Rarity Guide has been implemented, as well as some new rules of thumb for classifying dragon rarity. Dragons have been reclassified according to market price, using the following scheme:

0 – Very common –           100 shards
1 – Common      –   200 -   400 shards
2 – Uncommon    –   500 - 1,500 shards
3 – Rare        – 1,600 - 2,500 shards
4 – Very Rare   –      >= 2,600 shards
5 – Extremely Rare – Reserved for highly limited or hard to obtain non-market dragons (ie, neglected, prize, GoN)

Dragon articles have been updated and recategorized to reflect their rating on the Rarity Guide. There are some exceptions, such as for Xenowyrms which are considered rarer by users than their market price would imply. If you think there are any other breed rarities that don't align with the guide above, please open a topic on the Rarity Guide Talk page.

I wanted to touch on the rarity categories for dragon articles. Right now, all Holiday dragons are also categorized as Rare Dragons. I'm not sure that rarity classification is entirely appropriate for Holidays? They behave so thoroughly outside of normal dropping/breeding dynamics that I wonder if they should have a "Limited edition" rarity category, or just use "Holiday Dragons" as their "rarity" and remove them from the regular "Rare Dragons" category.

If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, please let me know!

Thanks,

RinasaurusRex (talk) 18:45, October 15, 2019 (UTC)

Hey friends,

Next article update on my horizon is the Dragon Rarity Guide. It's been under construction for a while, I'd like to get it polished up now that we've replaced the "Rarity" column on Which egg is which?.

I'm planning on restructuring it similar to WEIW, putting the breeds into a table, including the dragon sprites and notes. It will differ slightly in that I'm planning on splitting alternates out into their own rows where rarity differs (such as between Blacks and Alt Blacks, or Mints and the special event upside down Mints).

You can check the draft that's in progress here: Draft:Dragon Rarity Guide

Let me know if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions.

Thanks!

RinasaurusRex (talk) 12:52, September 5, 2019 (UTC)

Hey folks,

I'm considering making some updates to the Which egg is which? page, and wanted to give some time for community feedback before changing things around. There are two points I want to address:

1. Table columns

Currently, the tables have columns for "Egg", "Description", "Breed", and "Rarity". I'd like to replace "Rarity" with "Habitat". Personally, that seems like a more useful datapoint to see when trying to find which egg I saw, particularly in the case of colliding descriptions. If people find utility in the "Rarity" section, we'll see if we can find a way to preserve it and include habitat as well.

2. Colliding descriptions

Currently, we list colliding descriptions once, and displaying all breeds that share that description with it. This means that the subsequent dragons sharing a description appear out of alphabetical order, such as "Pink Dragon" sorting beside "Flamingo Wyvern". I'd like to switch to listing each dragon in their correct alphabetical place, and displaying the shared descriptions multiple times. I'd also like to include a footnote that the description is shared between whichever breeds. With this change, we'd also be able to implement table sorting, so descriptions could be sorted alphabetically by breed or biome.

Let me know if you have any questions, concerns, or further suggestions on this topic.

Thanks!

RinasaurusRex (talk) 20:30, August 13, 2019 (UTC)

Hey everyone,

Today I made some updates to the templates used by Avatar Breeding to make things a little easier to maintain. The lists of breeds that produce each avatar should now automatically incorporate any new dragons as long as they're given the category Primary Affinity: {ELEMENT} for the breed's primary elemental affinity. The list will also automatically exclude Pygmies, Drakes, and Two-Headed Dragons which cannot be bred with Avatars/Guardians of Nature.

Please let me know if there are any issues or inaccuracies in the lists!

Thanks,

RinasaurusRex (talk) 15:02, August 11, 2019 (UTC)

Hey folks,

In related news to the Great File Renaming of 2019, we have a butt-load of event assets saved, and unfortunately a lot of them are really badly named. I honestly don't love the idea of sitting here and renaming every one of these files, and I don't like keeping around so many tiny individual sprites, particularly when, like, none of them follow naming convention.

I wanted to see how y'all felt about a policy for event assets of consolidating all variations of an asset as one image, rather than uploading each individually. As an example, with the Gingerbread House Decorating, we have this set from assets from Mysfytt:

Artist	Decorations
Mysfytt

Right now, this is 30 individual files, when really it's recolors and flips on 3 actual sprites. It seems like it'd be simpler to collect the recolors/flips into a set and upload them all as one file. 30 assets becomes 3 files for us to keep track of.

