The Sims Wiki talk:Development Portal/Archive 2: Difference between revisions

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I have bolded the parts that are relevant to this wiki. To make the navigattion bar look tidier, we need to remove one menu. Which menu should we remove in order to fix the navigation bar? {{GGsigLabSig}} 06:12, May 26, 2011 (UTC)

:::MediaWiki A has caused the same issue as it seems to be a copy of the original source. Currently, the nav bar looks fine as it is using the MediaWiki B code. It seems to be that the word, "Administration" was causing the issues. For now, I have changed that to admin but if anyone can think of a better word, feel free to either post it here or update it yourself. {{GGsigLabSig}} 16:13, May 26, 2011 (UTC)

:To be honest, I have to agree. Whatever has and will be done to that template will always have an issue with it. I had to revert to an older version of that template the other day because it was leaving the [[:Category:Templates without documentation|Templates without documentation]] on '''every''' page that used Era. I think it would save a lot of heartache and time if we just deleted the template. {{GGsigLabSig}} 23:13, July 6, 2011 (UTC)

As some of you may know, [[Special:LonelyPages]] was largely polluted with Player Stories pages for Pets, due to the Infobox not showing the link to the Player Stories pages. I have managed to borrow the Player Stories code from [[Template:NeighborhoodInfobox]] and ported it to the Pet infobox, which now shows links to the Player Stories pages on the actual Pet page, however if the infobox says the name of a game and it turns from grey to another color due to the game, the box with the Player Stories link doesn't change color accordingly. You can see the changes I made on [[Template:Pet]], so if anyone knows a workaround that allows us to keep the template working as it is on the Pet pages while being able to change color accordingly, they will find it easier to add it, seeing as I'm a failure with Infoboxes myself. :P {{GGsigLabSig}} 13:34, July 10, 2011 (UTC)

::I think the issue was caused by an update to the [[Special:ThemeDesigner|Theme Designer]], as it added a transparancy option. I've removed the translucent CSS for now and set the transparancy up to maximum in the Theme Designer and what you currently see is the best I can get it. I'll ask JoePlay about this issue and see what he thinks. {{GGsigLabSig}} 23:57, July 27, 2011 (UTC)

I (and probably others too) have noticed that the navigation bar keeps changing yet noone has made any modifications to it. Yesterday I removed some JavaScript from the [[MediaWiki:Wikia.js|Wikia.js]] file to see if that was causing the issue. It seemed to have temporarily fixed the issue but it came back within the last few minutes. I managed to fix it again with [http://sims.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Wiki-navigation&diff=prev&oldid=315225 this edit] to the [[MediaWiki:Wiki-navigation|Wiki-navigation]] page, which seemed to fix the issue once again. Given that our navbar is "heavily modified" in comparison to that of some other wikis, it's possible that my edit had provided a long term solution but for now, I'm unsure what it was that caused the problem. If you see any more issues related to the navbar, feel free to post them here and someone can take a look. {{GGsigLabSig}} 21:06, September 24, 2011 (UTC)

:::I know a lot of the MediaWiki edit notices have been showing the code rather than the content recently so I'm not sure if it's a Wikia-wide issue or something. {{GGsigLabSig}} 17:35, September 25, 2011 (UTC)

As you probably would have noticed, we have activated the new navigation bar. The problem is that we don't have as much customisation space with the new navbar, meaning not every field we had on the old drop-down menus will show up. I'm aware that we did kind of "modify" the old navigation bar anyway but I'm not sure how to modify the new version. Unless someone is able to find a fix, I guess we'll just have to limit the amount of links we can put on the bar, but what do we drop? Thoughts? {{GGsigLabSig}} 23:14, October 11, 2011 (UTC)

:I've just given this a little bit more thought...as in very little :P. I think that the "Request <user right>" pages could have their links moved to [[Template:CommunityCorner|the Community Corner]] message or something. Yeah, that's all I've got. {{GGsigLabSig}} 23:25, October 11, 2011 (UTC)

::::Looks fine to me. {{GGsigLabSig}} 18:47, October 12, 2011 (UTC)

::::::Based on this, I've removed the timer from the JS code for now (sometimes it takes a little while for the change to be visible). {{GGsigLabSig}} 20:33, October 18, 2011 (UTC)

[[User:Woganhemlock|WH]] and myself have decided to trial a username highlight for admins, bureaucrats and bots. Admins are <span style="color:red">red</span>, bureaucrats are <span style="color:limegreen">green</span> and bots are <span style="color:#66AAFF">light blue</span>. This is a trial for now and this thread is intended for those who don't like the feature to voice their thoughts or give feedback. {{GGsigLabSig}} 23:17, October 14, 2011 (UTC)

:::FWIW, [http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Archive_14#Consensus it also wasn't clear that the majority of the community didn't want this], it was a generally neutral discussion with a few supports and only one vote that was anywhere close to an oppose. The feature is used on other wikis to help users identify admins/bureaucrats/bots etc. {{GGsigLabSig}} 18:43, October 20, 2011 (UTC)

My question is: Is there a way of implementing the "You have new messages" notification for anonymous users without breaking Wikia's ToS? {{GGsigLabSig}} 23:14, October 28, 2011 (UTC)

::::Why wouldn't I be surprised if this "Wikia bug" was yet another attempt for them to become Facebook? :/ {{GGsigLabSig}} 07:54, December 8, 2011 (UTC)