User:Splarka/tricks

__NEWSECTIONLINK__

These are css/js/parserfunction/magicword hacks that I either developed or "discovered", by myself, by user request, or with the help of other wiki users. Others may have done them proir to me, but in most cases I had no external help in figuring them out (other than the help pages on meta). Mostly this page is to document the requests for tweaks I've been asked to do on wikia, but several also apply to Uncyclopedia or Wikipedia.

=CSS= Mostly these apply to MediaWiki:Common.css, MediaWiki:Monobook.css and Special:Mypage/Monobook.css (assuming you use the default 'monobook' theme). See also: Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Catalogue_of_CSS_classes.

Limiting TOC to certain depths
In MediaWiki:Common.css: .toc5 li.toclevel-6 {display:none} .toc4 li.toclevel-6, .toc4 li.toclevel-5 {display:none} .toc3 li.toclevel-6, .toc3 li.toclevel-5, .toc3 li.toclevel-4 {display:none} .toc2 li.toclevel-6, .toc2 li.toclevel-5, .toc2 li.toclevel-4, .toc2 li.toclevel-3 {display:none} .toc1 li.toclevel-6, .toc1 li.toclevel-5, .toc1 li.toclevel-4, .toc1 li.toclevel-3, .toc1 li.toclevel-2 {display:none}

In Template:TOC1

In Template:TOC2

etc

Un-numbered TOC
In MediaWiki:Common.css:

.utoc .tocnumber { display:none; } .utoc #toc ul, .utoc .toc ul { line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: .3em 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0; list-style-image: url(/skins3/monobook/bullet.gif); }

And then put a in a.

Limiting a DynamicPageList list to one specific letter
Notes:
 * Requires css capable browser or will look funky
 * Does not work well with higher numbers of pages (say ~1000)
 * Lame hack, better to use a custom namespace and Allpages/Prefixindex

In MediaWiki:Common.css: .alphacat ul {list-style: none; } .alphacat li a {display: none; } .alphacat-a li a[title ^="A"] {display: inline } .alphacat-b li a[title ^="B"] {display: inline } .alphacat-c li a[title ^="C"] {display: inline } .alphacat-d li a[title ^="D"] {display: inline } .alphacat-e li a[title ^="E"] {display: inline } .alphacat-f li a[title ^="F"] {display: inline } .alphacat-g li a[title ^="G"] {display: inline } .alphacat-h li a[title ^="H"] {display: inline } .alphacat-i li a[title ^="I"] {display: inline } .alphacat-j li a[title ^="J"] {display: inline } .alphacat-k li a[title ^="K"] {display: inline } .alphacat-l li a[title ^="L"] {display: inline } .alphacat-m li a[title ^="M"] {display: inline } .alphacat-n li a[title ^="N"] {display: inline } .alphacat-o li a[title ^="O"] {display: inline } .alphacat-p li a[title ^="P"] {display: inline } .alphacat-q li a[title ^="Q"] {display: inline } .alphacat-r li a[title ^="R"] {display: inline } .alphacat-s li a[title ^="S"] {display: inline } .alphacat-t li a[title ^="T"] {display: inline } .alphacat-u li a[title ^="U"] {display: inline } .alphacat-v li a[title ^="V"] {display: inline } .alphacat-w li a[title ^="W"] {display: inline } .alphacat-x li a[title ^="X"] {display: inline } .alphacat-y li a[title ^="Y"] {display: inline } .alphacat-z li a[title ^="Z"] {display: inline }

In a template (which you call via to show just 'a')   category= Some Category count=1000 

Style the menus
Done on w:c:scratchpad:MediaWiki:Monobook.css

In MediaWiki:Monobook.css, a base to start fiddling:

