Forum:I need wiki help.

in every wiki i am on i get a puzzle piece or multiple ones and lines and can't put sentences in the box it happens on every wiki on one page or another. User:ScarletScarabX 17:49, May 16, 2010 (UTC) help me!


 * A link to a wiki page were the problem occurs may be helpfull for enable somebody to look at were the problem is actually occurring !


 * Is it every page on every wiki or just some pages & what do you mean by a 'puzzle piece' ? :- BulldozerD11 00:59, May 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * I found what wiki he was talking about http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Futurama_Wiki but I have no idea what page he is talking about. --ShadowTale 02:39, May 17, 2010 (UTC)

When you use the RichText Editor, any templates/magic words/anything in  shows up as a small green puzzlepiece icon. If you click on them, you get a popup that lets you interact with them depending on what they are. The editor isnt perfect, and there are some minor known cases where its hard to click to put the text cursor around it. To edit the raw text of the, click the "view source" button in the editor on the right side. If you are dealing with a wiki that uses a very complex templates on its pages, you may want to disable the editor in your preferences. See Help:Rich_text_editor for details --Uberfuzzy 08:44, May 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that info/tip Ubefuzzy - I never use the RTE so had not seen the puzzle pieces. I turned it off immediately after launch as it would not let me use basic wiki code for links and heading, as it added too many extra key / mouse strokes for even basic editing IMO. - BulldozerD11 15:03, May 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Have you tried it since, Bulldozer? The RTE accepts basic wiki markup now, so it's a lot smoother to use for experienced users.  You still need to switch for complex code, as Uber said, but I find it a lot better now it knows what I mean when I link with brackets an all :) -- sannse (talk) 23:47, May 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Not recently Sannse, but visitors use it and it looks like it keeps messing the pages up, as recently IP edited pages have appeared with the headings broken, tables get loads of extra lines in and rouge ! appear from the !! used in table headers and other issues occur. As most are null edits anyway i just revert to previouse to clean up, and paste any minor edits back in. The table feature looks the best bit, can it be added as a custom toolbar item in the old editor ? (say by adding some javascript to the JS file) ? templates/tables are a big issue as a lot of pages have them in them. - BulldozerD11 03:05, May 18, 2010 (UTC)