Let me know what y'all think.

Thanks!

RinasaurusRex (talk) 19:48, August 2, 2019 (UTC)

Hi friends,

Work on getting our files named according to convention's going well. Badge sprites are now all appropriately named. :)

I'm gonna dive into release banners soon, and wanted to propose an update to the naming convention before I do. The current documented convention is release banners should be titled {MONTH} release {YEAR}. I'd like to switch this to YYY-MM-DD {RELEASE TITLE} release banner

This way release banners will sort by date when viewed in Category:Release banners and make it easier to ensure everything's in order on the Dragon Release Timeline.

Example:

Let me know in the next few days if you have any questions or concerns about this change.

Thanks!

RinasaurusRex (talk) 12:48, July 31, 2019 (UTC)

Hey folks,

So good news, we're caught up on the file renaming backlog from the last few releases.

Less good news, if you take a look at Category:Sprite, you'll see that we have many, many, many files that don't follow naming convention and need reorganizing.

To aid in this, I'm creating a new Bot account, RinasaurusBot. It'll handle automation of these file renames and article updates. I'm also gonna have Fandom staff flag it as a bot, so we won't have to clog up the changelog with all these edits. :)

Thanks!

RinasaurusRex (talk) 22:06, July 30, 2019 (UTC)

heyo.

It's been pointed out that we have some files out of date, particularly dead eggs that didn't get updated with the last general hatching sequence update. Dug around for articles that look like they may need file updates, including:

• 13th Birthday Release – Need egg sequences completed
• Black Dragon – Needs dead egg update
• Cheese Dragon – Needs dead egg update
• Copper Dragon – Needs dead egg update for Rainbow variety
• Daydream Dragon – Needs dead egg update
• Electric Dragon – Needs dead egg update
• Ember Dragon – Needs dead egg update and stage 3 update to remove black background
• Guardian of Nature – Needs dead egg update
• Magma Dragon – Needs dead egg update
• Mariner Pygmy – Needs dead egg sprite
• Paper Dragon – Needs dead egg update
• Seasonal Dragon – Needs dead egg update on Spring and Summer
• Shallow Water Dragon – Needs dead egg update to remove black background
• Speckle-Throated Dragon – Needs S2 female hatchling update to remove black background
• Spirit Ward Dragon – Needs dead egg update
• Thunder Dragon – Needs dead egg update
• Two-Finned Bluna – Needs dead egg update
• Ultraviolet Dragon – Needs dead egg update

Holidays: non-actionable right now, but to keep in mind when holiday season rolls around again.

• Sakuhana Wyvern – Needs dead egg sprite
• Pumpkin Dragon – Needs dead egg update
• Black Marrow – Needs dead egg update
• Shadow Walker – Needs dead egg update
• Cavern Lurker Dragon – Needs dead egg update
• Arcana Dragon – Needs dead egg sprite
• Holly Dragon – Needs dead egg update
• Winter Magi – Needs dead egg update
• Starsinger Dragon – Needs dead egg

idk if it'd be helpful to create a template/category for out of date files and/or articles, might be something to think about.

RinasaurusRex (talk) 19:06, July 7, 2019 (UTC)

yo.

So a question cropped up due to a recent edit adding a specific dragon code to the trivia of the Sunset Dragon article. Apparently other interesting codes are exposed in the trivia of other breeds, such as the Thunder Dragon article.

Wanted to open this to discussion, since I wasn't seeing a policy related to exposing dragon codes on the wiki. Realistically, according to DC's Terms and Conditions, we shouldn't be posting links to any dragon without the owner's permission, even adults.

“

Interactions with other users All interactions with other users must be willful. Bothering other users to return abandoned eggs or posting the eggs, hatchlings, or adult dragons without a user's permission are prohibited.

- Terms and Conditions

Assuming one does get permission from the owner, we also have the issue of "What makes a code noteworthy enough to be included in trivia?" which could use its own policy on the books.

It still says ‘it managed to grow wings despite being dead’ for undead wingless dragons. I don’t know if this is a bug or just a error, but I don’t think this is correct! ;w;’

https://dragcave.net/view/3GyBQ Wanted to force it out, guess you have the image now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