Ran
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I think the appendices are unlikely to show more such tweaks going forward, but one never knows. New houses? Maybe, though as referenced within the appendices of already established families rather than getting appendices in their own right, I'd think. I think the Mullendores have always been vassals of the Hightowers. George just clarified his sense of things as he progressed.
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@Corvo the Crow How do you mean, vassal structure?
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He writes them. I can't speak about "all versions" because of the many translations, but so far as I'm aware all English language editions contain appendices.
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Yep! Exhilirating. @Darth Richard II, It links to Children of Earth and Sky but in a grace note kind of way.
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Have to say, A Brightness Long Ago is so good that I just had to go and re-read Children of Earth and Sky. I didn't even do that after River of Stars, though I enjoyed it and its predecessor Under Heaven very much. It's a beautiful novel, meditating on memory, aging, and loss. I definitely tend to recommend The Lions of Al-Rassan as an introduction to Kay, because to me it's pretty much his most perfect standalone novel. But if one wants distinctly more fantasy elements, it has to be Tigana. Lord of Emperors still has my favorite action sequence in any novel ever.
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Real test will be the next episode, but definitely performing substantially better.
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Got some help and solved it -- I misunderstood the purpose of a particular LocalSettings.php setting and removing it fixed it.
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I tested that by changing Viserys I to use File and I'm not sure that's it (Image is a legacy tag and should behave like File anyways). Certainly made no difference. What I do see is that Viserys I uses the Monarch infobox and that seems to handle the image differently in that template than the character infobox does. But it's also happening in non-infobox contexts, like the Viserys Targaryen image for the Exile subheading.
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As some may have noticed, the wiki has been quite slow of late. This is because something is causing a lot of sockets to open and wait for content, and I have a suspicion it may have to do with something going on with our images. Compare the Viserys I image at https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Viserys_I_Targaryen -- if you right click it and copy image address, you are pointed directly to an image at https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/7/7c/VISERYS_I.jpg Now look at the Viserys Targaryen image at http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Viserys_Targaryen -- if you right click there and copy image address, you are not given a direct image url but instead , you are pointed to http://awoiaf.westeros.org/thumb.php?f=Viserys_Targaryen.jpg&width=350. This means that every time that page is loaded, it has to run thumb.php rather than just going straight to the image. This is adding an enormous amount of requests to the server, and appears to be preventing Varnish from caching the static images. So my question is, does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it? Compare to any page on wikipedia.org and you'll see that the Viserys I example is what we _should_ be getting, not the Viserys Targaryen example with thumb.php being called for each image.
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I believe you're correct -- that it was more explicit in an earlier draft that George read. It wasn't in the final draft submitted to the publisher, though, as I've seen that.
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It has to be actual interwiki linking. Otherwise it's a bit unbalanced. But if you want to add links to bottom of articles on the wiki to point to German versions, that's fine.
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If they interwiki to us, we can add them.
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Funny, I came across the new name for the wiki just the other day and didn't realize it was the same one. I'll see what I can do to get this fixed. I know I also have some other things to do regarding this stuff.
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