background-color: #fffff6; border:1px solid black; }  display: block; border: none; background-color: transparent; padding: 0 } .portlet h5 { font-weight:bold; display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccccff; padding-bottom: .35em; } .pBody a { text-decoration: none; } .pBody ul li:hover { background-color:#ffffcc } list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: circle; padding: 0 0 0 1.5em; margin: 0; }  border-left: 1px solid #ffcccc; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccccff; padding: 0 0 .05em .5em;
 * 1) p-wikicities-nav, #p-tb, #p-search, #p-navigation {
 * 1) p-navigation .pBody, #p-search .pBody, #p-tb .pBody, #p-lang .pBody, #p-wikicities-nav .pBody {
 * 1) p-navigation .pBody ul, #p-search .pBody ul, #p-tb .pBody ul, #p-lang .pBody ul, #p-wikicities-nav .pBody ul {
 * 1) p-navigation .pBody li, #p-search .pBody li, #p-tb .pBody li, #p-lang .pBody li, #p-wikicities-nav .pBody li {

less annoying "You have new messages"
In your user/monobook.css : .usermessage { background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #777777; color: Black; font-weight: normal; margin: .5em 0em .5em 0em; padding: 4px; vertical-align: middle; }

Redirects
On Special:Allpages, you can make redirects stand out a lot more. For example (in MediaWiki:Common.css or user/monobook.css):

.allpagesredirect { font-style: italic; } .allpagesredirect:after { color:grey; content: " (redirect)"}

Makes them italic and appended with the word 'redirect'.

.allpagesredirect a { background: url(/images/5/5c/Allpagesredirect.gif) center left no-repeat; padding-left: 13px; }

Gives each redirect a small image (found here, save and upload to use, public domain (or create your own)) to the side.

Hilighting admin/staff
This lets you style the nickname of trusted editors in the recent changes as you wish.

In your user/monobook.css (or in MediaWiki:Common.css with community approval) :

ul.special li a[title="User:Angela"], ul.special li a[title="User:Sannse"], ul.special li a[title="User:Splarka"] { font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: #ff00ff; }

This example shows Angela, Sannse, and Splarka as bold, magenta, and italic, in recent changes.

table.diff a[title="User:Splarka"], ul#pagehistory li a[title="User:Splarka"], ul.special li a[title="User:Splarka"] { color: #33dd33; font-weight:bold; }

This example shows Splarka as bold and green, in diffs, page histories, and recent changes.

Finding new users
In MediaWiki:Common.css or user/monobook.css:

ul.special li a[title ^="User talk:"].new { color:#ff00ff;font-weight:bold }

Will show a bright pink Talk link on recent changes, for all users who do not have talk pages.

ul.special li a[title ^="User talk:"].new { color:#ff00ff;font-weight:bold } ul.special li a[title ="Special:Contributions"] + a[title ^="User talk:"].new { color:#CC2200;font-weight:normal }

Will do the same, but only for logged in users, and not IPs. Note that it does this by resetting IP talk links to normal, so whatever changes done have to be undone.

Float the namespace selector to the right
In user/monobook.css: div.namespacesettings { float: right; clear: none; position: relative; top: -8em; width: 175px; border: 1px dotted #AAAAAA; padding: 4px; } Gets it out of the way.

Various minor tweaks
In user/monobook.css: .newpage { color : #990000; } .minor { color : #AAAAAA; } .unpatrolled { color : #ff00ff; } This changes the N (new page) letter to red, the m (minor edit) letter to grey, and the ! (unpatrolled edit) exclamation mark to bright pink. Lots of things can be done in excess to this, such as images, extra comments, and blinking.

Make some links look like regular links
This is useful if you want to make inline templates with a mixture of internal/interwiki/external links but don't want a clash of link formatting associated with such. In MediaWiki:Common.css:


 * 1) bodyContent .stealthexternallink a { background: none; padding: 0; color: #002bb8; }
 * 2) bodyContent .stealthexternallink a.new { color: #CC2200 !important; }
 * 3) bodyContent .stealthexternallink a:visited { color: #5a3696; }
 * 4) bodyContent .stealthexternallink a:active { color: #faa700; }
 * 5) bodyContent .stealthexternallink a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }

And then put such links in

Make class="new" inheritable
This allows you to force links to be red, by putting links in a block or inline element in class="new": In MediaWiki:Common.css:

.new a { color:#cc2200; } .new a:visited { color:#a55858; }

And then: Blah should always be red.

