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[22:48] <Sirp> on this topic, should it be 'Elvish Fighter' or 'Elven Fighter'??
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[22:51] <miyo> Sirp: As you see... we can stick with what we have.
[22:51] <Sirp> miyo: okay :)

-- Miyo

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/elf?view=uk
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/dwarf?view=uk
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/human?view=uk

- Miyo

"No reviewer (that I have seen), although all have carefully used the correct dwarfs themselves, has commented on the fact (which I only became conscious of through reviews) that I use throughout the 'incorrect' plural dwarves. I am afraid it is just a piece of private bad grammar, rather shock...

* English troops
* Finnish Bowman
* Swedish Spearman

- Miyo

http://www.dict.org

and search for all of them: elvish, elven, dwarvish, dwarven.

- Miyo

A friend of mine kept on bragging about this, so here it goes: Shouldn't the Elvish & Dwarvish units be Elven & Dwarven? Like "Elven archer" and "Dwarven fighter"? Or is there are reason for them to be Elvish & Dwarvish? (Everytime I see the name "Elvish" I...

eugenelim wrote:Is there a license for the web page and the wiki? I.e. is it closed, or can it be under Creative Commons or other license?

At the moment there is not. It is protected by copyright laws. We might need to fix this.

- Miyo

HenrikOxUK wrote:One question: Could we have permission to use some of the screenshots from your web site for our installer?

Granted.

HenrikOxUK wrote:We might also want to add some documentation from your wiki directly to the CD at some point, if that's OK.

Granted.

- Miyo

joshbosh321 wrote:I'm not a dev, so this isn't an official answer, but I think that GPL states that you can use anything in this website for non-commercial purposes.

Btw, where on the web-page it is said that all content of the web-page is GPL? Game being GPL does not make the content on Web-page GPL.

- Miyo

I'm not a dev, so this isn't an official answer, but I think that GPL states that you can use anything in this website for non-commercial purposes. What has GPL to do with non-commercial purposes? http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCDoesTheGPLAllowMoney http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.h...

The developers have a final say but it is up to the consumer (us) to decide what we want in a product and if we believe that we have a decent viable perspective to maybe have the people higher up consider it. Wesnoth is game from developers to themselves. Target group (and therefore the customer) a...

We are done for today. We need another maintenance break, but that will have to be after weekend as I can not get the needed parts right now.

- Miyo

devsrv.wesnoth.org, which e.g. runs 0.8.7 multiplayer gaming server, will be down sometimes during this evening/night (EET) due system maintenance.

- Miyo

turin wrote:mostly due to music, right? so wesnoth-lite is smaller?

Music is currently only 1/3 of the size (9+ MB).

- Miyo

I think that individual unit tweaking is a very good thing, and that it should be used more often. I think that units should have variety, and not be so restricted to movetypes. (and we don't want loads of movetypes...) To put this in rest (as this has already been decided a long time ago): [00:10]...