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Characters Edit

Why is there a link to armor and species but not to characters?—This unsigned comment is made by M1c00l (talk • contribs) . Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

Characters will appear in their specific game portals upon release

21:17, October 10, 2012 (UTC)

Should a link to technology be featured on the main page? -Heretant

Dead links on home page Edit

The two links on the main page "Weapons" and "Armor" direct to deleted pages for "Weapon Maps" and "Armor Maps." The first should direct to http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Weapons and the second to whatever the armor page was intended for.

Thejoeludwig (talk) 04:42, December 5, 2012 (UTC)

It's been a while since those links on main page are down. Could someone please finally fix it? --TwomblyCZ (talk) 17:31, December 6, 2012 (UTC)

Portable wiki Edit

-Portable wiki- Is there a way to download the wiki to my computer so i can access it will offline?

I second that idea, is there a way it could be done?EmptyHead (talk) 01:18, March 24, 2013 (UTC)

Yes, one can do so by saving each and every page as an HTML file on one's computer. Karl-591 ^{(Talk) (Contribs)}

You can get a database dump from Special:Statistics - it's raw xml, so it's not particularly good for reading, but it's the easiest way to download the full wiki.

Wikipedia has an interesting page about database downloads, with links to some offline xml readers. Any xml reader that works for wikipedia should work for wikia. It's all mediawiki underneath.

You can also find a list of all files on Special:ListFiles - the "(file)" link is to the full sized image, which makes it easy to grab them all with most modern download managers.

Happy offlining! -452 03:42, March 24, 2013 (UTC)

Also, googling offline wiki xml viewer has some other results. I've never tried any, so if you find a good one, let us know. -452 03:43, March 24, 2013 (UTC)

I just tested out WikiTaxi and it works well enough for text. It can't display images, and javascript and wikia specific stuff won't work, but what does work is: templates, formatted text, paragraphs, TOC, redirects. Unfortunately, categories appear to be ignored, which kinda sucks. Categories are displayed on each page, and each category page exists, but category pages don't display sub-categories.

Also, it imports .bz2 files, but wikia dumps are .gz files, so you'll have to extract the .gz and recompress it as .bz2, 7zip can do that. -452 05:23, March 24, 2013 (UTC)

Minor grammatical error Edit

"...an article about the way the Halo Universe could expand and show us more of it's wonders." should be "...an article about the way the Halo Universe could expand and show us more of ITS wonders." --Saytun 00:37, May 1, 2013 (UTC)