Different logos per namespace
You can change the logos in each namespace, via MediaWiki:Monobook.css. For example:

body.ns-110 #p-logo a { background-image: url(/images/6/61/Forum_Logo_Soapboxes.png) !important; } body.ns-111 #p-logo a { background-image: url(/images/d/db/Forum_talk.png) !important; }

Note that you must determine the image location and namespace number yourself. To determine the image location: upload an image, right click on it, and 'copy image location' (mozilla) or 'properites' (ie). To determine the namespace number, go to a page in that namespace and view page source, the tag will have it as a class, eg user might be  indicating body.ns-2 is the identifier for that namespace. Hint: Lots of customizations are possible by namespace.

Misc user css tweaks
Mostly for user/monobook.css:

Make action tab links change color when visited:
 * 1) p-cactions .new a:visited { color: #ba6644; }
 * 2) p-cactions li a:visited { color: #492FAF; }

Position the delete confirmation button at the same place on every page (useful for mass deletions in tabs):
 * 1) deleteconfirm { position: absolute; top: 130px; left: 150px; }

Remove gap between action tabs (talk/edit, and move/watch (or history/watch)): li#ca-watch, li#ca-unwatch { margin-right: 1.6em; margin-left: .05em; } li#ca-talk { margin-right: .4em; }

Show "Templates used on this page" as an inline list instead of long bullet pointed list. .templatesUsed ul { list-style: none; } .templatesUsed li { display: inline; padding: 0 0 0.1em 0; margin: 0 0.3em 0 0; }

Make edit pages much smaller (by removing copyright warning and tools) Warning: for advanced users only, could get you banned for ignoring site rules
 * 1) editpage-copywarn { display: none !important; }
 * 2) editpage-tools { display: none !important; }

Removes block expiry dropdown on Special:Blockip (I always type in a time manually).
 * 1) wpBlockExpiry { display: none !important; }

That annoying updated marker! .updatedmarker {display: none}

Wanna change your edit box font? textarea {font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size:110%;}

Printed links Underlined
in user/monobook.css: @media print { a, a.external, a.new, a.stub { color: blue ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; } }

=Javascript= Usually for MediaWiki:Monobook.js or Special:Mypage/monobook.js

Customize the search box
You can add this to your user/monobook.js to change the search box.

This changes the go button to view, and the search button to edit (the value and label should stay at these words), and the name of both to action. The consequece of this is: clicking edit takes you to /w/index.php?title=WHATEVER&action=edit, and clicking go *should* take you to /w/index.php?title=WHATEVER&action=view ... however, it takes me (at least) directly to /wiki/WHATEVER, even if the page does not exist (and not to the edit page). Note that this still does not let you manually type &action=edit but it does let you just click 'edit' instead.

function customsearch { document.getElementById('searchform').action = "/index.php"; document.getElementById('searchInput').name = "title"; document.getElementById('searchGoButton').name = "action"; document.getElementById('searchGoButton').value = "view"; document.getElementById('searchform').elements[2].name = "action"; document.getElementById('searchform').elements[2].value = "edit"; }; window.addEventListener("load", customsearch, false);

This sets the focus on a page load, to the search box: addOnloadHook(function {document.getElementById('searchform').elements[0].focus; return false;;});

Change the favicon
On Wikia you can upload a custom favicon per wiki, but if you personally want to put a notably different favicon on each wiki you edit, you can add to your user/monobook.js: document.write('') Where link to icon is the full url to a 16x16 icon.

To add

 * http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Uncyclopedia.js
 * http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/User:Splaka/uncyclopedia.js
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Splarka/wikialink.js
 * http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/HowTo:Reskin_Uncyclopedia
 * http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Uncyclopedia_logo

=Other= Parserfunctions/magicwords/messages

"Did you delete the talk page?"
From a thread on Wikipedia:WP:VP/T: When deleting pages, often times the talk pages are forgotten, this can cause a rash of orphaned talk pages to hover around indefinitely. Sometimes a talk page should be kept as a valid indicator as to previous conversations about the page and why it should not exist, but most times the talk pages should be deleted (except in user: namespace). As of this writing, parserfunctions don't work in MediaWiki:Deletedtext, but transcluded parserfunctions do.

In: MediaWiki:Deletedtext: "$1" has been deleted. See $2 for a record of recent deletions.

In Template:Talkexist:

This can also be added to MediaWiki:Confirmdeletetext (and will show up similar to the "This page has a history" alert).