Forum:Several Questions

I have several questions I would like to ask. First of all I want to know how I can edit the welcome message. This is the one that appears after their first edit to the wiki.

If you look at the side bar, all of the menus link to a separate page on the wiki. For example, if I clicked Top Content or any menu with sub menus, I don't want it to re-direct anywhere.

For this next question, you will have to visit the JamLegend wiki. http://jamlegend.wikia.com/wiki/JamLegend_Wiki

I have two title bars, the Knowledge base and and Official Trailer, and I want them to line up. Whats the best way of doing this?

User:Radioactive1 23:52, November 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * To edit the welcome template, go to "Template:Welcome" and then edit whatever you need. To edit the side bar, go to "MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar" and you can determine what links where. However, I don't think you can disable it actually directing anywhere, but just change where it directs to. I could be wrong, though. Not sure about your final question, though, so I'll leave that for someone else. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 01:16, November 10, 2009 (UTC)

Visit the user page for the Wikia bot There you will find all of the detail you need to customize that bot's auto-generated welcome messages. Brandon's tip was for the older, manual system when fellow community members would post the welcome messages using templates. -- najevi 02:13, November 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * User:Wikia
 * Fixed the divs, you had a bunch of newlines between your divs, they add up, and slightly push things around.
 * As for the menus, you cant really, everything gets linked to something. best option is to just keep it pointed to your mainpage like you have now.

Main Page misaligned headings in two columns
I just had a quick look at your misaligned headings and I realize that there are some required "special tags" missing from your main page.     It's probably best that a staff member help you get those back in place as it affects how the advertising blocks get inserted by various scripts.

-- najevi 02:23, November 10, 2009 (UTC)

New Question
I just read over the user page of the bot and it says that $3 controls the signature. Which user will be displayed there? Also when I edit the skin, I can't find where I can change the border on the search box.

Radioactive1 07:05, November 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * If its set to @latest, its the last sysop/staff/helper to edit, if its @sysop, the last sysop to edit.
 * its got ID of, so

New Question
The next question is how do I edit the licenses? When you upload an image, you have to select the license of the photo.


 * For the licenses thing, you can edit MediaWiki:Licenses. Mark (Talk) • (Contribs) 15:45, November 11, 2009 (UTC)

How to win more responses and influence helpers ...

 * I realize that you are new here so please take this advise in the same positive/constructive spirit with which it was prepared. :-)

There are some posting habits you ought to pick up early to make it more likely that others will respond to help you.
 * 1) Number your questions if you have many. Specific references to specific unanswered questions is much easier to deal with, don't you think ?
 * 2) Separate posts for each question - OK use some good judgment here. It may often make sense to get several questions in one post but once those are answered start a fresh a post especially if the questions are not directly related to one another.
 * 3) Sign your posts with 4 tildes   - You may recognize what text is yours but others can't. I am one who'll usually ignore a post if I can't make sense of it.
 * 4) Input as much energy as you expect your helper(s) to. This would have to be the Golden Rule of online forum and especially one with a wiki culture.

Good luck. -- najevi 05:49, November 13, 2009 (UTC)

New Question
So I am trying to change the border color the the search field. I added the code but it is not working. There are also some other ones with the same label:. Would I need to move it to those?

http://jamlegend.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Monaco.css

As I was browsing though the wiki, I have a few more questions. On the main page, I have this huge white space, and I'm not sure how to get rid of it.

Yeah, I forgot to add the ~ tags.

Radioactive1 16:09, November 13, 2009 (UTC)

See my response at the talk page for the above link.
 * Summary
 * 1) When the target element has it's own unique ID then it is usually best to use that ID if your goal is to be specific about what it is you are customizing.
 * 2) When your goal is to uniformly apply a change to "logical groupings" of elements then it is usually best to use a class name.
 * 3) A series of selectors (separated by white space) will be interpreted as progressive qualifiers on "containers".
 * 4) * An element does not contain itself!
 * 5) A comma separated list if selectors is equivalent to a logical OR operation.

A tip I forgot to mention:
 * Use your personal monaco.css (Special:MyPage/monaco.css) while you are tweaking the skin and debugging your errors.
 * That way any site visitors do not suffer through any snafus that you create while "getting it just right". Once you've debugged it then you can cut and paste from Special:MyPage/monaco.css to MediaWiki:Monaco.css
 * Note: in those links the capitalization/case of the letter M/m is deliberate


 * As regards the large white space on the main page: I can only imagine you are referring to a leaderboard ad area that is across the top of the page (below the page title). it is blank because some tool you are using is blocking the display of the ad but that does not prevent the box from being set aside for that ad. It's a matter of personal taste but my suggestion is that you let individual browsers decide whether they want to filter ads from Wikia hosted pages. It easy enough for them to do. This stylish filter defaults to filtering Wikia ads but can also filter numerous other eye-candy if you choose to selectively remove pairs of comment delimiters here and there.

P.S. thanks for being a "good sport" in response to my criticism -- najevi 02:57, November 14, 2009 (UTC)

You had some good explanations there but that wasn't exactly what I was looking for. I just added a new  to set the border code of the search box.

First of all, it did not change the borders so what is wrong? Secondly, I have two other 's. Should move the border to one of those.

.color1, #search_box, .color1 a, #link_box, .community_details { background-color: #819a68; color:           #FFFFFF; }

background: #819a68 url(http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/4050/bar.png) repeat-x; }
 * 1) search_box, .widget dt, #page_bar {

border:1px solid #EFEFFF; }
 * 1) search_box {

Need help still

Radioactive1 15:10, November 14, 2009 (UTC)