Forum:Questions about Wiki related stuff.

Hello,

First of all sorry for the odd title. As you may or may not know I'm the admin of The Dutch Sims Wiki. And I'm working on the layout and other Wiki related stuff for quite a while. Just some things I can't figure out and I hope that some people can help me answer these questions;


 * I copied this welcome message (for anon's, users and staff members) translated them and put them on the site. However they won't show up an still result in this message. Does somebody have a clue what I'm doing wrong?
 * How do you edit the talk page so the summary box will become the title box, and it won't give you a double warning. (again I copied this one and made it like this, that's why there is a second one I guess, but how do I remove the 'original one'?

This is it for now, I simply can't remember the rest. But I do have a lot of more. Hopefully you are willing to help me.

Tiezel (talk) 22:57, February 7, 2013 (UTC)
 * This page might be able to help you out with the welcome tool. Have you checked the appropriate MediaWiki pages just in case it's accidently disabled? It looks to me that you've done everything else correctly.
 * Last time I checked that happens when you click the "Add section/New section/Add topic" button. A temporary workaround could be to append  to the end of the URL but I'm not too sure how it works on the MediaWiki front.


 * Hope this helps! 23:03, February 7, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks, the page helped me a lot. We had a message board and I didn't set any welcome message for that one. I simply changed it. For the other question; how do you make the add topic/leave a message button on a page then?


 * Also; How do you make the 'add license' appear on image pages? (For example the green bar on this page).
 * Tiezel (talk) 09:15, February 10, 2013 (UTC)
 * If you want the "new section" button there permanently, you can add  to the top of whatever page you want to add it to. As for the "add license" feature, we're using some JavaScript to achieve that which you can find here and you're welcome to make a copy and adapt it to your own needs (such as if you're using a different licensing template). Just remember that the   character between the header and the template is required for it to work properly as it adds a new line. If you need help adapting the script, should you choose to do so, then I'm more than happy to help. :)  12:01, February 10, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, you've been a great help really. Another question, how do you change your url to htpp://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_Wiki (in our case it would become nl.sims.wikia/wiki/De_Sims_Wiki I guess), because now it's saying Hoofdpagina (main page). I thought it was something at the MediaWiki namespace, but it didn't seem to work.. Tiezel (talk) 21:46, February 19, 2013 (UTC)
 * You should be able to edit MediaWiki:Mainpage with that and then De Sims Wiki should be your default main page. 21:51, February 19, 2013 (UTC)

I came up with another question, haha >.< Is it possible to change whatever it says in the emails send by wikia to users? (for instance if someone follows a page and someone else made changes on it). Here you always get a nice layout, and I think ours is a little messy.. And another one, is it possible to change the "Search this wiki" bar? Because here it says Search The Sims Wiki. I thought it was somewhere in MediaWiki as well, but when I changed it nothing happend.. Tiezel (talk) 10:35, March 10, 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if it's possible to change the email content, can't say I ever tried. As for the search bar, try editing MediaWiki:Tooltip-search and see if that does anything. 11:27, March 10, 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes I tried editing that already, still it gives the same standard thingy. Ah wait, I just opened another browser and it does seem to work there. Tiezel (talk) 12:10, March 10, 2013 (UTC)

And I'm here again with a question :') For some reason in my Simbio3 template the favorites all create extra space (for example with Bella Goth)) Did I mess something up in my Simbio or maybe even my Sim template, or the templates related to the favorites (they are named the same as the ones on here)? How can I fix it or can someone fix it for me? Tiezel (talk) 21:32, March 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * We're having a similar trouble with the trait parameters whenever the infobox is used outside mainspace or fanon namespace. :/ I would suspect it has something to do with the categorizing template, but I can't find anything wrong. Maybe try avoiding extra whitespaces in your templates?  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  10:41, March 23, 2013 (UTC)

April
I thought on keeping it a little clearer a new headline would help. Thanks for the great help so far, I (still) have some questions;


 * Does this Wiki hide the Read More bar, or is it just not showing up here? If it is, how do you do that?
 * I'm still wondering about the e-mail question. I found a MediaWiki about it (ofcourse now I can't find it anymore) but the page on here was deleted suggesting it wasn't relevant anymore. So I assume there has to be another page, or another system or anything?
 * The extra space in my Simbio3 template bothers me as well.

And another question that is actually Sims related.


 * How can you see (for example in SimPE) if a Sim is a pre-made townie/npc etc? Is there an easy way? And is it also possible to see from which EP they are?

Thanks alot for your help (:

Tiezel (talk) 10:24, April 3, 2013 (UTC)